🧠 Drexel University historian Jesse F Ballenger (mastodon.world/@jfballenger), PhD, has traced the history of #Alzheimers disease — and the evolving attitudes around #aging . Here's a historian's perspective on #dementia . beingpatient.com/history-of-alz…

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The Biopolitics of Dementia: A Neurocritical Perspective

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This thread is spot on. If you really want to be a campus radical, talk to your students about how your institution works: e.g. blow their minds by explaining that some of their professors don’t have healthcare. Students have no clue what lecturer vs full prof means practically.

This is dangerous & reckless disinformation, Congressman.

We were peacefully linking arms, singing, and calling for a ceasefire.

As you can see with your own eyes in this video.

Then Capitol Police rushed in, threw us down the stairs, and pepper sprayed us.

Retract this now.

The crashes that caused 115+ deaths, including Ezequiel Morales, Kevin Saint Clair and injured many, such as 76ers Kelly Oubre, shone a light on the Philly's epidemic of traffic violence. This is why we need speed enforcement legislation passed before 12/18 Read & act🧵

Another addendum to the discourse on car violence in our cities—cars are bigger than ever before. We need height and weight restrictions to save lives.

The most loathsome people on this site: all those gloating, minimizing, or making fun of the pain and grief of *anyone* who has lost someone in this whole Gaza/Israel disaster.

2023 is a terrible year to be a bicyclist in Phila. So far 10 persons have been killed while riding their bicycle on city streets, the greatest number ever recorded. State legislators have the power to protect lives -- tell your PA Senator: NO MORE …coalition.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/no-more-traffi…

If the Israeli left is brave enough, in defiance of immense state and social pressure, to call for a ceasefire, why are so many in much more comfortable situations in the West hesitating?

Even if I didn’t know him as my daughter’s former 6th grade science teacher, this is just a horrible tragedy. It’s been the worst year in a long time for Philly bicycle and pedestrian fatalities. We need a big change in driving culture. Slow down, please. inquirer.com/education/kevi…

I have a feeling this is going to spread

The State Dept. mutiny, the White House staffer mutiny, the congressional staffer mutiny. To a much greater extent than anytime since the Vietnam war, the people tasked with executing policy recognize the cruel folly of the ruling class. This creates political possibilities.

Yesterday, the 10th person riding a bicycle was hit and killed on Henry Ave. This makes the highest number of bicyclists killed in Philadelphia’s recorded history. We cannot afford to wait a second longer to invest in safer infrastructure & communities
bicyclecoalition.org/10th-bicycle-d…

turns out that Having Rights is still inexplicably popular

Don’t forget that your first two choices for at large should be Kendra Brooks and Nicolas O'Rourke 🐺!

One month ago today, Hamas carried out a brutal, deadly attack on Israelis — the most deadly attack on Israelis in history.

1,400+ slaughtered, 240 taken hostage.

There are no words to adequately describe the fear, grief, and heartbreak of that day, and the weeks since.

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As a humanities person, tired of defending 'the humanities' every five seconds. Given the very real risk of climate extinction due to capitalism, what are some defenses of business schools? What possible justification is there in making more businesspeople?

In no other conflict that I know of is it *so* clear that the extremists of both sides need each other, amplify each other, and cling to each other like desperate leeches.

Hope.