Pam Herd

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Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University. @ColbyCollege alum. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden

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This is how you do it.

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Jess Calarco

So that whole bowling alone fixation when I was in grad school inspired this piece in gender & society. Would have loved to have added that little tidbit 20 years ago (I can’t believe I’m that old)

Maybe we're just not reckoning with a reality that is extraordinarily dark. Huge numbers of Americans are not that worried about what Trump will do--either because they don't understand it, don't care, or want what he's offering.

I worry about the disconnect from elites and the actual polling we're seeing in recent days. I'm not sure they're wrong, but the polling is not overwhelming in providing a clear narrative. What if it's a tight race regardless of which democrat? projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/

Latest Pollsprojects.fivethirtyeight.com The latest political polls and polling averages from FiveThirtyEight.

Snakes in his slacks!!! 🙀

This is extraordinarily risky. The longer and more divisive a primary, the harder it is to recover for the general. These folks (podcast guys), in practice, had their careers made b/c of the Trump presidency. They just don't have as much to lose.

Caps! Caps for Sale!

Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez really nails how government policy (even those focused on equity) embeds inequality with administrative burden, or "an approach to governance that produces alienating policy." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/m...

I’m choosing to read about islands we thought were sinking…but aren’t!

Though many states still allow abortions for 'medical emergencies', burdens (e.g. confusing statutes) mean almost no one gets them--parallel to the TRAP laws prior to Dobbs that limited access to abortion when it was legal. A point we make in our piece on "gendered burdens". osf.io/preprints/so...

NYT version of AITA...(and yes letter writer, you are the asshole).

My friend is baby shower shopping and holy god

And who in their right mind??

I will never get used to the new "normal"

The brain worm is back!

An innocent maaan, oh yes I am....

Well, that was fast. Right to inciting violence. Tucker Carlson: "Anyone who defends this verdict is a *danger* to you and your family."

The end of Roe, and the growing fixation on 'marriage', finally pushed me to write about gendered burdens. Gendered burdens are not simply about preventing access to rights and benefits, they are the means by which the state controls women's bodies, labor, and identity.

New from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: the aftermath of Dobbs shows how gendered administrative burdens are the means by which by which the state reinforces a white Christian nationalist vision open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Gendered Burdensopen.substack.com The constraints of the post-Dobbs era are part of a broader pattern

Speaker list makes it pretty clear how unis should 'reverse the ideological capture'. Every time. It's always this.

Card ultimately stopped doing research on the minimum wage because the backlash from w/in the discipline was so intense. Yes, it's empirical. But strident ideology can play out in lots of ways. www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2006...

Like Card and Krueger basically started the "hey, maybe supply and demand under perfect competition is not the best way to think about existing labor markets" backlash and they did it with empirical studies.

Buried below the fundraising news.

And she’d actually given birth in the car on the way to the hospital, but her ‘mentor’ “didn’t want anyone to give her sympathy”

“As I was laying there, I was just thinking to myself, ‘I can do it.'" This Rutgers PhD student delivered her dissertation hours after giving birth. cnn.it/4awCwKl

Rutgers PhD student delivers dissertation hours after giving birth | CNNcnn.it Rutgers PhD student, Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez, gave birth to her son and then hours later defended her dissertation to a committee over Zoom.

The framing of this piece is so irritating. You can talk about cohort differences without devolving to “but millennial moms actually have it hardest”.

Uniquely U.S. dystopian that typical Senior shenanigans might get you killed. Wonder what's meant by "unintended situations" and "someone"?

This was a self-inflicted crisis. Michigan -and plenty of other places with protests- held graduation like they always do. Protests at commencements are normal. Guiliani was my PhD grad speaker and people protested--at the ceremony too! We all survived (and the protesters were proved right!).

Michigan managed to hold graduation (and haven't been arresting students) despite similar levels of conflict. And there were some protests, but similar to protests I've witnessed at other graduations, it was fine. This is how you *actually* do free speech.

Columbia University just announced that its university-wide commencement on May 15th has been canceled

Or we could just see what those anti abortion protesters are up to right now!

Impossible challenge: a single Atlantic columnist knows anything about the decades of anti-abortion terrorism

Buried down in the “updates” like we’re learning he’s in Iowa this week

To clarify, they cited used a just enacted policy regarding demonstrations to go after students for demonstrating. It looks like this was the earlier suspension of Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine.

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John Doyle

Such bad practice. This is from a Columbia student journalist reported on the NYT Daily.

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post malone ergo propter malone

This is from the transcript. He's interviewing a journalist at the University paper.