Charley E. Willison
@charleywillison.bsky.social
Health Politics, Local Politics & Public Health | Assistant Professor at Cornell charleywillison.publichealth.Cornell.edu |
Author of Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the U.S
Author of Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the U.S
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DHS has always had a difficult time managing its workforce. When I created measures of capacity based on personnel data, it was the lowest ranked department.
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Bureaucratic autonomy and the policymaking capacity of United States agencies, 1998–2021 | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Bureaucratic autonomy and the policymaking capacity of United States agencies, 1998–2021 - Volume 12 Issue 3
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November 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
DHS has always had a difficult time managing its workforce. When I created measures of capacity based on personnel data, it was the lowest ranked department.
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As we look ahead to SNAP benefits not being administered on November 1, it's a good time to read Mohammed Abba-Aji and Sandro Galea's recent article on the health impact of Administration cuts to non-health structures including related to food assistance. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
The Health Implications of US Federal Changes to Non-Health Structures and Policies | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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October 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
As we look ahead to SNAP benefits not being administered on November 1, it's a good time to read Mohammed Abba-Aji and Sandro Galea's recent article on the health impact of Administration cuts to non-health structures including related to food assistance. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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This is obviously illegal. It is also very stupid. An unconstrained executive will quickly learn that the best way to pay for the government is to call together all of the billionaires and ask them who wants to demonstrate their patriotism the most
Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
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October 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is obviously illegal. It is also very stupid. An unconstrained executive will quickly learn that the best way to pay for the government is to call together all of the billionaires and ask them who wants to demonstrate their patriotism the most
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This paper has been in the works for about five years and is finally in print! It's about the work that formerly incarcerated Black women engage in to resist efforts to undermine their citizenship.
In this moment, when citizenship is becoming more and more precarious, I highly recommend this read.
In this moment, when citizenship is becoming more and more precarious, I highly recommend this read.
#OpenAccess from Du Bois Review -
Claiming Citizenship: The Political Labor of Black Women’s Resistance - https://cup.org/4mSHt60
- @sallynuamah.bsky.social & Leah Ouellet
#FirstView
Claiming Citizenship: The Political Labor of Black Women’s Resistance - https://cup.org/4mSHt60
- @sallynuamah.bsky.social & Leah Ouellet
#FirstView
October 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This paper has been in the works for about five years and is finally in print! It's about the work that formerly incarcerated Black women engage in to resist efforts to undermine their citizenship.
In this moment, when citizenship is becoming more and more precarious, I highly recommend this read.
In this moment, when citizenship is becoming more and more precarious, I highly recommend this read.
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One of the pillars of the 9th circuit opinion allowing the National Guard to deploy to Portland is that the remedy for presidential overreach in the use of military force against civilian populations is and has always been the political process. Not just a bad argument, but bad history. /1
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
One of the pillars of the 9th circuit opinion allowing the National Guard to deploy to Portland is that the remedy for presidential overreach in the use of military force against civilian populations is and has always been the political process. Not just a bad argument, but bad history. /1
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Monstrous.
"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."
"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."
October 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Monstrous.
"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."
"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."
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FYI, if you try to measure the strength of civil society (what Hahrie, Milan, and I call civic opportunity in our 2023 Nature Human Behaviour paper), you may want to consider using our org-, county-, and ZIP code-level datasets published in Scientific Data: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
FYI, if you try to measure the strength of civil society (what Hahrie, Milan, and I call civic opportunity in our 2023 Nature Human Behaviour paper), you may want to consider using our org-, county-, and ZIP code-level datasets published in Scientific Data: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.
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"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry: "Tonight, we're sending the Department of War a request to send the National Guard, asking them to deploy the National Guard here in Louisiana into our cities like New Orleans and Baton Rogue and others."
September 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.
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"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions."
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Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021
was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and
the words were also switched in ...
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September 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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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
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
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
@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
September 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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
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
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Ask yourself if this is the kind of country you want to live in
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Ask yourself if this is the kind of country you want to live in
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My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months!
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Uncivil Democracy
How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities
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September 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months!
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire thefulcrum.us/governance-l...
With mental health expert @isabelmperera.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
Important context with now second case of federalizing subnational law enforcement, DC
With mental health expert @isabelmperera.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
Important context with now second case of federalizing subnational law enforcement, DC
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August 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire thefulcrum.us/governance-l...
With mental health expert @isabelmperera.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
Important context with now second case of federalizing subnational law enforcement, DC
With mental health expert @isabelmperera.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
Important context with now second case of federalizing subnational law enforcement, DC
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Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire thefulcrum.us/governance-l...
With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire
In late July, President Trump signed an executive order urging local authorities to find ways to force homeless individuals with mental illness into hospitals. On its face, some observers might find t...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Homelessness and Mental Illness: How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Backfire thefulcrum.us/governance-l...
With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
With homelessness expert @charleywillison.bsky.social and the excellent support of @scholars.org !
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Backseat car hammocks for babies? Thanks to government, they are no longer for sale in the United States. Now, as federal regulators come under attack from within, political scientists and legal scholars gathered for a conference on the future of studying the administrative state: bit.ly/44LJSbW
July 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Backseat car hammocks for babies? Thanks to government, they are no longer for sale in the United States. Now, as federal regulators come under attack from within, political scientists and legal scholars gathered for a conference on the future of studying the administrative state: bit.ly/44LJSbW
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Anyone still quibbling that this isn't fascism?
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
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Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
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June 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Anyone still quibbling that this isn't fascism?
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Here's a preview of our conversation with @charleywillison.bsky.social from our new podcast series on the local politics of public health. Check out the full episode!
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June 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Here's a preview of our conversation with @charleywillison.bsky.social from our new podcast series on the local politics of public health. Check out the full episode!
www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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News: The American Academy of Pediatrics says it will no longer take part in the process of ACIP meetings.
“We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
“We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
CDC vaccine advisory committee to review long-approved immunizations
A leader of the CDC's reconstituted vaccine advisory committee said the panel would start a review of long-approved shots.
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June 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
News: The American Academy of Pediatrics says it will no longer take part in the process of ACIP meetings.
“We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
“We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
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<thread>
On the left:
June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians.
On the right:
June 13: See for yourself.
Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.
On the left:
June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians.
On the right:
June 13: See for yourself.
Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.
June 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
<thread>
On the left:
June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians.
On the right:
June 13: See for yourself.
Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.
On the left:
June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians.
On the right:
June 13: See for yourself.
Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.
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Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do.
So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.
So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.
I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
June 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Fun fact: in the 1960s, Civil Rights protestors were given literal classes on nonviolent protest; they didn't all just spontaneously know what to do.
So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.
So, if you're planning on showing up, this weekend: read this comic. And if you're staying home, signal-boost it/link it around.
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Literally describing themselves as occupying a blue state like hostile territory with the military and federal forces.
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Literally describing themselves as occupying a blue state like hostile territory with the military and federal forces.
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WTF; he's one of the leading scholars in the world
there is something quite close to unanimity among serious scholars on this point, but the Washington Post omits that in favor of highlighting one such scholar's donations to Democratic candidates
June 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
WTF; he's one of the leading scholars in the world