Gregg Gonsalves

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Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.

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A great passage from Gabriel Winant, historian at University of Chicago, on JD Vance in n+1. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/pol...

The best piece I've read on #JDVance is by @gabrielwinant.bsky.social. Could not be more timely. Read it. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/pol...

J. D. Vance Changes the Subject | Gabriel Winantwww.nplusonemag.com Vance’s form of far-right politics is so ominous because it responds in a primal, perverted way to something actual. We are caught under a heap of wreckage, an accumulation of social and historical tr...

And thanks to the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) for calling this out.

My latest for the @thenation.com. Don't use disease or disability as a casual pejorative. Because some coverage--from major publications--of President Biden's fitness to serve has relied on speculation or pernicious stereotypes. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Discourse Around Biden’s Health Has Been Odiouswww.thenation.com We should be able to talk about the president’s condition without sinking into harmful speculation or pernicious stereotypes.

This is what we’re fighting against. democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...

The People’s Guide to Project 2025 - Democracy Forwarddemocracyforward.org

So this is Ruth Ben-Ghiat on @anneapplebaum.bsky.social’s new book. If you want to understand what is going on globally and how our lives are being affected by this global network of thugs: read on. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/0...

Review | The scariest thing dictators are doing now: Working togetherwww.washingtonpost.com According to Anne Applebaum’s “Autocracy, Inc.,” dictators are less interested in ideological alliances and more interested in helping each other stay powerful.

While we're talking about Democrats who should retire, it's those who have no stomach for this fight, no principles to stand up for and are interested in hiding under the bed for the next four years. @aoc.bsky.social is spot-on.

From @axios.com. Perhaps senior Democrats have given up, but the rest of us are still in it for the fight.

I disagree with David Frum on many things, but on this he is absolutely correct. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictatorwww.theatlantic.com Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.

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First 24 hours are ideal conditions for bad media: * Interest in the facts is off the charts, but there is only a handful of them * Bad actors fill the unmet demand * Civiltarians try to silence political discussion * Both sides bromides roar to life * Memory itself is now said to be in bad taste

Let's organize against this. www.americanprogress.org/series/proje...

Project 2025: Exposing the Far-Right Assault on Americawww.americanprogress.org

We are over two weeks out from the debate and the Democratic Party is in meltdown, while JD Vance is talking about Carl Schmitt. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/b...

The Nazi Jurist Who Haunts Our Broken Politicswww.nytimes.com A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.

Congratulations to @annewyllie.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Saliva-based tests offer an alternative to nasal swabbingwww.nature.com Drooling into a tube is not only more comfortable than nasal testing, it could also detect disease earlier. Drooling into a tube is not only more comfortable than nasal testing, it could also detect d...

Yes. It's. Just. A. TV. Show. But why am I filled with such dread watching it? Nothing gets better, the arc of history bends sinister and the world spins faster and faster and out of control. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/a...

‘Babylon Berlin’ Review: Dancing While the World Begins to Burnwww.nytimes.com The long-awaited fourth season of the cult-favorite German thriller takes place in 1931, with the Nazis not quite in power.

[email protected] home page this AM has no mention of the Biden/Parkinson's story. Baumgaertner, Baker & the editors offer no update, no mention of the White House doctor's letter. The story was poorly reported, launched a rumor-stampede and they'll get away with it. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

Letter from Dr. Kevin O'Connor | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov To view the letter from the Physician to the President, visit: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Letter7.8.24.pdf ###

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This book is the one I recommend the most. A key insight is that most political orgs do intermittent shallow mobilizations, but lasting change comes from organizing. janemcalevey.com/book/no-shor...

No Shortcutsjanemcalevey.com Analyzes recent failures of unions; specifies recommendations on how to rebuild them, and lays out a way forward for the progressive movement.

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Jane McAlevey died on Sunday at the age of fifty-nine. Sarah Jaffe writes on the legendary labor organizer and author, who inspired a generation of young people cut off from class politics to think about the still-central role of the workplace.

Raising Hell | Sarah Jaffethebaffler.com Jane McAlevey cared about making workers’ lives better in the here and now—not just in some far-off future.

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We’ve lost a giant. Please read Jane McAlevey’s work. It’s about far more than labor, it is about the human and systemic nature of all political change.

Raising Hell | Sarah Jaffethebaffler.com Jane McAlevey cared about making workers’ lives better in the here and now—not just in some far-off future.

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Today, @lsepper.bsky.social and Lindsay Wiley conclude our series on the LPE of Insurance, arguing that recent religious challenges to the Affordable Care Act should be understood as a major new vector in the campaign against social insurance in the United States. lpeproject.org/blog/the-rel...

The Religious Liberty Threat to American-Style Social Insurancelpeproject.org Religious liberty challenges to the Affordable Care Act often appear narrowly focused on exempting specific employers from covering particular types of care, such as contraceptives, sterilization…

So proud of my old friend @peterstaley.bsky.social for standing up for EcoHealth Alliance when no one else will. www.statnews.com/2024/07/08/e...

EcoHealth Alliance: Covid's anti-science mob extracting its pound of fleshwww.statnews.com It scares me — and should scare you — that conspiracy theorists are winning the fight to debar EcoHealth Alliance. Thaqt would make the U.S. less prepared for the next pandemic.

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How fitting that the kicker for Jane McAlevey's NYT obituary is a link to her teaching "Building the Power to Win." video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SDc...

Rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/b...

Jane F. McAlevey, Who Empowered Workers Across the Globe, Dies at 59www.nytimes.com An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”

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France dropkicked a baldly fascist political coalition out of office, imo if we can’t manage to do the same we should give back the Statue of Liberty

Rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/b...

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Any Democrat in these states who doesn’t lean on this hard shouldn’t be in office. It’s a gift.

The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

Jane McAlevey was a giant among organizers. She taught us all so much. Hamba kahle comrade. the.ink/p/jane-mcale...

FREE FOR ALL: Looking back on Jane McAlevey's career of organizingthe.ink Thinking of the labor pioneer as she brings her work to a close to face her illness

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Hearing that Jane passed away this morning. An immense loss. Her teachings changed much of my life. If you've never read her work, you should make it a priority to do so today.

we all gotta cherish the time we have left with Jane McAlevey, but among the things that are great about her is how much time and effort she's spent making sure we will have more organizers like her

Maybe it's time that the @nytimes.com should step aside for a younger, fitter, more coherent newspaper.

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"If we are calling for Biden to step aside because someone must stop Trump from bringing down the republic, then surely it would have made more sense to first call for Trump to step aside?" h/t @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Read this, share this widely

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

Meanwhile. This is what the House GOP has in store for health. aspph.org/news/pressro...

ASPPH Opposes Public Health Cuts in House FY 2025 Spending Billaspph.org June 27, 2024 – The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) is deeply concerned by cuts and structural changes to public health agencies proposed in the House