100,000 new cops but Jackson MS has no clean running water
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Personal account. Historian, kind of. I wrote a book about #pharma and #intellectualproperty Gardening. Still hanging in there.
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More people need to be talking about Jackson, Mississippi. The city ran out of bottled water to give residents yesterday. It’s the largest city in Mississippi. It’s 80% Black. Their water system is failing because of years of neglect. This is environmental racism.
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The dissociation it takes to send my kids to school (in classrooms full of COVID cases) so I can go to work and teach epidemiology (in classrooms full of COVID cases) so we can talk about how we would hypothetically monitor and manage a school outbreak of COVID cases is…a lot.
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"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable.
Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not.
Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice."
—Octavia Butler, via
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6. Tens of millions lost their homes and were shamed for it. The Obama finance and economist types lied in the name of punishing people for not paying unfair debts, even as Wall Street got bailed out. Today, Geithner is now at a private equity firm.
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Obama and Geithner lied about setting up foreclosure prevention policies, 30-50 million Americans lost their homes. They just lied. Geithner later quietly said the goal was to "foam the runway" for banks.
People without power have good reasons to believe in conspiracies.
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AIHP is pleased to announce that the 2022 Edward Kremers Award goes to Paula De Vos for her book, Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). aihp.org/professor-paul Congratulations! 1/3
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doom metal adds to the vibe
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That feeling when you find out a Finnish band you really like is playing in a club just 3 1/2 hours from where you live, but it was yesterday
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She's barely on Twitter, so I want to amplify an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT new book, "Hierarchies at Home" which recontextualizes Cuban history thru the experience and activism of domestic servants.
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There's not enough water. Great.
I don't know what to say about all this, except that I am going outside to work on my garden and fantasize about feeding my family when the apocalypse comes, which apparently is quite soon
is this "there will be riots" nonsense supposed to scare us or something? come on
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Good morning! If you’re interested in historically-informed, carefully researched work on violence & the drug trade in Mexico, check out this series that I co-edited w/ the brilliant ,
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My son has nonbinary friends at school, everyone respects their pronouns like it's the most natural thing in the world. They're just waiting for all the embarrassing adults in this world to die off lmao
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Final update: he did pretty well! Got third in the open bracket, which is the first time he has played at that level so he is pretty happy. Hoping for a nice bump in his rating, which is currently at ~1500.
Thanks for the good vibes!
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lost, but played well so he's happy
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Being a chess parent is really stressful!
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Translation: Jacob (my son) is currently in second place in a chess tournament. 4/5 rounds, 2 wins 1 tie so far, playing against a master level player. Exciting!
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please send good vibes
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For god’s sake, even the CDC that produces the most lukewarm recommendations says it’s too early
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Kids, particularly teenagers, need to understand that parents also hate them going back to school because for some nonsensical reason we are *all* forced to wake up way earlier than necessary. It they understood this truly, intergenerational solidarity might emerge.
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Is the Rocky Picture Horror Show still a thing?
There are a lot of people out here making cracks about people getting tuition relief for fancy liberal arts degrees who have never looked up how much it costs to get certified as a cosmetologist in Missouri.
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We’re really letting them off easy calling it a “PPP” loan. Let’s use every word in that acronym. Paycheck Protection Program—those loans were supposed to pay workers wages. 75% of the loans were NOT used to cover payroll. These people owe that money back to the Treasury.
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This showed up in my feed and clearly Twitter's advertising algorithms are.... not working
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Automatically track your workforce to safely increase teams on site and gain data for safety protocols. Empower your team with workforce visibility and zone management with access control. All the workforce tools you need from a single platform.
. is arguably writing the most important articles on #COVID19 right now. There is a whole cadre of people selling the idea that "we're vaxxed and done" and it is pernicious nonsense. Even with fall boosters it won't be true. 1/
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The mortgage interest deduction has cost ~$750B since 2010 and the vast majority of benefits go to households with incomes over $100k. But tell me again about how redistribution is bad.
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Welcome to Texas. Today abortion, a medical procedure, is now a felony. Punishable with up to life in prison. No exceptions for rape or incest. If you don’t think this will seriously impact medical care, you are wrong.
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An important victory against the evil that is remote proctoring programs
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Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in
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how's that integrated curriculum going? lolsob
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because poor people in rural areas, the very elderly, people who can't drive, and of course seriously immunocompromised people who have to risk their lives to go out in public these days don't really need medications anyway
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Anyone know what this is about? Looks like a new CVS policy to no longer allow controlled substances to be delivered?
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..the imposition of this struggle into our creation of imagined futures."
me, just now, while working on my never ending manuscript on the history of addiction, after reading a Twitter thread and thinking about Moby Dick
god bless
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"This is not a book about agency, but it is a book about the longing for agency, and the impossible contradictions this longing creates. One of these contradictions is located in the relationship between subjects and objects, the struggle between the two for dominance, and..
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the Republican freakout about it is also good politics b/c they can't do anything about it, it makes them look weak, and I doubt they can use it to juice turnout b/c of the means testing
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the politics of partial debt forgiveness might not be as bad as everyone is saying. My guess is that there's a lot of people that went to trade schools, community college, etc in places like North Florida that this will really help, and this will work as a wedge issue
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1918 warning from a physician in Chicago about the "adrenalin habit"
Thank you, Tallahassee.
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This is actually kind of sad
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John Dailey, David Bellamy, Christian Caban, Nick Maddox aka the entire Grow Tallahassee slate minus Dianne Williams-Cox, are opting out of holding a watch party, all of them are watching the election results at their home. Here’s the Facebook RSVP for DWC's event
