Dan Finn
@danfinn9000.bsky.social
I teach sociology at UMass Boston. He/him
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I’m about to host the YouTube chat for the National Book Awards! Come see what that means if you’d like! I think it’ll be fun! I’m excited to celebrate some great books and authors! Watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKM...
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I’m about to host the YouTube chat for the National Book Awards! Come see what that means if you’d like! I think it’ll be fun! I’m excited to celebrate some great books and authors! Watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKM...
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Happy LGBTQ+ in STEM Day! I’m celebrating with the dapper Invisible Enby, who is a queer fashion metaphor for the way dark matter shapes visible matter in the cosmos. Want to learn more? Preorder my new book, where they appear! 🧪
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Happy LGBTQ+ in STEM Day! I’m celebrating with the dapper Invisible Enby, who is a queer fashion metaphor for the way dark matter shapes visible matter in the cosmos. Want to learn more? Preorder my new book, where they appear! 🧪
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
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What is really going on in this society that elected Donald Trump president a second time?
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
Unterstützung von Donald Trump: Die Irrtümer über Donald Trumps Rückhalt
Rechtsruck, multiethnische Koalition, Held einfacher Leute: Trump gilt als fest verankert. Doch diese Überzeugung beruht auf drei großen Missverständnissen.
www.zeit.de
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What is really going on in this society that elected Donald Trump president a second time?
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
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Concerns about decorum — being gauche — is for strivers. There is power in flaunting those norms, as we have seen. So it may be but in the words of the philosopher Nene Leakes, they may be posing to us the question, “who gonna check me boo?” For which we have yet to give a good answer.
I hear this but isn’t that a really gauche thing to do? Like it advertises how tone deaf they are - is that the point?
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Concerns about decorum — being gauche — is for strivers. There is power in flaunting those norms, as we have seen. So it may be but in the words of the philosopher Nene Leakes, they may be posing to us the question, “who gonna check me boo?” For which we have yet to give a good answer.
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Looking forward to the launch of my new company That Lady In The Twilight Zone Movie With No Mouth.
all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Looking forward to the launch of my new company That Lady In The Twilight Zone Movie With No Mouth.
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reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
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Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
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I adored #InYourDreams and desperately need more filmmakers to be brave enough not to talk down to the children who will be watching their films.
www.slashfilm.com/2024107/netf...
www.slashfilm.com/2024107/netf...
Netflix's In Your Dreams Is The Best Pixar Movie They Never Made - SlashFilm
The animated film In Your Dreams feels like it takes lessons from early Pixar movies by balancing jokes with heavier themes than you might expect.
www.slashfilm.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I adored #InYourDreams and desperately need more filmmakers to be brave enough not to talk down to the children who will be watching their films.
www.slashfilm.com/2024107/netf...
www.slashfilm.com/2024107/netf...
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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
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I appreciate that the main takeaway from this lesson is that science can't ever really be "apolitical."
11-year-old: Our new science project is so frustrating!
Me: How so?
11: We're designing an earthquake warning system, and we could only get it to 59 minutes and 2 false alarms, and it still cost $123M, which means cutting road and school budgets. It's impossible!
Me: Sounds like that's the point.
Me: How so?
11: We're designing an earthquake warning system, and we could only get it to 59 minutes and 2 false alarms, and it still cost $123M, which means cutting road and school budgets. It's impossible!
Me: Sounds like that's the point.
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I appreciate that the main takeaway from this lesson is that science can't ever really be "apolitical."
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To me, Christmas isn't about perfection or consumerism. It's about love and togetherness. It's about teaching Krampus how to slow dance. It's about trapping malicious spirits in ectoplasmic baubles. It's about conducting a yule worm choir as they wheeze in harmony at the moon.
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
To me, Christmas isn't about perfection or consumerism. It's about love and togetherness. It's about teaching Krampus how to slow dance. It's about trapping malicious spirits in ectoplasmic baubles. It's about conducting a yule worm choir as they wheeze in harmony at the moon.
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You’ll never find a better distillation of how technology and capitalism fit together in the 21st century.
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
You’ll never find a better distillation of how technology and capitalism fit together in the 21st century.
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This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
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New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!!
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
Disability Visibility: a starter pack of twenty depictions of disability on film • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
With her book Popcorn Disabilities soon to hit shelves, author Kristen Lopez offers a starter pack of twenty films about disability—from the good (The Best Years of Our Lives) to the not-so-good (Rain...
letterboxd.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!!
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
letterboxd.com/journal/disa...
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Social studies teachers (especially in New England): Check out this new documentary on activists in Boston's Chinatown who fought and continue to fight for community, housing, and against gentrification. #sschat #edusky youtu.be/Ex9uk7HQ9bM?...
LOVE, CHINATOWN (full documentary)
YouTube video by GBH
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November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Social studies teachers (especially in New England): Check out this new documentary on activists in Boston's Chinatown who fought and continue to fight for community, housing, and against gentrification. #sschat #edusky youtu.be/Ex9uk7HQ9bM?...
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NISHAANCHI debuts on Prime, and JOLLY LLB 3 comes to Netflix (along with a bunch of other Indian movies and brand new season of DELHI CRIME). Links to all in today's Streaming Video News: accessbollywood.net/2025/11/13/s... #DesiWatch
Streaming Video News: November 13, 2025
I updated my list of Bollywood movies on Netflix with a bunch of new additions. Besides the premiere of Season 3 of Delhi Crime, the 2025 films added today include: Dude (Tamil), Jolly LLB 3 (Hindi…
accessbollywood.net
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
NISHAANCHI debuts on Prime, and JOLLY LLB 3 comes to Netflix (along with a bunch of other Indian movies and brand new season of DELHI CRIME). Links to all in today's Streaming Video News: accessbollywood.net/2025/11/13/s... #DesiWatch
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A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
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Anyway me and Baldwin are at the nail salon. A privilege. A reminder to do try to something nice for yourself — whatever that looks like — when the world tightens around you.
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Anyway me and Baldwin are at the nail salon. A privilege. A reminder to do try to something nice for yourself — whatever that looks like — when the world tightens around you.
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People who did not grow up here will never understand the tears that just erupted seeing TOM SKILLING's name on this
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
People who did not grow up here will never understand the tears that just erupted seeing TOM SKILLING's name on this
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Been walking around my house going "if you're so poor, why aren't you in black and white?!"
the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Been walking around my house going "if you're so poor, why aren't you in black and white?!"
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For me personally, the weirdest part of Christmas is when all the mall Santas join together by their beards and form a giant Santa-king. And then they roll around town, collecting materials for the elves to use for toys next year.
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
For me personally, the weirdest part of Christmas is when all the mall Santas join together by their beards and form a giant Santa-king. And then they roll around town, collecting materials for the elves to use for toys next year.
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“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.“
Mia Vesely | I use SNAP benefits, and many other college students do too
Senior columnist Mia Vesely discusses the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and dispels the notion that such programs are misused or unessential.
www.thedp.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.“
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I’m thrilled to be co-hosting a digital event with Sarah Jaffe – journalist and author of Work Won’t Love You Back (among several other books).
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I’m thrilled to be co-hosting a digital event with Sarah Jaffe – journalist and author of Work Won’t Love You Back (among several other books).
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️ Join us on December 9th at 12pm (EST) for a candid conversation about work and intimacy.
Register here: darden-virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...