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First there was a glimpse at the cover 🤩
Now the book is actually available to pre-order! 🎉
You can pre-order right now (great way to start the day)!! ⬇️
and very soon through @ucpress.bsky.social. 👍🏻
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Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
Horrifying.
Historically pinning a movement on a person not only erases the work & sacrifices of countless people, but it also deifies a charismatic human who doesn’t deserve it.
A true giant. I was lucky enought to meet him and spend an evening around him and Rorty in Chicago many years ago. RIP
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Dog fits house perfectly!! Dog factory made this one to the exact specs I provided. 10/10 highly recommended
It’s extremely helpful for lit reviews and summaries in law and social theory as well. And seem to own its limits a bit more than some of the other LLMs
POV: You’ve just turned around after opening the refrigerator
Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons
Althusser would like a word
The dialectic of "I think I'm really onto something with this project" and "this is all completely obvious"
We now have the most spectacular leadership team at Georgetown Law possible: Eduardo Peñalver as University President, and now Liz Magill as Executive Vice President and Law Dean.
By that logic those businesses should endorse the general strike
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
This. It’s also easier to shore up the existing power structure than to challenge it.
Today, a call to join the next era of LPE: a democratic, independent, member-led organization that will serve as a home for a broad array of LPE work.
Oh — the situation has escalated.
Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in.
"Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...
Google “Amazon SHV1” for some hints…
Not a single worker quoted in this @nytimes.com story on Amazon’s latest automation effort, which was also discussed on The Daily today.
How can we assess the company’s claims without hearing from workers who have used the tech?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...
right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.
I think you misspelled 1970s and 1980s
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.
Ouch SCOTUS
I’ll kinda defend this, bc for most of the summer DC weather tried to kill me. So, like, a nice day on 9.2 is a small miracle?
early reports suggested it had salami, not sure if those were ever verified
NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.
NEW Andrés Castro Araújo, Nicolás Restrepo Ochoa, "How to Make a Functionalist Argument." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
