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David Mandell

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Trying to make care better for people with psychiatric and developmental disabilities

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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
1 in 7 students receives help in school because of a disability. This can include extra time on tests, tutoring, or an aide to help them. Schools receiving federal $ (all public schools) has to provide this help. 17 states are suing, saying this requirement is unconstitutional (Texas v Becerra) 1/2
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
What should Democrats be doing? They should be legislatively opposing everything Republicans do, grinding down their operation so it can barely operate. They should be on constant attack, berating and deriding their actions - on social media, in the press, and on air.
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Medicaid pays for healthcare for 1/5 Americans. Most Medicaid $ go to the disabled or elderly, who can’t get private insurance. Feds match states’ Medicaid payments. Poorer states get a bigger Fed match. Biggest match? AL, AR, GA, ID, KY, MS, OK, WV. Medicaid cuts hurt poor red states the most 1/2
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
If any parents of children with disabilities received similar emails like this, message me on Signal at emgarcia.85
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Stimulants help kids w ADHD focus & manage impulsive behaviors that get them in trouble. Side effects include loss of appetite or nausea, but go away when the child stops taking them. Kids w/ ADHD who take stimulants do better in school and are LESS likely to smoke, or become depressed, or suicidal
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
So many problems with "wellness farms.” Here are 2: 1) taking someone out of community for treatment doesn’t work because they go back to the same situations and settings, and don't have skills to deal with them, leading to more problems. 2) The US has a history of awful institutional care. 1/2
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
On the first day of RFK Jr: 5200 HHS workers got fired; the director and much of the staff of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) got fired. At the NIH directors learned of the imminent firings - about 1500 people. At the CDC 1300 people are about to be fired. As a result...
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in 🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over 🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s 🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Now we know the prequel to The Road www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
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Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons
The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to...
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JAMA @jama.com · 13/02/2025
🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023. ja.ma/4aVchPn #MedSky
Figure 1.  Trends in Biannual US Infant Mortality Rates, 2012-2023
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A prayer for the birds: may the Eagles offensive line part the Chiefs like Moses parting the Red Sea.
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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Easy QR links to the 4 positions. Reviews begin Oct 27! #episky #publichealthsky #medsky
QR codes to apply to the 4 open faculty positions with the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Social Work & Public Health
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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Hello friends! Come work with wonderful Public Health colleagues at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, in beautiful O'ahu. 4 faculty openings (3 TT) in social & behavioral sciences, health policy, epidemiology, & public health: bit.ly/ophs_jobs Please share!
Photo overlooking the Manoa valley and University of Hawaii at Manoa campus towards downtown Honolulu and Diamond Head
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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I study how to improve health care for people with psychiatric disorders and developmental disabilities. NIH funds almost all my research. WHAT IT COVERS: my effort on the study, staff working on the study, participant recruitment, any clinical care specific to the study. WHAT IT DOESN’T COVER: 1/2
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/02/2025
The hiring of thousands of federal firefighters has stalled amid a governmentwide freeze ordered by President Trump, just as agencies were beginning to ramp up staffing for the summer wildfire season, according to a firefighters’ union.
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Firefighter Hiring Stalls at Federal Agencies After Trump’s Freeze
Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was beginning, a union said.
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 08/02/2025
The removal of the Department of Health and Human Services Reproductive Rights site, and with it the erasure of accurate and timely info on reproductive health care, rights, and resources, is a clear attack on reproductive rights. You can find the archived site here:
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ReproductiveRights.gov - Know Your Rights: Reproductive Health Care
While Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion remains legal in many states, and other reproductive health care services remain protected by law.
