Alex Garlick
@garlicksauce
Political scientist @uvmvermont. Congress, Lobbying, Health Policy. Author of "Pre-Existing Conditions: How Lobbying Makes American Health Care More Expensive"
Are lobbyists influential? The public has long thought so, but applied political science since lobbying registration data emerged (late 90s) struggled to produce evidence that it does. In a new review @wmjunk @heathbrown & I chart a wave of research showing how lobbying matters.
Have a sausage outside the gates on Jersey street before you go in. Not so hard.
What to do in case of a Fenway Park strike by Aramark workers overthemonster.com/2025/7/24/2447…
Gender-diverse people are worried about losing access to gender-affirming care, according to a news study from a UVM professor of nursing. burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/202…
If you want to know what people in a society are doing, you should look at what needs to be forbidden
Old enough to remember when Elon posted: "Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public."
I’d like to think I could do it in 3. 😉
If any of the people pushing the Trump/Tulsi Obama conspiracy sat down for an interview with a non-MAGA influencer, the whole thing would fall apart in 5 minutes.
This @joshchafetz draft on Chadha, the legislative veto, and Trump is excellent. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Great piece in VTDigger from @BarrengosEliot on how the Lake Monsters rebuilt, and kept baseball in Burlington ⬇️
A few years ago, the future of baseball in Burlington was uncertain. In 2020, Major League Baseball shrunk its minor league circuit, and teams like the Lake Monsters were left on the outside looking in. buff.ly/RtT3h9H
Ok one more thought. The White House isn’t doing anything really to help house republicans. Why? I assume because they think House Rs will fold for Trump and take bullets for him. Because they always do. There’s no risk or precedent of big fissures. So they can mostly ignore…
also, another note here: Johnson has said that he will wait until August to give the Trump administration time to get these docs out. so now it's on the Trump administration. if they dont do anything in the next month, Johnson won't be able to do anything about action on…
Fewer.
We need more electricians and less sociology majors.
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
My haiku titled: "The 119th Congress" Trump has gotten the Opponents to fold, we don’t Foresee a problem
RULE for crypto will be up in the noon hour. First a motion to reconsider. Since Trump has gotten the opponents to fold, we don’t foresee a problem.
There is absolutely no rational reason for a young family who wants to own a home to bear the entire tax burden of the elderly.
There is absolutely no rational reason for a 65 year old who owns their home to still be paying property taxes. It's absurd.
Running for another term through age 86, the junior senator from Massachusetts raises $372k from individuals and spends $464k for Q2
NEW FEC F3 MARKEY, EDWARD SEN. (DEM-Inc) #MASEN RCPT $713,745 EXPN $464,781 COH $2,540,642 docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/…
because obviously. Every principal in DC does this.
Lots of great stories on the @NBCNews site this morning: James Comer, lead investigator into Biden's use of an autopen, signed letters in connection to that probe with a digital signature @ryanobles @MZanona nbcnews.com/politics/congr…