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Academic: History of medicine, health humanities, bioethics.

Author of some of the greatest books never written.

Published author of Self, Senility and Alzheimer's in Modern America. http://bit.ly/3fVOrrU.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1 hr
“As the planet rapidly warms, train delays and breakdowns are becoming more frequent as America’s antiquated rail infrastructure struggles to remain functional during prolonged extreme weather events that were not typical when the system was constructed… passengers have faced record delays”
Amtrak Passengers Face Record Delays From Extreme Weatherwww.nytimes.com The dated U.S. rail infrastructure is struggling to stay operational as climate change accelerates and intense heat waves, downpours and high winds become more frequent.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2 hr
This is an enormous scandal and reason for all academics to withhold labor from Taylor and Francis/Routledge
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · a day
May his memory be a blessing. 🧪https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/tuskegee-syphilis-study-whistleblower-peter-buxtun-has-died-at-age-86/
Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86www.seattletimes.com The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86.
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845 am and it's already quite hot enough for me
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gigastacey @gigastacey.bsky.social · 6 days
I'm working on policy proposals to protect consumer rights when companies brick smart devices. So please share devices that you've owned that stopped working because the company that made it killed software support or went out of business. Also, please share this request. Thank you.
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T. Thorn Coyle @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 2 days
If you want access to free books, please get a library card. In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to. Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource. As an author and reader, I support libraries! #books #libraries
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More of a question than a comment @jfballenger.bsky.social · 3 days
Chile’s stolen children: a new effort offers hope to Pinochet-era international adopteeswww.theguardian.com Thousands of children were adopted abroad during the Pinochet dictatorship – many in murky circumstances
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 4 days
Anyone who took a twenty minute break from the internet
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More of a question than a comment @jfballenger.bsky.social · 4 days
"Enough! Mr. Biden may not be the ideal candidate, but he will be the candidate and should be the candidate. With an effective campaign that speaks to the needs of working families, he will not only defeat Mr. Trump but beat him badly. It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking."
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for Presidentwww.nytimes.com Enough! It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.
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More of a question than a comment @jfballenger.bsky.social · 5 days
I've pretty well sworn off big money sports as, among other concerns, an opp for parasitic billionaires to vacuum up public resources to build luxury stadiums to which normal people can scarcely afford a ticket. But this is a pretty good case that there is some value in Euro soccer at least.
As nativist politics surge across Europe, soccer’s ‘Euros’ showcase a more benign form of nationalismtheconversation.com The most successful teams at Europe’s soccer championship comprise diverse players, often thanks to immigration. Could that be influencing fans’ views of nationalism?
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Ashley, 69th of Her Name @ashleysays.bsky.social · 6 days
My sister said the cybertruck looks like a Dustbuster and I’m gunna have to give her that one
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 8 days
Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest
The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Strongernewrepublic.com Biden has repeatedly refused to endorse “court-packing.” The right-wing justices’ ruling on presidential immunity ought to change his mind.
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scribblegurl @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 6 days
My job for 24 YEARS has consisted of transcribing ppl speaking verbatim, and not a damn one of you can get through a sentence without interrupting yourselves, backtracking, starting and stopping, ums, uhs, and stutters. The ONLY ONE WHO EVER HAS was the profiler on the Susan Smith murder case.
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legal cat 🐾 @legalcat.bsky.social · 6 days
A friend in Milwaukee texted me today to ask if I heard about Dvontaye Mitchell. I hadn’t, and I want to know why the whole country isn’t talking about him. Dvontaye was murdered by Hyatt Hotel SECURITY GUARDS on June 30th. They pinned him to the ground until he died, despite his pleas for help.
A Black man died after he was pinned to the ground by security guards at a Milwaukee hotel. Now his family wants answers | CNNwww.cnn.com The death of a Black man after he was pinned to the ground by security guards at a Wisconsin hotel last month is being investigated as a homicide, as members of his family and their attorneys on Wedne...
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More of a question than a comment @jfballenger.bsky.social · 6 days
"And so, when perpetrators show us who they are, we ought to pay attention. In the past as much as the present, atrocities are not simply constituted by physical acts of violence but also by the way they are legitimized, covered up or deliberately forgotten."
Avatar Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 7 days
"One thousand miles away or 100 years ago, the moral obligation not to avert our eyes from the pain of others remains the same." Reposting my piece for @newlinesmag.bsky.social, which has sadly not lost any of its timeliness newlinesmag.com/argument/a-n...
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 6 days
Amazing headline. Disavowing the project has actually made this worse for Trump by making it easier to do accountability stories. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/...
Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved | CNN Politicsamp.cnn.com Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the Wh...
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Mike @reanimike.bsky.social · 8 days
The hardest any Marvel comic has ever gone: Micronauts 10
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7 days
“Colored”? They’re going to be causally saying the N word on air by September
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8 days
Oregon has had 6 straight days of record breaking heat and the Oregon GOP just tweeted out the "This is fine" meme, only unironically.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8 days
Can someone start a dashboard counting number of NYT stories on Biden's age and NYT reporters assigned to the topic?
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 9 days
Last week, my newsletter highlighted how over 1/3 of premature births are attributed to the mothers' exposure to pollution from fossil fuels. Now, a new study shows air pollution reduces IVF success by 40%. For health reasons alone, fossil fuels need to go. globalnews.ca/news/1060157...
More green energy is powering the globe every daywww.talkingclimate.ca Global renewables surge, fossil fuel and climate change impacts on mothers and babies, and how to prepare for the hurricane season
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10 days
The French left formed a coalition in THREE WEEKS and basically made every pundit look like clowns and rendered the polling almost meaningless. It is possible.
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Breaking: A left-wing coalition is on course to win the most seats in France’s legislative election in a surprise blow to far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s hopes of forming the next government Read more: bloom.bg/frenchelection
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10 days
Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.
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BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.
Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...
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More of a question than a comment @jfballenger.bsky.social · 10 days
All the Alzheimer’s Research We Didn’t Do www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/o...
Opinion | All the Alzheimer’s Research We Didn’t Dowww.nytimes.com The hyper-focus on one theory for treatment has slowed progress.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 11 days
Whether Biden drops out or continues, I expect a primary target of foreign info operations this year to be the legitimacy of the Democratic candidate and the legimitacy of the courts in relation to the the GOP candidate. Expect them to target audiences on both sides and exploit organic criticism.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11 days
Trump: I don't know anything about Project 2025 Here is a list of all the Trump officials who authored the Project 2025 blueprint, Mandate for Leadership. 25 of 36 were part of the Trump administration. project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/project-20...
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More of a question than a comment @jfballenger.bsky.social · 11 days
What, me worry?!
Avatar Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 11 days
Thanks so much for sharing this. It comes two weeks after another study announcing the possibility that fungi can, in fact, adapt to higher temperatures in mammals: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See also this interview w/ Casadevall on his new book: www.theguardian.com/science/arti... 🧪
Prof Arturo Casadevall: ‘It is hubris to think a fungal pandemic can’t happen to us’www.theguardian.com Could a fungus trigger a Last of Us-style apocalypse? The author of What If Fungi Win? says despite dangers, the organisms are of great use to science
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12 days
I've become convinced that one of the biggest obstacles to better road design in commercial areas is well-off business owners who drive their BMW to work every day and find it impossible to imagine a customer who uses any other mode of conveyance to arrive at the shop.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 13 days
Oh, you thought this country was going to have a deeply nuanced conversation about age and ability? Bless your heart.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13 days
Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