Colleen Wynn
@colleenewynn.bsky.social
Sociologist and demographer studying housing, neighborhoods, and families. SoTL and community engaged research. She/her.
https://colleenewynn.com
https://colleenewynn.com
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
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Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
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this shit fucking sucks so fucking much.
this is a pathetically small reform that gives some relief to people and their loved ones and the horrible world we live in cannot even offer that. just fuming.
this is a pathetically small reform that gives some relief to people and their loved ones and the horrible world we live in cannot even offer that. just fuming.
🚨NEW: The FCC has voted to raise calling rates for incarcerated people – a move that bends to the will of telecomm companies, jails and prisons, while saddling poor families with higher costs.
Now, prices could hike as much as 83% 🧵
Now, prices could hike as much as 83% 🧵
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
this shit fucking sucks so fucking much.
this is a pathetically small reform that gives some relief to people and their loved ones and the horrible world we live in cannot even offer that. just fuming.
this is a pathetically small reform that gives some relief to people and their loved ones and the horrible world we live in cannot even offer that. just fuming.
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SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.
My story:
My story:
Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown
Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."
www.thehandbasket.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.
My story:
My story:
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Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM
Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad.
It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context
Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad.
It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context
September 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM
Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad.
It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context
Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad.
It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context
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We believe that #FairHousingIs the foundation.
EVERY Hoosier family deserves a #safe, #affordable, and #accessible place to call home in a #community of their #choice.
Follow our "Fair Housing IS" campaign to learn how the FHCCI assists Hoosier families with their housing challenges.
EVERY Hoosier family deserves a #safe, #affordable, and #accessible place to call home in a #community of their #choice.
Follow our "Fair Housing IS" campaign to learn how the FHCCI assists Hoosier families with their housing challenges.
September 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We believe that #FairHousingIs the foundation.
EVERY Hoosier family deserves a #safe, #affordable, and #accessible place to call home in a #community of their #choice.
Follow our "Fair Housing IS" campaign to learn how the FHCCI assists Hoosier families with their housing challenges.
EVERY Hoosier family deserves a #safe, #affordable, and #accessible place to call home in a #community of their #choice.
Follow our "Fair Housing IS" campaign to learn how the FHCCI assists Hoosier families with their housing challenges.
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Everyday we get more evidence that the most revered organizations in America are willing to help re-segregate daily life. Today, I woke up to the Washington Post and Harvard-organizations ostensibly committed to "truth"-(continuing) to help re-segregation along.
“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Everyday we get more evidence that the most revered organizations in America are willing to help re-segregate daily life. Today, I woke up to the Washington Post and Harvard-organizations ostensibly committed to "truth"-(continuing) to help re-segregation along.
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"The configuration of social capital is the key in shaping resilient city dynamics. Rather than simply increasing the number of civic organizations, what is most important is how social capital is deployed, called upon, and realized by the actors within a community."
- Sean Safford
- Sean Safford
September 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"The configuration of social capital is the key in shaping resilient city dynamics. Rather than simply increasing the number of civic organizations, what is most important is how social capital is deployed, called upon, and realized by the actors within a community."
- Sean Safford
- Sean Safford
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A push to preserve an Indianapolis neighborhood built by Black WWII veterans: mirrorindy.org/indianapolis...
📷 Flanner House, Indiana Historical Society
📷 Flanner House, Indiana Historical Society
September 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A push to preserve an Indianapolis neighborhood built by Black WWII veterans: mirrorindy.org/indianapolis...
📷 Flanner House, Indiana Historical Society
📷 Flanner House, Indiana Historical Society
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A read from Judith Butler about the handing over of names & files by UC administrators to the government. Link to article below
September 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A read from Judith Butler about the handing over of names & files by UC administrators to the government. Link to article below
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.
"The labor participation rate for women with children younger than 5 had the biggest midyear drop in more than 40 years during the first six months of 2025."
September 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.
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When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....
September 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....
