Alissa Quart
@alissaquart.bsky.social
ED of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Author of books including Squeezed, Bootstrapped and Branded. Likes verbs. Recovering utopian. Ready to fight.
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I have not seen ANYONE mention that as a factor in the election. You have to be certified shit for brains if you don't think the labor market matters to people.
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I have not seen ANYONE mention that as a factor in the election. You have to be certified shit for brains if you don't think the labor market matters to people.
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And the issue is not just getting a job. It's getting a decent job. The plunge in job switching means many fewer people feel they can leave a job they don't like.
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
And the issue is not just getting a job. It's getting a decent job. The plunge in job switching means many fewer people feel they can leave a job they don't like.
I wrote about my late friend and brilliant poet Cole for @poetrysociety.org She was really one of a kind. Also about bygone literary scenes and nature as mutual aid @maiasz.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @poetshouse.bsky.social @pw.org
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Remembering Cole
Remembrances, appreciations, and remarks.
poetrysociety.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I wrote about my late friend and brilliant poet Cole for @poetrysociety.org She was really one of a kind. Also about bygone literary scenes and nature as mutual aid @maiasz.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @poetshouse.bsky.social @pw.org
poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...
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Great to be on WHYY for an hour (!) talking about the squeezed middle class in the Trump 2.0 era (federal worker lay offs, defunding of PBS, med research etcetera). Plus: jokes & Bourdieu... @whyy.org @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @deniseoswald.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Great to be on WHYY for an hour (!) talking about the squeezed middle class in the Trump 2.0 era (federal worker lay offs, defunding of PBS, med research etcetera). Plus: jokes & Bourdieu... @whyy.org @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @deniseoswald.bsky.social
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Right. Zohran explicitly links his economic populism w/his attack on Trump's authoritarian abuses, which also hurt working people. Some commentators are trying to only elevate the former, to push Dems away from taking on Trump frontally, but they're (deliberately?) missing the real innovation here:
Mamdani “doesn’t allow that there’s a conflict between emphasizing economic populism and taking on Trump’s authoritarianism.” As @gregsargent.bsky.social suggests, there’s no reason to assume this synthesis wouldn’t work just as well in swing territory
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Trump’s Rage at Zohran Just Backfired in a Surprisingly Revealing Way
The Democrats who are breaking through are the ones who talk about Trump’s disastrous economic record while also leveling with the public about our slide into authoritarianism.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Right. Zohran explicitly links his economic populism w/his attack on Trump's authoritarian abuses, which also hurt working people. Some commentators are trying to only elevate the former, to push Dems away from taking on Trump frontally, but they're (deliberately?) missing the real innovation here:
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You can't really call yourself a reporter til you've gone on a 2-week school trip (called "Introduction to Travel Journalism") to Orlando that includes tickets to 7 theme parks, and "beverage coolers."
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
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September 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
You can't really call yourself a reporter til you've gone on a 2-week school trip (called "Introduction to Travel Journalism") to Orlando that includes tickets to 7 theme parks, and "beverage coolers."
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
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George Soros has done as much as anyone to strengthen democratic freedoms in the United States—democratic freedoms that are important to the right as well as the left. It’s those freedoms that are the real target of this outrageous attack. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
George Soros has done as much as anyone to strengthen democratic freedoms in the United States—democratic freedoms that are important to the right as well as the left. It’s those freedoms that are the real target of this outrageous attack. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Excited about next week’s nearly daylong @economichardship.bsky.social event at @columbiajournalism.bsky.social starring @jeffsharlet.bsky.social , @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social , @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social Ray Suarez and others!
September 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Excited about next week’s nearly daylong @economichardship.bsky.social event at @columbiajournalism.bsky.social starring @jeffsharlet.bsky.social , @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social , @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social Ray Suarez and others!
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It is the dystopian safety net, as @alissaquart.bsky.social has written. But necessary so often. Thank you Leran! 💕
September 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It is the dystopian safety net, as @alissaquart.bsky.social has written. But necessary so often. Thank you Leran! 💕
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I loathe that we need GoFundMe campaigns for this type of thing, but Randy is a real one. Kind, dedicated, smart, funny, and deeply a good person. If you have a few dollars or well wishes please send them his way
There’s a link at the end to a GoFundMe set up by my wonderful friend Lindsay Saunders:
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September 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I loathe that we need GoFundMe campaigns for this type of thing, but Randy is a real one. Kind, dedicated, smart, funny, and deeply a good person. If you have a few dollars or well wishes please send them his way
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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"Tasteless" does not even begin to describe what is happening here.
Fireworks for Trump at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
September 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"Tasteless" does not even begin to describe what is happening here.
