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Teaching this course again after 3 years - still a few spots left! Scholarships available. Come learn about the political and social dimensions of cancer research, and why after more than fifty years of the War on Cancer, victory is still elusive. Sign up at the link below.

@deathpanel.bsky.social and Health Communism have been essential in shaping my understanding of sickness under capitalism. An honor to be able to talk about my book on this podcast!

First 20min here: soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

How do you heal the wounds of war? That is the mission of Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a reconstructive and plastic surgeon at the American University of Beirut Medical Center.

Reviewed @cannafis.bsky.social's hard-hitting book on the politics of cancer for Science for the People. It lays out how rising cancer rates are closely linked to the neoliberal transformation of society, from cancer science to medicine and industry magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/the-c...

Book can be purchased here: nijjormanush.sumupstore.com/product/inqu...

📣 NEW RELEASE📣 Once revolutionary, Bangladesh’s student-led party now courts dubious allies. What does this say about “post-ideological” politics? An excerpt from Nijjor Manush’s new book Inquilab Zindabad?: www.jamhoor.org/read/militan...

"The more you learn about the drug development process...the more you realize that all of it is centered around generating more profit instead of centering the patients." Listen to @cannafis.bsky.social talk about his book METASTASIS: www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/05/t...

What is the Cancer-Industrial Complex? Great discussion with METASTASIS author @cannafis.bsky.social and @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social! www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/05/t...

📣 NEW BLOG: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's victory charts a new path forward for the South Asian diaspora -- @cannafis.bsky.social www.jamhoor.org/blog/zohran-...

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Our campaign offers a glimpse of what city government can look like: energetic, focused, and always bringing people in.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

My brother in Christ, this looks like it will be one for the books... www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

✨ @cannafis.bsky.social and his book, METASTASIS, got a shoutout in @redemmas.org's newsletter. Thank you ‪@megberkobien.bsky.social‬! Sign up for their newsletter for great book recs: redemmas.org

From Philly DSA: The Philly No Appetite For Apartheid Campaign would like to invite interested member of the Community to learn about our No Appetite for Apartheid Campaign and how they can help promote the divestment from Israel in their local community. Thursday, June 5th at 6 PM!

READ: Israel plans to occupy 75% of Gaza and use aid to force Palestinians into concentration camps.

"A sweeping plan to revamp the State Department would establish an Office of Remigration, a term popularized by far-right activists in Europe and white nationalists who want the mass removal of immigrants." www.huffpost.com/entry/state-...

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Columbia: "We continue to be deeply concerned about Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi" Also Columbia:

There are a half-dozen ways or more that Trump is demonstrably hobbling cancer research. @ryanlcooper.com looks at a set of policies that would be no different if three cancers in a trenchcoat were making them. prospect.org/health/2025-...

Can't believe my event last night at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social was sold out and I got to see so many @bostondsa.org comrades! My heart is so full ❤️

So grateful to @symposiumbooks.bsky.social for hosting me and @phileil.bsky.social for a generative conversation and a signed copy of his book! Looking forward to reading and learning from him.

On April 30, 7pm, hear from Nafis Hasan, author of Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care. Nafis will discuss the intersections of capitalism and scientific research. Zoom register: bit.ly/cvilledsa-booklaunch @cannafis.bsky.social @commonnotions.bsky.social

"Metastasis isn’t an easy read... Its style and density make Metastasis an imperfect book and its engagement with Marxist philosophy isn’t mainstream in US science writing. But it is also deeply necessary and illuminating." Appreciate @kpc.bsky.social's critical review for @newscientist.com

Two chances this week to hear me chatting about books: Tomorrow night, April 10, I'll be talking about Prescription for Pain at Barrington Books. And Sunday afternoon, April 13, I'll be speaking with @cannafis.bsky.social about his fascinating book Metastasis at Symposium Books!

The Trump admin is gutting NIOSH, the only federal agency dedicated to worker safety research. Thousands of workers are already out of a job. Lives are at risk. Call Congress and demand they reverse the cuts and reinstate these essential workers. act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

interior secretary explicitly referencing ‘de-extinction’ pseudoscience as a pretext to abolish the Endangered Species Act

Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Going back to where it all started: Boston folks, see you in a week! I will be in conversation with Calvin Wu at the @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social Apr 15, 7 pm. Big thanks to my old chapter @bostondsa.org for co-sponsoring! RSVP- nafishasan_brooklinebooksmith2025.eventbrite.com

Nafis has written an interesting and important book, and I'm looking forward to chatting with him about it. Join us!

hey Providence! See you Sunday, 4/13, 4 pm for a conversation about my book with @phileil.bsky.social at @symposiumbooks.bsky.social. RSVP here - www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Israel's genocide on Gaza must end NOW. The US funds it. Trump wants to escalate it. On April 5, we march. For Gaza. For Lebanon. For Mahmoud. For Rumeysa. marchforpalestine.org

Great talk from @cannafis.bsky.social, looking forward to reading the book! www.youtube.com/live/O_AWCAk...

next stop on the book tour - Charlottesville!! Big thanks to @cvilledsa.bsky.social for hosting - excited to be in conversation with my friend, comrade and brilliant historian Perri Meldon! Sun, Apr 6, 4.30 pm at Visible Records

Eid Mubarak from me to you 🌙

Last night, Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was taken by ICE in Washington State, where he has lived, worked, and organized as a farmworker since he was 14, on his way to take his partner to work. Take action against this attack on farmworker leadership now: bsky.app/profile/food...

NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility. 1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken. A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.

Reminder from 2020 of what all the "Cancel Culture" grifters, who are almost unanimously silent as ICE continues to kidnap people, were angling for: A police state.

Being snatched off the street for your opinions. I'll say it again. We are deciding, right now, whether the aspirations we hold for this country are finished. Whether we're going to let these hoodlums and grifters throw what's left of the American idea into the garbage for their own profit and gain.

RUMEYSA OZTURK KIDNAPPING VIDEO Here is a video of federal agents detaining Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk Tuesday night. Rumeysa was abducted as she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast.

Today on Volts: if the market won't build clean energy fast enough, should the state step in? Advocates believe so, and they convinced the NY legislature, which passed a public-power law over a year ago. How's that law doing? And how's the larger public-power push? We get into it.

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free." - For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza. 23 and he knew to leave a death note.