Stephanie Boyle

almost done grading

An X post from Joshua Landis that Vahid Abedini was seized by ICE while traveling to the Middle East Studies Association

#MESA2025

Hi Bluesky….

three pieces I wrote are here.

‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death "In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"

An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files.

As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed.

Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.

Gaza faces 'man-made' mass starvation due to Israeli aid blockade, World Health Organisation says Israel denies it is responsible for shortages of food - but aid groups have accused its government of creating "chaos, starvation, and death".

Feels like a good time to point out that starvation of a civilian populace is a war crime. By the very definition of genocide, the Israeli government is doing it. There is no defence, no deflection, the Israeli government is committing genocide while the world watches.
news.sky.com/story/gaza-f...

you can’t be on the other site claiming antisemetism isn’t real and selling yarn on this site. Like wtf?! yes this is a subtweet

this is the definition of messing around and finding out. You declare yourself a fascist and then lose your job

It’s not a Bibi problem

Annabelle doll not found in hotel room following paranormal investigator's death - NewsBreak A 'possessed' Annabelle doll was not found in a paranormal investigator's hotel room following his death, shared on July 15 by the New England Society for

Annabelle is missing, fam!

share.newsbreak.com/e521i1zc?s=i16

seven people
voted yes and one of them
was the only Palestinian member of Congress. @Aoc wants
to be a career politician

when the only Palestinian member of
Congress votes for something you support her-even if you know it won’t pass. That’s what allyship looks like-not spending more
time and energy defending cowardice

summer fruits are my absolute favorites

it’s crazy how the most
judgy online twitter personalities who called others cowards button up and become super docile when they get a job.

I can’t share the video from the other site with the blue bird owned by the maniac-and maybe you all know this-but they are shooting at packed crowds of people trying to get food.

“We reject any effort to intimidate universities into silence & fear, & we won’t let @cuny.edu — or any institution of higher ed — be used as a political stunt designed to divide our communities.” - @nysut.bsky.social President @MelindaJPerson #HandsOffHigherEd @aft.org @aaup.org @ucaft.bsky.social

Netanyahu is playing Trump with his ridiculous Nobel peace prize nomination | Mohamad Bazzi There’s a cynical logic behind Netanyahu’s publicity stunt: he is exploiting Trump’s need for flattery to prolong Israel’s brutal war on Gaza

Netanyahu’s nomination of Trump for the Nobel peace prize is like nominating one’s drug dealer for the Nobel prize in medicine — my latest @theguardian.com

#OtD 10 Jul 1949 Black @IWW dockworker activist Ben Fletcher died at his home in Brooklyn, aged 59. He had been the leading organiser who organised the Philadelphia docks in the early part of the 20th-century, and was imprisoned during World War I. More: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-...

This is Yasir. He’s 21 yo. He fled Sudan after he was kidnapped & tortured by the RSF.

Thx to his legal team @Door_NYC he walked out of his ICE check-in today (unlike too many others).

The best of birthday presents to have been there to meet him. Amazing what a New Yorker he’s already becoming.

Trends in US Children’s Mortality, Chronic Conditions, Obesity, Functional Status, and Symptoms This study aims to determine how US children’s health has been changing from 2007 to 2023 using multiple data collection methods and a comprehensive set of health indicators.

It bears repeating that the new paper showing that the U.S. has significantly higher rates of pediatric deaths than similar countries demonstrates that these deaths are primarily caused by:

Firearms
Motor vehicle crashes
Substance use
Homicide

And are driven by:
Economic and racial disparity

Egypt friends: I need to look into this further but the British may have been involved in the killing of Abbas the 1st. Anyone ever speculate this? Mr Bruce was working with one of Abbas’ servants just before he died. Maybe some day I’ll address this tangent

studying medicine is not studying hospitals or doctors…it’s actually a really interesting field that requires active engagement across geographies if you want to do it right.

I can’t figure out how to private message you but I am interested

Extermination as negotiation: Understanding Israel’s strategy in Gaza Whether it’s total conquest or managed containment, Israel doesn’t have a single grand strategy for Gaza, but it uses the possibility of both to prolong the war.

READ: Israel doesn’t have a Gaza strategy. It has a method.
Drag out the war. Exhaust the resistance. Alternate genocide and bureaucracy until Palestinians are erased or managed. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/exte...

take on me by AHA obviously or my favorite Pat Benetar Love is a Battlefield

performative “protests” against NYT are starting.

like do you think making jokes about race science about a black man in America is funny? bc it isn’t

friendly reminder that there is a robust field on the history of medicine in MENA…