Welp. (gift link)

You’re seeing the limits of an entire political movement based around one guy. Trump won in 24 with a unique coalition of Latinos and young people in addition to the traditional R voters, and Trump just completely abandoned these new supporters as president to the detriment of the entire party 1/4

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...

With alt text. Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

Fantastic article by my Michigan colleague Seda Saluk

Yes

I agree that Obergefell is probably going down, too. 😔

Every word of this 👇

Good. Michigan civil rights law still applies and protects against gender identity discrimination in hospitals and clinics. www.michigan.gov/ag/-/media/P...

It’s here

😔

These exclusions from employee health benefits for adults would seem to be straightforwardly illegal under Bostock and equal protection. I put nothing past this Roberts court, though.

Hi it’s me

RFK Jr.’s Wants to Overhaul the US ‘Vaccine Court.’ What Would That Actually Look Like? (I'm so excited to be re-published in @talkingpointsmemo.com, one of my favorite news sites that I pay for :) Also I love the new title!

A great resource for those of you wondering what’s this vaccine court and why is RFK Jr attacking it?

The mRNA announcement and its fallout is critical context for any plans to overhaul the vaccine compensation system. Seems pretty chaotic over there.

My new article in @theconversation.com today explains what's going on at the vaccine court under RFK, Jr.'s HHS leadership. Yes, it's alarming, but it's also complicated.

Nothing makes a girl feel young again like all the RFK terrible arguments coming back (gift link). The vaccine court was the subject of my 2016 book from @nyupress.bsky.social. It's still relevant today because it explains and contextualizes all Kennedy's current criticisms.

👊 @clancyny.bsky.social

My new book and I are both happy to be at #ASA2025 with @ucpress.bsky.social open access!

He’s so right

I wrote a thing with @scottlgreer.bsky.social in @bmj.com: "Research money will be wasted on investigating already debunked links between autism and vaccination, while vaccination infrastructure, such as vaccination programmes run by local governments, will be eroded."

My blog conversation with @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social -- how do the structural features of our political system undermine health care civil rights? What's the role of insurance companies? What do I most wish you knew?

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system. Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

Get ready for measles on airplanes, measles in schools, measles in theaters -- arg. The first dose for children isn't recommended until 12-15 months old.

Insightful piece here:

Title IX, the civil rights law for education that we know best for its reach into sports, is also the link to banning sex discrimination under Section 1557 of the ACA. The conservative supermajority will use this case to say that there can be no gender identity protections throughout healthcare.

I talk with Kathryn Rabino from @abovethelaw.com about my new book, Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients from @ucpress.bsky.social on The Jabot podcast

I'm seeing a lot of bad reporting today about these possible changes. Some outlets (not this one) are confusing ACIP and the vaccine compensation program, thinking that RFK can simply fire people and say that autism is now a compensable vaccine injury, for example. It's trickier than that! 🧵 1/x

Very detailed explanation here:

Yes, and ew.

These rulings are because the "big beautiful bill" is in the Senate budget reconciliation process. Spending bills in this status can only be about money, not policy. This is a case of some of the rules holding because people are hard at work insisting they apply.

Chaos at the CDC’s vaccine meeting. One member resigned. Some scientific materials weren’t vetted. The American Academy of Pediatrics is boycotting. So yeah, it’s going great! Here's a bunch of information and analysis, including some breaking news 🧵 1/

👇👇👇❤️ “They don’t need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it’s pointless to look. They don’t need to silence truth-tellers if we’ve already decided truth is meaningless. So yes, I care. I care desperately.”

It’s encouraging that Newsom is taking a stand because if our most crass opportunist is stepping up then it’s obvious which way the wind is blowing.

Great piece on the LA protests by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social — www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o... Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence

Strawberry rhubarb, also abolish ICE.

This is appalling and should stop immediately. It's not compatible with institutional integrity as a university. It sure looks like we can't tell the truth about it and that somebody's going to get hurt.

You can stand for nothing and make millions of dollars but if the moon is right maybe, just maybe you get what you deserve

I thought this would happen and I find it very amusing

BREAKING: The Florida higher education system Board of Governors rejects the hiring of Santa Ono as University of Florida president. Vote was 6 yes, 10 no.

Health Care Civil Rights is out and about in Chicago! @lawandsociety.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social Book buddies with Shauhin Talesh! 👊 *Free* and open access, link below:

Great summary of the real ways MAGA undermines our hard-earned freedom from (some) infectious diseases: defunding research while promoting long-discredited fraudsters. 😔

Michigan called out in humiliating contrast to Harvard at the start of this article. Can we stop being a national embarrassment?

Truth

This is a terrific and extremely important post by @salome.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-rig...

Vomitous

It is essential that the next president of the University of Michigan be a tenured member of our faculty. That Santa Ono was not was a huge red flag. That one fact turned out to be so revealing.