The authors leverage evidence from studies of work requirements that bear no resemblance to the Medicaid work requirements (they don’t include the supports that actually made those policies effective) - and then make a set of additional implausible assumptions to generate this estimate.

It’s bad but these tshirts are good.

Please donate to support Jac Archer, of the Spokane 3, who were convicted last week of conspiracy charges for their nonviolent protest against ICE last summer www.gofundme.com/f/support-ja...

What total fertility rate thresholds are good for: fueling panics targeting women.

"Candy crush businessman"

How your email finds me.

You can either join your union, go to the meeting, and get in the fight, or you can watch them kill higher education in the US. This will not pass. There will not be a natural reset. You fight or die.

"Underbabied" is "the state of receiving insufficient care" which is kind of true when you think about it.

This is very helpful.

Your brain is stuck in a Copernican epicycle if you think this is evidence about professors rather than evidence about parties.

Acting U.S. Attorney of Eastern Washington Richard Barker resigned over this case last year in a refusal to prosecute it. He’s been quiet, but gave us a statement yesterday. “I question whether justice truly was served by today’s verdict,” he said. “This was the first conspiracy prosecution in+

Three peaceful ICE protesters were convicted on federal conspiracy charges yesterday in Spokane, WA. Spokane-based independent @rangemedia.co was on the ground at the protest and has been covering the prosecution of protesters ever since. For critical context and analysis, their coverage is here.

why did my ridiculous brain see this and think that some guy was daydreaming about a bunch of diaphragms (the birth control) filled with creamy jalapeño

"It is literally so boring for me, a gorgeous genius, to keep having to yap on about how horribly I am treated because of my body" is such a banging quote www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Normie lib mayor on Spokane: “We cannot allow these verdicts to silence us.” Excellent local reporting with context for today’s devastating verdict for Spokane ICE protesters.

Very good statement clearly outlining the costs of hiring pseudoscientists: "This is the academic version of “flood the zone with shit”: spread controversial, unsubstantiated claims that others must respond to. That way, they have less time for the important, high-quality research they want to do"

What I love about demographers is that we can sustain legitimate, contentious debate about empirical questions with discrete answers for decades and I'm not kidding.

The Great American State Fair is anti-state

brooding and yearning?

"Heterosexuality: abnormal or perverted sexual appetite toward the opposite sex." (Dorland, The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1900.) You history of sexuality people already knew this, but I love learning new things. /1

"Have you guys tried making outlet store versions of your products?"

I wonder why liberal utopianism sucks so hard at seeing power 🤷‍♀️

Too bad 90s action movies taught us to assume someone competent is fighting and will win against the aliens

Legislative proposals like this are a clear window into a desired future. 10 years ago, state legislatures were proposing impossible 6-week abortion bans.

Being able to misapply logic to depressingly marketable skill.

It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.

A year ago my family got gassed at a soccer game being held next to an ICE protest and the trial of some of the protesters is getting great coverage from the amazing @rangemedia.co - an outfit truly doing the work in a tough town.

Today you should send love to your trans friends. Tomorrow, too. Maybe every day for a while.

In the 2000s I met plenty of guys like this and (having been no fun at parties, even back then) I can confidently state that not one was liberal in any sense other than wanting to be left alone himself, let alone leftist.

Can't recommend this article enough. Taught me how anti-democratic university governance is and how unusual that is, even among corporate structures in the US and compared to universities in other countries. American universities are in the lower left in this graphic. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Darci Schmidgall, Popy Begum, and Christopher Seto (@criminovelist.bsky.social) show how the convergence of religious and political conservatism through Christian nationalism shapes abortion attitudes among the American public. Read more at bit.ly/4jarZKo

"The move came after a transgender student who was part of Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance died by suicide, and another stopped attending the school, the group’s lawyers wrote in a legal agreement reached Wednesday requesting the case be dismissed."

Help support trans people in Idaho! TW for the story here.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

“Oops womb” is a wow combinations of English words

If it's a crazy forecast, why would you make it? That's not a "forecast," it's someone discovering exponential numbers. Like: If the acceleration of the ball I drop out my window continued forever, it would teach the speed of light.

Eisenhower.

$5 million is embarrassingly cheap for selling out the regulation of several sectors of our economy.

“Oops womb” is a wow combinations of English words

To have been a fly on the wall when they decided to call it this.

The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

I argue that an unprecedented demographic transformation will drastically reduce competition for jobs by 2040. Barring an economic collapse, we can expect a massive shortfall of new workers, leading to upward pressure on wages and an improved climate for labor organizing.

Los Angeles County opened a new school roughly every month from 1946 to 1964. Now the kids who attended those schools are leaving the labor force.

Likewise, just attended the launch of DAIR's Luddite Lab, and this is such an incredible resource for workers everywhere trying to resist automation and surveillance. Inspiring work from @dairinstitute.bsky.social

Woodward, on the other hand, co-sponsored legislation to add health exceptions to Idaho’s ban. Just another example of the possible ongoing dichotomies in state elections when voters say they want abortion rights and then elect individuals who believe the opposite.

"Natural born" belongs in country songs and nowhere else.

Mindel Sheps wrote many beautiful papers about the mathematics of demography. Her papers "On the person years concept in epidemiology and demography" in Millbank and "Shall we count the living or the dead?" in NEJM are my favorites. Also, she mentored Jane Menken!!!

Mindel Sheps b #OTD 1913 (d 13 Jan 1973) ASA Fellow 1970. Physician, political healthcare activist, biostatistics professor, advisor to WHO, she made substantial contributions to mathematical demography but is best known for her highly influential NEJM 1958 paper on the asymmetry of relative risk.

There are an estimated 13,100 youth, aged 13 to 17, living in Colorado who identify as transgender. @nytimes.com: tinyurl.com/3n3jbcp3 Data source: bit.ly/TranspeopleUS

This is also a very clear demonstration of how "we'll pretend it's over and the weirdos can just mask" and, more generally, relying on masks as a long-term solution individualizes a problem that should be addressed structurally. Masks are NOT, actually, universally accessible. Clean indoor air is.*