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🥗 Latest SNAP data (through 6-2025):
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September 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
🥗 Latest SNAP data (through 6-2025):
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Nice personal news to share among all of this political misery. Just sold my new book Terra Infirma to @pantheonbooks.bsky.social & editor @deniseoswald.bsky.social, Squeezed's editor. Thanks @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social and @economichardship.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Nice personal news to share among all of this political misery. Just sold my new book Terra Infirma to @pantheonbooks.bsky.social & editor @deniseoswald.bsky.social, Squeezed's editor. Thanks @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social and @economichardship.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
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Oof we've got a lot of work to do to counter these persistent myths about poverty. Right @alissaquart.bsky.social?
September 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Oof we've got a lot of work to do to counter these persistent myths about poverty. Right @alissaquart.bsky.social?
It has been three years and one day since Barbara Ehrenreich left us. She meant a great deal to me personally and professionally, as a literary and political figure & weirdly, as a metaphysical guide. Here we are after a book event I did with BE in Vogue. @economichardship.bsky.social @ips-dc.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
It has been three years and one day since Barbara Ehrenreich left us. She meant a great deal to me personally and professionally, as a literary and political figure & weirdly, as a metaphysical guide. Here we are after a book event I did with BE in Vogue. @economichardship.bsky.social @ips-dc.org
My latest story for @timemagazine.bsky.social on Labor Day, Labor Day Sales and the American Dream. A very personal essay time.com/7313480/labo... @eccobooks.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @maiasz.bsky.social @maassp.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social
What Labor Day Sales Say About the American Dream
Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America.
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August 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My latest story for @timemagazine.bsky.social on Labor Day, Labor Day Sales and the American Dream. A very personal essay time.com/7313480/labo... @eccobooks.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @maiasz.bsky.social @maassp.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social
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August 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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God, "Magnolia" is so freaking good.
One of the great movies about seemingly disconnected lives in Los Angeles, what Alissa Quart described as "hyperlink cinema."
That millennial anxiety about how we're all simultaneous separate and intertwined, and how that breaks us.
One of the great movies about seemingly disconnected lives in Los Angeles, what Alissa Quart described as "hyperlink cinema."
That millennial anxiety about how we're all simultaneous separate and intertwined, and how that breaks us.
a man with long hair is laying on a bed with his hand up .
ALT: a man with long hair is laying on a bed with his hand up .
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August 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
God, "Magnolia" is so freaking good.
One of the great movies about seemingly disconnected lives in Los Angeles, what Alissa Quart described as "hyperlink cinema."
That millennial anxiety about how we're all simultaneous separate and intertwined, and how that breaks us.
One of the great movies about seemingly disconnected lives in Los Angeles, what Alissa Quart described as "hyperlink cinema."
That millennial anxiety about how we're all simultaneous separate and intertwined, and how that breaks us.
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🥗 Really thought-provoking essay by @alissaquart.bsky.social on “citizenship insecurity”. What is America anymore? When is it ok/imperative to expand citizenship options? When is it time to leave America? Answers change based on privilege.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I don’t identify with my country’s values anymore. Is this ‘citizenship insecurity’?
Since Trump’s crackdown on immigrants, global perceptions of America have plummeted. Citizens and non-citizens alike are rethinking whether we still want US passports
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🥗 Really thought-provoking essay by @alissaquart.bsky.social on “citizenship insecurity”. What is America anymore? When is it ok/imperative to expand citizenship options? When is it time to leave America? Answers change based on privilege.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
My new piece on what I call "citizen insecurity" in @theguardian.com @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My new piece on what I call "citizen insecurity" in @theguardian.com @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social
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fabulous piece by @lisquart about the dislocation so many of us feel as the U.S. abandons any pretense of even having democratic ideals.... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I don’t identify with my country’s values anymore. Is this ‘citizenship insecurity’?
Since Trump’s crackdown on immigrants, global perceptions of America have plummeted. Citizens and non-citizens alike are rethinking whether we still want US passports
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
fabulous piece by @lisquart about the dislocation so many of us feel as the U.S. abandons any pretense of even having democratic ideals.... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For any of you still on here, this is my piece about my mother, art, affordability and mortality in
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com @hyperallergic.com @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @artforum.com @artnews.com.web.brid.gy @anya1anya.bsky.social
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July 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
For any of you still on here, this is my piece about my mother, art, affordability and mortality in
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com @hyperallergic.com @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @artforum.com @artnews.com.web.brid.gy @anya1anya.bsky.social
@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com @hyperallergic.com @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @artforum.com @artnews.com.web.brid.gy @anya1anya.bsky.social