The Guv is a dick, but his social media people fuckin' rock!

Weird Al on stage singing "some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses" really does feel like a major vibe shift

We're inundated with stories of violence--the "conventional" violence of bombs and beatings, and the "slow violence" of health and social structures being erased. As winter descends, I offer the notion of vitamin D deficiency as "slow violence." 🗃️ #histmed substack.com/home/post/p-...

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Everyone who promotes current AI sounds like they're holding up a Palm Pilot and claiming it's an iPhone.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Imagine if just one of them said, "Mr. President, I came here to support a policy related to our industry. But I cannot stand here and listen to you denigrate people in this way. It's racist and it's wrong. If my shareholders disagree, they can have my resignation. But I cannot be part of this."

He shouldn’t just be pushed out as the House Democrats’ leader; he needs to be primaried out of his seat entirely. Just a complete waste of a deep blue seat.

Peak 2025

Fast and Slow. When it comes to public health, the tortoise of low-visibility chronic health assaults is an able competitor with the flashy hare of epidemics in the race to bring death and debility. Bruce Lanphear gives the Slow its due. 🗃️ #histmed open.substack.com/pub/blanphea...

This dog was spotted politely waiting by a pizza truck. He doesn’t have to say what he wants. They already know his order. It is pizza. 13/10 (IG: lauren.bardini)

I know Somali people in Minnesota. Does our racist president? I think not. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2... www.youtube.com/shorts/EwhBg...

This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit. And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it. It's vice signaling as a way of life.

I understand this point. But for the benefit of the class, I’ll respond. One of the important tasks MoC have is position-taking. And taking positions— pushing out ideas— can help shape public opinion. Responding to public opinion is fine, but changing public opinion is even better!

One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain. "The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.

And if you want to know more, Prof. Theoharis's chapter “A Life History of Being Rebellious: The Radicalism of Rosa Parks" went down a treat with my students last year! 🗃️

And there you have it. 2025 in a word. (Or two)

They're actively encouraging lawlessness by arresting people who follow the rules so they can call others who try to avoid this outcome criminals

About that phone call being perfect…

This is the content we need at this moment.

Tah-Tah, Tom Stoppard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xI...

Good front-paging.

Tah-Tah, Tom Stoppard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xI...

words, what do they mean www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"The arc of the moral universe is running very late. It’s sitting in standstill traffic behind a fleet of Amazon delivery vans, a burning Tesla, and a stretch limousine with Truck Nuts."

Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

A reminder to Miller, whose ancestors came to America at the height of virulent antisemitism, of what Republican Party values looked like in 1869.

Goose meme: "What ELSE was there in early Christian times? "What ELSE, MFer?!!"

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

"Worst of the worst."

this is just gutter racism

Oh, the humanity!

Want accessible, yet scholarly essays on the histories of sex, reproduction, and justice?get a copy of The Nursing Clio Reader! A perfect stocking stuffer! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...

Command obeyed! Anyone on your list wanna know how an almost forgotten disease is bound w. histories of nutrition, obstetrics, environmental, ethics, and more? They need “Starved For Light,” and maybe some cod liver oil. Now 30% off with code HOLIDAY25 from: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Weapons grade copium. Please, sir, I want more.

Daddy loves his little girl.

All right, hear me out ... a Bob Moses biopic starring William Jackson Harper.

It’s so funny to see people ANALYZE why Trump fawned over Zohran Mamdani and it’s literally because he’s an old man who watches news TV all day and the man from the TV came to see him which was very exciting

The Quiet Chemistry of Childhood When you put all this together, the picture becomes clearer: one side of the ledger—the benefits—is thinner than we’ve long assumed. The other side—the risks—is thicker than many expected.

I received the reader reports back for my book manuscript. Thank you (you know who you are) for the most generous, supportive, & helpful comments! I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!

Thank you, Heather, for the firehose of mentions! I also like to inaugurate the holiday season with this piece from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social about how the same people who invented Santa Claus distorted the Revolutionary history of NYC: ageofrevolutions.com/2022/12/05/m...

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

CN: cancer. (Putting the note on for the friends for whom this is a tender topic.)

Variety doing Rage-baiting just right.

"...Delivering Almost Nothing"? DOGE was Project 2025's Kampfgruppe and succeeded admirably in its assaults on the institutions of government. Much of its power stemmed from MSM's willful blindness to its actual mission.