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Scott L Greer
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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 .. more

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · May 19
I’ve been writing about the politics and impact of Donald Trump on the US and world, with special attention to Europe and the University of Michigan, and most of it is free to read. This thread, in order, brings it all together. I hope it’s useful as a resource on the different issues.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 9h
“Although the list caused anguish among environmental groups, it did not go as far as originally envisaged on trade and economic matters after the administration quietly dropped the World Trade Organization and the OECD from its list of potential targets last year”

US also stayed in IMO
Donald Trump orders mass US pullout from international organisations
Bodies targeted include key UN climate treaty and those promoting development, democracy and human rights
www.ft.com

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 10h
The Dept of Labor’s X feed gets less attention but really brings the fascist vibes

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 10h
Wtf

“This week’s Presidential Memorandum demonstrated that America is no longer accepting the broken status quo, that this nation is prepared to lead, as it always has, and that sometimes true leadership means knowing when to walk away.”
sodrock.bsky.social Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 12h
I feel like it’s an underreported story that the state department has its own substack and is putting out increasingly batshit stuff
Ending the Charade of Wasteful International Organizations
Author: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
statedept.substack.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 11h
this is what polarisation looks like in practice. The US has a severe lack of cross-cutting institutions, and that's partly because it's very hard to share a club, church, anything with people who disagree with you so profoundly on vital personal issues.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 12h
This is a really nice synthesis of international and domestic politics that might explain how domestic political dysfunction turns a demolition derby in international politics
The Unconstrained Future of World Order: The Assault on Democratic Constraint and Implications for US Global Leadership | International Organization | Cambridge Core
The Unconstrained Future of World Order: The Assault on Democratic Constraint and Implications for US Global Leadership - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 12h
though a whole lot of them are... fascinated... with the Nazis a/o the German military.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 12h
Must be bad news, for users and for the security & privacy of US patient data.

"Major EHR player Oracle reacted positively to the news. Executive Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, Seema Verma, was the administrator of CMS during the first Trump administration."
HHS' tech office proposes to gut and reset health IT policy
Editor's note: This is a breaking news story that may be updated. | The rule proposes to eliminate 34 out of 60 requirements for certified health IT in an effort to deregulate the health IT industry. ...
www.fiercehealthcare.com

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 12h
Thanks to a FOIAed spreadsheet from @jasonleopold.bsky.social at www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet..., I have updated the DOGE Tracker with a lot more info on who was getting paid.

dogetrack.info/people/paid-...

The myth of everybody working for free is a lie. Many were appointed GS-15 max salary
Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025
The IRS hired 1,313 employees in January 2025. Over the next two months the agency laid off 11,000 workers, or about 11% of its workforce. Additionally, the data identifies employees tied to DOGE.
www.bloomberg.com

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 12h
I feel like it’s an underreported story that the state department has its own substack and is putting out increasingly batshit stuff
Ending the Charade of Wasteful International Organizations
Author: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
statedept.substack.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 13h
I think we often want to think that people are cynical supervillains, but it's much easier for smart people to delude themselves, and it's easiest of all to just hire not very bright people with not very considered values and accept profound mediocrity as the price of your lickspittles' fidelity.
scottlgreer.bsky.social Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 15h
Lots of good lines

“a hallmark of CBS News editor-in-chief and careerlong opinion journalist Weiss’ relentless rhetorical style is to posit that, whatever one’s political commitments, we can all come together to agree that hers are the right ones”
tvmojoe.bsky.social Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 1d
Another banger from Variety's Daniel D'Addario, who is owning the Kill Tony beat (Dokoupil, not the podcast.)

"Dokoupil has attempted to position himself as something more than anchor: He seems to be, in his mind, the main character of the news."

Read and share: variety.com/2026/tv/colu...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 13h
this is the slow reassertion of the laws of gravity in politics- faction fighting in a declining king's court, the inevitable lame duck status of a second term US president. The question remains whether those laws work quickly enough to prevent even bigger disasters than we have seen this year
peterbakernyt.bsky.social Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 13h
Dozens of Republicans broke with Trump this week on war powers, Obamacare subsidies and veto override votes, suggesting that he may not enjoy quite as free a hand as he has become accustomed to heading into his second year, writes Carl Hulse. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...
As Election Year Opens, G.O.P. Seeks Some Distance From Trump
www.nytimes.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 13h
it's like "viewpoint diversity" in academia: if a certain share of voters, or elites, believe something and your job is to build consensus, then you have to find a way to make that belief sound normal even if by your putative standards (evidence, logic, shared values) it's not normal or valid.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13h
Starting to feel like it's an explicit job requirement for political pundits not to admit the most consequential trend in American politics of the last 40 years.
jodyrosen.bsky.social Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 18h
Thank you TCW for this instant classic of Harper’s Letter sophistry, explaining that the categories "right" & "left" are unhelpful in understanding a campaign of kidnappings & assassinations undertaken by an ultra-right wing secret police force at the behest of an ultra-right wing political regime

