Parke Wilde
@parkewilde.bsky.social
Food policy research and demand-side climate innovation.
https://nutrition.tufts.edu/profile/faculty/parke-wilde
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After election results strengthened the hand of Democrats, pundits say Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has "snatched defeat from the jaws of victory."
Schumer tries to persuade the public that he was not behind the capitulation.
Here is what insiders say.
newrepublic.com/post/202942/...
Schumer tries to persuade the public that he was not behind the capitulation.
Here is what insiders say.
newrepublic.com/post/202942/...
Democrat Who Caved on Shutdown Says Chuck Schumer Knew All Along
Senator Jeanne Shaheen just threw the minority leader under the bus.
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
After election results strengthened the hand of Democrats, pundits say Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has "snatched defeat from the jaws of victory."
Schumer tries to persuade the public that he was not behind the capitulation.
Here is what insiders say.
newrepublic.com/post/202942/...
Schumer tries to persuade the public that he was not behind the capitulation.
Here is what insiders say.
newrepublic.com/post/202942/...
"Material excess can never be too excessive for the central character of this gilded Broadway musical."
It was fun to see this on its pre-Broadway tryout in Boston in summer 2024.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/t...
It was fun to see this on its pre-Broadway tryout in Boston in summer 2024.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/t...
In ‘The Queen of Versailles,’ Kristin Chenoweth Can’t Get Enough
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"Material excess can never be too excessive for the central character of this gilded Broadway musical."
It was fun to see this on its pre-Broadway tryout in Boston in summer 2024.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/t...
It was fun to see this on its pre-Broadway tryout in Boston in summer 2024.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/t...
The compostable cup on a private jet taken by a friend of a friend of a friend recently.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The compostable cup on a private jet taken by a friend of a friend of a friend recently.
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Take it from an airport employee, things are not going well for our frontline staff, even the paid employees. Trains might be a better bet.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Take it from an airport employee, things are not going well for our frontline staff, even the paid employees. Trains might be a better bet.
Thinking locally and globally. The @thebedfordcitizen.bsky.social summarizes the misleading use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) as an excuse for expanding private jet infrastructure, drawing on research from @chuck77.bsky.social at @ips-dc.org .
thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/10/grou...
thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/10/grou...
Groups Fight Sustainable Aviation Fuels, Hanscom Field Hangar Expansion - The Bedford Citizen
Rally took place at the State House in Boston.
thebedfordcitizen.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thinking locally and globally. The @thebedfordcitizen.bsky.social summarizes the misleading use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) as an excuse for expanding private jet infrastructure, drawing on research from @chuck77.bsky.social at @ips-dc.org .
thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/10/grou...
thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/10/grou...
Fascinating explanation from Steve Vladeck about why Justice Jackson issued a temporary administrative stay last night that allowed the Trump administration to delay SNAP benefits in November. It's not cruelty. Her stay pressures a lower court to resolve the case quickly.
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Fascinating explanation from Steve Vladeck about why Justice Jackson issued a temporary administrative stay last night that allowed the Trump administration to delay SNAP benefits in November. It's not cruelty. Her stay pressures a lower court to resolve the case quickly.
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
The climate action path for aviation involves humane planned reduction in demand over time.
The climate denial path involves chaotic booms and busts.
No feasible path for aviation involves oblivious continuation of current jet setting culture in the long run.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
The climate denial path involves chaotic booms and busts.
No feasible path for aviation involves oblivious continuation of current jet setting culture in the long run.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
Trump Officials to Cut Air Traffic at 40 Major Airports if Shutdown Continues
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The climate action path for aviation involves humane planned reduction in demand over time.
The climate denial path involves chaotic booms and busts.
No feasible path for aviation involves oblivious continuation of current jet setting culture in the long run.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
The climate denial path involves chaotic booms and busts.
No feasible path for aviation involves oblivious continuation of current jet setting culture in the long run.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...
