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One of the main ways a flu season can be bad is when the prediction about what strains should go in the vaccine turns out not to be quite right. Scientists have to choose months in advance. This is dramatically worse – looks like they are not picking at all.

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House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

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My new book, Health Care Civil Rights, is available for pre-order! If you care about discrimination in healthcare and want to understand why it is so hard to solve, this book is for you. Insurance, religion, gender-affirming care, algorithms, fake apologies, resistance and solutions: all in there!

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NEWS: Federal judge blocks parts of two of Trump’s anti-diversity executive orders, finding that some provisions violate the First Amendment and are unconstitutionally vague. * preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... * opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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1. this rules 2. i spit out my drink when i read the order Judge Dale Ho FTW!

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Presidentialism + compromised information databases — is this how it ends for us? @zey.bsky.social explains and it’s horrifying

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Great letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump

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Hunter safety was required in gym class in the rural area where I grew up. Proper rifle handling and “don’t drink liquor to warm up even though it seems like a good idea” (um okay, I’m 12). Gun safety is important to lots of people for lots of good reasons!

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Please watch @kimlanelaw.bsky.social's excellent and very important talk "How to Lose a Democracy: What America Can Learn from the Rest of the World" www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1yu... if you haven't already done so.

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Academics: Want to share your research-informed, expertise-driven views on a societal issue or explain a concept, and reach a broad public audience? Consider pitching your op-ed idea to @us.theconversation.com (or their non-US counterpart sites) - learn how today: airtable.com/appn2DH7Tcw7...

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In normal times, I agree with picking fights very carefully. But that is not where we are. A smart take from @jamisonfoser.bsky.social:

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Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview. www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...

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Great explanation of endowments:

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Race-based affirmative action has been illegal in Michigan for years and the University of Michigan has followed the law. This analysis is spot on – the Dear Colleague letter makes threats, redefines discrimination, and exaggerates risks in terms that we don’t have to accept.

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Let’s make sure we all know who that lawyer is who caves.

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The single best article I've read so far:

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Fun activity!

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1. Major trans news: Corewell Health, Michigan's largest healthcare provider, becomes the first hospital to resume care for trans people under 19 years of age after pausing it. "Care decisions are best made between physicians and their patients and families." Subscribe to support my journalism.

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This excellent piece by @chrisgeidner.bsky.social picks apart the precise extent to which the rule of law is holding. It is realistic about the stakes, but argues that the Rubicon has not been crossed -- and we need to fight to keep it that way.

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@paisleycurrah.com says it with heartbreaking simplicity: "The Trump administration’s sweeping attacks on transgender rights demonstrate the stark reality of what the state can do, rational or not, when driven by animus."

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A vivid example

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On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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For every dollar of federal research funding in the United States, universities generate between $2.30 and $3.00 of economy activity, much of that in local communities. That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.

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Michigan AG Dana Nessel @dananessel.bsky.social pushes back strongly against both discrimination in health care and against threats to withdraw federal funding contrary to law. Michigan has strong civil rights laws. We can protect both patients and providers. www.michigan.gov/ag/news/pres...

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If you are seeking healthcare, please continue to do so. If you are providing healthcare in compliance with Michigan law, continue to do so. m.youtube.com/shorts/X6IBy...

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Good explainer of why the cap on indirect costs is illegal, and what motivated it — by the always perspicacious @sbagen.bsky.social

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Major breaking trans news: The States of Washington, Minnesota, and Oregon have sued the Trump administration to block it from enforcing a national gender affirming care ban for those under 19 years of age. This is the second major lawsuit over Trump's trans ban EO. Docs to come.

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Here's my latest at the Contrarian -- analyzing the Musk data grabs and the takeover of government by the DOGE kids. contrarian.substack.com/p/all-the-go...

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32 lawsuits & counting. We're going to try to get live audio for as many of them as we can: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Michigan civil rights law guarantees "full and equal utilization of public accommodations, public service, and educational facilities without discrimination" on the basis of gender identity (and more). Our law is in effect and applies to our K-12 schools, universities, and our hospitals (and more).

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Definitive explanation from @nicholasbednar.bsky.social

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Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions www.justsecurity.org/107087/track... h/t @brendannyhan.bsky.social for asking

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(roughly) gauging the state-level risk of Trump's trade war, Michigan is far & away the most-exposed state due to its prominent auto industry and close ties to Canada, followed by Texas with its close ties to Mexico, & Illinois with its major refineries for Canadian crude

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@sbagen.bsky.social, until a few weeks ago the top lawyer at HHS, has a definitive summary of what's going on, what we know and don't know, and how law and lawsuits can play a part in finding out:

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Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.

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1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

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Trump's Executive Order about sex and gender rehashes a lot of the anti-transgender rhetoric that Kristen Schilt and I wrote about 10 years ago. (🧵1/6)

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I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

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How much understanding of this situation is out there? Maybe after the stock market does its thing on Monday?

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Here's a valuable resource for civil servants who are being harassed and for those who want to defend them: www.civilservicestrong.org

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I ran $100 billion in Infrastructure and IRA programs at EPA. We obligated over $70 billion onto signed awards and contracts to protect public health and the environment. All that funding is currently frozen. Here are the facts… 🔌💡 1/X

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