Frank Edwards
@frankalready.bsky.social
I study social control, racism, and the welfare state. Member of Rutgers AAUP-AFT.
https://f-edwards.github.io
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Frank Edwards
@frankalready.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Bias, risk, racism: Reconciling critical and quantitative approaches to understanding racial inequality in child welfare system outcomes
In this essay, I seek to reconcile critical and econometric approaches to diagnosing the causes of deep racial inequalities in child welfare system outcomes. Using a series of causal diagrams and cri...
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new paper: common approaches to modeling racism in policy processes (i.e. foster care entry) try to decompose racism into a 'bias' component and a 'risk' component. this relies on a flawed theory of racism and ignores causal identification problems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
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STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.”
www.transition2025.com/apply
www.transition2025.com/apply
A New Era for NYC
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is ready to work to make New York safe and affordable for all of its residents.
www.transition2025.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.”
www.transition2025.com/apply
www.transition2025.com/apply
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“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”
Families "horrified" after daycare teacher pulled out of school by federal agents.
The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee, who cares for infants, is legally allowed to work in the United State...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”
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Here at Northcenter Town Square where 100-200 community members including families and young children are rallying after a teacher was taken by federal law enforcement from a local daycare this morning.
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Here at Northcenter Town Square where 100-200 community members including families and young children are rallying after a teacher was taken by federal law enforcement from a local daycare this morning.
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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I’m told that the results of a single election reflect a perfect, unchanging, and inescapable spirit of the Volk, so I will expect us all to start respecting the American people’s desire for Woke Maximalism.
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I’m told that the results of a single election reflect a perfect, unchanging, and inescapable spirit of the Volk, so I will expect us all to start respecting the American people’s desire for Woke Maximalism.
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The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
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Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
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The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.
This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"
www.prb.org/resources/se...
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November 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.
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All the pundits and news outlets that bought into these schmucks’ transparent nonsense about antisemitism at the Ivies should reflect for a few minutes on how badly and easily they were played.
1. A watershed moment.
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
All the pundits and news outlets that bought into these schmucks’ transparent nonsense about antisemitism at the Ivies should reflect for a few minutes on how badly and easily they were played.
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Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Three future PAA presidents (Taeuber, Taeuber, Whelpton) and one ASA president (Hankins) wrote positive pieces in American Journal of Sociology in the 1930s about Hitler's pronatalist policies.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Three future PAA presidents (Taeuber, Taeuber, Whelpton) and one ASA president (Hankins) wrote positive pieces in American Journal of Sociology in the 1930s about Hitler's pronatalist policies.
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They're calling it epistemic collapse, did you know that? Epistemic collapse, folks. Because now the perceptions, they're totally divorced from empirical fact.
I've a new essay out at The Nation on Trump's mass firings at the CDC earlier this month and what they mean––not just for public health, but for the entirety of US politics.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
October 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
They're calling it epistemic collapse, did you know that? Epistemic collapse, folks. Because now the perceptions, they're totally divorced from empirical fact.
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This report by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social raises troubling questions about the role of the landlord in the federal raid on the apartment complex at 7500 South Shore Drive. Agents "appear to have received advance information about the building’s occupants that led them to target certain apartments"
Eviction By ICE?
Federal immigration agents appear to have targeted Chicago tenants in “deliberate and systematic ways.” They’re still searching for answers about their landlord’s role in the raid.
inthesetimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This report by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social raises troubling questions about the role of the landlord in the federal raid on the apartment complex at 7500 South Shore Drive. Agents "appear to have received advance information about the building’s occupants that led them to target certain apartments"
Been thinking about teaching Burton’s Tip of the Spear next semester and yep; I’ll be teaching it
October 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Been thinking about teaching Burton’s Tip of the Spear next semester and yep; I’ll be teaching it
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Cuts to SNAP and a refusal to fund it during the shutdown, plus the increased cost of food because of his tariffs, means Americans will starve.
We’ll never truly know how bad it gets, because Trump cancelled the report on hunger because he knows it will make him look bad.
We’ll never truly know how bad it gets, because Trump cancelled the report on hunger because he knows it will make him look bad.
October 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Cuts to SNAP and a refusal to fund it during the shutdown, plus the increased cost of food because of his tariffs, means Americans will starve.
We’ll never truly know how bad it gets, because Trump cancelled the report on hunger because he knows it will make him look bad.
We’ll never truly know how bad it gets, because Trump cancelled the report on hunger because he knows it will make him look bad.
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Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!
BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC must publicly release Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal
The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement. UCLA is required to share the document...
www.latimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!
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This image aptly captures this feeling of the walls closing in, a shrinking of freedoms in the academy over 10 years.
We can’t let these ideologues win. If you’re not a member of the @aaup.org, we need you to join now and take up the fight for #academicfreedom.
academic-freedom-index.net
We can’t let these ideologues win. If you’re not a member of the @aaup.org, we need you to join now and take up the fight for #academicfreedom.
academic-freedom-index.net
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This image aptly captures this feeling of the walls closing in, a shrinking of freedoms in the academy over 10 years.
We can’t let these ideologues win. If you’re not a member of the @aaup.org, we need you to join now and take up the fight for #academicfreedom.
academic-freedom-index.net
We can’t let these ideologues win. If you’re not a member of the @aaup.org, we need you to join now and take up the fight for #academicfreedom.
academic-freedom-index.net
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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It's YOUTH DAY at Communiversity on Saturday! Please help spread the word.
🗓️Sat., Oct. 25 11 AM-4 PM ET (with a snack break) in NYC: If you are or know a young person ages 14-17 based in NYC, we invite you to join us for our Communiversity Youth Day! We are offering 5 different workshops for young people. These are completely free, and in-person. Learn more and sign up:
Communiversity Youth Day — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
It's YOUTH DAY at Communiversity on Saturday! Please help spread the word.
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My colleague @sarahhird.bsky.social has been fighting for family care leave for over a year now. So impressed with her leadership!
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Opinion: This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors
UConn currently lets every pregnant/expecting individual reinvent the wheel, cobbling together a leave plan with whatever resources and departmental grace they can muster.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
My colleague @sarahhird.bsky.social has been fighting for family care leave for over a year now. So impressed with her leadership!
ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...
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both myself and my band @ekkoastral.bsky.social stand with the many dc venue workers who are tonight demanding their union be voluntarily recognized
for too long their labor needs have been ignored
@930club.bsky.social
@theatlantisdc.bsky.social
@theanthemdc.bsky.social
for too long their labor needs have been ignored
@930club.bsky.social
@theatlantisdc.bsky.social
@theanthemdc.bsky.social
Workers at Major D.C. Concert Venues Launch Unionization Effort
There are more than 300 staff members aiming to unionize at the 9:30 Club, The Anthem, The Atlantis and Lincoln Theatre.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
both myself and my band @ekkoastral.bsky.social stand with the many dc venue workers who are tonight demanding their union be voluntarily recognized
for too long their labor needs have been ignored
@930club.bsky.social
@theatlantisdc.bsky.social
@theanthemdc.bsky.social
for too long their labor needs have been ignored
@930club.bsky.social
@theatlantisdc.bsky.social
@theanthemdc.bsky.social