Pam Herd

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

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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How bad is the UK election for the Tories? This guy just lost his seat.

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Instead, they stealth-edited the title.

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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Fucking unbelievable that the big publications are running with this as the lead story after the Supreme Court just promised to install a convicted felon rapist insurrectionist as Emperor for Life.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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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

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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆

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Everyone please stop losing your fucking minds.

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If you every doubt the existence of patriotism in America, go to a citizenship swearing-in ceremony. Mine was in a courthouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

It just doesn't matter how well qualified a black woman is, there's always someone (or many) who are certain, despite all evidence to the contrary, that she's unqualified. And yes, this repeatedly happens in "liberal" spaces.

I agree that Harris has significant weaknesses as a politician but this is an incredibly ugly way to put it. Also: A centrist candidate choosing another centrist as his running mate — still not the left's fault! Leftists hate Harris, that's actually one of her weaknesses.

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One thing that's been very clear this past week is that most of those writing & pontificating about Biden's future as the party's nominee have a little to no experience in state and local Democratic Party activities. A brief 🧵:

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Giving up hope is also complying with authoritarians in advance. It’s saying that fascism is inevitable, that there is no other way to be. I know it’s hard to keep hope alive, but I hope you find a way. ❤️

Don’t despair — here’s why https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/04/fourth-july-us-trump-biden-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This Fourth of July, it’s hard to feel optimistic about the US. But I have hope | Margaret Sullivanwww.theguardian.com Let’s remember that we’ve come a long way – and the journey isn’t yet complete

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The descriptions of Trump’s sexual abuse of minors are horrific and quotidian. (It sounds like a regular, unremarkable occurrence for him.) It is enraging that this story is buried under an avalanche of wish-casting discourse.

This story hits a little harder now that the jury documents for Epstein's case have been released (and Trump's name is ALLLLLL over those documents). Again, mainstream media is burying this story for Trump. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Jeffrey Epstein introduced me to Trump at 14, Ghislaine Maxwell accuser sayswww.nbcnews.com Testifying at Maxwell’s trial in New York City, the woman, identified by the pseudonym Jane, said she met the former president in the 1990s at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

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When I worked in Minnesota in the legislature, there were bills every year to legalize fireworks. And there would be hearings. And people would be like, “Pfft, who testifies against this? Busybody neighbors?” The actual answer was firefighters and doctors, mostly. Especially eye doctors.

Horrifying. All, if you know young ppl who will use fireworks these next few weeks, please do what you can to either discourage them entirely or make sure they use them safely. Hundreds of young ppl will be in the ER with firework injuries this month. Many of these injuries will be life altering.

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Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall. They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this

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It would not be as big as the Torys annihilated, but a few weeks ago I submitted my complete manuscript, The Politics of Mobility-Voluntary and Involuntary Migrations, 1619-1882, to Oxford University Press after 15 years of work on it. The book is about US migration policy history. #GoodNews

hey everybody remember to share #GoodNews too

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Coworker's friend's son blew up his face and hand this weekend. They thought he might lose the hand. Kids, just leave fireworks to the pros

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The DC Water and Sewer Authority has just issued a Boil Water Advisory for all customers in DC www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...

Caps! Caps for Sale!

The push for a brokered convention is concerning to me b/c it's anti-democratic, shifting power away from the public and to party leaders. The shift away from brokered conventions came during a period where democracy expanded (e.g. civil rights acts). It's just a different type of retrenchment.

the difference been pundits who have spent too much time huffing gasoline and journalists who are actually thinking through this with seriousness is whether they think having a contentious, brokered convention is less problematic than just going with biden's elected successor.

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New, from me: I've been working with @pamherd.bsky.social and Amy Widman to embed administrative burden reduction practices into federal policies. Here is a summary of some progress we have made. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/identifyin...

Identifying and Reducing Burdens in Administrative Processesdonmoynihan.substack.com A new report summarizes the emerging burden reduction framework

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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases

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This is a stunning article about how an academic successfully laundered racial pseudoscience into mainstream journals using a made-up dataset of National IQs (yes, literally the average IQ of countries) that still gets cited in studies today

Journals that published Richard Lynn's racist 'research' articles should retract themwww.statnews.com Richard Lynn's work has been repeatedly condemned for using flawed methodology and deceptively collated data to support racism. It's past time to retract the studies.

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Meanwhile, private equity-affiliated lawyers are commanding record salaries — upwards of $20M — to negotiate the deals that decimate hospitals, local news outlets, nursing homes, and other critical social infrastructures www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/b...

Earlier this year I was naively shocked to learn that Wharton hazes first-year students into 🤯 competitive “consulting clubs.” Today I was naively shocked to learn from a Wharton uncle that his niece, a rising second-year undergrad, is already being recruited by big banks.

Penn students left 'panicked and puzzled' by competitive Wharton club application processwww.thedp.com Students voiced frustration about clubs prioritizing personal connections and technical abilities.

Pay for Lawyers is So High People Are Comparing It to the N.B.A.www.nytimes.com Enormous pay packages are popping up for top lawyers, especially those favored by well-heeled private equity clients.

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So sad to hear about the death of Anne Shepherd, Secretariat of British Society for Population Studies & editorial office of Population Studies. Her spectacular efficiency & irreverent approach made dealing with either a pleasure. In particular, Anne WAS BSPS; the conference won’t be the same again

In memory of Anne Shepherdblogs.lse.ac.uk It is with great sadness that friends and colleagues from across the LSE share news of the death of Anne Shepherd, on Thursday 6 June 2024. Anne joined LSE in 2002, and until her retirement last au…

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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...

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Normal people: enjoying their Sunday The WSJ: we gotta send out the push alert that says fuck the minorities.

So who’s “us”?