Jenni
@jennismovingcastle.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology. Medical Sociology. Health Disparities. 🔮
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Jenni
@jennismovingcastle.bsky.social
· Feb 12
I know we are all feeling a particular way about the government removing photos of non-white, non-male leaders from their buildings. Here are images from my rural queer joy exhibitions; we put up big photos of the gays™️ in Wyoming. My book under review is about the value of art for communication 1/🧵
What I dont understand is why billionaires care so much about policies that would tax them more. Like genuinely! Musk could donate 90% of his wealth and still be one of the single richest people on earth. It is literally nonsense levels of wealth.
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
What I dont understand is why billionaires care so much about policies that would tax them more. Like genuinely! Musk could donate 90% of his wealth and still be one of the single richest people on earth. It is literally nonsense levels of wealth.
I want Donald Trump to crawl into a dusty crawl space to figure out what's leaking and live in a poorly insulated house and have to go to work and take care of kids and cook your own food. He's never lived 1 day in reality.
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I want Donald Trump to crawl into a dusty crawl space to figure out what's leaking and live in a poorly insulated house and have to go to work and take care of kids and cook your own food. He's never lived 1 day in reality.
It's really giving, "how much could a banana possibly cost, ten dollars?" Multi millionaires and billionaires shouldn't be allowed to hold political office because they don't live in reality and are isolated from real American communities.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
It's really giving, "how much could a banana possibly cost, ten dollars?" Multi millionaires and billionaires shouldn't be allowed to hold political office because they don't live in reality and are isolated from real American communities.
I started taking notes in my phone notes app and my phone broke and I thought they all went to the cloud and wasn't bothered.
Chat. None of them were in the cloud.
Have better field notes etiquette than I. Spent hours today trying to piece through what I am missing.
Chat. None of them were in the cloud.
Have better field notes etiquette than I. Spent hours today trying to piece through what I am missing.
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I started taking notes in my phone notes app and my phone broke and I thought they all went to the cloud and wasn't bothered.
Chat. None of them were in the cloud.
Have better field notes etiquette than I. Spent hours today trying to piece through what I am missing.
Chat. None of them were in the cloud.
Have better field notes etiquette than I. Spent hours today trying to piece through what I am missing.
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For my first piece back from vacation, I blogged about the people who moved from Texas to Russia to escape gay people and then found out living in Russia kind of sucks:
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
They left Texas for Russia to escape 'LGBT indoctrination.' Turns out, it sucks.
Their Texas towns had too much "DEI" and "LGBT indoctrination." So they moved to Russia and became influencers.
www.chron.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
For my first piece back from vacation, I blogged about the people who moved from Texas to Russia to escape gay people and then found out living in Russia kind of sucks:
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Me texting the donation bots flooding my phone rn:
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Me texting the donation bots flooding my phone rn:
Watson is like so many "tech bros" who have come after - believing their intelligence is a mark of genetic superiority and cruelty toward others is warranted because they are "genetically inferior." E.g. Musk believes he should be a trillionaire b/c poor people are dumb & don't deserve anything.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Watson is like so many "tech bros" who have come after - believing their intelligence is a mark of genetic superiority and cruelty toward others is warranted because they are "genetically inferior." E.g. Musk believes he should be a trillionaire b/c poor people are dumb & don't deserve anything.
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New @pewresearch.org on how the Census has measured race over time. The social construction of race made apparent.
Counting Race: How the Census Measures Identity and What Americans Think About It
How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.
pewrsr.ch
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
New @pewresearch.org on how the Census has measured race over time. The social construction of race made apparent.
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My two cents is that at the end of the day, after everything, Senate Democrats identify more with Senate Republicans, and ultimately with Donald Trump, than they will ever identify with you and me
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My two cents is that at the end of the day, after everything, Senate Democrats identify more with Senate Republicans, and ultimately with Donald Trump, than they will ever identify with you and me
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That the Democrats aren't still wailing about Elon Musk's murderous DOGE reign kind of illustrates how much fealty to immense wealth is the one truly bipartisan position in Washington.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
That the Democrats aren't still wailing about Elon Musk's murderous DOGE reign kind of illustrates how much fealty to immense wealth is the one truly bipartisan position in Washington.
