New in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social. This network has been my organizing home for 12 years, link to an upcoming National Call is at the bottom. progressive.org/latest/the-n...

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.

socialist scientists: *minding their own business* otherwise reasonable science blogger: *3 part series on why RFK is basically a communist*

Can't now find it but there's a classic old tweet which said something like "Every time we're on the verge of achieving class consciousness in America a CIA sleeper agent activates and, their eyes glowing red, they just tweet out "John Brown was a white saviour"" and I think about it often.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

Mary Bassett's firing is about many things, but Palestine is among the most prominent. Public health doesn't need to just "muscle up," and join the #resistance, it also needs to confront anti-Palestinian racism and imperialism.

The height of the activity of the National Union of the Homeless was during the housing takeovers in the 1990s - you can learn about them by watching the film Takeover (the PBS version - not the 2021 film by the same name featuring the also-awesome hospital takeovers by the Young Lords).

In a new analysis from the OPTIMUM trial, researchers studied the prevalence and co-occurrence of chronic overlapping #pain conditions among patients with chronic #LowBackPain. Learn more ➡️ duke.is/pctnews20251...

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

This is indeed so deliciously written.

Great thread, summarizing our work on J&J's Advac and the perils of what we term 'platform thinking'!

This is a neat paper ⬇️. 💉

New paper! Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/

Just published in Social Science & Medicine! Led by @sariahmed.bsky.social + @cmorten.bsky.social we interrogate how 'platform thinking' constrains not only pharma companies like J&J but also science more broadly. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When journalists, healthcare workers and children are targets, their stories must be recorded and witnessed www.croakey.org/when-journal...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Kieran Andrieu, a British Palestinian member of the Global Sumud Flotilla, now back in London, shares what happened when he and fellow activists were captured and imprisoned by Israel.

This is a very important empirical (!) study accounting for the mental health impact of genocide on health care workers in Gaza. Much respect to the researchers who conducted a survey under the hardest conditions, especially those in Gaza. These urgent testimonies warrant to be read and acted upon

2nd Annual Doctors Against Genocide Conference, this weekend, at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Theme: Genocide and Mass Atrocities as a Global Public Health Emergency www.instagram.com/p/DNlYz4dxrOL/

Relevant data from an overlapping and larger sample collected with @msf.ca and the Palestinian MOH, which we didn't find during the latest revision. Reporting very high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression in mid to late 2024, nearly a year later. sciencepg.com/article/10.1...

Our work on the mental health of health workers in Gaza is now out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org. The findings are not surprising - health workers were being terrorized from the beginning of the genocide (data from December 2023- Jan 2024 peer review is slow). journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Palestinian children in Gaza are seen collecting the remnants of dough prepared by their mother after an Israeli attack destroyed their tents.

Qatari PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has condemned the Israeli strike on Doha as “state terrorism”, warning that Qatar will not tolerate violations of its sovereignty.

Nothing is more dangerous to Netanyahu than a ceasefire. He had 2 years to bomb Hamas in Doha and he chose to do so while they were meeting to discuss a ceasefire deal.

The #Crozer8 were arrested during a sit-in demanding the re-opening of closed Crozer-Chester Hospital in Chester, PA. Hundreds of hospitals are threatened w/ the same. Part of the #NonviolentMedicaidArmy #NVMA National Day of Action for Medicaid. In the @inquirer.com web.archive.org/web/20250908...

It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.

one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line

Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.

Please give generously to this relative of my research collaborator. #MedSky #PsychSky www.gofundme.com/f/help-abdul...

Cool paper - not sure how well the MCQ-based design and the output metrics approximate clinical reasoning, but the fact is that we have plenty of researchers asking 'how can we put AI everywhere' and too few asking 'why are we putting AI everywhere?' #MedSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Our organizing theory and practice as it relates to #Medicaid is grounded in the tradition of poverty abolition. You can read about it in the journal of the University of the Poor. Artwork by one of our members. universityofthepoor.org/the-nonviole...

Public health efforts are rightly focused on reducing opioid overdose deaths. We know relatively little about severe morbidity among overdose survivors. Our new paper in @journalgim.bsky.social provides the first national estimates of overdose-related hypoxic-ischemic brain injury rdcu.be/ezNUN

Excited to announce an upcoming event w @nyuengelberg.org! My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social! "Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York" 5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org! Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!

Where is working class blue sky? I just want a place to share my research without the cheer leading.

New work laying foundations on somatic therapy for PTSD (and chronic pain?) in a primary care context. Really enjoyed conducting these interviews. Among our patients and staff, a body-first orientation to trauma resonates strongly. #MedSky #PsychSky pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Must-read story from @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social on Trump & RFK Jr's catastrophic assault on the FDA. I'm quoted briefly, echoing a warning @reshmagar.bsky.social, @drjoshs.bsky.social & other watchdogs reiterated for years: FDA's unnecessary, excessive secrecy fueled conspiracy theories.

@bma.org.uk demonstrates some moral clarity, support for academic freedom and freedom of speech more broadly. All people should feel emboldened to raise the question of direct and indirect support for war, occupation, genocide in their organizations. www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/w...

today's Very Special Episode of "a society that would like to safeguard it's most basic functions must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities"

Israeli forces have been scaling up military operations in northern #Gaza, especially in #GazaCity and Jabaliya. On 27 June, an airstrike hit the home of an MSF surgeon and data analyst in Gaza City. The couple were wounded along with their 3 children.

Fund Medicaid, Not War! Check out the NVMA on IG (@nationalnonviolentmedicaidarmy)and Fb (/nonviolentmedicaidarmy), and find their guide to action on Fb.

"Iran coordinated the attacks on the American air base in Qatar with Qatari officials and gave advanced notice that attacks were coming to minimize casualties, according to three Iranian officials familiar with the plans." - www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

It’s okay to write “poor” in scientific manuscripts. “Low income” is not the same as poor. Poor is not an insult, it’s part of reality. Most people in the world are poor. It is not shameful to be poor. It is not scientific to avoid the word. Precious jargon will not end poverty.

This is the third story I've read in a month about how AI chatbots are leading people into psychological crises. Gift link

From @coppercourier.com: Joel Gutierrez has lived in the U.S. for 25 years. His two youngest children were born here. But that didn't stop ICE from detaining him last week.

JB cannot say how many clinical trials have been ruined. FYI: You cannot just stop and start experiments.

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

"Harriet Tubman, along with Black soldiers, took part in a daring Union raid of Combahee Ferry near Beaufort, South Carolina. She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans..."

The Freedom Flotilla is on its way to Gaza again. You can follow it here. freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/... Greta Thunberg and Rima Hassan (French MEP) are on board Remember that the last Freedom Flotilla ended with Israel massacring 10 of its passengers and injuring over 50