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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 · 4h
Apparently, most bullets have a non-lead casing now.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4h
My husband says the speed at which bullets are fired - at least in contemporary guns - makes them sterile. I have no idea about 1815, but how much faster can guns be?

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4h
My husband (an ER doc) & I are watching the 2018 comedy Game Night, & there’s a scene where someone needs to remove a bullet, & my husband tells me you don’t actually need to remove a bullet bc they are sterile. And so there are people out there just walking around with bullets in them.
a man in a dark room with the words this will be a game night to remember
ALT: a man in a dark room with the words this will be a game night to remember
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 6h
LEGO Karen has decided Monday would be more fun strolling the Italian coast, enjoying some gelato, than going to meetings.

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, David R. Miller

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 7h
I wrote here about Trump’s limited understanding of health insurance and how relying on direct payments to people for payment toward health care costs is a terrible idea. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Reposted by Clark Gray

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 13h
The Economist claims that Musk's $10M donation to UT-Austin's Population Wellbeing Initiative is specifically to "provide academic ballast to pro-natalist ideas."

Fomenting population panic to provide cover for sexist, racist, ableist, nativist social engineering. www.economist.com/1843/2025/11...
Musk—who moved his family and many of his companies to Texas in a pointed rebuke of California’s left-leaning politics—has donated $10m to the Population Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Texas, Austin. The project aims to conduct “foundational research” on topics such as “fertility, parenting and the future of population and economic growth”, in order to provide academic ballast to pro-natalist ideas.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 13h
New @pewresearch.org on how the Census has measured race over time. The social construction of race made apparent.
Counting Race: How the Census Measures Identity and What Americans Think About It
How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.
pewrsr.ch

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
25-125 DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL. The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 19h
Appointing an unqualified partisan hack to one of the world’s leading intelligence agencies has made not only the US less safe but the entire world. Cool, cool, cool.
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
www.nytimes.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
Parties, golf, football games.

He has never been “of the people, by the people, for the people,” but this is exceptionally tone deaf given what’s going on now.
Donald Trump becomes first president to attend regular-season NFL game since 1978
In the third quarter, Trump appeared on the Fox broadcast, answering questions about his time as a football player at New York Military Academy, opining on quarterbacks and more.
www.nbcnews.com

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d
As recently as the late 1980s, tuition at @uwmadison.bsky.social was <$1000/semester. In current dollars, that's about $2500/semester. There is one central reason for that: the . This was a choice. Other choices remain readily available.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
LEGO Karen’s walk took her past the latest addition to her neighborhood…this can’t be good!

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 1d
‘The presence of two words — “equity” and “inclusion” — on page 50 of a 5-year-old grant application just killed a program at UC Berkeley that for half a century helped thousands of East Bay teens recognize that they could go to college and even pay for it.’
Two words in UC Berkeley grant application have led to defunding of 50-year-old program
The Trump administration canceled UC Berkeley’s Educational Talent Search — a 50-year-old program that helped thousands of East Bay teens get to college — over two words in its grant...
www.sfchronicle.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
I am on a prof org board now. Planning future sites means weighing “will foreign scholars come if it’s in the US?” vs “will
US-based foreign scholars feel safe leaving the country if it’s not in the US?” No easy solution.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
Similar story here at UNC. Combined with no COL increase bc no state budget, so it’s a de facto pay cut for everyone employed within the UNC system.

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
The Trump admin fucking up state administrative capacity to provide SNAP benefits is not just a feature of the shutdown. This is their long-term plan to reduce SNAP.

Soon, GOP will start talking block grants due to administrative complexity they created.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...
The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill
How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps
donmoynihan.substack.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
I have only had very high-tier places ask for either specific comparisons (supplying names) or asking me to provide comparisons (maybe to people at my own institution or to recently tenured people I am aware of).

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Steve Peers, Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Lee Zeldin announces on Fox that there will be "severe" layoffs at the EPA if the shutdown continues

Reposted by Philip Nel, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, David Darmofal

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d
Yikes. USDA sent threatening letter to states telling them that if they sent out EBT money —which many states did during the window when a lower court said SNAP funds had to be released—they have to take it back (?)
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 2d
I do!

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 2d
It would be awesome if instructions for T&P from certain universities didn't specifically ask external letter writers to make such comparisons.
drdrtsai.bsky.social Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 2d
"While serving on my university’s tenure and promotions committee, I’ve lost count of the times I have read 'Professor X is so much better than Professors Y and Z' and thought to myself, 'I don’t know what I am supposed to do with this information.'" physicstoday.aip.org/opinion/comm...
Commentary: On the (ab)use of comparisons in recommendation letters
Comparing candidates for tenure and promotion with other researchers is lazy and fraught with bias.
physicstoday.aip.org

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 2d
"While serving on my university’s tenure and promotions committee, I’ve lost count of the times I have read 'Professor X is so much better than Professors Y and Z' and thought to myself, 'I don’t know what I am supposed to do with this information.'" physicstoday.aip.org/opinion/comm...
Commentary: On the (ab)use of comparisons in recommendation letters
Comparing candidates for tenure and promotion with other researchers is lazy and fraught with bias.
physicstoday.aip.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
gordondarroch.bsky.social Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 2d
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
nrc.nl NRC @nrc.nl · 3d
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Steve Peers, Anders Nilsson , and 12 more

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Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 2d
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d
Trump and his cronies are now pushing 50-year mortgages.

Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.

Reposted by Juan Cole, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Peter Bergman

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NBER @nber.org · 2d
Low-income households denied SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer downstream consequences. Process-related denials increase debt, delinquencies, and decrease credit scores, from Tatiana Homonoff, Min S. Lee, and Katherine Meckel www.nber.org/papers/w34434

Reposted by Benjamin Mason Meier

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 2d
Gutting the corporate alternative minimum tax, designed to make sure wildly profitable corporations pay *something*, while cutting food, health, and heating assistance.
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d
Failed country.
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 3d
“Despite contributing to Medicare throughout their working lives, Black individuals in the US are less likely to live long enough to reach the qualifying age for coverage.”

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Racial Disparities in Premature Mortality and Unrealized Medicare Benefits
This cohort study examines racial disparities in premature mortality in the US and discusses the implications of these trends for unrealized Medicare benefits among populations with lower life expecta...
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