Diana Strassmann
@dstrassmann.bsky.social
Economist. Birder. Founder of the journal, Feminist Economics. Princeton and Harvard alum. Rice U prof, emerita. I care about inclusive justice, human and animal rights.
7/ @dstrassmann.bsky.social is professor emerita at Rice University's Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and a founding editor @feministeconomics.bsky.social. As a leading scholar in feminist economics, her work brings feminist perspectives into mainstream thinking. #WomensHistoryMonth
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
@gregcasar.bsky.social gets far too little attention from people.
Greg Casar@gregcasar.bsky.social · last yr.Imagine in another country a corrupt president was trying to change the election laws. Then that president's political ally threatened to remove all the legislators of the other party to get it done. That's what's happening in Texas right now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o.... Hiding the truth won’t make it go away
Opinion | What to Do When the President Acts Like a Five-Year-Old?
nytimes.com
Sheer cruelty - where is Abbot’s moral conscience? www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
Abbott vetoes summer food aid program, forgoing $450M in federal funds
Texas is one of a dozen states that doesn't participate in the Summer EBT program that gives low-income children meals when school is out.
houstonchronicle.com
Great article citing the work of feminist economist, Nancy Folbre, on how to fix the decline in birth rates. These are issues that feminist economists have been working on for decades, beginning with the idea that children are a public good. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/w...
The Feminist Case for Spending Billions to Boost the Birthrate
nytimes.com
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted
npr.org
Either the U.S. government *is* able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t. The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.
Human kindness still exists ♥️ Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨♥️
How is this good policy? Certainly doesn’t enhance human welfare www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/c...
Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP
The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.
nytimes.com
You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. A faster rollout of malaria vaccines would save many lives economist.com/middle-east-...
A faster rollout of malaria vaccines would save many lives
But someone needs to pay for it—just when aid budgets are being slashed
economist.com
Imagine thinking a guy who charges around $100K for a vehicle with glued on metal panels that just fall off is the one to be trusted anywhere near our government.
That’s what liars do. Let’s hold his feet to the fire
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Presented with evidence that innocent people who are not members of any gang were wrongly deported to a slave prison in El Salvador, Homan flatly insists that all of them were in fact gang members (but he's unwilling to detail any evidence showing it)
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
benefit.me
Spring is coming, and azaleas are in full bloom. Despite all, there is still much beauty in the world.
Musk is the epitome of white supremacy, thinking he is so special that his life and those of his friends is worth depriving so many others of their lives Hundreds of Thousands Will Die www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. administrator Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.
newyorker.com
Those responsible are the real baby killers
Atul Gawande@agawande.bsky.social · last yr.Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
So cruel. How can any person of moral conscience defend this abandonment of the most vulnerable? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
nytimes.com
Clearly, she’s a know nothing, who has never studied economics and is as ignorant as Trump and everyone else going along with his nonsense
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr."Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people" -- Karoline Leavitt turns reality upside down, then gets mad at an AP reporter after he pushes back
A new report from @sanders.senate.gov finds that Americans in the top 1% of earners live seven years longer on average than Americans in the bottom 50%. Inequality is eating this country alive.
New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich | Common Dreams
"The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is not just an economic issue, it is literally a matter of life and death," said Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
commondreams.org
