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phd student at Columbia Mailman SPH, social/spatial epidemiology of polysubstance use, transportation injury, firearm violence, and SGM populations, warriors basketball, he/him
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Discrimination and Sleep Health Among Transgender Women of Color in New York City: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations From the TURNNT Cohort Study | AJPH | Vol. Issue
Objectives. To determine whether discrimination is associated with sleep health among transgender women of color. Methods. We included 269 participants from the Trying to Understand Relationships, Net...
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very happy to share that my first, first-author paper has been published in AJPH! we found that transgender women of color achieve insufficient and poor-quality sleep, and that those who experience discrimination are at greater risk. #episky #medsky
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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
much ink has been spilt on tone-policing activists, but this is the rare valid case. in general, in a personal conversation, you meet people where they're at. don't be a dick for no reason! it's really not that hard
I said that I was going for a long drive next weekend to clear my mind. This guy sitting behind me snorted and started going off about how car culture is killing us.
Anyway, I just want to say I’m going for a long drive this weekend and I sincerely hope people get a life.
Anyway, I just want to say I’m going for a long drive this weekend and I sincerely hope people get a life.
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
much ink has been spilt on tone-policing activists, but this is the rare valid case. in general, in a personal conversation, you meet people where they're at. don't be a dick for no reason! it's really not that hard
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
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part of it is that they hate women, part of it is that they hate her specifically because they think she should want to fuck them, part of it is that all this shit is for the benefit of like 10K people on twitter who've all been legally prohibited from having unsupervised time with their children
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
part of it is that they hate women, part of it is that they hate her specifically because they think she should want to fuck them, part of it is that all this shit is for the benefit of like 10K people on twitter who've all been legally prohibited from having unsupervised time with their children
meanwhile new york is on the verge of approving three new casinos in the 5 boros. three!
the next admin should do what obama did with for profit colleges to the online gambling industry. just stomp on them with the regulatory power of the state until they run out of money.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
meanwhile new york is on the verge of approving three new casinos in the 5 boros. three!
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I'm so fucking tired of so many people being killed in traffic crashes. I'm so fucking tired but I'm also so, so fucking angry.
I use obscene language because what is obscene is over 40,000 people/year dying in preventable crashes in the US, 7,000 or so who are merely walking, and society just 🤷🏻♀️
I use obscene language because what is obscene is over 40,000 people/year dying in preventable crashes in the US, 7,000 or so who are merely walking, and society just 🤷🏻♀️
December 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I'm so fucking tired of so many people being killed in traffic crashes. I'm so fucking tired but I'm also so, so fucking angry.
I use obscene language because what is obscene is over 40,000 people/year dying in preventable crashes in the US, 7,000 or so who are merely walking, and society just 🤷🏻♀️
I use obscene language because what is obscene is over 40,000 people/year dying in preventable crashes in the US, 7,000 or so who are merely walking, and society just 🤷🏻♀️
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
it's really funny that if you turn off "smart features" (aka AI data scraping) in gmail, it turns off everything else including spelling and grammar check. real "take your ball and go home" behavior
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
it's really funny that if you turn off "smart features" (aka AI data scraping) in gmail, it turns off everything else including spelling and grammar check. real "take your ball and go home" behavior
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Everyone suffers under patriarchy. Be a feminist today.
December 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Everyone suffers under patriarchy. Be a feminist today.
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I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
1) lol. lmao.
2) we are so cooked as a field.
3) "character assassination" as a keyword is so funny lol
4) coooooooooked
2) we are so cooked as a field.
3) "character assassination" as a keyword is so funny lol
4) coooooooooked
The grievance blog masquerading as a "journal" founded by Trump HHS appointees (The "Journal" of the "Academy" of Public Health) is now publishing lengthy screeds about how HHS secretary RFK Jr is being treated unfairly by the BMJ and calling it a literature synthesis...
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
1) lol. lmao.
2) we are so cooked as a field.
