Another highly cited article from JMF's 2020 Decade in Review examined the previous decade of research on immigrant families: tinyurl.com/3axa9829 by Jennifer Van Hook & @jengdemography.bsky.social #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialScienceResearch #ImmigrantFamilies

Delighted to celebrate Dr. Jisu Park who defended his brilliant dissertation, “Three Studies on Sexuality Based Occupational Stratification” in Sociology @psuliberalarts.bsky.social this week! Dr. Park heads next to an amazing postdoctoral fellowship @mpidr.bsky.social! Congratulations Jason! 🎉🔥

Think about what you were doing on Tuesday around 5pm ET. That’s how long these people have been shackled. Regardless of advanced age, disability, no criminal record or if they agreed to leave voluntarily. They can’t even raise their arms above their shoulders. gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-...

What is ICE Air?

Learn more about ICE’s massive, secretive and cruel air operation, which companies are profiting off of it, and what you can do to stop it.

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Overnight this Omni ICE flight landed in Guam, where it sat for 7+ hours, before continuing west. It is about to make its first deportation stop, in Cambodia. Migrants passengers onboard have likely been shackled for at least 63 hours.

Looking for accessible, high-quality, carefully-documented data on wealth #inequalities, levels, composition, and trends? Explore the GC Wealth Project. The extensive data can be visualized and/or downloaded. @stone-lis.bsky.social 👇👇👇

@morellisal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Using the GC Wealth Project’s data infrastructure, you can compare estimates across countries, data sources, and over time. Explore the GC Wealth Project database 👉 wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu

4/ The US is now regarded as an "electoral democracy," losing its status as a "liberal democracy." This has to do with threats to the rule of law and dissent. V-Dem notes it is a stunning decline in a one-year period. noting that "the speed of decline is comparable to some coups d´états."

3/ • Nearly three quarters of the world population (74%, or 6 billion) live in autocracies. • There are now more people living in closed autocracies (28%, or 2.3 billion) than in electoral & liberal democracies combined (26%, or 2.2 billion). • Only 7% (0.6 billion) live in liberal democracies.

2/ Key findings: • The level of democracy for the average citizen in Western Europe and North America is at its lowest level in over 50 years, primarily due to ongoing autocratization in the USA. • The USA loses its long-term status as a liberal democracy – for the first time in over 50 years.

If you live in the US and you feel like your head has been spinning, this is why. Typically, autocratizing countries take a decade to make the kind of decline we've seen here in the past year, according to V-Dem.

In reading the EO, this very much sounds like they're going to try to force Illinois to enact gigantic administrative burdens in order to reduce the people getting help. @donmoyn.bsky.social / @pamherd.bsky.social's book "Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means" describes this playbook.

Capitol Fax@capitolfax.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Trump sics his veep on Illinois

Many workers have missed shifts without jobs being destroyed making it challenging to measure labor impacts with conventional sources. We use real-time daily data from Homebase to measure impacts. Thanks to UChicago and Homebase for making the data available. #EconSky #NumbersDay

Aaron Rosenthal@aaronrosenthal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New research with @aaronsojourner.org of the @upjohninstitute.bsky.social posted on @northstarpolicy.org's blog. We find that Operation Metro Surge caused declines in employees working, hours worked, and businesses open, leading to an estimated $106 million wage loss for Twin Cities workers.

Helluva investigation by @npr.org on how the DOJ "scrubbed from public view" multiple Epstein files that implicate Trump including in a case involving a 13 year old girl. NPR showing it's work like this is important:

NPR@npr.org · 7mo ago

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

“According to the family, Bruno has a valid work authorization, SSN, and license—and a little girl undergoing cancer treatment,” Mr. Deluzio said. “Once again, we need answers to basic questions about why the Trump Administration is trying to remove him from the country.”

Community, lawmakers rally in support of Sewickley father arrested by ICE as daughter undergoes cancer treatment

The immigration arrest of a Sewickley father — whose daughter is battling cancer — has drawn outrage across the suburban Ohio River community...

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Duke is one of these 31 universities. these racists actually think that POC were getting an unfair advantage by getting to attend conferences. meanwhile, I see faculty being undergrads to conferences all the time. some undergrads literally have professor parents (I’ve taught my colleagues kids)

WBEZ@wbez.org · 7mo ago

UChicago is among 31 universities that will no longer work with the PhD Project after the Trump administration said the program’s focus is racially discriminatory.

US health policy folks …

Shalina Chatlani@chatlanis.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm a health reporter at @stateline.org and @statesnewsroom.com. I'm looking for experts and researchers following the effects of #ACA subsidy expiration and #Medicaid coverage loss on chronic illness, specifically #diabetes. DM's are open and open to research links. s chatlani AT stateline dot org

The Washington Post opinion section would not have allowed this to run.

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

now that's the power of a union

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

It also points out how the cultural ignorance of much of our pundit & MSM class fails. 135 million Americans watched an important & controversial cultural event & many journalists are 1)ill-equipped to explain its significance or 2) too arrogant to know that would need assistance in unpacking it.

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

This is how mainstream media need to frame their stories: "Tulsi Gabbard, who is prohibited from participating in domestic law enforcement as director of national intelligence ..."

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 8mo ago

Tulsi Gabbard, who is prohibited from participating in domestic law enforcement as director of national intelligence, says she facilitated a call between FBI agents and President Trump.

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This guy was just confirmed to be US ambassador to South Africa

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11mo ago

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Thanks @victorerikray.bsky.social for this piece that clearly explains Charles Mills's perspective on liberalism. So many seem to misunderstand. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory

Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.

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Job losses in June, August, and October mean the U.S. economy has shed jobs in three out of the past six months. And recall that Powell said last week that Fed staff thinks the numbers may be *overstating* jobs by about 60k/month, due to methodological issues

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...

The Mafia Presidency

Trump is saying, essentially, If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say.

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John Bisognano@johnbisognano.com · 10mo ago

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…