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by Lisa Diedrich

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Yes. I'll also never forget when she was filmed getting the shot. The doctor was so nervous & she was so cool.
Praying for Dolly. She is the best of us.
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
We saw RFK Jr's utter disregard for the people who work at HHS after the CDC shooting. He literally does not care about these people or value their work. We should be shocked by this show of contempt for people, but it is all part of Trump & Project 2025's sadistic "put them in trauma" treatment.

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histoftech.bsky.social
Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
Many "top PH professionals—people we have worked with during crises—have resigned or retired early. They describe a culture of intimidation, where scientific findings are censored, evidence is disregarded & career officials are pressured to rubber stamp conclusions that are not backed by science."
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
"It is essential to note that good science & public health require not only evidence but also people—the scientists, public health professionals & civil servants whose expertise protects millions of Americans. Yet under Kennedy’s leadership, the HHS workforce has been badly damaged."
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by Lisa Diedrich

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The magnitude of this piece cannot be overstated. "Rather than combating the rapid spread of health misinfo w/facts & clarity, Kennedy is amplifying it. The consequences aren’t abstract. They are measured in lives lost, disease outbreaks & an erosion of public trust that will take years to rebuild."
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 20h
More are united around a simple message: RFK Jr should not be HHS Sec. His decisions undermine our public health capacity and put lives and health at risk.

As 6 former Surgeon Generals argue:

"He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."

🎁
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Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans
It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
Yep. This on graphics processing is ironic: “For much of the AI boom, there have been whispers about Nvidia’s frenzied dealmaking. The chipmaker bolstered the market by pumping money into dozens of AI startups, many of which rely on Nvidia’s graphics processing units to develop & run their models.”
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
That juggling bubbles graphic does not instill confidence.
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by Joshua S. Weitz — Reposted by: Lisa Diedrich, Benjamin Mason Meier

joshuasweitz.bsky.social
More are united around a simple message: RFK Jr should not be HHS Sec. His decisions undermine our public health capacity and put lives and health at risk.

As 6 former Surgeon Generals argue:

"He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."

🎁
wapo.st/3VTALll
Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans
It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
wapo.st
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by Lisa Diedrich — Reposted by: Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
I would say the person offering the most Stuart Hall-like commentary of the contemporary cultural & political moment in the US is @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. Look at what she is doing in terms of both content & form. Like Hall, she provides nuanced analysis in accessible formats/modalities.
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
One of my faves.
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The Trump admin has lied about this case from the start — and now it can't get its story straight about next steps for Mr. Abrego Garcia.

This reeks of a political prosecution and the courts must continue to ensure his due process rights are protected.
Judge Poised to Free Abrego Garcia if Officials Can’t Supply Deportation Plans
www.nytimes.com
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by Lisa Diedrich

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 23d
A dose of Stuart Hall for what ails us.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Jan 1
Stuart Hall on “Studying the Conjuncture" is so good: “If you don't agree there is a good degree of openness & contingency to every historical conjuncture, you don't believe in politics. You don't believe that anything can be done." youtu.be/bHpht1nNtB0?...
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
Thinking about how Stuart Hall went from the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies to teach at the Open University. www.open.ac.uk/library/digi...
The Open University
www.open.ac.uk
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by Lisa Diedrich — Reposted by: Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
Stuart Hall took Thatcherism seriously & tried to understand its affective & aspirational appeal. Trumpism operates differently, as @cnewf.bsky.social notes, but the need to offer a cultural & political counter-strategy is key. I keep thinking about Hall’s adept use of new forms of media.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 1d
Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."
Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books
Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.
www.publicbooks.org
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mattseybold.bsky.social
Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."
Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books
Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.
www.publicbooks.org
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine has 37 chapters & over 100 images. It has been a huge project that Bri Martino & I conceived of & began before the pandemic. We have been grateful for the patience & enthusiasm of our many contributors.

by Lisa Diedrich — Reposted by: Lisa Diedrich

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So many med bed questions: "Did Trump, 79, believe that the video really showed him announcing med bed hospitals? Does the pres think he gave a speech about med beds at the WH? Does he believe that his gov is about to send 'med bed cards' to every US citizen?" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd
The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences
www.theguardian.com
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
It’s the afterlife of apartheid
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
FREE LINK NOW

I’d just add that Link has always been one of the most prominent people on this site promoting accessibility & challenging ableism. Link has been a force for good on this site & the fact that the Bluesky leadership has banned him does not bode well for the future of this site.
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d
FREE LINK NOW

This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic.

We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now
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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 2d
So @spacelawshitpost.me aka Link got banned. I just got text message.

So yeah. We stop saying things are accidents now?

Link of all people?

Apparently Jay said something to him before taking him down. He didn’t even get a chance to reply.

He sent this image.

This is sad.
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FREE LINK NOW

This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic.

We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now
aliafonzy.blacksky.app
Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 2d
So @spacelawshitpost.me aka Link got banned. I just got text message.

So yeah. We stop saying things are accidents now?

Link of all people?

Apparently Jay said something to him before taking him down. He didn’t even get a chance to reply.

He sent this image.

This is sad.
“Screenshot of a social media post showing ‘Post not found’ error message at the top. Below is a post from user ‘KC Complains a Lot’ (@kcclyburn.bsky.social) that reads: ‘jay Responded to you and you haven’t copypasta’d her, Im disappointed in you link’ Posted on October 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM”​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
Over & over again, we see ICE officers respond with violence to people (in this case Chicago Alderperson Jesse Fuentes) peacefully attempting to protect the constitutional rights of others. It’s horrifying, but it’s also inspiring to see so many people sticking up for vulnerable people.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 3d
This is how every elected official in America should be leading by example. This is the courage we need. If you care about our constitutional rights, then show up for us. Otherwise, step aside and let leaders lead. Let’s go. #Courage2025
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Friends @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is doing well— she’s at home, released last night. I’ll let her speak on the ordeal when she’s ready but for now wanted to share this update.
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waterman.bsky.social
Does anyone have an update on @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social?
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aliafonzy.blacksky.app
Update from Link. He said he still is banned despite being under BlackSky PDS cause BlueSky servers still used? :( idk

Just sharing what I’m told.
Screenshot of an iMessage conversation between Aveta and contact ‘AJ’ at 1:21. The conversation shows: Aveta (blue bubbles): ‘If you get account back’ ‘Move to BlackSky immediately’ AJ (gray bubbles): ‘I am on Blacksky.’ ‘lol’ Aveta: ‘Wait what’ ‘WHAT’ AJ: ‘But they still use Bsky servers.’ Aveta: ‘How tr’ ‘Oh yeah… well shit’ (marked as Delivered) AJ: ‘That’s how they got me.’ ‘You should include that too.’ ‘Decentralized moderation my ass.’ At the bottom is a notification banner reading ‘AJ has notifications silenced’ with a moon icon.
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Reposted by: Lisa Diedrich, Southern Africa

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James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:
Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.
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by Lisa Diedrich — Reposted by: Lisa Diedrich

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Exploring how keywords/keyimages “act as a kind of structure” is of course drawing on Raymond Williams’s formulation of keywords as theory/method. Keywords/keyimages is our neologism to capture what makes comics & graphic narratives different.
#KeywordsKeyimages
#GraphicMedicine
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by Lisa Diedrich

lisadiedrich.bsky.social
Williams's image is on the cover & at the center of the book. As Bri & I write in the intro, it seemed fitting "that OCD, central to the emergence & enactment of graphic medicine, would also be central to a volume preoccupied with keywords/keyimages that act as a structure for graphic medicine."
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
What soulless thing is this that laughs before a wreck?
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