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If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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I wrote a piece on tech contracts in higher ed. for Jacobin. The endless outsourcing is troubling for a variety of reasons. Not helping is vendors jumping on the AI hype to offer ever-more-advanced and expensive programs to universities. #CheatGPT
Universities Are Selling Themselves Off Piece by Piece
American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing workers and undermining the university’s public mission.
jacobin.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I wrote a piece on tech contracts in higher ed. for Jacobin. The endless outsourcing is troubling for a variety of reasons. Not helping is vendors jumping on the AI hype to offer ever-more-advanced and expensive programs to universities. #CheatGPT
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High-powered conservative women might *say* they have it all because of "grit, faith, family, and focus." But that's just Lean In repackaged for a right-wing crowd.
In reality, if they have it all, it's because of the nannies and other paid help making their careers possible behind the scenes. 1/
In reality, if they have it all, it's because of the nannies and other paid help making their careers possible behind the scenes. 1/
September 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
High-powered conservative women might *say* they have it all because of "grit, faith, family, and focus." But that's just Lean In repackaged for a right-wing crowd.
In reality, if they have it all, it's because of the nannies and other paid help making their careers possible behind the scenes. 1/
In reality, if they have it all, it's because of the nannies and other paid help making their careers possible behind the scenes. 1/
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When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
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This is a common conservative trope: Giving money to poor people isn't enough, we need to focus on "cultural values" like hard work and marriage.
The problem is that red states have been doing that for decades and it doesn't work! Telling people that jobs are good doesn't help if there's no jobs.
The problem is that red states have been doing that for decades and it doesn't work! Telling people that jobs are good doesn't help if there's no jobs.
September 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This is a common conservative trope: Giving money to poor people isn't enough, we need to focus on "cultural values" like hard work and marriage.
The problem is that red states have been doing that for decades and it doesn't work! Telling people that jobs are good doesn't help if there's no jobs.
The problem is that red states have been doing that for decades and it doesn't work! Telling people that jobs are good doesn't help if there's no jobs.
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had a conversation with a prominent pundit recently who did not seem to realize that the departments of the executive branch are congressional creations, so not surprised at this
This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error.
President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did:
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did:
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
September 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
had a conversation with a prominent pundit recently who did not seem to realize that the departments of the executive branch are congressional creations, so not surprised at this
I got both my covid and flu vaccines today at CVS in Indiana - it was quick and easy. If you’re in Indiana, or another state where you can get your covid vaccine without a prescription, book your appointment today!
If you live in a state that still permits it sans prescription gone get your covid shot before you literally can't
September 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I got both my covid and flu vaccines today at CVS in Indiana - it was quick and easy. If you’re in Indiana, or another state where you can get your covid vaccine without a prescription, book your appointment today!
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A problem with using predictive text technology to summarize research is that an author’s use of words or phrases might be an endorsement of those words or phrases—but not reliably so, and Google seems to have no issue with rolling this technology out despite its lack of sophistication on this
Fun little artifact from Google's new AI summaries: "Fields has said that the main purpose of slavery was to create white supremacy, not to produce goods." Of course, non-AI readers would recognize that this is precisely the opposite of what Barbara Fields argues.
September 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A problem with using predictive text technology to summarize research is that an author’s use of words or phrases might be an endorsement of those words or phrases—but not reliably so, and Google seems to have no issue with rolling this technology out despite its lack of sophistication on this
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He's exploiting what sociologists call the availability heuristic: the more people hear about something, the more common they assume it to be.
If he can spew vaccine skepticism all over the airwaves, then he can create the perception that such skepticism is more widespread than it is. 1/
If he can spew vaccine skepticism all over the airwaves, then he can create the perception that such skepticism is more widespread than it is. 1/
Kennedy on a media tear to make it seem like he’s got widespread support. The anti-vaxx movement has been very very good at using social media to appear huge, when it has in fact been a small but vocal and well-organized minority with opinions way outside the mainstream. Unclear whether it’ll work.
September 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
He's exploiting what sociologists call the availability heuristic: the more people hear about something, the more common they assume it to be.
If he can spew vaccine skepticism all over the airwaves, then he can create the perception that such skepticism is more widespread than it is. 1/
If he can spew vaccine skepticism all over the airwaves, then he can create the perception that such skepticism is more widespread than it is. 1/
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Measurement is not simply a technical concern—it shapes knowledge and everyday outcomes. #methodmatters
September 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Measurement is not simply a technical concern—it shapes knowledge and everyday outcomes. #methodmatters