Kübler-Ross gave us five stages of #grief; David Kessler added a sixth: meaning. The Mexican #ofrenda got there centuries earlier. New essay on #DiadeMuertos 💀🏵️, the grieving brain and my grief for the world. #English + #español 👇🏽 omargabrieltorresvalencia.substack.com/p/the-sixth-...

The Sixth Stage . La Sexta Etapa

What the ofrenda de Día de Muertos teaches us about grief, and what love does when it has nowhere left to go. Versión en español más abajo.

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Andy Burnham is asked about Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields. He says "Use of our resources can support and accelerate a clean energy future" We are truly down the rabbit hole with this utter nonsense. Invest in renewables, insulate homes & say no to fossil fuels.

I mean, you can't say fairer than that.

The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 3w ago

Green Party leader Zack Polanski issued a solid response toAndy Burnham. Polanski said: "I'm the only Jewish leader of a political party. "I'm a victim of antisemitism every day and I've made it clear Jewish people are welcome in my party. "You're a Prime Minister who arms a genocide."

Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"

Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron

I know at this point we are all numb, but I think it’s important to note that the sitting president of the United States just took the podium at the #UNGA and threatened to do war crimes to 90 million people in Iran in front of the entire #UN.

Holborn & St Pancras, you have a choice. Vote Green to keep Labour in check.

I trained as a #physician and work in #globalhealth. The distance between those two vantage points is where this new essay lives. I paired “This Is Going to Hurt” with “Health Communism”. On bodies as raw material, the fiction of the worker/surplus divide, and what COVID proved about all of it 👇🏽

Double Vision #3

Fiction and non-fiction, read in pairs, to see the world as it is and imagine what it could be.

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I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

The #GlobalHealth reform agenda has made strides – but has its limits. Read why a future multipolar world is an illusion. NEW in The BMJ: https://bit.ly/3Toq2kY Part of the series on the Geopolitics of Global Health: https://bit.ly/44OGptD

Attention scholars of IR: check out the BMJ as a source for analysis of contemporary geopolitics … ( (Now, how to encourage global health scholars to read IR journals…)

The BMJ@bmj.com · 3mo ago

The #GlobalHealth reform agenda has made strides – but has its limits. Read why a future multipolar world is an illusion. NEW in The BMJ: https://bit.ly/3Toq2kY Part of the series on the Geopolitics of Global Health: https://bit.ly/44OGptD

“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Reforming global health architecture requires confronting its political economy

Daniel Bernal-Serrano and colleagues argue that the preventable deaths caused by global health inequity are structural outcomes of a capitalist world economy, which organisational reform alone cannot ...

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Deeply grateful, Prof. @madhupai.bsky.social That line sits at the heart of what we wanted to say: naming the structures, not just the symptoms. Your work convening these conversations is a big part of why they feel possible. Thank you for reading and amplifying. @bmj.com @dbernals.bsky.social

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...

📌 Front page of @bmj.com! 🙏 @dbernals.bsky.social et al. “Social murder” and reform of tbe the global health architecture www.bmj.com/content/394/...

I initially wondered whether this critique would resonate in a major medical journal. Encouraging to see it on The BMJ’s front page—critical political-economy arguments belong in mainstream global health debate.

Jocalyn Clark@jocalynclark.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📌 Front page of @bmj.com! 🙏 @dbernals.bsky.social et al. “Social murder” and reform of tbe the global health architecture www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Needed change to the #GlobalHealth architecture will not be achieved by organisational reform alone. Instead, social murder in the current political economy must be confronted. NEW in The BMJ: https://bit.ly/4vPYrGH Part of the Geopolitics of Global Health series: https://bit.ly/4gW3gut

My new paper with @dbernals.bsky.social in @bmj.com: preventable deaths in #globalhealth aren't governance failures. They’re structural outcomes of the commodification of health. Reform alone won't fix it. Social murder in the political economy must be confronted. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Reforming global health architecture requires confronting its political economy

Daniel Bernal-Serrano and colleagues argue that the preventable deaths caused by global health inequity are structural outcomes of a capitalist world economy, which organisational reform alone cannot ...

bmj.com

Global health cannot be transformed through organisational reform alone. We need to confront the political economy that commodifies health, entrenches unequal power—and produces social murder. New in @bmj.com , with @drogtv.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/394/... #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

I read “The #Handmaid’sTale” by #MargaretAtwood and “ #JesusandJohnWayne” by #KristinKobesDuMez back to back. One is fiction. One is contemporary history. I can no longer tell you which one is scarier. My full reflection on #Substack 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Double Vision #2

Fiction and non-fiction, read in pairs, to see the world as it is and imagine what it could be.

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Dan Patrick: "Separation of Church and state is not in the Constitution"

If you think Keir Starmer is a 'decent' person, you need to speak to the many, many minorities his government has targeted mercilessly. You can't speak to all of them, however, because many of them are dead because of choices Keir Starmer's government made

Keir Starmer’s legacy will forever be abetting genocide, and the most violent assault on civil liberties in the UK to facilitate such genocide. Oh, and throwing migrants, disabled and trans people under the bus. This is essentially all he did as PM of the UK. Not “a decent man” at all.

My problem with the White House thunderdome isn’t that it’s “vulgar,” or “tacky,” qualities I often enjoy & terms which are often crudely classist when used pejoratively. My problem, as always, is the fascism. Don’t get distracted by taste, which is deeply subjective; it’s the fascism.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

Any news orgs digging into claims in the Epstein Files that our current president allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl? Did we forget about that?

About 3 years ago, Israel felt compelled to explain its attacks on hospitals and deny responsibility for them. Then they realized Western govts aren’t fussed about such war crimes & Western media was happy to justify them. Now here we are: dozens of hospitals bombed in Gaza, Iran & Lebanon.

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.