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Mark Igra
@markigra.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy
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Started this sciences.social. Sociology PhD candidate at the University of Washington, studying altruism and morality. Former software guy.

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Accountability for those with power has been under attack for decades, largely due to an already-unaccountable Supreme Court. Like pneumonia for people with leukemia, Trump is an acute & possibly mortal problem, but the broader condition must also be treated […]
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January 29, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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In the first panel, a motley group of armed men are saying, "We need assault weapons to protect against a tyrannical government!" In the second panel, the same group is standing in front of Trump on a throne and saying, "We need assault weapons to protect a tyrannical government!"
January 24, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Frickin A’ (NYT poll gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/trump-poll-second-term.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVA.Ama_.8NanxW0E7w9O&smid=url-share)
"I think he must be doing something right when there are so many people opposed to him" said Paul Minihane, 77, a real estate broker who lives in Dedham, Mass. "I mean, Donald Trump could look at me in the face and tell me to go screw myself. And I'd say, 'Thank you.' I think that's good. I don't think he's looking to kiss everybody's ass. I think he's going to do what he thinks is the right thing. And I think that's a positive thing."
January 22, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software (#TagTeam) on which it runs.

Details in this Google doc:
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

Contact me if you have any […]
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January 20, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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alfiekohn.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy
Where things stand in Trump's America. M. Gessen is always worth reading:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/trump-one-year-later.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.MI0b.LhNaKfaVeujH&smid=url-share
Of course, the United States is not Russia — or Hungary or Venezuela or Israel or any of the many other democracies that have turned or are turning themselves into autocracies. But now is the time to focus on the similarities and try to learn from the ways other countries have cracked down on protest, eviscerated their electoral systems, limited their media freedom and built concentration camps. The only way to keep the space from imploding is to fill it, to prop up the walls: to claim all the room there still is for speaking, writing, publishing, protesting, voting. It’s what the people of Minnesota appear to be doing, and it’s something each of us needs to do — right now, while we still can.
January 20, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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My mom got mail from Public Citizen asking for $ to support a campaign to overturn Supreme Court's pro-crime Trump v. US decision via constitutional amendment.

Good idea.

BUT their website https://www.citizen.org shows no sign of that campaign. Is anyone spearheading this, not just asking for […]
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January 20, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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czimm-economist.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy
Wikipedia is now 25. It has over 10,000 links to abstract, series or author pages on RePEc. IDEAS (now 28) links back to Wikipedia on those pages.

https://ideas.repec.org/

#dailyRePEc #economics
Economics and Finance Research | IDEAS/RePEc
IDEAS is a central index of economics and finance research, including working papers, articles and software code
ideas.repec.org
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
markigra.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy
The behavior of the executive branch is a more acute problem, but the judiciary is ensuring we can’t fix any chronic ones […]
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January 13, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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This from M. Gessen in their interview with Ezra Klein is scary. (Gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-m-gessen.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1A.-Iuv.8DQEMYnMMXbe&smid=url-share
So that’s really the great question. I always think back to my series of interviews with this great Russian sociologist Lev Gudkov, who would show me these graphs of Putin’s subjective economic well- being and Putin’s popularity. And for about the first dozen years of Putin’s being in power, they moved in concert. So subjective economic well-being dips, Putin’s popularity dips. It rises, Putin’s popularity rises — which is normal. And then subjective economic well-being takes a dive, and Putin’s popularity skyrockets. And his interpretation was that this is when people accepted a trade-off: You are going to be poor, but in exchange for being poor, you are going to belong to something great. And that’s the totalitarian trade-off. People made it in the Soviet Union; people make it all over the world. Are people going to make it in this country?
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-brazen-illegality-of-trumps-venezuela-operation
The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation
A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.
www.newyorker.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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Can’t wait for Supreme Court ruling on whether Maduro gets absolute or only qualified immunity.
January 3, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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This whole thread on bsky https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mbihjgi3xc2u
January 3, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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I had never heard about this trophy or the backstory (ahem). https://www.si.com/college/2017/12/18/birmingham-bowl-trophy-vulcan-statue-photo

