I gave my TEDx NortheasternU talk and I'm still riding the high! Key line: "At some point, we all get sick and need health care." That's the universal truth that should unite us. What's ONE thing YOU would do to improve US healthcare? 👇 #TEDx #HealthcareReform #HealthEquity #PublicHealth

The partial government shutdown over DHS funding is a consequence of extreme immigration enforcement — these policies affect us all. Reposting my August 2025 op-ed about anti-immigrant violence and fear expanding to citizens. Still timely. Still urgent. www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

We Are All Immigrants Now: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Decimates Health Care Access for All But a Privileged Few | Milbank Memorial Fund

The GOP Plan to End Obamacare involves fiscally starving it to death rather than an explicit repeal. Trump’s recent signing of the “Big Beautiful Bill” brings us closer to that harsh reality.

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Thrilled to speak at TEDx Northeastern University on Feb 21st! 🎤 I'll be sharing insights from my @hopkinspress.bsky.social book Not All In on healthcare system challenges and my vision for meaningful reform. Can't wait to connect with this community! #TEDxNortheastern #HealthcareReform #NotAllIn

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

A novel lawsuit from residents in Portland, Oregon, argues that the tear gas used by ICE agents is a health threat. The chemicals, residents say, have soaked into apartment walls, furniture and even children’s toys.

Portland Lawsuit Alleges Tear Gas Use by ICE Is a Health Threat

A novel lawsuit in Portland argues the chemicals are a health threat that have soaked into apartment walls, furniture and even children’s toys.

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I usually post about immigration & health, but today it’s AI. The Anthropic lawsuit shows how creators’ work is being used without consent. Scholars’ labor deserves protection—not token settlements. wapo.st/3NRgU5C

Immigration scholars warned this would happen. Mass deportation + deep funding cuts = slower population growth, labor shortages, and real risks to Social Security and Medicare. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded the 2026 Robin M. Williams Jr. Lecturer from the Eastern Sociological Society. I'm grateful for this recognition and look forward to sharing insights from my work. #Sociology #EasternSociologicalSociety #AcademicResearch #NotAllIn #SocialScience

Though MLK's Birthday was celebrated Monday, I think of him often. Because of my research, this quote is prescient now: "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane." It was the inspiration for an op-ed I published in Salon: www.salon.com/2026/01/19/m....

Throwing it back to 2018 talk at University of Chicago CHAS where I discussed how race, legal status, and healthcare intersect in real and tangible ways. ▶️ Watch the full video here: bit.ly/3KIjSYR #NotAllIn #HealthcareAccess #RacializedLegalStatus #HealthEquity

Happy New Year and warm wishes for 2026. May this year bring clarity, confidence, and forward momentum. #happynewyear2026

The shooting at Brown University, my alma mater, hit close to home. I was a student there in 2000. This cannot be normal. We must do better. bit.ly/3N7DuGC

A nightmare on Hope Street, a frantic manhunt, and the tip that broke open the case - The Boston Globe

Providence residents went days without knowing who the gunman behind the Brown shooting was, or whether he was still among them.

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May this holiday season bring peace, happiness, and new opportunities. Thank you for your support this year. Happy Holidays and warm wishes for the New Year. #happyholidays #merrychristmas

It is so heartbreaking to read headlines like these every day. This country is detaining and deporting children and separating families…again. Where is the compassion? Article: nyti.ms/48yIQ6k #HumanRights

ICE Separates Boy, 6, From Father During Effort to Deport Them to China

The child and his father fled China earlier this year and the boy had just been enrolled in school. Federal officials have tried and failed to send them back.

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This year’s healthcare debate has been frustrating — Medicaid cuts this summer, and now ACA subsidies are set to expire with no agreed-upon plan. Premiums are rising and millions could lose coverage. How have these proposals affected you? More: bit.ly/3Ydq8Ld @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Republicans Under Pressure To Deliver Long-Awaited Health Care Plan

Despite the pressure, it looks like Republicans will fail to coalesce around a plan — and premiums will spike for millions.

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#ThrowbackThursday Six years ago, I gave an early talk at UChicago’s Center for Health Administration that helped shape what later became my concept of racialized legal status—the core of my book Not All In. bit.ly/3IbGe3u @Hopkins Press Full Video: bit.ly/3KIjSYR #Immigration #TBT

Not All In reveals a major flaw in U.S. healthcare reform: having insurance doesn’t ensure care access. It highlights how racialized legal status affects marginalized communities, opposing the goals of Massachusetts and ACA reforms. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3IbGe3u #NotAllIn #ACA

Open enrollment is coming—health insurance premiums may rise 9%. Many employers will pass the cost to workers. As ACA subsidies expire, Medicaid cuts loom, and care is becoming less affordable. We need better solutions. Read: 🗞️ NYT: nyti.ms/4odM4Bf%F0%9... WaPo: wapo.st/4np7ydf

The workers whose health care is most at stake in the government shutdown

About 10 million small-business owners, employees and the self-employed are caught in the middle of the shutdown fight over the Affordable Care Act.

