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profclaire.bsky.social
Historian of early modern England at University at Buffalo. Happy to talk DH, 1890s bicycling, and the history of Buffalo. Ski coach, cat lady, dog lady, has child. Opinions are my own. She/her.
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Here is your statistic of the day: Nine out of 10 federal employees laid off by DOGE since March worked in liberal-leaning agencies. All proposed budget increases go to conservative agencies, with the bulk going to the most conservative agencies.

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Primary day in Buffalo on June 24 for mayor - early voting begins June 14. Let’s get out there for Sean Ryan! @seanryanforbuffalo.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Damn @kateshaw.bsky.social got hands

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

submitted 7 days ago • 325 comments

Bessent says be like FL. For bottom 40% similar tax burden, for 1% higher in NY. That’s just a start on other comparisons from @pkrugman.bsky.social . Hating New York open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Not only are parks profitable, they inject billions to local economies and welcome 300+ million people a year. This is yet more wealth extraction to private interests not just from all of us as a nation but hundreds of communities and small businesses.

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

Happy Pride! It’s pride parade day here in Buffalo. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Now that I'm back from vacation, re-upping on our next #ByteSizedPedagogy session June 24th at 1:00 ET

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking: FDA chief Marty Makary to reorganize the FDA into divisions each focused on one of the four humors.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

America Turns Its Back on the World open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

“America Turns Its Back on the World” @pkrugman.bsky.social makes the economic case for higher education and internal students. This stood out to me.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Finished grading last week and still taking a deep breath after a semester in which my mother died in the last month. Seen today: Jack in the Pulpit, scarlet tanager, and a barred owl. Followed the alarms of blue jays, woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches to se the owl. #Birds Chipmunks for dog.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

submitted 11 days ago • 448 comments

Hmm, can parents mark where they cried, too?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

BHO is having intermittent downtime at the moment. We're being hammered by AI bots and scrapers, overloading our servers. Our server engineers will be back on the case after the long weekend. Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is due to third-party bad actors.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments