“Gelty pleasures” 😆

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Dear Men: Almost all of you are friendly with and/or work with men like this. Until you make it clear WITH YOUR WORDS AND ACTIONS IN SOCIAL SITUATIONS WITH OTHER MEN that you are unwilling to accept this, it will continue to happen frequently. End your participation in this.

This fucking loser is still teaching. They still let him in the same room as undergrads. I'm so grateful for the mentors I've had in academia and so fucking enraged that predators like this take up any of our space. Tear him limb from limb and never speak his name again.

This is what happens when we let grifters run things.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

This is the response to the day. The gloating laughter at these terrible men, the glee of imagined reprisals doesn't sit right with me, while scores of survivors look on without justice.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

They make stuff like this and somehow Jews are the ones getting blamed for "the war on Christmas." Seriously, beef tallow and raw milk must do something to your sense of humor, the extra HA in there is just bonkers nonsense.

Just a gentle reminder that surgeon general nom Casey Means founded a wearables company called Levels and her twin brother Casey Means founded a platform called Truemed to facilitate spending HSA and FSA dollars on wearables and alternative therapies :)

the first muslim woman being elected to statewide office (in any state!) the day dick cheney died is beautiful

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

I voted by mail a few days ago but today I'm gonna guest lecture on the social determinants of health and why misinformation thrives when we ignore them because dick cheney would've really hated that

They better not go and shake that man’s hand while he’s kidnapping folks from the community that made them

If your book or show about LA doesn’t have quinceañeras, smog alerts, deep hatred for the 405, people speaking Armenian, Farsi, and Korean, gangsta rap nostalgia, blue-collar entertainment workers, getting so used to brushfires you don’t even call your parents about them, just text… it’s not my LA.

Still confused on what the science says about Tylenol and autism? Experts agree that acetaminophen, when used appropriately, safely treats fever and pain during pregnancy. And RFK Jr doesn't know a damn thing about autism. Read my piece on it all here: www.cspi.org/cspi-news/wh...

Finding another awfully done "study" in this "journal" ➡️ googling the authors ➡️ finding one is a teaching prof in an English department (WILD) ➡️ finding his awful rate my prof page filled with complaints like "he really is a weird guy that looks at girls in an uncomfortable way"

This is an essential account of who Casey and Calley Means are, how they run their grifts, and why Casey's nomination to the post of Surgeon General (her hearing is this week) is a true danger to our health. No kings, no Nazis, and no grifters in public office.

Bruce Harrell's campaign really thought they would win political points by alienating people who understand that childcare costs way too much and that grandparents are an important part of your support system for raising young kids. Bonkers!

A student got an award I recommended them for, another has a fascinating thesis project brewing, and another got a lot out of the class activities this week. I got to write letters of recommendation for two students I think are brilliant. The week was hard, but the highlights were worth it.

"Boys will be boys!" Bullshit. You regret your Nazi tattoo from your Nazi era? Good. 1. You need to make amends to communities of color, Jews, queer folks, etc. That's your life now. It's what you earned. 2. Public political life is not for you. It's a privilege, not a right.

What this story misses: Some people who are curious about ivermectin as a cancer treatment will see the studies proving it's not effective, and they'll be convinced. Some won't. Because for them, it isn't about the evidence, it's about the messenger. We need new messengers, not new evidence.

I'm sorry, Mariners fans. 🔱

And all the money universities are dumping into the AI bottomless pit (while laying people off and cancelling programs and classes due to budget cuts) will be gone forever. Just like my faith in the upper administration’s abilities to make wise decisions on behalf of our students.

Today one of my students told me about a mutual aid group they're involved with. Another asked about a senior thesis looking at white supremacy and evangelical Christianity. Another wants to start a book group with Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals. They're the light at the end of the tunnel.

Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

And if you can't afford to buy them, have you heard about Mask Bloc? Free masks and tests. We're all we've got, we're all we need. maskbloc.org

I just think that if you are going to state definitively that something is not a risk, then you should be able to readily cite at least ONE study that wasn't later retracted as false. or you should have to read ten of the newest papers on how covid fucks you up. vibes will not save you!!

Great thread. Grifters pushing garbage to parents who have questions about how to raise their kids are truly among the worst of the worst.

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health. Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Again, no matter how awful things get out there, we can always come together to point and laugh at Trevor Bauer, an awful human and awful pitcher, as he continues to fail in his chosen pursuits. Just great stuff! (Reposting image with alt text because we all deserve to share this moment)

Is anyone in public health still following the weird fake journal story? "Journal of the Academy of Public Health" is now "publishing" articles in advance of peer review. Is this where we're gonna see fake garbage studies "proving" that vaccines cause autism show up in the coming months?

The baby... in her... placenta?? Just failing the basic stuff, y'all. No wonder the rest of it goes right above their heads.

On Tylenol and autism: "However, in line with prior KFF polling on a variety of health misinformation topics, many adults express uncertainty and fall into the “malleable middle,” saying this unproven claim is either “probably true” (30%) or “probably false” (30%)." Misinfo creates uncertainty.

It's data day in our class on racism in public health. We're talking about this article, Trump's Jan. 2025 data purge, and the history of how people of various races and ethnicities have been categorized in the United States today.

And then there's their wildly anti-labor policies and the way they treat their employees (no, not the software engineers and other white-collar ones). We can't fix Amazon ourselves as individuals but we can (and should) choose to spend our own hard-earned dollars elsewhere.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

11 appearances 8 innings 12 hits 11 runs (9 earned) 8 walks 7 strikeouts 1-4, 1 blown save 10.13 ERA since Treinen's hat nonsense.

Everything is awful but today I got to write a letter of reference for an amazing student and a letter of support for a colleague going up for an award, and holy shit, I love my field and colleagues and students so much. .... Also the Yankees lost, and that was pretty nice too.

This is my campus, and I’m sure the right-wing weirdos who are obsessed with college students are gonna be super normal about all this…. Anyway, no Nazis on campus 💜

Hi, I teach an undergrad course on racism in the United States in 2025 and just made it through my first week of class without cursing or melting down in front of my students, please clap, please send treats

I am looking for a uterus-bearing person between the age of 18-24 years (inclusive) with lived experience of endometriosis to support a population-based study on this condition (led by me). 🇨🇦 Canadian resident(s) preferred! Please re-post and share widely! #Endometriosis #MedSky #EpiSky

Hey public health folks, I'm guest lecturing on the social determinants of health again in a few weeks but the usual talk and activities feel... outdated, given all this. What have you added to you SDOH talks that address the current climate? Any good readings or activities to suggest?

Happy closing day.

It's wild that any joy or pleasure we can get these days feels wrenched away from the ever-increasing fascism. Anyway, I picked up a violin for the first time and started taking lessons, hope you can find your joy too.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Fevers and pain in pregnancy are linked to poor outcomes for both the parent and baby. Childhood vaccines save lives. This man is the leader of a death cult.