Drew Halfmann
@drewhalfmann.bsky.social
UC Davis political sociologist
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If you’re a journalist writing about the Kirk murder and you don’t know what the Groyper Wars are, I beg you to find someone who knows what the Groyper Wars are before you write your article
September 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If you’re a journalist writing about the Kirk murder and you don’t know what the Groyper Wars are, I beg you to find someone who knows what the Groyper Wars are before you write your article
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As a kid, my family used to spend Labor Day weekend camping with a few other families. The moms did basically everything, and the dads' "help" often wasn't. Like when my dad tried to reheat pizza by putting the box over the fire. Or spent a whole day rigging up a mini TV to watch a football game. 1/
On this Labor Day, let's remember that today isn't likely to offer a respite for those--disproportionately women, and especially women of color, immigrant women, and low-income women--who do the unpaid and underpaid labor of care. In fact, that labor may even be greater on days "off" like today. 1/🧵
September 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
As a kid, my family used to spend Labor Day weekend camping with a few other families. The moms did basically everything, and the dads' "help" often wasn't. Like when my dad tried to reheat pizza by putting the box over the fire. Or spent a whole day rigging up a mini TV to watch a football game. 1/
Yesterday the Social Security Administration sent a highly misleading & political press release about the tax bill to my work account, where I'd signed up for SSA updates.
Then overnight I got it again, this time to my personal account. And I heard from lots of others who did, too. 🧵
Then overnight I got it again, this time to my personal account. And I heard from lots of others who did, too. 🧵
August 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Today is an important day. The day that a modern social safety net began to take shape. The SSA created OASI, the AFDC (ADC at the time), and the earliest form of our UI system. The SSA wasn't perfect. Its programs directly and indirectly excluded African Americans at first...
90 years ago today, FDR signed the Social Security Act of 1935 into law.
August 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Today is an important day. The day that a modern social safety net began to take shape. The SSA created OASI, the AFDC (ADC at the time), and the earliest form of our UI system. The SSA wasn't perfect. Its programs directly and indirectly excluded African Americans at first...
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If Democrats fight to protect our democracy and protect people's health care this fall during the budget negotiations with Republicans, Americans will be on our side. The country doesn't want a dictatorship and they don't want 40% insurance premium increases.
August 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If Democrats fight to protect our democracy and protect people's health care this fall during the budget negotiations with Republicans, Americans will be on our side. The country doesn't want a dictatorship and they don't want 40% insurance premium increases.
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Duty! Toward one's fellows! A Rooseveltian vision the US could stand to reembrace.
In outlining his reason for a national program of social insurance, FDR stated:
"It is our plain duty to provide for that security upon which welfare depends."
We lay out why that goal is as essential today: #ProtectSocialSecurity 1/3 🧵
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-do...
"It is our plain duty to provide for that security upon which welfare depends."
We lay out why that goal is as essential today: #ProtectSocialSecurity 1/3 🧵
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-do...
August 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Duty! Toward one's fellows! A Rooseveltian vision the US could stand to reembrace.
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Today’s a great day to remind everyone that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
August 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Today’s a great day to remind everyone that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
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Yesterday the Social Security Administration sent a highly misleading & political press release about the tax bill to my work account, where I'd signed up for SSA updates.
Then overnight I got it again, this time to my personal account. And I heard from lots of others who did, too. 🧵
Then overnight I got it again, this time to my personal account. And I heard from lots of others who did, too. 🧵
July 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Yesterday the Social Security Administration sent a highly misleading & political press release about the tax bill to my work account, where I'd signed up for SSA updates.
Then overnight I got it again, this time to my personal account. And I heard from lots of others who did, too. 🧵
Then overnight I got it again, this time to my personal account. And I heard from lots of others who did, too. 🧵
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This should be a career-ending vote. h/t @ericmgarcia.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This should be a career-ending vote. h/t @ericmgarcia.bsky.social
@RepDavidValadao (R-CA-Kings, Kern and Tulare counties) voted to cut Medicaid benefits for 67% of the people in his district but now pretends he supports Medicaid www.modbee.com/opinion/arti...
Congressman David Valadao backs bill cutting Medicaid, risking political fire | Opinion
“Perhaps no state has more to lose than California,” says the California Health Care Foundation.
www.modbee.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
@RepDavidValadao (R-CA-Kings, Kern and Tulare counties) voted to cut Medicaid benefits for 67% of the people in his district but now pretends he supports Medicaid www.modbee.com/opinion/arti...