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wrigleyfield.bsky.social
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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Horrific political assassinations took place in America, & we’ve totally erased it from the National Conversation™️ because they happened in the Midwest instead of Manhattan & we’re not a serious country. Incredibly depressing on so many deep, pathetic levels. May their memories be a blessing.

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Excerpt from Adam Higginbotham's book Challenger (which I hugely recommend) We are living the vision of the worst people in the world

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

There is no ceiling on how bad things can get until we make the ceiling. No institution will make it for us. As someone I used to organize with loved to say, “No one is coming to save us, but us” And yeah, it’s scary as fuck

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It’s such a cliche to compare the Onion to real life but “I feel like people misunderstood my $250,000 for Cuomo for real enthusiasm” could quite literally be an Onion headline

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Reminder: the $600 billion per year that the IRS doesn't collect in taxes owed is enough to pay for universal school meals (~$50 billion) and the child care /preschool (~$40 billion) and paid family leave (~$20 billion) provisions of build back better...six times over! www.crfb.org/blogs/irs-es...

submitted 220 days ago • 4 comments

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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My child, a genius, put muesli on her ice cream as a topping. 🤌

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Happy Pride! Some people are assholes, Let's show them hate will never win! Donate or share if you can, let's help our neighbors out!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Phil Kasinitz & I asked 1250 New Yorkers about providing emergency housing to migrants who have arrived here since 2022. Surprise: Only 30% oppose it. Funded by @russellsagefdn.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social @johnjayrec.bsky.social

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

This is what #ChatGPT responds when you ask it to 'make a poster for a maths classroom with all the key formulas on it that a student aged 11-14 in the UK might need'. As with most #AI responses, it looks plausible but the more you look, the worse it gets.. What's your (least) favourite part?

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Good reminder of how little people hear about even massively important policy proposals.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

“Finding a way to combine these two objections — to fuse, as Trump does, the domestic with the foreign — is a means to a properly majoritarian politics in the United States.” Very good (as always) from Lydia Polgreen

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Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

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How is it remotely legal that MnDOT still has the Cedar Ave sidewalk under Hiawatha blocked off with fencing? With zero detours for people walking and rolling?

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> Lindsey Boylan, the first woman to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment: “I can’t even describe how good it feels to know that someone who was trying to obliterate me and all the other women that he harmed did not succeed… His path to victory was to destroy all of us… and it didn’t work.” More below:

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And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

submitted 2 days ago • 215 comments

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Troubleshooting some code and, as usual, the most time-consuming part is remembering how to log on to the restricted server where I'm allowed to look at the data

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

If you're interested in matching algorithms (I once spent a holiday weekend reading a book about them, because it's always more fun to read about work problems that aren't yours than to try to solve your own), this article is cool as hell

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The municipal sidewalk clearing costs are less than expected, & deliver the same sort of accessibility for pedestrians that we provide to drivers. Expanding this is just good policy for a city that wants to get more people making more trips without a motor vehicle. www.axios.com/local/twin-c...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

I agree with this but I have to say: the optics were also very *appealing*. I see politicians yell at each other all the time. Watching a ragtag crew support each other to do something that seemed impossible was simply pleasant. More Ocean’s Eleven politics, please

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Most of the impactful, powerful classrooms I've stepped into were in many ways a result of a teacher genuinely and transparently leaning into what they loved. (Giving teachers a chance to lean into what they love? Often the best way to make better classrooms.)

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