For thirty years of my career studying this, I considered the #AMOC tipping risk serious but low probability.
Why I've changed my mind. ⬇️
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In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital” would ever be followed by the phrase: “But here’s the thing.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Listening to a news reporter on CNN report the rise in measles cases in the US after its virtual eradication is one of the most maddening experiences as a medical historian.
ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.
There is something deeply haunting about this quote. It’s something I think more people need to understand. Even those of us us have been “out” for an age, who work in these spaces, who ran when others could not…we are making ourselves quieter in some places and spaces.
A thing that’s great about academia is how many resources are open-access and easily accessible to non specialists
Ah wait no that’s propaganda, I’m thinking of propaganda
I would love it if there was some aspect of being alive and American that didn’t result in immeasurable harm to people I’ve never met
We also increasingly have connected bike routes, are starting to reallocate car space to other uses, and are building public transit that actually works for most trips.
The Washington Post editorial board printing a straight up right-wing lie
I am not being hyperbolic when I say (tech) capitalism is alienating (making strangers) of us at a staggering scale. Alienating us from ourselves, each other, touch, feeling, thoughts…from the intimacy and care of touch, bedtime stories, prayers, poems, drawings, community, love