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Karen Benjamin Guzzo
@karenguzzo.bsky.social
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Demographer and Sociologist. Director of the Carolina Population Center. LEGO Karen

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 8h
Heritage has weaponized low birth rates to set the stage for implementing regressive gender roles.

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Brendan Nyhan, Jennifer A. Richeson , and 3 more

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9h
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:

Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com

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Steve Kennedy @skennedy2504.myatproto.social · 11h
Incredible, comprehensive piece on the far right's vision of gender, where I would humbly add an example of how it is being operationalized: newrepublic.com/article/2045...
The Right-Wing Campaign to Bring Back Gender Segregation in Schools
The people who brought you “Project 2025” sure seem to be ramping up an attack on equality in higher ed.
newrepublic.com

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Robert C. Richards , and 1 more

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 13h
Our new paper projects the costs of sea level rise from increased U.S. mortality risk among the elderly w/ and w/out adaptation: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Projections of future mortality risk in older adults from high-tide flooding in coastal areas of the USA: an economic modelling study
The cost of premature mortality in older adults is greater in magnitude than other modelled effects of climate-induced high-tide flooding (eg, value of lost time due to traffic delays). Results sugges...
www.thelancet.com

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Laura Lindberg @lauralindberg.bsky.social · 14h
ja.ma/48YiryQ Glad to see our new research in @jamanetworkopen.com on adolescents’ receipt of person centered contraceptive counseling and its positive association with preferred contraceptive use
Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Receipt of Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling
This survey study assesses the quality of contraceptive counseling received by adolescents and its association with use of a preferred method of contraception using data from the 2022 to 2023 National...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h
I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...
Trump administration investigates Brown's security after shooting
The Department of Education said its Office of Federal Student Aid would investigate if Brown University violated the Higher Education Act in connection with the deadly shooting on Dec. 13.
www.nbcboston.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
A conditional acceptance at a top journal for a paper that took years to finish is an excellent Christmas present.
a woman in a blue shirt is making a gesture with her hands and says `` go me ! ''
ALT: a woman in a blue shirt is making a gesture with her hands and says `` go me ! ''
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
So much competition for what will be my villain origin story

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
Nearly $50k on balloons during this year’s football season at UNC.

I know there are different pots of $ on a campus, but this is hard to take when academic units are being asked to make various cuts in the name of austerity.
You won't believe what teams spend on balloons
This isn't hyperbole. It's, like, so freaking much.
www.foiaball.com

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d
A smarter model for paying for college: income-based repayment. You start paying your student loans only once you earn enough to comfortably get by. That turns higher ed debt into something more like a tax surcharge on success, not a choke collar on people who are struggling.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
A step in the right direction.
States invest in child care more than ever to help parents with rising costs
About half of states passed some legislation related to child care this year, a sign of growing political momentum.
wapo.st

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 2d
My family gets me.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 2d
Merry Christmas from LEGO Karen and her family!

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 3d
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
*the cookies that I made, using ingredients I bought when I did the grocery shopping, and for which I also did post-baking cleanup

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
On Christmas Eve, LEGO Karen’s family gathers around to hear “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 3d
When people make such a big deal calling out the dehumanizing language that is used towards immigrants, this is why: that language lets people do terrible things to other humans. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4d
Evidence, facts, research, data…these things are irrelevant when racism is what fuels your very being.
Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem
www.nytimes.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4d
See also:

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4d
Mmmhmm

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 4d
People are angry, and that anger is real. But MAHA redirects it away from the structural forces that create this crisis towards conspiracy and scapegoating.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 4d
In 2026, Fortune 500 companies will have 54 women CEOs, one less than in June. Since it is no longer extraordinary for women to be in positions of leadership, companies are deprioritizing training programs and workplace supports to keep women in the pipeline.
fortune.com/2025/12/23/w...
Women’s progress to the top is stalling | Fortune
A perfect storm of politics, economic uncertainty, and shifting career norms is putting women’s hard-won leadership gains at risk.
fortune.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4d
"Good blue collar jobs" were only good because there were unions.

It wasn't the jobs. It was the UNIONS - and safe(r) working conditions, job security & clear trajectories for advancement, pensions, health care, and decent pay.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Peter Navarro: "In an age of AI when all the white collar jobs are going away pretty damn quick, I think maybe it's a good time for people to think about having good blue collar jobs ... give tariffs a chance, because they're working"

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4d
A legend indeed
TS: Well, I anticipated a lot of what would happen if Trump were reelected, but I did not anticipate the quick acquiescence of almost every American elite sector. The universities are part of a larger story. In many ways, it started with law firms - or you could say it started with the fact that we no longer have corporations so much as we have megalomaniacal multibillionaire tech bros who operate as individuals - sycophants trying to buy their way in. Musk is the most obvious, but they're all that way right now. They're inescapable because they control huge sectors of internet-enabled stuff that everybody needs. In some ways, Musk is the most vulnerable because of Tesla.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d
Women in 2025:

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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 4d
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 4d
I finally got some time to flesh out my rant about these headlines...
TL;DR: age differences ≠ aging
jenndowd.substack.com/p/does-adole... #demography #episky #medsky #neurosky
Does adolescence really last until age 32?
Those “turning points” in brain aging aren’t quite what you think
jenndowd.substack.com

Reposted by Caroline Krafft, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Alan Richardson

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 4d
Study of over twenty five million people over almost four years finds that COVID vaccines reduced COVID deaths by 74% and increased all-cause deaths by zero. I don’t know how much clearer it can get than that.

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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4d
Visits from out of town family is the best part of the holidays! Or maybe not… #legokaren