Good morning! As an addiction scientist and clinical psychology PhD candidate writing their dissertation on compulsive alcohol use: THIS IS GOING TO GET PEOPLE KILLED. Moral conceptualizations of addiction and mental health lead to shame and bad outcomes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/h...

death from disease in concentration camps is so widespread and so predictable that it's pretty clearly a feature, not a bug.

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

One way to think through the victory in Tarrant County, given that Rehmet ran in labor issues, is that the voters were offered two competing theories of solidarity and chose collective bargaining over white supremacy as their mode This shift is possible and important to aim for

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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

They come up with these weird ideas, all to capture more data and prove that workers are an enemy of profit when workers ARE profit. Just weirdos. Shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near basic needs or civic services.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”

These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world

Fearing ICE, Native Americans rush to prove their right to belong in the US. apnews.com/article/nati...

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Here is Peter Attia MD emailing Epstein’s assistant claiming he goes into “JE withdrawal” when he doesn’t see him.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

I appreciate your post. I have a book coming out in March. globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclai.... A blast from you would be great. Thanks.

Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

very odd* that originalists' professed commitments to history and nonpartisanship haven't stopped them from championing Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship, the historical foundation of multiracial democracy in the United States ! *this is sarcasm ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

People are asking a lot “how is this happening?” It’s happening the way abolitionists have warned you for decades it’s happening — you can’t dehumanize whole groups of people, pay for their brutalization & not expect for more bounty hunters to come.

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

Look, it was either skull measurers at CBS or the ominous threat of pronouns

This should be a huge story

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

"Fugitive slave catchers just need better training"--moderates in 1850, probably

The boycott is beginning! Completely justified!

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

When federal agents use excessive force, infringe on people’s civil rights or fail to offer medical aid, experts say it’s especially difficult to hold them accountable in federal court.

We are all drowning in a pool of systemic propaganda so I understand why the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti feel esp shocking and I think it is important to do the internal work of asking yourself, if this applies to you, why the deaths of immigrants/Black folks don't shock in the same way

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starting a dogpile on a black woman public health academic for mistakenly posting something incorrect and then taking it down minutes later is not okay, especially given the harassment black women face on here (which is why they have to restrict replies by default)

Border Patrol agents belong to the same federal workers union as VA nurses, a situation some of Alex Pretti’s colleagues are determined to change. Sarah Lazare reports (with Workday Magazine): jewishcurrents.org/alex-prettis...

From Sivuqaq’s Polluted Shores in Alaska to the United Nations: The Fight for Military Cleanup & Indigenous Rights. icmagazine.org/from-sivuqaq...

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

Congratulations to Post Growth Institute (PGI) Associate Lena Bjärskog on the publication of her new #book in Swedish, ‘Ekonomi för en hållbar värld’ (‘Economy for a Sustainable World’)! Lena shares how her time at the PGI influenced her book: medium.com/postgrowth/h... #postgrowth

The @usdot.bsky.social, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”

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The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

Let's also bring in the connection with tech giants: Google hosted a CBP app that used facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

Yes, literally.

While UK is proposing to narrow diagnoses (!), our new study led by @isaacahuvia.bsky.social: adults w/ self-identified autism had more unmet needs & higher distress, & similar understanding of autism, than officially diagnosed peers. Most wanted formal diagnosis journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.

A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins. DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?

On this day in 1870, more than 200 Blackfeet people-mostly children, women & elders-were massacred by the US Army at the Marias River in what is now Montana. Settler violence has been ongoing for centuries and is at the very core of the 'American project.' ictnews.org/archive/nati...

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