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Jen Greenfield

@jcgreenfield.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof @ U of Denver, researcher, policy specialist, social worker, mentor, learner, neurodivergent mom of twins. News junkie who believes in science, coffee, and the Oxford comma. #AcademicMama #ADHD #FosterDogs linktr.ee/jcgreenfield

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
FY27 House budget calls AHRQ "duplicative." As @academyhealth.bsky.social highlights here, and as I wrote as well (mirandayaver.substack.com/p/why-house-...), this is false. AHRQ does the essential work of funding health systems research & training the next generation. Call Congress: 202-224-3121
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Why House Republicans' Plan to Eliminate AHRQ Would Be a Disaster
The House of Representatives is at it again, working to eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a proposed cut that is as misguided as it is dangerous.
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Jen Greenfield @jcgreenfield.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This month, I got to write about an urgent issue that needs more attention: the US has a wage problem. Full-time work should be enough to support a family, but too often, it leaves workers relying on safety net programs like SNAP instead. Wages need to be higher—full stop. How do we get there?
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Thousands of employed Colorado workers need SNAP benefits to make ends meet
Colorado’s minimum wage has increased, but not nearly enough to cover the rising cost of food.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2026
GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.
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Team Phil @philforcolorado.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
A judge has blocked Trump from cutting SNAP benefits from 600,000 Coloradans.  We won’t let Trump break the laws and bully Colorado.  I will continue fighting the Trump Administration’s lawless actions in the courts. And we will continue winning. #Philforgovernor #COpolitics
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/02/2026
To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
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Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies
The Torres family story came to public attention after the teen’s father was detained at a Home Depot in Niles.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else. newrepublic.com/post/206088/...
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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Oh look, some enterprising reporter spent a bunch of time with the Taylor Rehmet campaign and wrote about it in the context of the regional, far-right politics!
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Last February, the Trump administration zeroed out funding for all six Retirement and Disability Research Consortia across the country. They called them “wasteful government DEI programs.” The total annual cost of all six centers? $15 million.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 23/01/2026
NEW: In a revelation that undercuts the GOP narrative of widespread noncitizen voting in elections, a Utah audit of over 2 million voter registrations found only one apparent noncitizen on the rolls — and they never even voted.
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Utah reviewed its voter rolls for noncitizens. It found one. Who never voted
The results sharply undercut the narrative of widespread noncitizen voting Republicans are using to promote new nationwide restrictions on voting.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 22/01/2026
Trump revoked the Obama-era policy that kept ICE out of schools. Now federal agents can enter school buildings and parking lots, and some parents are keeping kids home entirely out of fear.
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Federal immigration enforcement near schools disrupts attendance, traumatizes students and damages their academic performance
While federal immigrant agents need to produce a judicial warrant to enter a classroom, they can freely operate in public spaces at and around schools.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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China Purchased No U.S. Soybeans For An Unprecedented Fifth Straight Month
U.S. soybean famers look for markets other than China as the trade war with the United States continues: countries like Mexico, Egypt, Germany and Pakistan.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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?...
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State of denial: How insurance companies impact health care today
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 08/01/2026
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.
Image of a public records request.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/01/2026
Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/12/2025
Top tier joke
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Has anyone told Jared?
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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...
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Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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!
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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...
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A Colorado guaranteed income program could help families, but the costs are high
A few hundred extra dollars a month would go a long way for many Coloradans.
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Jen Greenfield @jcgreenfield.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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...
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A Colorado guaranteed income program could help families, but the costs are high
A few hundred extra dollars a month would go a long way for many Coloradans.
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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Douglas County teacher arrested by ICE leaves country with family
A Douglas County teacher who was arrested by immigration authorities last month has since left the United States and returned to Peru, her former school said.
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Jen Greenfield @jcgreenfield.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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.
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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.
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 13/11/2025
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
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Epstein Document Search
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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.
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Airport Planner ✈️ @airportplanner.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Northern Lights made a spectacular appearance above Denver International Airport (DEN) last night #DEN #airport #avgeek 📸courtesy of DEN Operations
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CPR News @cprnews.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Boebert was one of four Republicans who went around their leadership to force a vote.
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Despite White House pressure, Rep. Lauren Boebert stands firm on effort to release Epstein files
Boebert was one of four Republicans who went around their leadership to force a vote.
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Beth B. @bethanybergart.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Y'all the aurora tonight!!
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 12/11/2025
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
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2 ways you can conserve the water used to make your food
Consumer choices about what to eat and how much of it can affect how much water farmers need to use.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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...
Black-and-white photo of Dorothy Vaughan in front of an IBM machine (computer maybe?). She is smiling, her hair is up, and she is wearing a sleeveless dress with a multistrand of pearls.Headshot of Dorothy Vaughan in later life.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/11/2025
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”
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Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
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 ...
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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... 🧪🔭
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NGC 3370: Stepladder to the Universe
Also, it’s a very pretty spiral galaxy
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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.
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 05/11/2025
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
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Colorado progressives ahead in key local races | Colorado Newsline
More than 1.2 million ballots had been cast statewide in Tuesday's election, according to data from the secretary of state's office.
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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
NEW: Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p... #copolitics #coleg
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Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps
Proposition MM's passage means Colorado will be able to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students
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Jen Greenfield @jcgreenfield.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We can do good things.
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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
this is objectively hilarious
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
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Updates Key Races N.Y.C. Mayor

Va. Gov.
County
Margin

Shift from 2024 pres.
T Votes
Loudoun

Spanberger +29
* 12 pts.
164,366
Prince William

Spanberger +34
× 16 pts.
161,419
Portsmouth

Spanberger +47
* 8.1 pts.
29,956
Washington

Earle-Sears +49
* 4.5 pts.
20,927
Louisa

Earle-Sears +20
* 6.5 pts.
18,719
Orange

Earle-Sears +15
* 9.3 pts.
17,127
Powhatan

Earle-Sears +40
* 4.4 pts.
16,957
Pulaski

Earle-Sears +38
* 7.1 pts.
12,466
Dinwiddie

Earle-Sears +17
~ 6.3 pts.
11,974
Harrisonburg

Spanberger +41
× 15 pts.
11,753
Manassas

Spanberger +30
* 16 pts.
11,514
Carroll

Earle-Sears +57
~ 6.1 pts.
11,277
Wise

Earle-Sears +59
~ 4.6 pts.
10,962
Fairfax City

Spanberger +45
* 11 pts.
10,232
Fredericksburg

Spanberger +43
* 11 pts.
10,191
Salem

Earle-Sears +12
6.9 pts.
9,374
King William

Earle-Sears +34
* 7.1 pts.
8,999
Russell

Earle-Sears +63
* 4.9 pts.
8,860
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Look, I’m not saying it’s *guaranteed* we can do this in SoCal next November, but I’m not *not* saying it either
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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