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Gregg Gonsalves

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Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.

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Sob.

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.@nytimes.com home page this AM has no mention of the Biden/Parkinson's story. Baumgaertner, Baker & the editors offer no update, no mention of the White House doctor's letter. The story was poorly reported, launched a rumor-stampede and they'll get away with it. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

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Jane McAlevey died on Sunday at the age of fifty-nine. Sarah Jaffe writes on the legendary labor organizer and author, who inspired a generation of young people cut off from class politics to think about the still-central role of the workplace.

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Aaron Huertas's avatar Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social
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We’ve lost a giant. Please read Jane McAlevey’s work. It’s about far more than labor, it is about the human and systemic nature of all political change.

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Today, @lsepper.bsky.social and Lindsay Wiley conclude our series on the LPE of Insurance, arguing that recent religious challenges to the Affordable Care Act should be understood as a major new vector in the campaign against social insurance in the United States.

lpeproject.org/blog/the-rel...

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The text itself is in the body of the message.

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Maladroithe's avatar Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social
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France dropkicked a baldly fascist political coalition out of office, imo if we can’t manage to do the same we should give back the Statue of Liberty

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Any Democrat in these states who doesn’t lean on this hard shouldn’t be in office. It’s a gift.

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Miss Riss's avatar Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social
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Hearing that Jane passed away this morning. An immense loss. Her teachings changed much of my life. If you've never read her work, you should make it a priority to do so today.

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Gregg Gonsalves's avatar Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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Maybe it's time that the @nytimes.com should step aside for a younger, fitter, more coherent newspaper.

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Philipp Markolin, PhD's avatar Philipp Markolin, PhD @philippmarkolin.bsky.social
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"If we are calling for Biden to step aside because someone must stop Trump from bringing down the republic, then surely it would have made more sense to first call for Trump to step aside?"

h/t @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Stephen Bush's avatar Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social
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Granted I’m a big prisons nerd, but still, it’s been a whole day, and I’m really surprised at how happy this has made me. A day on and I’m elated by it. (Timpson was also chair of the Prison Reform Trust.)

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Jamie McKelvie's avatar Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social
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For those who don't know: this is James Timpson of Timpson key cutters/shoe repairs/dry cleaners. His company employs ex-convicts and even runs work training programmes in prisons. Genuinely inspired choice.

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Gregg Gonsalves's avatar Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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And if he doesn't? You're gonna spend time up to the convention on this as your sole priority rather than Trump?

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And if Biden doesn't step aside and you had 4-6 weeks to use, would you have used it to push Biden to cede the stage or hammer on Trump. That's the question I am asking.

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Perceptions are in part a feature of how the media shapes these stories. Saying this is all on Biden is not a full analysis--some of this is ginned-up controversy.

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Yes, he may or may not have cognitive impairment, but he's not a psychopath. Point is we have 45 days or so until Labor Day are we going to keep banging on about this or focus on Trump. Each day Trump gets a free pass from us is good for him.

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Gregg Gonsalves's avatar Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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You know what? Go on about Biden's age and debate performance. Me? I'll focus on the existential threat that Donald Trump and his minions represent. We all have limited time and energy. Do you really want to spend July and August talking about Biden's infirmity? Do you really think this is helping?

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Amanda Marcotte's avatar Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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Don't let his lies scare you out of sharing the details of Project 2025 with everyone you know — especially those who are on the fence about their vote this year.

There's good reason to believe knowing about Project 2025 focuses people's minds on the stakes.

www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

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Gregg Gonsalves's avatar Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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.@msf.bsky.social is getting blowback on its decision to get rid of its historic Access to Medicines campaign. They are wrapping this in the bureaucratic language of "restructuring," but none of those who have worked with the A2M campaign are buying their excuses. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Jacob Bacharach's avatar Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social
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LMFAO at NYT *not* disclosing that the guy who wrote this was a clerk for John Roberts! Honestly gotta respect the game.

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Gregg Gonsalves's avatar Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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But yet the @nytimes.com will ALWAYS insist that it has no viewpoint, no politics, they're just "doing journalism." Can someone write about this? I don't care what your politics are but please don't tell me you don't have any at all. It's just dishonest and manipulative.

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“What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July," Frederick Douglass, 1852.

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Bart Bonikowski's avatar Bart Bonikowski @bartbonikowski.bsky.social
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Leave it to the impartial, apolitical, all-wise judges—appointed for life and purely on merit to a completely non-activist judicial institution—to turn 4th of July into an occasion for national mourning. You ruined hot dogs. And democracy.

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Bart Bonikowski's avatar Bart Bonikowski @bartbonikowski.bsky.social
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The public is not responding to the debate. They are responding to the irresponsible media coverage of the debate. We are back in “but her emails” territory and there is nothing reasonable people—and actual experts—can do about it. Extraordinarily frustrating and depressing.

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The key here is that "very important people" don't seem to be bothered by this. It all is horse-race politics up to this precipice: who is winning, who is losing the day? There is no there there in American political journalism at places like the NY Times. They cannot rise to the occasion.

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No dictators please. His fate was awful. No way to sugar-coat it even with the poetry. But my first trip to Russia, to St. Petersburg in 93, I went into a bookstore and found Kamen, the book in which this appears and marveled that is was there, then, still.

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In another life, I was a student of Silver Age Russian poetry, and loved no one more than Osip (and Nadezda) Mandelstam. It ended terribly for him. But his poetry outlasted the dictators.

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From the Twilight of Freedom (May 1918) by Osip Mandelstam (tr. Merwin and Brown). Full poem attached. So much is at stake. "Even as we freeze in Lethe we’ll remember the ten heavens the earth cost us."

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I think the point is that for the majority of the country they'll be able to ignore what happens to the rest of us (gay, HIV+ man here).

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Tom Pepinsky's avatar Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.bsky.social
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As the author of something that once made people lose their minds, I am telling you that I was talking about exactly this. I was correct then and I am correct now and I am terribly sorry about that

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