Tiffany Green
@tiffanylgreen.bsky.social
Food lover, bibliophile, fitness aficionado, economist/pop health scientist, associate professor at uw-madison (opinions are my own), salsera, mama, wife. Not in order of importance.
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How academic leaders can model bravery even when courage is in short supply: three underrated strategies
Read Time: 5 minutes Harsh reality: If you’re an academic, you’ve spent the last seven months with a case of daily whiplash. Our universities are under attack, our entire scientific infrastructure is ...
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A friend asked if she could share this newsletter that I wrote and of course I said yes. Seems appropriate to the present moment.
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Most (but not all) Black economists come to economics with a worldview that is outside of the mainstream of the profession. This typically includes insights from sociology since inequality, identity, and networks are areas with a longer history there. For an introduction to this, see the 🧵 below 👇
I don't know a single Black economist who doesn't cite widely and source inspiration from history, sociology, gender studies, Black studies, psychology, or a combination of all them.
Stop saying all [fill in field experts] are the same when a search on #bluesky would disprove that in two seconds.
Stop saying all [fill in field experts] are the same when a search on #bluesky would disprove that in two seconds.
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Most (but not all) Black economists come to economics with a worldview that is outside of the mainstream of the profession. This typically includes insights from sociology since inequality, identity, and networks are areas with a longer history there. For an introduction to this, see the 🧵 below 👇
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Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky.
“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman
“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman
The Hunger Games Begin
40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps
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October 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky.
“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman
“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman
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An important part of racial segregation in public accommodations (that economists and economic historians regularly miss) is that it was NOT about racial animus. It’s about dehumanization and debasement. It’s using the public sphere to tell people that they are is not fit to walk the Earth.
The Green Book Project is a fantastic resource for anyone trying to understand the full weight of the Jim Crow era, and how segregation —not of homes and where Black families could live— but the segregation of everything.
#EconSky #GreenBookProject
#EconSky #GreenBookProject
October 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
An important part of racial segregation in public accommodations (that economists and economic historians regularly miss) is that it was NOT about racial animus. It’s about dehumanization and debasement. It’s using the public sphere to tell people that they are is not fit to walk the Earth.
Mother Teresa was a terrible human who was fine with Indian folks suffering in poverty while she got the finest of healthcare and took charitable donations from the Duvaliers.
katie porter makes amy klobuchar look like mother theresa
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Mother Teresa was a terrible human who was fine with Indian folks suffering in poverty while she got the finest of healthcare and took charitable donations from the Duvaliers.
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My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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The Green Book Project website archives the Green Book locations, documenting the history of Black travel during Jim Crow. Do you have memories of Green Book locations? We’d love to hear your story! greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky
#CommunityMap #EconSky
September 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Green Book Project website archives the Green Book locations, documenting the history of Black travel during Jim Crow. Do you have memories of Green Book locations? We’d love to hear your story! greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky
#CommunityMap #EconSky
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The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
September 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
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yeah this guy is dumber than donkey shit
so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh
September 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
yeah this guy is dumber than donkey shit
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I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..
THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM.
(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).
(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).
September 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..
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Four years of smug white Canadians telling me about how much better they were than the US while I heard anti-Black racial slurs on the street that even Americans don’t use anymore
It was a lot and the patience they ran through will never return
It was a lot and the patience they ran through will never return
September 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Four years of smug white Canadians telling me about how much better they were than the US while I heard anti-Black racial slurs on the street that even Americans don’t use anymore
It was a lot and the patience they ran through will never return
It was a lot and the patience they ran through will never return
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lol "let's be nice to people who are trying to kill us" actually no ❤️
September 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
lol "let's be nice to people who are trying to kill us" actually no ❤️
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A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere
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Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the United States would "respond accordingly to this witch hunt" after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.
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September 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere
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Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.
September 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.
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Where are the thoughts and prayers for our HBCU students who are *currently* being terrorized by threats?
September 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Where are the thoughts and prayers for our HBCU students who are *currently* being terrorized by threats?
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I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
September 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
A friend asked if she could share this newsletter that I wrote and of course I said yes. Seems appropriate to the present moment.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ac...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ac...
How academic leaders can model bravery even when courage is in short supply: three underrated strategies
Read Time: 5 minutes Harsh reality: If you’re an academic, you’ve spent the last seven months with a case of daily whiplash. Our universities are under attack, our entire scientific infrastructure is ...
www.linkedin.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A friend asked if she could share this newsletter that I wrote and of course I said yes. Seems appropriate to the present moment.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ac...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ac...
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to this point, i can definitely trace my ancestry in this country to at least the very early 19th century.
"the typical black American has much deeper American roots than the typical white American. Trump himself, whose grandparents were all foreign-born, is an excellent example of relatively shallow white American roots." www.niskanencenter.org/logic-populi...
if they were making a claim about historical origins the logic would push towards the inclusion of blacks, natives and other peoples on the north american continent. but schmitt is fundamentally making a racial claim.
September 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
to this point, i can definitely trace my ancestry in this country to at least the very early 19th century.
I'm old enough to remember when VP called school closures the biggest structural racism of the year. The way people use Black folks (including our babies) to ramp up their profiles and careers is always a tell. (Also: Black people told y'all.)
Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time “could blunt their efficacy.” The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.
FDA quietly positions itself to disrupt childhood vaccine schedule
While CDC turmoil grabbed the media spotlight, a quieter but potentially more consequential drama unfolded last week at FDA. The agency has positioned itse...
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September 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I'm old enough to remember when VP called school closures the biggest structural racism of the year. The way people use Black folks (including our babies) to ramp up their profiles and careers is always a tell. (Also: Black people told y'all.)
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I think not trying every single confederate for treason was a huge mistake. Grant’s decision to parole all of the insurgents at Appomattox—setting the stage of minimizing insurgency, insurrection, and treason—has done us no favors.
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said.
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Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library
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August 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I think not trying every single confederate for treason was a huge mistake. Grant’s decision to parole all of the insurgents at Appomattox—setting the stage of minimizing insurgency, insurrection, and treason—has done us no favors.
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someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say
"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.
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August 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
M*n hitting a physicist and cosmologist with YouTube cites will never *not* send me to the upper room. Please be serious.
I’m also a member of a community that was one of the earliest adopters of machine learning so it’s weird having people explain this stuff to me like I don’t understand it
August 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
M*n hitting a physicist and cosmologist with YouTube cites will never *not* send me to the upper room. Please be serious.
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There's an abuse of power directed at institutions. But there's also individual abuse. She was subject to abuse during her confirmation process, and now is facing it again. I'm seeing a lot of folks defending the fed, but not many defending Cook. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | What’s next if Trump can fire Fed leaders: Higher costs
Dismissing Lisa Cook is the president’s latest effort to bend the central bank to his will.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
There's an abuse of power directed at institutions. But there's also individual abuse. She was subject to abuse during her confirmation process, and now is facing it again. I'm seeing a lot of folks defending the fed, but not many defending Cook. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Dear journalists:
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Dear journalists:
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
This is obscene. Fellow economists: y'all have so much to say about everything else. Don't be silent now.
The first “removal” (if this stands) of a Federal Reserve Board Governor in the institution’s 112 year history. Totally unprecedented. No due process. A totally authoritarian move.
August 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is obscene. Fellow economists: y'all have so much to say about everything else. Don't be silent now.