Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP

What if they worked in the UK and were forced to pay a portion of their wages to the government

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Horrifying. But the photo illustration is perfect.

I’ve never had them flap their wings at me like that. It was very intimidating. They are huge.

A chubby brown and white cat sits human style with his hind legs out in front of him

Now he’s rolled backwards and is pawing at the storage bins behind him

Taken moments apart. Chewie is such a goof

Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.

A warp braid with teal, turquoise, yellow, yellow-green, and hot pink

I didn’t realize quite how 1980s my warp color scheme was until I wound the pink. So neon!

5 massive female turkeys on a lawn. One is flapping her wings at me.

Gang of lady turkeys trying to scare me off my walk. (They succeeded. I retreated to the street)

A white plastic goose wearing a turkey costume

These folks dress their goose up for holidays. I love it so much

Birgit Umaigba on Instagram: "If you need a real-life example of how Black women’s pain is dismissed, ignored and minimized, look no further. This is a classic example of anti-Black racism rooted in a... A pregnant woman's harrowing experience at Dallas Regional Medical Center is a stark reminder of the systemic issues in our healthcare system. The mother, left unattended for over 30 minutes, delivers...

This video of a pregnant Black woman in labor being actively ignored by a triage nurse has made the rounds. The lack of empathy on display is a reality every Black woman has experienced in some form when dealing w the healthcare system. Nothing shields us from it.
www.instagram.com/reel/DRFwBfY...

Aw—thank you! I am totally serious when I saw this is just persistence rather than talent. Sewing from patterns scratches the same brain itch as putting together Lego for me, so I’ve kept going despite many (many many) failed projects.

Thank you! I looked at dresses in the store and nothing fit right, so making my own was the best option. But also fun!

A piece of black fabric with an elongated diamond rib pattern and lots of silver glitter

The fabric is hard to photograph, but it has a diamond-shaped rib pattern. The glitter doesn’t rub off.

A black knit wrap dress with lots of glitter and long sleeves

The sleeves are cuffed with black and rhinestone buttons

I finished sewing my dress for the Christmas wedding we’re going to (mother of bride says black is fine). Bad lighting in my sewing room, but you can see the glitter in the sleeve photo.

I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.

/2 The article and headline don’t arise in a vacuum, they arise on the front page of the New York Times, which has selected a very specific way to approach moral and political issues, characterized by detachment, both-sidesism, and trolling.

I can’t parse what he’s trying to say. Who’s the dude he said no to? Why does he regret saying no to the dude? I wish you’d tapped him on the shoulder for an explanation. 😔

Good girl!

I saw it in your post. She was one of the bad actors on the night of the Feminist Caucus annual meeting. I was amplifying, not complaining.

She’s also vice-chair of the Feminist Caucus

Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask:

What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...

The concluding paragraphs of an article from the NYT on the current funding habits of the NEH. “A majority of the awards, which the agency has not publicized, are to scholars with ties to religious or conservative institutions, and support work on topics including the Bible's influence on the American founders, the history of the parental rights movement and the current ills of the humanities. Four are to people listed only as "unaffiliated independent scholar." Some of the agency's longstanding competitive grant programs remain. But Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble, a physician and medical historian who served on the council from 2022 until she was fired October, said there had been a "chilling effect." "I know scholars who, seeing what has happened, are asking, why apply?" Dr. Gamble said. "The N.E.H. does not seem as open to a larger swath of humanities anymore."”

I’m well beyond “why apply,” I’m at “I cannot in good conscience apply.”

Gift link to the NYT piece on the NEH’s awarded projects since it was gutted:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...

Just popping in to say Stata will give you many of these and also gives you a clear explanation of how they are calculated. With some nice short biographies of statisticians.

The Economic Impact of Brexit Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%." Intstead, govt focus is on performative cruelty & racism www.nber.org/papers/w34459

Maybe @jortsthecat.bsky.social will come to town to organize the biscuit makers.

When’s he’s under a fan, some of his floof gently wafts in the breeze.

He has met his quota now and will rest. What a good boy

The dedicated biscuit maker. So sleepy, but committed to making his biscuit quota for the day

Not necessarily a student, but she was a mentee. This is disgusting

This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.