Social workers (and friends) attending @appam.bsky.social in Seattle: we will meet for our annual happy hour on Friday night from 5-7 at Kells' Bar. Be in touch if you need details and share with your students/new colleagues. Looking forward! @arpilarz.bsky.social @calliefreitag.bsky.social

This is what happens when people who hate the government run the government. There is a tremendous incentive for them to do a bad job and hurt people so that people believe the public sector is incapable of providing a basic standard of living for everyone.

My job market paper is PUBLISHED! I'm so happy I could cry. I'll theoretically do a more detailed thread with findings later, but for now, here you go! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

This is so important. The focus on job numbers ignores the fact that the BLS computes inflation (the CPI) which is directly linked to many government and non-government benefits. Any attempt at politicizing inflation numbers is very, very, very bad…

What do the other 35% of people think is going to happen to them?

A core problem in American health is inequality. The richest 1% live 12 more years than the poorest 1%. Racial disparities cause Black Americans to die 4 years sooner than White Americans. Now remember: Trump's policies which will *worsen* inequality. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-trumps...

If you had a sense that kicking people off of Medicaid would be bad for their health, that is only scratching the surface of how bad Trump's policies will be for public health in America. @jbarofsky.bsky.social‬ & @pamherd.bsky.social do a deep dive. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-trumps...

I learned today that researchers estimated that these rules, when implemented, would save 13,000 lives a year. But under Trump's bill, they're blocked until 2034. So that's 13,000 unnecessary deaths each year as a direct policy choice. Plus all the daily indignities that understaffing inflicts.

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Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

I spent the first 8 years of my career trying to convince elected officials to care about children. I wish I could tell you it was an easy sell. It wasn't. It's hard to imagine US public policy being even LESS pro-kids than it already is, but OBBB truly will make things worse. shorturl.at/77c0m

Trump promised not to touch Medicare—but that’s exactly what this “big beautiful bill” will do, to the tune of $535 billion in cuts. CAP’s Don Berwick explains the harm:

New from me at @motherjones.com: the Senate just voted to take $930 billion from Medicaid, which could greatly impact optional Medicaid expansion and also lead to cuts of "optional" Medicaid benefits...which keep people functional. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We used monthly survey data to take a closer look at the potential implications of #Medicaid work requirements for adults without dependent children. Adults ages 50-64 are at greater risk of losing Medicaid coverage for not meeting the new requirements. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

They’re USAIDing NSF

Can you believe the NYT best movies thing does not have Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar as an option 🤯

I said what I said: "The Trump Admin has undertaken a radical restructuring [of Social Security &] claim it won’t cause damage [to] customer service. If they really believe they can serve a growing customer base w/fewer staff, they should put up or shut up." www.marketwatch.com/story/how-lo...

This Republican budget bill is SO bad. What it would do to health care, to education, while enshrining Trump's abuses of power... It'd legit be the worst legislation since the Patriot Act era. PLEASE, call your Rep, whoever they are. Use the link to find out who they are. Tell them to vote no.

It's silly to act like disabled people will be spared from Medicaid work requirements. Many disabled people are on Medicaid solely because they are poor, not because they're on SSI.

NEW: Many workers, especially those who work shifts or gigs, have volatile incomes. ACA #obamacare enrollees with less predictable incomes could face coverage barriers and bigger penalties under the House GOP reconciliation package & other expected policy changes @kff.org www.kff.org/affordable-c...

The Worker Protection Act received unanimous support from Colorado's Democratic legislators and was backed by the state's labor movement. On Friday, Gov. Jared Polis vetoed it. My latest with @prospect.org: prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

New @centeronbudget.bsky.social analysis of the draft GOP tax plan released yesterday: Unsurprisingly, it provides enormous tax cuts for the wealthy—including an average annual $65k cut for the top 1%—while doing little for low- and moderate-income families in 2027 (and even less by 2029).