3) "character assassination" as a keyword is so funny lol
4) coooooooooked
2) we are so cooked as a field.
3) "character assassination" as a keyword is so funny lol
4) coooooooooked
all you old dorks should at least get on the geese and wednesday train. that's mid 30s indie rock guy catnip. bonus points for pinkpantheress, she's incredible
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
all you old dorks should at least get on the geese and wednesday train. that's mid 30s indie rock guy catnip. bonus points for pinkpantheress, she's incredible
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ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel
if the fields of medicine, epidemiology, and public health have any courage whatsoever, makary, prasad, bhattacharya, kuldorff and their ilk will be unwelcome back in our conferences and shunned professionally and socially. that they got here at all makes me worried that we don’t
That's Johns Hopkins Professor of Medicine Marty Makary, who will be welcomed back by his colleagues with open arms when his time in this admin ends.
While Makary spreads bullshit about the origin of HIV.
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
if the fields of medicine, epidemiology, and public health have any courage whatsoever, makary, prasad, bhattacharya, kuldorff and their ilk will be unwelcome back in our conferences and shunned professionally and socially. that they got here at all makes me worried that we don’t
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That's Johns Hopkins Professor of Medicine Marty Makary, who will be welcomed back by his colleagues with open arms when his time in this admin ends.
While Makary spreads bullshit about the origin of HIV.
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
(To be clear, this has been thoroughly investigated and fits neither the timing nor the molecular epidemiology of HIV).
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
That's Johns Hopkins Professor of Medicine Marty Makary, who will be welcomed back by his colleagues with open arms when his time in this admin ends.
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Dadgummit, but if that don’t just confirm my priors
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Dadgummit, but if that don’t just confirm my priors
5. Let It Happen (Tame Impala, Currents)
4. Genesis (Justice, Justice)
3. Rikki Don't Lose That Number (Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic)
2. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills, & Nash, self-titled)
1. Concrete (Poppy, I Disagree)
4. Genesis (Justice, Justice)
3. Rikki Don't Lose That Number (Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic)
2. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills, & Nash, self-titled)
1. Concrete (Poppy, I Disagree)
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
5. Let It Happen (Tame Impala, Currents)
4. Genesis (Justice, Justice)
3. Rikki Don't Lose That Number (Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic)
2. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills, & Nash, self-titled)
1. Concrete (Poppy, I Disagree)
4. Genesis (Justice, Justice)
3. Rikki Don't Lose That Number (Steely Dan, Pretzel Logic)
2. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby, Stills, & Nash, self-titled)
1. Concrete (Poppy, I Disagree)
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also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
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So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
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my god elsevier's websites—all of them—are basically unusable garbage. you'd think with all that pub money they could figure out the complex task of ~logging into your account~ but apparently not
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
my god elsevier's websites—all of them—are basically unusable garbage. you'd think with all that pub money they could figure out the complex task of ~logging into your account~ but apparently not
we live in an apartment building with security cameras in the lobby and have had packages stolen. the only real justification for capturing footage of theft is to prove it was stolen and get the company who sent you stuff to reimburse you/send it again. the cops will not help you, they don't care
over and over i ask: do you genuinely think the police will catch the person who stole your package (and what do you actually want to happen to that person, if so)
“Camera doorbells are social cancer as a technology, breaking down social solidarity and further encouraging people to see strangers with suspicion.”
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
we live in an apartment building with security cameras in the lobby and have had packages stolen. the only real justification for capturing footage of theft is to prove it was stolen and get the company who sent you stuff to reimburse you/send it again. the cops will not help you, they don't care
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for context Alex Vitale is the author of the much-cited (including by me) book The End of Policing
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
for context Alex Vitale is the author of the much-cited (including by me) book The End of Policing
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Mayor-elect Mamdani references the "Ruthkanda forever" tweet
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Mayor-elect Mamdani references the "Ruthkanda forever" tweet