Dr Emily Pfefer
@drempfefer.bsky.social
@QMUL_CRED PhD: UK Pay Taboo, Transparency & HE Gender/Ethnicity (In)Equality. AFHEA. Fulbrighter. @LSESocialPolicy MSc. Trade unionist. Own Opinions. #TalkPay
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Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
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July 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
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Mind-boggling that DHS's official position on this case is genuinely that a US citizen dad from Albuquerque visiting family in Tucson went up to a Border Patrol agent and said "Hi, I'm a Mexican man who entered here illegally, please deport me."
Do they think we are dumb?
Do they think we are dumb?
April 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Mind-boggling that DHS's official position on this case is genuinely that a US citizen dad from Albuquerque visiting family in Tucson went up to a Border Patrol agent and said "Hi, I'm a Mexican man who entered here illegally, please deport me."
Do they think we are dumb?
Do they think we are dumb?
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The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today.
This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
April 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today.
This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
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After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
Mental health workers go on hunger strike, demanding better pay and benefits
After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
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April 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
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I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
March 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
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Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
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🖋️ “RFK jr cancelled meeting on next year's flu vax. Congress must act. DO YOUR JOB” hit 5,000 signers!
RFK jr cancelled meeting on next year's flu vax. Congress must act. DO YOUR JOB
Text SIGN PQHVVK to 50409 — The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot.
There's a 6 month production cycle so now is the time that strains need to be selected.
Flu is dangerous; the virus mutates regularly. Herd immunity from a high vaccination rate protects us all.
Younger adults with strong immune systems got decimated in the 1918 influenza pandemic. Their strong immune responses resulted in pneumonia. Influenza doesn't mess around.
The senate approved RFK jr against the advice of thousands of medical professionals. And now in his lie about the Texas measles outbreak (that it's a regular occurrence) and this we the people see the contempt of our senators for our health and our very lives.
Please: arrange for RFK jr to be subpoenaed by the appropriate committees to answer questions under oath. Please pass a bill in Congress to select and order flu vaccine. Consider impeaching RFK jr for dereliction.
We the people employ you. You should be honored to serve us and you should honor your oath to the constitution. For the gop senate to have imposed a dangerous charlatan such as RFK jr on the FDA looks like depraved heart murder. It shows utmost contempt for our lives.
Learn the lesson. Do better. Do not confirm the next unqualified nominee.
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March 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
🖋️ “RFK jr cancelled meeting on next year's flu vax. Congress must act. DO YOUR JOB” hit 5,000 signers!
Elon doesn’t understand what social insurance means or mechanics of social security law. As is common, he’s expressing strong views, to the possible detriment of millions, and he doesn’t even know what he is actually saying. Even Rogan seems a speechless at the nonsense here. x.com/moreperfectu...
More Perfect Union on X: "BREAKING: Elon Musk called Social Security "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time" in an interview with Joe Rogan. https://t.co/gCrDPLM15u" / X
BREAKING: Elon Musk called Social Security "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time" in an interview with Joe Rogan. https://t.co/gCrDPLM15u
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March 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Elon doesn’t understand what social insurance means or mechanics of social security law. As is common, he’s expressing strong views, to the possible detriment of millions, and he doesn’t even know what he is actually saying. Even Rogan seems a speechless at the nonsense here. x.com/moreperfectu...
This song describes the shameful (and globally terrifying) treatment of Zelenskyy better than any news article could. youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE?...
"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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March 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This song describes the shameful (and globally terrifying) treatment of Zelenskyy better than any news article could. youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE?...
American friends - this is what I paid for a dozen eggs today in the UK. £2.70 = $3.39 currently. The shelf isn’t bare - many more cartons under the cardboard. Meanwhile, the orange one has spent his first weeks in office devaluing America instead of American eggs. :/
March 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
American friends - this is what I paid for a dozen eggs today in the UK. £2.70 = $3.39 currently. The shelf isn’t bare - many more cartons under the cardboard. Meanwhile, the orange one has spent his first weeks in office devaluing America instead of American eggs. :/
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american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
March 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.
February 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.
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Worth a read.
In which there are many reasons to obey and one not to. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey
The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Worth a read.
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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Why is the right so determined to undermine and dismiss D.E.I.? “It is because these widely varied efforts represent a commitment to integration, to opposing bigotry and racism, to offering an invitation to belong,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes.
The War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
D.E.I. programs faced legitimate criticisms, but the Trump Administration’s actions make clear that we can’t achieve color-blindness on command.
www.newyorker.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Why is the right so determined to undermine and dismiss D.E.I.? “It is because these widely varied efforts represent a commitment to integration, to opposing bigotry and racism, to offering an invitation to belong,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes.
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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
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I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
February 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
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NEW: Judge AliKhan blocks Trump's funding freeze (for now), ordering OMB to instruct all federal agencies that received the original memo that they must reinstate any stopped payments. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
NEW: Judge AliKhan blocks Trump's funding freeze (for now), ordering OMB to instruct all federal agencies that received the original memo that they must reinstate any stopped payments. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
What in the ACLU? Not exactly unprecedented and clearly wrong then and wrong now (see: England’s historic deportation of “convicts” to Australia, some of which for union organizing, see Tolpuddle Martyrs).
El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality, including imprisoned Americans, in unprecedented deal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says
El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality, as well as imprisoned Americans, in unprecedented deal | CNN
El Salvador has agreed to receive deportees from the United States of any nationality, including violent criminals who are US citizens currently imprisoned, in an unprecedented deal that has alarmed c...
www.cnn.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
What in the ACLU? Not exactly unprecedented and clearly wrong then and wrong now (see: England’s historic deportation of “convicts” to Australia, some of which for union organizing, see Tolpuddle Martyrs).
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This would be nuts even if they were gov’t employees with clearances: “Three of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
www.cnn.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This would be nuts even if they were gov’t employees with clearances: “Three of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
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Bloomberg: Musk said DOGE was shutting down payments by the US Department of Health and Human Services to Lutheran Family Services, a faith-based charity that has been providing social services to refugees. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Musk Says DOGE Is ‘Rapidly Shutting Down’ Treasury Payments
Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at...
www.bloomberg.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Bloomberg: Musk said DOGE was shutting down payments by the US Department of Health and Human Services to Lutheran Family Services, a faith-based charity that has been providing social services to refugees. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order:
"It does nothing"
"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"
Will not comply.
"It does nothing"
"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"
Will not comply.
January 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order:
"It does nothing"
"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"
Will not comply.
"It does nothing"
"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"
Will not comply.