Writer at The Bulwark / Author of THE TEN YEAR WAR & SICK / Fan of Red Sox, Dolphins, Wolverines, Billy Joel / Proud husband & dad
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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**Some Personal News**
THE TEN YEAR WAR, my new book, is available for pre-order.
It’s an effort to tell the story of Obamacare and, more broadly, the story of American politics over the last decade. (1)
read.macmillan.com/lp/ten-ye…
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Measles elimination ends when one strain spreads nonstop for a year. Three chains of measles transmission traced back to Texas have been going for over a year.
Save and send to a parent: youtube.com/watch?v=Hg68gcjQ…
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Lots of news in this @Lauren_V_Egan joint
* Ken Martin likely to keep job
* DNC still laying off some folks
* Talks among SC Dems to demand '28 candidates send a portion of the $ they raise to the state party.
* talk of new fundraising organization that would raise $ to funnel to state parties
thebulwark.com/p/one-easy-tr…
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NEWS: Senate health committee schedules vote on FDA commissioner nominee Heidi Overton for next Wednesday, November 18 statnews.com/2026/11/11/fda-…
Don’t eyeroll
Do read @Lauren_V_Egan at @BulwarkOnline
And if you did six months ago, you had an inkling what was coming thebulwark.com/p/dont-eyerol…
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She denied him a blue slip. He gave her a pink slip. cnn.com/2026/11/11/politics/…
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The closure of The Washington Post's Book World was a gut punch for book lovers. We're proud to announce that the Washington Monthly’s new standalone book review, The Reader, is stepping into the breach.
On November 15, The Reader will begin publishing five new books-related pieces each week—mostly reviews of nonfiction, where the lack of books coverage is most severe, but we’ll tell you about important new fiction, too.
The Reader’s list of contributors includes more than thirty Pulitzer Prize winning authors, as well as marquee journalists, critics and novelists. Among our eclectic list are Jelani Cobb (@jelani9), Amy Bloom (@AmyBloomBooks), Ian Frazier, Michael Lewis, Susan Orlean (@susanorlean), and Nora Krug (@nbkrug).
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Thanks to Mike Rogers for running a predictably dog shit campaign, I have collected the winnings from my @AbdulElSayed -6 bet. @zingermans @CitizenCohn
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"There’s an opportunity to stop it from becoming the counterproductive brawl it’s been in the past. And if Democrats are smart, they’ll take that opportunity while it’s still there."
@CitizenCohn on the Medicare for All debate in The Breakdown:
lnk.thebulwark.com/4AhthKY
Definitely the impression so far
Absence of such a figure in the caucus — except maybe Fetterman — represents a key difference with recent Dem majorities, especially in a world where more legislation moves with 50+ votes
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One of the best charts I've seen explaining how health insurance costs are silently choking workers. If your job gives you a 4% raise, health care sucks away one-third of it. Food, gas, etc. feel more expensive because health care is devouring your salary. masshpc.gov/sites/default/fi…
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A quiet Medicaid Expansion triumph is supporting folk w/disabilities who present to public systems as low-income adults. Excellent work by Vyas+colleagues shows that this is arguably the group at greatest risk from HR1 work requirements.whttps://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-04811?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed
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CDC dir doesn’t plan on changing CDCs approach to measles even if we lose our measles elim status. So I guess we will continue to see confusing and misleading info that undermines confidence in the vaccine. cnn.com/2026/11/10/health/cd…
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The most accurate AI capabilities predictors are starting to raise the alarm about things moving toward The Bad Thing faster than they thought.
Underscores why we need frontier reg legislation now, not later.
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Unfortunately, it seems like the intelligence explosion will be happening in 2027 after all. Most of this post analyzes the new METR report (though other sources of evidence are also important). If they’re right, that implies an AI-driven acceleration that is 5 months ahead of the AI 2027 scenario. I am scared, sad, and angry. blog.aifutures.org/p/q35-tim…
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Why ‘First Democrat Since 1982’ Doesn’t Capture What Scott Colom’s Win Would Mean for Mississippi talkingpointsmemo.com/news/w… via @TPM
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On the right, there's an emerging line that true MAGA has never been tried — that Trump betrayed his principles, and cost the GOP the midterms.
This isn't really true. But it tells us something important about the post-Trump right.
THREAD
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The administration has denied that it is hurting veterans’ care.
That is not what we have found. Over months of reporting, ProPublica has watched the East Orange VA Medical Center — a typical agency facility — spiral downward.
propublica.org/article/east-… @ericuman
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NEWS: Nebraska rushed to be the first state to require adults in Medicaid to prove they're working, under Trump's budget law.
The result: A cancer patient lost his insurance, while several consultants are making lots of money.
By @rachanadpradhan
npr.org/2026/11/09/nx-s1-603…
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Democrats are currently at 55.8% of the House popular vote, per @CookPolitical.
That's the highest for any party since 1974.
Republicans haven't gotten that much of the House popular vote since at least World War II.
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When Trump loses the votes counted last, he says they’re fake.
When he loses the votes counted first, he says they’re fake.
He says the polls are fake—unless he loses, in which case he uses them to say the vote counts are fake.
The faker is always him. thebulwark.com/p/donald-trum…
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New: Warnock, Luján lead 16 Senate Dems in calling for 2 year delay of Medicaid work requirements
Which are set to take effect on Jan 1
Letter calls for action on next moving legislative vehicle
Start of Dem push on repeal or delay of Medicaid changes
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