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Cutting poor people’s food assistance turns out to be bad politics. Who knew?
One caller on NJ 101.5 FM said he was a 25 year R voter, stood in the booth intending to vote for Citarelli, and couldn't. Because SNAP loss affected him. The shutdown got him screwed up, and he said he couldn't do it. Voted Sherrill.
I think this repeated in a lot of booths.
I think this repeated in a lot of booths.
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Cutting poor people’s food assistance turns out to be bad politics. Who knew?
Oh no! So wrong. Such a loss for journalism that reaches young people with courage and purpose and public-minded ambition.
I was so grateful for Teen Vogue's interest in a climate issue I worked on this year. See next post.
I was so grateful for Teen Vogue's interest in a climate issue I worked on this year. See next post.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Oh no! So wrong. Such a loss for journalism that reaches young people with courage and purpose and public-minded ambition.
I was so grateful for Teen Vogue's interest in a climate issue I worked on this year. See next post.
I was so grateful for Teen Vogue's interest in a climate issue I worked on this year. See next post.
Right. And your "can" and "should" are upbeat claims.
We could add, and "must." For me, the barrier to pandering is that public opinion sometimes is factually untrue. So honesty sometimes requires us to say things that neither pollsters nor Ezra Klein would advise us to say.
We could add, and "must." For me, the barrier to pandering is that public opinion sometimes is factually untrue. So honesty sometimes requires us to say things that neither pollsters nor Ezra Klein would advise us to say.
I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.
This never stops being true, but I’m not sure Ds have ever, at least in my lifetime, learned to apply it for good. *Creating* public opinion either never occurs to them, or if it does, offends their sensibilities? It’s exasperating
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Right. And your "can" and "should" are upbeat claims.
We could add, and "must." For me, the barrier to pandering is that public opinion sometimes is factually untrue. So honesty sometimes requires us to say things that neither pollsters nor Ezra Klein would advise us to say.
We could add, and "must." For me, the barrier to pandering is that public opinion sometimes is factually untrue. So honesty sometimes requires us to say things that neither pollsters nor Ezra Klein would advise us to say.
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I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
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World's largest commercial sailing ship, the 136-metre Neoliner Origin, successfully completes first Atlantic, voyage crossing, from St Nazaire 🇫🇷 to Baltimore 🇺🇸
World's largest cargo sailboat makes first transatlantic crossing | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
World's largest commercial sailing ship, the 136-metre Neoliner Origin, successfully completes first Atlantic, voyage crossing, from St Nazaire 🇫🇷 to Baltimore 🇺🇸
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‼️ On SNAP, very significant here:
A federal judge rules that the Trump admin is "required" to spend the $5.5 billion in contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
But there will still be a gap in benefits; she gave the admin until Nov. 3 to share if/how they will issue payments.
A federal judge rules that the Trump admin is "required" to spend the $5.5 billion in contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
But there will still be a gap in benefits; she gave the admin until Nov. 3 to share if/how they will issue payments.
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
‼️ On SNAP, very significant here:
A federal judge rules that the Trump admin is "required" to spend the $5.5 billion in contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
But there will still be a gap in benefits; she gave the admin until Nov. 3 to share if/how they will issue payments.
A federal judge rules that the Trump admin is "required" to spend the $5.5 billion in contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
But there will still be a gap in benefits; she gave the admin until Nov. 3 to share if/how they will issue payments.
My colleague @willmasters.bsky.social and I had a nice conversation with Norbert Wilson at @dukewfpc.bsky.social about least cost diets in the United States and internationally, with implications for understanding SNAP in the US and world hunger. wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/podcasts/how...
E286: How 'least cost diet' models fuel food security policy - World Food Policy Center
Governments use something called a ‘least cost diet’ to monitor food access, inform policy discussions, and target interventions to improve food security and nutrition. So, what is the least cost diet...
wfpc.sanford.duke.edu
October 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My colleague @willmasters.bsky.social and I had a nice conversation with Norbert Wilson at @dukewfpc.bsky.social about least cost diets in the United States and internationally, with implications for understanding SNAP in the US and world hunger. wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/podcasts/how...
Annalies Winny at Global Health Now (a publication of @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social) today covers the end of the federal government's food security survey, just at a time when SNAP benefits are being cut and more Americans will be going hungry. globalhealthnow.org/2025-10/us-c...
The U.S. Is Choosing to Fly Blind on Hunger
Discontinuing American hunger reports dismantles a key measure of how American households are faring.
globalhealthnow.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Annalies Winny at Global Health Now (a publication of @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social) today covers the end of the federal government's food security survey, just at a time when SNAP benefits are being cut and more Americans will be going hungry. globalhealthnow.org/2025-10/us-c...
I'm an economist. I LIKE banks in general. Yet, friends with @xrboston.bsky.social and I had to visit JPMorgan Chase in Downtown Boston yesterday to ask why it leads the world in financing fossil fuels and the war machine in Israel and Gaza. Climate destruction is wrong.
xrboston.org/news/xr-bost...
xrboston.org/news/xr-bost...
XR Boston Risks Arrest at Chase Bank in Downtown Boston!
Activists demand that "Monster Banks" including Chase and Bank of America immediately divest from fossil fuels and genocide.
xrboston.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I'm an economist. I LIKE banks in general. Yet, friends with @xrboston.bsky.social and I had to visit JPMorgan Chase in Downtown Boston yesterday to ask why it leads the world in financing fossil fuels and the war machine in Israel and Gaza. Climate destruction is wrong.
xrboston.org/news/xr-bost...
xrboston.org/news/xr-bost...
My colleagues at Tufts @fletcherschool.bsky.social, who are spectacularly insightful, influential, and helpful on global climate diplomacy, lead an in-person delegation this year and every year.
From experience, they have the facts in front of them ... (1/2)
fletcher.tufts.edu/news-events/...
From experience, they have the facts in front of them ... (1/2)
fletcher.tufts.edu/news-events/...
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My colleagues at Tufts @fletcherschool.bsky.social, who are spectacularly insightful, influential, and helpful on global climate diplomacy, lead an in-person delegation this year and every year.
From experience, they have the facts in front of them ... (1/2)
fletcher.tufts.edu/news-events/...
From experience, they have the facts in front of them ... (1/2)
fletcher.tufts.edu/news-events/...
Prayers for courage and safety for the people of Jamaica this week!
1/2 Something that I feared would happen is happening. I am seeing social media posts that nothing is happening that Jamaica hasn't experienced before. The storm HASN'T HIT yet. I was worried this perception would happen...Melissa has 175 mph winds and gusts above 200 mph at higher elevations.
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Prayers for courage and safety for the people of Jamaica this week!
Fascinating historical review of measuring the cost of healthy food, food affordability, and food security, by colleagues at @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social and elsewhere: @willmasters.bsky.social, Wallingford, Gilbert, Martinez, Bai, Sokourenko, and Herforth. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Are Healthy Foods Affordable? The Past, Present, and Future of Measuring Food Access Using Least-Cost Diets
This review describes the history, current practice, and prospects for measuring a population's access to foods for health using the lowest-cost locally available items, in contrast to quantities...
www.annualreviews.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Fascinating historical review of measuring the cost of healthy food, food affordability, and food security, by colleagues at @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social and elsewhere: @willmasters.bsky.social, Wallingford, Gilbert, Martinez, Bai, Sokourenko, and Herforth. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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The USDA canceled the Household Food Security Report, which provided yearly data on the state of food insecurity and provided policymakers and others with evidence to help shape policy recommendations to combat hunger.
Harvard Chan's Sara Bleich discusses the impact its cancellation could have.
Harvard Chan's Sara Bleich discusses the impact its cancellation could have.
