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Tiffany D. Joseph

@tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social
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Dr. Joseph’s research and teaching interests explore: race, ethnicity, and migration in the Americas; the influence of immigration on the social construction of race in the U.S., immigrants' health and healthcare access.

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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I gave my TEDx NortheasternU talk and I'm still riding the high! Key line: "At some point, we all get sick and need health care." That's the universal truth that should unite us. What's ONE thing YOU would do to improve US healthcare? 👇 #TEDx #HealthcareReform #HealthEquity #PublicHealth
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The partial government shutdown over DHS funding is a consequence of extreme immigration enforcement — these policies affect us all. Reposting my August 2025 op-ed about anti-immigrant violence and fear expanding to citizens. Still timely. Still urgent. www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
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We Are All Immigrants Now: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Decimates Health Care Access for All But a Privileged Few | Milbank Memorial Fund
The GOP Plan to End Obamacare involves fiscally starving it to death rather than an explicit repeal. Trump’s recent signing of the “Big Beautiful Bill” brings us closer to that harsh reality.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Thrilled to speak at TEDx Northeastern University on Feb 21st! 🎤 I'll be sharing insights from my @hopkinspress.bsky.social book Not All In on healthcare system challenges and my vision for meaningful reform. Can't wait to connect with this community! #TEDxNortheastern #HealthcareReform #NotAllIn
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/02/2026
A novel lawsuit from residents in Portland, Oregon, argues that the tear gas used by ICE agents is a health threat. The chemicals, residents say, have soaked into apartment walls, furniture and even children’s toys.
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Portland Lawsuit Alleges Tear Gas Use by ICE Is a Health Threat
A novel lawsuit in Portland argues the chemicals are a health threat that have soaked into apartment walls, furniture and even children’s toys.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I usually post about immigration & health, but today it’s AI. The Anthropic lawsuit shows how creators’ work is being used without consent. Scholars’ labor deserves protection—not token settlements. wapo.st/3NRgU5C
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Immigration scholars warned this would happen. Mass deportation + deep funding cuts = slower population growth, labor shortages, and real risks to Social Security and Medicare. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded the 2026 Robin M. Williams Jr. Lecturer from the Eastern Sociological Society. I'm grateful for this recognition and look forward to sharing insights from my work. #Sociology #EasternSociologicalSociety #AcademicResearch #NotAllIn #SocialScience
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Though MLK's Birthday was celebrated Monday, I think of him often. Because of my research, this quote is prescient now: "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane." It was the inspiration for an op-ed I published in Salon: www.salon.com/2026/01/19/m....
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Throwing it back to 2018 talk at University of Chicago CHAS where I discussed how race, legal status, and healthcare intersect in real and tangible ways. ▶️ Watch the full video here: bit.ly/3KIjSYR #NotAllIn #HealthcareAccess #RacializedLegalStatus #HealthEquity
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year and warm wishes for 2026. May this year bring clarity, confidence, and forward momentum. #happynewyear2026
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The shooting at Brown University, my alma mater, hit close to home. I was a student there in 2000. This cannot be normal. We must do better. bit.ly/3N7DuGC
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A nightmare on Hope Street, a frantic manhunt, and the tip that broke open the case - The Boston Globe
Providence residents went days without knowing who the gunman behind the Brown shooting was, or whether he was still among them.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
May this holiday season bring peace, happiness, and new opportunities. Thank you for your support this year. Happy Holidays and warm wishes for the New Year. #happyholidays #merrychristmas
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It is so heartbreaking to read headlines like these every day. This country is detaining and deporting children and separating families…again. Where is the compassion? Article: nyti.ms/48yIQ6k #HumanRights
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ICE Separates Boy, 6, From Father During Effort to Deport Them to China
The child and his father fled China earlier this year and the boy had just been enrolled in school. Federal officials have tried and failed to send them back.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This year’s healthcare debate has been frustrating — Medicaid cuts this summer, and now ACA subsidies are set to expire with no agreed-upon plan. Premiums are rising and millions could lose coverage. How have these proposals affected you? More: bit.ly/3Ydq8Ld @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Republicans Under Pressure To Deliver Long-Awaited Health Care Plan
