Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour, giant of resistance art, dies aged 79 https://aje.news/2xzmvt

My latest in the @thenation.com with Marc Shi on the political economy of AI in healthcare. Not the "transformation" we're looking for, especially not for the poor majority. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Last Thing US Healthcare Needs Is an AI Takeover

We fear that healthcare will become even more financialized as our systems become more deeply entangled with the AI bubble and the speculative investments that accompany it.

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A horrifying new Ebola outbreak is underway. There's no approved vaccine for the new strain causing the outbreak. @sariahmed.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social Janice Graham & I published a paper last year on the history of J&J's Ebola vaccine—and why it divested in 2023 from new vaccine research.

karim@sariahmed.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/

Our work on the political economy of adenoviral vectors is among few papers connecting the financialization of drug development to the scientific history of ebola. Important context for thinking critically about which players are on the scene responding to the current outbreak. @cmorten.bsky.social

karim@sariahmed.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/

About 45 people at our inaugural Healthcare in Palestine interest group at @societygim.bsky.social 2026 with guests from Doctors Against Genocide, the Nonviolent Medicaid Army and ZinesforFalastin. Register at the link if you couldn't make this session but want to stay connected.

Healthcare in Palestine Interest Group dinner before our inaugural meeting at @societygim.bsky.social, join us for the IG today at 1pm. If you have a conflicting meeting, register to stay in touch.

karim@sariahmed.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The inaugural meeting of the @societygim.bsky.social Healthcare in Palestine Interest Group is at the conference in DC this year. We're going to have dinner with some local leaders of Doctors Against Genocide, register here to join or stay in touch, all members welcome. forms.gle/G3qvQ6bqYiH8...

I wrote with my brilliant friend Marc for the latest issue of the University of the Poor journal: "Global Capital, Healthcare, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution." This article is also available in Spanish. universityofthepoor.org/global-capit...

Global Capital, Healthcare and the Fourth Industrial Revolution - University of the Poor

Leer este artículo en español by Karim Sariahmed and Marc Shi The Nonviolent Medicaid Army (NVMA) has long held certain core understandings about the relationship between healthcare and global capital...

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The inaugural meeting of the @societygim.bsky.social Healthcare in Palestine Interest Group is at the conference in DC this year. We're going to have dinner with some local leaders of Doctors Against Genocide, register here to join or stay in touch, all members welcome. forms.gle/G3qvQ6bqYiH8...

This is one of the worst things I have ever read and I study frontier genocide as a profession.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it. It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within. www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

Israel strikes central Beirut without warning https://aje.news/ygb521

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

Our National call this week is on “Projects of Survival,” a legacy of the Black Panther Party. Changing the political economic status quo in this nation, inclusive of the war economy, requires us to unite the bottom, those with the most to gain and the least to lose. bit.ly/2026NVMANati...

karim@sariahmed.bsky.social · last yr.

Fund Medicaid, Not War! Check out the NVMA on IG (@nationalnonviolentmedicaidarmy)and Fb (/nonviolentmedicaidarmy), and find their guide to action on Fb.

New in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social. This network has been my organizing home for 12 years, link to an upcoming National Call is at the bottom. progressive.org/latest/the-n...

The Nonviolent Medicaid Army Is Living Martin Luther King Jr.’s Values

The NVMA is taking up the mantle of King’s vision to create a ‘nonviolent army of the poor.’

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Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.

A Day for Gaza

Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

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socialist scientists: *minding their own business* otherwise reasonable science blogger: *3 part series on why RFK is basically a communist*

Can't now find it but there's a classic old tweet which said something like "Every time we're on the verge of achieving class consciousness in America a CIA sleeper agent activates and, their eyes glowing red, they just tweet out "John Brown was a white saviour"" and I think about it often.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

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It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

Mary Bassett's firing is about many things, but Palestine is among the most prominent. Public health doesn't need to just "muscle up," and join the #resistance, it also needs to confront anti-Palestinian racism and imperialism.

Julia Raifman, ScD@juliaraifman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What direction will we take the future of our field of public health? We are at a crossroads Dr. Mary Bassett represents the best of us, and I hope will continue to be supported in leading the way forward Heartened to see much support for her on this petition docs.google.com/document/d/e...

The height of the activity of the National Union of the Homeless was during the housing takeovers in the 1990s - you can learn about them by watching the film Takeover (the PBS version - not the 2021 film by the same name featuring the also-awesome hospital takeovers by the Young Lords).

In a new analysis from the OPTIMUM trial, researchers studied the prevalence and co-occurrence of chronic overlapping #pain conditions among patients with chronic #LowBackPain. Learn more ➡️ duke.is/pctnews20251...

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

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This is indeed so deliciously written.

Anne Trubek@atrubek.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Great thread, summarizing our work on J&J's Advac and the perils of what we term 'platform thinking'!

Chris Morten@cmorten.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New paper! Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

This is a neat paper ⬇️. 💉

Chris Morten@cmorten.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New paper! Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

New paper! Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

Public sector innovation and the constraints of ‘platform thinking’: An account of Johnson & Johnson's adenoviral vector vaccines

Scholarship on political economy of vaccines in the COVID-19 era has focused on mRNA. Yet Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) vaccine based on recombinant adeno…

sciencedirect.com

Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/

Chris Morten@cmorten.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New paper! Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

Just published in Social Science & Medicine! Led by @sariahmed.bsky.social + @cmorten.bsky.social we interrogate how 'platform thinking' constrains not only pharma companies like J&J but also science more broadly. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of ‘Platform Thinking’: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Adenoviral Vector Vaccines

Scholarship on political economy of vaccines in the COVID-19 era has focused on mRNA. Yet Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) vaccine based on recombinant adeno…

sciencedirect.com

When journalists, healthcare workers and children are targets, their stories must be recorded and witnessed www.croakey.org/when-journal...

When journalists, healthcare workers and children are targets, their stories must be recorded and witnessed

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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...