Good morning. The SAVE Act is dead and the Virginia Gerrymander is alive.

🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.

I can’t imagine this ending well.

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Senior NHS officials warned staff over criticising rollout of Palantir platform Ethical objections and uneven adoption have made the tech group’s contract a divisive issue within English health service

“If you criticise Palantir’s platform one more time, you are going to lose your job.”

Solidarity to all NHS workers opposing this toxic corporation. Shame on those bullying them. But they won’t stop us. We’re going to ditch Palantir.

www.ft.com/content/ff70...

Picture of a smiling bespectacled Matthias Wismar, dressed in a red hoodie in an office, holding up an A4 copy of the European Kournal of Public Health

Hard copies exist! feat. @matthiaswismar.bsky.social of @obshealth.bsky.social with the first prints of the awesome @eupha.bsky.social EJPH on health for all policies. Free to read, discussing ways health helps goals from democracy to economic growth + ways to research and estimate effects.

Yeah Simon- as I say here - if he loses, seems sure he will contest the results and claim Ukrainian interference www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

With this poll, Orbán is laying the ground to refuse to recognise anything but a win by him as legitimate, eg. www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/cur.... Such an outcome would drive a further wedge between Europe and the US government.

No thank you. This is not the ‘both sides’ flex you think it is. The ‘unpopular’ figures are unpopular because they think personal gain is more important than good science, and don’t care about the human consequences.

🗺️ Today is #WorldHealthDay, a call on people everywhere to #StandWithScience

For this, it's important to understand how health & democracy are connected - and what shapes people's trust.

More in:
eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications... &
eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications... @who.int

Awesome!

Glad to see the World Medical & Health Policy journal’s publication of my analysis with @hjarman.bsky.social on the tariffs’ harmful effects on health, examining tariffs’ intersection with SNAP, WIC, and beyond. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Very good, levelheaded, and appropriately critical review of In Covid’s Wake by @pfafard.bsky.social in @jhppl.bsky.social. Free to read right now.

My book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States hits shelves this month!

It is available for preorder with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... and the various other sites.

It's been a labor of love that I hope improves health care.

Hard Row to Hoe: The Long-term Influence of Rural Childhood Socialization and Health Outcomes In Event: The Politics of Rural Resources in the U.S. Michael Shepherd, Chair Sat, April 25, 11:40 to 1:10 CDT Michael Shepherd University of Michigan Center for Political Studies Alee Lockman Kristin Kay Lunz Trujillo

@mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social et al find adults who grew up in rural areas had worse childhood health access, worse health outcomes, lower trust in medicine, and less support for health policies backed by scientific consensus. With Alee Lockman and @klunztrujillo.bsky.social #MPSA2026

Elite Michigan politics is a disappointment parade. Sure, thanks for voting against Mullin, but you also voted for Noem. Not going to count on you meeting this moment.

Uncivil Democracy is now available worldwide!

A good way for Rick Scott to show he cares about peoples' food insecurity would have been for him to vote against the OBBBA's 20% reduction in SNAP funding.

No kings protest in los alamos, crowd of 500

No kings protest in los alamos, crowd of 500

On break in Los Alamos, but showed up for #NoKings!

Well done. #NoKings

Ann Arbor

Northwest Highway near the Arlington Heights Metra stop. #nokings

Yep, a mom's COVID shot during pregnancy protects her baby, a large study finds A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy.

Wow, turns out vaccines during pregnancy are... safe and effective, even protecting babies!
Incredible! Truly shocking!
It's almost like science works?!💉🛡️👶

This admin keeps peddling COVID-19 antivax nonsense, but science prevails.💪

Science: 2,978,547
🧠🪱: -785

Timely interview with Andrea Campbell on the OBBBA and how its design obscures a democratic response. Her commentary is also available now, ungated: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

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NYT: ‘Professors are changing what they teach, even far from Trump’s gaze’. I sure am, NYT: Trump, DOGE and Congress are wrecking health programs and spreading health disinformation at such a pace I can barely keep up w changing my health policy courses to explain what’s happening.

Isn’t a lot of our understanding of historical figures based off of introspective diaries?!? Tell me you’ve never heard of the enlightenment without telling me you’ve never heard of the enlightenment…

Holy moly. Canary in the coal mine, I fear.

I sometimes teach this as a comparative case in my public health policy class. My US students, who are often very educated about the harms of gun violence and may be actively working to stop it, are nevertheless always shocked at what the UK did.

Is it wrong that what bothers me the most about this post is the bad electoral maths?