Despite the pressure, it looks like Republicans will fail to coalesce around a plan — and premiums will spike for millions.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
#ThrowbackThursday Six years ago, I gave an early talk at UChicago’s Center for Health Administration that helped shape what later became my concept of racialized legal status—the core of my book Not All In. bit.ly/3IbGe3u @Hopkins Press Full Video: bit.ly/3KIjSYR #Immigration #TBT
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Not All In reveals a major flaw in U.S. healthcare reform: having insurance doesn’t ensure care access. It highlights how racialized legal status affects marginalized communities, opposing the goals of Massachusetts and ACA reforms. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3IbGe3u #NotAllIn #ACA
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Open enrollment is coming—health insurance premiums may rise 9%. Many employers will pass the cost to workers. As ACA subsidies expire, Medicaid cuts loom, and care is becoming less affordable. We need better solutions. Read: 🗞️ NYT: nyti.ms/4odM4Bf%F0%9... WaPo: wapo.st/4np7ydf
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The workers whose health care is most at stake in the government shutdown
About 10 million small-business owners, employees and the self-employed are caught in the middle of the shutdown fight over the Affordable Care Act.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Excited to share my interview with Claire Altman for IAPHS! We dove into my book, Not All In. A must-read on how immigration policy and racial inequities shape health care today. Full interview bit.ly/3JnaitF Get Not All In bit.ly/3IbGe3u @hopkinspress.bsky.social #Immigration #NotAllIn #IAPHS
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Excited to join UC colleagues for an online discussion about my book, Not All In. We'll dive into the ties between immigration policy, racial inequities, and health care reform. Learn more about Not All In: bit.ly/3IbGe3u @hopkinspress.bsky.social #NotAllIn #UCSystem @ucdavisglobal.bsky.social
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
In my Book Talk at Brown University, I discussed how policymakers are undermining the Affordable Care Act by cutting its funding. "What’s the plan when all these people lose coverage?" Catch the full convo on YouTube: bit.ly/4q5RzmU Get Not All In: bit.ly/3IbGe3u @Hopkins Press
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"Not All In" highlights a critical issue in the US healthcare system: having insurance doesn't always mean access to care, especially for marginalized communities. This goes against ACA reforms aimed at improving care access. Read more: bit.ly/3IbGe3u @Hopkins Press #NotAllIn
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
ICE enforcement efforts are intensifying across the country and especially in Massachusetts. It is a sad day when children are being used like bait to detain their parents. These children will be traumatized for life. Full article here: bit.ly/484QPYQ #ImmigrationPolicy #FamilySeparation
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Leominster family says ICE agents held their daughter outside their home so they would turn themselves over - The Boston Globe
“Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs,” an agent tells the father, waving at him to come out of the house, according to video the family recorded.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
📖 From Not All In: “One crucial consequence of systemic racism is that those who are most directly affected by public policies often do not have access to the spaces where decisions are made.” This reminds us why equity in policymaking matters— 🔗 bit.ly/3IbGe3u @Hopkins Press #NotAllIn
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Another key part of Obamacare may vanish soon: subsidies for middle-income Americans to buy insurance in the marketplace. Unless GOP lawmakers act, they’ll expire—another step in the plan to end the ACA and devastate healthcare access. 📰 bit.ly/3W0pKi0 🔗 bit.ly/4mrrKL8 #ACA #Obamacare #Healthcare
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Pressure mounts on GOP leaders to extend ObamaCare subsidies
GOP pressure is mounting on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to extend expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits, as a number of rank-and-file Republicans push leaders to prevent the popular subsidies f…
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Enforcement targeting based on racialized legal status is on the rise, and sadly, it’s being deemed constitutional. Supreme Court rulings are echoing past decisions like Plessy vs Ferguson, reinforcing troubling patterns of racial segregation. Read the article 👉https://bit.ly/4mk9hjC #NotAllIn
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Supreme Court ruling buttresses Trump immigration ramp-up
The Trump administration is escalating its immigration operations in Democratic cities in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling giving the government the ability to conduct immigration stops based on …
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Marking 6 months since my book Not All In was published! I spoke on the Migration Matters podcast in the episode “Race, State Power, and Healthcare Access” about the book and its relevance for today’s immigration and health policy debates. 🎧 Listen: bit.ly/41PRauy 📖 Book: bit.ly/3IbGe3u #NotAllIn
