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LynnBlewett

@lynnblewett.bsky.social
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University of Minnesota, Faculty, Health Policy, Director of SHADAC, Trying to find a place to land…

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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Justice for Alex and Renee! 🙏🙏🙏
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
New Resource: National Health Law Program State Abortion Coverage Map @nhelp.bsky.social @prh.org @heatherhhoward.bsky.social tinyurl.com/jdk9syar
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Good info from @kff.org www.kff.org/patient-cons...
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Prior Authorization Metrics Provide New Insights into Insurer Practices, but Gaps Remain | KFF
This analysis of available 2025 prior authorization data finds insurers denied at least 1 in 8 standard requests for prior authorization across three insurance markets: Medicare Advantage, Medicaid ma...
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
IPUMS health surveys offers an integrated and harmonized version of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) the world’s longest running annual, population survey of health. bsky.app/profile/ipum... @minnpop.bsky.social lcc.umn.edu/node/2106
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Using IPUMS NHIS to Study Aging and Health | LIFE COURSE CENTER, AN NIA CENTER ON THE DEMOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS OF AGING
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Thank you Dr. Carroll, President and CEO of @academyhealth.bsky.social for highlighting the impact of the dismantling of needed health service research! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/o...
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Opinion | Medical Breakthroughs Are a Thrill. Then Comes the Hard Part. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has dismantled the agency that ensures that research makes its way into medical practice.
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I agree with Demetris Yannopoulos! www.startribune.com/u-fairview-d...
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Opinion | The University of Minnesota name should not be removed from these hospitals
On Jan. 1, the University of Minnesota Medical Center name is scheduled to disappear as part of a new agreement with Fairview Health Services, Dr. Demetris Yannopoulos writes.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Steve Earle has released this beautiful video of his song "City of Immigrants," which was directed by Steve Buscemi. It's a wonderful ode to a key cause of American greatness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkRt...
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Steve Earle - "City Of Immigrants" [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Steve Earle
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
$6.28 Billion in profit in ONE quarter - U.S. Health Care System! tinyurl.com/mstvj9uu
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UnitedHealth upgrades outlook, profit
UnitedHealth upgrades outlook, profit
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Further damage to the health service research infrastructure in this country. It will take years, maybe decades, to recover! tinyurl.com/4r24dvcx
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‘Nobody answers’: The unraveling of a patient care research agency
A small federal agency responsible for studying how health care works for patients is largely dormant despite receiving millions of dollars from Congress for research into antibiotic resistance, healt...
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Link to U.S. Senate floor proceeding. www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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U.S. Senate: Floor Proceedings
Floor Activity
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
OMB fact sheets titled "Cuts to Woke Programs Fact Sheet” “President Trump is committed to eliminating radical gender and racial ideologies that poison the minds of Americans. The President’s FY 2027 Budget upholds the Constitution by eliminating funding for cultural Marxism.” tinyurl.com/4ah9htxp
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Magnificent No Kings protest sign in Ellsworth, Maine. 10/10.
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What’s going on with Minnesota Medicaid funding? www.newsfromthestates.com/article/what...
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What’s going on with Minnesota Medicaid funding?
Minnesota vs. Trump administration on Medicaid: Your questions, answered.Did I hear we got some good news last week on Medicaid?You heard right. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved ...
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 19/03/2026
People of Twin Cities win JFK Profile in Courage Award minnesotareformer.com/briefs/peopl...
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People of Twin Cities win JFK Profile in Courage Award • Minnesota Reformer
"The people of the Twin Cities responded with extraordinary courage and resolve."
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What a great chart! MN Center for Health Care Affordability Legislative Report 2025. #healthpolicy tinyurl.com/mr3mew2r
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Don’t come for Minnesota in the winter! We live and play here!!
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The ordinary message from #Minnesota “I am my neighbor’s keeper!” Thank you! @Thomaslfriedman.bluesky.social @rbreich.bluesky.social robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...
