Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test?
SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.
A judge has blocked Trump from cutting SNAP benefits from 600,000 Coloradans.
We won’t let Trump break the laws and bully Colorado.
I will continue fighting the Trump Administration’s lawless actions in the courts. And we will continue winning. #Philforgovernor #COpolitics
Fantastic news! Thanks for your work on this.
Same!!! I’d have been reported for sure.
To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.
Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else.
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Oh look, some enterprising reporter spent a bunch of time with the Taylor Rehmet campaign and wrote about it in the context of the regional, far-right politics!
Last February, the Trump administration zeroed out funding for all six Retirement and Disability Research Consortia across the country. They called them “wasteful government DEI programs.”
The total annual cost of all six centers? $15 million.
NEW: In a revelation that undercuts the GOP narrative of widespread noncitizen voting in elections, a Utah audit of over 2 million voter registrations found only one apparent noncitizen on the rolls — and they never even voted.
Trump revoked the Obama-era policy that kept ICE out of schools. Now federal agents can enter school buildings and parking lots, and some parents are keeping kids home entirely out of fear.
You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
Here is the CBS Sunday Morning piece for which I was interviewed about findings from my book Coverage Denied. Health insurance barriers ration health care by inconvenience, imposing hurdles to get prescribed care with administratively burdensome appeals many can’t navigate. youtu.be/SRPOoPDN-7w?...
Image of a public records request.
Last year, a new law mandated severe cuts to SNAP benefits, including by increasing work requirements on parents and older adults.
We need to know how these cuts are affecting Americans.
We filed FOIA requests for impact analyses and communications about the cuts.
Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026.
Let's. Go.
Top tier joke
Has anyone told Jared?
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
ICE pepper sprayed 1 year old gil
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.
Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.
They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.
Another horrific story.
More details below.
After some back and forth, we're settled: 'An American Problem: How the Country Built — And the Supreme Court Broke — The Voting Rights Act' will be coming your way from Princeton University Press next fall!
It was fun to explore this with @kaitsims.bsky.social & @schaveznorgaard.bsky.social. And I’m grateful to @theconversation.com for the opportunity to share our analysis. I hope this is a conversation voters will take up soon in our state.
This autumn's disastrous government shutdown -- and the threat to SNAP coverage for millions of Americans -- have re-spurred conversations about guaranteed income, UBI, and publicly funded cash dividend programs.
theconversation.com/a-colorado-g...
With federal safety net programs more unstable & inadequate than ever, is it time to establish an income floor for everyone? In this piece, Kaitlyn Sims, Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, & I some potential costs & benefits of creating a cash dividend program in Colorado.
theconversation.com/a-colorado-g...
If you believed Trump would only detain and deport "dangerous criminals" and "bad people" than I hope you realize he lied to you.
This is a woman who did nothing but help children learn.
Our community is worse for losing her - and everyone like her.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/17/d...
Don’t get me wrong: I love the connections, rekindled friendships, new ideas sparked through genuine conversations at receptions or over coffee. But the presentations themselves? I just keep coming back to WHY DO WE DO THIS?
These presentations are boring & formulaic. They tend to dwell on the details rather than digging into the deep questions & implications. They are rarely a true call to action. And it’s not getting findings to people who can do something with them.
I attended a scientific conference this week and as I sat through a couple 1.5 hour sessions with 5 15-20 minute presentations back-to-back, a question began speaking very loudly in my head: WHY DO WE DO THIS? It seems like an absurd way to disseminate our work.