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Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Trump's attacks on the Smithsonian are ramping up, but they won't succeed. My recent op-eds in Common Dreams and Magpie Magazine explain why attempts to sanitize history will backfire - visitors may show up to support it! Common Dreams bit.ly/4pfGq2A Magpie Magazine bit.ly/3HS66BJ
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Great to see MA and New England states stepping up for public health as national efforts wane. Sadly, red states may lag even further. Patchwork solutions are not ideal! Check out this Boston Globe article: bit.ly/4nhwPXg #NortheastPublicHealth #HealthPolicy #NotAllIn
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Eight states, including Mass., met this week in a step toward public health independence from the federal government - The Boston Globe
Northeast states are seeking closer collaboration amid Trump's public health policies.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Badly Governed podcast, where I shared insights from Not All In. Healthcare policies that discriminate based on documentation status don’t just impact undocumented immigrants—they also affect other non-citizens. 📖 Not All In: bit.ly/3IbGe3u 🎧 Full interview: bit.ly/4g8z3FS
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Post-Election Battlefield – BG Season 1 Episode 7 Highlights & Reactions.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
MA is facing serious cuts from Big Bad Bill. Hundreds of thousands could lose health care and social safety net services. This loss mirrors the ongoing exclusion of immigrants, a topic I explore in Not All In and my Milbank Quarterly Op-ed ‘We are All Immigrants Now.’ bit.ly/4lUVyPW #NotAllIn
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Estimates say hundreds of thousands in Mass. could lose Medicaid coverage, public food assistance due to Trump’s bill - The Boston Globe
A Center for Budget and Policy Priorities analysis painted a bleak picture of the social service cuts, which are scheduled to phase in over the next four years.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Lula has more political courage than most global leaders. I lived in Brazil as a PhD student when he was president, researching my first book Race on the Move. His initiatives to lift Brazilians out of poverty and boost the economy were inspiring. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w... #Brazil #Lula
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No One Is Defying Trump Like Brazil’s President
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Now even being on Medicaid puts you at risk. ICE may get access to your personal data—citizen or immigrant. This, while most immigrants aren’t even eligible for Medicaid because of documentation restrictions. What kind of system is this? 🔗 bit.ly/4lgyOKd #NotAllIn #Medicaid #DataPrivacy
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Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients' personal data, including addresses, to ICE
ICE officials will be given access to 79 million Medicaid recipients' personal data, including home addresses, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the U.S., according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
New KFF analysis reveals how state actions are changing immigrants’ access to health coverage and public programs. While some states expand access, others impose restrictions, leading to growing disparities. Read more: 🔗 bit.ly/4mdDlhh #HealthEquity #PolicyWatch #HealthCoverage #StatePolicy
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Recent State Actions Impacting Immigrants’ Access to State-Funded Health Coverage and Other Public Programs | KFF
This policy watch summarizes recent proposed actions by states related to state-funded health coverage for immigrants and trends in other legislation enacted during the 2025 session that have implications for immigrants.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Over 300,000 MA residents could lose Medicaid due to upcoming cuts in the BBB. This loss of funding will be tough for the state to manage. The impact on healthcare will be devastating. Read more 🔗https://bit.ly/4lbwyE1 📘 Not All In: bit.ly/3IbGe3u @Hopkins Press #NotAllIn 😢
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Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
In Not All In, I discuss how MA’s Health Safety Net for low-income residents has been chronically underfunded. With cuts in the “Big Beautiful Bill,” support for this vital program will become more challenging. Read 🔗 bit.ly/4o1OhAh Not All In: bit.ly/3IbGe3u @Hopkins Press #NotAllIn
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Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
First they gutted health care. Now they’re threatening public school funding. With the new school year approaching, how much more harm can the GOP inflict before they care about the consequences? 🔗 nyti.ms/4lIZT9y #BigBeautifulBill #EducationJustice #GOPAgenda #ProtectOurKids
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Trump's citizenship policies are a human rights crisis. 🌍 In my book Not All In, I explore how racialized legal statuses shape belonging. Read more: bit.ly/44uScMV #NotAllIn #HumanRights #ImmigrationJustice
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This 4th of July, remember: birthright doesn’t always mean belonging. As I explore in my book, Not All In, people of color—even citizens—face constant exclusion. @hopkinspress.bsky.social NYT op-ed on racialized citizenship: 🔗 nyti.ms/44yikXt #NotAllIn #4thofJuly #Citizenship
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Opinion | This Is the Birthright Reckoning That America Needs
What does it mean to be an American?
