Tim Levengood
@tim-levengood.bsky.social
PhD Candidate / health services research | Boston University | improving LGBTQ+ access to care and reducing syndemic SUD HIV disparities | 🏳️🌈 ATLien | he/him
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⛔ Last year, this administration shut down work on topics they didn't like, including our LGBTQ health research.
We sued. Courts restored thousands of grants. 📜
Now the Office of Management and Budget wants to reverse that, for good. 🔒
👇👇Here's what you have to do before Monday to stop it. 👇👇🧵
We sued. Courts restored thousands of grants. 📜
Now the Office of Management and Budget wants to reverse that, for good. 🔒
👇👇Here's what you have to do before Monday to stop it. 👇👇🧵
July 10, 2026 at 2:57 PM
⛔ Last year, this administration shut down work on topics they didn't like, including our LGBTQ health research.
We sued. Courts restored thousands of grants. 📜
Now the Office of Management and Budget wants to reverse that, for good. 🔒
👇👇Here's what you have to do before Monday to stop it. 👇👇🧵
We sued. Courts restored thousands of grants. 📜
Now the Office of Management and Budget wants to reverse that, for good. 🔒
👇👇Here's what you have to do before Monday to stop it. 👇👇🧵
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I know there is, um, other stuff happening right now, but HHS under RFK Jr. has postponed yet another meeting of the US Preventive Services Task Force, while also failing to provide public access to nominees' application materials as promised in a Federal Register notice
Key Health Care Panel Is Again Blocked From Meeting
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I know there is, um, other stuff happening right now, but HHS under RFK Jr. has postponed yet another meeting of the US Preventive Services Task Force, while also failing to provide public access to nominees' application materials as promised in a Federal Register notice
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"Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind."
Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says
Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland S...
www.latimes.com
April 7, 2026 at 7:47 PM
"Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind."
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Breaking News: Robert S. Mueller III, the former FBI chief who led the Russia inquiry during President Trump’s first term, has died at 81.
Robert S. Mueller III, 81, Dies; Rebuilt F.B.I. and Led Trump Inquiry
After he concluded that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election, he became a target of the president’s anger.
nyti.ms
March 21, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Breaking News: Robert S. Mueller III, the former FBI chief who led the Russia inquiry during President Trump’s first term, has died at 81.
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What a great chart! MN Center for Health Care Affordability Legislative Report 2025. #healthpolicy tinyurl.com/mr3mew2r
March 18, 2026 at 2:39 PM
What a great chart! MN Center for Health Care Affordability Legislative Report 2025. #healthpolicy tinyurl.com/mr3mew2r
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PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.
March 5, 2026 at 2:45 AM
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
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Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 states impose restrictions on assistance programs and several others weigh such changes.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...
States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 states impose restrictions on assistance programs and several others weigh such changes.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...
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Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
White House stalls release of approved US science budgets
The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.
www.nature.com
February 27, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
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In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a
@wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found.
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
@wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found.
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
www.propublica.org
February 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a
@wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found.
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
@wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found.
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
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THE EPSTEIN CLASS
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
February 8, 2026 at 12:41 AM
THE EPSTEIN CLASS
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Late Wed., Sen. Amy Klobuchar told us there is bipartisan support for AI rules and bipartisan oppo to the moratorium:
“By preventing cities and states from protecting renters and allowing landlords to leverage AI to collude, House Republicans would raise rents even more while reducing competition."
“By preventing cities and states from protecting renters and allowing landlords to leverage AI to collude, House Republicans would raise rents even more while reducing competition."
To read more about how RealPage has shaped the nation’s rental markets, read our “Rent Barons” series here: www.propublica.org/series/rent-...
Rent Barons
Powerful interests, including a real estate tech company and private equity firms, are contributing to soaring rents.
www.propublica.org
May 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Late Wed., Sen. Amy Klobuchar told us there is bipartisan support for AI rules and bipartisan oppo to the moratorium:
“By preventing cities and states from protecting renters and allowing landlords to leverage AI to collude, House Republicans would raise rents even more while reducing competition."
“By preventing cities and states from protecting renters and allowing landlords to leverage AI to collude, House Republicans would raise rents even more while reducing competition."
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In the search for spending savings, House Republicans could've gone after overpayments to insurers & hospitals in Medicare.
Instead, they singled out people w/ the lowest incomes for the lion's share of cuts.
Then re-directed that $$ mainly for more high-income tax cuts.
Instead, they singled out people w/ the lowest incomes for the lion's share of cuts.
Then re-directed that $$ mainly for more high-income tax cuts.
May 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In the search for spending savings, House Republicans could've gone after overpayments to insurers & hospitals in Medicare.
Instead, they singled out people w/ the lowest incomes for the lion's share of cuts.
Then re-directed that $$ mainly for more high-income tax cuts.
Instead, they singled out people w/ the lowest incomes for the lion's share of cuts.
Then re-directed that $$ mainly for more high-income tax cuts.
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The original House bill would have led to about 10 million more uninsured people, according to CBO. The amended version that passed would lead to more people losing health insurance. If this bill gets enacted, it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever.
May 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The original House bill would have led to about 10 million more uninsured people, according to CBO. The amended version that passed would lead to more people losing health insurance. If this bill gets enacted, it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health care ever.
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Farce of a process, disaster of a bill
May 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Farce of a process, disaster of a bill
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Join ISGMH on May 22 for our annual Postdoctoral Fellow Showcase!
This year’s event features exciting LGBTQ health research presentations from 5 postdocs: Emily Esposito, John Guigayoma, @tim-levengood.bsky.social, @jonathanlpzmts.bsky.social, and Mariajosé Paton.
Register today: buff.ly/rUSA6Yh
This year’s event features exciting LGBTQ health research presentations from 5 postdocs: Emily Esposito, John Guigayoma, @tim-levengood.bsky.social, @jonathanlpzmts.bsky.social, and Mariajosé Paton.
Register today: buff.ly/rUSA6Yh
May 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Join ISGMH on May 22 for our annual Postdoctoral Fellow Showcase!
This year’s event features exciting LGBTQ health research presentations from 5 postdocs: Emily Esposito, John Guigayoma, @tim-levengood.bsky.social, @jonathanlpzmts.bsky.social, and Mariajosé Paton.
Register today: buff.ly/rUSA6Yh
This year’s event features exciting LGBTQ health research presentations from 5 postdocs: Emily Esposito, John Guigayoma, @tim-levengood.bsky.social, @jonathanlpzmts.bsky.social, and Mariajosé Paton.
Register today: buff.ly/rUSA6Yh
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Are you a health equity researcher who has lost federal funding for a project?
RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️
More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️
More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
Research to Advanced Racial and Indigenous Health Equity
We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...
www.rwjf.org
April 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Are you a health equity researcher who has lost federal funding for a project?
RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️
More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️
More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
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This isn't about saving money: the program costs just a fraction of the dept's budget.
This isn't about making Americans healthier: over 2k people use the service every day.
This is about scoring cheap political points by taking advantage of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
This isn't about making Americans healthier: over 2k people use the service every day.
This is about scoring cheap political points by taking advantage of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This isn't about saving money: the program costs just a fraction of the dept's budget.
This isn't about making Americans healthier: over 2k people use the service every day.
This is about scoring cheap political points by taking advantage of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
This isn't about making Americans healthier: over 2k people use the service every day.
This is about scoring cheap political points by taking advantage of some of the most vulnerable members of society.
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Speaking in Utah today, Secy Kennedy called for end of water fluoridation. An HHS official now tells us they're
"directing the CDC to reconvene the Community Preventative Services Task Force to study and make a new recommendation on fluoride"
tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...
"directing the CDC to reconvene the Community Preventative Services Task Force to study and make a new recommendation on fluoride"
tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...
April 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Speaking in Utah today, Secy Kennedy called for end of water fluoridation. An HHS official now tells us they're
"directing the CDC to reconvene the Community Preventative Services Task Force to study and make a new recommendation on fluoride"
tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...
"directing the CDC to reconvene the Community Preventative Services Task Force to study and make a new recommendation on fluoride"
tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...
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👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
I don't disagree that the US university business model was/is fragile, but surely not for this reason?
There is no society in the history of humanity that has successfully built a good university system without massive govt subsidies. US had already pushed the idea very far.
There is no society in the history of humanity that has successfully built a good university system without massive govt subsidies. US had already pushed the idea very far.
March 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
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100%. One of the most professionally rewarding dimensions of my job the last few years has been in working with clinical teaching colleagues to integrate systems and policy thinking into our med student curriculum.
Viewpoint: Medical students and residents need to be educated on health policy issues like insurance, payment models, and drug regulation to better understand the factors that impact patient health outcomes.
https://ja.ma/3BuTE7P
https://ja.ma/3BuTE7P
December 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM
100%. One of the most professionally rewarding dimensions of my job the last few years has been in working with clinical teaching colleagues to integrate systems and policy thinking into our med student curriculum.
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Prescription drug spending in the US increased by $30 Billion between 2022 and 2023, including:
⬆️$11B spent by Medicare
⬆️$4B spent by Medicaid
⬆️$15B spent by Private Insurers
#healthpolicy #healthcarespending #cost #affordability
More details: www.healthsystemtracker.org/health-spend...
⬆️$11B spent by Medicare
⬆️$4B spent by Medicaid
⬆️$15B spent by Private Insurers
#healthpolicy #healthcarespending #cost #affordability
More details: www.healthsystemtracker.org/health-spend...
December 19, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Prescription drug spending in the US increased by $30 Billion between 2022 and 2023, including:
⬆️$11B spent by Medicare
⬆️$4B spent by Medicaid
⬆️$15B spent by Private Insurers
#healthpolicy #healthcarespending #cost #affordability
More details: www.healthsystemtracker.org/health-spend...
⬆️$11B spent by Medicare
⬆️$4B spent by Medicaid
⬆️$15B spent by Private Insurers
#healthpolicy #healthcarespending #cost #affordability
More details: www.healthsystemtracker.org/health-spend...
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CBO's out with their new deficit reductions options.
Just look at all that $$ on the table if we paid Medicare Advantage plans closer to what the law intended.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
Just look at all that $$ on the table if we paid Medicare Advantage plans closer to what the law intended.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
December 12, 2024 at 7:47 PM
CBO's out with their new deficit reductions options.
Just look at all that $$ on the table if we paid Medicare Advantage plans closer to what the law intended.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
Just look at all that $$ on the table if we paid Medicare Advantage plans closer to what the law intended.
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
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New in @AJMC_Journal from Mark Fendrick, MD of the Univ. of Michigan Center for Value Based Insurance Design: a reflection on the tumultuous events of the past week and the broader issues facing American healthcare & insurance: www.ajmc.com/view/sharing...
#healthpolicy
#healthpolicy
December 10, 2024 at 5:50 PM
New in @AJMC_Journal from Mark Fendrick, MD of the Univ. of Michigan Center for Value Based Insurance Design: a reflection on the tumultuous events of the past week and the broader issues facing American healthcare & insurance: www.ajmc.com/view/sharing...
#healthpolicy
#healthpolicy
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