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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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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 6h
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 · 7h
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.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
My family gets me.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
Merry Christmas from LEGO Karen and her family!

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 1d
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 · 2d
*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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
See also:

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 2d
Mmmhmm

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
"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 · 3d
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"

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 3d
Women in 2025:

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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 3d
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 · 3d
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

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 3d
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...
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
Visits from out of town family is the best part of the holidays! Or maybe not… #legokaren

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
“Our aim is to lower tenure density so that we can hire lecturers for classes that students need in high-demand programs.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
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 Anna O. Law, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Clark Gray

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d
#academiclife

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SFSU offers buyouts to all tenure-track and tenured faculty
The Voluntary Separation Incentive Program is a “balancing act,” where there is a stronger incentive for tenured and tenure-track faculty to retire and open up room to hire back lecturer faculty.
goldengatexpress.org

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
“According to a report by the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), minority-serving institution (MSI) programs are unlawful because they award money to colleges and universities based on the percentage of students of a certain race.”
DOJ Report Declares MSIs Unconstitutional
The decision comes after the Department of Education asked the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel to review the legality of a number of programs they said used racial “quotas.”
www.insidehighered.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d
"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"
yalesph.bsky.social Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · 3d
A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.
New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts
A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have
ysph.yale.edu

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WFRN.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social · 3d
Tracking parenting leave policies in Europe over five decades

The European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave regulations across
21 European countries from 1970 to 2024. eplp-dataset.org
European Parenting Leave Policies Dataset
eplp-dataset.org

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 3d
We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

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dataindex.us @dataindex.us · 3d
Rapid Response Data Briefing: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)

Join us to learn:
🔵 What's in PRAMS
🔵 Why it's important
🔵 The risks facing its continued collection and publication
🔵 How you can help support this essential data resource

Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Webinar. Rapid Response Data Briefing. Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). January 8, 2026. 2:00-2:30 PM ET. Logos of the cosponsors displayed at the bottom. The background of the graphic is dark blue and features the dataindex.us star logo in the top right corner.

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 4d
This is what is filling the vacuum in hostile states - because they are the ones with the funding.

As we prepare for 2026, won’t you consider a donation to make sure ACTUAL comprehensive sexual and maternal health remains an option? wawchealth.com/donate/
The Planned Parenthood Closed. A Christian Clinic Seized the Moment.
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