Sarah Bosley
@sarahmbosley.bsky.social
Econ & policy geek, mom, wife,
(anti-TERF) feminist, citizen and volunteer
(anti-TERF) feminist, citizen and volunteer
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With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Dec. 22, the House and Senate set a modern record for lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency, according to data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University. https://wapo.st/3YPTQGo
December 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Dec. 22, the House and Senate set a modern record for lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency, according to data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University. https://wapo.st/3YPTQGo
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CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
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This report (1) articulates our motivation and rationale for this "researchers as sensemakers" approach, and (2) describes some of the sociotechnical infrastructure required to make this kind of "rapid research" work.
A short summary of the report: uwcip.substack.com/p/cip-publis...
A short summary of the report: uwcip.substack.com/p/cip-publis...
CIP publishes “Being Sensemakers: A Framework for University-Based Rapid Research of Elections, Crisis Events, and Beyond”
New report details the 2024 Election Rumor Research Project and shows how our model can support a more informed public, create a stronger academy, and train the next generation of scholars.
uwcip.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This report (1) articulates our motivation and rationale for this "researchers as sensemakers" approach, and (2) describes some of the sociotechnical infrastructure required to make this kind of "rapid research" work.
A short summary of the report: uwcip.substack.com/p/cip-publis...
A short summary of the report: uwcip.substack.com/p/cip-publis...
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“Is it Too Late?”
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
December 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“Is it Too Late?”
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
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I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”
Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?
“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...
“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...
October 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”
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Trump and the right wing bullshit machine working in high gear to motivate and justify a (potentially violent) federal response to unrest that is largely a figment of their imagination and (where it is real) a reaction to federal agitation. A vicious, intentional, and intensifying cycle.
Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.
October 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Trump and the right wing bullshit machine working in high gear to motivate and justify a (potentially violent) federal response to unrest that is largely a figment of their imagination and (where it is real) a reaction to federal agitation. A vicious, intentional, and intensifying cycle.
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I’m sorry, which is it: are boys in an acute crisis that demands that all the nation’s resources and attention be leveraged toward their improved happiness and status? Or is their natural superiority only obscured by affirmative action for women? You have got to pick one because you can’t have both.
October 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I’m sorry, which is it: are boys in an acute crisis that demands that all the nation’s resources and attention be leveraged toward their improved happiness and status? Or is their natural superiority only obscured by affirmative action for women? You have got to pick one because you can’t have both.
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ICE is going out of its way to avoid transparency and accountability and, in doing so, is torching the moral legitimacy of all federal law enforcement: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...
ICE is Eating the Soul of America
Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law
www.doomsdayscenario.co
September 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
ICE is going out of its way to avoid transparency and accountability and, in doing so, is torching the moral legitimacy of all federal law enforcement: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-is-eat...
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@leahlitman.bsky.social said it best: “Political culture imagines that the Supreme Court safeguards the Constitution, when in reality it is chipping away at the constitutional rights of historically marginalized groups."
The Supreme Court is really “just vibes”
In a new book, legal podcaster Leah Litman describes how the GOP and its jurists are "just not that into democracy."
www.motherjones.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
@leahlitman.bsky.social said it best: “Political culture imagines that the Supreme Court safeguards the Constitution, when in reality it is chipping away at the constitutional rights of historically marginalized groups."
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The great @sifill.bsky.social shreds the media for falling for Trump's narratives -- in this case, that these occupations have anything to do with crime. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power
*neighborhood in southeast Baltimore
open.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The great @sifill.bsky.social shreds the media for falling for Trump's narratives -- in this case, that these occupations have anything to do with crime. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer:
-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040
How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.
You will note USA is not on this list.
-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040
How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.
You will note USA is not on this list.
September 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer:
-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040
How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.
You will note USA is not on this list.
-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040
How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.
You will note USA is not on this list.
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Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost.
We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost.
We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Seriously awful and very well reported. If you’re a woman with the option to go through pregnancy (or even childbearing years) inside or outside of TX, you may want to consider this—your chances of dying really go up significantly there until this law is changed.
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Seriously awful and very well reported. If you’re a woman with the option to go through pregnancy (or even childbearing years) inside or outside of TX, you may want to consider this—your chances of dying really go up significantly there until this law is changed.
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This is really, really bad. Columbia made the mistake of thinking that placating the administration would spare them. Other universities made the mistake of thinking it would stop with Columbia. It won’t stop without disciplined pushback; it’s an existential question for American universities.
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is really, really bad. Columbia made the mistake of thinking that placating the administration would spare them. Other universities made the mistake of thinking it would stop with Columbia. It won’t stop without disciplined pushback; it’s an existential question for American universities.
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"It just seems really strange to me that a parent would have an opportunity to protect their kid against something like what I've been through and yet would forgo that opportunity."
When I taught about the HPV vaccine last week, I said “this vaccine is important for everyone who has a head and a neck… which looks like all of you.”
“Rates of HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer, most often seen in men, have surpassed rates of cervical cancer.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
“Rates of HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer, most often seen in men, have surpassed rates of cervical cancer.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
An urgent argument for the HPV vaccine
Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.
www.npr.org
March 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"It just seems really strange to me that a parent would have an opportunity to protect their kid against something like what I've been through and yet would forgo that opportunity."
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This is the proper amount of contempt with which the representatives of the people should be treating an unelected billionaire who has been contemptuously and illegally sabotaging the agencies Congress has created and funded.
March 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is the proper amount of contempt with which the representatives of the people should be treating an unelected billionaire who has been contemptuously and illegally sabotaging the agencies Congress has created and funded.
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If we run, we can make anywhere and everywhere competitive. This is your cue. runforwhat.net
March 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
If we run, we can make anywhere and everywhere competitive. This is your cue. runforwhat.net
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Re-upping this again as more people read about the Khalil case. More information to come, but nothing in WP and NYT so far contradicts original reporting. Again, it DOES NOT MATTER what you think about him or his cause. Either government is bound by the law for all of us or we're all at their mercy.
Reminder: When a person or institution you hate is targeted for illiberal persecution by an aspiring authoritarian, you have to defend them EVEN IF you don't like them. It doesn't matter if you don't like campus protestors or Columbia or the law firms. We must defend them or we're all at risk next.
March 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Re-upping this again as more people read about the Khalil case. More information to come, but nothing in WP and NYT so far contradicts original reporting. Again, it DOES NOT MATTER what you think about him or his cause. Either government is bound by the law for all of us or we're all at their mercy.
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Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy
March 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy
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Something that should happen but won’t (especially since NYT no longer has a public editor): a public reckoning among American journalists over how the structure of most mainstream Trump coverage excuses and even rewards these kinds of threats.
the president does not get to shitpost about stealing my country
it cannot be understated enough that the president explicitly stated he was using economic force to drag us in
March 8, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Something that should happen but won’t (especially since NYT no longer has a public editor): a public reckoning among American journalists over how the structure of most mainstream Trump coverage excuses and even rewards these kinds of threats.
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honestly wild to me that, at this late date, any ostensibly informed person would insist that we could ignore trump’s words as just bluster
March 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
honestly wild to me that, at this late date, any ostensibly informed person would insist that we could ignore trump’s words as just bluster
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Any reporter who says that Trump is "hitting" Canada and Mexico with tariffs should quit now and get into another line of work. Trump is hitting Americans who import items from these countries. This is a simple and obvious point and if you don't understand it, get a new job.
February 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Any reporter who says that Trump is "hitting" Canada and Mexico with tariffs should quit now and get into another line of work. Trump is hitting Americans who import items from these countries. This is a simple and obvious point and if you don't understand it, get a new job.