Karyn Lacy
@karynlacy.bsky.social
Sociologist. Op-eds: NYT, USA Today, Vox, NBC News, Public Seminar, The Chronicle. All in the Family stan.
“Let them.” I think Mel Robbins would say @mayor.nyc.gov is dropping sound advice ahead of the midterms.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.
No matter how bad things get, the Obamas make you feel hopeful. Miss them so, so, so much.
Jalen Brunson is, as Lightning McQueen would say, "a one man show"!🏀
Scott Pelley surely knew he wld be fired after speaking truth to power during a contentious meeting with CBS' leadership. He did it anyway. Respect.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoScott Pelley, the longtime CBS News journalist, was fired by the network a day after he harshly criticized its leadership in a staff meeting.
Absolutely stunning abuse of black people, reminiscent of Henrietta Lacks' experience. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/u...
Suit Says Black Infants Were Subjected to Experimental Vaccine Without Consent
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This sticker was on the gas pump at a gas station in Ann Arbor this morning. 😀
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Listen, Representative Ilhan Omar *will* throw hands: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtQN...
Rep. Ilhan Omar attacked during Minneapolis town hall
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"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Turns out this lesson can be gleaned from novels too.
draglikepull@draglikepull.bsky.social · 2y agoThe ultimate thing these people want isn't wealth, it's *power*. Wealth is a form of power, but so are racial hierarchies, gender hierarchies, etc. George Orwell covered this in what is, in my opinion, the most important passage in 1984. "The object of power is power."
Curious way to honor Martin Luther King holiday weekend.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 7mo agoSunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2
Every eye that's closed is not asleep.
Krassensteins@krassenstein.bsky.social · 7mo agoParamus NJ Visibility Brigade
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
So that when Ghislaine Maxwell "escapes," everyone charged with keeping track of her will just shrug?
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned associate, has been moved to a lower-security prison, her attorney said. Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on sex-trafficking charges, had been serving her 20-year sentence at a low security prison.
"They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth." Yep, that and they believe that everyone who is poor is black. No such thing as poor, white people (who have also benefited from free tuition initiatives at top universities).
Jack Iwashyna@iwashyna.bsky.social · last yr.Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference. They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
Coco! Champion. Competitor. Classy.
Steeler KJ@kjsteelers72.bsky.social · last yr.COCO GAUFF wins the French Open!!!💪🏾🎾 The last American to win the French Open was Serena Williams in 2015. Coco snaps the longest gap among the four Grand Slams. The last American man was Andre Agassi in 1999. Let’s gooooo! #RolandGarros
Saddened by the passing of legendary sociologist Herb Gans. Ethnographer extraordinaire and so generous with his time. Quick to pose penetrating questions about my drafts. Thinking through the answers made my work better. He will be deeply missed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...
Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban Life
A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees.
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So, so relieved to see that Abrego Garcia is alive. Thank you, Senator @ChrisVanHollen, for traveling to El Salvador to check on him. Hope speaking with the Senator, and learning that so many people are rooting for him, was a source of comfort for Garcia.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · last yr.NEW: Senator Van Hollen has met with Abrego Garcia.
Roundup = classic case of what sociologists call "statistical discrimination." Judging an individual based on stereotypes associated with the person's group, not the person's actual behavior, i.e. Japanese Americans will be loyal to Japan, or Venezuelans are all gang members.
Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · last yr.The specific quote from General John DeWitt, justifying Japanese internment: “The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.”
