People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos
My first understanding of the Tulsa Race Massacre was via the Watchmen series. From what I understand I’m not alone in that experience.
Here’s another that deserves wide awareness. Gonna have to track down Blood in Their Eyes.
If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!
@safety.bsky.app
Why has Sarah Kendzior been suspended?
Free Sarah Kendzior.
Reinstate Sarah Kendzior
'In Israel, authorities suppressed any acknowledgment of the Palestinian catastrophe since the earliest days of the state — banning the term in schools, passing laws to defund institutions that commemorate it, and erasing historical records from state archives.'
Nobody likes Rogan or wants any other form of Rogan, Democratic mega-donors.
What we need is real newspapers run by responsible, intelligent journalists, not pitch decks, not spreadsheets, no hedgies or billionaires sticking their oar in, nobody obsessed with 10 percent growth year over year
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of: malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique treatment for cholera in Bangladesh a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa nutritional support for children in Ethiopia early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan an mRNA vaccine technology for H.I.V. in South Africa
Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:
Job opportunity in advocacy and public health practice at UMass Amherst! We are looking for candidates to join our faculty as a Professor of Practice to advance our mission of promoting health equity and improving population health outcomes. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
This is outrageous: “Staffers were also told that it applies to every aspect of the health department's work: Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines.”
Two wonderful global health scholars have made their global health books free to download
Bravo and thanks @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and
@thewrittenro.bsky.social
The Foreign Gaze:
www.editions.ird.fr/open_access_...
Rethinking Global Health:
taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
“I think all of us should have […] much better training in ethics.” Ethical challenges in policy making during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from an interview study with Swiss policy makers and scientists
bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
It’s not hard to not be a total dick to trans people, I’m literally doing it right now, sitting on my couch, not doing it.
Too many in media and an entire Republican Party, and a number of overpaid Dem consultants, flunk this remarkably easy test, it’s like most people failing to blink
Telling my students these days that it’s important to be precise about what counts as health equity work. If an intervention doesn’t get to the roots of the inequity, then we should call it “addressing the effects of inequity.”
I’d like to be included.
Ideas of justice are necessary for a developing the species, but out of the question when it’s about survival. Other times I think that talking about justice is necessary when survival is the issue. 2/2
You know how a fruit tree will flower 🌺 or when a saguaro grows an arm? 🌵That’s what I sometimes think academic discussions about justice are.1/2
