Anne Sosin

The affiliate marketing HHS I’m bumping what I had planned to work on today, a bit of critical reflection on AI, in order to write this up instead while everyone is reacting to the...

Here's the newsletter post I wrote today about the CDC vax page and MAHA as marketing buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...

It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.

The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.

The Shutdown Is Over. SNAP’s Struggles Aren’t. - The American Prospect Turning off the logistically complicated SNAP system—which relies on the federal government, states, and private companies to function in concert—and then trying to turn it back on quickly is no easy ...

“Lots of people have had to eat without SNAP, so they’ve used their rent money and their utility money, [so] we are likely to see a wave of evictions and utility shutoffs. I think we’re going to see a lot of disruptions in people’s lives for months to come.” prospect.org/2025/11/14/s...

I’m devastated by @sfdirewolf.bsky.social’s passing. Alice was an incredible advocate, writer, and human. I miss her so much already and am grateful for our time together but mostly for the legacy she left us all. Her memory is a huge blessing. www.facebook.com/share/14QATF...

Yes, I hope the clouds clear for you!

Photo of aurora behind trees

As a Pike Co. student, I see the SNAP delays, and I see our people suffer | Opinion OpEd: As a high school student, I see the struggles of our mountain communities, already hurt by floods, now suffering under SNAP delays.

Lottie, a 15yo in Pike County, KY, writes for @kentucky.com about the impact of SNAP delays in her community, which is still recovering from flooding. Cars line up hours before the church where she volunteers begins giving out food: "I see this line growing longer and longer month after month..."

Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again. It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.

It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...

On Vermont Health Connect, annual premium prices have doubled, or more - VTDigger As gridlock in Congress continues over the end of expanded health insurance subsidies, thousands of Vermonters will begin to confront an impossible choice about what to do in 2026: pay more or go with...

"Mindel estimates that her son’s [cancer] care cost between $1.5 million and $2 million...she estimates they will end up paying $19,192 for the [2026] year: the $1,066 monthly premium for their top-tier MVP Gold plan, plus the $6,400 maximum deductible."
vtdigger.org/2025/10/31/o...

A $33,000 increase for a Vermont family? Obamacare marketplace insurance prices slated to skyrocket. - The Boston Globe Those who use the marketplace for their health insurance are about to experience sticker shock, just as open enrollment begins.

"A family of four in Vermont making $130,000 per year — more than four times the federal poverty level — can expect to see a premium hike of nearly $33,000 annually, the report said."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/31/b...

Judge Skeptical Over Trump Administration Decision to Suspend Food Stamps

Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country.

Because it's *decided.*

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

This @nytimes.com piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
This NYTimes piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

I will also say while I’m at it, that for every argument that you can make for the need to have new / younger / different reps, you can and should dissect how those arguments are ableist and ageist.

I’d rather hear how “X” elected is disconnected than trotting out their age like they’re disposable.

Nothing is Holy Ava Razavi on trading in American dreams for nightmares.

Read this: "Nothing is Holy," by Ava Razavi. I taught a course on writing about the Trumpocene. Ava said, "I don't want to think about it." But she couldn't stop thinking about it. Gorgeous, heartbreaking prose by a new writer on looking for answers. callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/nothing-is...

Roadside protesters in rural Vermont

One of many village centers lined with protesters in rural Vermont. #NoKings

Governor Phil Scott of Vermont holds his weekly press conference with Samuel Douglass on October 1, 2025.

Tolerating bigotry until it becomes a political liability is not principled and courageous leadership.

EIS outbreak investigators, Africa-based staff on Ebola, editors of main journal updating health officials, gone.
Administration is doing all it can to enable viruses.
This isn’t mysterious: people this administration is actually accountable to can largely exit, stay home.
Inequality=>Pandemics

Community safety comes from ensuring that everyone has a safe and secure place to live. Community safety comes from ensuring that we have well-funded, high functioning schools. Community safety comes from ensuring everyone has access to the healthcare that they need.

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

Why Building Power Is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 11 American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

I am grateful to work alongside colleagues in the health/public health space who are intentional about building our power as academics in service of advancing health equity. We are the Health and Power Organizing Project (HPOP). Read our AJPH paper here: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

Thanks, this is great.

How (Not) to Write about Homelessness 3 Rule #3: Who is the *villain* of the story?

Part 3 in my ongoing series, "How (Not) to Write about Homelessness."

People don't "fall" into homelessness, they are pushed. Our stories about homelessness should reflect that, and refuse to allow the pushers to remain invisible.

Read more: kevinmnye.substack.com/p/how-not-to...

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain. Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

“Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would give up its legal rights and would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.” @brendannyhan.bsky.social & Lisa Fazio

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Sam the rural health advoCATe is worried about rural hospitals and their survival. And as a public health cat, he is also worried about a "who deserves it" tone in many comments. Public health cares for all, even those who disagree/are disagreeable. Dead folks can't change.
#PowerOfRuralCat

Pills and Illusions Bending science for political gain doesn't restore trust. It grows the market for false cures.

@maxjordan.bsky.social Bending science for political gain doesn't restore trust. It grows the market for false cures. open.substack.com/pub/adverser...

“You can’t see what you’ve never had to live”—Cultivating imagination and solution spaces in global health and development

Please read our new paper in @plosglobalpublichealth.org

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Enthusiastically shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Rural is full of innovation, if people actually look.
#PowerOfRuralCats

Rural Health Fund Will Do Little to Offset Harm to Rural Providers in Republican Megabill | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Medicaid provides health care for millions of people in rural areas and is vital to keeping rural hospitals financially stable. The recently enacted Republican megabill, which will cut $1.1 trillion.....

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. stated that the $50B Rural Health Transformation Fund is the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health.

That is untrue - Medicaid has been, to the tune of roughly $180B per year. Read why the RHTF won't help (with @aorris.bsky.social): www.cbpp.org/blog/rural-h...

Equity in science is still a beautiful lie. After 27 years in Colombia — shaping me as a person and scientist — I begin a new chapter as Distinguished Researcher @csic.es in Spain. Yet I learnt that geography, networks & prestige still outweigh merit, favoring privileged colleagues, conscious or not