For some added context on why people in marketplace plans will face higher premiums, here’s my @msnbc.com analysis: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc... From a policy perspective, this is very bad, and people will suffer. From a political perspective, Dems need to let voters see how harmful R policies are

All of this fascinating

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

submerged welfare state I want to know how many of those Republicans on ACA plans are convinced the plans are pure private sector given that least a third of beneficiaries of any program think they aren't getting government benefits, I'll be many could never be convinced they're on Obamacare

we wrote about exactly that, free copy at link. The imbalance between an over equipped, militarised, poorly trained paramilitary and a weak, corrupt, civilian government is hardly new in US or world politics. IMO the solution is to strengthen the civilian government.

And for those who missed this piece of work.

One month later and as far as I can tell, there's been no follow-up on this (thankfully). www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

I like this idea of journals surfacing older articles. Just because I wasn’t reading UAR in 2014 doesn’t mean the article isn’t useful now.

Wasteful and shady decisions about art and real estate don’t top the list of harms caused by Trump, Musk, and Joni Ernst but this little story does capture the hooliganism of it all

I don’t see the problem. The BBC has informed about what Farage said, educated about what Farage said, and entertained with items about what Farage said. Why the fuss?

Stills from a lot of policy and academic panels I have attended or been on.

Unanimous First Circuit takes pains to emphasize that this was an incredibly easy case to decide, despite writing a very long opinion knocking down every ridiculous argument the Trump admin made.

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The early years of the Michigan-Wisconsin series were marked by catastrophic collapses of the stadiums they played in. In the Ann Arbor game, players actually helped rescue people from the wreckage. Chicago (1902) and Ann Arbor (1905)

It's unclear what the exact effect of a national Medicaid work requirement will be, but Aparni Soni et al. offer an important glimpse at who is doing community engagement to the required degree to sustain Medicaid coverage under these terms, & equity implications read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

I swear that all of this is very clearly telegraphing the court wants to decide as -little as possible- on the merits and will punt whenever they can so they can immediately reposture when a democratic administration is in office. Its so nakedly transparent.

This is a great evil, and an even greater injustice. A court that makes no pretense of applying the law fatally undermines its own legitimacy, and legitimacy is the only form of power that the federal judiciary has - for that reason alone this decision surprises me. bsky.app/profile/reic...

The Trump admin has now stripped TPS from over a million people. Within the next year, the remaining 300,000 who still have it may lose it (except maybe for Ukrainians). Salvadoran TPS holders have been working legally for 20+ years. Whole families will be thrown into poverty.

Justice Jackson is obviously correct. SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE are now illegally going to have their status terminated early — as every court other than the Supreme Court has found so far. Not a single word of justification from the Justices in the majority to justify this. NONE. Not one.

What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that. Shameless!

Great post by @dhnexon.bsky.social containing many of the ideas he's been trial-running here.

This US government shutdown is different: what it means for science

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/a...

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"I asked Chat GPT" Well we asked an expert and then we asked other experts in that field to review the first expert's work.

Great explainer of the baffling grifty “TrumpRx” thing from @mirandayaver.bsky.social

“This is not just an administrative headache. It puts patient care at risk in an already overburdened system. Medicine is complicated enough. We should not be leaving physicians and patients to guess whether a proven, widely used mode of care is legal, billable, or sustainable.”

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

A very fun free book about the competition to host the UN. In the end money won.

If you’re generous you’d just say this is instinctive hostility to regulation and fondness for private firms but I think there’s a much darker motivation too

Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions: buff.ly/lXtixDH

Your periodic reminder of just how stupid, as well as immoral, the Tony Blair/ BCG “plan” for Gaza was

in which Gavin Newsom uses as a threat the policies (zero out state support for higher ed) that the Michigan House Republicans passed in their budget

four years of this- including two primary seasons and what might be a really scary 2027- might change the composition and orientation of Democratic party leadership

So prestigious to be targeted by authoritarians!

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

"The head of the Dwight Eisenhower presidential library was reportedly forced to resign after he refused to allow President Trump to gift King Charles a sword that belonged to Eisenhower...a career federal employee resisted the request for the sword because it belongs to the U.S. government"

It’s interesting how, after decades of democratic deficits and governments blaming Europe for everything and partisan polarization around Europe… the EU is nowadays often more positively viewed than people’s own governments.

Though I expect this leads to a strong(er) alliance between $$$ gambling firms, the Republican Party, and the guys who love sports betting. Taking a minority position coded as young/masculine, potential wedge against Dems, and huge donors? That sounds like an easy choice for Republicans.

Really gratifying to see journalists attend to the administrative burdens that impede access to services and benefits to which people are entitled and desperately need. This really matters for vaccination.

Today in The Rational Public and we haven't even had the inevitable giant scandals in marquee sports

"Bots or likely bots authored 44.5% of X posts mentioning Cracker Barrel in the 24 hours after the new logo gained attention ... that number rose to 49% among posts calling for a boycott." Then Republicans jumped on, including the President. Great internet we made here www.wsj.com/articles/bot...

This is not the textbook way to prepare the military to be complicit in authoritarianism

"this thinking is so much of what has sent the Republican Party off the rails. Government isn’t for everybody, only for the winners of the last election. Government benefits are doled out preferentially based on tribal loyalties. Government is a liberal game that conservatives refuse to play."

I think it's one where they are confident they have allies on the boards. Penn for example seems to have a problem with inside jobs.

the analogy is the current Trump experiment: you can violate all the laws you want because SCOTUS will bail you out- but what if SCOTUS doesn't manage to cope with the many lower court decisions affirming you broke the law? Support of big guys at the top doesn't necessarily solve all problems.

personal liability was long the main (practically only) common law remedy for malfeasance so yeah.

My take is that Hungary is more and more confined by EU rule of law and rights frameworks, which means that Orban personally threatening vetoes in the Council is increasingly required for him to negotiate a way out. Overloading Orban's personal capacity so HU is held accountable more often.

Translated fiction in the US: "information on all 7,431 fiction bestsellers from 1931 to 2020 [finding] three distinct waves in which the popularity of translated works suddenly rises...before dissipating rapidly. Between these waves, in the trenches, bestsellers in translation fall to nearly zero."