Charlie Kirk’s assassination is a case of imperial boomerang and has very much place in the American democracy. For decades, (right-wing) American politics has led violent coups and assassinations in the Global South, and it shouldn’t be a surprise when the same aggression is turned inwards.

An industry that doesn’t want peace! The arms industry is raking in millions even as conflicts are killing people Really pleased to see this @bmj.com series on: Arms industry as a commercial determinant of health www.bmj.com/collections/...

You can criticize Putin all you want, but he knows how to negotiate with a bully. CC: @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Never mistake the majority opinion as the right moral position. Image source: African Archives

Dear Amsterdam city hall, this is what you get when you mindlessly dismantle sex work in the socially accepted designated areas.

This is the point: American idiocy didn’t start with #MAGA. It’s been there all along, only white (liberal) America didn’t find it a real problem, until now. #americanidiot #greenday

What a joke! #starmer

Dear @who.int, you can’t do victims justice, if you don’t dare to call out their perpetrators. Even within the diplomatic limits, you CAN hold Israel accountable. We’re 20 months into this genocide, and still no mention of Israel in your statement. What have you achieved by this policy so far?

This is why we can’t be too optimistic about the future: there is literally no institutional resistance against fascism. Even not at Harvard.

Weak institutions such as @columbiauniversity.bsky.social jeopardize not only the position of their students and staff, but also that of institutes with stronger backbones. What a shame….

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to liberate ourselves from stressful conditions. Imagine how different psychology would have been, if it wasn’t developed within a capitalist-neoliberal framework.

I’m happy to announce that this Handbook will be published this month. Don’t forget to preorder. Along with the other co-editors, we’ve decided to donate all royalties, however small. uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/th...

Tackling social determinants will reduce the global mental health burden: mega-blog by Xiaolin Guo &‪ @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social of current prevention strategies buff.ly/niIxj5p Summarising a recent review by @kirkbride.bsky.social‬ et al #SocialDeterminants #MentalHealth #Prevention 🧵 THREAD

🧵1/ In a new @bmj.com paper, @miriamorcutt.bsky.social & I argue that the erosion of international norms is putting the world’s most vulnerable - migrants, refugees, and stateless people - at unprecedented risk.

Very important paper. Cognitive therapy can be a great source of support for victims of racial trauma, when used adequately, and a form of gaslighting when done poorly.

We were delighted to host Prof Diana Allan for the Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture on 'Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon' Warms thanks for a fascinating talk, & showing of the film 'Partition'. If you missed the lecture, listen now:

Pretty excited about our new publication about shared learnings about working with #peer researchers in LMICs. A connected chapter on our learnings specifically related to our #participatory #visual research is also on its way :) dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Imagine illegally assaulting a country you were negotiating with, for reasons your intelligence services cannot justify, and then having the audacity to claim that “it is now time for peace”! #trump #iran #israel

The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory I co-edited can now be preordered! Ask your libraries and departments to purchase this book. All royalties, however small, will be donated to Gaza. uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/asi/th...

Hundreds of people in Türkiye, mainly students, are going on trial for protesting the detention of Istanbul’s mayor. The rushed trials show Türkiye’s restrictions on the right to assembly are arbitrary and incompatible with a democratic society based on the rule of law.

Support Dr. Abu Safiya for the Nobel Peace Prize! Dr. Abu Safiya is director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. He remained with his patients under dire conditions until he was forced to surrender. He is currently being held without trial in various Israeli prisons. rightsforum.org/petitie/supp...

The World Health Organization will slash its budget for 2026-27 by more than a fifth after the US withdrew, and other nations reduced, its funding. WHO reportedly plans to cut back the scale of its projects and workforce to tackle a funding gap of nearly $600m this year www.bmj.com/content/389/...

'There is an overrepresentation of black people being detained under the MH act - they are 3.5 times more likely to be detained than white people'. On racialised abuse in psychiatric settings.....👇 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Trump’s attacks on women’s health are embedded in a global right wing agenda. The Trump administration's alternative model of global health multilateralism will damage women's health, writes @profsophieharman.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Fanon. En salles le 2 avril ! Réalisé par Jean-Claude Barny www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDjc... #CaribbeanSky

While cutting their jobs and healthcare, while facilitating price increases and increased exclusion due to their gender, class, age, orientation, and ability, Trump offers his voters racist symbolism. He excites his voters with counterfeit bills like this one as he robs them of their livelihoods.

Solidarity with all US colleagues working in the field of diversity and health. The Trump administration’s war on minorities is a war on human rights and science. Period. #NIH #DOGE

“There are innumerable other cases of torture where it was not photographed or caught on film and it never attracted media attention. And those victims were essentially forgotten and the perpetrators never punished.” CVT's Yumna Rizvi comments @therealnews.com therealnews.com/abu-ghraib-s...

Schimmelpenninck lijkt het niet door te hebben, maar deze tweet en zijn verdere reacties zijn precies wat er mis is met centrisme en antifascisme in Nederland. Het is een toonbeeld van hoe liberalisme toekijkt terwijl fascisme groeit. 🧵 Liberale arrogantie, antifascisme en de ceo van antifa

Just published in Social Science & Medicine - Mental Health: Integration of #MHPSS in post-war #transitionaljustice: A case study of #SriLanka's 2016 public consultations on and implementation of #reconciliation mechanisms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On February 15, Muhsin Hendricks, an openly gay imam, Islamic scholar and LGBT rights activist was shot and killed in Gqeberha, South Africa as he was leaving to officiate an interfaith marriage.

Frits #Bolkestein is overleden….

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Welcome to the new era of American entertainment.

“End the occupation, end the genocide, end the apartheid.” ~Francesca Albanese~ Dries van Agt Lezing, 2025

Fransesca Albanese eindigt haar bevlogen toespraak (‘End the occupation! End the genocide, End the apartheid! Khalas!’) met de wijze woorden van Mariame Kabe: ‘Hope isn't an emotion. Hope is not optimism. Hope is a discipline… we have to practice it every single day.’

I hope you’re also talking about the LA 2028 Olympics, @hrw.org?

Let it be known that the country that praises itself as the universal seat of peace and justice, even hosting the #ICC and the #ICJ, has uninvited a senior UN official, for the mere fact that her findings do not align with the Dutch Zionist foreign policy.

What an absolute and utter disgrace. The Dutch parliament has cowardly withdrawn an earlier invitation to Francesca #Albanese, UN special rapporteur in occupied Palestine, following a coordinated attack by far-right, and right conservative parties.

This, in a nutshell, is everything that is wrong with global health and the aid sector.

Interesting a professor of decision making is actively suggesting ways to suppress free speech. The real cause of unrest is the Israeli occupation and the UvA’s policies that facilitate it.

vital reality check from @keeanga.bsky.social

Trump’s recent war on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) should be a wake up call for everyone who’s been sleepwalking ever since “Black Lives Matter”, dreaming of living in an inclusive society.

“Shock and Awe”: Immigration Raids Begin as Judge Halts Unconstitutional Birthright Citizenship Order www.democracynow.org/2025/1/24/bi...

WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7

I hope other G7 and G20 countries will step up and fill the massive funding and leadership gap that the U.S. will leave, if it withdraws from @who.int www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Mental health professional here. People with autism don’t typically do the #Nazi salute… unless they’re freaking Nazis.

Kudos to Max Blumenthal and Sam Husseini for being the only two real journalists in the room.

A dying empire is the most dangerous one. #trump #gaza #panama #greenland www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...

Peace is a meaningless concept in the absence of justice. So justice, not peace, is the best medicine www.bmj.com/content/387/...