@lauragarbes.bsky.social
Sociologist @ UMN. I study public media, race, voice, and orgs. Order “Listeners Like Who?” here: https://press.Princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691257426/listeners-like-who with discount code P327
Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In this fascinating article, @dublininquirer.com speaks with @lauragarbes.bsky.social, author of Listeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry 📻 🇮🇪 🗞️
Dublin Inquirer@dublininquirer.com · 4mo agoIn radio in Ireland, the “accent ceiling” persists. On volunteer-run community radio, there’s room for people with all kinds of accents – but it’s rare to move beyond that.
I spoke with @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social earlier this week, who wrote a brilliant and well-reported piece about the "accent ceiling" on the radio in Ireland. So many parallels with my findings in the US context!
Shamim Malekmian@shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 4mo agoIn radio in Ireland, the “accent ceiling” persists. On volunteer-run community radio, there’s room for people with all kinds of accents – but it’s rare to move beyond that. read more here www.dublininquirer.com/in-radio-in-...
I spoke with @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social earlier this week, who wrote a brilliant and well-reported piece about the "accent ceiling" on the radio in Ireland. So many parallels with my findings in the US context!
Shamim Malekmian@shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 4mo agoIn radio in Ireland, the “accent ceiling” persists. On volunteer-run community radio, there’s room for people with all kinds of accents – but it’s rare to move beyond that. read more here www.dublininquirer.com/in-radio-in-...
For Nieman Reports, I wrote about women-run radio stations around the world, specifically in Afghanistan, Uganda, Syria, and the U.S. niemanreports.org/women-radio-...
Empowering Airwaves: Women-Led Radio Stations Amplify Unheard Voices - Nieman Reports
Despite rapid advances in technology, radio remains a powerful medium for breaking barriers and reaching marginalized communities directly.
niemanreports.org
*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...
What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022
“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …
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Really appreciate this data reporting from the @startribune.com, which comes with the appropriate cautions about the crowd-sourced data. Looks like the ICE/DHS surge in MN is down significantly, but (a) was HUGE compared to other cities, (b) impacted the suburbs A LOT, and (c) is still happening.
@stevegrove.bsky.social · 5mo agoCrowd-sourced data gives us a lens into how big the ICE surge was in MN compared to other places, visualized today in the Minnesota @startribune.com www.startribune.com/is-ice-reall...
Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities
Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...
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My friends at Niemanreports.org asked me to write about the experience of being a journalist on the ground in Minneapolis right now. I knew I wanted to tell reporters elsewhere how even this most hopeless of times has been clarifying and, in some ways, energizing. (1) share.google/ms1wKDQZmgep...
Free Speech in Deep Freeze - Nieman Reports
On the ground in Minnesota, where journalists are working to tell the truth about government-sanctioned violence and spin
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this (unfortunately) has it all — large exec salaries in public media while reporters struggle to make ends meet, cancelling impactful investigative podcasts, cracks in firewall between newsroom and business, and a top-down pivot to video www.thewesternedge.media/p/i-had-a-dr...
I Had a Dream Journalism Job. Here's Why I Quit.
The rot that hollowed out trust in corporate media finally reached OPB. I had to go.
thewesternedge.media
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
wired.com
I am usually a very behind the scenes person but I stepped outside of my comfort zone because I hope reading this will inspire other people just to step up and do the thing. You never know what your impact can be.
‘We have to keep showing up for each other’: In Minnesota, caregiving is a form of resistance
School pickups, diaper runs and mutual aid funds are central to how many Minnesotans are challenging the militarization of their state.
19thnews.org
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early
Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care
Health care providers in Minnesota said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.
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people are always like “what link do i give to?!” one giant pile of money is actually not a great way to help people. people choosing a variety of places to give helps keep the money moving. no one org gets flooded to the point of breaking. a PTA, the mutual aid venmo, can move $ even faster.
ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 6mo agoand if you want to donate, i found this directory that seems helpful: standwithminnesota.com
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether.
"We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.
startribune.com
A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
Welcome to the BlueSky page for the ASA Filipino Sociologists community! We were established in 2021 as a space of connection, belonging, and networking for Filipino Sociologists in the diaspora and in the Philippines, alongside allies and friends.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...
How to Help: Twin Cities Residents
This is a post for people in Minnesota. I’m going to do a separate post for the non-Minnesotans when I’m done with this one. (If you’re in a hurry you can go to Stand With Minneso…
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I gave a second interview with the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) about why the right is attempting to shut down NPR and PBS, and how rural station closures will affect democratic discourse. Thanks to the excellent Lucy Schiller.
The NPR and Colorado stations that took Trump to court.
“It isn’t just an affront to localism. It’s an attempt to reengineer thought.”
cjr.org
Interestingly, the best thing from last weekend's SNL is this clip that was cut for time and posted on a Tuesday night: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8O...
Weekend Update: Tommy Brennan on Trump's ICE Deployments in Minnesota - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Racket wants to hear from you, Minnesota. We want to hear how the ICE occupation has changed your life, and we want the world outside of Minnesota to know as well.
Hundreds attend the Powderhorn Art Sled Rally in Minneapolis. Feels like -7.
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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this is what i witnessed today she called for medical attention and an agent scoffed
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7mo ago“.. Federal agents grab a woman to drag her away from her car, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.” @reuters.com