Shutdowns should trigger special elections
Our neighbors are hungry. We saw that enhanced child tax credits could reduce food insecurity, & now we know that food insecurity rose when it was allowed to lapse. And SNAP has always been "supplemental"- that's the S in SNAP.
The status quo was already one where hunger was a persistent reality.
The status quo was already one where hunger was a persistent reality.
I still think that the pain of "gov't shutdowns" should be shared by those responsible for negotiating.
I also think that true democracies would not allow core state functions to grind to a halt over budget reconciliations because core functions should be funded from a separate pot.
I also think that true democracies would not allow core state functions to grind to a halt over budget reconciliations because core functions should be funded from a separate pot.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Shutdowns should trigger special elections
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
Republicans complaining that government money is going to "private health insurance" is going to yeet me into orbit. Then let Americans opt-in to Medicare! Let people on a national health insurance plan! Oh not like that? You meant working people should shoulder the burden or go without? Got it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Republicans complaining that government money is going to "private health insurance" is going to yeet me into orbit. Then let Americans opt-in to Medicare! Let people on a national health insurance plan! Oh not like that? You meant working people should shoulder the burden or go without? Got it.
See Crime and Punishment read very sane, very stable to me.
Somebody said to me recently "we didn't have all these mental health problems in the past". You only have to open a Dickens novel to see what nonsense that is.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
See Crime and Punishment read very sane, very stable to me.
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UCW-Southeast statement on TPUSA event featuring VP Vance at the University of Mississippi
#solidarity
#solidarity
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
UCW-Southeast statement on TPUSA event featuring VP Vance at the University of Mississippi
#solidarity
#solidarity
This has been one of the most exhausting years of my life.
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
This has been one of the most exhausting years of my life.
Co-signed.
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Co-signed.
My husband did not miss all these paychecks just for Dems to cave in.
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
My husband did not miss all these paychecks just for Dems to cave in.
Feels important to note they decided to publish this when people are losing SNAP
🙃
www.sciencealert.com/we-were-wron...
🙃
www.sciencealert.com/we-were-wron...
We Were Wrong About Fasting, Massive Review Finds
Ever worried that skipping breakfast might leave you foggy at work? Or that intermittent fasting would make you irritable, distracted and less productive? Snack food ads warn us that "you're not you w...
www.sciencealert.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Feels important to note they decided to publish this when people are losing SNAP
🙃
www.sciencealert.com/we-were-wron...
🙃
www.sciencealert.com/we-were-wron...
Like give 450 million to UCSF to make medical school free and they will literally name a building after you like what is this nonsense
Here's even more about it.. The cryptobro™ in COLORADO wants to build a statue ON ALCATRAZ of PROMETHEUS because he has TOO MUCH MONEY and has no tangible legacy. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/05/4...
Crypto entrepreneur proposes colossal, $450m statue of Prometheus for San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island
Ross Calvin envisions the logistically complex colossus, which would be around 50% taller than the State of Liberty, as a symbol of American ingenuity
www.theartnewspaper.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Like give 450 million to UCSF to make medical school free and they will literally name a building after you like what is this nonsense
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Do any of them know the difference between an FSA and an HSA
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Do any of them know the difference between an FSA and an HSA
The 50 year mortgage plan just sounds like renting with extra steps
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The 50 year mortgage plan just sounds like renting with extra steps
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Watching my millenial sisters get sucked into every MLM, from pampered chef to DeTorra to LuLaRoe, to stumble right into the Labubu pyramid. Blink twice if you need help 😭.
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Watching my millenial sisters get sucked into every MLM, from pampered chef to DeTorra to LuLaRoe, to stumble right into the Labubu pyramid. Blink twice if you need help 😭.
