During the 1970s, an arson wave ravaged poor communities across the US. Some lost 80% of their housing. Residents were blamed. In reality, landlords—paid by insurers and enabled by the state—drove this arson-for-profit epidemic. 

I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social's revelatory BORN IN FLAMES:

When the Bronx Burned, Tenants Died and Landlords Got Rich

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Wow, this was an infuriating read

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 12mo ago

For years, the opioid epidemic outpaced treatment access. Suboxone could've helped, easing withdrawal, quelling cravings, preventing relapse. Today, even with generics, only 1 in 4 adults get it. Here is how a company's thirst for profits and political red tape kept it out of reach. nyti.ms/45MfcYH

This totally makes sense. A notable public figure in the US (Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls) is illegally arrested by Israel and subjected to severe physical violence while on a hunger strike… and not one US media outlet of any type has decided that is news.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

Update on treatment of Handala detainees: “Christian Smalls reported severe physical violence by Israeli forces. Several female activists described similar abuse and deplorable detention conditions.”

This is the most obvious thing I’ve ever said in a post, but renters are citizens of a city. Full citizens. Because of course they are. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t just clueless about the affordability struggles that cities face — they’re clueless about the essential reality of cities.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · last yr.

More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests. We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.

One of the unexpected things about (most) administrative data is that they don't routinely come with family/relationship information. Address is also usually removed for research because it's identifiable information, so household level analysis can be very difficult.

Kristian Bernt Karlson@kbkarlson.bsky.social · last yr.

The real power of administrative register data: Each person-year has an anonymized address ID, which lets me measure how much siblings actually lived together growing up. Just did that—and linked it to survey data on 15,000 siblings! #sociology @erc.europa.eu

Utrecht, Netherlands is about to build the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge nltimes.nl/2025/02/25/u...

Utrecht to start construction on largest car-free neighborhood in the country next week

Construction of a new neighborhood is set to begin in Utrecht next week. The neighborhood, called Merwede, is scheduled to be the largest car-free district in the Netherlands, with 6,000 homes. The ar...

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Not clicking on that but I will note, it's a great thing to have wealth and privilege and decide that redistribution needs to happen so you have less and others have more

Forbes@forbes.com · last yr.

Despite his own privileged path to power, or perhaps because of it, the son of a Columbia University professor and a movie director is campaigning as a socialist intent on redistributing New York’s wealth.

Democratic Establishment, panicked, yelling: "We need to energize young male voters to win elections!" Zohran: wins, running a pro-Palestine, public transit, and housing platform: Democratic establishment: NOT LIKE THAT

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

Iran

Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...

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📣New paper out in Pediatrics about Adolescent & Young Adult OUD Care Access, by part of our UW team💕, & co-first-author, Dr. Alexis Ball! 📝Documenting part of what we already know in practice: real care options & honest conversations @ drug use matter a lot. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

Further motivation to learn Spanish: I would never have to listen to Doris Burke call an NBA game again

Pacers fans sound like they haven’t updated their ball knowledge since Hoosiers came out

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

The type of photo you frame and hang above your desk

Jon Hamm@jonhamm.bsky.social · last yr.

this pic needs to be printed on a banner and raised to the rafters next to Collison's #4

OKC exemplifies everything that people who don't actually watch the NBA, get wrong about the NBA. Nobody plays defense. Really? Go watch the Thunder. It's all about threes. Really? Go watch the Thunder. Everyone plays exactly the same way. Really? Go watch the Thunder.

For anyone running a #Quarto website/report/whatever HTML, you might like to know about the YAML option page-layout: full I personally prefer wider content areas so pages don't feel as long, but each to their own quarto.org/docs/output-... #rstats #dataBS

Page Layout – Quarto

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Officially added three new initials to my name ☺️

On the blog: strategies for mapping dense point data in R. Learn how to use: 🌎 Circle clusters 🌎 Dynamic heat maps 🌎 Point jittering for same-location events Read the post: walker-data.com/post... #rstats #gis #datavisualization

Childhood adversity as a risk factor for autoimmune disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis with implications for psychiatry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Childhood adversity as a risk factor for autoimmune disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis with implications for psychiatry

Autoimmune diseases are a heterogeneous category of disorders caused by an interaction between genetic and environmental factors which lead to a dysre…

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Check out the latest study from CDUHR affiliated investigator Ashly Jordan - A Spatial Epidemiologic Analysis of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in New York State journals.lww.com/lww-medicalc...

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Sign the Petition

Free Rumeysa Ozturk Now!

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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · last yr.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

"Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground" final lithograph of Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. The death of her son in WW1 and death of her grandson in WW2 obviously profoundly affected the artist. This print reflects the theme of a mother protecting their children from the horrors of war #WomensArt

I.e. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Drug induced homicide laws may worsen opioid related harms: An example from rural North Carolina

Drug-induced homicide (DIH) laws typically allow for the prosecution of drug distribution resulting in an overdose fatality as equivalent to homicide …

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Marvin Bagley hits a huge 3 pointer from 3/4 court at the 3rd quarter buzzer to get Grizzlies to within 49 points.

** Researchers using US Natality Data: Code to read & label restricted-access CDC natality data into Stata/R now includes 2019–2023 (in addition to 2010–18): florenciatorche.github.io/ReadNatality... Please share—no need for us all to write the same code! Thanks to @RussellSageFdn for funding

🚨 I have been working with several addiction scientists and clinicians through the Addiction Science Defense Network (www.npscoalition.org/projects/add...) to craft a statement of concern about recent executive orders and actions that can be shared with members of congress.

Addiction Science Defense Network | npsc

The ASDN is an information exchange and action network for individuals and organizations devoted to studying, treating and preventing problems caused by psychoactive substance use, including alcohol, ...

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At least 35 Palestinians are killed, 55 wounded and 80 missing in a series of powerful Israeli air attacks on Shujayea district in northern Gaza City. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/uzvadz

‘Torn to pieces’: Israeli strikes kill 35 Palestinians in new massacre

Dozens are wounded and missing in multiple air strikes with many buried in the debris in Shujayea in Gaza City.

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