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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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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · May 19

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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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 13h

"...the restructuring of [ACIP]—including the abrupt replacement of all voting members and leadership—marked a significant departure from its longstanding norms of continuity and governance."
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The Erosion of a Pillar of Public Health: ACIP’s Role and the Future of U.S. Vaccine Policy Post–June 2025

Abstract. Since June 2025, the restructuring of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—including the abrupt replacement of all voting

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 13h

Was there no department chair who could say “sorry I know you want to make students write about rape but we really need you to cover second semester Latin?” It takes quite a few people to let this sort of thing happen.

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 14h

This is jaw-dropping even by the standards of academic associates of Epstein

Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 15h

thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

The Trump admin has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument. apnews.com/article/ston...

Trump administration takes down a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument

The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument. That's angering activists who see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country’s first national monument...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 14h

This is jaw-dropping even by the standards of academic associates of Epstein

Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 15h

thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...

Former professor requested thousands from Jeffrey Epstein Foundation to fund campus rape policy conference

Content warning: This story contains discussion of pedophilia, sexual assault, harassment, rape and suicide. A former UT Classics professor requested over $10,000 from Jeffrey Epstein’s charitable org...

thedailytexan.com

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Efrén O. Pérez, Trevon D. Logan , and 6 more Scott L. Greer, Efrén O. Pérez, Trevon D. Logan, Alan Richardson, Emily Grubert, Silvia Secchi, James A. Benn, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Peter Bergman

Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 14h

Stanford is doing this because it wants to

Stanford University discontinued. It’s enhancing diversity and graduate education. Dr. old Fellowship, a graduate program aimed at diversifying at student body. The Stanford daily report reported. The university also will no longer offer housing and dining support for students from outside the Bay Area who participate in summer undergraduate research fellowship. The Fellowship House in Sanford school of engineering offered an immersive research and graduate school preparation experience for first generation students and student students from historically underrepresented communities.”

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 14h

The whole of 2025 seems to have had a limited impact

YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 14h

A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "More Americans want to cut government spending in general than want to cut many major spending areas."

The chart's sub-headline is: "Overall spending: Overall, do you think the federal government should increase or decrease the total amount it spends?Specific areas: Do you think the federal government should increase or decrease what it spends on...?% of U.S. adult citizens."

The chart has the note: "Note: The full response option for ICE was "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).""

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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 14h

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 14h

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines.

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Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.

apnews.com

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 15h

Trump officials cite ivermectin research as example of their openness "to ideas the scientific establishment has rejected."

Bhattacharya (who said he wants NIH to be "research arm of MAHA.": "If lots of ppl believe it & it’s moving public hlth, we as NIH have an obligation...to treat it seriously"

US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin’s ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells’ - KFF Health News

At a January event organized by allies of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., National Cancer Institute Director Anthony Letai said results may be released “in a few months.” Ivermectin, used to d...

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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine.

Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine

www.nytimes.com

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 19h

I wonder if Columbia’s disastrous board and leadership will learn anything from this

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 21h

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent. Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent

Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

www.nature.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

A federal government MAHA website, advertised during the superbowl, is directing users to Grok to "get real answers about real food"? (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social)
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Trump’s nutrition website directs users to Elon Musk’s Grok

The inclusion of Elon Musk’s chatbot in the government website follows backlash over the chatbot creating millions of sexualized images of women and children.

www.nextgov.com

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Cathy N. Davidson, Ann Bartow , and 2 more Scott L. Greer, Cathy N. Davidson, Ann Bartow, Greg Linden, Baptiste Coulmont

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 21h

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent

Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

www.nature.com

Reposted by Scott L. Greer

Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 22h

In Philadelphia, ICE will share office space with a DMV. A proposed ICE office in Portland, Maine is within walking distance of 8 places of worship. Today WIRED is publishing the locations of dozens of planned ICE offices across the US, part of a major expansion. from @leahfeiger.bsky.social

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

www.wired.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Scott L. Greer, Richard M. Carpiano

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 23h

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights.

When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

A chart from ICE Flight Monitor showing that while ICE deportations went up 44% yoy, domestic shuffle ICE flights went up 123%.

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1d

[endless screaming]

US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin’s ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells’ - KFF Health News

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 1d

A baseline wall of defense in the Trump era has been the ability to sue when legal obligations for funding are deliberately unmet.
www.wosu.org/2026-02-09/k...

