DrewAHarris
@drewaharris.bsky.social
#PopHealth, #HealthPolicy, thought leader, consultant, advocate, analyst, Mission: Be good, Do good. Stranger in a strange land.
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DrewAHarris
@drewaharris.bsky.social
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5 years ago, I tweeted a simple graphic illustrating why delaying & spreading out Covid-19 cases was critical for keeping hospitals, etc. running. The “Flattening the Curve” model quickly went viral as the real virus spread. It was used by officials worldwide to explain why action was needed. 1/
Hey @corporate.comcast.com,
Why are you funding the illegal demolition and desecration of The White House — the People’s House?
apnews.com/article/dona...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
@indivisiblephl.bsky.social @inquirer.com
Why are you funding the illegal demolition and desecration of The White House — the People’s House?
apnews.com/article/dona...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
@indivisiblephl.bsky.social @inquirer.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Hey @corporate.comcast.com,
Why are you funding the illegal demolition and desecration of The White House — the People’s House?
apnews.com/article/dona...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
@indivisiblephl.bsky.social @inquirer.com
Why are you funding the illegal demolition and desecration of The White House — the People’s House?
apnews.com/article/dona...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
@indivisiblephl.bsky.social @inquirer.com
Hey Governor Shapiro @governor.pa.gov,
Not a good look to be fundraising off No Kings when you couldn’t be bothered to show up and speak at any of the dozens of protests held across the state—especially when your next election is over 2 years from [email protected] @indivisiblephl.bsky.social
Not a good look to be fundraising off No Kings when you couldn’t be bothered to show up and speak at any of the dozens of protests held across the state—especially when your next election is over 2 years from [email protected] @indivisiblephl.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Hey Governor Shapiro @governor.pa.gov,
Not a good look to be fundraising off No Kings when you couldn’t be bothered to show up and speak at any of the dozens of protests held across the state—especially when your next election is over 2 years from [email protected] @indivisiblephl.bsky.social
Not a good look to be fundraising off No Kings when you couldn’t be bothered to show up and speak at any of the dozens of protests held across the state—especially when your next election is over 2 years from [email protected] @indivisiblephl.bsky.social
Wanted: Super-cut of famous actors reading lines from the Declaration of Independence interspersed with images of the ways Trump reenacts every grievance cited by the Founders. Tell me if it already exists. #NoKings #Indivisible
October 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Wanted: Super-cut of famous actors reading lines from the Declaration of Independence interspersed with images of the ways Trump reenacts every grievance cited by the Founders. Tell me if it already exists. #NoKings #Indivisible
Here’s the money quote if you’re wondering how people could vote GOP and against their self-interests:
“...the healthcare industry faces an additional basic challenge: communicating to Medicaid recipients...who never understood themselves to be receiving public funds in the first place."
“...the healthcare industry faces an additional basic challenge: communicating to Medicaid recipients...who never understood themselves to be receiving public funds in the first place."
As states prepare for major cuts to publicly funded healthcare by the end of 2026, more than 300,000 Pennsylvanians could lose Medicaid.
But some recipients don’t even know they’re on it.
But some recipients don’t even know they’re on it.
More than 300,000 Pennsylvanians could lose Medicaid. Some don’t even know they’re on it.
The confusion stems in part, experts say, from the state’s distribution of public healthcare funds through private insurers under alternate program names.
www.inquirer.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Here’s the money quote if you’re wondering how people could vote GOP and against their self-interests:
“...the healthcare industry faces an additional basic challenge: communicating to Medicaid recipients...who never understood themselves to be receiving public funds in the first place."
“...the healthcare industry faces an additional basic challenge: communicating to Medicaid recipients...who never understood themselves to be receiving public funds in the first place."
Done deal? Not really. In 1988, Congress passed a much less controversial, bipartisan long-term care program for seniors with bipartisan support. But, scenes like this forced them to repeal it months later. youtu.be/qre7DzEtxyc?...
'Buried In The Archives,' The Original Town-Hall Battle
YouTube video by CBS News
youtu.be
July 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Done deal? Not really. In 1988, Congress passed a much less controversial, bipartisan long-term care program for seniors with bipartisan support. But, scenes like this forced them to repeal it months later. youtu.be/qre7DzEtxyc?...
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#AllElectionsMatter. When Republicans control the majority they set the agenda. People will Suffer and Die because of the way the Republican majority in the House and Senate voted today as was outlined in #Project2025 and driven by DJT and his Cabinet. #IndivisiblePA @indivisiblepa.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#AllElectionsMatter. When Republicans control the majority they set the agenda. People will Suffer and Die because of the way the Republican majority in the House and Senate voted today as was outlined in #Project2025 and driven by DJT and his Cabinet. #IndivisiblePA @indivisiblepa.bsky.social
The Trump administration is violating the Constitution, but understanding this theory can help fight back.
