Here is the CBS Sunday Morning piece for which I was interviewed about findings from my book Coverage Denied. Health insurance barriers ration health care by inconvenience, imposing hurdles to get prescribed care with administratively burdensome appeals many can’t navigate. youtu.be/SRPOoPDN-7w?...

Last year, a new law mandated severe cuts to SNAP benefits, including by increasing work requirements on parents and older adults. We need to know how these cuts are affecting Americans. We filed FOIA requests for impact analyses and communications about the cuts.

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

Top tier joke

Has anyone told Jared?

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

After some back and forth, we're settled: 'An American Problem: How the Country Built — And the Supreme Court Broke — The Voting Rights Act' will be coming your way from Princeton University Press next fall!

This autumn's disastrous government shutdown -- and the threat to SNAP coverage for millions of Americans -- have re-spurred conversations about guaranteed income, UBI, and publicly funded cash dividend programs. theconversation.com/a-colorado-g...

With federal safety net programs more unstable & inadequate than ever, is it time to establish an income floor for everyone? In this piece, Kaitlyn Sims, Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, & I some potential costs & benefits of creating a cash dividend program in Colorado. theconversation.com/a-colorado-g...

If you believed Trump would only detain and deport "dangerous criminals" and "bad people" than I hope you realize he lied to you. This is a woman who did nothing but help children learn. Our community is worse for losing her - and everyone like her. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/17/d...

I attended a scientific conference this week and as I sat through a couple 1.5 hour sessions with 5 15-20 minute presentations back-to-back, a question began speaking very loudly in my head: WHY DO WE DO THIS? It seems like an absurd way to disseminate our work.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.

If we still have a congress in 2026 they better vote to put every senator, rep, judge, and admin official on the second highest cost silver plan and force them to take the employer contribution part in the form of a tax credit with a whole separate schedule to fill out.

The Northern Lights made a spectacular appearance above Denver International Airport (DEN) last night #DEN #airport #avgeek 📸courtesy of DEN Operations

Boebert was one of four Republicans who went around their leadership to force a vote.

Y'all the aurora tonight!!

Producing a pound of beef requires roughly 1,800 gallons of water compared with 500 gallons for chicken. Even modest shifts in your diet could sig nificantly reduce the water needed to grow your food. buff.ly/TpENcde

Dorothy Vaughan | NASA mathematician, programmer & manager died #OTD in 2008 First Black female supervisor at NACA (precursor to NASA), expert programmer, Scout Launch Vehicle Program contributor & more. #WomenInSTEM Learn more about this "Hidden Figure:" nasa.gov/people/dorot...

🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

If you need a break from Earthly bullshit may I present to you some cosmic gloriousness? I suspect it may help. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ngc-3370-s... 🧪🔭

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

Early, unofficial Colorado election results Tuesday night showed progressive, union-backed and Democratic-affiliated candidates leading in many of the highest-profile races at the local level. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

NEW: Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p... #copolitics #coleg

We can do good things.

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

this is objectively hilarious

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

Look, I’m not saying it’s *guaranteed* we can do this in SoCal next November, but I’m not *not* saying it either

ZOHRAN MAMDANI

Poverty is the parent of revolution - Aristotle Pic of the day #photography

Dems in ARRAY

Seems like the guy who threw the sandwich at the federal agent is holding his own in the trial today.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

A couple of reminders for context on SNAP: The avg SNAP benefit is around $6.20/day. And it can take up to two weeks to reload EBT cards, so deciding today to partially fund SNAP through contingency funds -- which took a damn lawsuit for them to do -- is still inadequate. apnews.com/article/snap...

Wow.

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

It’s an honor to be on this list with such amazing colleagues. And, for real, I’ve got more than a few words to say about this. Denying food assistance to millions of food-insecure families in order to pressure Congress to raise insurance premiums is truly mind-boggling.

📢 With Affordable Care Act #ACA marketplace open enrollment beginning Nov. 1, millions of Americans will see firsthand how much their health insurance premiums are set to rise in 2026. For reporters covering this, these experts are available for comment. ⤵️ 🔗 Connect: scholars.org/features/exp...

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

Who is this person? 🤷‍♂️

Increasing work requirements isn’t going to increase workforce participation. It’s going to increase hunger. I’m glad Newsweek is clear about this (and grateful I had a chance to comment in this piece).

“As much as we are being lied to by this administration…perhaps the most dangerous falsehoods are the ones we tell ourselves about the severity of the crisis… Whatever becomes of American liberal democracy…it will be a resurrection and not a continuation.” Well put by @aselrod.bsky.social

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data. We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district. Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):