Pam Herd
@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!
THIS. “Pope pointed to the bizarrely packed schedules for middle and high schoolers. “You’ve got seven different homework assignments that you’ve got to remember each night. Think of the cognitive load…I challenge many adults to do this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
THIS. “Pope pointed to the bizarrely packed schedules for middle and high schoolers. “You’ve got seven different homework assignments that you’ve got to remember each night. Think of the cognitive load…I challenge many adults to do this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
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"With the news that the administration plans to link the COVID vaccine to child deaths using data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), it’s worth revisiting how we actually detect whether a vaccine is causing harm."
Excellent explainer from @drjenndowd.bsky.social from 9/2025😷🛟🧪
Excellent explainer from @drjenndowd.bsky.social from 9/2025😷🛟🧪
When “Stuff Happens” After Vaccination
How scientists separate coincidence from true side effects
jenndowd.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"With the news that the administration plans to link the COVID vaccine to child deaths using data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), it’s worth revisiting how we actually detect whether a vaccine is causing harm."
Excellent explainer from @drjenndowd.bsky.social from 9/2025😷🛟🧪
Excellent explainer from @drjenndowd.bsky.social from 9/2025😷🛟🧪
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some captchas are particularly humiliating
is the fact that I’m searching for “elphaba sex cardigan” not proof enough that I’m not a robot for you, google
do I also have to click on two pictures of a bus
is the fact that I’m searching for “elphaba sex cardigan” not proof enough that I’m not a robot for you, google
do I also have to click on two pictures of a bus
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
some captchas are particularly humiliating
is the fact that I’m searching for “elphaba sex cardigan” not proof enough that I’m not a robot for you, google
do I also have to click on two pictures of a bus
is the fact that I’m searching for “elphaba sex cardigan” not proof enough that I’m not a robot for you, google
do I also have to click on two pictures of a bus
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Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/
November 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/
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I hope if you're shopping today, you stop by a local indie bookstore. Here's my list of my favorite 25 books from this past year, some old, some new, fiction, history, and current events — something for almost anyone on your list (and, of course, yourself!): www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
My favorite books of 2025
25 books that changed the way I look at the world this year
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I hope if you're shopping today, you stop by a local indie bookstore. Here's my list of my favorite 25 books from this past year, some old, some new, fiction, history, and current events — something for almost anyone on your list (and, of course, yourself!): www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
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I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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Trump: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!"
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Trump: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!"
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
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Thanks for reading, Mr. President
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Thanks for reading, Mr. President
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My health insurance premiums will more than double in January. I pay a little less than $500/month for my current silver plan.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My health insurance premiums will more than double in January. I pay a little less than $500/month for my current silver plan.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.
And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.
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More than 80% of people ONLY read the headline of an article. And neurologically, lies are "stickier" than truth, meaning they remain in the memory for much longer. The more something is repeated, the more the brain believes it is true. SO DON'T PUBLISH LIES!!! It's real simple, folks.
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
More than 80% of people ONLY read the headline of an article. And neurologically, lies are "stickier" than truth, meaning they remain in the memory for much longer. The more something is repeated, the more the brain believes it is true. SO DON'T PUBLISH LIES!!! It's real simple, folks.
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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I understand the desire to share Trump’s minions lying or being wrong on TV, but Abby Philip’s show and others on CNN are specifically designed to platform people who lie in the first place. The goal may be to bring on liars to argue with them, but effect is to platform the lies & elevate the liars.
Stephen Miller’s wife Katie Miller: “We are removing every single illegal alien… a majority of those removed have had serious violent crimes.” 🤥
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”
Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”
Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I understand the desire to share Trump’s minions lying or being wrong on TV, but Abby Philip’s show and others on CNN are specifically designed to platform people who lie in the first place. The goal may be to bring on liars to argue with them, but effect is to platform the lies & elevate the liars.
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Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
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Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
www.insidehighered.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
My Thanksgiving table had three immigrants—and the rest of us were only one or two generations removed. My table would be empty.
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
My Thanksgiving table had three immigrants—and the rest of us were only one or two generations removed. My table would be empty.
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My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
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Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
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In the Upside Down (again):
Trump/Hegseth blow up *alleged* drug smugglers in fishing boats, yet pardons *convicted* former Honduran prez Juan Orlando Hernández — who conspired w/drug cartels that sent 400 tons of cocaine to the United States.
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Trump/Hegseth blow up *alleged* drug smugglers in fishing boats, yet pardons *convicted* former Honduran prez Juan Orlando Hernández — who conspired w/drug cartels that sent 400 tons of cocaine to the United States.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
In the Upside Down (again):
Trump/Hegseth blow up *alleged* drug smugglers in fishing boats, yet pardons *convicted* former Honduran prez Juan Orlando Hernández — who conspired w/drug cartels that sent 400 tons of cocaine to the United States.
🧾 share.google/SiT1ENDBkZXr...
MORE after the jump.
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Trump/Hegseth blow up *alleged* drug smugglers in fishing boats, yet pardons *convicted* former Honduran prez Juan Orlando Hernández — who conspired w/drug cartels that sent 400 tons of cocaine to the United States.
🧾 share.google/SiT1ENDBkZXr...
MORE after the jump.
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#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars - a new type of star.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars - a new type of star.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
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WSJ:
"Some will say this means U.S. should never admit such refugees, but the alternative is abandoning allies who assist USA in war to retribution of our enemies..How many will assist us if they believe there will be no exit for them if U.S. leaves"
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
"Some will say this means U.S. should never admit such refugees, but the alternative is abandoning allies who assist USA in war to retribution of our enemies..How many will assist us if they believe there will be no exit for them if U.S. leaves"
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Ambush on the National Guard
The alleged shooting by an Afghan ‘partner’ shouldn’t condemn all who assisted the U.S. and now live here.
www.wsj.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
WSJ:
"Some will say this means U.S. should never admit such refugees, but the alternative is abandoning allies who assist USA in war to retribution of our enemies..How many will assist us if they believe there will be no exit for them if U.S. leaves"
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
"Some will say this means U.S. should never admit such refugees, but the alternative is abandoning allies who assist USA in war to retribution of our enemies..How many will assist us if they believe there will be no exit for them if U.S. leaves"
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history