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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
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Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Toddler parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
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Incredible Airbnb review/response
Review reads: Cute and artsy home! And the owner response: Bugs are part of living in the country. Also, exactly what kind of bugs are you talking about? Insects? Please be more specific as this comment is very disturbing to some people who are used to living in apparently sanitized homes where all the roaches, water bugs, etc. are in the walls, plumbing and out of sight. There are many insects and bugs that are very beneficial (Spiders, bees, etc.) to our survival and if you keep the screens closed there should be no problem with them in the house. To generalize that any you saw here as a reflection on the cleanliness here is unfair and lacking in ecological knowledge.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Look out, everybody! There’s a skunk in the vicinity!
November 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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They lie after they're caught having massively fucked up, but they lie before they get caught, too -- here, in documenting why they didn't plan to do anything to keep Mariah Samuels safe

They lie at every stage to avoid having to do anything for desperate women seeking protection from violence
Officer Ryan Weber responded to the call before sunrise, noting in his official report that Wright "felt safe". A review of body camera footage shows she never said that. He did not offer domestic violence resources because Samuels advised him: “Wright would not have knowledge of this address” and she “felt safe staying at this address,” according to internal police records. But body camera footage from the scene doesn’t support that claim.
October 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The Minneapolis police response to having allowed Mariah Samuels to be murdered is to lie to elected officials and the media about it.
Deputy Chief of Investigations Emily Olson said Samuels did not wish to pursue criminal charges against Wright following her assault, which police relayed to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. “We would still investigate, but it does not take priority when the victim does not want to prosecute,” she said. However, no available records indicate that Samuels ever opposed criminal charges against Wright. Relatives and those with direct knowledge of the case insist that Samuels was fully cooperative with authorities and dispute that she ever made such a claim. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office told the Star Tribune that information was never communicated to their staff. Nor is victim involvement always required if the case is provable. Minneapolis police never submitted a case to prosecutors for potential charges.
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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This is tragic. The loss of friction deprives people of something crucial. What happens between imagination and creation is ineffable—it entails struggle, iteration, joy, and frustration, disappointment, and pride. It is the process through which we enact agency. It is how we make meaning and move through the world. To lose that, I fear, is to capitulate on our very humanity.
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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After her nap, she made this “monster sign” for the next protest. She says she is going to carry it and chant “stand up, fight back!”
Several pieces of blue, red, and purple construction paper crumpled and cut in random ways and glued together
October 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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My kid is super into jigsaw puzzles right now, and as a result of working on this “family puzzle“ with her… well, let’s just say the good news is, I have a strategy for breaking my phone addiction.
A half-done jigsaw puzzle of flowers and part of a rabbit
October 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Wow, I read further and got to this. Wonder how they’re threading the needle on this with diversity awards (it’s easy to make diversity awards in general open to all groups in principle, but I believe ASA has long had awards for minoritized racial/ethnic groups specifically).
New ASA policy says eligibility for section awards and grants must be open to all demographic groups.
October 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Thanks, Wiley, this is so helpful
Article PDF where the right margin of text is illegible because of Wiley-added text about download details and copyright
October 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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How these ethnically/racially targeted human rights abuses were described by @nytimes.com today
The operation that night targeted an apartment complex that federal officials said was frequented by members of the Tren de Aragua gang. The Border Patrol official said that snipers rappelled down from helicopters on top of the apartment complex, as a precaution from potential violence. Federal authorities said that at least 37 people without legal immigration status were arrested, including some with criminal records.
October 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Made a "team" in our "wellness challenge"
Team name: Abolish Wellness Programs Team motto: "Healthcare is a right and wellness programs have been shown through empirical research not to work." Team avatar: A screenshot of an article titled "Workplace Wellness Programs Really Don't Work," subtitled "They aren't saving money or making employees healthier, a new study finds."
September 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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This passage from 11 years ago is so revealing. Shit like this isn’t funny any more because it’s so ordinary, you barely notice the incongruity.

