at what point do US politicians, lawyers, and communities start to realize peaceful protests and legal challenges aren’t really an effective match for unchecked violence like this

This reminds me of that scene from Clerks where they were debating whether or not “the general contractors building the Death Star knew what they were getting into” … how you can work for any of these companies and sleep at night is beyond me…

A new paper led by Harvard Health Policy PhD student Ye Shen finds that, in the current policy environment, more than six in ten kids will have been enrolled in Medicaid for some period of time by their 18th birthday; the program is absolutley critical for children. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In Tech Policy Press, Cecilia Marrinan digs into an overlooked side of AI: where the infrastructure gets built and who’s impacted. As AI demand drives a boom in data centers, many are landing in communities already burdened by pollution and health disparities. www.techpolicy.press/data-center-...

How is it not headline news everywhere that 1000 people have disappeared from the records at "Alligator Alcatraz" internment camp? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

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The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is statutorily responsible for looking after the best interests of unaccompanied migrant children, has been giving immigration judges lists of kids who are “amenable” to voluntary departure, even though they aren’t

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"You work in healthcare? What's the craziest thing you've seen?" I don't know man, but it's probably RFK Jr and this administration cutting vaccine funding, firing top health officials and scientists, linking fake studies to support "wellness" BS, letting children die of measles, shall I go on?

Sums up just about everything he does…shows a chart with no explanation, people just believe it, and then say “he is Amazing!” …

I have so many tabs/documents open on my computer right now. And all of them are either Blackboard, the university calendar, the university dynamic schedule, or syllabi. Much syllabus. Many date. So assignment. Very upload.

Wait! FEMA has money to build concentration camps but doesn’t have money to help communities rebuild from floods, hurricanes, and wildfires?

I spoke with a lawyer today who used the phrase "committed suicide" over and over again. They were grateful to learn about preferred and problematic terms in suicide. Reminded me of the award-winning @newsocialworker.bsky.social article Dr. @stuckonsw.bsky.social and I wrote in 2016. Still works!

As Republicans accelerate their efforts to strip health insurance from 16 million people to fund tax cuts for the wealthy, re-upping my piece on how Medicaid literally saved my life and allowed me to build a career writing and teaching on health policy. open.substack.com/pub/miranday...

We’re pleased to share our latest paper, bringing together practical insights and reflections from over a decade of developing and scaling digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) for young people. 👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214782925000508

USC's Eric Rice tells the story about how he started the USC Center for AI in Society in 2016 as a partnership between social work and engineering. Why? He didn't want tech bros telling social service workers what to do. @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social #SWTech cais.usc.edu #NASW2025

Will CBO give extra points for deliberately causing chaos that drives even more eligible people out of Medicaid?

Medicaid is the single largest payer of behavioral health services. I discuss in @statnews.com the adverse impact of proposed Medicaid cuts on coverage for mental health and substance use disorder treatment. And the opioid epidemic hit red states (eg, WV, OH) hard... www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/m...

‘Twas a week before my dissertation defense and all through the house … not a creature was stirring except for my brain at midnight, all these last week revisions, and my shoulder blades where I am apparently carrying all this work/school stress.

There are a lot of great quotes here on AI-based decisions but from social work perspective this is the one.. “The decision not to decide, paradoxically, requires enormous expertise. The cultivation of that expertise comes through the experience of making decisions.” #swtech

Great thread about the critical gap between tech hype, actual tech usage, and the social contract.

"If we use LLMs for decision-making on political scales, we automate bad data science. We are pretending specific questions can be answered based solely on how plausibly the sentence is crafted." Sharing my full remarks for the 'AI Question' debate last week at Centre Pompidou in Paris. ⬇️

I read the MAHA commission's new report so you don't have to. Here I highlight issues related to food access, vaccines & the "overmedicalization" of children with behavioral health challenges. Tldr: Bad data, bad data interpretation, lack of context, pseudoscience open.substack.com/pub/miranday...

Trump clearly wants to make the narrative about Medicaid cuts to be about kicking undocumented people off of the program. But policies related to immigration status represent less than 2% of the $625 billion that Republicans are proposing to cut from the program.

My Pitt colleagues and I combined Medicaid data and Cook PVI and visualized this Medicaid dashboard. It may prove useful in bringing attention to the harms caused by the proposed cuts, and respective members’ vulnerability. shiny.crc.pitt.edu/congressiona...

ICYMI

Or... Read this, then apply its critical lens to hype machine content.

🧩 WHICH ONE ARE YOU? The fixed mindset protects ego. The growth mindset protects potential. The difference? One defends. The other expands. #LifeHacks #pinksocks pinksocks.life

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Our new report on the role of Medicaid for women of child-bearing age in rural areas w/ state by state data is here Medicaid covers 47% births in rural areas Rural areas have been losing labor + delivery units. Medicaid cuts will make this scary situation even worse for moms and babies.

Weird day for me as I was supposed to be walking in my DSW graduation today. A laundry list of recruitment issues beyond my control caused me to be a month late. Could I have finished on time? Maybe but … 1/??

Back watching for the last hour and the Rs just voted down an amendment that would have preserved the eligibility and enrollment rule which included the CHIP protections that I discussed below a/w/a as other improvements to remove red tape for seniors and people with disabilities.

It appears clear that Trump and Musk’s ableist rhetoric both informs and forecasts DOGE’s work, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Ariana Aboulafia. Its violations of data privacy and expansive use of AI without proper oversight have already harmed disabled people, and will continue to do so, she says.

Always psyched to think big thoughts with @bryan-victor.bsky.social #collapse #mentalhealth #foresight #futures @jimmysw.bsky.social @jcreswellbaez.bsky.social

The White House has unveiled new policies on federal AI use, highlighting a troubling gap between intentions and actions. While advocating for the protection of privacy and civil rights, the focus on speed could undermine essential safeguards. #AI #ResponsibleTech www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Me: “Hey DOGE, how are you? DOGE: “We are doing great!” Me: “You know what government needs to run more efficiently?” DOGE: “Automating things with AI?” Me: “No, it turns out it’s actual people!” …

"The prospect of replacing federal workers who handle critical tasks—ones that could result in life-and-death scenarios for hundreds of millions of people—with automated systems that can’t even perform basic speech-to-text transcription without making up large swaths of text, is catastrophic."

Sometimes you just have to play basketball by yourself for 12 minutes between getting home from work and working your dissertation.

SCOOP: HHS has been gutted leaving critical health systems in danger of collapsing overnight. And no one's in charge: “Those in charge are AWOL. I’m doing nothing productive. This ship has no captain whatsoever, and I’m playing in the band while the Titanic sinks.” www.wired.com/story/depart...

This statement should be taught in schools of public health — preparing students to face political challenges that undermine health.

I JUST WANT IT TO GET MY DOG'S FUR OFF THAT THIN CARPET FFS

Hi. I’m an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail, and it’s just a question of whether our social security system fails along with it.

This cure for sickle cell anemia was made possible by NIH-funded research to turn the gene for fetal hemoglobin back on. It was done predominantly by NIH researchers, including intramural researchers on the NIH campus. irp.nih.gov/catalyst/33/...