Randi Saunders

If you work at or attend a university this is extremely important!!

This is EXACTLY what the first amendment is supposed to protect against.

As long as they can doxx people and their family members, threatening safety and well-being, the government is violating those #FirstAmendment rights

Why do some children still get sick with a disease after being vaccinated?

Short answer: Vaccines significantly reduce the likelihood of getting sick, even if they don’t prevent 100% of infections. They can also lessen the severity of illness.

Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️

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Part of the problem is that American culture treats wealth as a proxy for brilliance. Which makes it easy to tip into oligarchy on seemingly "meritocratic" grounds. 1/

And then there’s this. Once again, RESEARCH helps us, over time, improve human HEALTH & wellbeing.

Basic and applied research, alike.

Science wins. When we fund it. 🧪🩺🛟

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But abuse as an ongoing phenomenon is about power, and that power imbalance is fundamentally part of the relationship. And that situates violence not as isolated actions due to conflict but as mechanisms of control often co-occurring with other behaviors. The OP is right: the roles don't seesaw

I think there is some conflation between "mutual abuse" and "mutual violence". There are cases where both parties use physical violence--hitting, hair-pulling, throwing things, etc. I'm not endorsing that, though it's worth acknowledging that cases of "violent" self-defense get lumped in there.

Judge blocks Louisiana from requiring schools to display Ten Commandments A federal judge said the law was unconstitutional, but the state attorney general quickly promised to appeal the decision.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that would require every public school classroom in the state to display the Ten Commandments, calling the law “unconstitutional in all applications.”

This is pretty terrible

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I think it's important to contextualize these things, rather than pretend like affordable housing has been solved. Rents in Austin had risen by so much that housing is still a huge challenge. 2 years ago, my apartment building wanted to raise my rent by 20%, and that was a common increase

Line chart showing mortality data. Data available at link in post.

Today, a young American woman between the ages of 25 and 34 face higher mortality rates than at any other point in more than 50 years. And had the mortality rate remained flat between 2000 and 2021, nearly 40,000 young women would not have died.
~Sara Srygley of PRB
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One of the Hardest Things About Being a Professor Is Only Getting Harder The tenured prof who stays in the same town for decades is becoming a rarer and rarer bird.

Being on the job market means that questions of moving, and moving again, finding and losing community, have been on my mind a lot. So many people say you can't worry about location, but not worrying about location is a privilege, and that can be a problem slate.com/human-intere...

Opinion | America’s Disaster Recovery System Is a Disaster The help Americans receive after disasters isn’t just inadequate, it’s complicated to navigate and painfully slow to arrive.

Here I am, once again, pleading with the federal government to reform our approach to disaster recovery.

New from me today in The New York Times "America's Disaster Recovery System Is a Disaster":

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/o...