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Patricia Strach @patriciastrach.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Racism, COVID, garbage, mosquitoes? Politics is all around us in the biggest and smallest things. Check it out!

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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

🎧🎧🎧 UAR Remixed is BACK! Tune in to hear Part 1 of our miniseries with the authors of the new symposium on the Local Politics of Public Health, streaming on all major platforms! www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...

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The Local Politics of Public Health — Urban Affairs Review

A podcast miniseries featuring the authors of the UAR symposium on the relationship between local politics and public health.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Check it out!! A podcast on the Local Politics of Public Health! Interviews with the authors of all the articles in this great Urban Affairs Review special issue.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

In 2017, when the Republicans tried to repeal the ACA, one of the key factors in its ultimate failure was the opposition of almost every sector of the health care industry. The scale and scope of the health care cuts contained in the GOP budget will likely (if more slowly) create similar opposition

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2025

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

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‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The JCPOA was one of the greatest diplomatic achievements of the 21st century. Multiple nations, several powerful blocks, a ton of oversight and the entire time diplomats were working it out domestic American media & politicians were demonizing it, lying about it, and trying to sabotage it. They won

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The super pac money is flowing in (instrumental power) and businesses are threatening to leave/close if Mamdani is elected (structural power). oligarchs deploying all the powers

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 22/06/2025

Trump bombing Iran was illegal and unjustified. I ran for Congress to make sure our leaders consider the true costs of war. And I will be in the Senate, standing on my titanium legs, demanding answers from Trump. My statement:

Duckworth statement on Trump’s strikes against Iran nuclear sites.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This JD Vance op-ed did not age well

Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars
He has my support in 2024 because I know he won’t recklessly send Americans to fight overseas.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/06/2025

Chuck Schumer: "No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war with erratic threats and no strategy." (via Punchbowl)

Leader Schumer Statement On
U.S. Strikes On Iran
New York, N. Y. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) released the following statement after President Trump announced that the United States struck targets in Iran:
"President Trump must provide the American people and Congress clear answers on the actions taken tonight and their implications for the safety of Americans. No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war with erratic threats and no strategy. Confronting Iran's ruthless campaign of terror, nuclear ambitions, and regional aggression demands strength, resolve, and strategic clarity. The danger of wider, longer, and more devastating war has now dramatically increased.
"We must enforce the War Powers Act and I'm urging Leader Thune to put it on the Senate floor immediately. I am voting for it and implore all Senators on both sides of the aisle to vote for it."

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Rep. Chrissy Houlahan @houlahan.house.gov · 22/06/2025

We have bombed a nation we are not at war with and have done so without Congress knowing about it, voting on it or approving it. President Trump’s actions are not only unconstitutional—they are dangerous.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/06/2025

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

So we know a few things -- Rubio and Hegseth, along with Vance, were behind Trump as the yesmen/props they are. Hegseth will brief at 8am, whether that's a proper military briefing or the verbal equivalent of 🔥emojis remains to be seen. No diplomatic plan, just "peace must come quickly."

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Congratulations to all the morons, maniacs and wreckers who just couldn't vote for Harris last year. You should feel bad about yourself forever. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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U.S. Bombs Iran Live Updates: Trump Says America Has Struck Three Nuclear Sites

President adds three nuclear sites in Iran were attacked

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, here it is, all in one post:

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

this is as good as turning the Constitution off. If this is what congressional leaders are going to do when an executive just seizes power from the legislative branch, we do not have one.

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 22/06/2025

Trump has no constitutional authority to take us to war with Iran without authorization from Congress, and Congress has not authorized it.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Jesus fucking Christ @cnn.com this is disgraceful.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This is the Washington Post - today - describing the fact that RFK Jr. does not believe that HIV is the cause of AIDS. It is not controversial at all. It is a fringe, extremist conspiracy based in science denial and it is objectively false.

