Colin J. Beck
@cjbeck.bsky.social
Revolutions and so forth. Next book without a red spine. https://colinjbeck.sites.pomona.edu
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Colin J. Beck
@cjbeck.bsky.social
· Jul 4
No thanks.
I love getting blocked by a papermill. Tells me I’m doing my job.
Congrats to the UCLA AAUP chapter, and I really feel like it's time for Pomona faculty to unionize. #sharedgovernance
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Congrats to the UCLA AAUP chapter, and I really feel like it's time for Pomona faculty to unionize. #sharedgovernance
Did the bat have COVID or was it, like, a regular bat?
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Did the bat have COVID or was it, like, a regular bat?
Prices are getting so out of control that Sabrina Carpenter is buying Nespresso.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Prices are getting so out of control that Sabrina Carpenter is buying Nespresso.
Times like this I hate living in SoCal.
Aurora Day 2: Twin Cities folk, the boat launch at Ham Lake has a pretty good view.
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Times like this I hate living in SoCal.
Great, Friedman has finally discovered world risk society.
Opinion | The Post-Cold War Era Is Over. What Should We Call This New One?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Great, Friedman has finally discovered world risk society.
Primary them all.
a man with a beard is holding a stick and a sword and says you shall not pass .
ALT: a man with a beard is holding a stick and a sword and says you shall not pass .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Primary them all.
Reposted by Colin J. Beck
I keep thinking things can’t get worse and then Theory & Society emails its table of contents.
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I keep thinking things can’t get worse and then Theory & Society emails its table of contents.
George W. Bush: Fool me once shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again.
Senate Democrats: Hold my beer.
Senate Democrats: Hold my beer.
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
George W. Bush: Fool me once shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again.
Senate Democrats: Hold my beer.
Senate Democrats: Hold my beer.
@padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov please walk over to your colleagues‘ offices and tell them surrendering now is the dumbest thing they could do and you’ll endorse their primary challengers.
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
@padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov please walk over to your colleagues‘ offices and tell them surrendering now is the dumbest thing they could do and you’ll endorse their primary challengers.
Some days I wish it to be just me and Chuck Schumer and a high stakes game of poker.
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Some days I wish it to be just me and Chuck Schumer and a high stakes game of poker.
A CS colleague and students just announced that they made an AI tool for undergraduate advising and I can‘t even. Dude, bruh.
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
A CS colleague and students just announced that they made an AI tool for undergraduate advising and I can‘t even. Dude, bruh.
Does anyone know what happened to regular sessions for the 2026 ASA annual meeting? @asanews.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Does anyone know what happened to regular sessions for the 2026 ASA annual meeting? @asanews.bsky.social
I open every class with a joke. Yesterday:
Two democratic socialists go out on the town to celebrate Mamdani’s victory.
They walk into a bar.
The first one says “ouch!”
The second one says “that’s going to leave some Marx.”
Two democratic socialists go out on the town to celebrate Mamdani’s victory.
They walk into a bar.
The first one says “ouch!”
The second one says “that’s going to leave some Marx.”
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I open every class with a joke. Yesterday:
Two democratic socialists go out on the town to celebrate Mamdani’s victory.
They walk into a bar.
The first one says “ouch!”
The second one says “that’s going to leave some Marx.”
Two democratic socialists go out on the town to celebrate Mamdani’s victory.
They walk into a bar.
The first one says “ouch!”
The second one says “that’s going to leave some Marx.”
Hear me out: maybe free social services, taxing the rich, and supporting the oppressed is actually popular?
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Hear me out: maybe free social services, taxing the rich, and supporting the oppressed is actually popular?
Ross Douthat is doing commentary in the right way.
Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Ross Douthat is doing commentary in the right way.
Ezra Klein is doing punditry the right way.
if mamdani wins huge it's an outlier because it's new york, if he loses he needed to do more to protect women's sports. if dems win big in NJ and VA it's because they disavowed crazy positions taken in 2020. if dems lose in NJ/VA it's because they needed to do more to protect women's sports
Whatever happens in the elections tonight, it will prove that reactionary centrists were right.
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Ezra Klein is doing punditry the right way.
Lost bigly.
The GOP vile anti-trans campaign failed miserably. Earle-Sears made it her dominant issue - and lost hugely
Should be duly noted by the punditry (but don't count on that)
Should be duly noted by the punditry (but don't count on that)
Abigail Spanberger (D) wins the Virginia governor's race, NBC News projects, defeating Winsome Earle-Sears (R).
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Lost bigly.
I keep thinking things can’t get worse and then Theory & Society emails its table of contents.
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I keep thinking things can’t get worse and then Theory & Society emails its table of contents.
Halloween at our house.
November 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Halloween at our house.
My hot take is that Roman Coppola is Wes Anderson’s weakest collaborator.
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My hot take is that Roman Coppola is Wes Anderson’s weakest collaborator.
Uday Hussein managing a Ramada is a deep cut and I’m here for it.
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
October 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Uday Hussein managing a Ramada is a deep cut and I’m here for it.
Hey, social scientists. Before we start spouting off about the size of yesterday‘s protests, let’s wait for the @crowdcounting.bsky.social to weigh in. It’s really the gold standard of real time protest data. (Sucks to your @acleddata.bsky.social; cf. @gelliottmorris.com)
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Hey, social scientists. Before we start spouting off about the size of yesterday‘s protests, let’s wait for the @crowdcounting.bsky.social to weigh in. It’s really the gold standard of real time protest data. (Sucks to your @acleddata.bsky.social; cf. @gelliottmorris.com)
How The Times Covers Crowds: Focusing on the Content, Not the Count
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Reposted by Colin J. Beck
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:
The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
wagingnonviolence.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways: