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I miss the professional banter i used to have in places like twitter--follow conferences, research updates, hash out complex cases & academic politics...its not like horrible things werent happenning then too...but the divided reality wasnt so in our faces, we could be deluded otherwise.

Sen Henry Stern also claimed a keffiyeh was a Hamas garment, when confronted after bill SB472's hearing. I pointed out a keffiyeh has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years, whereas Hamas has only existed since the 1980s. His eyes glazed over and he shook his head.

Moms. Literally just moms telling you, its you, you gotta do it, no one's coming, clean up ur own civilization, stop shoving things under the bed, if we want nice things (like a breathable atmosphere) we have to take care them, we all just have to pitch in and get it done

There are no civil rights for all without economic democracy for all

We are collectively not reading nearly enough noam chomsky

The nuclear family trains us to have no sense of kinship, to enforce atomization, to neither ask for help nor expect it nor offer it. We all have to remember all of us know better, of the necessesity of kinship, how we rise & fall together, to coordinate & protect each other. That is the work.

Idk guys

Favorite thing re: being a doctor is that for all grandiose history, theory, econ, i still have to walk into clinic & face this material reality, this specific patient's needs, adapt to what is, even as we imagine what could be; but also they keep us scrambling to prevent us from seeing big picture.

Medical research infrastructure and politics were already showing its profound fissures and internal contradiction under the crisis of the COVID pandemic, that it was not up to the task. I think we need to study this political and historical context to figure out how to salvage and rebuild it

It's for real paralyzing! definitely for us novices, but sounds like maybe disorienting for everyone. thinking a lot about how we are building out, amplifying and strengthening the structures, outlets and people who are not complicit

"People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

Incredible

Ok academic medicine showed up!

the problem is the grinding relentless war death machine not whether it is done with enough gravitas.

Scientific funding has always been political

Capitulation vs collusion, from LRB

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

you have to understand the military (now policing) industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about is a literal mass monetary incentive for division & violence--if profit is the ultimate good (w/ no other checks or values), & violence is profitable, then violence is cause & solution to every problem

Calisthenics is a physical practice--like all body training, rewires nerves, builds out muscles, atrophies others: literally reshapes ur physical body & alters its capacity. Political imagination, relationship skills, resisting obedience, building alt structures work this way too: practice & study

They have spent last few decades since at least Reagan kneecapping universities from having public accountability or intellectual independence. To rebuild we need to have at least as much imagination, understanding, strategy, radicalism & long term investment as federalist society & tech dystopians

small brain: severance is about grief

medium brain: severance is about addiction

big brain: severance is about puerto rican statehood

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So good

concise & illuminating summary

This is happenning right now with relentless frequency, at level of tenure and kangaroo court student discipline, disproportionately to poc and femme. Its so naked & shameless, so reckless and frustrating...its also...revealing. they are scared...

Cărtărescu's Solenoid so far giving Severance, with the surreal hallways and alienation, but instead of american cult corporate and grief of the lost beloved, its rural middle school teaching in 1970s Communist Romania, and grief over foiled ambition

This is infuriating, im so sorry

Under American corporate rule, the trains don't even run on time (we don't believe in collective transportation)

Private industry is intrinsically authoratarian, accountable only to shareholders-i.e. its owners, i.e. the capitalist class. If you recall, multiple attempts to counterbalance power w/ unions & cooperative ownership were violently crushed throughout globe. Government regulation has been dismantled

If you recall, goverments that are "run like corporations" have historically been called "company towns" that destroyed swaths of American Appalachia and the west, early 20th-century Guatamala under United Fruit Company, and mid-century fascist Italy.

I feel bananas that this is not more commonly understood

I am so frustrated with everything for a long while but this moved me