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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.

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 8h

“the only complaints it fears are from a conservative one.

When I was there… that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.”

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 10h

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The truth about impartiality at the BBC

And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

open.substack.com

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 8h

Oooof

Sign at TSA checkpoint offering help with “self-deportation”

Reposted by Will Jennings, Scott L. Greer, Christopher McCabe , and 6 more Will Jennings, Scott L. Greer, Christopher McCabe, Jonathan Hopkin, Justin Lewis, Ian Loader, Jon Dean, Michael Larkin, Richard Moorhead

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 10h

The truth about impartiality at the BBC

And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

open.substack.com

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 18h

6-8%

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19h

Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Will Jennings, Scott L. Greer , and 6 more Jonathan Portes, Will Jennings, Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Laurens Swinkels, Michael Morris, Nicolai von Ondarza, José Pina-Sánchez

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19h

Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?

Reposted by Scott L. Greer

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.

Reposted by Scott L. Greer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump is in the booth on Fox's NFL broadcast attacking Biden. Woof for all involved.

Reposted by Alan M. MacEachren, Scott L. Greer

Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.

Donnie dipshit between the announcers in the Fox booth on November 9, record 40th day of the GOP shutdown

Reposted by Scott L. Greer

Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 1d

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View of Navy Pier in Chicago from William E. Dever Crib in Lake Michigan east of North Avenue. // Image captured at: 2025-11-09 23:00:01 UTC (about 7 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 31.12 F | -.49 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NNW at 7.001 mph | 11.26 kph // Humidity: 64%

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

How do you know the fate of the US is far from determined? How about a humble airport disclaiming responsibility for the propaganda video playing twenty feet away. You don’t see that in Hungary

Sign at airport saying partisan pro-Trump messages playing on TSA screens don’t represent Wayne county airport authorize

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

Asking CFOs ‘why they couldn’t just explain to investors that earnings would come in slightly lower because managers made spending decisions based on the long-term health of the company, he [was] told “the fact that you’re even asking that question is the reason I’m a CFO and you’re a professor”’

Trump Wants to End Quarterly Reporting. Jack Welch Would Approve

The legendary GE boss eventually came around to the idea that the focus on short-term results was a harmful distraction.

www.bloomberg.com

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

Even the House chaplain has a legitimacy problem?

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · May 9

I wonder how Republicans would vote on a resolution electing Kibben, which any member could offer from the floor as a question of privilege. If the House elected her, then only the House, not Johnson, would be able to remove her.

Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · May 9

Capitol Hill has its own conclave - to pick a new House Chaplain - after Speaker Johnson demoted the sitting chaplain to “acting.” Meanwhile, a conservative pastor who jokes he’s the “undercover chaplain” has been roaming the Capitol & wants the job. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Reposted by Scott L. Greer

@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 1d

Sam the rural health advoCATe appreciates recognition that rural populations are both diverse and under-resourced.

Food insecurity is higher in rural.

Remember this on National Rural Health Day, Nov 20!

#PowerOfRuralCats

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

In media the “face of SNAP or any other food program who's on your screen is rarely white and rarely rural. The reality in Michigan, according to the Food Research & Action Center, is that 16.8% of SNAP beneficiaries are rural, compared with 16.1% from metropolitan areas and 14.2% from small towns.”

At the Manna Food Project, the face of hunger isn't what you expect to see | Rubin

Northern Michigan food bank serves a different clientele than what we're programmed to imagine through social media

www.freep.com

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

Just to be clear, it is extremely easy to be less bad than Musk's rampage, which has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths already and is set to cause millions over time (while he might be paid enough to make every dead person he's accountable for into a millionaire)

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

www.thelancet.com

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

This looks like a post-DOGE shift back towards Project 2025, which was much less bad than Elon Musk's decision, abetted by Rubio, to feed USAID into a "wood chipper." It's a pretty poor concept of a plan IMO but more like traditional US policy e.g. pro PEPFAR, surveillance).

America First Global Health Strategy - United States Department of State

The America First Global Health Strategy outlines a comprehensive vision to make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous. It will protect the homeland by preventing infectious disease outbreaks ...

www.state.gov

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

policies have consequences

"Support among US adults for the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has dropped from 90% to 82% in just a few months, while confusion reigns over whether Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—the top US official spearheading prevention efforts"

Support for measles vaccination drops amid growing confusion about the disease, US poll shows

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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

My colleague @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social on what the "Rural Health Transformation Fund" can do for Michigan- IMO it's a wholly inadequate sop to compensate for a Trump budget that will wreck rural health care, but it's what we have and we should make the best of it.

Opinion | What Michigan communities need most from Rural Health Transformation Program - Bridge Michigan

Without resources, rural hospitals will close, and many communities will lose their primary source of care. Without workforce investment, these providers will struggle to meet the needs of their commu...

bridgemi.com

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Virginia Sapiro

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like the "removal of statues etc is erasing history" folks are actually into doing those removals if the history being erased is the history of black people

My Politics @mypolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Here are the two plaques that were removed. I am so ashamed of our racist current administration.

Reposted by Scott L. Greer

reading through the darkness @ardentreader.bsky.social · 1d

This is interesting because a lot of the foot soldiers in the woo movement that MAHA/RFK Jr. rode to power were radicalized by bad experiences with the US health care system: insured, but had difficulty with diagnoses, felt ignored by Drs., etc., looked for alternatives, fell down the rabbit hole.

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

An extension: Poor health makes people more likely to vote far right or drop out of politics. Why? Because prolonged exposure to the healthcare system, social care, HR, would make almost anybody distrustful and resentful. Health-> healthcare -> distrust -> anger expressed in politics

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

“If your tent is big enough to include neo-Nazis and their fangirls like Tucker Carlson, then it is too big for certainly myself”

They can’t object to Nazis without throwing in a stupid gender insult?

Trump’s Maga coalition fractures over far-right interview

Heritage Foundation in turmoil after head defends airing of exchange with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes

www.ft.com

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2d

This is ever so good and a look into a pressing current topic, which is what drives elite scientists into unscientific reactionary politics

Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 2d

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

www.statnews.com

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2d

I think it’s partly that Orban’s takeover was unusually easy (gifted an amending supermajority in a unicameral parliament). If you focus on Orban, you can imagine that a single election is enough to install your in power forever, and then go on to delude yourself that 2024 was such an election.

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2d

Bullies, in politics and elsewhere, arrogate to themselves the right to name and place others. Your autonomy threatens their power. Whether they’re refusing to use the correct name for your political party, or refusing to use the correct name for you. Friendship, to them, means being bullied.

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Pence was just on CSPAN at an event talking about how we need to have civility in politics & talked about his “Democrat friends.” You can’t make this shit up.

Reposted by Scott L. Greer

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Pence was just on CSPAN at an event talking about how we need to have civility in politics & talked about his “Democrat friends.” You can’t make this shit up.

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2d

I think this applies to a lot of fields beyond academia too

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2d

Hungary stands in relationship to Germany as the US south long stood in relationship to big northern states: a low-wage, labor-repressive production site whose politics are protected in the capitals of other states by the businesses that benefit from having plants or suppliers there.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2d

hey! You can buy the really cool @jhppl.bsky.social fiftieth anniversary issue in hard copy for 50% off *through the end of this weekend*. One of the best one-volume treatments of US health politics you're going to see.

JHPPL at 50

www.dukeupress.edu

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2d

It would be fun for somebody with more tolerance for bullshit than me to figure out exactly who the market was for Goldhagen and what the fact that he was taken seriously tells us about our debates then and now

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