Public health statistics and adolescent health. Harvard: AB, Physics; AM, Statistics; PhD, Health Policy with concentration in Statistics and Evaluative Sciences; Johns Hopkins: Postdoc, Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
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Key thing to know – standard practice for the U.S. Coast Guard in exactly this scenario is to disable the vessel without injury to the human beings, much less killing every one on board. 02:40 Warning shots. 04:50 Coastie fires .50 caliber gun taking out boat's engine. Boat is dead in the water.
And that Reagan was wrong. "We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people -- our strength -- from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation."
It's the opposite of Ronald Reagan: "We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people -- our strength -- from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation." www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...
What our country is experiencing now really is enshittification. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Thread. This is a key point but from the middle.
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Operation Open File is our push for transparency. We're call to urge Congress to vote YES on the discharge petition that would force AG Bondi to release a broad range of DOJ files on Epstein. Release the Epstein files and impeach this criminal President. citizensimpeachment.com/sign-up-to-h...
I agree. I also preferred Harris (and Warren and Booker) to Biden during the primaries, but Biden actually won and had a terrific presidential record. No fitness questions raised by his opponent's inability to stay awake in his own felony trial.
It was also bad judgement to push through; refusing to debate or cancelling for a vague reason would have been better than the debacle. Biden was exhausted because he was negotiating a major hostage exchange and otherwise doing the work of the presidency, rather than sleeping late and golfing.
Some parts of protests appeared to be crowded and others not. Multiple protests went past our building, and people were both masked and reasonably spaced. It is important to avoid showing apparent favoritism between protests and the Sturgis motorcycle rally, although the latter increased spread
Pandemic messaging is not supposed to come from political leaders, only by civil servants. That was violated at every level of government by both parties with few exceptions. Pandemic experts can identify other violations of procedure.
First, pandemic messaging didn't follow guidelines in many ways. Second, NYC closed playgrounds when overflow morgues were parked outside hospitals. NYC had protests at a time when the worst had passed, and transmission was low. nypost.com/2020/03/31/1... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJOt...
Key sections. These are hard questions, and inequalities occur in both directions, so community input is essential. The stakes are high: I remember some devastating children being orphaned after bringing covid home from in-person school to their parents.
Taking it out of blue-red partisanship, the Lancet commission said essentially this. In practice, that means society owes schools all resources needed to open safely. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36115368/
The president would fire RFK Jr for making him look unpopular by comparison, though.
RFK Jr is definitely upstaging the president.
It's all actual antisemitism, and antisemitism goes well beyond antizionism: Dara Horn gives a lot of references to the range of antisemitism. I'm sorry you experienced non-antizionist antisemitism. jsis.washington.edu/news/some-ad...
"Zionism is racism" gets way more play than it ever did in 1975. Soviet propaganda has done really well. It just came before its time. Next hit will be Volga-Volga. tubitv.com/movies/29311...
Zionists used time travel to ensure that multiple times daily Jews would recite texts about Zion, Israel, Jerusalem even among isolated populations, and even to invent the holiday of Sigd about returning to Jerusalem.
Populations of Jews lived in Iran, Ethiopia, Yemen for 2500 years through the 21st c. because the destruction of the first temple and the exile began these communities. No historical Jewish communities date from the modern age.
I was starting after the first temple's destruction as the starting point of diaspora Judaism because we have archaeology from then, and some didn't return. We have minimal archeology from the chumash times, but the first act of Judaism is לך לך going to the land.
Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Judea before the Purim story, and isolated ancient Jewish communities as in Ethiopia maintained tradition of return to land, so Zionism preceded antisemitism. bible.org/seriespage/2... 22. The Return to the Promised Land (Ezra)
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
The below comments summarize to: "Antisemitism is entirely the fault of the Zionist entity, and the Zionists are the real antisemites in addition to being both Nazis and apartheid colonizers." Did I miss anything?
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
I'd forgotten how anti-vaxxers adopted her death as an example for how vaccines are dangerous. x.com/licjulie/sta...
I ran across the movie Julie and Julia recently, and the death of the protagonist at age 49 from apparent cardiac causes a month after a covid-19 infection really changes how I see the movie. pluto.tv/us/on-demand...
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social if Trump doesn't fire Kennedy, start impeachment proceedings Tuesday morning. Republicans can't stop you. Force them to vote! @normornstein.bsky.social
We can still use provisional death counts to estimate excess mortality. gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluvie...