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A Diversity F31 is a prestigious NIH fellowship for doctoral students designed to increase diversity in the sciences. The 100s of brilliant students who were waiting for the reviews of their applications all just got an email stating that their apps had been pulled and the program shut down 1/2
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Shabbat shalom friends
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Michelle Boorstein @michelleboorstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
More than 160 Jewish leaders, including the head of the largest U.S. Jewish movement, call for advertisers and app stores to drop Musk’s X over concerns of antisemitism. X has “become a platform that promotes hate, antisemitism, and societal division.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Analysis | Some Jewish leaders renew calls for X boycott as Musk’s power grows
Citing “Nazi salute” and antisemitic content, rabbis break with ADL in pressing advertisers, app stores to drop X
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
That charlatan grifter made it out of committee. A bird flu epidemic is coming. If he is appointed DHHS, people will die because of it. Please call your senators to tell them to vote no on RFK Jr’s confirmation.
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 03/02/2025
Calling all college students! Apply now for our Autism Campus Inclusion summer leadership training! Equip yourself with the tools to engage in disability advocacy on your campuses:
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Autism Campus Inclusion - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Applications for the 2025 Autism Campus Inclusion (ACI) Leadership Academy are now open. This year’s program will be held from July 14th to July 20th, 2025. This year’s program will be held…
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
There are so many urgent things to call your senators about right now, but please remember to urge them to VOTE NO ON RFK JR!!!
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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Duolingo really gets me
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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house) 1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said 2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book 3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane 4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins 5. Get a library card
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Moo Deng for DHHS secretary
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025
hey question, is this bad?
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System is the single most important tool we have for assessing adolescent substance use, mental health, risky sex behavior etc. Taking it down does not stop these behaviors or problems, but it sure as hell makes it harder to fix them. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
How it started. How it's going.
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Eric Boodman @ericboodman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/01/2025
RFK saying that “Blacks” have better immune systems and shouldn’t get the same vaccines as white people should be disqualifying. But we live in really dumb times.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2025
ALSOBROOKS: You said 'we should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that is given to whites.' Can you please explain what you meant? RFK Jr: There's a series of studies ... ALSOBROOKS: What different schedule would you say I should've recevied?
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
All of the cabinet picks remind me of those men, devoid of tennis experience, who confidently state that they could return Serena Williams’s serve.
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US News Now - World’s leading Liberal Voice @democracyblue.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
'Viruses Are Our Friend'— 10 Off the Wall Video Clips from RFK Jr. Resurface on Bluesky Past comments include denying AIDS and calling vaccinated children "damaged" www.meidasplus.com/p/viruses-ar...
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'Viruses Are Our Friend'— 10 Off the Wall Video Clips from RFK Jr. Resurface on Bluesky
Past comments include denying AIDS and calling vaccinated children "damaged"
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Gift article. RFK Jr. has no clue about the two largest programs in the DHHS portfolio. He is incompetent to run the healthcare insurance programs that affect nearly half of all Americans. Please call your senators and tell them to vote no on his confirmation. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/h...
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RFK Jr. Appears Unfamiliar With Key Elements of Medicare and Medicaid (Gift Article)
In testimony to the Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Kennedy seemed to confuse the two government programs that cover more than 150 million Americans.
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 29/01/2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promotes policies that will actively harm the health of all Americans. The Senate must not confirm Kennedy as Secretary of HHS. #StopRFK
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ASAN Opposes Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Nomination to Head HHS - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network urges the Senate not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy’s long record of spreading misinformation…
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
If you're wondering why scientists are freaking the fuck out about what's being described as a pause in spending, I have written an article just for you:
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Science at risk: The funding pause is more damaging than you might think
Research that helps drive our economy is on hold and may face new ideological limits.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is a very good statement on Trump’s attempted funding freeze from Lauren Underwood and the rest of the Illinois delegation. 👇
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
RFK Jr’s testimony was filled with lies & shows a mind blowing lack of understanding. He knows nothing about Medicaid or Medicare. He espouses dangerous views on vaccines and meds. He doesn’t think infectious diseases exist. It took 2 min to call my senators to say vote NO. Please do the same
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/01/2025
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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David Mandell @dsmandell.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Could someone please inform RFK Jr. that Medicaid rarely if ever has premiums or copays? I mean it’s only the largest program he would oversee
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