Read #DyingOfWhiteness by @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social.

Just finished your excellent book. I’ve shared quotes from it on my social media as well. I grew up in Tulsa, and the attitudes of many in your book reminded me of my family and in some cases still does.

Shooters may have mental health problems in common, but that’s not what’s behind violent attacks, experts say www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/h... @cnn.com

"11 (More) Books to Help You Understand Gun Violence in the U.S.," by Sunny Sone in @thetrace.org. Deeply honored to see God, Guns, and Sedition featured alongside great work by @josiahbates.bsky.social, @afilindra.bsky.social, @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social and others! www.thetrace.org/2025/06/gun-...

#books #booklist #bookstagram #booktalk #booktok #greatbooks #greatbooksguide #recommendedreading #gunviolenceawarenessmonth #gunviolenceawareness #gunviolence #gundeaths @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social

Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He’ll Phase Out the Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

“I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled,” said Eden Tanner, a Mississippi chemist who had been working on a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Please check out @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social and www.dyingofwhiteness.com

Tending to your nervous system this holiday weekend?!? Watch my interview with @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social Healing in Chaos: Can We Regulate Our Nervous Systems Enough to Find Common Ground?! youtu.be/MKsYuKIQkoM

FEMA chief is fired one day after telling a House Appropriations subcommittee that "the nation needs FEMA, which Trump has suggested abolishing or shrinking." politi.co/4dcj3RW via @politico.com

“cutting taxes, as Mr. Trump has told Congress to do, will drive up the budget deficit — and the trade deficit” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/o... via @nytimes.com

Miss @ektashahmd.bsky.social recently mentioned this book; I’ve seen it before, but I’m glad she reminded me of it.

I love that book. Listened to it in 2020 @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social is the author! He also wrote a few other good books

I am haunted by this book. They will take us down with them. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiten...

US economic policy: Last night I woke up in the middle of the night to make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich... and it was my kitchen, it was my refrigerator, it was my apartment... and it was the BEST peanut butter and jelly sandwich that I have had in my entire life.

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiten...

How is US possibly going to host #WorldCup or #Olympics if it has travel bans against citizens of large #’s of countries?

In my book #WhatWeveBecome @wwnorton.bsky.social I call this strategy a modern-day war of southern aggression: turn #medicaid expansion and other social programs into fiscal time-bombs that will explode mainly in blue states.... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

Mexico City’s Art Scene Is Thriving—And Growing news.artnet.com/art-world/me...

With enemies like these, who needs friends?

We should prepare for more boycotts and protests Alarmed by Trump, a Renowned German Violinist Boycotts the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/a...

I keep thinking of @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social's book Dying of Whiteness, which basically talks about how a good chunk of white people will knowingly vote against their own (heath) interests due to racial resentment. They would rather get sick and die than allow BIPOC folks access to these programs.

@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social has something to say about this: news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/10/30/d...

In my book #WhatWeveBecome @wwnorton.bsky.social I call this strategy a modern-day war of southern aggression: turn #medicaid expansion and other social programs into fiscal time-bombs that will explode mainly in blue states.... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

In NYC? Join @bethnoveck.bsky.social next week for @vanderbilt.edu in the City: Conversations on America with @ranaforoohar.bsky.social, Brett Banson. 📆 Thursday, March 6, 6 p.m. Register: vanderbilt.alumniq.com/index.cfm/ev...

@vanderbiltusac.bsky.social launches inaugural public programming in #NYC. The three-event series, “Vanderbilt in the City: Conversations on America,” begins March 6 - registration details here: news.vanderbilt.edu/2025/02/06/v...

@nypost.com : Tom Homan threatens to go up the butt of NYC Mayor Eric Adams if deportation quotas not met... nypost.com/2025/02/14/u...

It’s time to fire the people who track inflation…. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A song has been composed in her honor. It is called “Moodeng, Moodeng,” and boasts a chorus that goes: “Moo Deng, Moo Deng, Deng Deng Deng Deng Deng.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/w...

"In Guatemala, you’ve never heard of someone killing someone in school.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...

A conservative appeals court ruled Thursday that a longstanding federal ban on handgun sales to people between the ages of 18 and 20 violates the Second Amendment www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

“This is a horrible look for the industry already trying to make the case that we’re not a bunch of hucksters, scammers and fraudsters.” politi.co/4g6olOA via @politico.com

Vaccines turned the tide against polio. Over the past decade, there has been only one case in the United States. How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/h...

@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social book, Dying of Whiteness, does an excellent of researching why, “reaching out to these voters” is a very simplistic way of looking at this.

Given my state of mildly under the weather I present to you my evening plans: food, knitting, and @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social’s excellent book on guns in America. About as peak me as you can possibly get. Oh, and there will be a cat in my lap.

In the name of decongestion, I hope #NYC is planning to build a rapid train to @lgaairport.bsky.social from Manhattan and BK?

“The mindset of resistance may be the best way to understand tyranny, but it is not the best way to handle a moment of radical political rupture, in which tyranny is possible but not inevitable.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

After a mass shooting in #Montenegro , prime minister Milojko Spajic said that the country's security council would hold an emergency meeting to "urgently consider all options" to protect the public, including a complete ban on the possession of weapons www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why do people who explicitly benefit from social programs support a political party ideologically opposed to the social safety net and regulatory government? @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social calls this "Dying of Whiteness"; Heather McGhee calls this "drained pool politics" Excellent analysis, as always

Social-psych research suggests that the need for social identity can often lead to maladaptive behaviours. This particular scenario is covered in @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social’s book [link to book: www.dyingofwhiteness.com/]. arstechnica.com/health/2024/...

I've been warning about this for a while. Sooner than you think U.S. economists may have to go Argentine, cobbling together alternative estimates of inflation, employment and so on because the official data have been corrupted.

This is not good.

If you believe this, have I got a book for you... @nymag.com : "Backlash to Trump Agenda Could Begin in His Rural Base" nymag.com/intelligence...

How America Invented the Red State. Excellent essay by Tarence Ray @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

There have been 323 school shootings this year, we speak with @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social about the latest which involved a 15-year old girl who killed 2 and wounded 6 then took her own life. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

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