Jason Bryan Silverstein
@Jason_Reads
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wrestling with words and ideas @harvardmed
Cambridge, MA
Joined February 2009
Denying attorney-client privilege is an instrument of ICE detention. First article from Bianca Garcia and me here in @Slate
https://t.co/5pP2zOZgXL
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ICE insists its system protects attorney-client privilege. But the record inside tells a different story.
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Without a lawyer, people may feel they have little hope of contesting their case and may want to escape the horrifying conditions of detention at all costs.
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ICE insists its system protects attorney-client privilege. But the record inside tells a different story.
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Somalis are not garbage. Immigrants and refugees from anywhere are people like you and me. They should not be demonized. This country is built on the backs of people who have come from other places. It’s what our country is all about. 💙
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Now to acknowledge my only good tweet which I deleted years ago, from my graduation in 2016.
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Paul Farmer, who dedicated his life to helping provide the highest quality healthcare for the impoverished, explains why @ProfEmilyOster's cruel position makes zero sense.
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Here is Emily Oster's 2005 Forbes article, "Treating HIV Doesn't Pay." Read for yourself her argument against AIDS drugs for people in Africa. You might want to read it, too, @BarackObama, @MichelleObama. https://t.co/UVJ8X2vxCl.
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Emily Oster @ProfEmilyOster wants to be famous for evidence-based parenting. What she should be famous for is arguing against AIDS drugs for people in Africa. A short thread.
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i demand to know who bookmarked this
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Paul Farmer was a very special person who made it his mission in life to bring health care to those in need. He did it with the dignity of every patient he treated being the most important thing. @PIH continues his work, and his mission. Worthy of support.
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Partners in Health (@PIH) treats more than 8 million people every year, and counting, across 11 countries as part of their mission to provide a preferential option for the poor in healthcare. Please read and share from @zeynep and give this holiday season in honor of Paul Farmer.
“Would I prefer a global tax policy that redistributed wealth to alleviate poverty and illness?” asks @zeynep. “Yes. But we can’t just wait for an ideal resolution when desperate families need a clinic where they will be treated for free.”
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Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on effective altruism: "I’m glad we didn’t rely on this calculus for our patients, and so are the patients."
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I’m a fan of @PesteMagazine, a spit and tape DIY creation by folks with big hearts and big minds who’ve made a space for people who care about truly public health bc that’s not allowed in mainstream media…and even here, M.Y. has to make sure NO ONE says things could be better
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what was your favorite day on twitter
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A beautiful celebration today of the great #PaulFarmer, one of the founders of @PIH. Through people like @Jason_Reads and the many many others Paul mentored and inspired, the work of bringing the best health care to all people, regardless of economic status, continues.
A reading from today’s memorial for Paul Farmer: “Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.” We must. @s_keshavjee @gregggonsalves @jonshaffer @_Eric_Reinhart @BillClinton @BenStiller
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A reading from today’s memorial for Paul Farmer: “Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.” We must. @s_keshavjee @gregggonsalves @jonshaffer @_Eric_Reinhart @BillClinton @BenStiller
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