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Lindsay Wiley
@lindsaywiley.bsky.social
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Law prof at UCLA. Posting about health law, policy & ethics, public health, global health, social & legal epidemiology
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I’m thinking about my Jewish friends & colleagues as you face this day. Wishing you peace, comfort & the joy of time w/ family as you celebrate Hanukkah at this difficult time.
December 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
This is why nearly every story you read about wins regarding UCLA were lawsuits brought by the faculty
Screenshot of article which reads: UCLA seemingly had every reason to push back aggressively. Yet UC system leaders have resisted calls from faculty and labor groups to file suit, fearing the many ways the government could retaliate against not only UCLA, but the entire university system, which relies on federal funds for a full one-third of its revenue. The government has opened probes into all 10 UC campuses, including at least seven that target UC Berkeley alone. “Thankfully, they’ve only fucked with UCLA at this point,” said one UC insider privy to the system’s thinking.
December 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Love to see the chronicle and propublica come together (hate the topic)
December 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
The Supreme Court just set aside a 2nd Circuit decision upholding New York's requirement that all school students, public and private, obtain certain vaccinations, without any religious exemptions. It orders the 2nd Circuit to reconsider the ruling in light of SCOTUS' LGBTQ school books decision.
CERTIORARI -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION 25-133 MILLER, JOSEPH, ET AL. V. McDONALD, COMM'R, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for further consideration in light of Mahmoud v. Taylor, 606 U. S. 522 (2025).
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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rickweinmeyer.bsky.social
Hats off to PBS for the appropriate title on this panel:

"WATCH LIVE: RFK Jr.’s CDC panel to debate whether newborns should get lifesaving hepatitis B shot"

www.youtube.com/live/Fdk_-WF...
WATCH LIVE: RFK Jr.’s CDC panel to debate whether newborns should get lifesaving hepatitis B shot
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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profgoldberg.bsky.social
If only someone had spent the last decade writing about unreasonable demands for proof of causation as a key component in the #ManufactureOfDoubt.

muse.jhu.edu/article/627259
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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rachelsachs.bsky.social
Congratulations to the CMS career staff for completing the negotiations for the 2027 cycle of the Medicare drug price negotiation program - the negotiated prices are now public. More later, but for now one note on attempts to compare these savings to the 2026 savings. 1/2 www.cms.gov/files/docume...
www.cms.gov
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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alexandraphelan.bsky.social
NYC Mayor-Elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social announces 17 transition committees and >400 appointees. Fantastic to see some brilliant names on the Health Committee, inc former NYC health cmssnr Mary Bassett, the inimitable @drdemetre.bsky.social & @tahiramin.bsky.social from @imakglobal.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
lindsaywiley.bsky.social
I do the same for guest teachers. And my daughter (who highly values a well organized and engaging lecturer/discussion leader) watches talks/interviews before choosing her college classes.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
lindsaywiley.bsky.social
The licensing fees AMA gets for developing & updating billing codes are an easy target because they make people angry. But they’re SMALL potatoes in the larger scheme of HC costs. Targeting the fees that are AMA’s lifeblood is mainly about political pressure to give MAHA an imprimatur of legitimacy
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
lindsaywiley.bsky.social
Progressives like Sen Warren have also targeted AMA’s role in keeping health care costs high, but they tend to focus on its role in structural factors, like oversupply of expensive specialists vs primary care docs
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
lindsaywiley.bsky.social
More context here on how Sen. Cassidy (expressing concerns about health care costs) and MAHA/RFKJr (seeking greater influence over medical decisionmaking) are both targeting AMA’s role in how Medicare & other insurers pay doctors.

cthosp.org/daily-news-c...
Politics puts a target on AMA and its crucial CPT code system
Modern Healthcare – Monday, October 20, 2025 By Michael McAuliff The American Medical Association and the healthcare system itself may be in for significant disruption if key Republicans have anything...
cthosp.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
lindsaywiley.bsky.social
“Fewer than 1/4 of U.S. physicians are members of the AMA. Its financial stability now depends mostly on [licensing fees for AMA-created billing codes]. Financial dependence on a single, government-supported revenue stream leaves the AMA highly vulnerable to political pressure.”
nicktsergas.ca Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · Nov 23
The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
lindsaywiley.bsky.social
The illustrations are by Aysha’s sister, Jasmin Pamukcu!
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
lindsaywiley.bsky.social
I’m so excited to get my hands on this important new book from Jamila Porter & Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu!

It comes with a free downloadable coloring book of inspiring illustrations!

Out of stock at Amazon at the moment, but still available from APHA

www.movementpraxis.org/advancingequ...
Advancing Equity and Justice
www.movementpraxis.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
lindsaywiley.bsky.social
My grandmother did Elvis’s hair and make up for a “womanless wedding”
drag fundraiser when they were at Humes High School together (he graduated in her younger brother’s class)
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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fishkin.bsky.social
I mean, the first paragraph lays it all out.

