Miranda Yaver

Excited to see Anthony Fauci tonight!

Literally the best bookstore in America is in Portland. Not that he reads books.

What a terrific lineup! I wish I could attend, but I'll have a friend in town. We talked about finding ways to shift burden from Medicaid enrollees to employers and the states, improving translation services, form simplification, outreach strategies, etc. But at the end of the day, it's gonna suck.

I’m still not sure I have figured out the right way to teach these rapidly changing and often crappy policies, but it feels important that they know these things are going on, and it’s interesting (and calming) to see students think creatively about how to safeguard health care access.

Taught today on administrative burden in health. We discussed Medicaid work requirements in AR, GA, and the OBBBA. And I had the students get in groups to brainstorm strategies that states could adopt in implementing this new (bad) policy that would minimize burden and wrongful coverage losses.

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How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.

There's a lot going on here.

"Last week, an American Journal News report tied [his] account to Nazi-themed pornography, including content fetishizing slavery and white supremacy.." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

New JHPPL special issue just dropped! The subject: Public Health Under Seige. This issue features a number of timely and critically important analyses on such subjects as politicization of health agencies, attacks on public health, and dismantling of evidence. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/advanc...

Oh my god, this McSweeney’s piece is so, so good.

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

Weaponizing the Justice Department. Happening right in front of us. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
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not the point, but Mike Johnson saying that they should have had Lee Greenwood instead of Bad Bunny is the most boomer-ass shit on the planet, and Mike Johnson is *solidly* Gen X (b. 1972)

This is the face of someone who woke me up at 4:15 incessantly licking my nose and yelling at me.

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

I'm as shocked to learn that the Trumps stand to profit from TrumpRx as I was to learn that there is, in fact, gambling in Casablanca.

Uncivil Democracy How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months!

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Even if you don’t like the Yankees (and I know most people don’t), don’t you want more baseball? A three-game sweep is boring.

The world is broken. We deserve more baseball in the ALDS.

American exceptionalism, Onion edition.

The quiet part out loud

Combing through the FY26 budget request and effects on health, and I haven't read many of these over my career, but it's really shocking how much they read like Trump's social media posts. The word "woke" is used 12 times, "DEI" is used 31 times, and random words are put in quotation marks. Oy vey.

Here lies Maude, keeper of vinyl.

Yeah, it’s nuts how little push-back he gets on the reality that the fraud is on the provider side, not the patient side. (And the fact that they’re undermining the ability to detect that, but minor details…)

Senator Jim Banks V @SenatorBanks Follow g.. The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states. It included illegal immigrants and handed Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it. Zinited Statcs SScnate MASHNORON DEYNN October 6, 2025 an. Thow arewutn Socretary U.S. Department of Commerce Washington, DXC 20230 Dear Secretary Lutaick: I urge you to investigate and correct erroes from the 2020 Census that handed disproportionntd political power to Democrats and illogal alicns. The Census Burcau adoptod a now and opaque voting districts. As preparod by the Biden administration, the 2020 Censas roports miscountod the population of fourteen states, ' wrongly allocating six congressional scats aod Electoral xx conwuu tmora uy, toc taroro tu mot đoo tnn Cunu lc pung t imber of votine districts. And the reoorts de aniovety inchaded ilecnl nhens widhout track those aliens' citiz enship status, If left uncorrected, these erroes will coetinue diluting the political power of American citizens. Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding Under the Constitution, cach state gets Congressional represcotutives and Electoeal College votes- based on "the whole number of persons" within the state." The number of persoes is in tum clabaabod by a consttubocalty-mandalcd dcccacaal ccavas. Pcual agcco nely on census data to allocate billions of dollars in federal funding, much of which hinges ee opulation. And states use consus data to deaw congrossicnal and voting districts, »hich the The it eiy of tie soaren alie n tor dur at ce hor inc ae oam toy ee n nght wilbout statsica ly signilicant ciroo. Diffcrcntial privacy is opaque and liable to mistakcn count totals. Sure cnough, the 2020 Ccnsus ovarocunted the noculation in cicht states and undercounted it in six." Tihe most extrcmi andercount was Arkansas, at 5.04%, and the larg…

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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A student from Virginia came to my office hours today to proudly share with me that they voted.

The kids are alright.

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

It is not a happy little accident that we have arrived at this place. We need to fund public television.

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

Always cool when the Trump administration explicitly signals it won’t follow the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...