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Miranda Yaver

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Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt. Roosevelt Institute Author-in-Residence. Cal bear/Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MSNBC. Writing on health insurance and administrative burden. Pre-order Coverage Denied: https://cup.org/4nfM2IM

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 16d

You've heard me talk about it.
You've seen me write about it.
And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied!

Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it!
cup.org/4nfM2IM

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 16d

Coming 2026!

@mirandayaver.bsky.social's Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States is a sobering account of the ways in which coverage denials damage patient health and exacerbate inequalities.

Pre-order now! 🗺️ 🩺📊

https://cup.org/4nfM2IM

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 31m

We had a friend staying with us the last couple days so now we’re getting caught up on Great British Baking Show. Maude is intrigued by sausage rolls.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2h

“Friday’s actions are a reminder that stopping Trump’s power grabs is also an urgent cause—and one where Democrats could, if anything, be seeking to do even more.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government

It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.

www.thebulwark.com

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12h

Mariners-Brewers World Series, please.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12h

The worst combination of incompetence, malevolence, and chaos.

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Alex Sundermann, DrPH @sundermannaj.bsky.social · 12h

While yes, EIS folks will be back, there will definitely be discouragement for the best of the best to apply for future cohorts of EIS that will have lasting long term effects.

Folks will have to consider to apply knowing they may get RIF’d on a whim

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

TRUMP CDC REVERSAL: Trump administration racing to reverse some CDC layoffs. Disease detectives, measles responders, MMWR staff RIF’s are revoked. DC office still shuttered. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12h

Jesus fucking Christ, it’s like a villain’s playbook.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17h

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 13h

The Onion is perfection.

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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 13h

We are losing the war for brilliant minds across the world to a country that lost a war against emus.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14h

Just another day of “Is the Trump Administration’s incompetence outweighing its malevolence?”

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14h

It’s a Watergate-level crime every damn day in this administration, and Congress is appallingly unwilling to exercise its Article I obligations to check executive branch power.

Reprehensible, inexcusable, and indescribably dangerous.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 15h

Vought is truly evil. Just appalling amount of damage he’s doing.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19h

“In the midtown area?”

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19h

I’m obsessed with Love and Death.

Every time I taught Wickard v. Filburn, I would think, “Did you say, ‘wheat’?”

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19h

It’s hard to overstate just how incredibly fucked we are.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19h

She was sensational in Annie Hall, Sleeper, Play It Again Sam, Love and Death… I grew up on those movies and still love them.

I always crack up at the scene in Love and Death where he starts to make a move on her in bed and she says, “No, not here.” And my mom basically is Annie Hall.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20h

America's collapse in one swath of the NYT homepage

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20h

That’s so sad. She was a truly spectacular actress, and stole my heart in Annie Hall.

La dee dah…

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20h

Wait, that can’t be, they said they wanted to return to meritocracy.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20h

It’s all so broken. And we won’t be short things to write about, that’s for sure.

Also, to paraphrase from A Chorus Line, “All I ever needed was the music and the mirror and the chance to meow for you.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 22h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 21h

I’d like to get through one goddamn week teaching on US health policy without having to give a depressing AF news update for which only preposterous Maude pics can perk my students up.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans openly admit that extending democracy would be terrible for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 21h

Spiked iced coffee flight with brunch was glorious.

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