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Diana Strassmann

@dstrassmann.bsky.social
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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.

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Washington Center for Equitable Growth @equitablegrowth.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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
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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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.
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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I miss the old brand #CDC
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
@gregcasar.bsky.social gets far too little attention from people.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o.... Hiding the truth won’t make it go away
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Opinion | What to Do When the President Acts Like a Five-Year-Old?
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Are you kidding me?
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Trump administration to destroy nearly $10m in contraceptives
Long-acting contraceptives will not be sent abroad to women in need, a move costing US taxpayers $167,000
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Sheer cruelty - where is Abbot’s moral conscience? www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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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.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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...
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The Feminist Case for Spending Billions to Boost the Birthrate
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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.
A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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?
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NPR @npr.org · 16/04/2025
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
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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
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
That’s what Nazis do
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
What is the US coming to?
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Rick @colonelhogans.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Human kindness still exists ♥️ Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨♥️
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
How is this good policy? Certainly doesn’t enhance human welfare www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/c...
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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.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Awesome news! Yay! Take that (f)Elon!
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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-...
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A faster rollout of malaria vaccines would save many lives
But someone needs to pay for it—just when aid budgets are being slashed
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Texas - the pro death state
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
That’s what liars do. Let’s hold his feet to the fire
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Cruel
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
What a total racist
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Spring is coming, and azaleas are in full bloom. Despite all, there is still much beauty in the world.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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-...
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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.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Those responsible are the real baby killers
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
So cruel. How can any person of moral conscience defend this abandonment of the most vulnerable? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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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.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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.
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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.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Well-deserved consequences
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
What idiocy
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
(CNBC) - The Trump administration’s purge of federal workers may ultimately amount to the biggest job cut in U.S. history, which is likely to have ramifications for the economy, especially at the local level, according to economists. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/23/h...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Incredibly powerful speech! One for the ages. “Trump is Nero…”
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Costa Rica Kid @zymplex.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Might save a life.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Those lamenting the drop in births would do well to consider the cost of child care
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:
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a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .
ALT: a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The U.S. is cutting research funding, the weather service, park rangers, Social Security Admin staff, lifesaving foreign aid, plus billions in Medicaid and food stamps. For what? To potentially buy crypto with taxpayer dollars and to give more tax cuts to the rich.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
wapo.st/43j98ap What a bunch of racists.
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Bowser signals D.C. will paint over BLM Plaza after GOP threatens funding
The mayor’s announcement represents a remarkable retreat from her defiant posture toward President Donald Trump during his first term.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p... This madness puts the US at risk.
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US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse. Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1921...
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Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o... Disgusting
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Opinion | Andrew Tate, Accused of Sex Trafficking, Is Trump’s Kind of Guy (Gift Article)
The president ushers in a new age of aggressive male impunity.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
So many will die or be irreparably harmed www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | There’s a story in each shard of the shattered USAID
At USAID, Trump’s commissars leave a trail of suffering in their wake.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Front page of today's New York Post.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Clinton did it better www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Musk’s mass firings are already backfiring
Culling the federal workforce with a sledgehammer does nothing to advance efficiency.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Feminist economists have been conducting in depth research on fertility issues for decades www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | A Nobel Prize winner decodes why people aren’t having kids
Economist Claudia Goldin finds it largely comes down to societal expectations of how much men should do at home.
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Diana Strassmann @dstrassmann.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Shameful
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