Jason Mandell
jasonmandell.bsky.social
Jason Mandell
@jasonmandell.bsky.social
LaunchSquad co-founder, J Street volunteer, storyteller, environmentalist, hockey player, CT to Bos to SF.
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Excited to see that 12 LaunchSquad clients were honored by @fastcompany.com as the most innovative companies in the world, including On Running, Netflix, Simbe, Apptronik, Climeworks, and Waabit. More here: www.fastcompany.com/most-innovat...
The World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025
Fast Company’s 2025 ranking of the World’s Most Innovative Companies features Waymo at No. 1 and covers 58 industries, from advertising, artificial intelligence, and beauty to enterprise, retail, and ...
www.fastcompany.com
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“The story of this country is the story of patience in tribulation, and hope in the face of fear,” Nancy Pelosi argues. “What we choose to do in this hour of our history will determine the shape of America and the world for decades.”
America Is Great When America Is Good
Those who believe in liberty and dignity must never give in to the forces arrayed against the things we hold dearest.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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🎥 WATCH: The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive any “medical intervention.”

Those behind the law have stressed that their goals are bodily autonomy. But they do not take that stance when it comes to abortion.

➡️ More: https://propub.li/3JgEGWQ
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The @nytimes.com climate section is profiling federal scientists who have been terminated and their work.

I spoke with tsunami expert Corina Allen, who worked to ensure tsunami alerts made it to the public. She was fired in February.

Read her story and others':

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...
She Made Sure That Tsunami Warnings Reached the Public
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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October 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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If you preorder now directly from @HarperCollins, you can save $7 when buying AUTOCRATS VS DEMOCRATS. $28 instead of $35. Bargain!

www.harpercollins.com/products/aut...
Autocrats vs. Democrats
\"A history, an analysis, and a set of prescriptions for the greatest geopolitical challenge of our time: the threat to the democratic world posed by C...
www.harpercollins.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Stephen Miller is, in fact, a fascist & it’s not a “call for violence” to say so.

But it’s quite fascist, Shaun, to say it’s a crime to call someone a fascist.

The truth hurts, but it’s still the truth.
September 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I have created a spreadsheet for crowdsourcing reports of No Kings Day protest attendance. The sheet is publicly available for anyone to edit. This will not be official, but hopefully it will be comprehensive and can serve as a resource for reporters and the public. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
June 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Excited to see that 12 LaunchSquad clients were honored by @fastcompany.com as the most innovative companies in the world, including On Running, Netflix, Simbe, Apptronik, Climeworks, and Waabit. More here: www.fastcompany.com/most-innovat...
The World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025
Fast Company’s 2025 ranking of the World’s Most Innovative Companies features Waymo at No. 1 and covers 58 industries, from advertising, artificial intelligence, and beauty to enterprise, retail, and ...
www.fastcompany.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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The harm this President is causing to the health of our country & the world is incalculable. Our universities regularly achieve scientific breakthroughs that save lives. Trump doesn’t care. He just wants retribution & fealty. It doesn’t matter to him how many are sicker or die as a result.
Medical Research at Columbia Is Imperiled After Trump Terminates Funding (Gift Article)
Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸
March 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Taking a super nice train in Italy for $45 and thinking of how cool it is that our taxpayer money back home will buy Ethereum to bail out David Sacks.
March 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The USAID budget last year was $44B which amounts to about $130 per citizen ($11/month). All to help vaccinate children and provide food, clean water, medicines to impoverished human beings. Let’s face it, these are very hateful, amoral people making these decisions. Starting with Musk aka Dr. Evil.
February 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Important read here.
American Jewish leaders and institutions: Will you fight back against right-wing threats to our democracy and way of life with the same intensity you campaign against Israel's critics on the left?

👉 J Street President @JeremyBenAmi on Substack:
Fascism Rising
American Jewish leaders and institutions: will you fight back against right-wing threats to our democracy and way of life with the same intensity you campaign against Israel's critics on the left?
jeremybenami.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period.

I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt.

But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are
February 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM