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Jeff Mitchell
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Former vacuum cleaner repair boy, current sociologist

https://jeffrey-mitchell.com/
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davidkaib.bsky.social
Old enough to remember the 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela, fully supported by the Bush Admin and the New York Times.
December 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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hermwerf.bsky.social
Always wanted to have gini coefficients and other inequality statistics of different sources in one dataset? Here you are. The Integrated Inequality Data, from WIID, Worldbank, LIS, and SWIID. osf.io/5cguq/overview
OSF
osf.io
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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ahjohnson.bsky.social
I wrote about NYT, CNN, and ABC’s casual acceptance that US dictates and Trump’s arbitrary use of American violence against Venezuela is somehow a form of “international” law. It’s not, and US media should stop implying and/or outright lying that it is.
US Media Rushes to Manufacture Legal Legitimacy for Trump’s Venezuela Oil Tanker Piracy
Venezuela oil exports are not “black market” and US sanctions are not “international sanctions.” Why does our media keep saying otherwise?
www.columnblog.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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kzackari.bsky.social
En EU-medborgare utvisas med 5 års inreseförbud för att ha demonstrerat & en gång inte varit direkt hörsam mot ordningsmakten. Inget mer än vad som brukade vara normalt politiskt deltagande i Sverige.
etc.se Dagens ETC @etc.se · 6d
I lördags ville han stå upp för det fria samhället mot nazisterna som marscherade i Salem. Vid en kontroll såg polisen att han tidigare dömts till böter.

Imorgon ska tyska Lorenz Püttker kastas ut från Sverige.

Experten: ”Om det här är medvetet av polisen är det mycket allvarligt.”
Ville demonstrera mot Salemnazisterna – kastas ut ur Sverige
Polisen hänvisar till tidigare böter • Experten: ”Om det här är medvetet av polisen är det mycket allvarligt.”
www.etc.se
December 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
jeffreymitchell.bsky.social
Trump: Jag älskar Sverige. Men de har gått från ett land utan brottslighet till ett land med mycket brottslighet nu.
www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...
December 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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kevintmorris.bsky.social
New from Michael Miller and me at @thejop.bsky.social: Evidence that, in most areas that were affected by the decision, the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013 (Shelby County v Holder) increased the racial turnout gap. A thread...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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k2mey.bsky.social
Good job universities haven't switched their entire digital infrastructure to... oh hang on
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · 13d
Microsoft will increase prices for commercial Office subscriptions on July 1, 2026, including a 33% jump for front-line worker plans like Microsoft 365 F1 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Om du vill läsa mer om hur hälsan i områden som finns på listan påverkas, kolla in vår nya artikel tillsammans med
@kchihaya.bsky.social här:
osf.io/preprints/so...
December 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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jesspish.bsky.social
I agree with this critique although I will add that my critique (additionally) is that these stories do not discuss STATE VIOLENCE, like, you know, the goons kidnapping folks on the street and leaving children in the car.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16d
Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem. Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond. Balmer had pleaded guilty in mid-October, not just to arson and terrorism but to attempted murder. But Shapiro was still reluctant to focus on his attacker. “The prosecutor felt it was important to introduce into evidence the bomber’s claims that he did that because of ‘what I did to the Palestinians,’ so clearly there was some motivation because of my faith,” Shapiro said. “But I think it is dangerous for you or anyone else to think about those who perpetrate these violent attacks as linear thinkers, meaning that they have a left-wing ideology or a right-wing ideology, or that they have a firm set of beliefs the way you might or I might. These are clearly irrational thinkers. And I think that’s true of others who have claimed lives, whether it’s Speaker Hortman’s or Charlie Kirk’s.” right-wing homicides are far more common than left-wing homicides Across both datasets, we find that radical acts perpetrated by individuals associated with left-wing causes are less likely to be violent. In the United States, we find no difference between the level of violence perpetrated by right-wing and Islamist extremists.
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann
The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Needed - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects:
-"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size"
-"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant"
academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments
Abstract. Survey experiments have become a popular methodology for causal inference across the social sciences. We study the efficacy of survey experiment
academic.oup.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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bradlander.bsky.social
Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today.

So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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jpinasanchez.bsky.social
'Estimating Discrimination in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls', with Melissa Hamilton & @pwgtennant.bsky.social, just out at the European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl...
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
One of the points Joshua Davis makes in *Police Against the Movement* is that COINTELPRO was started by the police and all the FBI did was federalize it.

And SNCC and CORE did a ton of organizing around police brutality specifically.
#BookSky
Police Against the Movement
A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century...
press.princeton.edu
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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joenoonan.se
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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dcinbox.bsky.social
I have an undergrad who is doing work on how different news networks used different terms over the past 15 years. Here is "woke" at Fox News and in official congressional e-newsletters
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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bhighsmith.bsky.social
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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pengzell.bsky.social
New evidence that twin estimates of heritability should be adjusted downward by about half
sashagusevposts.bsky.social Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 26d
So there you have it, twin study estimates were greatly inflated, and molecular data sets the record straight. I walk through possible counter-arguments, but ultimately the uncomfortable truth is that genes contribute to traits much less than we always thought.
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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kallekn.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy
Det här tycker jag är en principiellt viktig nyhet. Polisen menar att civil olydnad är ett hot mot demokratin och därför bör aktivisten David Alcer utvisas - till Tyskland.

https://www.sydsvenskan.se/lund/polisen-lundaforskarens-miljoaktivism-ar-ett-hot-mot-demokratin/
Polisen: Lundaforskarens miljöaktivism är ett hot mot demokratin
Skriver till Migrationsverket • David Alcer: "Det är helt absurt"
www.sydsvenskan.se
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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deutschmann.bsky.social
New #openaccess study

We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide

Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment.

"A time panelty for the Global South?"
shorturl.at/ZiAFb
Visas are a key tool for states to regulate incoming mobility from abroad, which can have ramifications for the establishment and perpetuation of global inequalities. In this article, we systematically analyze visa appointment wait times in German embassies and consulates worldwide. Using computational methods, we collect—and publish—fine-grained longitudinal data on the closest available appointment dates for various visa types, covering a total of 16,182 visa appointment requests. Our analysis reveals strong and systematic variance: the poorer the country a diplomatic mission is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an available appointment (which ranges from almost 0 to 100 percent). We also argue that Germany’s system is quite opaque compared to other established immigration countries such as the U.S. These core findings raise important questions in light of current debates about global justice, legal pathways to migration, and efforts to attract foreign talent. Graph that shows that 44.1 percent of requests did not lead to an appointment that could be selected. For the 55.9 percent where an appointment was available the distribution of wait times follows a steep curve with short wait times in many cases and a long tail of few cases with very long wait times of up to 98 days. The average wait times and chances to find an appointment varied a lot between Germany's diplomatic missions. The latter range from almost 0 to 100 percent. This variance is not random. Rather, economic wellbeing (GDP per capita) is a key predictor of wait times and chances of finding an appointment. The poorer the country a German embassy/consulate is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an appointment.
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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joshmccrain.bsky.social
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM