Trump: "We may go back to Project Freedom, but it would be Project Freedom plus. Meaning Project Freedom plus other things."

Oh hey, the video our panel from #OpenDataWeek2026 on public scholarship & open data is now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bSk... @cunygcps2.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social @cunygcdi.bsky.social @ccnysustainability.bsky.social @cunypitlab.bsky.social

gasoline hitting $7 a gallon is going to do more to hamstring this regime than the regime's brutal abductions and murders of children we're really a kind of shit country

In which the Defense Secretary insists that when two countries shoot at each other and literally sink ships amid a ceasefire, it’s a “separate and distinct project,” not a continuation of the war said to be stopped by the ceasefire.

I don't really know anything about that book, but anytime I see the title, I read it in my head to the tune of "Bodies" by Drowning Pool

It’s not like had to do with poor management or anything else…

It’s not a “cognitive test”, it’s called the “mini-mental status exam” to rule out memory deficits…

Are we still doing “concepts of a plan” ?

My next read has arrived! Honored to be interviewed for this book by @mirandayaver.bsky.social. This should be your next read too.. www.cambridge.org/universitypr... #macrosw #hcldr #PriorAuth

::Stares in math::

RFK Jr.: "We are losing scientists, researchers, and technology..."

This might be the shortest most thought provoking post I have seen on social media. My dissertation focused on socio-technical aspects tech implementation and boy does this resonate. Also thinking about some “problems” on my workplace… #swtech #SWfutures

"Medicaid is the largest payer of opioid use disorder treatment, and in 2023 it covered nearly half of all non-elderly adults in the U.S. with opioid use disorder in 2023" #Medicaid #OUD #healthpolicy

Trump’s latest comments on Iran make clear he’s still trying to bullshit his way through it

I warned that Paragon Health Institute would weaponize the DOGE Medicaid data release. Yesterday they published a brief targeting HCBS, autism services, medical transportation, and addiction treatment, core services disabled people rely on, as inherently fraudulent. www.patreon.com/posts/151112...

As I keep saying, the trick to post-truth authoritarian politics is not changing laws, it’s pretending that existing laws already allow anything. Words don’t have meanings, they’re merely tools to get what you want. If you don’t believe me on this, listen to the foremost practitioner explain it.

The complicity of universities cannot be understated... The few of us fighting back aren't enough. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

I move to rename it “Schrödinger's Strait of Hormuz” …

I cannot say this enough. As a former trauma clinician I can tell you that one of the most traumatic things you can do to a child is to separate them from their parent. And this kind of trauma doesn’t magically go away, even if the family is reunified. My heart shatters to think about it.

Given that Kennedy is airing all this on Fox News, it seems like that status quo is politically unsustainable.

This is the first “highlight” of Sunday AM shows on my feed today. I fear for the rest of my feed.

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Note to @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social and the Association for Social Work Boards. Our compact does not need a mascot. #socialWork #SWmonth26 #SocialworkMonth

"We're not going to litigate whether the supposed need for this legislation that would contract voting access exists."

We are halfway through #SocialWorkMonth & I was thinking a lot about what finishing my DSW has meant to me. Wrote about how it shaped my current practice, rethinking myself as a "scholar", and how that relates to lifelong learning. #SWMonth2026 #SocialWork #DSW open.substack.com/pub/stuckons...

I am not a Constitutional scholar but I feel like “taking Cuba” requires and act of Congress 🤷🏻‍♂️

Trump always…

New paper: "Opportunities, challenges, and conspicuous absences: An integrative review of the social work literature on artificial intelligence." For a special issue of critical perspectives on technology and social work. Check it out: anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/articl... #SocialWork #SWTech #CriticalAI

Sounds familiar.

I thought I had a thread of these stories about the LLMs, suicide, and delusions going… maybe it’s time.

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

Hey, um, maybe AI isn’t ready to process medical claims and prior authorizations either.

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

Wrote a little something about qualitative research… again :). This time about #GenAi and its role or potential role in qualitative analysis. This is a complex issue and wonder what others think… open.substack.com/pub/stuckons...

Fun fact: The "AI-boosted growth rate" is basically just the continuation of the usual growth rate. So even if AI doesn't do much and we just have usual growth they'll still claim it to be the "AI".

Actually, it’s hurting children.

The burdens of complying with the SAVE Act are inequitable and are a modern poll tax. Also: the SAVE Act is a critical issue for health policy: healthy people already turn out more and people w/ health issues will struggle most w/ this--> poor representation mirandayaver.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

🚨 NASW-NY C.A.R.E.S 2026 Policy Town Hall: AI & Social Work 🚨 March 16, 2026 | 6–7 PM ET Join the National Association of Social Workers - New York Chapter to examine AI in mental health care, ethical risks & proposed NY legislation (S8484/A9106). 👉 Register: https://loom.ly/1A35reM

So those “cash handouts don’t help” signs the city put up around Sioux Falls are bullshit? Color me shocked

To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe. @tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here: tante.cc/2026/02/20/a... A few further comments, 🧵>>

My new blog w/ Jade Little explains why a bill that Florida's legislature is considering on Medicaid work requirements is a Catch-22 Bcuz Florida has not expanded Medicaid very poor parents would lose Medicaid if they don't meet the new rules --- and if they do! ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/02/20/f...

I’m always for more data. But, be careful using the new Medicaid spending data released by the Trump administration. It’s missing a lot of important details and context. www.kff.org/medicaid/wha...

Check out @edwincpark.bsky.social thread on the new CBO Medicaid baseline. You will see a few things: 1. ACA Medicaid expansion enrollees decline by 41% - ouch 2. Child enrollment declines by 2 million 3. Seniors enrollment goes up (aging pop) 4. Admin costs go up (the cost of red tape)

New to me: the AI Now Institute's North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit, which is, "primarily geared toward stopping, slowing, and restricting rampant data center development in the US at the local and state level."

BREAKING: How the Trump administration will determine the “right” voters

For @reprolawyer.bsky.social and all my other health policy nerds who miss #HealthPolicyValentines but don't know how to start in this pit of despair