The President, VP, and Agency officials, including the head of the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, told us exactly what they intended to do & then did, which was use pretextual civil rights claims to impose ideological control on universities.
Plaintiffs have submitted overwhelming evidence. Across 74 declarations and more than 700 pages of supporting documents, Plaintiffs show that the Administration and its executive agencies are engaged in a concerted campaign to purge “woke,” “left,” and “socialist” viewpoints from our country’s leading universities. Agency officials, as well as the President and Vice President, have repeatedly and publicly announced a playbook of initiating civil rights investigations of preeminent universities to justify cutting off federal funding, with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune. Universities are then presented with agreements to restore federal funding under which they must change what they teach, restrict student anonymity in protests, and endorse the Administration’s view of gender, among other things. Defendants submit nothing to refute this. It is undisputed that this precise playbook is now being executed at the University of California. Defendant Leo Terrell, who heads the Administration’s Task Force to Combat AntiSemitism, publicly stated in a news interview that the UC had been “hijacked by the left” and vowed to begin investigations. The Department of Justice and Department of Education have
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇
SCOTUS Echoes Plessy v Ferguson in Greenlighting Trump's Transphobic Passport Policy
Repeating a pattern that has become all too familiar, late last week the Roberts Court issued a per curiam order staying a lower court rulin...
www.dorfonlaw.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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rickhasen.bsky.social
That's @fishkin.bsky.social (a must-follow on this site)
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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jcschwartzprof.bsky.social
The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature.

dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.

Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ET AL., Plaintiffs, V. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ET AL., Defendants. * * * * * * * * * * * Civil Action No. 1:25-cv-13165-IT MEMORANDUM AND ORDER October 31, 2025 TALWANI, D.J. Pending before the court is Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order [Doc. No. 3] seeking to enjoin, on an emergency basis, Defendants' November 1, 2025 suspension of benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ("SNAP"). For the reasons stated below, Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action and are likely to succeed on their claim that Defendants' suspension of SNAP benefits is unlawful. Where that suspension of benefits rested on an erroneous construction of the relevant statutory provisions, the court will allow Defendants to consider whether they will authorize at least reduced SNAP benefits for November, and report back to the court no later than Monday, November 3, 2025. A. Likelihood of Success on the Merits Plaintiffs have demonstrated a strong likelihood of success on the merits of their claim under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A), (C), that Defendants' suspension of SNAP benefits is contrary to law. At core, Defendants' conclusion that USDA is statutorily prohibited from funding SNAP because Congress has not enacted new appropriations for the current fiscal year is erroneous. To the contrary, Defendants are statutorily mandated to use the previously appropriated SNAP contingency reserve when necessary and also have discretion to use other previously appropriated funds as detailed below. As both parties acknowledge, Congress has not yet appropriated any new funds for SNAP benefits for Fiscal Year 2026, which began on October 1, 2025. Pls.' Mem. 6 [Doc. No. 4]; Defs.' Opp'n 7 [Doc. No. 18]. But Congress took steps to protect against the deprivation of SNAP assistance. In the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Pub. L. No. 118-42, § 6, 138 Stat. 25, 93-94, Congress separately appropriated $6 billion to the SNAP program "to remain available through September 30, 2026" and "be placed in reserve for use only in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations." See also Pub. L. No. 119-4, § 1101(a), 139 Stat. 9, 10 (2025). As Plaintiffs point out, given the mandatory nature of SNAP benefits under 7 U.S.C. § 2014(a) and the appropriation of these funds to be available 10 Case 1:25-cv-13165-IT Document 26 Filed 10/31/25 Page 11 of 15 through this current fiscal year, the government is obligated to use this contingent reserve account to fund SNAP "as may become necessary to carry out program operations." 138 Stat. at 93-94; Pls.' Mem. 11 [Doc. No. 4]. Defendants argue out that a "suspension" is permitted under USDA's regulations, and that USDA "has consistently interpreted its authority to allow for the suspension or cancellation of benefits when necessary." Defs. Opp'n 6 [Doc. No. 18). The regulation at issue, 7 C.F.R. $ 271.7(a), sets forth procedures to be followed if monthly SNAP allowances "must be reduced, suspended, or cancelled to comply with section 18 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008" (emphasis added). But that the regulation allows for a suspension when there are no funds does not mean that Defendants may choose a suspension over a reduction while funds do remain. If the regulation did authorize such discretion, it would be inconsistent with the statutory mandate that benefits "shall" be paid unless funding is no longer available.
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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greerdonley.bsky.social
Good News that sounds like bad news: The District of Hawaii just found the FDA's 2023 mifepristone REMS modification unlawful and arbitrary & capricious! It's good news b/c the case was brought by medical orgs & docs arguing that FDA failed to justify why it kept strict & unnecessary REMS elements.
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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charlottegarden.bsky.social
1. This will be a forced labor camp; 2. Utah is already planning to make it easier to commit people to it.
brian-goldstone.bsky.social Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Oct 29
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM