Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

@wrigleyfield.bsky.social

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Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, infectious disease. 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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easy to chalk the stuff in france up to some vague platitude about ~voting~ but it feels to me like more proof that you have to give people something to vote FOR, and that socialism remains better equipped to beat fascism than liberalism does! just one gal’s opinion

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France out here proving that actually you can tell the far right to go to hell even when it looks like they’re on track for a big victory are we going to let ourselves be shown up by the French?

French exit poll news and which seems a good sign

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Oh don't worry, all that Nazi stuff is just talk. He'll never carry out those wacky policies. [ @latimes.com, 1933]

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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

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What an incredible life. “The Panthers’ defense was run by the New York Law Commune, a radical legal office of which Mr. Stolar was a member…Mr. Stolar helped defend the Camden 28, a group of mostly Roman Catholic war resisters who in 1971 broke into a draft-board office to destroy records.”

Martin Stolar, Lawyer Who Fought for Social Justice, Dies at 81www.nytimes.com His clients included antiwar protesters and terror suspects. His practice “not only defended needy people, it propelled social movements,” a colleague said.

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I have 10 cards. I will delete when they're gone. I will match what we raise! Please share, since I do not have many (relative to the old place) followers on this newfangled website. forms.gle/UBhLeMMnkj6r...

OK Bluesky, I have some Comrade Cards® to send folks who donate at least $20 to @psabortionfund.bsky.social, per @prisonculture.bsky.social's efforts. What's a comrade card? See below or scroll my profile. Show proof of (new) donation & tell me where to send the card: forms.gle/UBhLeMMnkj6r...

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Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

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Michael Tae Sweeney

The "Who's going to stop us?" school of jurisprudence

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I've mentioned my Asshole Neighbour but I have several others including one I'll call Chaos Neighbour who I love. Guy spent the whole of yesterday going around telling ppl" its saturday come over this evening, I have shrooms" & when I spoke to someone who went I found out he meant oyster mushrooms

This is so up my alley. Look forward to playing with y'all in Minneapolis!

This sounds so much fun. www.cluewalkingexperience.com

CLUE: A Walking Mysterywww.cluewalkingexperience.com In this all-new immersive experience, guests become detectives to solve the mystery of who murdered the elusive Mr. Boddy. The newly minted detectives will be led by Mr. Butler (the Butler) through ...

My 2-year-old has been walking around for the last ten minutes “reading” Frog and Toad stories to our real dog and her stuffed dog, out of a small notebook I gave her to carry around in her tiny backpack (“just like mama”). I am sipping my coffee and reading and it is so peaceful. 10-minute bliss!

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Conservatives: "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!" The Epstein Files: *name Donald Trump a bunch* Conservatives: "WAIT NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

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This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.

This would substantially temper my anti-lawn views! What a cool thing this guy did

Did this citizen scientist develop the perfect, chemical-free lawn? wapo.st/3zp1D4D🧪🌎

Did this citizen scientist develop the perfect, chemical-free lawn?wapo.st Jackson Madnick has developed a grass seed mix that can thrive without chemicals and with minimal watering.

My wonderful grad advisor once diagnosed why a lot of my academic writing read as convoluted & dull (he prob didn't use those words): I give too many caveats & scope conditions BEFORE stating the main point; they almost always belong afterward Still today, regularly, I realize this is my problem

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Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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Seems like "what parts of Project 2025 do you disagree with?" or "what parts of it are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal?" would be good questions for a reporter to ask the other elderly presidential candidate, but what do I know. on.ft.com/4ePQH0e

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Well, everyone. Since we've all had a hell of a few years, and things have shifted a bit in the last 24 hours - I think we deserve a treat. Time for the kitten seen from underneath photo? Oh, I think so. We've all been very good. We deserve it.

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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No one: Really no one: Truly, absolutely no one: Me: guys he can’t be a king because the whole point of a king is that they stand above the contending factions in a society that would otherwise tear itself apart, unifying it through their sacred myth

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If you think Jaws is scary for not really showing the shark, you should check out spielberg's other films. they don't show the shark at all

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

Wallace Shawn is such a mensch. For years he came to a socialist conference I helped organize. He’d read one of his essays, or—thrillingly—once held the first table read of a play there. And he participated. You’d be at a talk on the German Revolution or something & he’d be next to you, to learn

Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children” The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions Via THR

Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children”www.hollywoodreporter.com The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions

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Among the many, many issues here, it's clear that ICE has way too much money to play with.

ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Students at fake university in Michigan created by ICE can sue US, court ruleswww.freep.com An appeals court ruled in favor of students who said they were tricked by ICE into enrolling at a fake university in metro Detroit.

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

I love Elizabeth Rush’s book Rising, but I’m ambivalent abt her book The Quickening But this interview is really good & captures much of what’s really worth thinking abt from the book (though it undersells the book’s BEST strength: its focus on the whole crew) www.orionmagazine.org/article/eliz...

Orion Magazine - What the Ice Asks of Uswww.orionmagazine.org I FIRST BECAME ACQUAINTED with the environmental writing of Elizabeth Rush when I was assigned to review her last book, Rising: Dispatches from the New

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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Local Scottish museum exhibit with culturally on-brand material by local schoolchildren on the Highland Clearances.