Historian of moo cows [I have it on good authority that this should be in my profile]. Clinging to academia.
Under contract: Beeftopia: The Red Meat Politics of Abundance in Cold War America.
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There's no bigger U.S. scandal right now than the human beings dying needlessly in ICE gulags. I took a deep dive into the April death of Philly's Tuan Van Bui, Amerasian child of the Vietnam War
Cellmates say ICE's version of his death is total BS
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/tuan...
In 1990, the U.S. welcomed Tuan Van Bui and other young Amerasians. In 2025, ICE violently arrested him. Why did he die in custody?
Don't eat raw meat or drink unpasteurized milk. The modern disease ecology of North America no longer supports such practices. Our system of mass meat and milk production has made raw flesh food dangerous.
But, things have changed. Disease causing viruses and bacteria have had 150+ years to adopt to the world of large scale production. As a result of you being able to eat a hamburger, you cannot eat raw meat or drink raw milk.
Hard to stress how important screw worm eradication was for the Texas cattle industry modernization back in the 1960s and 1970s.
Having said that, trichinosis and lumpy jaw and tuberculosis and rhinderpest and brucilosis and countless other diseases were spread by meat at the start of mass production, thus necessitating inspection and disease eradication campaigns.
My work tracking cryptocurrency and AI industry political spending has only underscored the importance of getting big money out of politics. I recently talked to @tiffanymuller.bsky.social from @endcitizensunited.bsky.social about how we can do this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAh...
Pogroms are not spontaneous protests. They are organized and planned campaigns of violence. Neglecting this fact makes it much harder to deal with.
Every world cup or Olympics, I get asked about all the new surveillance infrastructure.
Let me say it again: It stays. Just like building athlete dorms or putting up adversarial architecture--cameras, vendor contracts, and relationships with federal or private entities become part of the city.
