Aleea Perry, PhD

While we’re at it: if you’ve already stopped buying from Amazon, good. If not: maybe knowing that the company intends to obscure the scale and source of price hikes you will pay, so it can curry favor with Donald Trump, is the nudge you need.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID

Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters *right now* that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington.

Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.

Oh, man, not Gene Hackman.

2025 can just fuck right off.

Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

Just the <checks notes> Chair of the House Appropriations Committee going on the record to say that appropriations statutes “are not a law.”

The United States Congress, ladies and gentlemen.

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Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!

I ask students to write about their first encounters with civil rights history for their first assignment. Of course, they often talk about MLK and Rosa Parks, but I also receive a lot of critiques (from mostly white students) of their education systems for barely discussing the movement.

I am delighted to see their rise. Happy to support them then & now.

I went to a Chiefs game in the early 90s, when it seemed like a Super Bowl was not only unattainable but completely foreign.

After yet another weekend of discussing end-of-life planning with others, please ...

.write down your wishes in the form of will, living will, durable power of attorney and other documents.

Thank you from Not A Lawyer, but One Who Has Had Ths Discussion 20+ Times in 5 Short Years

I made some changes last fall that I love. More coming this spring because I love me and not personal suffering.

So many smart people seem to believe that higher ed. should be job training, explicitly. The rise in business (undergraduate) majors is one byproduct of such a perspective. And watching universities cut humanities is another.

I find this approach incredibly shortsighted, and ultimately defeating. 🧵

Yes, the cashier at Target should be able to afford rent, groceries, and bills with their paycheck alone. That’s what jobs are for.

Every time I see someone talk about the freedom of “self driving cars” I want to yell “YOU WANT A TRAIN”

In 2024 we learned that Costco has more integrity than almost all national print and broadcast news venues.

The oligarchy is here.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens MADISON, WI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Wisconsin in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured six others, citizens living in the only country where this kind o...

The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.

“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”

- Police Chief in Madison, WI

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - John Steinbeck

There have been a lot of us historians who've posted something like this lately (I know @kevinmkruse.bsky.social did), even before the insurance CEO was shot. We're trying to warn you, billionaires and CEOs: history is pretty clear that unions and strikes are your *best-case* scenario.

I share this with a class each spring. It gets more terrifying each year that passes.

Musk and Ramaswamy have already identified $516B dollars in government savings — it includes cutting all of Veteran’s Affairs health care, eliminating the NIH, and ending funding for federal prisons. @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social

I was reminded, yet again, that mental health is often neglected to appear "normal."

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine, not a life goal.

Take care of you & yours, please.

#highered #mentalhealth

Shirley Chisholm was born 100 years ago today.

Democrats should defend trans people because who are we if we don’t defend trans people, don’t sell out your neighbors

Speaker Johnson announces policy barring trans women from Capitol bathrooms Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Wednesday that transgender women are not permitted to use bathrooms in the Capitol that match their gender identity, taking a stance on the hot-button issue t…

I already see a bunch of "this is just a distraction" punditry, but try to remember that distractions that are hate crimes are still hate crimes. If someone hates crimes you, it would feel pretty shitty to have a bystander be like "just ignore that, it's a distraction"

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Yes. That’s absolutely their priority. Why is this so hard for the Dems to understand. It’s all about anger, fear and bullying, not governing.

Miss you, friend!