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Professor of Sociology. Democracy-Activism-Protest-Climate-the Environment, and all sorts of data-driven social science.

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    1 Nov 2019

    Thanks to everyone at for the chat about the 🇺🇸

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    8 hours ago

    BREAKING: The Senate has voted to confirm labor economist Cecilia Rouse to chair the Council of Economic Advisers. She's the first Black person and fourth woman to lead the organization.

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    11 hours ago

    Great feature on 's and her thoughts on the changing politics of climate change via :

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    12 hours ago

    One of America's most prescient political thinkers, , has studied the growing fissures in political life. She's optimistic that recent progressive wins will make it possible to tackle climate change. Read in :

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    13 hours ago
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    Yes I agree we need a deeply anchored critique. Ideology can mean very different things though. But I think the conversation about "not being political" has to switch. We are disempowering ourselves...

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  7. 13 hours ago

    And dont live in

    I just keep thinking about this story, about how the summer we are DREAMING ABOUT can be a reality -- BUT ONLY if we're careful for a little bit longer
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  8. 13 hours ago

    Just 😍😍😍that term 'sedition- curious'! !!

    Josh Hawley sure is worried about what cell phone data the FBI might have. Apparently, being sedition-curious is only fun when you think you won’t get caught.
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  9. 13 hours ago

    Interesting take on the role of here 👇

    Replying to @IsabelleLetell1
    Civil disobedience can certainly be used in campaigns that do those things. But you need a lot more than just disobey and disrupt for that. Whereas civil disobedience by definition delegitimises that which it protests.
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  10. 13 hours ago

    Super useful tool from the folks at

    If you want to know where your Senator stands on abolishing the filibuster.
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    15 hours ago

    Join and Wednesday at 2pm ET for Coffee and a Column. This week, they'll discuss Dr. Zogby's latest column, "Healing Our Divided America." RSVP:

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  12. 14 hours ago

    I'm delighted to see my interview with about today up at at :

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  13. 15 hours ago

    Looking forward to this conversation with tomorrow!

    Join and Wednesday at 2pm ET for Coffee and a Column. This week, they'll discuss Dr. Zogby's latest column, "Healing Our Divided America." RSVP:
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    15 hours ago

    My conversation with now up on :

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    18 hours ago
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    FBI Director Christopher Wray: "Racially motivated violent extremism — specifically of the sort that advocates for the superiority of the white race — is a persistent, evolving threat ... and [it] is the biggest chunk of our domestic terrorism portfolio."

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  16. 17 hours ago

    Apparently, today's another day...

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    18 hours ago

    Jan 6th wasn't organized by antifa. It was organized by pro-fa.

    "We have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribing to Antifa in connection with the 6th. That doesn't mean we're not looking. And we'll continue to look. But at the moment we have not seen that,” ’s Chris Wray says of Capitol riot.
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    20 hours ago

    Anyone know when the John Lewis Voting Rights Act is set to be reintroduced in the 117th Congress? Asking for the masses who yearn to participate in our democracy without being barred, silenced, or suppressed. CC:

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    22 hours ago

    A clear reminder that these types of events that are becoming more common due to are not blips (except perhaps in terms of their media coverage). They have long term consequences to PEOPLE and COMMUNITIES.

    Weeks after the winter storm crisis, nearly 390,000 Texans still don't have clean water.
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    20 hours ago

    Sad news as another giant of the Civil Rights era passes on: Vernon Jordan, a civil rights leader and close adviser to former President Bill Clinton, passed away on Monday evening, multiple sources close to the family tell CNN. He was 85.

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  21. 19 hours ago

    Anyone know how I can stream the film for my class today? I have an account but can't stream the film on Zoom (normally we'd watch in class and it wouldn't be an issue). It provides great context for conversations about .

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