Professor Ruha Benjamin (Ruha Benjamin) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜

in the rules based international order there are two separate yet equally important groups: good states that can bomb embassies with impunity and bad states we'll never forgive seizing our embassy 44 years ago merely because we overthrew their democratically elected government

I feel like the extremely prevalent US attitude about the private household as a space where the owner should have unquestioned power is an outgrowth of settler-colonialism (also see, castle doctrine).

At least 577 people died in chases in 2022, the latest year available, according to nhtsagov.

Deaths have increased by ~40% since 2019.

''Some things have changed and some things we're realizing we were wrong about in the mainstream narrative,' said [Friedman] [...] 'In any way you cut it, [it] is not accurate to say deaths of despair are highest among white individuals.''
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Ten years ago today, the US Dept of Justice found an “overwhelming pattern of unconstitutional use of deadly force” in Albuquerque PD

Now, APD is “in compliance” w/ virtually every mandated reform, even while killing more people than ever.

My latest:

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NYers, mark your calendar. Happy to announce a book launch event for the Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus.Weds April 24, 6PM @ Fordham Lincoln Center
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'A child born in Kerala in India’s south has a better chance of surviving to age five than in the US. In Uttar Pradesh in the north, the odds are worse than in Afghanistan.'

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Woah Donna Shalala.

The epidemiology version of this is somehow even more annoying: you can't claim causality because an eclipse isn't an intervention

not an RCT so obviously can’t claim causality. If anything it’s probably bookings causing the eclipse

This fancy dessert looks like it's about to run for president

The horrifying details emerging about the World Central Kitchen massacre: The convoy was struck 3 times in succession, with the drone chasing the wounded aid workers from vehicle to vehicle to make sure they were all killed. No legit pretext and precise coordination with the IDF.

📣The Green Inequality Lab is expanding again! We're excited to announce that we are hiring a clinical research manager to help support multiple funded projects on repro equity. Ask me any ❓ you'd like! Apply by 4/10.

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