Max Coleman
@maxecoleman.bsky.social
Sociology prof at the U of Utah studying health inequalities (especially mental health) from a social psych perspective. 🏳️🌈
Husband to @robrankin.bsky.social
Also: jazz 🎶, hiking 🏔️, loose-leaf tea 🍵 , politics 🗳️, and our cat Milo 🐈⬛.
Husband to @robrankin.bsky.social
Also: jazz 🎶, hiking 🏔️, loose-leaf tea 🍵 , politics 🗳️, and our cat Milo 🐈⬛.
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Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
My husband is an amazing composer and thinker — I know I’m biased but I highly recommend this lecture!
I filmed a made-for-home-video version of a lecture I gave at the University of Utah’s Fridays With Faculty series, about how musical structures can “behave” or mirror extra-musical concepts.
robrankin.substack.com/p/form-as-me...
robrankin.substack.com/p/form-as-me...
FORM AS METAPHOR
How Extra-musical Ideas Can Exist In Abstract Music
robrankin.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My husband is an amazing composer and thinker — I know I’m biased but I highly recommend this lecture!
It’s refreshing to hear a Senator speak so plainly in the face of authoritarianism — I just wish that courage weren’t so rare.
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It’s refreshing to hear a Senator speak so plainly in the face of authoritarianism — I just wish that courage weren’t so rare.
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It's not a sophisticated reaction, but my response to both "quiet, piggy" and the Coast Guard okaying swastikas and nooses is a deep sadness that the compassion we're working so hard to foster in our children will not just be challenged by schoolyard bullies but by the highest levels of society.
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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This is so abhorrent. Trump has now re-pardoned a Jan 6 felon because the original pardon didn’t clear his (unrelated!) felony gun convictions.
The man “has identified himself as a member of the Oath Keepers and Gray Ghost Partisan Rangers militia.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The man “has identified himself as a member of the Oath Keepers and Gray Ghost Partisan Rangers militia.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.
www.politico.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is so abhorrent. Trump has now re-pardoned a Jan 6 felon because the original pardon didn’t clear his (unrelated!) felony gun convictions.
The man “has identified himself as a member of the Oath Keepers and Gray Ghost Partisan Rangers militia.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The man “has identified himself as a member of the Oath Keepers and Gray Ghost Partisan Rangers militia.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
“‘People were hurt so badly,’ said Mr. Trump, whose administration fought in court to not fund food stamps, tried to fire thousands of federal workers and threatened to withhold back pay from others during the shutdown.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Government Reopens as Trump Signs Bill to End Nation’s Longest Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“‘People were hurt so badly,’ said Mr. Trump, whose administration fought in court to not fund food stamps, tried to fire thousands of federal workers and threatened to withhold back pay from others during the shutdown.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
"In conditions of hegemony, even the righteous anger of the oppressed can be incorporated into a toothless identity politics in which difference becomes a hot commodity."
—Patricia Hill Collins, "Fighting Words"
—Patricia Hill Collins, "Fighting Words"
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"In conditions of hegemony, even the righteous anger of the oppressed can be incorporated into a toothless identity politics in which difference becomes a hot commodity."
—Patricia Hill Collins, "Fighting Words"
—Patricia Hill Collins, "Fighting Words"
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Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
@ezralevin.bsky.social Can Indivisible coordinate with other orgs on a massive grassroots campaign to replace Schumer as minority leader? Maybe someone like Chris Murphy — or anyone else who is a fighter?
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
@ezralevin.bsky.social Can Indivisible coordinate with other orgs on a massive grassroots campaign to replace Schumer as minority leader? Maybe someone like Chris Murphy — or anyone else who is a fighter?
What will it take for the Senate to remove Schumer as minority leader?
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
What will it take for the Senate to remove Schumer as minority leader?
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.
It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...
A really important article about the (current!) genocide in Darfur. The authors argue that we need to pressure the UAE—which provides weapons and other support—as well as American companies like Disney & the NBA that have financial ties and can exert leverage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Sudan Is in Free Fall
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A really important article about the (current!) genocide in Darfur. The authors argue that we need to pressure the UAE—which provides weapons and other support—as well as American companies like Disney & the NBA that have financial ties and can exert leverage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
"Silence itself—the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name—[is] an element that functions alongside the things said... There is no binary division to be made between what one says & what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying such things." —Foucault
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"Silence itself—the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name—[is] an element that functions alongside the things said... There is no binary division to be made between what one says & what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying such things." —Foucault
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Utah Senate Democrats are calling on the Legislature’s GOP supermajority to use rainy-day funds to make up for the unfunded portion of Utahns' SNAP benefits.
‘Food is not a privilege’: Utah Democrats tell GOP leaders to use rainy-day funds for SNAP
Utah Senate Democrats are calling on the Legislature’s GOP supermajority to use rainy-day funds to make up for the unfunded portion of Utahns' SNAP benefits.
www.sltrib.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Utah Senate Democrats are calling on the Legislature’s GOP supermajority to use rainy-day funds to make up for the unfunded portion of Utahns' SNAP benefits.
I’ve had problems with the Anti-Defamation League for a very long time, but this takes things to another level. Absolutely unconscionable.
"The removal eliminated a passage that read, “Our founders established ADL with the clear understanding that the fight against any one form of prejudice or hate cannot succeed without countering hate of all forms.”"
ADL removes ‘Protect Civil Rights’ from website as it narrows its mission amid right-wing attacks - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The removal took place after FBI Director Kash Patel said he would cut ties with the ADL, though it is unclear if that has happened.
www.jta.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I’ve had problems with the Anti-Defamation League for a very long time, but this takes things to another level. Absolutely unconscionable.
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I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
This is callous beyond belief. The Trump administration has been perfectly willing to “find” money to pay law enforcement (including people carrying out deportations), but it won’t spend emergency money that Congress explicitly set aside for SNAP benefits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
Judge Skeptical Over Trump Administration Decision to Suspend Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This is callous beyond belief. The Trump administration has been perfectly willing to “find” money to pay law enforcement (including people carrying out deportations), but it won’t spend emergency money that Congress explicitly set aside for SNAP benefits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
“Creating tech-free spaces and incentivizing students to spend time in them requires no new resources. All it takes is will. Many of our students still have it. Do their teachers?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“Creating tech-free spaces and incentivizing students to spend time in them requires no new resources. All it takes is will. Many of our students still have it. Do their teachers?”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.
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There's money available to feed poor people. The Trump regime has deleted that fact from a government website, but it's still a fact.
Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
October 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
There's money available to feed poor people. The Trump regime has deleted that fact from a government website, but it's still a fact.
Article recommendation:
Kenneth Gergen, "Social Psychology as History" (1973).
He argues that social psych can't discover immutable laws because the dissemination of knowledge changes those very laws. For example, people modify their behavior to disprove stereotypes.
gwern.net/doc/statisti...
Kenneth Gergen, "Social Psychology as History" (1973).
He argues that social psych can't discover immutable laws because the dissemination of knowledge changes those very laws. For example, people modify their behavior to disprove stereotypes.
gwern.net/doc/statisti...
gwern.net
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Article recommendation:
Kenneth Gergen, "Social Psychology as History" (1973).
He argues that social psych can't discover immutable laws because the dissemination of knowledge changes those very laws. For example, people modify their behavior to disprove stereotypes.
gwern.net/doc/statisti...
Kenneth Gergen, "Social Psychology as History" (1973).
He argues that social psych can't discover immutable laws because the dissemination of knowledge changes those very laws. For example, people modify their behavior to disprove stereotypes.
gwern.net/doc/statisti...
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i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.