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Dan Herman

@danbherman.bsky.social
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Emeritus Professor, Founding Director, Center for the Advancement of Critical Time Intervention. www.criticaltime.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/03/2026
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. Read more: propub.li/4rBUJOV
Bar chart showing the change in the number of providers — social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists — from the third quarter of 2023 to the end of 2025 on the x-axis and the number of providers from negative 400 to 800 on the y-axis. The trend starts with a peak of about 700 social workers and around 200 psychologists added in the third quarter of 2023, followed by a steady decline across all groups, dropping below zero by the first quarter of 2025 with social worker losses eventually dipping around 400.
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We see our colleagues courage, strength, and integrity. Please take a read. Learn about why our colleagues resigned, instead of working in ICE detention centers. Share their stores widely. @npr.org
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Some Public Health Service officers quit rather than serve in ICE detention centers
A special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Incredible. Thank you @governor.ca.gov.
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
You can take the boy out of Queens but…
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Buy stock in blue books!
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Actually encouraging if true.
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Rarely watch but always subscribe!
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
True enough. And the Trump administration’s newly announced policy directions—if implemented—will only serve to reverse the progress that’s been made.
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A true musical genius. RIP.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Instead of simply wishing people well this Memorial Day, here are five concrete policies that will protect servicemembers abroad and on the home front:
I’m in a green coat and holding a sign reading, “Infrastructure needs repair. Vets need good jobs. Hmmm…” next to a woman holding a sign reading, “FULLY FUND AND FULLY STAFF V.A. HOSPITALS”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Trump/Musk and the entire GOP has spent the last four months systematically liquidating disease cure research in the United States. Lots of critical cure studies shuttered mid-way through. Research shutdown everywhere. It's all hands on deck to prevent new treatments for cancer, ahlzeimers etc.
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A potentially powerful strategy but which “illness communities” have the wherewithal to lead?
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lindsay berger sacks @lindsaybergersacks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians: “We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure *everyone* has the basic dignity of health care.
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CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy @sph.cuny.edu · 13/05/2025
💉🛑NIH halted funding for a CUNY SPH study on vaccine misinformation. #CUNYSPH Professor @denis-nash.bsky.social shares how this decision disrupts vital work—and why public health researchers will keep pushing forward. @thecity.nyc 🔗cunysph.me/VaxMisinformation #VaccineMisinformation #PublicHealth
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CUNY's Research on Vaccine Misinformation Halted by Trump Administration
Sixty other CUNY projects have also received stop-work orders from the National Institute of Health, according to a letter from the chancellor.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 09/05/2025
“Faculty, students, & staff are leading the fight back against Trump’s outrageous attacks on higher education…we will continue to lead & move our universities to stand up with us.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on @cnn.com. #DefendHigherEd
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 07/05/2025
The first domino falls! Today Lehigh County, Pennsylvania became the first US pension fund to suspend new Tesla purchases in its actively managed funds 👏🍸🎉 #teslatakedown substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Lehigh County's $500 Million Pension Fund Halts Tesla Investments
Today, Lehigh County took a step that no other U.S.
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A sensitive appreciation of this strong-willed woman. And the real tragedy is that we continue to struggle to devise and implement effective approaches to people whose experiences mirror Ms. Brown's.
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Overlooked No More: Joyce Brown, Whose Struggle Redefined the Rights of the Homeless
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This is a great plan. Go check it out and get everything set up for us.
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Will discounts be offered to the partners at Paul Weiss, Milbank, etc. who seem to have forgotten some essential tenets of the profession?
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
RFK Jr blames diet, lifestyle & vaccines for chronic illness. Dr Oz says it’s a “patriotic duty” to lead a healthy life & be fit enough to serve in the military. Neither of them are pushing for Universal Healthcare, basic income, an end to food deserts & inequality, clean water etc. It’s eugenics
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Should be a great seminar!
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Erika Franklin Fowler @efranklinfowler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The latest from our @commhsp.bsky.social team’s effort to understand what is getting through—most Americans had heard at least a little about the firing of scientists and health workers. Read more in the 🧵 ⬇️
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This Jewish American agrees with your friend.
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Hard to fathom the logic in cutting Section 8, unless the goal is to grow the homeless population.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Backbones are emerging.
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Great news. But will the administration comply?
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Excellent piece that helps me understand better the method behind the madness. Also takes on the question of whether endowments might be used to cover losses of federal support.
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Why Trump Wants to Control Universities
Podcast Episode · Radio Atlantic · 04/03/2025 · 34m
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
But Columbia only sits on a paltry 15 billion!
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I spoke today with a former colleague at Columbia who said the school of public health just lost 50% of its budget due to NIH grant cancellations. And that the university’s “leadership” (board of trustees) won’t sue, fearing Trump retribution. If this isn’t authoritarianism, I don’t know what is.
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
A new one on me!
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Dan Herman @danbherman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Ha!
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Let me say @fahrenthold.bsky.social is a national treasure. Also he can do math. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
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Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings
For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s government overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove mistakes that inflated its success.
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Diane Yentel @dianeyentel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Why we’re suing President Donald Trump www.meidasplus.com/p/why-were-s...
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Why We’re Suing Donald Trump
The nonprofit federal funding freeze is already harming Americans
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
and the day after Trump reclaims power I wake up to find that one of America's greatest satirists has died. RIP Jules Feiffer. comicbookclublive.com/2025/01/21/j...
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Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoonist, Dead At 95 | Comic Book Club
Feiffer also won multiple awards throughout his life, and was lauded as one of the most important cartoonist of all time.
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