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” is what I warned about: “a blueprint for exclusion.” 📉 ACA gutted 💉 Public health rolled back KFF confirms: this is the biggest health care cut in decades. We’ve been warned. 🔗 connect.kff.org/the-biggest-... #NotAllIn #HealthCareAccess #ACA #PublicHealth
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Trump admits his mass deportation plan could hurt farms, hotels—even his own businesses. Immigration scholars have long known: undocumented workers are essential to the U.S. economy. Without them, it collapses. 🔗 nyti.ms/3VkGD7F #ImmigrantsAreEssential #NotAllIn #ImmigrationPolicy
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Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Most Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries
The abrupt pivot on an issue at the heart of Mr. Trump’s presidency suggested his broad immigration crackdown was hurting industries and constituencies he does not want to lose.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” would gut the social safety net more than any law in recent memory, hurting the poor while rewarding the rich. This @nytimes piece breaks it down with some of the most striking visuals yet. See for yourself: 🔗 nyti.ms/3RgqgxG #EconomicJustice #Inequality
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Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades
Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” would gut the social safety net more than any law in recent memory, hurting the poor while rewarding the rich. This @nytimes piece breaks it down with some of the most striking visuals yet. See for yourself: 🔗 nyti.ms/3RgqgxG #EconomicJustice #Inequality
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Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades
Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Blue states like MA give more to the fed govt than they get back—subsidizing red states. Yet Trump is targeting MA with NIH cuts, attacks on higher ed, & ramped-up ICE enforcement. All while our tax dollars fund the very states ridiculing us. 🔗 nyti.ms/3xwQvNy #DonorStates #Massachusetts #NIH
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Do Californians Really Pay Trump’s Bills?
The rising tension between President Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom is reviving questions about who pays into — and who takes from — the federal government.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I really don't like that I was right about this in my March Op-ed on the ACA in The Hill. This is really heartbreaking! www.npr.org/sections/sho... thehill.com/opinion/5209... #immigration #healthcare #NotAllIn #TiffanyDJoseph #TheHill #ACA
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How Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' threatens access to Obamacare
If the law passes, new paperwork requirements and other logistical hurdles could lead to millions of people on ACA plans becoming uninsured, according to Congressional Budget Office.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
3 months since Not All In was released! 💛 Thanks to everyone who’s read, shared, and engaged with the book. These convos on race, immigration & health care matter—and I’m so grateful to be in them with you. Grab your copy: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/.... #NotAllIn #HealthEquity #TiffanyDJoseph
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
3 months since Not All In was released! 💛 Thanks to everyone who’s read, shared, and engaged with the book. These convos on race, immigration & health care matter—and I’m so grateful to be in them with you. Grab your copy: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/.... #NotAllIn #HealthEquity #TiffanyDJoseph
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I received a Fulbright to study race in Brazil—research that became my first book, Race on the Move and led to tenure. This year, finalists with DEI proposals were rejected. Had I applied now, I’d likely be denied. 🔗 www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... #NotAllIn #RaceOnTheMove #DEI
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Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals
The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” targets documented immigrants—cutting access to benefits like healthcare & food assistance, while raising fees for citizenship & residency. 🔗 www.npr.org/2025/05/28/n... #ImmigrantRights #CitizenshipCosts #NotAllIn #HumanRights #PolicyWatch #GOPBill
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GOP's budget package proposes to cut benefits and raise fees for legal immigrants
The goal of the changes, which head to the Senate next week, is to save money and send a signal that Republicans are tough on immigration.
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Tiffany D. Joseph @tiffanydjoseph.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I received a Fulbright to study race in Brazil—research that became my first book, Race on the Move and led to tenure. This year, finalists with DEI proposals were rejected. Had I applied now, I’d likely be denied. 🔗 www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... #NotAllIn #RaceOnTheMove #DEI
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Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals
The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.
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