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Tiffany Green

@tiffanylgreen.bsky.social

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Food lover, bibliophile, fitness aficionado, economist/pop health scientist, associate professor at uw-madison (opinions are my own), salsera, mama, wife. Not in order of importance.

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Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · Sep 4

A friend asked if she could share this newsletter that I wrote and of course I said yes. Seems appropriate to the present moment.

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How academic leaders can model bravery even when courage is in short supply: three underrated strategies

Read Time: 5 minutes Harsh reality: If you’re an academic, you’ve spent the last seven months with a case of daily whiplash. Our universities are under attack, our entire scientific infrastructure is ...

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Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · 2d

I think that a lot of healthcare scholars are doubling down on facts, but as we know, that doesn't work. I'd love to hear your thoughts on strategic deployment of messaging that can actually make a difference.

Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Because then you keep chasing that high (or so I've been told). 😆

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 7d

An important part of racial segregation in public accommodations (that economists and economic historians regularly miss) is that it was NOT about racial animus. It’s about dehumanization and debasement. It’s using the public sphere to tell people that they are is not fit to walk the Earth.

Mark G. Sheppard @markgsheppard.com · 7d

The Green Book Project is a fantastic resource for anyone trying to understand the full weight of the Jim Crow era, and how segregation —not of homes and where Black families could live— but the segregation of everything.
#EconSky #GreenBookProject

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Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Mother Teresa was a terrible human who was fine with Indian folks suffering in poverty while she got the finest of healthcare and took charitable donations from the Duvaliers.

Andrew Palmer @andrewp97.bsky.social · 2d

katie porter makes amy klobuchar look like mother theresa

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Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · 3d

I told mine that one of my top reasons is that he doesn't hate women. That is...remarkably rare among trainers of all genders.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 8d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12d

The Green Book Project website archives the Green Book locations, documenting the history of Black travel during Jim Crow. Do you have memories of Green Book locations? We’d love to hear your story! greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15d

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

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Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks for sharing!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d

yeah this guy is dumber than donkey shit

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 16d

so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17d

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 18d

THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM.

(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21d

Four years of smug white Canadians telling me about how much better they were than the US while I heard anti-Black racial slurs on the street that even Americans don’t use anymore

It was a lot and the patience they ran through will never return

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 24d

lol "let's be nice to people who are trying to kill us" actually no ❤️

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29d

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

Reuters @reuters.com · 29d

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Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the United States would "respond accordingly to this witch hunt" after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.

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Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.social · Sep 11

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29d

Where are the thoughts and prayers for our HBCU students who are *currently* being terrorized by threats?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Sep 11

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

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Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · Sep 9

Same but with BHH.

Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · Sep 4

A friend asked if she could share this newsletter that I wrote and of course I said yes. Seems appropriate to the present moment.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ac...

How academic leaders can model bravery even when courage is in short supply: three underrated strategies

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 3

to this point, i can definitely trace my ancestry in this country to at least the very early 19th century.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Sep 3

"the typical black American has much deeper American roots than the typical white American. Trump himself, whose grandparents were all foreign-born, is an excellent example of relatively shallow white American roots." www.niskanencenter.org/logic-populi...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 3

if they were making a claim about historical origins the logic would push towards the inclusion of blacks, natives and other peoples on the north american continent. but schmitt is fundamentally making a racial claim.

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Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm old enough to remember when VP called school closures the biggest structural racism of the year. The way people use Black folks (including our babies) to ramp up their profiles and careers is always a tell. (Also: Black people told y'all.)

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Sep 3

Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time “could blunt their efficacy.” The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.

FDA quietly positions itself to disrupt childhood vaccine schedule

While CDC turmoil grabbed the media spotlight, a quieter but potentially more consequential drama unfolded last week at FDA. The agency has positioned itse...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · Aug 29

I think not trying every single confederate for treason was a huge mistake. Grant’s decision to parole all of the insurgents at Appomattox—setting the stage of minimizing insurgency, insurrection, and treason—has done us no favors.

Greg Jaffe @gregjaffe.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said.

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Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 29

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say

"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.

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Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · Aug 29

M*n hitting a physicist and cosmologist with YouTube cites will never *not* send me to the upper room. Please be serious.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 29

I’m also a member of a community that was one of the earliest adopters of machine learning so it’s weird having people explain this stuff to me like I don’t understand it

Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you so much for doing this.