Ohio schools could lose funding if they sue over state funding

A bill introduced in the Ohio House would allow the state to claw back the money it sends to a public school district if that district sues over its state funding.

www.wosu.org

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

core part of the ostensible economic justification for mass deportation was that Americans would rush in to take all the jobs immigrants left, but now unemployment rates for native born Americans are rising and the admin is sending people out to do damage control

A graph of the unemployment rate by immigration status showing a rise in native born unemployment

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1d

"But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism."

Well the AAU is gonna love this (miniest of threads)

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

www.insidehighered.com

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1d

I like Bangor and I like Bangor university and I don’t know why anybody listens to Isabel Oakeshott

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 1d

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d

UNC is close to finalizing its policy which outlines permissible circumstances to *SECRETLY RECORD FACULTY IN THE CLASSROOM.*

UNC-Chapel Hill Preps Policy on Recording Professors

The school aims to clarify guidelines after a secret recording controversy and growing fear of surveillance.

www.theassemblync.com

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Plimsoll Day, an annual celebration of the life of social reformer and MP Samuel Plimsoll (born 1824), and his radical campaign to improve ship safety and protect seafarers' lives. (1/6)

Photograph of a man sat facing to the side. He has a large bushy beard and hair pushed back from his face. He is wearing a suit and thickly knotted tie. The photograph is in an oval setting.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The AMA and a leading public health research group focused on vaccines are teaming up to create a parallel system to review vaccine safety and effectiveness.  The CDC’s vaccine review process has “effectively collapsed” under RFKJr. My story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

AMA joins effort to launch vaccine science review amid CDC turmoil

The American Medical Association and a partner group are taking on a new role in reviewing vaccine safety and effectiveness as the CDC’s review process faces criticism.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1d

Linked article is very good, ties together a lot of threads from the details of WHO to estimates of the lives Trump/Musk have cost, to historical context.

Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 1d

HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025

🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year

😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition

news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News

History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.

news.westernu.ca

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Caroline T. Schroeder, Jelena Subotić

Anthony Dean @diversetechgeek.bsky.social · 1d

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files

www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files Out of 'Safety of Our Attendees'

DinoCon issued a statement regarding the scientists and more named in the Epstein Files, noting they were officially banned from the event.

www.thewrap.com

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 1d

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer

Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

www.mprnews.org

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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 1d

Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News

History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.

news.westernu.ca

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1d

Or, they vanish (back) into a lucrative alternative world of wellness grifting? Probably a lot easier than an apology tour around their old institutions (ask Redfield or Birx if it’s worth trying to rebuild a normal career, and they arguably did more professional jobs).

Redfield Joins Big Ass Fans, Which Promotes Controversial Covid-Killing Technology - KFF Health News

Dr. Robert Redfield, Trump’s CDC director, lends his scientific credibility to its Clean Air Systems subsidiary, which touts a “virus-killing ion technology” added to its fans. But indoor air quality ...

kffhealthnews.org

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1d

We knew the administration is vindictive and doesn’t care much for public health funding. What I’m interested in: whether congressional R tolerance for impoundment might diminish. It’s their budget, they just passed it, are they happy to see Trump/Vought/MAHA immediately disregard it?

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“Dr. Deb Houry, who served as the C.D.C.’s chief medical officer before she resigned in August, noted that Congress had already appropriated the funds.

“It is concerning that H.H.S. is cutting public health funding to local communities that cover core functions in the middle of a measles outbreak”

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 1d

Looking good there boss

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."

As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. They own both the Canada and the United States side and, of course, built it with virtually no U.S. content. President Barack Hussein Obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act, and not use any American products, including our Steel. Now, the Canadian Government expects me, as President of the United States, to PERMIT them to just “take advantage of America!” What does the United States of America get — Absolutely NOTHING! Ontario won't even put U.S. spirits, beverages, and other alcoholic products, on their shelves, they are absolutely prohibited from doing so and now, on top of everything else, Prime Minister Carney wants to make a deal with China — which will eat Canada alive. We’ll just get the leftovers! I don't think so. The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup. The Tariffs Canada charges us for our Dairy products have, for many years, been unacceptable, putting our Farmers at great financial risk. I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve. We will start negotiations, IMMEDIATELY. With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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