With Medicare/Social Security trending, it’s time to announce my new article with @CohenProf @eadashi in @JournalGIM. We discuss criticism of Medicare Advantage—the privatized, corporatized version of Medicare (healthcare for people 65+). THREAD 🧵(1/9) https://t.co/lX7VbfnUdT

This one is my favorite. The effect is so simple and clear: these high prices are contributing to millions of stupid deaths each year, due undiagnosed TB, HIV, & other infections. @DanaherCorp, you can save lives by choosing five. #TimeFor5

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My book, Indebted Mobilities (University of Chicago Press), is finally here! An ethnography of migration, debt, and global education within the post-9/11, neoliberal landscape. Thank you to everyone who helped make this book happen! More info at https://t.co/N8phJ7ZOY3 🙏🏽!

36% of people who go to jail in a typical year have incomes under $10,000. 22% have a serious mental illness. Over 1/3 have a substance use disorder. Nearly 1/4 had no health insurance. We’re jailing our most vulnerable citizens:

Here's How to Honor Dr. King's Legacy—Guaranteed Basic Income

Your periodic reminder that less ice at the Arctic is consistent with a weaker jet stream that allows cold air to drift down into the Great Plains. The frigid temps you're experiencing happen BECAUSE of a warming planet, not in spite of it.

Same story with the 737 max crashes: Greed, outsourcing, c-suite dominating the discourse instead of engineers. https://t.co/mwjdV07Z5i

This is the same type of debacle we are facing in the health and education sectors: long term societal goals being sacrificed on the alter of profit. Boeing needs to get real: the 737 Max should probably be scrapped https://t.co/o9vUjsvy1j via @ConversationUK

“They found that on average, a liter of bottled water contained some 240,000 detectable plastic fragments—10 to 100 times greater than previous estimates.”

Mississippi officials have released dramatic bodycam footage of a shooting of an unarmed 11-year-old boy by a police officer.

THIS coffee's profits go to supporting lower #TB rates via PIH!! Sure wish other companies used that business model! 👀 Please @DanaherCorp put #PeopleOverProfits!! 🙏Save lives🙏 #XDRnext #TimeFor5 #YesWeCanEndTB https://t.co/64TZMQ3GmH

Crap. One liter of bottled water — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles—90% were identified as nanoplastics and the rest were microplastics, according to a new study.

New year, same curable disease needlessly killing 1.3 million people annually. Let's make 2024 the year we come together to fight TB. #PeopleOverProfits #TimeFor5 @DanaherCorp @CepheidNews

Thanks to a lot of tech bros and economists getting Very Upset about degrowth, this article is now the number one trending publication at Nature.

Remarkable RCT from Norway demonstrating that starting HCV treatment in the hospital with newly diagnosed HCV among PWIDs is superior to deferring therapy to outpatient care in achieving HCV cure. Results argue for broader use. @HMidgard @selihep

If you're in or around Cambridge, it would be great to see you on Wednesday evening (Nov 1) at 7PM at the Harvard Book Store. Let's make medicine a bit more just. With friend and role model @s_keshavjee . https://t.co/vxQ2yHflWJ

BIG NEWS: @JNJNews just publicly confirmed it will not enforce its secondary bedaquiline patents in ANY of 134 low- and middle-income countries. That's HUGE. Full credit to Johnson & Johnson for this commitment. This is what we've been waiting for.