Recent posts by Historians of Health, Medicine & Disability Network on Bluesky
Recent posts by Historians of Health, Medicine & Disability Network community members. Updated hourly.
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈
nuclearanthro.bsky.socialbonkers that Trump, furious at SCOTUS, does fuck you 15% import tariffs &he isn’t immediately impeached & removed. Congresscan end this anytime they want. Contact them as part of diversity of tactics. Petty, vindictive, & impulsive a man w/virtually unrestricted launch authority is not great.
madeline odent
oldenoughtosay.comThey are automatically eligible but you have to take them to the embassy and register them as USA citizens. If it’s their only nationality it’s considered de facto from birth, but if they have another from birth, as mine do, and you don’t register them American then they aren’t
Dr Vanessa
hpsvanessa.bsky.socialThis is kinda how I've felt too. The students are saying they didn't get what they paid for which is 100% true without in any way being a critique of staff efforts or a suggestion we shld have ignored law + importantly, it's DRIVEN BY A PREDATORY LAW FIRM who are the actual villans, not the students
Lupita Nihongo
otsumamiboy.bsky.socialHaven’t expressed enough Beer Enthusiasm lately. But that changes today! I’ve been super excited about this beer since I heard it got brewed. It’s a super tasty collab West Coast IPA between Highland Park Brewery & the world famous Russian River Brewing. And of course, Cactus League!!!
Prem Thakker ツ
premthakker.bsky.socialPretty incredible. This candidate went to the West Bank to see the violence of the occupation herself. And Israeli settlers — apparently flanked by a soldier — immediately showed it to her by throwing eggs at her as she walked with an ex-soldier, a priest, and Jewish activists:
Mekka Okereke
mekka.mekka-tech.comThe last time an EV maker stopped returning MKBHD's calls, they were bankrupt within a year.🤷🏿♂️ Tesla is sitting on a giant pile of cash thanks to all their "genius" investors, so I don't think that'll happen here. I'm guessing they're still salty about his honest review of the Xiaomi SU7?
Jacqueline Antonovich
jackiantonovich.bsky.socialMy spouse is turning the big 5-0 this year & his parents are taking us on one of those fancy Viking cruises this summer for his gift. Today we signed up for excursions and it felt a little bit like Supermarket Sweep. Alllll the adrenaline trying to reserve your space! Anyhoo, this will be a fun day
Prem Thakker ツ
premthakker.bsky.socialNEW: Congressional candidate Effie Phillips-Staley just did what most don’t. She visited Palestine to learn more. There, Israeli settlers harassed her, a priest, and Jewish activists. Now, some local Democratic members are going after *her.* One top bundler is even quietly demanding she drop out:
Tristão B. Cunha, a Goan nationalist, astutely argued in 1955 that the unholy alliance between U.S. imperialism and Portuguese fascism endured to a large extent because of the Azores' strategic military position. I discuss this in my recent work: eraldosouzadossantos.com/papers-in-pr...
Dr. Damien P. Williams can't think of a fun display name right n
wolvendamien.bsky.socialIf you're not in this, you're missing out on an amazing weaving together of the historical & present social implications of eugenics, what that means for some of our favourite science fictions, & how we can do better. (That said, I think you'll still be able to register & get the recording later.)
Tristão de Bragança Cunha, a Goan nationalist, astutely argued that the alliance between American imperialism and Portuguese fascism was enabled during the Cold War by the Azores' strategic military position in the Atlantic. I discuss this in my recent work: eraldosouzadossantos.com/papers-in-pr...
Cartoon Art Museum
cartoonart.bsky.socialBelated thanks to all who joined us last weekend to celebrate 75 years of the comic strip 'Beetle Bailey' with cartoonist and author Brian Walker. And, yes, we have extra signed copies of the new retrospective from @fantagraphics.bsky.social on hand if you weren't able to make it. #comics
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
drsurekhadavies.bsky.socialWhat about all the trees burned, rivers flooded and species lost thanks to every random billionaire's dick-measuring competition of snake-oil ideas? Altman is implying people that unnecessary because they "cost" energy. He is grooming his audience for eugenics. Don't fall for this trash-heap.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
ebonyteach.blacksky.appYes! Motown happened at the right place and time. The Gordy family were entrepreneurs and gave Berry start-up funds. And yes, DPS gave students a FINE musical education well beyond the 1970s... still is, quiet as it's kept. Local foundations pay for private lessons. I took flute, then bassoon.
Scott Santens
scottsantens.comNo one should accept anything less than universal basic income as a policy response to AI. There is only one way to make sure AI works for all of us and that's to MAKE THEM LITERALLY WORK FOR ALL OF US via a universal dividend that grows as national productivity grows. Also universal healthcare too.
Dr. Emily Friedman
friede.bsky.socialIf I post it, it’s true: @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social & I will be recording a conversation next month about his strategies for satisfying roleplaying in just an hour-long session. Taking questions now. I can think of few peers more consistently supportive, thoughtful, rigorous, & truly hospitable.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
ebonyteach.blacksky.appGarlin Gilchrist left the gubernatorial race to run for SOS for a reason. I can't see this state electing a Black governor any time soon. Sad to say, but it's true. I'd hoped for change in the 2010s while I was away, but some of these folks here still stare at you like they want you to drop dead.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
ebonyteach.blacksky.appBlack Detroiters are the walking embodiments of living Black pride out loud.... and for 59 long years, there was this sense that 1967 and the Young mayoralty "stole" Detroit away from white folks. Makes racial ire and acrimony pungent in this state. Many have written eloquently about all of this.
Institute for Palestine Studies
palestinestudies.bsky.social🧵#PalQuest hosts the digital, interactive version of Walid Khalidi’s All That Remains, documenting Palestinian villages depopulated and destroyed in 1948. Among them is Dayr Rafat (دَيْر رافات), located in the Jerusalem subdistrict (Jerusalem District): www.palquest.org/en/place/169...
