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

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.

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

If any parents of children with disabilities received similar emails like this, message me on Signal at emgarcia.85

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

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

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...

🛟 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

Now we know the prequel to The Road www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

🧵 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

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

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

The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

A prayer for the birds: may the Eagles offensive line part the Chiefs like Moses parting the Red Sea.

Easy QR links to the 4 positions. Reviews begin Oct 27! #episky #publichealthsky #medsky

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!

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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

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.

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:

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

Shabbat shalom friends

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...

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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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!!!

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.

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"

Duolingo really gets me

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

Moo Deng for DHHS secretary

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.

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...

hey question, is this bad?

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...

How it started. How it's going.

“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...

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.

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?

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.

'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...

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...

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

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:

This is a very good statement on Trump’s attempted funding freeze from Lauren Underwood and the rest of the Illinois delegation. 👇

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

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

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