Michelle Smirnova
@michellesmirnova.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Sociology at Rice University and Director of Housing & Neighborhoods at the Kinder Institute. I research housing, health equity, intersectionality, and resistance. www.michellesmirnova.com
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The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense
Residents of L.A. aren’t merely protesting ICE; they’re attempting to protect their communities from ICE’s raids.
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June 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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TLDR: Don't cut SNAP. Make work pay.
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Opinion | In One of the World’s Wealthiest Countries, More People Will Go Hungry
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June 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
TLDR: Don't cut SNAP. Make work pay.
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🚨 EASY-TO-TAKE ACTION ALERT! 🚨
Want to do something to protect the integrity of the federal civil service? Submit a public comment! Not sure how to do that and what to say? I have a comment you can submit! 🧪🔭⚛️
Details here:
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Want to do something to protect the integrity of the federal civil service? Submit a public comment! Not sure how to do that and what to say? I have a comment you can submit! 🧪🔭⚛️
Details here:
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Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services
Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash I have something you can do in five minutes or less that can help salvage the integrity of the federal civil service,...
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May 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
🚨 EASY-TO-TAKE ACTION ALERT! 🚨
Want to do something to protect the integrity of the federal civil service? Submit a public comment! Not sure how to do that and what to say? I have a comment you can submit! 🧪🔭⚛️
Details here:
news.chanda.science/archive/urge...
Want to do something to protect the integrity of the federal civil service? Submit a public comment! Not sure how to do that and what to say? I have a comment you can submit! 🧪🔭⚛️
Details here:
news.chanda.science/archive/urge...
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One dream I have is that one day physical scientists and biological scientists recognize that they don’t have the same systemic training in social analysis that their colleagues in the humanities and social sciences do and that this means we need help when it comes to doing politics
May 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
One dream I have is that one day physical scientists and biological scientists recognize that they don’t have the same systemic training in social analysis that their colleagues in the humanities and social sciences do and that this means we need help when it comes to doing politics
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
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Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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Shifts in LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S., Gallup 2024 update.
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Shifts in Gender and Sexual Identities in the U.S., 2024 Update
Every year since 2013, Gallup has released new data on the size and composition of the LGBTQ+ identifying population in the U.S. As in previous years, the 2024 data continue to reveal interesting t…
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February 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Shifts in LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S., Gallup 2024 update.
inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/s...
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Can we stop talking throwing around words like "autocracy" and "oligarchy" when talking about America's uncertain future?
According to history, political experts, and a little-known book called "a dictionary," America is ALREADY in the throes of fascism.
According to history, political experts, and a little-known book called "a dictionary," America is ALREADY in the throes of fascism.
The 'Threat to Democracy' Is Over
It's time to admit that the fascism we feared is already here.
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March 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Can we stop talking throwing around words like "autocracy" and "oligarchy" when talking about America's uncertain future?
According to history, political experts, and a little-known book called "a dictionary," America is ALREADY in the throes of fascism.
According to history, political experts, and a little-known book called "a dictionary," America is ALREADY in the throes of fascism.
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After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care.
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
February 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care.
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
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I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.
"I am preparing this declaration to ensure that the Court is aware of the imminent risk that twelve years’ of critical CFPB records, which belong to the public, will be irretrievably lost and cause serious and sweeping damage unless the Court takes action."
CFPB's former chief technologist issues an urgent warning to the court that several years' worth of sensitive data is about to be destroyed, with damaging consequences
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February 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.
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NIH's proposal to cut the grants it pays for medical research will not just hurt elite coastal universities.
Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State (Gift Article)
Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NIH's proposal to cut the grants it pays for medical research will not just hurt elite coastal universities.
Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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It's incredibly disheartening to hear about dedicated public health professionals getting mass-laid off from CDC. Including first year epidemic intelligence service officers. This program has been the backbone of outbreak investigations in US since 1951. Decimating this workforce makes us less safe.
February 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's incredibly disheartening to hear about dedicated public health professionals getting mass-laid off from CDC. Including first year epidemic intelligence service officers. This program has been the backbone of outbreak investigations in US since 1951. Decimating this workforce makes us less safe.
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I deeply hope cis people start paying attention to how this government is beginning to interact with us. In an official capacity.
Reposting from Jersey Noah on twitter. Seems bad! Thread:
February 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I deeply hope cis people start paying attention to how this government is beginning to interact with us. In an official capacity.
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The US National Park Service has scrubbed the word “transgender” & replaced “LGBT” with “LGB” on website.
1) Go 2 website: www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
2) Scroll down to the Yes/No survey box - click “No”
3) A dialogue box pops up-plz type in some feedback about the evils of erasure & Submit
1) Go 2 website: www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
2) Scroll down to the Yes/No survey box - click “No”
3) A dialogue box pops up-plz type in some feedback about the evils of erasure & Submit
Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The US National Park Service has scrubbed the word “transgender” & replaced “LGBT” with “LGB” on website.
1) Go 2 website: www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
2) Scroll down to the Yes/No survey box - click “No”
3) A dialogue box pops up-plz type in some feedback about the evils of erasure & Submit
1) Go 2 website: www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
2) Scroll down to the Yes/No survey box - click “No”
3) A dialogue box pops up-plz type in some feedback about the evils of erasure & Submit
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FANTASTIC
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
February 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
FANTASTIC
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
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Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth.
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
slate.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth.
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
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"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing
February 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing
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Uplifting and important read for today. “Wherever we are, there is opportunity.”
www.jphilll.com/p/kill-the-d...
www.jphilll.com/p/kill-the-d...
Kill the Doomer in your head
There is always hope, always opportunity
www.jphilll.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Uplifting and important read for today. “Wherever we are, there is opportunity.”
www.jphilll.com/p/kill-the-d...
www.jphilll.com/p/kill-the-d...
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Responding to social problems with exhortations to kindness is a way we make systemic inequalities look like individual ones, ones that can be changed if we are just nice enough, not ones that require fundamental shifts in how our institutions, organizations and society are arranged.
tom brady and snoop dogg starring in a "stand up to hate" commercial while both being supporters and friends of donald trump is kinda the natural conclusion of "just be kind <3" messaging that refuses to engage with politics
February 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Responding to social problems with exhortations to kindness is a way we make systemic inequalities look like individual ones, ones that can be changed if we are just nice enough, not ones that require fundamental shifts in how our institutions, organizations and society are arranged.
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The NFL be like: after careful consideration we have unfortunately decided to continue going forward with racism at this time
February 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The NFL be like: after careful consideration we have unfortunately decided to continue going forward with racism at this time
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DC, MD, VA: We'll be outside Treasury at 4:45 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money.
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We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
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February 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
DC, MD, VA: We'll be outside Treasury at 4:45 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money.
JOIN US: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
JOIN US: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...