@pamherd.bsky.social
Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
The ">30% income" definition of "cost-burdened" distorts the qualitatively & quantitatively different level of harm to very low-income folk from unaffordable housing. While more middle-income folks are cost-burdened now, very low-income folks are being left with increasingly impossible $ to live on.
Done!
Police responding to reports of active shooter at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield
West Bloomfield is a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. A car smashed into a synagogue and then shots rang out. A large police presence is on the scene and police are clearing the building.
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.
Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
NEW: Under Trump, mental health care for vets is getting squeezed
VA is bleeding shrinks & *not replacing them*
One told me she's so overloaded her sessions can be *16 mins*
She's had to online sessions w/ 35 vets
How is that therapeutic? It's not, she said
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
I didn't see how he could stay given that the new version of the noma business was just "this guy is brilliant!"
(Workers have said he physically assaulted them, repeatedly, and they have contemporaneous evidence)
Witkoff and Kushner chose not to have nuclear technical experts present during negotiations in Geneva. Several experts have raised questions about the disastrous duo’s technical understanding of uranium enrichment after they presented an assessment of Iran’s Research Reactor that made no sense.
ICE is still acting like ICE. Abolish ICE.
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
We are now recruiting participants for a series of upcoming focus groups that will discuss the impacts of AI on health and well-being. If you or any friends/colleagues are interested, please visit the study site:
umhealthresearch.org/study-team/s...
All focus groups will be 100% online (via Zoom).
🚨🚨 Dozens of documents detailing FBI interviews with an Epstein victim who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her as a 13-year-old are being kept under wraps.
Damn: this is quite the thread from a policymaker with first-hand knowledge of the Trump admin's thinking (and lack thereof) when it comes to Iran.
??? why is RFK Jr. going to the doctor for a surgery when he could simply eat a variety of weird meats at his injury
Maybe read the link? The 'we' is very obviously in the context of a U.S. specific problem--and a lack of U.S. congressional action.
The people who push back on silence-as-protection moves are usually the people with the least job security, which remains wild to me. Maybe we should use tenure to do something good?
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An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.
Surely the President’s task force on antisemitism will be looking into this pronto to figure out how this could have happened.
everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true
To give you a sense of how big a deal this is: Summers’ PhD advisor made NBER what it is today
According to @status.news, another senior journalist, reporter Scott Macfarlane, has quit CBS rather than head in the direction Bari Weiss wants to go. A big factor: the network's meek treatment of January 6th. www.status.news/p/scott-macf...
MacFarlane covered the Justice Department.
lol i just DMed him it, I think healy beat him to the punch
The Dow was angry that day, my friends
New, from me: Trump's retribution against Anthropic is over the top. But it should cause Democrats to think about how they will deal with contractors like Musk or Ellison when they return to power.
What do you do with vendors working to oppose you? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/procuremen...
Excuse me, that should be “Ted Carter resigns over The inappropriate relationship”
The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed.
For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com
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