HoldSher
@holdsher.bsky.social
Everyone knows me from twitter, right? Okay fine, if not: sociology PhD (that's MY book), and still a Providence RI busybody although I've moved into Masshole territory. The views expressed here are my own, with no organizational affiliations.
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Dear professional society leadership:
People say “believe women”. Until the man is someone they know.
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Dear professional society leadership:
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I want this moment for us
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I want this moment for us
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This new essay on sex complexity is now available on Prosocial World (This View of Life). @agustin
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
Beyond the Binary: The Compounding Complexity of Biological Sex
Sex in nature is far more complex than a simple male–female divide, emerging instead as a diverse, overlapping continuum shaped by biology, development, and culture.
www.prosocial.world
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This new essay on sex complexity is now available on Prosocial World (This View of Life). @agustin
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
I literally never knew that scrip was private coins like at an arcade. Thought it was tracked w pen & paper, like writing prescriptions.
Found my great grandpa’s scrip from when he worked in the cotton mills.
If anyone knows what the small holes or for or have ideas of dates for these please let me know!
If anyone knows what the small holes or for or have ideas of dates for these please let me know!
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I literally never knew that scrip was private coins like at an arcade. Thought it was tracked w pen & paper, like writing prescriptions.
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The democratic establishment is wondering how Zohran beat a ...
*Checks notes*
Sex offender????? who retaliated against the women he abused???
*Checks notes*
Sex offender????? who retaliated against the women he abused???
June 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The democratic establishment is wondering how Zohran beat a ...
*Checks notes*
Sex offender????? who retaliated against the women he abused???
*Checks notes*
Sex offender????? who retaliated against the women he abused???
Damn, you won't see my sage commentary unless you click on the "How the Elite Behave" post. Oh well.
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Damn, you won't see my sage commentary unless you click on the "How the Elite Behave" post. Oh well.
Gift Link for the latest from @anandwrites.bsky.social, who gets today's Honorary Sociologist 👑 award. My comments(+) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Gift Link for the latest from @anandwrites.bsky.social, who gets today's Honorary Sociologist 👑 award. My comments(+) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
📣 Children of Asian immigrants!
I'm advising a thesis, and this student needs respondents for their online survey.
Please click & take if eligible: forms.gle/U7ujUzvpp4wx...
Thank you!
I'm advising a thesis, and this student needs respondents for their online survey.
Please click & take if eligible: forms.gle/U7ujUzvpp4wx...
Thank you!
Internalized Racism in Asian Americans
Saeyeon Kailyn Chough
forms.gle
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
📣 Children of Asian immigrants!
I'm advising a thesis, and this student needs respondents for their online survey.
Please click & take if eligible: forms.gle/U7ujUzvpp4wx...
Thank you!
I'm advising a thesis, and this student needs respondents for their online survey.
Please click & take if eligible: forms.gle/U7ujUzvpp4wx...
Thank you!
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Gearing up for a potentially bruising primary as he challenges progressive stalwart Ed Markey for his Senate seat, Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts apparently decided that turning his back on AIPAC and its allies was more politically advantageous than costly.
Is the Tide Starting to Turn Against AIPAC?
Backing AIPAC may now be a political liability for candidates facing progressive challengers in Democratic primaries.
truthout.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Gearing up for a potentially bruising primary as he challenges progressive stalwart Ed Markey for his Senate seat, Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts apparently decided that turning his back on AIPAC and its allies was more politically advantageous than costly.
Interesting thread! My biggest surprise is seeing K/Cohen for baby boys.
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Interesting thread! My biggest surprise is seeing K/Cohen for baby boys.
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The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids…
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids…
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
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IDK who needs to hear this, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's a synagogue is absolutely wrong, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's hosting an info session about how U.S. Jews can buy real estate in Palestinian territories is absolutely fine and good.
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
IDK who needs to hear this, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's a synagogue is absolutely wrong, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's hosting an info session about how U.S. Jews can buy real estate in Palestinian territories is absolutely fine and good.
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17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
My kid goes to Lafayette, and we’re in town for the big football game.
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
My kid goes to Lafayette, and we’re in town for the big football game.
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#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
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ICE continues to terrorize our communities and spread fear.
If you see ICE, call the AMOR deportation defense line: 401-675-1414.
We will continue to fight to protect immigrants’ rights, and due process rights for all, in the courts and in the upcoming Legislative Session.
If you see ICE, call the AMOR deportation defense line: 401-675-1414.
We will continue to fight to protect immigrants’ rights, and due process rights for all, in the courts and in the upcoming Legislative Session.
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
ICE continues to terrorize our communities and spread fear.
If you see ICE, call the AMOR deportation defense line: 401-675-1414.
We will continue to fight to protect immigrants’ rights, and due process rights for all, in the courts and in the upcoming Legislative Session.
If you see ICE, call the AMOR deportation defense line: 401-675-1414.
We will continue to fight to protect immigrants’ rights, and due process rights for all, in the courts and in the upcoming Legislative Session.
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Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
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Very cool research tool called @mapthepower.bsky.social allows you to map the economic and institutional relationships between major power brokers and wealthy individuals. ht @emma-briant.co.uk
littlesis.org/database
littlesis.org/database
The Public Accountability Initiative –LittleSis –
is a nonprofit public interest research organization focused on corporate and government accountability.
littlesis.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Very cool research tool called @mapthepower.bsky.social allows you to map the economic and institutional relationships between major power brokers and wealthy individuals. ht @emma-briant.co.uk
littlesis.org/database
littlesis.org/database
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Seen this @scottsantens.com ? UBI for newborns, sorta. rxkids.org
Rx Kids | A Prescription for Health, Hope, and Opportunity
Rx Kids is the first-ever community-wide cash prescription program for pregnant moms and babies. Rx Kids provides all pregnant moms in the City of Flint with no-strings-attached cash of $1,500 during ...
rxkids.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Seen this @scottsantens.com ? UBI for newborns, sorta. rxkids.org
Or as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says: “I do not regret to inform you that we will win.”
Your regular reminder that eternal one-party domination by Republicans is not inevitable, Trump is not invincible, and when the far right receives even moderate pushback against their terrible ideas, they usually collapse.
multiple major setbacks for trump's effort to steal the midterm House election. CA passed their gerrymander; VA D win ensures they will pass theirs; IN refused to pass an R map, defying Trump; courts struck down TX map.
right now looks like outcome of all this could be to add *D* seats.
right now looks like outcome of all this could be to add *D* seats.
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Or as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says: “I do not regret to inform you that we will win.”
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The parlance in Econ that implies that gendered “preferences” that contribute to wage/major gaps come fully formed and not shaped by society is one of the things that motivated me to start this project
www.nber.org/papers/w34456
www.nber.org/papers/w34456
The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The parlance in Econ that implies that gendered “preferences” that contribute to wage/major gaps come fully formed and not shaped by society is one of the things that motivated me to start this project
www.nber.org/papers/w34456
www.nber.org/papers/w34456
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
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