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Excited to share my interview with Claire Altman for IAPHS! We dove into my book, Not All In. A must-read on how immigration policy and racial inequities shape health care today. Full interview bit.ly/3JnaitF Get Not All In bit.ly/3IbGe3u @hopkinspress.bsky.social #Immigration #NotAllIn #IAPHS

Excited to join UC colleagues for an online discussion about my book, Not All In. We'll dive into the ties between immigration policy, racial inequities, and health care reform. Learn more about Not All In: bit.ly/3IbGe3u @hopkinspress.bsky.social #NotAllIn #UCSystem @ucdavisglobal.bsky.social

In my Book Talk at Brown University, I discussed how policymakers are undermining the Affordable Care Act by cutting its funding. "What’s the plan when all these people lose coverage?" Catch the full convo on YouTube: bit.ly/4q5RzmU Get Not All In: bit.ly/3IbGe3u @Hopkins Press

"Not All In" highlights a critical issue in the US healthcare system: having insurance doesn't always mean access to care, especially for marginalized communities. This goes against ACA reforms aimed at improving care access. Read more: bit.ly/3IbGe3u @Hopkins Press #NotAllIn

ICE enforcement efforts are intensifying across the country and especially in Massachusetts. It is a sad day when children are being used like bait to detain their parents. These children will be traumatized for life. Full article here: bit.ly/484QPYQ #ImmigrationPolicy #FamilySeparation

Leominster family says ICE agents held their daughter outside their home so they would turn themselves over - The Boston Globe

“Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs,” an agent tells the father, waving at him to come out of the house, according to video the family recorded.

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📖 From Not All In: “One crucial consequence of systemic racism is that those who are most directly affected by public policies often do not have access to the spaces where decisions are made.” This reminds us why equity in policymaking matters— 🔗 bit.ly/3IbGe3u @Hopkins Press #NotAllIn

Another key part of Obamacare may vanish soon: subsidies for middle-income Americans to buy insurance in the marketplace. Unless GOP lawmakers act, they’ll expire—another step in the plan to end the ACA and devastate healthcare access. 📰 bit.ly/3W0pKi0 🔗 bit.ly/4mrrKL8 #ACA #Obamacare #Healthcare

Pressure mounts on GOP leaders to extend ObamaCare subsidies

GOP pressure is mounting on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to extend expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits, as a number of rank-and-file Republicans push leaders to prevent the popular subsidies f…

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Enforcement targeting based on racialized legal status is on the rise, and sadly, it’s being deemed constitutional. Supreme Court rulings are echoing past decisions like Plessy vs Ferguson, reinforcing troubling patterns of racial segregation. Read the article 👉https://bit.ly/4mk9hjC #NotAllIn

Supreme Court ruling buttresses Trump immigration ramp-up

The Trump administration is escalating its immigration operations in Democratic cities in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling giving the government the ability to conduct immigration stops based on …

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Marking 6 months since my book Not All In was published! I spoke on the Migration Matters podcast in the episode “Race, State Power, and Healthcare Access” about the book and its relevance for today’s immigration and health policy debates. 🎧 Listen: bit.ly/41PRauy 📖 Book: bit.ly/3IbGe3u #NotAllIn

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Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare

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Trump's attacks on the Smithsonian are ramping up, but they won't succeed. My recent op-eds in Common Dreams and Magpie Magazine explain why attempts to sanitize history will backfire - visitors may show up to support it! Common Dreams bit.ly/4pfGq2A Magpie Magazine bit.ly/3HS66BJ

Great to see MA and New England states stepping up for public health as national efforts wane. Sadly, red states may lag even further. Patchwork solutions are not ideal! Check out this Boston Globe article: bit.ly/4nhwPXg #NortheastPublicHealth #HealthPolicy #NotAllIn

Eight states, including Mass., met this week in a step toward public health independence from the federal government - The Boston Globe

Northeast states are seeking closer collaboration amid Trump's public health policies.

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Badly Governed podcast, where I shared insights from Not All In. Healthcare policies that discriminate based on documentation status don’t just impact undocumented immigrants—they also affect other non-citizens. 📖 Not All In: bit.ly/3IbGe3u 🎧 Full interview: bit.ly/4g8z3FS

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