Mical Raz

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

This isn't just a case of them thinking too small.

The fix they're proposing will shield their Republican colleagues from facing any blowback in the midterms over the health care cuts they voted for.

They've got one card to play and they're using it to bail out the GOP.

Unfuckingbelievable.

"I am not saying this lightly -- this will get people killed," said Mical Raz, MD, PhD, MSHP, who studies the history of medicine and health policy at the University of Rochester.

CDC's acting director is a former Silicon Valley biotech investor, while the chief of staff & chief operating officer are both lawyers, & an adviser is a onetime Republican congressional aide.

They form a leadership team unlike any in CDC's history. Experts warn it reflects growing politicization.

Again, at worst, the appropriate response to course content not aligning with course descriptions at any university is to lodge a complaint with the relevant curriculum committees and get them to change the course descriptions, rather than to fire a professor, her boss, & her boss' boss.

ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters

The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

Fascinating. How long is your class?

Opposition to RFKJr is ramping up.
Joint statement from Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and 21 other organizations 👇

Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!

I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power

It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make

"The safety of the American people hangs in the balance."

The attempt to oust CDC's Monarez is one more step in RFK Jr.'s "misguided efforts to overhaul the public health system based on myths and pseudoscience," says APHA. Read our full statement: www.apha.org/news-and-med...

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Donald Trump raided the home of my UN ambassador as punishment for his public criticism. Out of respect for the presidency, I will say nothing and paint another picture of a dog.

by George W. Bush

‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.

A calico cat next to a book called Regulating the Body Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law Edited by Austin Sarat and Susanna Lee .The cover is black with a statue of lady justice with mask and gloves.

A calico cat next to a book called Regulating the Body Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law Edited by Austin Sarat and Susanna Lee .The cover is dark grey with a statue of lady justice with mask and gloves.

The table of content for the book Regulating the Body Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law Edited by Austin Sarat and Susanna Lee .

Abstract: Wearing face masks has been an important strategy to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Yet this practice has also been highly politicized since the beginning of the pandemic. In this chapter, I explore how shaming tactics—the stigmatization and public disgrace of the norm violator—have been used to regulate masking. This strategy highlights how mask policies in the U.S. have depended on private enforcement throughout all stages of the pandemic; that is, enforcement by laypeople rather than public entities. I trace this phenomenon through early, top-down mask mandates, to the present moment, after universal mask mandates have been lifted, and masking has shifted to become an individualized disability accommodation. While paying close attention to how norms about mask wearing intersect with gender and race, I highlight dichotomous approaches to private, ideologically-driven, enforcement of public health policy: as the Right has doubled down on shaming people for wearing masks, people in the disability community have reacted by enforcing mask wearing in public spaces and holding people who they see as members of the in-group (activists and allies) accountable. This chapter thus contributes to the legal debate on shaming as a law enforcement tactic, as well as to the understanding of how disability law plays out in everyday life.

Thrilled that my book chapter, "Mask Shaming: On Private Enforcement and Disability Politics," in print as part of the important @nyupress.bsky.social book Regulating the Body: Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law, ed. by the legendary Austin Sarat & Susanna Lee! 1/3

“We don’t erase history” says the sentient can of body spray who took Medgar Evers and Harvey Milk’s names off Navy ships

I think many people dramatically underestimated how difficult it was for the US to restrain Israel and believed that we were in a worst-case scenario already.

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

Not only did this scammer take $100K in his scam lying to kids, he also destroyed more than $28K of federally-purchased vaccines - taxpayers paid for - when vaccines first became available. It’s not just RFK and it’s not just “skepticism.” Our government is willing to lose money to promote antivaxx.

Palestinian American from Florida killed in the West Bank, family says Sayfollah Kamel Musallet, who lived in Tampa and was an American citizen, his family said, was visiting relatives in the West Bank when he was killed.

A 20-year-old American citizen from Tampa was beaten to death by Israeli settlers on Friday while visiting family in the occupied West Bank

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show.

oh my god www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

Head of local weather warnings takes early retirement as NOAA cuts continue Yura has over 32 years experience, spending more than half of his career at the NWS Austin/San Antonio office.

The Austin/San Antonio NWS warning coordination meteorologist, Paul Yura, was DOGEd in April.

"Yura’s final date of employment, April 30, comes just before severe weather season in Central Texas typically peaks in the month of May."

h/t @theiconoclast.bsky.social

Phenomenal.

He is "an antisemite’s idea of a Jew, ...a rich and powerful figure with a sniveling persona, a man of no discernible values who scolds the masses for demanding too much, a politician who insists we not apply double standards to Jews while holding Israeli Jews uniquely exempt from international law"