ht: https://bsky.app/profile/edsbs.bsky.social/post/3mb5cyrjwvc2h
The Birmingham Bowl Trophy Has a Bare Ass
He isn’t wearing pants, but it makes sense.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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My son’s girlfriend is at Brown (he graduated). She’s ok. And I haven’t heard from my friends in Bondi (where I lived as an expat) whose kids went to the Chabad School when they were younger. It’s still early there, but it’s been a nauseating couple of days. So sad for the people who lost loved ones
December 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I'm supposed to be writing, so of course I'm reading unrelated stuff instead. But for #sociology folks, this Burawoy piece on Bourdieu and Gramsci is incredibly clearly written. So sad that Burawoy was killed in an accident. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0038038511422725
December 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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czimm-economist.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy
If you want to mention some economics research on social media or the web, use a link to a RePEc abstract page instead of a direct link: It will always stay up, provide context (cites, refs, author profile), often alternative versions (ungated link, journal article), and more […]
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December 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I bought an ebook from Routledge (avoiding Amazon & cheaper than Kindle) without realizing that they require a janky ereader with its own account/login (VitalSource) to access a protected ePub. Last week I bought a book from Palgrave & they let me download a PDF (Yay). I'm not gonna share it […]
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November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Paging Arlie Hochschild. Emotional labor needed on aisle 4. #sociology

https://www.wilx.com/2025/11/07/target-is-now-requiring-its-employees-smile-more/
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
markigra.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy
This is an elegant map and a great write up of a difficult data presentation problem. #rstats https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115505021479680286
Kieran Healy (@[email protected])
I successfully nerd-sniped myself into making a precinct-level choropleth and a dot-density map of the NYC mayoral election. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/11/06/mamdani-vs-sliwa-and-cuomo/
mastodon.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Sounds interesting: https://bsky.app/profile/jaeyeonkim.bsky.social/post/3m2n2tzi22226 #sociology
October 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The New York Times minimizing the unconstitutional assault on US cities so much that it didn't appear on the "front page" even on my big screen monitor. Had to export a pdf to capture the tiny headline. Truly atrocious. Does any major US news org care at all?
Screen shot of NYTimes online front page with tiny headline about Emergency powers circled in red. Red text on yellow saying "Unconstitutional invasion of us cities way down here!!! WTF NY Times." Another text saying "But at least I know where to find a tree house with rustic vibe" referring to NYT headline near top saying "6 Tree Houses You can Rent for Glamour With a Rustic Vibe"
October 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
markigra.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy
The New York Times minimizing the unconstitutional assault on US cities so much that it didn't appear on the "front page" even on my big screen monitor. Had to export a pdf to capture the tiny headline. Truly atrocious. Does any major US news org care at all?
Screen shot of NYTimes online front page with tiny headline about Emergency powers circled in red. Red text on yellow saying "Unconstitutional invasion of us cities way down here!!! WTF NY Times." Another text saying "But at least I know where to find a tree house with rustic vibe" referring to NYT headline near top saying "6 Tree Houses You can Rent for Glamour With a Rustic Vibe"
October 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes https://interestingengineering.com/science/chinas-oyster-inspired-bone-glue saw here: https://bsky.app/profile/leahmcelrath.bsky.social/post/3lzy5j43e2s2e
October 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Worth a watch from Jake Grumbach. I sure hope someone pushes an anti-corruption position in the US. I dunno whether politics will pan out, but we really need it. https://bsky.app/profile/perrybaconjr.bsky.social/post/3lzt5j2fp4c2i
September 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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That cat was accused of counter-revolutionary activities by the Committee of Public Safety.
a cat head peeking out of a basket, with a headless cat next to it
September 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM