Notices by Gregg Gonsalves (gregggonsalves@med-mastodon.com)

Dear Donald Trump. You did try to kill the Affordable Care Act. In July 2017, 31 of us got arrested in the Senate Gallery trying to stop the motion to proceed. The ACA was spared by John McCain's no vote. You're a liar and hazardous to our nation's health. https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/politics/senate-gallery-protesters-health-care/index.html

My Yale colleague Timothy Snyder on not obeying in advance, the decision of the wealthy and powerful, including the owners of the Washington Post and LA Times to capitulate now and what it means for the rest of us. https://snyder.substack.com/p/obeying-in-advance?r=dwh6t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&timestamp=219.9&triedRedirect=true

The #WashingtonPost and #LATimes will go down in infamy for their cowardly decisions to forgo a presidential endorsement this year. Let’s be clear. This is appeasement of authoritarianism. It is obeying in advance. It is cowardice.

I’ve been waiting for the New York Times to post the story on its homepage about Donald Trump‘s call to have the military deal with internal enemies the past few hours even if it’s shown up in other media. I am still waiting.

Can't believe I had to write this. But given the upswing in anti-vax sentiment in the US and the low vaccination rates for COVID and flu (and the under-vaccination of kids for some infections), it has to be said loud and clear. Vaccines work. Get yours today. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/vaccines-work/

So Trump and Vance are inciting violence, stochastic terrorism to be more exact, in Springfield, OH. All this is being covered as just another of Trump’s “upending norms”. Schools and hospitals have shuttered due to bomb threats. What has to happen for the press to wake up and call this what it is?

I need to vent. This racist is spreading lies about HIV and Haitians like it's the 1980s, AND when he went back to Ohio after Yale Law School, started a sham charity to fight the opioid epidemic (which has resulted in, well, guess what? HIV outbreaks including in OH). He has not one single shred of human decency. https://www.advocate.com/election/jd-vance-haitian-hiv-stigma

I cannot even believe this misinformation coming out of the Florida Department of Health. This is just beyond the pale. They are discouraging the use of mRNA COVID vaccines. This is beyond irresponsible. It is malpractice.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/FLDOH/bulletins/3b56786

Read this piece. It's about misrecognition and denial. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-moral-failings-of-american-press-coverage-of-nazi-germany

Live from New York.

#whitedudesforharris has raised over $2M for VP Harris as "The Dude" himself, Jeff Bridges comes on to support her candidacy!

So, JD Vance is being mercilessly mocked this week, but he represents a real threat to the fight against the opioid epidemic in the US. ~80,000 people died from an opioid overdose in 2023. JD Vance could very well make this worse. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jd-vance-opioid-crisis-vice-president/

The best piece I've read on #JDVance is by @gabrielwinant. Could not be more timely. Read it. https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-45/politics/j-d-vance-changes-the-subject-2/

God help us all.

"But what happens when overlooking and tolerating greater levels of harm becomes a shared cultural habit? Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, we acclimate to ignoring more and caring less at our own peril." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/

Watching H5N1 extend its host range, now show respiratory symptoms in a human case, should concern us all. We are whistling past the graveyard, not remotely prepared for what comes next. Perhaps H5N1 will not acquire the mutations necessary to ensure efficient human-to-human transmission, but counting on good fortune is not a strategy.

"...no one is being compelled to send in the cops on students & faculty...the vision of university presidents, newspaper editors & our current president is aligned around repression of dissent as the first & best response to what is happening on our campuses." https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/05/23/why-was-police-repression-default-response-opinion

My Yale colleague Jason Stanley in The New Republic. Be afraid, be very afraid (and then start organizing): The End of Civic Compassion--On education in a fascist America. https://newrepublic.com/article/181274/end-civic-compassion

Nothing says racist authoritarianism more than what the Board of Trustees at University of North Carolina is serving up. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article288473709.html

This piece by Rick Perlstein may be the best analysis of the current moment. Far more thoughtful than anything else I've read. Read and share: "The New Anti-Antisemitism: the response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene." https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=c4f796afbc6267501964b46427b3f6ba.2708&s=29b9f9a5745d23de79eae7a288e3ddd6