Tori
@tlc-soc.bsky.social
sociologist. writing about safety nets, care, and debt. thinking about what we owe each other
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It never used to be dark by 5pm. They're doing this to demoralize you
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It never used to be dark by 5pm. They're doing this to demoralize you
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Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao
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I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.
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This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
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#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
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Dr. Jonathan Metzl, author of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, on how white working class people's health is negatively impacted by "backlash politics" and opposition to taxes towards a strong social welfare state.
www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpou...
www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpou...
Jonathan Metzl on "Dying of Whiteness"
In his new book, “Dying of Whiteness,” physician Jonathan Metzl details the dire consequences of some right wing policies for the populations they claim to help. From gun control to healthcare, Metzl ...
www.pbs.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Dr. Jonathan Metzl, author of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, on how white working class people's health is negatively impacted by "backlash politics" and opposition to taxes towards a strong social welfare state.
www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpou...
www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpou...
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The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
www.propublica.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
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trial by jury clearly has a role to play today as it did then. you can read other lessons from this history - ways that multiracial groups people living and working in the North resisted slave power under Black leadership in the latest @hammerandhope.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
trial by jury clearly has a role to play today as it did then. you can read other lessons from this history - ways that multiracial groups people living and working in the North resisted slave power under Black leadership in the latest @hammerandhope.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
A better world is possible!! 🌹
Among many reasons she’d be good for DC is that Janeese is very open to building code reform and sustainability based on building science.
D.C. Councilmember Janeese Lewis George prepares a bid for mayor
The Ward 4 councilmember has begun telling allies she plans to run, which could make her the first major candidate to declare for the 2026 race.
wamu.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A better world is possible!! 🌹
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It's time for widespread refusal to fill in sex or gender on government documents, birth certificates or otherwise.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It's time for widespread refusal to fill in sex or gender on government documents, birth certificates or otherwise.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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The front page of the New York Times is asking if women belong the workplace and @aselrod.bsky.social and @liberalcurrents.com, come through with this.
Incredible timing.
Incredible timing.
Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women.
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The front page of the New York Times is asking if women belong the workplace and @aselrod.bsky.social and @liberalcurrents.com, come through with this.
Incredible timing.
Incredible timing.
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"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"
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it was me. I ruined the workplace.
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
it was me. I ruined the workplace.
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Excellent op-ed by environmental sociologist Eric Bond and Viktor Newby.
"We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs."
virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...
"We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs."
virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Excellent op-ed by environmental sociologist Eric Bond and Viktor Newby.
"We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs."
virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...
"We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs."
virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...
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Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.
It's resegregation in real time.
It's resegregation in real time.
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.
It's resegregation in real time.
It's resegregation in real time.
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The far-right weirdos who say we have no obligation to care for one another are in the minority.
Most people don’t want our government to suddenly stop feeding the hungry.
Most people want to live in a society where we care for, and feed, each other.
www.jphilll.com/p/yes-the-go...
Most people don’t want our government to suddenly stop feeding the hungry.
Most people want to live in a society where we care for, and feed, each other.
www.jphilll.com/p/yes-the-go...
Yes, the government should feed us
What's the point of living in a society if not to care for one another?
www.jphilll.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The far-right weirdos who say we have no obligation to care for one another are in the minority.
Most people don’t want our government to suddenly stop feeding the hungry.
Most people want to live in a society where we care for, and feed, each other.
www.jphilll.com/p/yes-the-go...
Most people don’t want our government to suddenly stop feeding the hungry.
Most people want to live in a society where we care for, and feed, each other.
www.jphilll.com/p/yes-the-go...
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The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed
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The Complex Role of Slavery in Building America’s Wealth
It was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff well beyond what’s commonly assumed.
www.wsj.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed
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This is the front page of the Chicago Tribune: On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
November 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is the front page of the Chicago Tribune: On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...
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Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.
There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.
There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.
November 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.
There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.
There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.
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Segregation in public accommodations was second class economic citizenship. A dollar in the hands of a Black person did not come with the same rights to spend it that others had. Explore the history of this limited citizenship here: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Segregation in public accommodations was second class economic citizenship. A dollar in the hands of a Black person did not come with the same rights to spend it that others had. Explore the history of this limited citizenship here: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
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We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.
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New: The Share of Mothers Who Work Is Shrinking – and Black Mothers Face the Steepest Declines.
nationalpartnership.org/report/share...
nationalpartnership.org/report/share...
The Share of Mothers Who Work Is Shrinking – and Black Mothers Face the Steepest Declines | National Partnership for Women & Families
New analysis from the National Partnership for Women & Families and The 75 Million Project finds that Black mothers of young children are facing the steepest declines in labor force participation in r...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
New: The Share of Mothers Who Work Is Shrinking – and Black Mothers Face the Steepest Declines.
nationalpartnership.org/report/share...
nationalpartnership.org/report/share...
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1. This week, news emerged that former trans athlete, student at Middlebury, and advocate for trans rights, Lia Smith, was found dead.
Her death was ruled a suicide.
But I argue that it's not only a suicide. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.
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Her death was ruled a suicide.
But I argue that it's not only a suicide. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Every Trans Suicide Is A Murder By Those In Power
News came this week that transgender athlete and student Lia Smith took her life at just 21 years of age.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
1. This week, news emerged that former trans athlete, student at Middlebury, and advocate for trans rights, Lia Smith, was found dead.
Her death was ruled a suicide.
But I argue that it's not only a suicide. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Her death was ruled a suicide.
But I argue that it's not only a suicide. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power.
Subscribe to support my journalism.