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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think I just found the worst possible way to express that a state law was sponsored by a Republican.

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Two minutes after I took this picture, she tried to convince me that she was positively dying of hunger, just withering on the vine.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh great, measles here in Allegheny County.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“I don’t understand why you’re mocking me. I’m literally just sitting here in a board game box. This is very serious business and you shouldn’t suggest otherwise.” #caturday

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t know why it always cracks me up, but love the way that Maude smooshes her face into the floor when she sleeps.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am amused by Joey Votto’s suit, but I can’t help wondering what @dieworkwear.bsky.social thinks.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meeting with some folks about Medicaid this evening. It’s just too bad they couldn’t get a decent view.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now can we abolish the death penalty?

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think you all deserve to know that this sleepy creature (Stella) woke herself up because of her snoring.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had a great time presenting at the University of Tampa some research toward my next book, The Health Care Trap, and meeting with the faculty and students. But it’s nice to be reunited with the cats in time for Caturday.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

9 years ago, I took one of my favorite pictures of Maude. Same vibes today.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Delayed in Tampa, so might as well remind Floridians at the airport that vaccines cause adults.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looking forward to giving this talk tonight at the University of Tampa, on the subject of my next book!

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love when my friends’ books arrive! This is such important work and I can’t wait to read and cite it. @michaelgmiller.bsky.social @kevintmorris.bsky.social

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spending this week in my Administrative Burden and Inequality in U.S. Health Care class teaching on Medicaid work requirements.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Guarding the guitars is tiring business.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hi Petra! What a beauty! Maude was supervising game night.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is my favorite thing I’ve ever done with ChatGPT

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Back at PNC, savoring the last of baseball season in Pittsburgh with a friend.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Love when friends tell me they spotted my book Coverage Denied in the wild! It doesn’t get old.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy Caturday, from our purrfect critters to yours.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Beautiful day for a ballgame in the “burgh.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I can't see orbs without thinking of Sleeper.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No bias whatsoever, but Pitt Law couldn’t have landed a better Constitution Day speaker than @stevevladeck.bsky.social, who I finally got to meet after years of social media interactions and whose work on the shadow docket I routinely assign to my health law students.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Maude looks like she knows what 2026 has been like

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When administrative burden prevents eligible people from enrolling in SNAP, there are ripple effects: Not only the learning, compliance & psychological costs outlined by @pamherd.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social, but also strains on food banks, reduced money toward local grocers, worse health, etc.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

While some Republican lawmakers claimed that the SNAP enrollment decline was evidence that there had been fraud, the evidence here is clear that administrative burden, not ineligibility, is at work. Ex: Amid these 3 million dropped calls, half of applications were denied for lack of timely interview

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After a certain point, what percent of marriage is going, “Honey, look at what our cat is doing!” and then getting annoyed that the cat changed its darling pose by the time they look? It can’t be less than 50%.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Around at noon? Tune into my Zoom talk with Ohio University’s Department of Social Medicine, when I’ll be discussing some of the findings toward my next book, The Health Care Trap: How U.S. Federal Law Entrenched the Power of Private Insurance (under contract with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org).

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We’re hosting brunch for friends tomorrow, a first for us and I’m taking the lead on cooking and then decided to make a playlist if we can’t agree on which records to play. I may have gone overboard because my playlist is 12 hours long. I should have been a DJ. Stella contributed nada but is cute

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happy Caturday from this purrrfect critter to yours.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TGIF. Please enjoy this pic of Maude snuggling with her mom.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Around next Monday at noon? I'm giving a Zoom talk with the Ohio University Dept of Social Medicine (thanks to @danskinner.bsky.social for the invite!) on my next book, which explores legal underpinnings of the coverage barriers I expose in Coverage Denied (www.amazon.com/Coverage-Den...). Join us!

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Update: Maude is no longer melting down

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Home sweet home with the critters. Maude is off somewhere being manic.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It was such an honor to accept the APSA Health Politics and Policy section’s Outstanding Public Engagement and Emerging Scholar awards. I feel so lucky to be part of such a wonderful and supportive community of scholars and humans working to build health politics scholarship and improve policy.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I hope one day you have as wonderful a coauthor as @xrkulik.bsky.social, who is not only brilliant, but also so kind as to make me a Maude sticker for my laptop.

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