Writer at The Bulwark / Author of THE TEN YEAR WAR & SICK / Fan of Red Sox, Dolphins, Wolverines, Billy Joel / Proud husband & dad
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18 Dec 2020
**Some Personal News**
THE TEN YEAR WAR, my new book, is available for pre-order.
It’s an effort to tell the story of Obamacare and, more broadly, the story of American politics over the last decade. (1)
read.macmillan.com/lp/ten-ye…
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NEW:
The number of people who received pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication to prevent those at risk from contracting HIV fell by 38 % betw 2024 and 2025, per initial data from 62 countries.
That’s > 1 million fewer people who took the drug. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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This outbreak will not be contained within Africa without URGENT ‼️ increased investments in diagnostics capacity across DRC and the region. Rapid Diagnostics Tests are CRITICALLY needed in areas where access is restricted due to conflict & humanitarian crisis. @FINDdx
Jun 12
Two Ebola-related deaths have been confirmed in a displacement camp in eastern Congo, the U.N. refugee agency said, with aid workers warning the risk of the disease spreading quickly in crowded refugee sites was high and worrying. reuters.com/business/healthc…
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Jun 12
Same. This morning the FOIA officer offered an *update* in two weeks.
At least she didn't mention 'radical transparency.'
!!! RFK Jr. claims his calendar is publicly available. We’ve been trying to get it for a year statnews.com/2026/06/11/rfk-… via @statnews
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Trump's 1st term health officials convinced him to make ending HIV by 2030 a major piece of his legacy — telling him he'd be known as “the public health president.”
He embraced the plan in 2019...then undermined it in his 2nd term.
politico.com/news/magazine/2… @meganmesserly
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Jun 12
Directly funding cost-sharing reductions (CSRs), as Republicans are apparently considering, would INCREASE out-of-pocket premiums for millions of #ACA marketplace enrollees, cut funding by tens of billions of $, and leave hundreds of thousands of ppl uninsured.
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Jun 12
The finding that Medicaid work requirements could reduce poverty by 1.6 to 2.9 million people, rather than representing their likely impact, stems from an unwarranted assumption: If millions of beneficiaries newly obtain work, poverty would decline by a corresponding amount. | Forefront
Richard G. Frank and Sherry Glied | @BrookingsInst, @NYUWagner
healthaffairs.org/content/fo…
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Jun 11
Thx to @statnews for this piece. When I saw @SecKennedy admonish @SherylNYT, "All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar," I immediately wrote to @HHS_Spox to ask, where's the calendar? Crickets. statnews.com/2026/06/11/rfk-… via @statnews
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Jun 11
The stakes are incredibly high for low-income families, grocery stores, schools, and the broader economy as states like Alabama now face massive new costs to continue SNAP under H.R. 1 — while other states get a temporary reprieve thanks to a special carveout in the law.
Alabama officials warn that the coming changes to SNAP cost-sharing requirements could lead to dire consequences in the state.
#ALPolitics
aldailynews.com/alabama-offi…
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Jun 11
O-G...OH MY
@marckestecher and @heydb on the call that clinched the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history 🤯🔥
Jun 11
THE KNICKS PULL OFF THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN NBA FINALS HISTORY!!!
New York overcame a 29-point deficit to defeat the Spurs 107-106 in Game 4. Game 5 is set for Saturday at 8:30 p.m. ET. 🏆
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Trump administration says taking Medicaid away from millions will *reduce* poverty
I ran that prediction by some health policy scholars
They were gobsmacked
Read all about it here thebulwark.com/p/donald-trum…
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For a more detailed and through debunking, I highly recommend @onceuponA @ChloeNEast (whose piece I cite) open.substack.com/pub/donmoy…
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Feeling the joy of all the Knicks fans in my life
(Quite a few of them!)
Jun 11
Not a pro basketball guy but holy cow
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Jun 10
Between September 2024 and February 2026, the federal government lost approximately 118,000 employees working in scientific fields.
The concern is not just the loss of jobs - the United States may be losing an entire generation of scientific capacity that took decades to build.
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Jun 10
🚨🚨🚨an internal memo obtained by @EricM_Katz shows the IRS has received special permission to expedite hiring 8,000 employees after getting rid of 28,000 last year
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Jun 11
Ebola’s Warning Shot: The Bundibugyo Outbreak Is Moving Faster Than the World’s Response
Here are 6 Updates:
The geography should worry us.
Contact tracing is improving but remains below the threshold needed for control.
Health care workers are again among the first to pay the price.
There are also survivor stories that should shape the public narrative.
Vaccines are the great hope, but not the immediate rescue.
CDC’s modeling is the starkest warning.
Link: nyas.org/ideas-insights/blog…
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Jun 10
Here's just one example of a family with two young kids who lost their SNAP benefits — or as Secretary Rollins would apparently describe it, "chose not to reapply."
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tru…
ALT The line outside a suburban office building was already 15 people long when Tiffany Hudson showed up with her 7-year-old son cradling his blanket. It was 7 a.m. At the front of the line was a woman hooked up to an oxygen tank who had arrived 90 minutes before the building opened. Like others there, Husdon had come to the Arizona Department of Economic Security office in Surprise, a Phoenix suburb, to find out why the food stamp benefits for her and her two children were cut off after the state began implementing new eligibility requirements under President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” “It’s been really hard. We’ve been going to food banks every week,” Hudson said. She’s a single mom who had received about $600 a month in food assistance to supplement her income as a part-time caretaker. Her benefits stopped without warning three months ago. “We’re eating less, we’re eating more frozen stuff.”
Rollins: No one was kicked off of SNAP. If they are not on SNAP, they have chosen not to reapply or they are an able bodied adult that can work.
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Secretary Rollins tells the Senate Agriculture Committee that “no one wants kids to be hungry.”
In just the 12 states with available data, the number of children receiving SNAP has fallen by more than 700,000 since the deepest SNAP cuts in history were enacted in H.R. 1.
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