“An emphasis on lifestyle ultimately assigns structural and institutional problems to individual Americans to solve for themselves. In a country where wealth buys health, how many Americans can afford to insulate themselves and their families from risks of disease and disability?” 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

In a functional democracy, a policy which 85% of Americans don’t support would never have a chance of passing. In the US, our political system is extremely bad at representing popular opinion or translating our preferences into law. It’s just an entirely broken system.

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

When I was pregnant with my first, I lived in a county that didn't have a hospital with labor & delivery. Well, labor progressed so fast, I ended up giving birth at home rather than risk the ~40 minute drive to the hospital where my OB was. I was lucky. Other moms won't be if these cuts go through.

-it’s not good that 100% of policy analysis happens within only one major party’s network -it’s not biased for scientists, researchers, or experts of any form to reject a party that entirely rejects science, analysis, and evidence

ChatGPT “encourages] users to rely less and less on inner resources and personal capacity at a time when most of us are already losing the equipment—our will, our instincts, our sense of purchase—with which we handle the task of being alive,” Jia Tolentino writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women. Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.

More about how federal research cuts are affecting UW-Madison and beyond, including the elimination of our beloved @uwrdrc.bsky.social 👇👇👇 madison.com/news/local/e...

Fabulous thread for instructors, journalists, & consumers of news. High-quality survey research is hard and expensive. Few if any dot.coms do it well. Low-quality surveys produce flashy and sound-bite worthy claims that masquerade as facts, but more often than not it's "garbage in, garbage out."

Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.

Had a great conversation with Terry Gross/Fresh Air to walk through the whole landscape of Trump family conflicts of interest that have emerged. Real estate. Golf clubs. Crypto, Foreign government deals. Even a $500,000-a-head private club in DC. @nprfreshair.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...

This is today at 1 ET! Will be streamed here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=uWKZ...

I will be at the vigil. Medicaid has played a significant part in my life and the lives of my family and friends. Come out and join us.

Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...

You may remember Michael Hickson, a Black disabled man who was denied life-saving care in early Covid. His estate’s case is before the conservative Fifth Circuit of Appeals, where judges could gut disability rights in healthcare. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They want to track autism, miscarriages, abortion, birth control use but don’t want to track measles, bird flu, Covid or salmonella. Ask yourselves why that is. They’re setting the stage to blame people for their disabilities. To slate them for elimination. It’s eugenics & it’s escalating.

I know everyone has moved on from the Abrego Garcia case but it's still important, and Trump has now accidentally opened up major new lines of inquiry by admitting that he could bring him back whenever he wants. Establishing who is advising Trump to defy SCOTUS is critical:

Trump's SSA has knowingly & falsely declared thousands of people dead. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

The Trump Admin/DOGE have been wreaking havoc at Social Security for months. Just a few examples: They’ve restricted phone service, pushing millions more to visit offices in person—even as there are thousands fewer SSA staff to serve them. www.cbpp.org/blog/nearly-...

The Trump skinny budget says they’re proposing flat funding for SSA. Even under normal circumstances, that isn’t nearly enough to keep up with inflation & growing demand. SSA serves about 1M more people each year.

Don’t be fooled by the claims in the “skinny budget” that Social Security is being protected. The Trump Admin is continuing to cut the Social Security Administration and harm the older & disabled people who rely on it to access their benefits. 🧵

What Medicaid Cuts Would Do to My Rural Hospital--a perspective from a rural hospital CEO www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...

Great segment on the new pro-natalist movement on Fresh air with @karenguzzo.bsky.social! She notes "when you talk about having the best and brightest and using technology, you are really darn close to eugenics." www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

The White House's "skinny budget" clarifies that they are, indeed, proposing to end all new extramural AHRQ funding while folding it into ASPE. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... (Standard disclaimer that AHRQ is an agency created and funded by Congress, not at the whims of the executive branch)

are you, like me, one of the 4 to 5 million borrowers who might get screwed by the Trump admin's new plan on student debt? are you not sure if you fall into that category? come read the (bad, mostly) news, and about steps you can take to protect yourself @teenvogue.com ⏬