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Noelle Sullivan Ph.D

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Director, Global Health Studies @ NorthwesternU, medical #anthropology, clinical #voluntourism, #health policy & health care in 🇹🇿🇺🇸, bike commuter, closet hippy, 🇨🇦 raised, memoirist. Opinions expressed are my own. https://noellesullivan.wordpress.com

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Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · Feb 3

It's been a while since I published. I've been working on a book--a memoir about my brother, murdered in 2018, & how his life helped me think about the man who killed him.

This piece reflects on that book. In a chaotic world filled with abhorrent news, perhaps this story can bring a little light

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library

In 2018, my brother Adam Colquhoun, nicknamed “Stretch,” was killed in a bar in Calgary, Alberta by a man he barely knew. Stretch was the kind of person society finds convenient to discard. His histo...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · 1d

What a load of horse caca.

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

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Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · 1d

This is great. But from a policy perspective it’s also ridiculous. A system this piecemeal and abusive is a policy choice, one of the many problems with privatized healthcare.

Places with #UniversalHealthcare don’t have these same levels of shenanigans.

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts…

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

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Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · 2d

Undocumented immigrants pay taxes. They contribute to our economy. They are critical members of our communities. They volunteer in our schools. They make the fabric of our nation more resilient, robust, and vibrant. Rather than deporting folks, Congress needs to fix our immigration system.

Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · 2d

To get here legally is HARD. To get status once you've arrived undocumented is nearly impossible. We are not deporting hardened criminals en masse. We are separating families, creating chaos in communities, and for what?

Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · 2d

There are a lot of ignorant comments from folks about this family, arguing in 44 years they should have applied for status. But Congress and our immigration system is broken, and has been for decades. This is why we have DACA/Dreamers--people who were brought here as children, with no clear path.

Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · 2d

Community members were asked to donate to the family, to purchase from the estate sale in hopes of helping the family relocate to Guatemala, so Mom and child could reunite with the Dad.

Never have we felt so disgusted in doing something to help another family.

After her husband was deported, Skokie woman and 3-year-old are leaving US to keep family intact

After her husband was deported, a Skokie woman and their 3-year-old are departing the United States to keep the family intact elsewhere.

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Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · 2d

On Sunday my family went to this estate sale. The owners had to liquidate their entire life together because the dad was deported. He'd been brought to the USA at age 5 from Guatemala, 44 years ago, when Guatemala was in a civil war. His wife and child are American. He'd been trying to get status.

House with estate sale on front lawn as family sells off all their belongings.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

“California, and the country, cannot await the outcome of the midterms to repel Trump’s siege on democracy. More drastic action is required.”

My piece exploring "soft secession": www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 9d

"alarming impact of AI on the environment: forprofit utilities will have to make $720 B in grid upgrades by 2030 to meet spiraling demand, costs that they will pass on. locking in planetchoking carbon emissions right when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels"

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The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson

Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: California joins Oregon's existing suit over National Guard deployment, both request Judge Immergut issue TRO against CA guard being sent to OR, argue Trump admin move is attempt to circumvent court order. Docs: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Skyflyer Channel 8 News @skyflyer82.bsky.social · 4d

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4d

"The fights for trans rights and Palestinians are over and we lost" is something I'm seeing over and over from cis white progressives. And I'm seeing variations of this popping up about racial justice, marriage equality, and disability rights too.

Sorry, but fuck that.

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gardenerlady.bsky.social @gardenerlady.bsky.social · 4d

It won’t just be Obamacare premiums that go up. If you think insurance companies aren’t going to raise rates on everyone to compensate for the business they lose when people just go without insurance because they can’t afford the premiums, you are in for a shock.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 4d

People like teachers and doctors and nurses are expected to de-escalate tense situations every single day without throwing people on the ground.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · 4d

it’s 80 degrees today & the teens were bored.

Pulled out a couple of empty clean garbage bins, filled them with water from the hose.

Put a pile of rubber ware in the middle of the yard.

Told them “have at it” and left.

45 minutes later they’re still shrieking.

Old school fun for the win.

Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · 5d

Dara Lind (@daralind.bsky.social)

I’m so grateful to Priscilla Alvarez for running down what is actually going on here. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/politics/unaccompanied-migrant-kids-payments

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 5d

“Much about what Ezra Klein argues is objectionable,”—including “the appeal to debate as ’persuasion,’ which confuses the mere appearance of giving and responding to reasons with the substance of good-faith rational inquiry,” writes columnist @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · 5d

A nuanced analysis of the claims elected officials are making about the argument over healthcare for undocumented persons in the USA.

Here’s what to know about undocumented immigrants and health care

It’s at the center of a big fight over a government shutdown in Washington, D.C.