Miranda Yaver

the great gatsby is one of the most widely assigned books in america and yet apparently literally nobody understands it www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Grading on Saturday night, what have I come to*

*someone who unwisely had final projects due at 11:59pm Friday

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.

Just unspeakable assholery.

Given that she married Stephen Miller, probably.

I had my students submit for extra credit a meme reflecting something they learned this semester, along with an accompanying paragraph connecting the meme to the course concept. There were some gems.

Every 15 or so minutes, Maude chirps in her sleep.

Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse. Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Happy Caturday. My grading assistants are sleepy.

Another good one. It really is wild how recently I've had to hunt around for a fax machine to deal with my insurer.

I had my students submit for extra credit a meme reflecting something they learned this semester, along with an accompanying paragraph connecting the meme to the course concept. There were some gems.

Opinion | Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan

Pretty embarrassing that NYT times published this Isgur essay, which is full of historical errors and tendentious arguments that show a lack of understanding of the legal basics and the relevant scholarship. Who even is this person?

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

Gift article about the across-the-board *slowdown* in federal funding for science - on ALL the topics. But especially for up-and-coming scientists.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁

HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.

This is just some petty and cruel shit. I was very proud to serve alongside Rachel Levine. She has more leadership, integrity, and expertise in her little finger than the entire RFK HHS crew does all together. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Took my TA out for a thank you lunch. Talked with students at the Roosevelt Institute Winter Policy Expo. Then held a review session for my Intro to Health Policy students to prep for the final exam (complete with a jeopardy game!).

Time for a drink before final projects are submitted by midnight!

Email sent ✔️

Hope you get great applicants!

What a great opportunity! I'm in the School of Public Health but I'll ask my political science colleagues down the street whether they have any students who come to mind.

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

I did

I've talked the last few semesters with my public health students (in a building celebrating the Jonas Salk legacy) about the way that Americans' lack of memory of things like smallpox and polio drives a hubris about not needing to safeguard vaccine access and mandates. But it wasn't THAT long ago!

Hey, hey, RFK
How many kids did you kill today?

Also, Bill Cassidy owns this and should never be taken seriously again.

ACIP’s credibility is shattered.

And it’s hard to overstate just how enduring this damage will be.

Well fuck

NBC NEWS: Jack Smith’s final report “said that Trump ‘inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence’ by spreading ‘demonstrably and, in many cases, obviously false’ claims about the 2020 election.”

@ryanjreilly.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

It’s Friday, I’m in love

Looking forward to talking with students about going into health policy academia with the @rooseveltinstitute.org's Winter Policy Expo this afternoon. Going to talk about my long and winding road to health policy and how research can promote more equitable and just policy implementation.

So are we just not doing BLS jobs reports anymore? And nobody cares?

I hate to do "imagine if Biden..." but I think political journos would have a collective aneurism if Biden just stopped putting out, say, inflation data.

That was 25 years ago? My goodness I feel old.

“Maudeling” with my husband’s guitars