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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

@wrigleyfield.bsky.social

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Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Toddler parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · Apr 30

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?

This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual Reviews

Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...

www.annualreviews.org

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1h

ICYMI (I did) here’s a really sobering recounting of former Strib community columnist @angeladenker.bsky.social who got her last piece (on Charlie Kirk & right-wing violence) 86’d by editors before they cut her loose: angeladenker.substack.com/p/the-column...

The column that got me fired

A Special Edition of News with Nuance ...

angeladenker.substack.com

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Diane @losarcos59.bsky.social · 2h

“Condemn him for what”?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 HEY NYC — This clip alone is completely disqualifying. Absolutely humiliating stuff from @andrewcuomo, refusing to condemn Trump for going after NY AG Tish James.

A vote for him is very clearly a vote for Trump.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 3h

Again, the way to make sense of Supreme Court behavior as a day-to-day shorthand is just to imagine them as having the same level of knowledge, fairness, sophistication and information as the median senator from their party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Ginny Zawistowski @zawistov.bsky.social · Sep 6

Rev. Ashley from my church @firstuminneapolis.bsky.social brought the fire:
"I'm here because we seem to have some job confusion between me and you, our elected officials. My job, as a pastor, is to have thoughts and prayers. Your job is to make policy change."

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 3h

Totally agree on those neighborhoods. Where they exist, they are desirable as hell (and priced accordingly)

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 8h

Yes!

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

I live in Seward and walk to many of those places… but did not walk to my induction! (We drove there quite late bc my partner lost his wallet that day. We were a mess.)

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

Well, on the plus side, we’ll all die sooner because of it

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

(But to your point about not fearing walking, I just walk down a block to the Guthrie street and walk there instead when I can, even when it’s out of my way. Doesn’t always work but that is a genuinely nice walking street)

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

It’s so hot

So so so hot

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

I’m just struck by how Manhattan (where I’m living for the year) is filled with little businesses and high residential density AND streets that are super pleasant to walk on, and I believe that MSPers don’t really think this is possible

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

Ok let’s talk about North Loop. Have you ever ENJOYED walking on Washington Avenue?

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you!!

I’ve been thinking I should look more at Como too, bc of the 3 bus, but concerned about having nothing to walk to (besides a lovely park)

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

*Correction: I GO to mill city dozens of times a year. I only walk there occasionally, because the walk sucks so hard. But (based on how I operate living in NYC and operated in Madison, where I walked to school/work two miles every day) I would walk constantly if it weren‘t so awful the entire time

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

I do a 20-minute walk to work in January. It’s warmer to walk than to wait for a bus! I think people who don’t walk in the winter overestimate how bad the cold is; in this global warming era, it’s not usually so bad (when it is, I bus) BUT the ice from the constant melting/refreezing really is

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

Can you tell me where? I’m genuinely interested in checking them out to maybe move to later. So far my sticking points w St Paul have been lack of public transit in some places & lack of stuff to walk to in others. (We’d be moving in order to no longer live right by freeways, so that’s a constraint)

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

Meanwhile, 25th St at least has cafes and IS pleasant to walk on, and you know what? No one can afford to buy a house in Seward and I think this is why

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

Even on the hyper-local level, Seward has way, way more foot traffic than almost anywhere else in Minneapolis outside downtown and Dinkytown… but have you ever enjoyed walking on Franklin Ave? It’s a nightmare bc the cars go too fast and there isn‘t tree cover. My two-variable theory of everything

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

I walk from my home in northwest Seward to the mill city area dozens of times a year. (I take my kid to MacPhail, I see a lot of shows at the Guthrie, I meet friends at Milly’s, & it’s my preferred farmers market.)

It’s a 2 mile walk I’d hypothetically love… but I need to cross TWO 8-lane freeways

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

Both of these are harder to ameliorate because the county controls most of the stroads, and if you think people in Minneapolis don’t walk, try the rest of Hennepin County…

This article is about state oversight, but for us, I think it’s the county killing us (ok, and MnDot, which is the state ofc)

The Wrong People Are in Charge of American Streets

From the street, this conflict is invisible; for city governments, it’s inescapable.

slate.com

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 9h

My diagnosis, offered in this thread, is that

1. MSP cut up the city with freeways and stroads to an extreme degree

2. The neighborhoods that are nice to walk IN have nothing to walk TO, and the places with commercial density (incl small local shops) are horrible to walk in—stroads without trees

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 21h

…it is really shocking how there is almost no culture of walking to things here compared to a lot of MSP’s peer cities. Whether people here drive, bike, or take transit, almost everyone seems to consider it a major inconvenience to have to walk more than two blocks on either end.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 10h

Oh damn!

On my street (public housing, apartments & townhouses), XCel cut down lots of trees that they could've just trimmed, & only stopped when our parks commissioner came & made them stop. I’ve never believed they would’ve been so cavalier on the richer, whiter blocks in our same neighborhood.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 18h

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 19h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 17h

Awesome! What neighborhood are you in?

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 18h

Parts of Minneapolis are denser and could be lovely but they are garbage! Downtown! Mill City (where all the shit is on Washington Ave and the stadium and other things mean you often don’t have an alternative option)! Places I walk in frequently but have never ever enjoyed walking in. (TREES!)