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Sunday Thought #2: The Legacy of These Dark Days
The meaning of Minnesota
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Fed judge hears arguments in lawsuit over MN federal Medicaid funding halt. #healthpolicy “Zorn’s motion to be admitted in court to represent the federal govt was only submitted Thurs morning (yesterday!) It had not yet been approved when the hearing started.” tinyurl.com/5h7t65ua
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Federal judge hears arguments in lawsuit over federal Medicaid funding halt
A federal judge in St. Paul heard arguments Thursday from the state of Minnesota and the Trump administration over a halt of $259 million in Medicaid payments to the state.
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Minnesota uninsured rate increased from a historic low of 3.8% in 2023 to 5.8% in 2025. It’s just the beginning! MN still has its own state survey. tinyurl.com/mr2srb2h
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Melissa Hortman, Lawyer and former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Rest in Peace!
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“Federal officials ought to be working with the state to put fraudsters in jail, not imposing financial penalties on it that could undermine enrollees’ medical care or destabilize the state’s hospitals and nursing homes.” Thx @jburcom for clear insight! www.startribune.com/trump-withho...
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Burcum: Target Medicaid fraud, not innocent people’s health care
"Medicaid serves a highly vulnerable population with few alternatives for coverage," columnist Jill Burcum writes.
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Letter from over 900 MN physicians in the New England Journal of Medicine. #ICEOUT “Our patients are being harmed. People are dying unnecessarily…we call for an immediate end to the violence and trauma that is being inflicted on our patients and our communities by ICE” www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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We Do Care | NEJM
Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Guns drawn in small town MN! The local police chief intervened! #ICEOUT www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to be the first time local police...
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Local news statement
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Be alarmed!! Thx Patti!@pboozang.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/80millio...
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Medicaid Fraud: Political Rhetoric vs. Reality
Why every state should be alarmed by what’s happening in Minnesota.
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/01/2026
ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“Minnesota should not have to withstand another month, another week, another day, of this unlawful invasion” tinyurl.com/yy2zyebw
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Hmmmm…..”we are calling for an immediate deescalation of tensions and for state, local and federal officials to work together to find real solutions.” www.mnchamber.com/blog/open-le...
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Open letter from more than 60 CEOs of Minnesota-based companies | Minnesota Chamber of Commerce
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Read this!!!
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
ICE agents shot Alex Pretti at least 10 times within five seconds! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
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Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti. A 37-year-old Minnesotan, ICU nurse, U.S. citizen. Murdered! By the U.S. federal government. His government. My government. Your government!!
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This needs to stop NOW!
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Minnesota legend!
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
MPLS shows up at -10 degrees! We have had enough! ICE Out NOW!
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Could some leader or group of leaders go and get that little boy and bring him home to his family?! This is just not OK!
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Live: Activists arrested after church protest, JD Vance to meet with ICE agents in Minnesota
Attorney General Pam Bondi announces arrest of civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong in Minnesota.
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
One more video! What the heck?! This is a nightmare!
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This has been a very active and terrible ICE day in Minnesota! #ICEOUT now!!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/01/2026
next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez: -barred ICE from arresting or pepper spraying people for simply observing or criticizing the federal government's action -ruled that safely following ICE vehicles does not on its own justify a traffic stop www.axios.com/2026/01/17/f...
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Federal judge bars ICE from retaliating against protesters in Minnesota
Six U.S. citizens who had encounters with ICE sued, seeking to rein in the agency's tactics.
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Another ICE shooting! “This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,” Walz said. “Instead, it is a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.” www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Live: Shooting reported in Minneapolis allegedly involving federal agents
Gov. Tim Walz address Minnesotans in a live broadcast Wednesday night on the surge of federal immigration agents in Minnesota. A federal judge has declined to immediately rule on the ICE surge in Minn...
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The new Mayor of St Paul! It’s insanity here!
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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Yes!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
WARNING to ST. Paul: ICE is going door to door with weapons drawn.
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Cheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune
Pat Bagley cartoon
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