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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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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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“the debate over pandemic policies and attitudes about that debate have increased individuals’ secularism. This effect is greatest among Democrats, which we show is related to their greater embrace of pro-science attitudes.”
New article alert! "Fuel on the Fire: Has the Politics of COVID-19 Accelerated Secularization in America?" in @polbehavior.bsky.social by my Notre Dame and @rooneyinstitute.bsky.social colleagues Dave Campbell and Geoff Layman (and John Green). link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fuel on the Fire: Has the Politics of COVID-19 Accelerated Secularization in America? - Political Behavior
Politics increasingly shapes Americans’ social orientations, including their religious affiliations and levels of religiosity. Less is known about whether politics affects secularism—an affirmative em...
link.springer.com

The EU’s structural tendency to be myopic on strategy but formidably good at process was ideal for handling UK silliness during Brexit but is not a guaranteed recipe for success
I wrote this in frustration today. And despair.

The EU was founded to ensure enduring peace on our continent. With Putin creeping ever closer they must put protectionism aside to uphold their key raison d’etre.
"What message does it send when the EU can’t even agree to a mutually beneficial partnership with the UK?", writes @pimlicat.bsky.social following talks for UK to join EU defence fund collapsing.

Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/europe-must-get-its-act-together

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I wrote this in frustration today. And despair.

The EU was founded to ensure enduring peace on our continent. With Putin creeping ever closer they must put protectionism aside to uphold their key raison d’etre.
"What message does it send when the EU can’t even agree to a mutually beneficial partnership with the UK?", writes @pimlicat.bsky.social following talks for UK to join EU defence fund collapsing.

Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/europe-must-get-its-act-together

“exclusion of the fact of faculty opposition shows how the media adopts the Administration’s framing [that] faculty are part of the problem. President Bienen will insist that any settlement does not undermine institutional autonomy or academic freedom because the agreement will say so”

True but I guess a big enough quantity has a quality of its own. Build the immigration budget on punitive fees, the park service budget on punitive fees, then getting rid of the fees is an ask in direct competition with, say, deferred maintenance, and it’s easy to never get to removing the fees.

ASU, in successes and in failures, is an exemplar of the university as low in structural integrity but very eager to please.

Yes! university leadership have been selected primarily for being nice to donors and (in publics) party elites and this does not set them up to lead in any meaningful sense or even have their careers survive a crisis like this.

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hard to separate out but don’t forget the immediate environmental consequences of horses, notably turds everywhere, with attendant vermin, slip and fall, noxious dust, dirty hands and food etc. air pollution is bad but locally it’s not clear that it is worse than masses of animals and their turds

I wonder why this kind of rather obvious dynamic is so politically controversial. Increased supply of a heterogeneous good like property should usually improve choice and availability- but for some reason many people resist this idea. Neat study though, tests it in a cool way.
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.

Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu

*Marchandise! Autocorrect sends its apologies

Put another way, did Europe get its own DOGE by stealth? See the alarming background here (free to read)

All-star @eupha.bsky.social webinar on 1 December, 1500CET, on the defunding of health civil society in the European Union- why it's happening and what it means. Featuring Charlotte Merchandise, Eleanor Brooks and Yann Heyer of @eupatientsforum.bsky.social
Preventing chronic disease: life-course perspective
Preventing chronic disease across generations: explore life-course strategies, policies and inequalities to shape healthier trajectories
eupha.org
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.

Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu

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Frog knocked at Toad’s door. “Toad, wake up,” he cried. “Come out and see how wonderful the winter is!”

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"It took only weeks for Trump to turn the US from a biomedical & global health leader to a pariah, shattering trust while shattering lives, all the while posing fundamental threats to a law-based international order grounded in human rights & democratic governance"

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
The Trump presidency: Cascading global shocks on global health
journals.plos.org

Amazing article. two things stand out, as usual with Trumpists: their intense vindictiveness and their underlying weakness
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.

www.reuters.com/investigates...

Well I thank you for that

Michigan House speaker gets Lions tickets from lobbyist while blocking open records bill

Matt Hall (R- Richland Township)
Michigan House speaker gets Lions tickets from lobbyist while blocking open records bill
House Speaker Matt Hall won't say how much he paid a lobbying firm for Lions tickets. He's opposing bills that could shine light on the details.
www.detroitnews.com
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.

www.reuters.com/investigates...

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Really?
New park pass design and I….

You know, a smarter set of authoritarians might have gulled her. I don’t know. These guys? Pretend they’re running a consolidated autocracy when it’s just as likely they’ll all end up indicted themselves, and thereby make the latter more likely.
Elissa Slotkin says she, other lawmakers targets of possible FBI probe
U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., said that the FBI has launched a possible inquiry into her and others for their message to military personnel.
www.freep.com

The continuing desire to sanewash this guy is amazing. Whether it’s reasonable people with “at least he likes healthy diets” or even sillier defenses. If his namer were not Kennedy I think it might be different.

I do find it fascinating how many of them say that the society they oppose is a society of death. Some rather heavy metaphysical territory here- political disputes that quickly escalate into the meaning of life.
The anti-vaccine movement is a death cult
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:

“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”

s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...

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The anti-vaccine movement is a death cult
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:

“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”

s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...

It’s also going to produce a budgeting nightmare for a lot of future Dem appointees when they inherit a generally terrible post-Republican fiscal situation and then look at endless programs whose finances have been refashioned so that they depend on abusing visitors/ migrants/ poor people
National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)

And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.

This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns

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New park pass design and I….
National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)

And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.

This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns

I have the standard google calendars for a bunch of religions and countries on my calendar so I can avoid scheduling things on other people's holidays.

Imagine my delight to learn that google includes the Black Friday sales as a US [religious] "Observance"