Pete Hegesth keeps talking about a warrior culture, which apparently means masked man kidnapping our allies to send them to our enemies to be tortured. Absolutely shameful.
I don't expect Johnson or Thune to actually do their jobs. They want these policies & have also demonstrated they willing to violate their oaths & are on board with the lawless authoritarianism. But...no one of them. Or of Murkowski, Collins, etc. Free passes. Every day 🤷♂️
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Sadly, I think that's the administration's desired outcome.
Further proof that you deserve the Nobel peace prize!
CDC director wakes up next to whale head
A bar in Central Square, Cambridge. Streetview: maps.app.goo.gl/ZYTRMs8AZSyY...
You're physically inactive. Get that fall 2025 COVID vaccine. From the emergency live we did last night at www.patreon.com/posts/137511...
1.2 *million* Americans died from COVID before these vaccines were approved and we had widespread access to them. Reducing access to vaccines that are effective and have saved so many lives isn’t simply anti-science, it’s anti-American. And people could die because of it.
Covered California is the ACA marketplace for California. The tax credits are due to expire so premiums will increase, but the majority of even Republicans favor extending them. www.kff.org/affordable-c...
That's great! I've lived my entire life in blue states including a summer in LA, and I don't know how my great grandparents managed in small town Indiana 100 years ago when the KKK was active. It's not a generalizable solution for everyone to move.
I agree. That doesn't mean giving up the federal government's power to improve the lives of all Americans is the best outcome for the country.
This blog post gives some constructive ideas about how states can withhold money from feds. Idk if practical, but it is a less damaging form of asserting states' rights than more permanent structures because it lets states play tit for tat. substack.com/home/post/p-...
We have Americans living in deep poverty in red states whose votes are being gerrymandered away and right to vote suppressed whose enslaved ancestors also built this country. We built a strong federal government in part because of that shameful history, and we cannot leave them behind now.
17 post thread. Even though blue states create the largest share of GDP in the country, the funds for the public health and health care systems are federal, so even the largest and richest states have limited ability to recreate these systems alone or in associations. We have no fallback systems.
Even a large and rich state like California can't set up an equivalent to the federal health insurance and public health systems unless they somehow withhold residents' federal taxes from going to the federal government.
Statement from Mark Zaid: "Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign."
Anti immigrant too --- "Burn Israel" was right next to "destroy HIAS."
And they’re not going quietly. Gift link: wapo.st/4n7Dkfm
The new director of CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases will be a bat.
When John Wesley was born, England had a total Jewish population of about 1000 Jews. So he thinks John Wesley was secretly Jewish or that the 1000 Jews were somehow forcing him to have a Christian revival?
One of the chief Republican arguments for Reagan's amnesty was to prevent employers from exploiting undocumented workers. How far our country has fallen that this concern is seemingly now partisan.
If soldiers gardening is meant to reference Isaiah, the first part of that verse's utopian vision requires justice: #releaseTheEpsteinFiles and #citizensimpeachment.
Before soldiers gardening comes justice #epsteinfiles "Thus [Gd] will judge among the nations And arbitrate for the many peoples, And they shall beat their swords into plowshares And their spears into pruning hooks: Nation shall not take up Sword against nation; They shall never again know war."
American values: "[W]e are watching and we are taking names. This country has survived darker periods than the one that we are going through right now, and eventually the pendulum will swing back..You can delay justice for a time, but history shows you cannot prevent it from finding you eventually."
Crucial language that he says this is "an attempt" and "purporting" to fire, not giving credence to an illegal act.
Epstein's long-time neighbor has compelling information that should be more widely disseminated.
I'm supposed to go to a meeting in DC, and they specifically didn't cancel but said anyone can join on zoom. I'm taking the train so I guess I can recreate the South Park episode this week. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/wat... WATCH: South Park Trolls Trump's DC Takeover in Latest Episode
Also do disrespectful wrt the National Guard's training.
RFK thinks that whales fly into the windmills?
Along with Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and every other political leader!
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
Thanks, and I agree.
Can you say more?
#citizensimpeachment
I haven't seen it emphasized enough, but it's important to take a step back from Trump's ongoing seizure of autocratic power to see it's all emergency politics. All of it. The Constitution is being suspended bit by bit the same way autocrats have always eliminated them: declaring fake emergencies.
"[American Public Health Association] is looking for people to join our Disability Justice advisory board! We are looking for a diverse group of people with many different lived experiences who will guide APHA activities." Pay is $150/meeting www.surveymonkey.com/r/S7FNPH9
I'm grateful they issued an honest report. If only everyone who sees the bright red flags could agree at the same time the only answer is impeachment. Republicans are so far willing to sacrifice the entire economy on the assumption that somehow this is going to be okay.
They also had this one today. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n... How China Influences Elections in America's Biggest City
Bad: Using the National Guard in DC to "fight crime" Really bad: Threatening to use them in other (blue) cities Really really bad: Sending units from red states only Superbad: Specialized units within the National Guard to deal with "public order issues" (All within the last 2 weeks, too)
The problem is that, until the 535 people in Congress who keep violating their oaths on a daily basis do something about all of this, he is, de facto, a king. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
🚨🚨🚨 This seems like a REALLY good time to STRONGLY recommend folks help Democrats win & flip as many seats at EVERY LEVEL as possible. In the immediate future, focus on: --over 30 special elections this year --NJ & VA state elections this year --PA supreme court elections this year Blue26.org
An excellent summary of one week on the path to dictatorship from Bill Kristol
I've been wondering about whether I have to go to Chicago to avoid violations of my elderly parents' 3rd amendment rights (quartering soldiers).
Not the Onion!?!
AOC, Sanders, Pressley did not endorse uncommitted.
Smoking in restaurants and on airplanes, and seatbelts and bike helmets both optional and uncool. I still watch movies from then but the casual sexual harassment makes some comedies borderline unwatchable.
A St Louis rabbi started Hillel, I believe. The son of the rabbi who married my great grandparents, iirc.
It’s not even speaking up for Lisa Cook. It’s speaking up for Fed independence. The market should be responding to this the way it does when Trump floats firing Powell. Blackmailing and bribing your way to political control of the Fed is just as bad as firing your way, if not worse.
I need to hear a lot of economists speaking up for Lisa Cook. This is actually very important.
My cousin first rode a subway at age 40 when he came to my wedding. He and his wife rode the NYC subway just fine on their visit from small town Georgia last fall.
Does Cuomo know he's running for mayor of NYC and not mayor of Indianapolis?
Also I'm reminded of a chapter in Tuvia Tenenbom's book _Hello Refugees_ about male Syrian refugees in Germany having lessons in how to peel potatoes as one of the few constructive activities available to them.
I'm offended by the term "carrot scraper." Really? I thought "carrot peeler" was universal!
Regular gas cans are too slow?
JVP are as Jewish as Jews for Jesus, which was founded for evangelism purposes by the Southern Baptist Convention.
Very little of the past decade would be believable if it had been published as fiction beforehand!
And that she died by accidentally falling down the stairs, which medical examiner said was not suspicious but fits into the shadiness of a burial at her ex-husband's golf course.
Only advantage: people can skip learning coding! Not a great trade-off.
William Burns: "[The reduction in force] is about breaking people and breaking institutions by sowing fear and mistrust throughout our government. It is about paralyzing public servants—making them apprehensive about what they say, how it might be interpreted, and who might report on them."
I'm from Chicago, so when I bribe reporters, I put the cash into Jay's BBQ potato chips or a hiCcago tavern style pizza (that means thin!).
SNL has consistently gotten him right. Comedy is smarter than diplomats, trade officials, universities, businesses, and law firms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1gC...
"The EU kept complaining it didn’t know what Trump wanted — it’s a category error to assume he ever has coherent demands."
Here's the lawsuit. It begins in 2020 with refusing to allow Jewish groups to join coalitions of other students for antiracism: www.courtlistener.com/docket/68525...
President of Haverford wrote: "Over the past few weeks, we have received several complaints and bias reports about repeated instances of posters promoting Jewish cultural, religious, and educational events being removed from certain campus locations." www.haverford.edu/president/ne...
What a weird claim when they're patrolling the whitest places, like the Georgetown Urban Outfitters. He used to live in DC. www.realtor.com/news/celebri...
I've always thought the aesthetic was like Liberace, but I see the teleevangelist parallel too. vocal.media/beat/donald-...
He sold Apple and Bank of America, but he bought United Health.
That is why they patrol outside the polling places to try to intimidate people from entering. Voter suppression has a long history with a great deal of success. I remember our neighborhood crossing guard said her relative in NC was intimidated not to vote in 2020.
If locally transmitted, malaria is poorly timed wrt CDC and state/local health department capacity.