You've heard me talk about it. You've seen me write about it. And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied! Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it! cup.org/4nfM2IM

Ask yourself if this is the kind of country you want to live in

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire thefulcrum.us/governance-l... With mental health expert @isabelmperera.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org ! Important context with now second case of federalizing subnational law enforcement, DC

Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire thefulcrum.us/governance-l... With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !

Backseat car hammocks for babies? Thanks to government, they are no longer for sale in the United States. Now, as federal regulators come under attack from within, political scientists and legal scholars gathered for a conference on the future of studying the administrative state: bit.ly/44LJSbW

Anyone still quibbling that this isn't fascism?

Here's a preview of our conversation with @charleywillison.bsky.social from our new podcast series on the local politics of public health. Check out the full episode! www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...

@charleywillison.bsky.social @askellyphd.bsky.social @didikuo1.bsky.social @sarahgollust.bsky.social @nataliapmoreira.bsky.social @patriciastrach.bsky.social @kathlsullivan.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social

News: The American Academy of Pediatrics says it will no longer take part in the process of ACIP meetings. “We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says. www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...

<thread> On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do. So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.

Literally describing themselves as occupying a blue state like hostile territory with the military and federal forces.

WTF; he's one of the leading scholars in the world

Yet another day when I'm thinking about Paul Musgrave's old Twitter post: "Around the department: Americanists: how bad can it be really? Comparativists: dictatorship, purges International relations: nuclear war Americanists: haha but seriously IR and comparative: who is joking"

“Better Health Is a Political Intervention…Ill health can lead to distrust, which benefits the far right. Appeals to patient-centered, trustworthy, responsive health care take on a new edge if we can tell policymakers that the alternative is an increasing far-right vote in their constituency.”

"For 142 years, the merit-based civil service survived because both parties recognized that functional government requires professional expertise. That consensus is dead. We're watching the transformation of public servants into party servants, of a government of laws into a government of loyalty."

With @mirandayaver.bsky.social. Medicaid cuts will be particularly harmful for rural communities, even for those not enrolled in the program. In Republican districts and states, Republican voters are disproportionately likely to suffer. thehill.com/opinion/heal...

NEW symposium from guest editor @charleywillison.bsky.social on local politics and public health. Click the link below for the full table of contents: www.urbanaffairsreview.com/public-health

And "For an Urban Politics of Public Health" by Michael Brown journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

And two excellent reviewer commentaries on the symposium, including "An Engine, Not a Vessel: Place, Politics, and Health in the United States" by @philiprocco.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"Ideas, Municipal Sanitation, and the Transformation of Public Health" by @kathlsullivan.bsky.social & @patriciastrach.bsky.social

"Building the Plane While Flying: Informal State Capacity, Policy Autonomy, and Public Health" from @didikuo1.bsky.social & @askellyphd.bsky.social

"Racism as a Public Health Crisis: How Declarations Shape Local TV News Attention to Racism" by @nataliapmoreira.bsky.social, Steven Moore, @breezefloyd.bsky.social, @efranklinfowler.bsky.social, @sarahgollust.bsky.social

"Draining the Swamp: The Local Governance of Mosquito Borne Diseases in Florida" by @hjarman.bsky.social Phillip Singer, Iris Holmes, Jessica Hsu, Chloe Harper, Naquia Unwala, and @charleywillison.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎺🎺🎺 NEW SYMPOSIUM on @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social from guest editor @charleywillison.bsky.social, "The Intrinsic Relationship between Local Politics + Public Health." Intro here, follow the thread for more great scholarship 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Founders assumed Congress would defend its prerogatives, not sit passively as the Constitution is subverted

Was grateful for @richardsondilworth.bsky.social's invite to write this commentary on a fantastic symposium edited by @charleywillison.bsky.social, whose introductory essay is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

It was such a pleasure to join a wonderful group of scholars in this issue of @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social on The Local Politics of Public Health @didikuo1.bsky.social and I look at public health capacity and COVID policy variation across California. Thanks, Charley, for leading this effort!

***Online First Special Issue Release of Urban Affairs Review – The Local Politics of Public Health*** Open Access coming soon! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How do life changes shape political behavior? Authors Ojeda, @povertyscholar.bsky.social, and Haselswerdt explore this question in the article, “The Politics of Personal Crisis: How Life Disruptions Shape Political Participation”. Read more at the open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The presidents of 200 US colleges declare: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Good! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

More on the Harvard AAUP & Nat'l AAUP lawsuit filed last night to block the Trump admin's unlawful threats to use funding cuts as a cudgel to coerce Harvard University to restrict speech and allow government control over teaching and learning. 🧵 Lawsuit Here:

Colleagues @ryanenos.bsky.social and @stevelevitsky.bsky.social again say what we are all feeling. Grateful to them. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I’ll scream this till I’m blue in the face: FEDERAL CONTRACTORS ARE IN THE SAME BOAT. I was laid off and I still don’t know how I was selected- it’s beyond demoralizing and embarrassing. The person in the piece summed it up well “They took my job and my life from my hands without any reason.”

Please join us at MPSA for a discussion of Dr. Matt Motta's @mattmotta.bsky.social new book, Anti-Scientific Americans, featuring @adamberinsky.bsky.social, Alexander Furnas, @sgadarian.bsky.social, @brendannyhan.bsky.social, and @klunztrujillo.bsky.social.

Would be cool to live in a timeline where the universities are the ones suing in order to protect their students

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

“If America’s nearly 6,000 universities and colleges launch a campaign in defense of higher education, odds are that Trump will lose.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The elimination of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness, a congressionally authorized agency through the 1987 McKinney Vento Act, is just one more example of unconstitutional use of executive power that congress must pushback against. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

"we must make sure that when we emerge from whatever present crisis we are in, the choices we made will not make us ashamed."

FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL. Just to recap: Mahmoud Khalil exercises his First Amendment rights. But, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio didn’t agree with what he said. A THREAD.

This case is about showing everyone that political protest and speech the government dislikes can get you arrested and kicked out of the country. It’s blatant authoritarianism.

🧵 How do criminal organizations expand to strong states? My paper in @thejop.bsky.social explains how mafias successfully moved to Northern Italy—by striking deals with local actors and exploiting migrant labor. Thread: ⬇️

four votes for “the president is a king and the framers created a monarchy”