It is unclear whether Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to bring the guidance in line with his own controversial views about an infectious disease that 30 years ago was the leading cause of death for people 25
to 44 years old.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Simultaneously eroding the health care workforce, cutting insurance, and increasing the cost to individuals/families. It’s like a “how to” if your goal is to massively erode access to care.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Feels like the makings for a great SNL parody ad.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I’d love to hear how these videos of masked agents using Explorers to disapear people is being discussed inside Ford Motor Company.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

If only major media had accurately described RFK Jr. in these terms during his nomination instead of using the inaccurate and softened “vaccine skeptic.” The media wrongly think that using “vaccine skeptic” is a way to avoid bias, but all it did was bias us in favor of RFK Jr, death, & disability.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Are there any studies/reviews that show how broad (or not broad) the universe of reviewers is that editors reach out to?

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

From the minute he was nominated, my summary in every interview or post was that there were absolutely no silver linings to his serving as Sec. of HHS—that he was an unqualified danger.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The provider tax is complex and hard to understand—which is precisely why the GOP is using it to hide & disguise massive Medicaid cuts. It’s also an indirect effort to repeal the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. The loss of funds will likely be so high that some states will stop covering this population.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

*that should say managed care organizations (MCOs). While called a provider tax, it also includes taxes placed on insurance companies.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

In California, where voters recently passed a tax on managed care providers by ballot initiative, we could see this source of funding cut by as much as 40%. This money would increase payments to doctors and various facilities that treat Medicaid beneficiaries, helping increase access to care.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

In the less punitive House version of the BBB, the cap on provider taxes would reduce Medicaid spending by $89B. The consequences of these cuts is pushed onto states. States will have to cut beneficiaries, cut benefits, or reduce provider payments. The result is lower access to care.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

JFC, Washington Post… Difficult options (or policy crises) created by his own outlandish, intemperate, unstable, and evidence-free statements and declarations.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

So, evidently, the media is gonna sanewash the crazy, destabilizing, and irresponsible position taking of the president as some sort of broad discussion and policy back-and-forth.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

These are people who have spent their entire adults lives working to gain status and accrue power…only to give it away to Trump, Miller, Hegseth, etc. smdh

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

California legislation (SB 1132) gives county public health officers the ability to inspect private detention centers—an important step to bringing these facilities under more state oversight. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Moldy food, dirty towels: Critics warn of inhumane conditions at California's largest detention center

In less than two months, the number of detainees at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center has surged from around 300 near the end of April to more than 1,200.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Ăn quả nhớ kẻ trồng cây. (When you eat fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.)

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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Moldy food, dirty towels: Critics warn of inhumane conditions at California's largest detention center

In less than two months, the number of detainees at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center has surged from around 300 near the end of April to more than 1,200.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It is true that sometimes New York City is frightening. For example today these men were loitering in the hallway of the 12th floor of the federal building.

4 men in jeans, t-shirts, bullet proof vests, balaclavas pulled up to their eyes, hats. They are armed and have badges but are not in uniform. They look both incredibly menacing and unbelievably dumb. They are standing at the end of an office hallway.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Describing Medicaid work requirements as a solution in search of a problem isn’t exactly right. Work requirements are actually a solution to a big Republican problem…namely, how to hide and disguise the massive, destructive cuts to Medicaid that the GOP has to make in order to pay for tax cuts.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Congressional Republicans are trying to push their dirty work onto state-level policymakers in legislatures and governors mansions. Congressional Republicans are cutting huge amounts of funding and then leaving it up to states to decide to cut benefits, cut beneficiaries, or eat huge new costs.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Work requirements “save” money by kicking people off Medicaid. Figuring out how to gut an incredibly popular social program like Medicaid is a huge problem for Republicans. So they’re hiding those cuts in the technical weeds of a complex health insurance program.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Evidently it's always casual Friday when your an armed, masked agent of the state.

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Andrew S. Kelly @askellyphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Feels like a punitive provider tax on expansion state is a pretty good way to divide your caucus, but....🤷‍♂️

A map of the US showing which states have expanded Medicaid under the ACA.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Children with complex medical needs and their families were on Capitol Hill this week lobbying senators against Medicaid cuts. From Megan Mineiro and @sangerkatz.bsky.social:

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‘Little Lobbyists’ Urge Senators to Oppose Trump’s Bill Cutting Medicaid

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