Jonathan Metzl
@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social
Director, Medicine Health and Society @VanderbiltU; Author http://dyingofwhiteness.com
Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms www.milbank.org/quarterly/ar...
Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms | Milbank Quarterly
In April 2018, a naked man with an AR-15 burst into a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee. Firing at random, he murdered four people and gravely injured five more before escaping into the ...
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Did liberal public health scholars like me fail to understand the meanings of guns and safety in conservative communities? My latest, @milbankfund.bsky.social Read the article at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#WhatWeveBecome: Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing a rush of new members www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/u... @wwnorton.com
Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing an influx of new members | CNN
Several niche, left-leaning gun advocacy groups said that since Alex Pretti was killed, they can hardly keep up with the surging demand for firearms training.
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Murderer, Martyr or Mirror? My review of the first #luigi book - LUIGI: The Making and the Meaning, by John H. Richardson - appears in this morning’s @nytimes.com @nytbookreview.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b...
Murderer, Martyr or Mirror? The First Luigi Mangione Book Is Here.
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As our politics grow ever more fractured, I think back to this excellent 2022 @nytimes.com essay by @margaretrenkl.bsky.social about how our system is increasingly designed to keep the reasonable people out... www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/o...
Opinion | Republicans ‘Have Chosen to Wreck the Nashville District’ (Published 2022)
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Just finished your excellent book. I’ve shared quotes from it on my social media as well. I grew up in Tulsa, and the attitudes of many in your book reminded me of my family and in some cases still does.
Shooters may have mental health problems in common, but that’s not what’s behind violent attacks, experts say www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/h... @cnn.com
Shooters may have mental health problems in common, but that’s not what’s behind violent attacks, experts say | CNN
Mental health issues were connected to suspects in several recent high-profile attacks, but experts say that doesn’t mean mental health problems are to blame for the killings.
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"11 (More) Books to Help You Understand Gun Violence in the U.S.," by Sunny Sone in @thetrace.org. Deeply honored to see God, Guns, and Sedition featured alongside great work by @josiahbates.bsky.social, @afilindra.bsky.social, @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social and others! www.thetrace.org/2025/06/gun-...
11 (More) Books to Help You Understand Gun Violence in the U.S.
A couple of years ago, a Trace reader asked for books about the gun violence issue. We decided it was time to update the list.
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Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He’ll Phase Out the Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...
Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He’ll Phase Out the Agency
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Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds
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“I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled,” said Eden Tanner, a Mississippi chemist who had been working on a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Please check out @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social and www.dyingofwhiteness.com
Dying of Whiteness
Winner of the 2020 RFK Book Award. In "Dying of Whiteness" Dr. Jonathan Metzl reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences–even for the white populations they promise to help.
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Tending to your nervous system this holiday weekend?!? Watch my interview with @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social Healing in Chaos: Can We Regulate Our Nervous Systems Enough to Find Common Ground?! youtu.be/MKsYuKIQkoM
Healing in Chaos: Can We Regulate Our Nervous Systems Enough to Find Common Ground?!
YouTube video by Danielle Moodie
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FEMA chief is fired one day after telling a House Appropriations subcommittee that "the nation needs FEMA, which Trump has suggested abolishing or shrinking." politi.co/4dcj3RW via @politico.com
FEMA chief is fired
Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton told people he was terminated Thursday.
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“cutting taxes, as Mr. Trump has told Congress to do, will drive up the budget deficit — and the trade deficit” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/o... via @nytimes.com
Opinion | Someone Should Tell Trump He’s About to Make the Trade Deficit Worse
This is the one thing all economists agree on.
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Miss @ektashahmd.bsky.social recently mentioned this book; I’ve seen it before, but I’m glad she reminded me of it.
I love that book. Listened to it in 2020 @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social is the author! He also wrote a few other good books
I am haunted by this book. They will take us down with them. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiten...
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US economic policy: Last night I woke up in the middle of the night to make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich... and it was my kitchen, it was my refrigerator, it was my apartment... and it was the BEST peanut butter and jelly sandwich that I have had in my entire life.
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiten...
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland [Metzl, Jonathan M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
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In my book #WhatWeveBecome @wwnorton.bsky.social I call this strategy a modern-day war of southern aggression: turn #medicaid expansion and other social programs into fiscal time-bombs that will explode mainly in blue states.... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
Slashing Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts Could Lead to Vast State Shortfalls
Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions.
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We should prepare for more boycotts and protests Alarmed by Trump, a Renowned German Violinist Boycotts the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/a...
The Violinist Christian Tetzlaff’s Tactic to Oppose Trump’s Agenda: Cancel Concerts
Christian Tetzlaff said he was disturbed by the president’s embrace of Russia and other policies. “There seems to be a quietness or denial about what’s going on,” he said.
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I keep thinking of @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social's book Dying of Whiteness, which basically talks about how a good chunk of white people will knowingly vote against their own (heath) interests due to racial resentment. They would rather get sick and die than allow BIPOC folks access to these programs.
In my book #WhatWeveBecome @wwnorton.bsky.social I call this strategy a modern-day war of southern aggression: turn #medicaid expansion and other social programs into fiscal time-bombs that will explode mainly in blue states.... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
Slashing Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts Could Lead to Vast State Shortfalls
Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions.
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