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Elizabeth Burland (she/her)
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Spend a lot of time thinking about education inequality, financial aid policy, decision making | Assistant Research Professor at UConn School of Public Policy

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maddow.bsky.social
"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h
Trump: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene…”
Donald J. Trump -+ @realDonaldTrump I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of "Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia. Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women's Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden's Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., having created the "HOTTEST" Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see "Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn't have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn't about to get!). She has told many people that she is upset that I don't return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I will never get over the fact that the president of the United States talks and writes like this.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h
Trump: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene…”
Donald J. Trump -+ @realDonaldTrump I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of "Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia. Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women's Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden's Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., having created the "HOTTEST" Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see "Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn't have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn't about to get!). She has told many people that she is upset that I don't return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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karenguzzo.bsky.social
Spending $2B for an unnecessary and wholly symbolic name change when the gov't says it can't afford to feed its people, provide heating support in winter, or help people pay for healthcare would be quite the statement.
Trump's Pentagon name change could cost up to $2 billion
Officially changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War can only be done by Congress and would require updating thousands of signs, rewriting digital code and creating new letterheads,...
www.nbcnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The DOGE cuts seemed to focus on tax teams that pursued enforcement of high income earners. The IRS had been building up enforcement on this area because most of the tax gap is driven by higher earners. Lax enforcement could cost hundreds of billions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...
Those interested in assessing the enforcement capacity of the IRS should determine how many staff are still working in enforcement, especially the Pass-Through Entities Practice Area, including the Global High Wealth unit and Pass-Through Examinations. They should also ask about audits opened and closed this year, and the income distribution of those taxpayers being audited. Another crucial question is the impact on revenue. A collapse in the IRS's capacity to audit higher-earners will certainly increase the $700 billion annual "tax gap" — the difference between tax money owed and tax money paid voluntarily and on time. Three fifths of that shortfall is due to underreporting of income by the top ten percent of earners; an additional dollar spent auditing these earners returns an estimated $12 in revenue. The damage to enforcement capacity this year is so unprecedented, it is hard to predict the cost. But one model has suggested that, over a decade, it could reduce revenue by about two hundred billion dollars.
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media.

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
Is college enrollment plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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arkadijs.bsky.social
🚀 I'm excited to announce I'm on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study the dynamic treatment effects of student financial aid. 🎓💸 I find that student financial aid can crowd-in future aid, and that this drives a large part of its long-term benefit.
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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mememedianmode.bsky.social
Hi folks attending #2025APPAM #APPAM2025! Excited to see many of you in Seattle this week.

As usual, I am organizing a very informal happy hour for education policy folks at the conference to get together: Fri 11/14 starting at 6pm at Seattle Beer Co on Western Ave (~15 min walk from conference).
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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cohodes.bsky.social
This project was fueled by RAGE

RAGE whenever I read or heard about (another) abuse of power by faculty

RAGE whenever I was asked to discuss a paper about gender wage differentials that attributed gaps to "preferences" with no consideration of how "preferences" are formed
cohodes.bsky.social Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 5d
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
We used to have the Bureau of Labor Statistics collect inflation data but under Trump we’ve outsourced it to DoorDash
solomonmissouri.bsky.social Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 4d
At some point embarrassment MUST come
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3d
A man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in January 6th - he assaulted Capitol Police officers with bear spray & a metal whip - has avoided prison for child sex crimes because of the president’s sweeping pardon, despite pleading guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex
Trump Pardon Lets Convicted Child Sex Predator Walk Free
Andrew Taake walked free because of Trump’s pardons, despite being convicted of a child sex crime.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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cohodes.bsky.social
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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dynarski.bsky.social
New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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govevers.wisconsin.gov
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️
No.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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nber.org
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
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
rostaylor.bsky.social Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 8d
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.

I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
If you are a federal employee with a gun, Trump will find a way to pay you even if he has no money for that purpose.
If you depend on SNAP, he will use the shutdown as an excuse not to pay you, even though they have money specifically for that purpose.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-risks-...
The risks of letting Trump become the military paymaster
Trump will demand their loyalty in return
donmoynihan.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
To recap: Trump is spending money Congress never appropriated to pay federal employees with guns, and cutting programs and grants even when Congress has appropriated funds.
They literally have a contingency fund for SNAP that they are refusing to use.
No Speaker has done more to weaken Congress.
In a new set of court filings, submitted late Wednesday, administration officials acknowledged that they had billions of dollars left over across multiple federal accounts. The amounts appeared to total more than would be needed to cover the full costs of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, for the next month.
October 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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chloergibbs.bsky.social
Student journalists over here making me tear up.

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” —A.J. Liebling (1960)

www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
Headline from linked article
October 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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nberlat.bsky.social
I have to say I find it...pretty annoying when people who were fine with targeting college protestors for extreme violence a year ago are now asking why more young people aren't protesting. 1
October 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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theferocity.bsky.social
This country hates kids, dassit.
sjjphd.bsky.social Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28d
New York mag published an article about how kids running around yelling “6-7!” is stressing grown ups out and I guess, yeah, part of the existential experience of aging is not knowing what the kids are talking about but I find this hilarious and mundane and not worthy of think-pieces lol
October 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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louiseseamster.bsky.social
I have been waiting for news coverage of this and it’s chilling that the coverage has to come from another country.
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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lizneeley.bsky.social
Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
www.heraldtimesonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
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Screenshot of a list that reads: Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO): State and Local Engagement Office of Post Secondary Education (OPE): Student Support Services (TRIO) Institutional Service (HBCUs, HSIs, Tribal Colleges, ANAPISI) Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS): Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) Enforcement Offices Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (OPEPD) Budget Seryice Screenshot of list that reads: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education OESE): Office of Innovation and Early Learning Office of School Community Improvement Programs Well Rounded Education Division (Arts Education) Charter Schools Program Office of Safe and Supportive Schools Program and Grantee Support Services Comprehensive Literacy State Development JAVITS (Gifted and Talented) School Support and Accountability Office of Formula Grants Office of Migrant Education Effective Educator Development Program Innovation and Early Learning Programs Effective Development Division Program and Grantee Support Services
October 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador. But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.
October 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM