Scott L Greer
@scottlgreer.bsky.social
Political scientist in a public health school. Health policy and politics, especially in Europe. Recent books on EU health policy, federalism and social policy, co-benefits. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Opinions personal. 🚲. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5288-0471
If I knew somebody in my extended family who broke a small child’s collarbone I would be furious beyond words. Covering for them would be the furthest thing from my mind, no matter the political benefits of doing so. I guess this makes me woke? Unmanly? Low-T? Hard to keep up in 2026.
1.) This is 100% correct - Trump's attempt to use the prestige of America's WWII military to valorize himself and his illegal aggressive war are abhorrent. 2.) These AI slop images look nothing like Patton or MacArthur - and MacArthur demands his full 5 stars. bsky.app/profile/hele...
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4h agoThis guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
This view of things is supported by a new analysis from @leahstokes.bsky.social. Where IRA moved fast enough to put benefits on the ground, it *did* shift things, including vote shares! It measurably improved Harris's vote totals in those areas. Just not enough for her to win!
Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think
Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.
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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
60 Minutes had major Epstein scoop before Donald Trump’s hand puppet fired the reporter www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/60-m...
60 Minutes had major Epstein scoop before Donald Trump's hand puppet fired the reporter - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bari’s Weiss’s rolling catastrophe continues: Deutsche Bank AG failed to promptly notify authorities of more than $250 million in questionable transfers tied to Epstein, according to Wyden’s report. T...
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I have for a long time wondered why Democrats didn’t try to repeal the Comstock Act: it’s a dangerous law, and one that a lot of people don’t believe still exists so a tough vote for Republicans.
Rewire News Group@rewirenewsgroup.com · 6h ago3: Reviving Comstock would essentially ban telehealth abortion care federally. This isn’t a new fight: We’ve long reported on how the Comstock Act was quietly positioned as a back door to cobble abortion access nationwide.
This looting is pretty much what anybody could have expected from looking at Trump and the people around him
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7h agoIt seems really clear that by 2028, we're going to have an empty SPR, substantial munitions shortages, greater strategic challenges, a larger national debt and substantially higher bond rates which will massively constrain future administrations.
President Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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“On average, MOU signatory countries will see a 58 percent cut relative to FY24 global health obligations.”
Kristof Decoster@kristofdecoster.bsky.social · 8h agoWhere the Trump Administration's Global Health Agreements Stand www.cgdev.org/blog/where-t... via CGD.
Today in “that’s not how anything works”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h agoBessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...
The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…
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Really fun and thought provoking book, a great mystery read. I don’t agree with every sentence of this review but I share the strong recommend. lareviewofbooks.org/article/goin...
Going to War with Noir: On James Kestrel’s “Five Decembers” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Matt Lewis reviews “Five Decembers,” a globetrotting noir from James Kestrel.
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One of the things I like about historians and demographers is how they remind us of large scale social choices that are often way beyond the policies discussed by elites at the time. People are plenty capable of apparently agreeing on the right way to live and then not living that way.
Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 2d agoI said: “The 1950s family could not even reproduce itself for one generation. They couldn’t even convince their children that this was the right way to arrange their lives. So it failed immediately.”
Have fun imagining the response if a Democrat said that about anywhere rural.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
antifa “a catch-all category through which immigration protesters, anti-war activists, Democratic politicians, and anyone to the left of MAGA become part of a unified, communist-inspired terrorist movement. Crucially, none of these groups [is] spontaneous, organic, self-directed, or even American”
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 3d ago“The moment in which we find ourselves is not without precedent. For nearly 150 years, antipathy—if not outright hostility—toward grassroots activism that takes aim at the status quo has been the norm.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-third-re...
New @nberpubs: "Long-Run Effects of H-1B Immigration on the U.S. Economy" www.nber.org/papers/w3556... "H-1B exposure raised incomes for natives and pre-existing immigrants" 😯
EPP-affiliated regional and national political hacks gang up on unlucky S&D-affiliated regional or local leader facing crisis for partisan advantage is the meat and drink of EU member state politics. The more political and powerful the EU gets, the more partisan polarisarion goes supra-national.
Interesting essay, helped me understand why I haven’t been able to successfully teach the story
Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!)@typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 3d ago"It’s this entire punitive mindset, and not merely Omelas itself, that the walkaways of the story’s title abandon..."
This sounds correct to me...with the addition that if the House doesn't go for it (or they do and Trump vetoes!) then you get a shutdown (bad for GOP) clearly the fault of Republicans (ditto).
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d agostripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive
!?! A Yale ‘survey found “extremely conservative” young people the most likely to agree with antisemitic sentiments such as “Jews in the United States have too much power.” A Manhattan Institute poll found that a full 25 percent of Republicans under 50 self-identified as having antisemitic views’
Politico@politico.com · 4d agoRepublican Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young GOP talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism. “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots,” one senior GOP congressional staffer said.
It’s time for some game theory
Uncrewed@uncrewed.bsky.social · 4d agoIn doing research on the state legislative primaries in Missouri on Tuesday (article out Monday!), I was genuinely surprised at the amount of Republican candidates who oppose this amendment. Maybe because they realize that it's bad for conservative grassroots initiatives! bsky.app/profile/redi...
Stevens and El-Sayed have been highly visible in Michigan politics for years, talking about all sorts of issues from the auto industry to health care. Ask yourself: do you really think the whole race is really a proxy for Israel and Palestine? Will views on that issue decide it?
Scott L Greer@scottlgreer.bsky.social · 6d agoI know it’s a more fun story for the national press to cast the Michigan senate primary as exclusively a question of Israel and Palestine than accept other things are going on as well. I also wonder if it’s self-protective: if you don’t like the result, well, it’s just crazy Michigan politics.
Depeche Mode is the center of 1980s/1990s music. Everything is an influence on them, influenced by them, or both.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
Populist radical right governments urgently trying to change topic from domestic issues to border security, with bonus attack on a socialist government. Not exactly surprising.
Reuters@reuters.com · 5d agoItaly said it was suspending the EU's border-free Schengen arrangements with Spain for one month in response to a mass influx of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighboring Morocco reut.rs/4yQ9WAR
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Example. Stevens is not a milquetoast. But it’s hard to convince 2026 primary voters of that if your brand has been pragmatism/conpromise/kitchen table. Progressives have a history of picking fights with party establishment and the interest groups that reward centrism, so they are credible fighters.
Haley Stevens@haleyformi.bsky.social · 5d agoMichiganders don’t put up with BS. Everywhere I go I talk to people who are fed up with Trump’s corruption, especially ICE’s abuse of power. It’s why I introduced the Hold ICE Accountable Act. We need to redirect their funding back to local communities.
