New York Sun interviews some of my favorite child welfare scholars on the Buttigieg case. Was gratified to weigh in as well . www.nysun.com/article/butt...

New book will be out in September , but the cover and webpage makes it feel real !

Happy to comment for @washingtonpost.com on the dangerous effort by anti-vaxxers to weaponize anti-discrimination protections in court. I wrote abt similar attempts to abuse disability law in Disability as Metaphor (Penn L. Rev). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

We are governed by idiots. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

We have recently launched a Visiting Scholar Grant at Rochester to work with the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform. See attached flyer for details! #histmed #fellowship

Chaotic, unplanned cuts to US programs eroded the infrastructure that was keeping the world safe. Now, An American father is fighting for his life. The whole article is just damning. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/h... @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

why read for pleasure when you can scroll for misery

Very honored to be recognized as Researcher of the Year @setonhalllaw.bsky.social @setonhall.bsky.social. 2025–2026 has been an important year, both personally and professionally, and I’m incredibly grateful.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

New book will be out in September , but the cover and webpage makes it feel real !

Anyone watching that speech has no idea whether Trump is escalating or deescalating the war with Iran. But to be fair, neither does he so🤷‍♂️.

If you're in New Haven tomorrow, come to @ispsyale.bsky.social, as I'm thrilled to get to discuss with @povertyscholar.bsky.social and @jacobhacker.bsky.social (two of my very favorite people) the Medicaid impact of the (not so) BBB. A great convo ahead! politicalscience.yale.edu/event/medica...

Graham Platner has an ad tying Maine hospitals closing to "Big Pharma." As a person who follows health policy closely, I have no clue why and how he thinks Big Pharma is related to hospitals closing. No one with health policy expertise would say that's the cause of hospital closures. 1/ #mepolitics

It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

Very on-brand for Gingrich to seek out a new, younger canal the moment the current canal starts having health problems

Beautiful statement from Ayman Odeh, Palestinian MK and head of Hadash-Taal. For those who do not read Hebrew, I will translate:

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

I really think Hesgeth believed Iran would get knocked out in the first round and there was no need to plan for everything that was obviously going to happen next, Israel knew better but kept that to itself, Trump was incurious and easy to persuade, and nobody in administration dared push back.

I know it's not as important as doing pushups or forcibly shaving off beards or getting Nazi tattoos or day drinking or whatnot, but it seems to me that the DEPARTMENT OF WAR COMMITTED TO LETTING THE WARFIGHTERS FIGHT WARS REAL GOOD should know a little something about wars, like "the enemy acts."

this picture is a good summary of how and why January 6th was, at a fundamental level, a successful insurrection.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Me, dumb and politically correct: Firing on unarmed ships or double-tap military strikes on schools are bad things.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

Page 1 ad in Haaretz today: Settler pogroms against Palestinians in WBank are war crimes. Prime minister responsible for not stopping them. Orders to army officers to allow these actions are illegally & must be refused. Among those signing: Former Likud justice ministers Dan Meridor & Meir Shitreet

the results are in from Heartland County, West Redstatekota. They've sent a Republican to Congress every election since 1962. In a shock this special election was won by a local teacher with no political experience running on a platform of putting ICE agents in a gigantic blender in the town square

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

I was always told that one of the central lessons of the Shoah is that legal, juridical regimes can still be immoral. The claim that Anne Frank was in Amsterdam "legally" is false, but more than that, the question "Was Anne Frank an illegal?" is so grossly missing the point of Holocaust remembrance.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

Monstrous acts and crimes are being committed right now, in our names, with our tax dollars: -Renee Good - murdered by an armed agent of the state for protesting -Alex Pretti - murdered by an armed agent of the state for protesting -Liam Ramos (5) - used as bait to lure his father out of the house

Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE keeps abducting babies. www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

"Past or present, it’s not the leaders who disappoint me. It’s the led." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...

Just want to stress that this was a woman who was simply trying to get to a doctor's appointment.

no no don't tread on ME, you see. I of course am going to tread the shit out of YOU

Nebraska is the first state to announce it will begin enforcing Medicaid work requirements early, starting May 1. Learn more about the data, policies, and questions that will influence how states implement work requirements via our interactive tracker: on.kff.org/4ozQHFm

So, ICE murdered one of our alumni. So nice to see the Administration try to gaslight the nation by claiming this woman, who won a poetry award as part of her studies, was a domestic terrorist. Zero shame. www.pilotonline.com/2026/01/08/o...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

love to be a libertarian whose response to the summary execution of an american citizen is “you shouldn’t say bad words”

What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

The only person who didn't see this coming was Chuck Schumer.

Something that what happened in Australia and the ensuing discourse has brought back in to my mind is that there are still fewer Jews in the world today than there were in 1939

The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.