Lise Saffran
@lisesaffran.bsky.social
Teach public health storytelling, essayist, novelist, health humanities scholar.
In conversation with the incomparable Ayelet Waldman June 6. We’ll talk about life, writing and her new novel: A Perfect Hand www.bookpassage.com/event/ayelet...
Ayelet Waldman with Lise Saffran - A Perfect Hand: A Novel (Corte Madera Store)
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we actually need to band together and let the dems know we will never donate another cent or vote for the party again if a single member of the party votes to give a single cent to ice ever again
This is an excellent piece with a historical perspective on the dangers of the catastrophic attacks on public health in the U.S.
LIFE AND DEATH BEFORE PUBLIC HEALTH
Emily K. Abel
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In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
CDC backpedals on vaccines and autism, despite earlier assurances from RFK Jr.
The CDC, under the direction of an unqualified health secretary, is now promoting claims that flunk Logic 101.
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 9mo agoSounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
It’s time for Mutual Aid groups. We have to get started. The last time we had these conversations, we were in the middle of COVID. Communities were struggling to keep going - economically, emotionally, physically. AOC did a lot of work in this space. I'm sharing resources she created. 🧵
Mutual AID 101 - Allied Media Projects
On Wednesday, March 18, 2020 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and organizer Mariame Kaba discussed a response to COVID-19 based in community building and resource sharing —…Read more
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🦟 Did you know the CDC was originally created in 1946 to help eradicate malaria in the U.S.? A quick 🧵 on how they accomplished this mission & eliminated malaria by 1951
We go on. We do not turn back. The world becomes so small we can fit it into a handshake, into a glance cast across the room, a finger raised to the lips. Everyone’s fingers are crossed behind their backs. ‘Then the Fog’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Then the Fog’
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Yes. "We're shadowed. But we're fighting..."
Dr Nancy J Walker (she/her)@walkernancyj.bsky.social · last yr.
But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.
What's happening tonight is anything but law and order. Don't be deceived.
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
There are five categories of climate denial: 1/ it’s not real 2/ it’s not us 3/ it’s not bad 4/ we can’t fix it 5/ it’s too late They might sound different but do not be deceived, they all have the same goal: to delay climate action as long as possible.
One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."
The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · last yr.SpaceX gets up to $5.9 billion in new DOD launch contracts...more than it's competitors, United Launch alliance and Blue Origin.
I have Sen. Booker's live speech going on in the background here, and I gotta say, 13 hours in, it's really good. He's mad. Good.
Sen. Cory Booker@booker.senate.gov · last yr.I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill. People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games. They know exactly what is going on. Defend Medicaid. Vote NO on Cloture. NO on bill.
if you as an American Jew do not want to be used as the excuse for Trump's destruction of civil liberties and basic democratic protections, the time to speak out is right now
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