Read the full story here ⤵️
Read the full story here ⤵️
The Trump Admin Wants to Confuse You About What Is and Isn’t Constitutional
But you don’t need to be a lawyer to know they're full of it.
www.teenvogue.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by DrewAHarris
The Trump administration is violating the Constitution, but understanding this theory can help fight back.
Read the full story here ⤵️
Read the full story here ⤵️
The Trump Admin Wants to Confuse You About What Is and Isn’t Constitutional
But you don’t need to be a lawyer to know they're full of it.
www.teenvogue.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Trump administration is violating the Constitution, but understanding this theory can help fight back.
Read the full story here ⤵️
Read the full story here ⤵️
Remember when SCOTUS ruled Feds couldn’t cut a state’s #Medicaid funding if they refused to expand #Medicaid as required under the #ACA/#Obamacare? Now, it seems ok to cut Alzheimers Ds research if you don’t like a Uni’s English lit curriculum or a state’s funding if they don’t ban #trans athletes.
April 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Remember when SCOTUS ruled Feds couldn’t cut a state’s #Medicaid funding if they refused to expand #Medicaid as required under the #ACA/#Obamacare? Now, it seems ok to cut Alzheimers Ds research if you don’t like a Uni’s English lit curriculum or a state’s funding if they don’t ban #trans athletes.
@maddow.msnbc.com and Eric Holder on air tonight calling for lawyers to fight. Take a cue from Pakistan and Turkey where lawyers took to the streets to fight for the rule of law.
Shakespeare had it wrong: you don't need to kill all the lawyers, just threaten their income.
Where is their outrage? The rules they live by have changed and they don’t seem to notice or care.
Lawyers can/do protest. Pakistan & Turkey. tribune.com.pk/story/250697...
www.wboy.com/news/world/t...
Where is their outrage? The rules they live by have changed and they don’t seem to notice or care.
Lawyers can/do protest. Pakistan & Turkey. tribune.com.pk/story/250697...
www.wboy.com/news/world/t...
April 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
@maddow.msnbc.com and Eric Holder on air tonight calling for lawyers to fight. Take a cue from Pakistan and Turkey where lawyers took to the streets to fight for the rule of law.
Important data about how anti-mask/anti-vax sentiment led to a disproportionately higher COVID mortality in Red regions despite their having both more warning time and lower population density on their side.
NOTE: While it's true that MAGA going full anti-vaxx played a major role in the #RedCovid phenomenon, it's worth noting that the COVID death rate in red counties was *already* exceeding it in blue counties starting as early as July 2020, 10 months *before* the vaccine became widely available. 1/
As @davideoll.bsky.social put it: "How'd that work out for them again?"
acasignups.net/23/03/01/mar...
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April 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Important data about how anti-mask/anti-vax sentiment led to a disproportionately higher COVID mortality in Red regions despite their having both more warning time and lower population density on their side.
When will we see the lawyers take to the streets? @marcelias.bsky.social
Shakespeare had it wrong: you don't need to kill all the lawyers, just threaten their income.
Where is their outrage? The rules they live by have changed and they don’t seem to notice or care.
Lawyers can/do protest. Pakistan & Turkey. tribune.com.pk/story/250697...
www.wboy.com/news/world/t...
Where is their outrage? The rules they live by have changed and they don’t seem to notice or care.
Lawyers can/do protest. Pakistan & Turkey. tribune.com.pk/story/250697...
www.wboy.com/news/world/t...
April 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
When will we see the lawyers take to the streets? @marcelias.bsky.social
Shakespeare had it wrong: you don't need to kill all the lawyers, just threaten their income.
Where is their outrage? The rules they live by have changed and they don’t seem to notice or care.
Lawyers can/do protest. Pakistan & Turkey. tribune.com.pk/story/250697...
www.wboy.com/news/world/t...
Where is their outrage? The rules they live by have changed and they don’t seem to notice or care.
Lawyers can/do protest. Pakistan & Turkey. tribune.com.pk/story/250697...
www.wboy.com/news/world/t...
April 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Shakespeare had it wrong: you don't need to kill all the lawyers, just threaten their income.
Where is their outrage? The rules they live by have changed and they don’t seem to notice or care.
Lawyers can/do protest. Pakistan & Turkey. tribune.com.pk/story/250697...
www.wboy.com/news/world/t...
Where is their outrage? The rules they live by have changed and they don’t seem to notice or care.
Lawyers can/do protest. Pakistan & Turkey. tribune.com.pk/story/250697...
www.wboy.com/news/world/t...
Twenty Lessons on Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social Timothy Snyder — Important refresher read by John Lithgow. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Twenty Lessons on Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social Timothy Snyder — Important refresher read by John Lithgow. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
I had no idea. www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2...
