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Mary Feeney
@mkfeeney.bsky.social
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Professor, traveller, cyclist, skater, science policy junkie. Reluctant Phoenician. Interested in all things public sector

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 2h
the only down side to this beef is learning Oates still has an active account on X.

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 13h
It's not just the govn't shutdown & SNAP delays. The GOP is cutting food benefits, education programs, farm subsidies, FAA services, wind & solar production, etc - while food, travel, healthcare, energy, & tariff costs increase.

Dems caving now addresses NONE of this!

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve also heard from a few US colleagues who withdrew bc of flight uncertainty!

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 1d
Funding SNAP would be cheaper…
shoe.bsky.social Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 1d
Amazing

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d
The ICE raids in Chicago harm students’ ability to learn and the faculty’s ability to teach at Hispanic-serving institutions like the University of Illinois - Chicago.

Aaron Krall, President of University of Illinois Chicago Faculty United, discusses this & more in our recent AAUP TV episode.

Reposted by Mary Feeney, Robert Black

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Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 1d
Amazing

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 2d
Requiring Target employees to become overly intrusive Trader Joe's employees will not solve the problem of Target being anti-DEI and LGBTQ+ unfriendly.
vacheestfachee.bsky.social La vache est fachée @vacheestfachee.bsky.social · 3d
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.

They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.

If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."

🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 3d
Reminder: SNAP benefits are around $150 a month and have substantial restrictions on how they can be used. No one is getting rich by scamming the state for SNAP benefits. It’s not worth the effort!

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Anna O. Law, Mary Feeney , and 4 more

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La vache est fachée @vacheestfachee.bsky.social · 3d
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.

They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.

If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."

🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 3d
I could see using LLM to summarize slam dunk cases, but so much of P&T letter writing is explaining the nuance of someone's work, articulating why a low citation rate isn't always a signal of poor work, or the value we get from interdisciplinary approaches or novel teaching

Reposted by Daniela Gabor, Richard S.J. Tol, Joe R. Feagin , and 16 more

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 4d
At least I’ll be stuck in cities with better food, transit, and culture than where I currently reside!

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 4d
Two months ago, I stupidly decided to book a return home for a day in between trips to Chicago and Seattle and add a 36hr stop in San Diego - all happening next week. Good times ahead!
a woman wearing a hat and a tank top has the word ragr on her chest
ALT: a woman wearing a hat and a tank top has the word ragr on her chest
media.tenor.com

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 4d
Walmart & Amazon workers across the US depend on SNAP b/c billionaires choose to employ people at minimum wage & provide no health insurance. Most people that use SNAP are children, elderly, & working adults!

No one is "living off benefits" they are barely surviving w/ these benefits.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump on food stamp recipients: "It wasn't meant for people that could do whatever they want. The people that say, 'Well, I don't think I'll work. I'll just collect this money.'"

Reposted by Mary Feeney, David Darmofal

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump on food stamp recipients: "It wasn't meant for people that could do whatever they want. The people that say, 'Well, I don't think I'll work. I'll just collect this money.'"

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 4d
lowering the price of obesity drugs, while raising the price of food and health insurance.
White House strikes deals for lower prices on obesity drugs
Medicare beneficiaries will soon be able to get obesity and Type 2 diabetes drugs for a $50 copay. But there are some limitations.
www.npr.org

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Rebecca Solnit, Brendan Nyhan , and 20 more

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 4d
The sun also shines in the US, but we've decided to double down on coal and natural gas while actively blocking investments in solar, wind, and other renewables.
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co

Reposted by John F. McCarthy, Joe R. Feagin, Will Jennings , and 17 more

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 5d
I am not one to judge lady politicians on their hairstyles, but if there is one thing NOT notable about the former mayor of Chicago, it would be her hair. Or rather, the notable point would be how not beautifully done and not luxurious her hair was
a set of images from a google search noting Lightfoot's plain, short, natural hair

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 7d
Further evidence that the our failure to prosecute him the first time around explains where we are today. Brazil and South Korea both offer examples of how proper checks and balances are meant to work.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Mary Feeney, Gernot Wagner , and 3 more

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 7d
Holy smokes

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.msnbc.com

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 8d
What about the Venezuelan Christians in boats that he’s ordered killed, the Christians he sent to Ecuadorian prisons, or the many Christians ICE is terrorizing?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Trump says US troops could be on the ground in Nigeria and says, "they're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria, and they have other countries also. You know that. That part of the world. Very bad. They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. Not gonna allow that"

Reposted by Mary Feeney, Jason Lyall

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Trump says US troops could be on the ground in Nigeria and says, "they're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria, and they have other countries also. You know that. That part of the world. Very bad. They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. Not gonna allow that"

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 8d
Hakeem Jeffries, out here making a strong case that AI should definitely take some jobs!
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 8d
Hakeem Jeffries says Zohran Mamdani is not the future of the Democratic Party.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Mary Feeney, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 1 more

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 8d
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

Reposted by Mary Feeney, David Rothschild, David Rosnick

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 8d
Hakeem Jeffries says Zohran Mamdani is not the future of the Democratic Party.

Reposted by Mary Feeney, Henry Jones

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9d
A data-sharing agreement that gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy, security or privacy, experts say.

By @jenafifield.bsky.social
DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans' Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and privacy, experts say.
www.propublica.org

Reposted by David Brady, Mary Feeney, David Darmofal

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 9d
Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....