Road trip pause for ~5 weeks of conferencing and other nerdy fun in DC 🤓
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Road trip pause for ~5 weeks of conferencing and other nerdy fun in DC 🤓
Presentation title slide: "Taking the 'Lipstick Lobby Brigade' Seriously: Toward a Study of World War II-Era Women Lobbyists" 1940s lipstick ad text: "In Defense of Glamour: Patriot Red. The Brave New Shade" Shamira Gelbman | Wabash College | gelbmans@wabash.edu
I'm presenting today at #ESS2026 👀
I'll introduce my new project on WWII-era women lobbyists drawing on initial findings and questions raised through archival work with the @ncjw.bsky.social Washington Office Records
3:30 PM in Salon 2 in the Marriott at Metro Center
Abstract description, how do scholars bring their research to into practice.
Last panel, Democracy Reconsidered, peopling politics, intervention and response. Panelists Marshall Ganz, Hahrie Han, Ernesto Castaneda, moderated by Christine Slaughter.
Abstract for interest groups influence on policy, a sociological perspective
Now a panel on Agenda Setters: Interest groups and civil society in the policymaking process. Beth Baltzan, @lindsayowens.bsky.social and @carolinewlee.bsky.social
Abstract of panel on connecting regular people to politics. Why has voting decreased among low income non voters? Too much of politics ignore non voters, how do we bring back in
Next panel includes @daniellaurison.bsky.social , @povertyscholar.bsky.social and @dorianwarren.bsky.social on bridging the political disconnect. How do we build a more inclusive democracy?
Description of panel on race, gender in political staffers
First panel has James R Jones (Rutgers-Newark, Prof, studies racism in Congress), Beth Pearson (chief of staff, Sen. Warren, fmr AAAS-STPF fellow with ASA) and @alondra.bsky.social on Personnel is Policy. They reflect on how sociological training&research affected their policy paths
Psyched to be here at Peopling Politics, Bringing the People Back in, a symposium on race, class and inequality in US politics.
Excited to hear some of my longtime intellectual heroes outside of psych like @daniellaurison.bsky.social , @alondra.bsky.social and @povertyscholar.bsky.social
And so First Things (the leading Catholic magazine of religion and public life) joins evangelicals in making the pivot from “Christian nationalism isn’t a real thing” to “Actually, Christian nationalism is awesome and we need it!”
One of the #GreatestPeople the world has produced!
#OTD #TDIH #February23, 1868. #BOTD: #HBD #WEBDuBois! #AfricanAmericans #Geniuses #Sociologists #Historians #Activists #Writers #Freemasons #CivilRights #NAACP #NiagaraMovement #CivilRightsSky
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“The library doesn’t own the archive. It can’t freely digitize it or put the images online. The intellectual property still belongs to Gannett… And yet… it’s hard not to feel that whatever the legal paperwork says, this archive belongs, in spirit, to the people of Poughkeepsie.”
“In 2019, as [Gannett] began fully moving operations out of the bldg, the entire collection—by then scattered across the basement—was suddenly in limbo… The Poughkeepsie Public Library stepped in, agreed to pay rent on a dedicated storage unit + took on physical custodianship of the archive…”
“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.
Potown represent!
journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
our recommendations: 1) Connect Politics to Problems and Solutions Make it clear that there are (and can be) political and policy solutions to many of the real problems people face. 2) Recruit Political Practitioners from Low-Income and Working-Class Backgrounds Risk of social disconnection compounds across marginalized identities. Addressing these disparities fully requires prioritizing intersecting aspects of identity including age, race, disability, sexuality, and gender identity. 3) Increase the Frequency, Quality, and Duration of Contact with Low-Income and Working-Class Communities Meaningful progress requires moving away from individualizing approaches and instead prioritizing social solutions aimed at creating relational change.
If we're going to have a democracy, we need to include everyone - so we have recommendations for how to do that. The DNC today launching a listening campaign to have volunteers talk to people who voted in 2020 but not in 2024 is a good start - but it will need to be done right.
an American flag fading into a group of people (or rising out of it) and a quote from one of our respondents, talking about what she thinks about when she thinks about politics - "People in power have money and don't fully understand the struggles like being in debt, raising a child, or being on welfare — that's a disconnection."
The people we spoke to - across racial groups, and across geographies in Pennsylvania - told us they feel disconnected from our leaders and our political system, that politics looks like a game played by privileged people. They don't feel like politicians really care about them or their communities.
image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”
Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone.
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njs.libraries.rutgers.edu NJS: An Interdisciplinary Journal Summer 2025 The New Jersey Miscount: The 1860 Census and the Accidental Humanization of Enslaved Individuals By Luke Voyles DOI: 10.14713/njs.v1112.362 Abstract: The 1860 census is the only example in U.S. history when the U.S. government systematically recorded the names and ages of enslaved individuals of a state. Because government officials underestimated the number of enslaved people in New Jersey, there was no slave schedule in the state. Therefore, the names of enslaved individuals appeared within the households of their enslavers in the regular 1860 census. The official census statistics only listed 18 individuals as enslaved in 1860, but a close examination of every 1860 census page for New Jersey uncovers 64 names tied to slavery. This essay explores the context behind the census, and how the census accidentally humanized people whom it often marginalized.
Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865.
Y’all. He identified every one of them.
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And they want us to suffer. Because human care is incompatible with capitalism. As other sectors have profited from automation and outsourcing, care has remained too labor-intensive to be simultaneously profitable, affordable for all who need it, and paid well enough to avoid shortages of care. 2/
As care gets more expensive, and as shortages of human care increase, desperate people may be willing to buy the lie that AI is a reasonable substitute. But really, they'll just be getting, at best, a cheap knock-off, while the wealthy hoard what remains of human care for themselves. 1/
"In February 2026, AI agents began doing something unprecedented"
It is the second day of February 2026.
PA07!
Seven candidates and moderator for PA 07 Dem primary debate on a dais with name tags
Currently at a seven candidate Dem 07 primary debate with packed audience in the chapel at Lafayette College on a Sunday night.
I just saw a video of what appeared to be a 6 or 7 year old little girl in agony as someone flushed her eyes for tear gas. ICE is an evil abomination. This is authoritarian, failed-state shit and everyone who helped this along should be held accountable.
YES!!!
Y'all just do not understand Tarrant County. This is...oh well there are the tears. Great work by all the organizers!!
ICYMI @hebagowayed.bsky.social wrote about the companies profiting from ICE’s ethnic cleansing campaign and why a bipartisan consensus keeps the out-of-control agency funded for our newsletter Group Threat (please subscribe).
The Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished
"In 2023, the “Minnesota Miracle” secured one of the strongest social safety nets in the country...None of it would have been possible without years of organizing that built a multiracial constituency prepared to stand together" - @hahrie.bsky.social for @hammerandhope.bsky.social, 2024
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.