@christian-s-warren
Studying the history of health & environment. Walking the dogs. Teaching the classes. Writing the books.* Traveling the world, little by little. *Brush With Death [Lead Poisoning] *Starved for Light [Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency]
I really don’t think enough is being made of the fact that it’s a three supposedly do-nothing toothless scholarly organizations—the AHA, the MLA, and the ACLS— who are directly responsible for one of the clearest and most damning exposures of this administration’s stupidity and malfeasance.
You can tell a war is going well when the Secretary of Defense has to go on television to cry about how mean the media is being about it.
I'll be in Gainesville in early April giving a few talks--about rickets and lead at the University of Florida's library and the medical school, and a public reading (and conversation with Jack Davis) at Gainesville's wonderful bookstore, @thelynxbooks.bsky.social !
thelynxbooks.com/events/47713...
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money. BUT, of far greater interest and importance to me, as President, is stoping an evil Empire, Iran, from having Nuclear Weapons, and destroying the Middle East and, indeed, the World. I won’t ever let that happen! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Trump says when oil prices go up, “we make a lot of money.”
Just to be clear: “we” is not you.
On the day a preliminary investigation concludes the US bombed an Iranian girls' school.
Lives ended, billions wasted, resources drained, a target placed on Americans' backs for a generation, for a war nobody asked for and which from my line of sight looks like we are losing.
The consequence of including AI in targeting is an increase in war crimes.
My favorite when I'm teaching this, and I can't remember if it was Schwartz Cowan or Strasser who brought it up, is the irony of the toaster, the introduction of which made toast more of a thing than it had ever been!
Even in winter, the brain responds in a specific way to stretches of sunshine Depositphotos
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine...
and the shadows will fall behind you."
—Whitman
Everyday sunlight changes your brain's focus, speed and alertness
Relationships between light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.
I can’t stand all this crap reporting about Trump looking for “exit ramps” or a “quick end” to the war he started with Iran. Do people think we can just peace out and everything will be fine? We just bombed a large nation and killed a slew of civilians. They’re not going to just let it go. FFS.
This is your reminder that after you make $184,500, you stop paying into Social Security.
Millionaires hit that cap today.
We are constantly told there's "not enough" money for Social Security.
But we let America's richest people stop paying into it in March.
Scrap the cap.
Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.
ADAATFU
#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️
Well, maybe not everything, but my rickets study engages with food/nutriton, environmental determinism, race science, indigenous knowledge, and a whole lot more.
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Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme
“KID, WE NEED YOUR GAS”
the "me sowing/me reaping" tweet edited to read me falling back: haha fuck yeah!!! yes!! me springing forward: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
Sorry not sorry: this should be illegal and whoever approved it should be yeeted to the moon.
Repost for Sunday TL cleansing.
I applaud the strong statement, but sadly disagree with the last paragraph:
"I know that the American people are better than this. We have the good sense to know that what is happening is not entertainment but war, and that Iran is a nation of people, not a video game others play to entertain us."
Yes. Read it. But also read recent polling that finds over 40% of Americans approve of the war (including 14% of Democrats).
It's hard to agree with the Cardinal's final paragraph, which starts "I know that the American people are better than this."
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Not ready to emerge into the “daylight” yet? Check out my super-sized 266th #ScholarSunday thread, chock-full o’ public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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@covie93.bsky.social
A seated black cat silhouetted by louvered window shades.
Meow Noir
Trump has fully shattered the world we all grew up in. It’s a dramatic break from how things worked before, even compared to the Iraq War and other misadventures - the United States abruptly tumbling over a cliff and becoming literally more reckless and domineering than Putin’s Russia.