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 13h
"There are an enormous number of baroque neuroses and elaborate purity fetishes of various sorts shaping the discourse around nutrition in our culture... RFK Jr. himself is Exhibit A in regard to these tendencies"
Grading RFK Jr. on the Harvard College curve - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Andrew Gelman highlights the very many absurdities in this Emily Oster NYT op-ed, praising RFK Jr. for not advocating that Americans sprinkle plutonium on their cornflakes: If you actually read the li...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 13h
Dozens of Republicans broke with Trump this week on war powers, Obamacare subsidies and veto override votes, suggesting that he may not enjoy quite as free a hand as he has become accustomed to heading into his second year, writes Carl Hulse. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...
As Election Year Opens, G.O.P. Seeks Some Distance From Trump
www.nytimes.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13h
Starting to feel like it's an explicit job requirement for political pundits not to admit the most consequential trend in American politics of the last 40 years.
jodyrosen.bsky.social Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 18h
Thank you TCW for this instant classic of Harper’s Letter sophistry, explaining that the categories "right" & "left" are unhelpful in understanding a campaign of kidnappings & assassinations undertaken by an ultra-right wing secret police force at the behest of an ultra-right wing political regime

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 15h
The House health research budget is much less draconian than the WH (Steady state without widening access) so that’s good

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 15h
Lots of good lines

“a hallmark of CBS News editor-in-chief and careerlong opinion journalist Weiss’ relentless rhetorical style is to posit that, whatever one’s political commitments, we can all come together to agree that hers are the right ones”
tvmojoe.bsky.social Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 1d
Another banger from Variety's Daniel D'Addario, who is owning the Kill Tony beat (Dokoupil, not the podcast.)

"Dokoupil has attempted to position himself as something more than anchor: He seems to be, in his mind, the main character of the news."

Read and share: variety.com/2026/tv/colu...
Tony Dokoupil Is Making ‘CBS Evening News’ All About Tony Dokoupil
CBS Evening News is now all about Tony Dokoupil's ego
variety.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 16h
We gave it a bash and applying the theories to American police worked depressingly well (paywall, lmk if you want a copy)
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com

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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 16h
20 out of 25 CIO director positions at CDC are vacant and filled by actings (or eliminated), just in the past year via CDC Data Project www.cdcdataproject.org/leadership-c...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 16h
The New Yorker has acquitted itself very well over the last decade
kevintmorris.bsky.social Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 17h
I am re-reading the January 6th report and, specifically, David Remnick's intro to it. It's remarkable to be reminded of real-time accounts of how differently this could have gone. I recommend revisiting it:
www.newyorker.com/news/america...
The Devastating New History of the January 6th Insurrection
The House report describes both a catastrophe and a way forward.
www.newyorker.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h
Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.)

Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic.

@burness.bsky.social spent months reporting the story; spend some of your w-e with it.
Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It - Bolts
In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public official...
boltsmag.org

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 16h
Feels good to retweet NYT work with approval. This is excellent work. Especially the Upshot- maybe someday it can redeem itself from its awful COVID-19 editorializing.

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 17h
I am re-reading the January 6th report and, specifically, David Remnick's intro to it. It's remarkable to be reminded of real-time accounts of how differently this could have gone. I recommend revisiting it:
www.newyorker.com/news/america...
The Devastating New History of the January 6th Insurrection
The House report describes both a catastrophe and a way forward.
www.newyorker.com

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 17h
Thinking back to this report about 2024 campaign coverage that claimed that there were more than ten times as many stories about Biden's age as there were about Project 2025.
mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/new-yor...
New York Times: Biden’s age is 10.9x more important than Trump’s Project 2025
A blog from the Media Bias Detector.
mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17h
Op-Ed in the National Catholic Reporter is not pulling any punches.

“The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith”
NCR Donate Renew Subscribe Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance's twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power. The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith, His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 18h
something about this news and that photo makes you feel like we are all living in Gotham City during a bad time

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 18h
Denny Hoskins admits writing flawed ballot summary for Missouri gerrymandering referendum missouriindependent.com/2026/01/09/d...
Denny Hoskins admits writing flawed ballot summary for Missouri gerrymandering referendum • Missouri Independent
Secretary of State Denny Hoskins admitted Friday he wrote a ballot summary “likely to create prejudice” against a referendum on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional district map.
missouriindependent.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 18h
and these stories are about non-health science, so it's nuts of AAAS to take a victory lap while NIH and AHRQ are not accounted for.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 18h
They can do subscriptions that are only games or recipes or Sunday, can't they do one that lets you get the news without the editors?

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 18h
Source if you missed it:

'Mr Trump said the Chinese government almost blew it when students poured into Tiananmen Square.
"Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength," he said.
"That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak."'