#Harms

Last week, the largest organized strike in human history shut down India. 250,000,000 people struck against Indian PM Narendra Modi's neoliberal reforms to the agricultural sector.https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/3/india_protests_mo
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.@AstraZeneca needs to IMMEDIATELY DISCLOSE exactly what is going on with their coronavirus vaccine trial. We're getting word that the "unexpected adverse reaction in a participant" is a female hospitalized
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What truly is Fascism and National Socialism? [THREAD] Many self proclaimed "Fascists" and "National Socialists" don't actually understand what it actually means to be one. Let me teach those of
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Here’s the thing about schools and Covid. I want my kids back in school doing normal or even versions of normal things. I get that things need to get back
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By using terms like:Uterus-haverVulva-personPerson who menstruatesLactator Gestational parent Person with a cervix You are a) reducing a person to a function which is dehumanising but more important b) fragmenting and
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YES, we all want to see impeachment articles filled ASAP. Unfortunately, House Rules require unanimous consent in order to meet sooner than Monday and McCarthy is objecting. Put another way,
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The #colcorona preprint was posted last week. I was busy in a review panel so this is coming a bit later, but here’s my take, as a scientist who has
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@PopTechWorks on digital surveillance and people power:https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-virginia-eubanks-on-digital-surveillance-and-people-power/"People who live in low-rights environments ... are already living in the digit
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The DSA has me thinking about this old tweet. At a high level, the DSA’s message to platforms of almost all varieties is: Be deeply regulated, and regulable, or stop
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So much amazing cross-specialty work being done in the area of #steroidstewardship. To highlight just a few: 1/https://twitter.com/umichmedicine/status/1344376137078763529 Evan Dvorin, @MRothbergMD Mark Rood & @ktmartinez: 1 in 10 #tele
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People are posting pages of tweets and comments from Qanon supporters that express their anxiety for a resolution to their fears and their grief over losing family members. I want
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1/ When Mary, mother of Jesus, was on her way to Bethlehem with her husband Joseph, she felt she had to rest. So they stopped to rest on a rock
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Continues to stagger that most US media is so indifferent to (if not supportive of) US's attempted extradition & prosecution of Assange even though it's by far the biggest threat
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Genomist @AdamRutherford is a gifted science communicator; the podcast he co-hosts, "The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry" is one of the best popular science programs I've ever heard: charming
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1/7 Sadly, am currently being asked a lot about resources for self-harm. Here are some ideas and resources... 2/7 Good place to start https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/self-harm/ which SHRG members reviewed. 3/7 NHS
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This is Toby Young (@toadmeister)'s response to my piece in the @spectator, which he very fairly follows by a frontline account from an in-house senior doctor in London.https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lockdown-sceptics-should-suppor
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