Cancellation of food insecurity survey a blow to understanding hunger in U.S. | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Sara Bleich, professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses the importance of the Household Food Security Report and what impact its cancellation could have.
hsph.harvard.edu
October 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The USDA canceled the Household Food Security Report, which provided yearly data on the state of food insecurity and provided policymakers and others with evidence to help shape policy recommendations to combat hunger.
Harvard Chan's Sara Bleich discusses the impact its cancellation could have.
Harvard Chan's Sara Bleich discusses the impact its cancellation could have.
Not snark, just curiosity about AI.
I asked Microsoft CoPilot to provide a supply and demand chart with a sugar sweetened beverage tax.
The text response has supply shift and a new equilibrium with a lower quantity.
The image has demand shift and a new equilibrium with a higher quantity.
I asked Microsoft CoPilot to provide a supply and demand chart with a sugar sweetened beverage tax.
The text response has supply shift and a new equilibrium with a lower quantity.
The image has demand shift and a new equilibrium with a higher quantity.
October 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Not snark, just curiosity about AI.
I asked Microsoft CoPilot to provide a supply and demand chart with a sugar sweetened beverage tax.
The text response has supply shift and a new equilibrium with a lower quantity.
The image has demand shift and a new equilibrium with a higher quantity.
I asked Microsoft CoPilot to provide a supply and demand chart with a sugar sweetened beverage tax.
The text response has supply shift and a new equilibrium with a lower quantity.
The image has demand shift and a new equilibrium with a higher quantity.
If you use my textbook, I hope you like my effort to make sense of economic and policy fundamentals underlying current events.
And, when I fail in this, I hope you and your students at least are amused by my futile effort to make sense as the world grows weirder.
www.routledge.com/Food-Policy-...
And, when I fail in this, I hope you and your students at least are amused by my futile effort to make sense as the world grows weirder.
www.routledge.com/Food-Policy-...
Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction
This third edition of Food Policy in the United States offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of food policy in the United States.
This book begins with the economic i...
www.routledge.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If you use my textbook, I hope you like my effort to make sense of economic and policy fundamentals underlying current events.
And, when I fail in this, I hope you and your students at least are amused by my futile effort to make sense as the world grows weirder.
www.routledge.com/Food-Policy-...
And, when I fail in this, I hope you and your students at least are amused by my futile effort to make sense as the world grows weirder.
www.routledge.com/Food-Policy-...
Norbert Wilson and colleagues at the Duke World Food Policy Center will be discussing the end of U.S. food security measurement on the Current Population Survey (CPS), with several colleagues and me, in a webinar Nov 20 11am eastern. wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/webinar-what...
Webinar: What We Lose as USDA Household Food Security Reporting Ends - World Food Policy Center
November 20, 2025 | 11:00 AM-Noon EST This free webinar will explore the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) annual survey of household food security, and…
wfpc.sanford.duke.edu
October 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Norbert Wilson and colleagues at the Duke World Food Policy Center will be discussing the end of U.S. food security measurement on the Current Population Survey (CPS), with several colleagues and me, in a webinar Nov 20 11am eastern. wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/webinar-what...
Jasmine Laws at @newsweek.com reports that SNAP benefits in some states will not be disbursed in September due to the government shutdown. Economists Jim Ziliak (University of Kentucky) and Colleen Heflin (Syracuse University) explain some of the consequences. www.newsweek.com/snap-benefit...
Millions warned SNAP benefits may be delayed in November
SNAP provides food benefits to low-income families. In California alone more than 5.5 million Americans rely on SNAP each month.
www.newsweek.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Jasmine Laws at @newsweek.com reports that SNAP benefits in some states will not be disbursed in September due to the government shutdown. Economists Jim Ziliak (University of Kentucky) and Colleen Heflin (Syracuse University) explain some of the consequences. www.newsweek.com/snap-benefit...
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The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour.
Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"
Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"
October 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour.
Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"
Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"