Mo Torres
@motorres
sociologist: cities, political economy, race/racism umich.edu/~motorres
"Abdul only won because of college towns!" Interesting results out of Washtenaw County, where he swept not only Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti but nearly the entire county, including small cities and rural areas.
WashU and Vanderbilt AAUPs release a statement on the (soon-to-be infamous) "Vanderbilt report": "The report.. proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty." tinyurl.com/3bypnwk2
Over the weekend the university president published a statement apologizing for the faculty commencement speaker's remarks. Every line of Derek Peterson's reply is worth a read:
Results are out and the left wing of the Michigan Democrats had a near total sweep today in Detroit. Out of 8 endorsements by the People’s Coalition, for instance, all but one won the party’s endorsement today. A victory like this for leftists & progressives was hard to imagine just a few years ago.
… with the booing for Haley Stevens here. Amazing that these two are in the same party. The vibe shift in the convention hall from one speaker to the next was unreal. Biggest flop of the afternoon.
I wish I had gotten longer videos but just compare the cheering for Abdul here… (Bsky only allows one vid per post?)
Biggest round of applause at the MI Dems convention today was Abdul El-Sayed and it wasn’t even close. Multiple standing ovations.
Planning my visit to São Paulo’s Jewish Museum and was surprised by Google’s AI summary that highlighted Zionism before Judaism. I read through 100+ comments with no mention of Zionism, then searched the reviews and found *one* out of 1000+… this would never have been a human summary of the reviews
A fun bungee jumping scene to show how carefree and brave Selena was? Or the prelude to a freak devastating accident? He was closing his eyes her entire ride up
Reading into the history of my hometown neighborhood, I came across what’s maybe the only mention of my little hood in a major work of literature? Perhaps not so surprisingly from Didion
Stopped by Livraria Megafauna in São Paulo for the first time and was greeted at the front by this beautiful @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social translation
New ethnographic work highlights "class evasiveness" in a diverse suburban high school where "students, adults, and school policies... [displace] class onto race and [downplay] socioeconomic inequalities, [leaving] material inequalities [to] persist and go undiscussed" doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf075
there’s a moment in Zootopia 2 where the film’s entire discussion of social stigma, cultural genocide and ethnic cleansing (with allegories to Palestine throughout) gets recoded as neutral “difference,” a perfect illustration of the exact move Barbara Fields described in her 1990 NLR essay
one of the best books of race theory ever published but especially this paragraph which i've basically committed to memory at this point
causal chain flowcharts are always insane but yes it is that serious (+complicated)
Looks like one of the biggest gaps in the exit polls was between voters who thought Mamdani's policies were realistic (44% of all respondents, 97% of whom voted for M) vs. unrealistic (50% of respondents, 74% of whom voted C)
A fun result from NBC's exit polling in New York: 24% of respondents answered yes to the question "do you consider yourself a democratic socialist?"
“Startlingly unpopular” is a startlingly dishonest way of interpreting the actual finding in this poll—that 44% of respondents don’t know enough about Mamdani (don’t forget: a relative newcomer running in a municipal election) to evaluate him one way or the other.