In the parlance of this particular theory of humor, it’s not that it’s not seen as benign; rather, it’s no longer coded as a violation.
In a related experiment, participants read a story about a church that was giving away a Hummer H2 to a lucky member of its congregation, and were then asked if they found it funny. Participants who were regular churchgoers found the idea of mixing the sanctity of Christianity with a four-wheeled symbol of secular excess significantly less humorous than people who rarely go to church. Those less committed to Christianity, in other words, were more likely to find a holy Hummer benign and therefore funnier.
September 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I'm revisiting Ethan Fosse and Chris Winship's great review of age-period-cohort models, and this is just a very funny passage

from www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
At the heart of any APC analysis is a theoretical model that specifies how various causal processes, what we call here mechanisms,13 are associated with each of the APC variables. What is peculiar to many APC analyses is the attempt to assess the relative importance of the three APC processes without relying on either theory or observed measures of their associated causal mechanisms.
September 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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My working spot for the day

Birds are the best soundtrack for reading about the influence of the Old Left on the Civil Rights Movement
A rustic large wooden bench surrounded by trees The view from the bench: foliage and big rocks
September 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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But do we think he'll send me a dick pic
Responding to a Walz reelection robotext with "Why did you put a DOGE return-to-office order on our state workers?"
September 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Self Service just looks like this (today & many other days). I can't update Stata or my browser, can't install a printer, & I'm going to once again be unable to do those things for several days until I meet w IT & it's fixed for a day, in which I'll do all that stuff, until the next time I need it
wheel of death
September 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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I can tell I’m at work because I’m using the PROFESSIONAL Kleenex
Tissue box is labeled “Kleenex professional comfort touch”
September 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Upper East Side: A Horror Story in One Image
Tahitian vanilla ice cream Small $18 Large $36
September 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The South End (retitled Wayne State University newspaper) front page on January 23, 1969. The banner deadline is "DRUM--Vanguard of the Black Revolution: Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement States History, Purpose and Aims" Newspaper slogan is "One Class-Conscious Worker is Worth 100 Students"
September 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Minneapolis culture for those who don’t know it
Public mailbox has a sticker saying “Make the golf course a public sex forest”
August 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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A political yard sign almost profound in its entire absence of content
“Vote for politics that keep us safe.” No further information is provided.
August 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Big credit to whoever is responsible for this (viewed from I-35 around 28th St)
Building with huge letters saying “STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA”
August 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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…Bolstering my claim that downtown Minneapolis went and made itself even worse than MIDTOWN MANHATTAN by failing to incorporate trees, thereby creating a boring expanse of unwelcoming heat that people who’ve spent time in other cities recognize immediately as a tragically inferior downtown
Tree equity map of minneapolis. Downtown is very bad, as is Cedar-Riverside and basically every other neighborhood close to public transit Tree equity map of lower Manhattan. It looks pretty good!
July 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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(This is a really nice paragraph, though!)
Pointing an overly vigorous finger of blame at "ultra-processed foods" distracts us from the true causes of illness. Among the most underappreciated facts is that biological processing -- through an animal's body -- is as much an issue as mechanical processing. When corn is fed to chickens to create drumsticks and wings, salivary and pancreatic amylase performs the same function as factory amylase used to create high-fructose corn syrup. The animals' digestive tracts sequester fiber as effectively as any mechanized operation, and their digestive and anabolic systems markedly alter the macro- and micronutrient content of the nutritional input. As the chicken's metabolic processes convert corn's macronutrients into chicken wings, they increase fat content from 14% to 55% of caloriesopens in a new tab or window, add cholesterol, and remove fiber, which may account for the significant association of chicken consumption with diabetes.
July 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Trying to do a good turn for other parents at the upcoming book/toy swap
The cover of “Oh crap! Potty training” by Jackie Glowacki A handwritten inscription reads, “This book came highly recommended but we found it made things too stressful. We had a much better experience with our 3-year-old — who was NOT too told to potty train — when we chilled out and let her just tell us what she needed.”
July 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM