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Jamie Morgan
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policy scholar and practitioner
Big 3: ☉polisci ☾feminist theory ↑abortion
Me: https://scholars.org/scholar/jamie-morgan
Latest: https://msmagazine.com/2025/07/09/minnesota-shooting-hortman-anti-abortion-violence-doctors-providers/ .. more

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d
still my favorite christmas post
vigilantsycamore Dec 25, 2020 Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!

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Haley Norris @hvnorrisphd.bsky.social · 3d
We've been working as quickly as possible to get information out to folks so they can take action re: HHS rules against trans youth health care. Here's my latest guide for those who want to submit a public comment! www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
How To Submit Public Comments To Oppose Proposed Rules Restricting Transgender Health Care Access
Comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services can help fight the Trump administration’s latest attempt to restrict federal funding for transgender health care for youth. This toolkit deta...
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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 6d
It's 20 years of post Katrina trauma and a government invasion coming after those who helped rebuild the city. Kenner stepped up.

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Haley Norris @hvnorrisphd.bsky.social · 8d
216 members of Congress just voted to criminalize actual life-saving health care for youth. That’s the story. While people are struggling to buy basic necessities and insurance premiums, a cruel bill that targets trans kids was passed.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 8d
NEW: Louisiana and lawyer Erin Hawley of ADF just asked a federal judge to IMMEDIATELY end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone while their lawsuit against the FDA proceeds. They cite Fifth Circuit opinion and the Comstock Act of 1873
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
screenshot 1/2 with some words highlighted in yellow. they are offset by asterisks below: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE DIVISION THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, by and through its Attorney General, LIZ MURRILL, and ROSALIE MARKEZICH, Plaintiffs, v. U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, et al., Defendants. Case No.: 6:25-cv-01491-DCJ-DJA Judge David C. Joseph Magistrate Judge David J. Ayo PLAINTIFFS STATE OF LOUISIANA AND ROSALIE MARKEZICH’S MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY RELIEF UNDER 5 U.S.C. § 705 Plaintiffs State of Louisiana and Rosalie Markezich respectfully move under 5 U.S.C. § 705 for **an order staying or postponing the effective date of the 2023 Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued to allow mifepristone to be dispensed remotely** (the 2023 REMS). Plaintiffs also move in the alternative under 5 U.S.C. § 705 for a preliminary injunction under Rule 65 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ordering FDA to suspend or withdraw the 2023 REMS while this case proceeds. The 2023 REMS is unlawful for at least the following reasons: **First, as five Fifth Circuit judges already have indicated, the 2023 REMS is arbitrary and capricious** and an abuse of discretion in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A). All. for Hippocratic Med. v. FDA, No. 23-10362, 2023 WL 2913725, at *17–18 (5th Cir. Apr. 12, 2023) (Alliance I); All. for Hippocratic Med. v. FDA, 78 F.4th 210, 249–51 (5th Cir. 2023) (Alliance II), rev’d and remanded on other grounds, 602 U.S. 367 (2024) (Alliance). That is because FDA permanently removed the in-person dispensing requirement and made other changes based on sources that the agency conceded did not support its decision. docket here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71544002/louisiana-v-u-s-food-drug-administration/?order_by=desc screenshot 2/2 with some words highlighted in yellow. they are offset by asterisks below: **Second, the 2023 REMS is “otherwise not in accordance with law.” 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A). Under 18 U.S.C. § 1462** [NOTE: THIS IS THE COMSTOCK ACT. IT'S 18 U.S.C 1461-1462], Congress prohibits the use of “any express company or other common carrier or interactive computer service” for “any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.” Because a federal agency cannot permit what federal law expressly prohibits, FDA lacked authority to permanently remove the in-person dispensing requirement. For these reasons, and as set forth fully in Plaintiffs’ Complaint and supporting Memorandum of Law, interim relief is necessary and appropriate to mitigate irreparable injuries caused by the 2023 REMS. Interim relief will serve the public interest and will not harm Defendants. This Motion is made on the grounds specified in this Motion, the accompanying Memorandum of Law, the exhibits attached to this Motion, the Complaint, and the Complaint’s accompanying exhibits, as well as on such other and further oral or documentary evidence as may be presented to the Court at or before a hearing on this Motion.1 An exhibit list and a proposed order are attached. docket here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71544002/louisiana-v-u-s-food-drug-administration/?order_by=desc

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Levi Kalish @kalish.bsky.social · 8d
The House is currently debating HR 3492, MTG's Protect Innocence Act, which would criminalize doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors for up to 10 years. Last week MTG voted no on the NDAA in exchange for getting a vote on this bill

You can listen along here: clerk.house.gov
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 8d
PRH is amazing and you should be on their briefing calls

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 9d
This is a pretty basic and well understood norm. And we know how this admin feels about norms.

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 9d
kill it with fire
sabrinanorwood.bsky.social Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 9d
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 9d
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · 17d
If not for vocal distinctions, I would not have been able to tell the lawyers apart. At times, it felt like Agarwal was addressing the court as a student seeking approval and ending every statement with a question mark.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17d
I assume Amit Agarwal was chosen to defend independent agencies at the Supreme Court today because he's a former Alito and Kavanaugh clerk with a conservative pedigree. But he is doing a very poor job, and I think a progressive advocate with subject matter expertise would've been far more effective.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17d
I assume Amit Agarwal was chosen to defend independent agencies at the Supreme Court today because he's a former Alito and Kavanaugh clerk with a conservative pedigree. But he is doing a very poor job, and I think a progressive advocate with subject matter expertise would've been far more effective.

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · Nov 25
The extended Practical Magic universe, including remaking the new one with Evan Rachel Wood this time.
benjaminkabak.com Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · Nov 25
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · Nov 25
Who are the other scientists talking too? Because I'm worried for them.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · Nov 25
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · Nov 24
won the millennial vacation game, "we could live here"

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Nov 22
They line up perfectly.
An Oval Office photo of Trump looking adoringly at Mamdani, while a portrait of Reagan looks on. Above the man-ignoring-his-girlfriend meme.

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · Nov 18
Ethnographers be like

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Nov 18
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
On official UC letterhead: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA James B. Milliken President Office of the President 1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607 universityofcalifornia.edu CAMPUSES Berkeley Davis Irvine UCLA Merced Riverside San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara Santa Cruz MEDICAL CENTERS Davis Irvine UCLA San Diego San Francisco NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES November 18, 2025 Dear Chancellors: I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive. As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California. Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines. Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership. [continued on next image] After learning more about the history and success of the program and weighing the thoughtful perspectives that have been shared, I have concluded that barring extraordinary financial setbacks, the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program will continue while the University continues to assess the program's structure as well as its long-term financial sustainability. As a result of our continuing consultation and review, there may be consideration of some changes to elements of the program including the total number of incentives supported, a number that has fluctuated significantly over the years, and how the awards are distributed among campuses. In the meantime, the University will continue to fund the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program and campuses may continue to take advantage of these incentives. We will have an opportunity to discuss any potential changes prior to adoption. As we look to the future, I will continue to engage with faculty leaders, program stakeholders, and UC community members about this important program. I especially appreciate the thoughtful perspectives shared in recent weeks by Academic Council Chair Palazoglu and Vice Chair Scott, the Council of Graduate Deans, UC faculty members, and you as our campus leaders. Sincerely, James B. Milliken President

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · Nov 18
Failed 2-3 motion to report to full committee favorably: S323 does not advance.
kimyaf.bsky.social Kimya Forouzan @kimyaf.bsky.social · Nov 18
Today, all eyes are on #SouthCarolina, as legislators consider the most extreme and cruel abortion ban in the country: S323.

It’s a total ban with virtually no exceptions. People who have an abortion would be charged with murder, facing up to 30 years in prison.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 18
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

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Kimya Forouzan @kimyaf.bsky.social · Nov 18
Today, all eyes are on #SouthCarolina, as legislators consider the most extreme and cruel abortion ban in the country: S323.

It’s a total ban with virtually no exceptions. People who have an abortion would be charged with murder, facing up to 30 years in prison.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Nov 17
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.

Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
LAW dork = I am certain that someone thought this was particularly witty when they came up with the name, but it's honestly one of the more offensive possibilities these hateful authoritarians could have used. Even on its face, using the name of a beloved children's book as the name of your anti-immigrant, mass-arrest operation is appalling. But, to use a book authored by E.B. White as your name is an offense to history. White was a leading voice for American democracy and freedom and against fascism and tyranny. Abusing his life's work like this cannot stand without a response.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Nov 14
An anti-abortion protester has shot someone outside of a South Carolina Planned Parenthood.

My source says one person was injured and taken to the hospital—and that the protester was arrested.

More soon.

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · Nov 14
"The notion that Fuentes’ rhetorical violence is a bridge too far, while Heritage provides the infrastructure for the administration’s actual violence, strains credulity."
victorerikray.bsky.social Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Nov 14
I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.
The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.
www.liberalcurrents.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Nov 14
I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.
The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.
www.liberalcurrents.com

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Nov 12
so the new york times could very well have destroyed donald trump's presidential run due to epstein back in 2015 but chose not too.

awesome. 🙄
datadrivenmd.social Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · Nov 12
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
aridrennen.bsky.social Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · Nov 12
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · Nov 11
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
samthielman.com CHOAM for the holidays @samthielman.com · Nov 11
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. QT of @avidreader1000 Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · Nov 10
Consensus among judges that clerks have to do their jobs should not feel like such a win but here we are.

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Jamie Morgan @depechealamode.bsky.social · Nov 10
Then you are going to need to book travel.