Nathan Katz
@nathankatz.bsky.social
Political/Media Sociologist at LA Tech
I study punk shit and electoral politics. Generally not at the same time
All thoughts and opinions expressed do not reflect my institution. Nor are they all my own. Some are orders from the worm in RFK Jr.'s brain
I study punk shit and electoral politics. Generally not at the same time
All thoughts and opinions expressed do not reflect my institution. Nor are they all my own. Some are orders from the worm in RFK Jr.'s brain
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THIS
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
THIS
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New in Social Movement Studies 🔔 Check out Nathan Katz's (@nathankatz.bsky.social) "Anti-leftism as an aesthetic in white power punk": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New in Social Movement Studies 🔔 Check out Nathan Katz's (@nathankatz.bsky.social) "Anti-leftism as an aesthetic in white power punk": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On the one hand I'm not looking forward to teaching on zoom for the next few weeks due to a broken shoulder.
On the other hand: I start teaching Soc theory and introduction to sociology through dungeons and dragons this quarter! Time to log all the weird experimental shit I'm trying to pull!
On the other hand: I start teaching Soc theory and introduction to sociology through dungeons and dragons this quarter! Time to log all the weird experimental shit I'm trying to pull!
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
On the one hand I'm not looking forward to teaching on zoom for the next few weeks due to a broken shoulder.
On the other hand: I start teaching Soc theory and introduction to sociology through dungeons and dragons this quarter! Time to log all the weird experimental shit I'm trying to pull!
On the other hand: I start teaching Soc theory and introduction to sociology through dungeons and dragons this quarter! Time to log all the weird experimental shit I'm trying to pull!
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Academics need to tell families and friends, especially at holidays, that there are forbidden questions:
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
Because @lollardfish.bsky.social says we should promote our books: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477313138/
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Academics need to tell families and friends, especially at holidays, that there are forbidden questions:
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
Woo! It's been a long wait but my new article is now published in @socmovstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anti-leftism as an aesthetic in white power punk
White Power music scenes embrace both White Supremacy and the music cultures they situate themselves in. For White Power punk scenes, there is a reliance on the shaping and utilization of punk aest...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Woo! It's been a long wait but my new article is now published in @socmovstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning and I can't tell if it's a post-surgery drug induced fever dream or not
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning and I can't tell if it's a post-surgery drug induced fever dream or not
Melanie while we are prepping in the kitchen: Hells Kitchen Tech edition: you thought Dr. Katz was tough on your writing wait until he tries your cooking
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Melanie while we are prepping in the kitchen: Hells Kitchen Tech edition: you thought Dr. Katz was tough on your writing wait until he tries your cooking
Apparently Morrissey is canceling the rest of his tour dates this year
The blue tsunami continues! wokeness is back!
The blue tsunami continues! wokeness is back!
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Apparently Morrissey is canceling the rest of his tour dates this year
The blue tsunami continues! wokeness is back!
The blue tsunami continues! wokeness is back!
Last night I was rear ended, setting off a 5 car crash on the highway and broke my shoulder. Naturally I told my students/canceled a few days of classes.
The influx emails from students saying they are praying for me has been both heartwarming and a real "oh right you're in the south" moment
The influx emails from students saying they are praying for me has been both heartwarming and a real "oh right you're in the south" moment
October 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Last night I was rear ended, setting off a 5 car crash on the highway and broke my shoulder. Naturally I told my students/canceled a few days of classes.
The influx emails from students saying they are praying for me has been both heartwarming and a real "oh right you're in the south" moment
The influx emails from students saying they are praying for me has been both heartwarming and a real "oh right you're in the south" moment
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In Feb 2025, Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccines.
Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.
Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
In Feb 2025, Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccines.
Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.
Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.
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1 million percent chance George Santos will start his own crypto currency in the upcoming months. 50% chance it will be called jailcoin
October 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
1 million percent chance George Santos will start his own crypto currency in the upcoming months. 50% chance it will be called jailcoin
He got out after writing a flattering letter!? To paraphrase @mollyereynolds.bsky.social "I always tell people Washington DC isn't like Veep, except for George Santos"
‘Naked Corruption’: The Internet Explodes Over Trump’s Santos Commutation
‘Naked Corruption’: The Internet Explodes Over Trump’s Santos Commutation
On Friday evening, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he’d freed former Congressman George Santos (R-NY), ending his seven-year sentence just six months after it started. Trump wrote: George Santos was somewhat of a “rogue,” but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison. I […]
The post ‘Naked Corruption’: The Internet Explodes Over Trump’s Santos Commutation first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
October 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
He got out after writing a flattering letter!? To paraphrase @mollyereynolds.bsky.social "I always tell people Washington DC isn't like Veep, except for George Santos"
Well this explains a lot. And also makes a lot of stuff more frustrating
Bluesky’s trending is so weird … Donatello is trending and by that they mean anything related to AI and ChatGPT … after a lot of digging it because Donnie uses ChatGPT in the new short.
But it’s a grouping anything related to AI even if it’s not “Donatello” related …
But it’s a grouping anything related to AI even if it’s not “Donatello” related …
October 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Well this explains a lot. And also makes a lot of stuff more frustrating
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Leavitt: “You guys are framing this like the president wants to do the exact thing he says he wants to do.”
October 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Leavitt: “You guys are framing this like the president wants to do the exact thing he says he wants to do.”
And so my interests collide once again
October 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
And so my interests collide once again
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Just like prominent Nazi war criminals such as Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann, who fled to Argentina after World War II.
They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office
After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects
Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs
Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs
October 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Just like prominent Nazi war criminals such as Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann, who fled to Argentina after World War II.
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Even for universities desperate for funding with conservative leaders, the inability to raise tuition and the potential cutting of very prestigious departments and programs would seem to be a nonstarter.
Also the fact that it’s “five years” certainly is ominous.
Also the fact that it’s “five years” certainly is ominous.
October 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Even for universities desperate for funding with conservative leaders, the inability to raise tuition and the potential cutting of very prestigious departments and programs would seem to be a nonstarter.
Also the fact that it’s “five years” certainly is ominous.
Also the fact that it’s “five years” certainly is ominous.
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The Trump administration has laid it out: comply with their ideological agenda or else…
This is how we lose free thought in American higher education.
The Trump administration has laid it out: comply with their ideological agenda or else…
This is how we lose free thought in American higher education.
The compact would require colleges to…cap the enrollment of international students + commit to strict definitions of gender…universities would also be required to change their governance structures to prohibit anything that would ‘punish, belittle + even spark violence against conservative ideas.’”
Honey, wake up: New unconstitutional extortion just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
October 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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The Trump administration has laid it out: comply with their ideological agenda or else…
This is how we lose free thought in American higher education.
The Trump administration has laid it out: comply with their ideological agenda or else…
This is how we lose free thought in American higher education.
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Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.
October 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.
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Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.
September 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.
So as Trump starts talking about "the enemy within" I wanna point out that wrote about the GOP using this rhetoric in the 2016 primary. It's not just a trump thing they've been trying to normalize violence against America for years
Polling, Partisanship, and Promoting Violence: New Developments in Impression Management From Candidate and Super PAC Advertisements - Nathan Katz, 2024
Super PACs have become a pivotal force in U.S. elections, often working in tandem with political campaigns to create cohesive messages in advertisements that se...
journals.sagepub.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
So as Trump starts talking about "the enemy within" I wanna point out that wrote about the GOP using this rhetoric in the 2016 primary. It's not just a trump thing they've been trying to normalize violence against America for years
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I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
September 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
We are looking for another socilologist!
September 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
We are looking for another socilologist!