March 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I had no idea. www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2...
Hey, @johnfetterman.com,
Musk, Trump, et al have effectively shut down huge parts of our government by firing the people who do the work & illegally canceling ongoing programs. A vote FOR the CR perpetuates the chaos brought on by this shadow coup.
No CR until the GOP restores sanity.
Musk, Trump, et al have effectively shut down huge parts of our government by firing the people who do the work & illegally canceling ongoing programs. A vote FOR the CR perpetuates the chaos brought on by this shadow coup.
No CR until the GOP restores sanity.
March 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Hey, @johnfetterman.com,
Musk, Trump, et al have effectively shut down huge parts of our government by firing the people who do the work & illegally canceling ongoing programs. A vote FOR the CR perpetuates the chaos brought on by this shadow coup.
No CR until the GOP restores sanity.
Musk, Trump, et al have effectively shut down huge parts of our government by firing the people who do the work & illegally canceling ongoing programs. A vote FOR the CR perpetuates the chaos brought on by this shadow coup.
No CR until the GOP restores sanity.
Do you know why no one needs a smallpox vax? It’s because the disease was vaccinated out of existence.
If every child were vaccinated against measles, then soon no future child would need the shot. In 2000, measles was eradicated in the US but it came back because too many kids were unvaccinated.
If every child were vaccinated against measles, then soon no future child would need the shot. In 2000, measles was eradicated in the US but it came back because too many kids were unvaccinated.
March 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Do you know why no one needs a smallpox vax? It’s because the disease was vaccinated out of existence.
If every child were vaccinated against measles, then soon no future child would need the shot. In 2000, measles was eradicated in the US but it came back because too many kids were unvaccinated.
If every child were vaccinated against measles, then soon no future child would need the shot. In 2000, measles was eradicated in the US but it came back because too many kids were unvaccinated.
5 years ago, I tweeted a simple graphic illustrating why delaying & spreading out Covid-19 cases was critical for keeping hospitals, etc. running. The “Flattening the Curve” model quickly went viral as the real virus spread. It was used by officials worldwide to explain why action was needed. 1/
February 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
5 years ago, I tweeted a simple graphic illustrating why delaying & spreading out Covid-19 cases was critical for keeping hospitals, etc. running. The “Flattening the Curve” model quickly went viral as the real virus spread. It was used by officials worldwide to explain why action was needed. 1/
I imagine we’ll be seeing more scenes like this in the coming weeks and months when senior realize what’s in the GOP plans for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. No wonder they won’t hold town halls.
youtu.be/qre7DzEtxyc?...
youtu.be/qre7DzEtxyc?...
'Buried In The Archives,' The Original Town-Hall Battle
YouTube video by CBS News
youtu.be
February 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I imagine we’ll be seeing more scenes like this in the coming weeks and months when senior realize what’s in the GOP plans for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. No wonder they won’t hold town halls.
youtu.be/qre7DzEtxyc?...
youtu.be/qre7DzEtxyc?...
Kudos to @propublica.org for revealing what the government seeks to hide! Expect Texas and RFK Jr's CDC to 1) Deny findings without providing the relevant data; and 2) Further restrict access to anonymous data to stymie similar analyses. Propublica shows that a #ShadowCDC is possible—and necessary.
How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Kudos to @propublica.org for revealing what the government seeks to hide! Expect Texas and RFK Jr's CDC to 1) Deny findings without providing the relevant data; and 2) Further restrict access to anonymous data to stymie similar analyses. Propublica shows that a #ShadowCDC is possible—and necessary.
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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
February 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
Reposted by DrewAHarris
Verified as real on X. Find an Indivisible Chapter near you at indivisible.org
February 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Verified as real on X. Find an Indivisible Chapter near you at indivisible.org
Excellent explanation of impact of public health cuts. youtube.com/watch?v=__yL...
youtube.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Excellent explanation of impact of public health cuts. youtube.com/watch?v=__yL...
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If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/
Fight ALL the fights
We have nothing left to lose — let’s f**king act like it!
www.thealtmedia.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/
It appears the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has been totally compromised by misguided leadership.
States must join together to create a new CDC to perform core public health functions: disease surveillance, collecting/disseminating data & deploying cross-border response teams.
States must join together to create a new CDC to perform core public health functions: disease surveillance, collecting/disseminating data & deploying cross-border response teams.
February 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It appears the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has been totally compromised by misguided leadership.
States must join together to create a new CDC to perform core public health functions: disease surveillance, collecting/disseminating data & deploying cross-border response teams.
States must join together to create a new CDC to perform core public health functions: disease surveillance, collecting/disseminating data & deploying cross-border response teams.