Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas Historical manifestations of structural racism and discrimination (SRD; e.g. 1930s redlining) have been linked to current adverse health outcomes, yet less is known about linkages to present-day ne...

Happy this paper at Journal of Urban Affairs is finally out :)

Planey AM, Taylor NL, Kumar AD, Cross RI, Neally S, Lewis JA, Luben TJ, Martin CL. "Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas"

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Looks good!

BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that will provide a 3-year period of protection and work authorization to Haitians, after the Trump administration illegally terminated Temporary Protected Status for thousands of our loved ones and neighbors who fled Haiti.

It's worth it!

If The Capture keeps at this, it might just break into my top three favorite shows ever

This is the only correct bad take

🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody.

@kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.

Important investigation into failures with ICE medial care that have likely caused multiple deaths.

I'll note that these failures are common in the criminal justice system, and are just as deadly there, which is one reason why a solution is to heavily restrict the use of immigration detention.

NEW: ICE facilities’ medical staff repeatedly failed to diagnose critical illnesses and misdiagnosed patients, @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I found, during a six month investigation that we have just published.

www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

SPOILER: I'll be presenting updated data thru 3/10/26 that includes Minneapolis!

Based my recent NBER paper (w/Chloe East & Elizabeth Cox)

Sign up here: riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Link to paper: lnkd.in/gBJAXZVJ

This is so, so well-articulated.

The Shingles vaccine is linked w/ reduced risk of Alzheimer's in 4 large natural experiments
Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort for less Alzheimer’s. More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccines)
neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Screenshot of text: We tabulated the most common reasons for rejection given across cases to find that: 2 in 5 reasons for rejection pertained to various paperwork issues (such as failing to provide a copy of a particular form, using the wrong size paper, illegible writing or different wordings across forms, failing to write separate appeals for each incident report, or the grievance was filed to the wrong place/person). 1 in 10 reasons claimed the complainant failed to first exhaust all other, informal avenues for resolution. 1 in 12 (8%) reasons pointed to a failure to adhere to time limits for initial complaints and appeals.

This system is tedious, leading to the majority of complaints getting rejected for ridiculous bureaucratic reasons — like using the wrong size of paper.

Over 10 years, only 14% of all medical grievances were denied on the actual merits of the complaint.

In federal prisons, the grievance system is designed to reject nearly all complaints about medical care We analyzed data about formal complaints made by incarcerated people regarding medical care in federal prisons and can only conclude that grievance systems are designed ...

🚨 Prison healthcare systems are notoriously bad. And when incarcerated folks experience medical abuse or mistreatment, the only place to turn is the grievance system.

But this system is designed to shut down complaints — not resolve them 🧵

I've been thinking again about Jamie Kalven's admonition that we not become internal emigres under fascism. I think some people are in fact currently in that mode of survival.

We need more of that!

Well... you win some, you historically lose some #unc

ICE has been deporting pregnant and postpartum immigrants. Now we know how many. 19thnews.org/2026/03/ice-... via @19thnews.org

Texas-based "rapidly deployable expeditionary healthcare" firm IHMS USA is advertising healthcare positions at the Williamsport, MD detention warehouse.

Job listings cite "National Detention Standards," a telltale reference to ICE's governing detention rules.

A hand holds a paper with the text: "HOPE DOESN'T FIND US. WE MAKE HOPE THROUGH ACTION AND STRUGGLE." The words are printed in gray and green with decorative lines.

words by me

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

ICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows Preparations to shutter Camp East Montana in El Paso come less than eight months after facility’s opening, according to an internal ICE document.

Camp East Montana was supposed to be the Trump administration's model for a new breed of large-scale, makeshift immigrant detention centers. Eight tumultuous months, 60 violations and three deaths later, ICE is preparing to close it. New from me: t.co/jOIIRAMJCo

Immensely grateful to share an amicus brief on birthright citizenship, submitted to SCOTUS last week.

We present esta of the impacted child population (4.8 mil children in next 20 yrs alone!) + financial contributions through 2074 under status quo ($7.7 trillion!).
Link: lnkd.in/gGXngCDY
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Four Conditions Make Cash Transfers Save Lives The success of other countries shows these programs can work in the United States.

Why does cash save lives in Tanzania but barely move the needle in Texas?

Thoughtful piece in @theatlantic.com by @draaron.bsky.social & @hthirumurthy.bsky.social what conditions make cash transfers work

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

It's been a rough week already for those of us that do research on immigration detention, but this story was a sucker punch. Thanks for taking this project on, @onofftherecord.bsky.social.

NEW: ICE finds Cuban man’s homicide at El Paso camp result of 'spontaneous use of force,' after initially claiming 'medical distress'

DHS responded: 'No lawbreakers in the history of human civilization have been treated better than illegal aliens in the US'

www.texastribune.org/2026/02/20/t...

NYC measured wealth (assets minus debt) + health across 11 racial/ethnic groups.

Punchline: wealth helps, but it doesn’t erase racism.

Next: measure wealth in surveillance + treat debt relief and asset-building as health policy.

Health policy is economic policy.

www.nyc.gov/site/doh/abo...

LOVE seeing @ichotiner.bsky.social interviewing @ahilantoolong.bsky.social, a literal McArthur Genius who is also one of the nicest people working in the entire field of immigration litigation.

Read this!