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Public Service Reminder: The Met Opera is streaming Philip Glass's AKHNATEN for the next 23 hours. Free, no login required. Sally and I paid a small fortune to see this

I've started saying no to every invitation, including events by Zoom. It's impossible to know what the future will hold with this virus, and I don't want to be in

1/x Something I find fascinating in the slow-moving transition of POTUS power & COVID lockdown is a reaffirmation of how existence is RELATIONAL. No one, office, no nation, no honorific

Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm's brother who argued in this 2019 essay that his life should end at 75 because life after that age is longer productive and may involve disability, is

1/x Gonna do a close read on the language & public health messaging in the "Biden-Harris plan to beat COVID-19," as posted at their transition website. First of all, there

There is a child sex panic happening on the right with QAnon and on the left with CUTIES that makes me think everyone needs to read about Lee Edelman’s theory

1. Thread on Woodward sitting on the interview. BC I know a bit about viruses, the differences between book & newspaper writing, mainstream media (MSM) notions of subjectivity/objectivity and militarism,

A central problem of this moment is a lack of sociology education. Sociology helps us understand how ppl behave as we do—why we wanna hug & connect, why we dislike

Damn it. Why do media critics like @Sulliview and @NPRpubliceditor @kellymcb get to use "lame" without ever having to respond? "Lame" is ableist, akin to using "gay" or "ghetto" as

1. OK, I'm calling bs on "news" of "COVID parties"—college students TRYING to get COVID. It has all the failure hallmarks of moral panic, Chomsky's 4th filter of manufactured consent

1. I have a theory about the recent blackface backlash: Liberals are scared that, instead of the public seeing conservative media as racist, they're going to finally understand that liberals,

1. I don’t believe in mask shaming (shame as a public health tactic simply never works), but having gone to #OccupyCityHall last night where literally every one of hundreds of

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