Jonathan Metzl

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.

#WhatWeveBecome: Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing a rush of new members

www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/u... @wwnorton.com

Murderer, Martyr or Mirror? The First Luigi Mangione Book Is Here.

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...

Opinion | Republicans ‘Have Chosen to Wreck the Nashville District’ (Published 2022)

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...

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.

Read #DyingOfWhiteness by @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social.

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 | 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.

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

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.

"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-...

#books #booklist #bookstagram #booktalk #booktok #greatbooks #greatbooksguide #recommendedreading #gunviolenceawarenessmonth #gunviolenceawareness #gunviolence #gundeaths
@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social

Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He’ll Phase Out the Agency

Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He’ll Phase Out the Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

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.

“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/...

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.

Please check out @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social and www.dyingofwhiteness.com

YouTube video by Danielle Moodie Healing in Chaos: Can We Regulate Our Nervous Systems Enough to Find Common Ground?!

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

FEMA chief is fired Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton told people he was terminated Thursday.

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

Opinion | Someone Should Tell Trump He’s About to Make the Trade Deficit Worse This is the one thing all economists agree on.

“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

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...

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 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

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social
www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiten...

How is US possibly going to host #WorldCup or #Olympics if it has travel bans against citizens of large #’s of countries?

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.

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...

Even Amid Tariff Threats, the Mexico City Art Scene Is Growing While Trump ping-pongs back and forth with threats of tariffs, the Mexico City art scene, with dozens of galleries and museums, is growing.

Mexico City’s Art Scene Is Thriving—And Growing
news.artnet.com/art-world/me...

With enemies like these, who needs friends?

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

In NYC? Join @bethnoveck.bsky.social next week for @vanderbilt.edu in the City: Conversations on America with @ranaforoohar.bsky.social, Brett Banson.
📆 Thursday, March 6, 6 p.m.
Register: vanderbilt.alumniq.com/index.cfm/ev...

Vanderbilt University launches inaugural public programming in New York City Vanderbilt University has announced that it will host its first public programming in New York City: "Vanderbilt in the City: Conversations on America," beginning March 6. The three-event series, plan...

@vanderbiltusac.bsky.social launches inaugural public programming in #NYC. The three-event series, “Vanderbilt in the City: Conversations on America,” begins March 6 - registration details here: news.vanderbilt.edu/2025/02/06/v...