During the 1970s, an arson wave ravaged poor communities across the US. Some lost 80% of their housing. Residents were blamed. In reality, landlords—paid by insurers and enabled by the state—drove this arson-for-profit epidemic. 

I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social's revelatory BORN IN FLAMES:

Wow, this was an infuriating read

This totally makes sense. A notable public figure in the US (Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls) is illegally arrested by Israel and subjected to severe physical violence while on a hunger strike… and not one US media outlet of any type has decided that is news.

This is the most obvious thing I’ve ever said in a post, but renters are citizens of a city. Full citizens. Because of course they are. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t just clueless about the affordability struggles that cities face — they’re clueless about the essential reality of cities.

One of the unexpected things about (most) administrative data is that they don't routinely come with family/relationship information. Address is also usually removed for research because it's identifiable information, so household level analysis can be very difficult.

Utrecht, Netherlands is about to build the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge nltimes.nl/2025/02/25/u...

Not clicking on that but I will note, it's a great thing to have wealth and privilege and decide that redistribution needs to happen so you have less and others have more

Democratic Establishment, panicked, yelling: "We need to energize young male voters to win elections!" Zohran: wins, running a pro-Palestine, public transit, and housing platform: Democratic establishment: NOT LIKE THAT

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

📣New paper out in Pediatrics about Adolescent & Young Adult OUD Care Access, by part of our UW team💕, & co-first-author, Dr. Alexis Ball! 📝Documenting part of what we already know in practice: real care options & honest conversations @ drug use matter a lot. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

Further motivation to learn Spanish: I would never have to listen to Doris Burke call an NBA game again

Pacers fans sound like they haven’t updated their ball knowledge since Hoosiers came out

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

The type of photo you frame and hang above your desk

OKC exemplifies everything that people who don't actually watch the NBA, get wrong about the NBA. Nobody plays defense. Really? Go watch the Thunder. It's all about threes. Really? Go watch the Thunder. Everyone plays exactly the same way. Really? Go watch the Thunder.

For anyone running a #Quarto website/report/whatever HTML, you might like to know about the YAML option page-layout: full I personally prefer wider content areas so pages don't feel as long, but each to their own quarto.org/docs/output-... #rstats #dataBS

Officially added three new initials to my name ☺️

On the blog: strategies for mapping dense point data in R. Learn how to use: 🌎 Circle clusters 🌎 Dynamic heat maps 🌎 Point jittering for same-location events Read the post: walker-data.com/post... #rstats #gis #datavisualization

Childhood adversity as a risk factor for autoimmune disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis with implications for psychiatry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out the latest study from CDUHR affiliated investigator Ashly Jordan - A Spatial Epidemiologic Analysis of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in New York State journals.lww.com/lww-medicalc...

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

"Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground" final lithograph of Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. The death of her son in WW1 and death of her grandson in WW2 obviously profoundly affected the artist. This print reflects the theme of a mother protecting their children from the horrors of war #WomensArt

I.e. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Marvin Bagley hits a huge 3 pointer from 3/4 court at the 3rd quarter buzzer to get Grizzlies to within 49 points.

** Researchers using US Natality Data: Code to read & label restricted-access CDC natality data into Stata/R now includes 2019–2023 (in addition to 2010–18): florenciatorche.github.io/ReadNatality... Please share—no need for us all to write the same code! Thanks to @RussellSageFdn for funding

🚨 I have been working with several addiction scientists and clinicians through the Addiction Science Defense Network (www.npscoalition.org/projects/add...) to craft a statement of concern about recent executive orders and actions that can be shared with members of congress.

At least 35 Palestinians are killed, 55 wounded and 80 missing in a series of powerful Israeli air attacks on Shujayea district in northern Gaza City. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/uzvadz

Users of the tigris / tidycensus #rstats packages: The Census website has been blocking requests from tigris (and curl) since yesterday. (Don’t worry, the datasets are still there!) I’ve patched tigris, install with `pak::pak("walkerke/tigris@ftp-patch")` and everything should work.

Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now

New @jama.com study lends scientific evidence to what the streets know is true: drug busts lead to more overdose. It's time to abandon supply-side law enforcement interventions & support public health solutions that work (safe supply, other harm reduction strategies) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Mark Daigneault on OKC’s play down the stretch of the season: “Keep sharpening the blade.”

Project this onto the moon

"Freedom to..." - drive in an impaired state - smoke in public spaces - refuse vaccination & undermine herd immunity - consume unpasteurized dairy products - subject one's children to unproven & harmful 'treatments' in lieu of vaccines ... impinges on others' "freedom from..." health harms.

Legal fund for Rümeysa Öztürk: chuffed.org/project/just...

Does anyone happen to have a copy of the EPA's Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping tool, or code to create similar variables from datasets still available? A peer and I are working on a GIS course project and the data is scrubbed from all U.S. gov't websites 🫠

Re-sharing this piece with @us.theconversation.com for more context

The blueprint of oppression abroad becomes the template at home—what Americans don't know about Latin America's history of U.S.-backed suppression blinds us to how "foreign intervention" masks racist, capitalist violence open.spotify.com/episode/5iSH...

Sam Altman: “I’m going to cure cancer or whatever. I just need $17,900,000,000 cash and the right to steal everyone’s IP.” World: *gives Altman $17,900,000,000 cash and the right to steal everyone’s IP* Altman: I have successfully achieved “or whatever.”

Or seeing the disappearance of and interference with critical public health data sets like YRBS and even the census. We rely on those datasets to take the pulse of the nation's health. What kind of a country wants to hide from that data? 10/

BREAKING: The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the murder conviction and death penalty for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who has been on death row for more than 25 years. This is a developing story and will be updated. www.kosu.org/local-news/2...

I need to find a cat toy that has all the features of a plastic box of drywall screws because this guy is absolutely obsessed with things he has no business getting into

Someone text me when Kendrick is on 🤢

Kansas TB outbreak "an uphill battle" in state that's seen public hlth powers curtailed amidst pandemic: 2021: Gov. banned from closing businesses during public hlth emergencies 2023: legislature forbade state & cnty hlth officials from mandating tests, isolation, & closures due to inf. disease. 🛟😷

Proud to share my latest for Salon! Researchers at WashU in St Louis have found something pretty remarkable: we can reverse opioid overdoses without getting naloxone into the brain - and without the agony of precipitated withdrawal. www.salon.com/2025/02/06/n...

Chet Holmgren is off the injury report. He’s back.

I am once again thinking about Bleachman