Thomas J Hayes
@thomasjhayes.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science at UConn. Director of the EcoHouse Learning Community.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Look at how Trump's tariffs are affecting retail prices.
August 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Look at how Trump's tariffs are affecting retail prices.
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The balance of public opinion is against abortion being legal in only one state, Arkansas.
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July 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The balance of public opinion is against abortion being legal in only one state, Arkansas.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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July 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day.
1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
June 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day.
1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.
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To top it all off, as I wrote in @medpagetoday.bsky.social, the bill goes against the federalism principles that Republicans have historically espoused, literally penalizing states for offering more generous health coverage with their own state funds. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | Will States' Rights Go the Way of Medicaid Funding?
Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' bolsters federal power
www.medpagetoday.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
To top it all off, as I wrote in @medpagetoday.bsky.social, the bill goes against the federalism principles that Republicans have historically espoused, literally penalizing states for offering more generous health coverage with their own state funds. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Now let’s talk behavioral health. The opioid epidemic ravaged Appalachia (where I live, and which largely voted for Trump), and Medicaid is critical lifeline for people requiring treatment for mental health and substance use disorders, as I write on in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/m...
Medicaid cuts would devastate mental health, substance use treatment services in red states
Though behavioral health conditions do not discriminate between Democrats and Republicans, the Medicaid cuts may be particularly damaging for residents of red states.
www.statnews.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Now let’s talk behavioral health. The opioid epidemic ravaged Appalachia (where I live, and which largely voted for Trump), and Medicaid is critical lifeline for people requiring treatment for mental health and substance use disorders, as I write on in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/m...
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As Republicans expedite their efforts to rip health coverage from millions of Americans, re-upping my writing on the not so-beautiful bill. First, my piece in The Hill w/ @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social on harms to rural (conservative) communities (ex: hospital closures). thehill.com/opinion/heal...
Medicaid cuts will harm rural Republican communities most
Trump’s budget will actively harm the health and incomes of rural communities and Republican voters, well beyond those who themselves are enrolled in Medicaid.
thehill.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
As Republicans expedite their efforts to rip health coverage from millions of Americans, re-upping my writing on the not so-beautiful bill. First, my piece in The Hill w/ @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social on harms to rural (conservative) communities (ex: hospital closures). thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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One of the tough things about covering Trump’s 2nd term is that he is breaking so many laws & norms that when you cover them each on their own, you come off as an anti-Trump Dem pundit w “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” But when you list it all out things indeed look pretty alarming
May 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One of the tough things about covering Trump’s 2nd term is that he is breaking so many laws & norms that when you cover them each on their own, you come off as an anti-Trump Dem pundit w “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” But when you list it all out things indeed look pretty alarming
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if Congress does not seize its powers back Trump *will* fly the American economy straight into the side of a mountain.
Again: he is not going to back down from tariffs because the imports collapse is an explicitly good thing to him. It’s the whole goal of the policy.
He sees the number of containers going to zero and thinks *that is a success* because it means we’re not buying things from those foreigners anymore.
He sees the number of containers going to zero and thinks *that is a success* because it means we’re not buying things from those foreigners anymore.
Trump: "We were losing a trillion dollars a year. Now we're not losing anything, you know? That's the way I look at it. We were losing with China on trade a trillion dollars a year."
May 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
if Congress does not seize its powers back Trump *will* fly the American economy straight into the side of a mountain.
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The US government is pumping right-wing conspiracy theories into other countries. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network
One America News will now provide news and video to government-funded organization
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The US government is pumping right-wing conspiracy theories into other countries. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Appeasement, as Churchill warned, is like feeding a crocodile and hoping to be the last one eaten.
Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Appeasement, as Churchill warned, is like feeding a crocodile and hoping to be the last one eaten.
Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
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May 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
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Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
April 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
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Trump's ActBlue attacks serve two goals: Cripple Dems' small-dollar machine (where GOP mega-donors can't compete) while forcing Democrats deeper into the arms of their own billionaires and mega-donors. Not just about winning—it's about kneecapping Dem candidates who refuse to bow to elite interests.
April 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Trump's ActBlue attacks serve two goals: Cripple Dems' small-dollar machine (where GOP mega-donors can't compete) while forcing Democrats deeper into the arms of their own billionaires and mega-donors. Not just about winning—it's about kneecapping Dem candidates who refuse to bow to elite interests.
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Something has happened in the last three months that has led basically every economic forecaster to predict that inflation will be substantially higher than they previously thought.
April 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Something has happened in the last three months that has led basically every economic forecaster to predict that inflation will be substantially higher than they previously thought.
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The Accidental Harvard Letter
The Accidental Deportation
The Accidental Tariff on an Uninhabited Island
The Accidental Disclosure of War Plans to a Journalist
The Accidental Firings of Nuclear Safety Workers
The Accidental Deportation
The Accidental Tariff on an Uninhabited Island
The Accidental Disclosure of War Plans to a Journalist
The Accidental Firings of Nuclear Safety Workers
April 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The Accidental Harvard Letter
The Accidental Deportation
The Accidental Tariff on an Uninhabited Island
The Accidental Disclosure of War Plans to a Journalist
The Accidental Firings of Nuclear Safety Workers
The Accidental Deportation
The Accidental Tariff on an Uninhabited Island
The Accidental Disclosure of War Plans to a Journalist
The Accidental Firings of Nuclear Safety Workers
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In his first 100 days, Trump has declared more national emergencies — more creatively and more aggressively — than any president in modern history.
The emergency powers were originally designed to give the president flexibility in rare moments of crisis.
The emergency powers were originally designed to give the president flexibility in rare moments of crisis.
Trump redefines "emergency" to impose his will
Powers originally crafted to give the president flexibility in rare moments of crisis now form the backbone of Trump's agenda.
www.axios.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
In his first 100 days, Trump has declared more national emergencies — more creatively and more aggressively — than any president in modern history.
The emergency powers were originally designed to give the president flexibility in rare moments of crisis.
The emergency powers were originally designed to give the president flexibility in rare moments of crisis.
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New from me: Trump's job approval rating on the economy is now at an all-time low, even worse than during COVID-19. Opinion in his handling of inflation is at -18 on average! He has now lost the GOP's single best political asset of the last decade.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/chart-of-t...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/chart-of-t...
Trump is losing voters on the economy
Inflation got Donald Trump elected in 2024. Now, his ratings on economic issues are at their lowest point ever, even worse than during COVID-19
www.gelliottmorris.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
New from me: Trump's job approval rating on the economy is now at an all-time low, even worse than during COVID-19. Opinion in his handling of inflation is at -18 on average! He has now lost the GOP's single best political asset of the last decade.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/chart-of-t...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/chart-of-t...