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Posts by Uli Koch

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Hegseth cita la Bibbia ma è una frase di “Pulp Fiction”: polemica al Pentagono Il segretario alla Difesa recita un falso versetto durante una funzione religiosa e attacca i media, paragonandoli ai Farisei

Hegseth cita la Bibbia ma è una frase di “Pulp Fiction”: polemica al Pentagono

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Nurses not Nursing: Insensible Violence and Institutional Inertia The nursing organizations that purport to represent the entire profession repeatedly and resolutely refuse to sharpen their political analysis, refuse to walk what they so readily talk, and I am fu…

“…by choosing late engagement and a politics of neutrality, nursing shores up proximity to white, patriarchal power while mobilizing the moral cache of gendered carework.” Read more of @jessdw.bsky.social fantastic article here ➡️ nursingclio.org/2026/04/08/n...

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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Pre main event march

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Zum Tod von Jürgen Habermas. Trauermeldung auf suhrkamp.de Der Philosoph und Soziologe verstarb am 14. März 2026 in Starnberg.

»… Die Geschicke des Verlags hat er mit Wachheit und großem Wohlwollen bis zuletzt begleitet. Wir trauern um einen bedeutenden Philosophen, um einen guten Freund und stets präsenten Ratgeber.«
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A recent special section of History of Psychology visits episodes in time where #psychology was employed to critique, challenge, or otherwise subvert existing power structures and dynamics—including the "birth of microaggression." Read the collection: https://bit.ly/4aeGwlv

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Stand With Minnesota A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.

please keep sharing with your networks.

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GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:

“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..

“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

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Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025 Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...

Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives

Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The House has passed H.R. 5214, a bill to return DC to cash bail.

Cash bail creates two tiers of justice, one for people with money and one without. DC abolished it more than 30 years ago and crime has dropped precipitously since.

H.R. 5214 is wrong and we will continue to fight its passage.

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Well, after the catastrophes of the 20th century it is also an intellectual one.

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Trump Fires Members of Humanities Council The White House told members of a group of scholars who advise the National Endowment for the Humanities that their positions had been terminated.

The White House has fired members of an outside advisory group to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the latest effort to bring the agency in line with President Trump’s priorities.

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Bomb threats reported at Towson, Morgan State universities Towson and Morgan State universities are both responding to bomb threats they received this morning.

Bomb threats reported at Towson, Morgan State universities

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The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy. - Boston Review Nicole Hemmer responds to Alex Gourevitch’s “The Right to Be Hostile.”

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...

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Increasing prevalence of autism is due, in part, to changing diagnoses | Penn State University The greater than three-fold increase in autism diagnoses among students in special education programs in the United States between 2000 and 2010 may be due in large part to the reclassification of ind...

Increasing prevalence of autism is due, in part, to changing diagnoses www.psu.edu/news/researc... - many cases of what used to be called 'intellectual disability' are now being diagnosed as 'autism'

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Another useful German term to insert into this discussion: Mitläufer(tum)

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When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

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Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

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this is fucking horrifying

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Black US colleges restrict campus activity after threats Some U.S. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) went into lockdown on Thursday after they received reports of threats against them that were probed by authorities, the educational institutions said.

Black US colleges restrict campus activity after threats reut.rs/4phIpmT

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Thousands protest for a ‘Free DC’ on 4th week of federal control WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched across Washington, D.C., on Saturday in one of the largest demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of policing in the nation’s...

Thousands protest for a ‘Free DC’ on the 4th week of federal control in Washington

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From this month's edition of The Onion.

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Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory - Rachael I. Rosner, 2025 This article offers historical context for psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck's creation of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a widely celebrated patient-rated ...

Fascinating new article by Rachael I. Rosner is out in History of the Human Sciences

Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory

#histpsych #mentalhealth #histmed

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74 - Ulrich Koch, 2025 This article uses the early history of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) as a lens to draw out the epistemic and ethical-political stakes of rehabilitation ...

Fascinating article by @ulikoch.bsky.social out in History of the Human Sciences now:

Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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There is a good book on the history of the myth of the spat-on Vietnam vet (or, at the very least, the lack of evidence of any such events taking place).
Lembcke, 1998, NYUP

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big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"

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Drug Seizure Statistics Securing America's Borders

Reminder: The amount of fentanyl seized at the northern border in the most recent month was 0.03 pounds, according to US Customs and Border Patrol data. That's about a dozen jelly beans.

www.cbp.gov/newsroom/sta...

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