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Stephen Pimpare

@stephenpimpare.bsky.social

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Poverty and US social welfare policy, hovering awkwardly between the fields of political science and social work. Host, New Books in Public Policy: https://newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/aba1b96c-5ec5-4ab6-940e-08f426f74a37 .. more

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with everything @dhnexon.bsky.social says in this post about where we’re at with the American Republic today and where we must go from here:

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

The State of the Republic is Grim - Lawyers, Guns & Money

If you’re on Bluesky and follow me, you’ve probably seen that I’m writing threads that really should be the basis for posts at LGM. You’ve also likely gotten a bead on where I am these days. Here’s a ...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · 2d

As someone whose professional interests have overlapped heavily with Przeworski's, I felt (and concurred with) this bit: "The brutal fact that we find it so difficult to predict what will happen under our current circumstances is evidence that we do not have theories we can rely on."

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 6d

Not the main point, I realize, but this is a WILDLY disingenuous description of the Free Staters.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 11d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 12d

“His lack of compass in the moment means that he is being played by a system that benefits from his confusion and his willingness to spread that confusion as if it were political analysis.”

Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 12d

““I believe he's in the throes of a real struggle over how to proceed, but as of right now, he is only serving the political movement and business interests that benefit from a morally compromised, morally compromising political left”

Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 12d

This is so good and clarifying
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You don't have to swallow frogs

Podcast Episode · Next Comes What · 10/02/2025 · 25m

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 12d

What's going on in this very last line in the VA?

30% increase to "Electronic Health Record Modernization"?

Anyone have insight?

dense chart showing personnel cuts to various agencies

Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 12d

"The merging of state power and economic power around one man who accepts that power as his due would not be possible without the algorithmic grift that has so all-consumingly captured our attention." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 13d

Preregistering:
1. The shutdown will break the record for longest shutdown (35 days).
2. Attitudes about the shutdown, and who's to blame, will be polarized along partisan lines; there will be no coherent or consistent narrative about its cause.
3. The shutdown will persist until context changes.

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 14d

“AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer.”

Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 14d

“These companies are not profitable. They can't be profitable. They keep the lights on by soaking up hundreds of billions of dollars in other people's money and then lighting it on fire.”

Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 14d

“AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts. . . “

JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 14d

No surprise, this is very good. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 14d

No surprise, this is very good. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 14d

"SNAP Changes Will Upend State Budgets" www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/snap-...

interactive state-by-state map of SNAP cut effects

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Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 15d

Ezra Klein is the perfect embodiment of the white moderate MLK warned us about

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 18d

“designating disrespect and denigration as beyond the pale, as grounds for exclusion from polite company, is “turning the temperature down.” Klein and others are helping to turn it up.”

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 18d

"Campaigns that should be building movements are instead building donor databases. Political energy that could mobilize communities gets redirected into optimizing email subject lines and testing which desperate plea extracts the most dollars from exhausted supporters."
substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Fundraising-Industrial Complex Is Eating American Politics

New data reveals campaigns burn about a third of donations raised just asking for more donations

substack.com

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 19d

A new paper led by Harvard Health Policy PhD student Ye Shen finds that, in the current policy environment, more than six in ten kids will have been enrolled in Medicaid for some period of time by their 18th birthday; the program is absolutley critical for children.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20d

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 20d

The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net amounts to a badly frayed patchwork of systems that still cannot reliably get New Yorkers in psychiatric crisis from subway platforms to hospital beds, a Streetsblog investigation has found.

'Treated and Streeted': How The City's Safety Net Fails Homeless People in the Subway - Streetsblog New York City

The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net cannot reliably get a homeless person in psychiatric crisis out of the subway and into a hospital bed, a Streetsblog investigation has found.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 24d

As the Trump administration is expected to add a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, here's what we know about H1-B visas
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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What we know about the U.S. H-1B visa program

Nearly 400,000 H-1B applications were approved in fiscal year 2024, most of which were applications to renew employment.

www.pewresearch.org

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 25d

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25d

Updated map of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. Health departments who have officially confirmed that they are part of the collaborative include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York City.

Map Regional Public Health Coalitions
Northeast Public Health Collaborative states shaded in blue
West Coast Health Alliance states shaded in yellow
Updated September 18, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 26d

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

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Stephen Pimpare @stephenpimpare.bsky.social · 26d

For your Constitution Day reading: www.commondreams.org/opinion/fail...

The Right Is Risen: It's Time to Admit the US Constitution Has Failed | Common Dreams

An 18th century white slaver’s rulebook has, unsurprisingly, failed to serve the interests of a modern, multi-racial democracy. We can do better.

www.commondreams.org

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