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Elizabeth O'Brien

@eobrien.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at UCLA, Department of History Historian of medicine, gender, race, and Mexico Book: Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940 uncpress.org/book/9781469675879/sur…

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works
A wealth of background and analytical material makes Sor Juana's proto-feminist writings, newly translated, all the more compelling., Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works, A Norton Critical Edit...
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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Calling all history of medicine books published between 2020 and 2025! histmed.org/william-h-we...
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William H. Welch Medal
William H. Welch Medal The William H. Welch Medal is awarded to one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during...
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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog. Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol. Read more here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...
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Unreal and untrue: Refrigerator mother theory and the historic vilification of the mothers of disabled children | Australian Women's History Network
Dr Kate McAnelly explores how refrigerator mother theory was incorrectly used to blame mothers as being the cause of their children's autism.
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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Exciting job at Smith College! apply.interfolio.com/172309
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
People are STILL minimizing b/c the worst hasn't happened. Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there? Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal? Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
There needs to be a congressional investigation into ICE and its practices. The agency needs to be completely dissolved and its agents and officers need to be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/08/2025
This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
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MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Oh, so literally NO ONE is supposed to do war crimes?!?
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It's not just
Netanyahu. The ICC wants to prosecute U.S. lawmakers too.
When senators protested the pursuit of Netanyahu, the prosecutor indicated it might move against them.
May 24, 2024
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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A University actually standing up to this nonsense? Let's go!!! universityofcalifornia.quorum.us/campaign/sta...
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Pledge to Stand Up for UC
The future of America’s leading public university system is at stake.
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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
UCLA faculty, staff, students, and alumni— please sign: "University of California: Stand Up For Our Values" sites.google.com/view/ucstand...
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Home
Please forward this letter widely at https://tinyurl.com/ucstandup
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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Delighted and excited to join História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos as an associate editor!! Thank you so much for the invitation, @revistahcsm.bsky.social!
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
As you read headlines like this, remember that repeated studies have determined immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans. Do not fall into this Republican frame.
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Mohamed Sabry Soliman: What we know about illegal immigrant accused in Colorado terror attack
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an illegal immigrant, from Egypt, is accused of committing the terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, at an event advocating for the release of Israeli hostages.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Harvard correctly understands that it’s in a fight for its life and there is no appeasement that will save it. I wish a lot more institutions understood this.
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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I'm impressed that our PhD students organized this conference for other grad students and early career scholars. All are welcome to attend!
 Southern California
 History of Science Graduate Student Colloquium
9:00-9:50 AM
COFFEE AND BREAKFAST


9:50-10:00 AM OPENING REMARKS


10:00-11:15 PANEL 1









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 Katherine White, UC San Diego
 Printing Medicine in Sixteenth-Century Colonial Mexico


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 Izabel Barros, UC Riverside

Beyond the Ledger: The Untold Stories of Enslaved Women and Children on a 19th- Century Swiss Plantation in Bahia, Brazil
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 Julian Kaptanian, UC Los Angeles
 Moderator
11:15-11:30 AM BREAK



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 Niall Chithelen, UC San Diego

Unstable Concrete Structures: Time and Environment in the History of Technology
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 Alexandra Noi, UC Santa Barbara

(Re)Making a Homo Pavlovius: Labor Therapy, Pavlovian Conditioning, and the Stalinist Gulag
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 Joseph Moreno, UC San Diego

Frontier Statecraft: From Massive Agribusiness in South Texas to the Development of Starbase (SpaceX)


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 Chiara Di Leone, UC Los Angeles
 Moderator
1:00-2:00 PM LUNCH
If arriving after 10:00 AM, please contact Meg or Ben, so that we can let you in.








May 24, 2025
 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM


Room 6275, Sixth Floor, Bunche Hall, UCLA
 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095





*The closest parking lot to Bunche Hall is Parking Structure 3
2:00-3:15 PM
 PANEL 3


Sookyong Ko, UC San Diego

Portrait Art or Science Image?: Oscar G. Mason and the Early Medical Daguerreotypes


Robyn Fishman, UC Santa Barbara
Sitting Pretty: The National Trends in Anthropology Revealed by Frances E. Watkins' Career
at the Southwest Museum
Ben Schnieder, UC Los Angeles
 Moderator
3:15-3:30 PM
 Break
3:30-4:15 PM
 Roundtable


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 Erin Budrow, UC Los Angeles

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 Alden Requena-Robison, UC San Diego

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 Ben Schnieder, UC Los Angeles

Community Disenfranchisement and Environmental Displacement in the Institutionalization of Science and Medicine 


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 Meg Spaulding, UC Los Angeles
 Moderator
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Judge Brian Murphy enjoined the Trump administration from improperly deporting immigrants to 3rd countries It seems they violated that order Now the judge says EVERYONE involved could face criminal contempt sanctions Good They deprived these immigrants of due process There must be consequences
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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Today at 4 pm PST (in 90 minutes) Dana Simmons will give a talk about her new book, "On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic." All are welcome to join! Link on this page history.ucla.edu/event/dana-s...
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Dana Simmons: “On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic”
Join via Zoom here.
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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Nursing Clio is the best!!!
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I feel like if the risk of humiliating yourself before a federal judge, being sanctioned or fired, isn’t enough to curb AI use, any individual professor is at a real disadvantage against the deluge in getting students not to use it
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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 15/05/2025
Residents say jet fuel leak in Pennsylvania went undetected for months, poisoned their drinking water.
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Residents say jet fuel leak in Pennsylvania went undetected for months, poisoned their drinking water
In 2024, Sunoco Pipeline spilled more fuel than any other pipeline in the United States, according to data reviewed by CBS News.
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Dr Samuel McLean - This Meeting Could Have Been A Fistfight @canadianerrant.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
9 Weeks. So they want to keep her on life support for another 27+ weeks? This is.. seriously, like Bene Tleilax Axlotl tanks. It's absolutely horrific.
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Well done @drkyliesmith.bsky.social. fantastic piece for @nursingclio.bsky.social
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This study in The Lancet found that cuts to US spending on PEPFAR, the program to deliver H.I.V. and AIDS relief abroad, could cost the lives of 500,000 children by 2030. Half a million kids. Kids. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
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Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030
Experts including Prof Lucie Cluver, Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and Dr Seth Flaxman, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So that's what Big Balls did with the terabytes of data he stole from the National Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This brand of “soft eugenics” is usually just called “eugenics”. They’re not trying to have the “clever” breed, they’re focusing on white people while RFK Jr. and friends actively cancel grants focusing on diseases that disproportionately affect Black people
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is such a good book. You're going to love it! In the @uncpress.bsky.social InterConnections Book Series as well!
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 14/04/2025
Here's the script, folks. It's now or never. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Local office numbers: www.congress.gov/members/find... RTs appreciated.
My name is __.

My zip code is __.

I am calling as your constituent to express alarm at the Abrego Garcia case. Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court by not bringing Garcia back. If you allow Trump to do this, then he is unquestionably a dictator, and your job as my member of Congress is to remove him at once.

(For Reps:) I ask that you immediately introduce Articles of Impeachment in the US House, and block all other business until they are introduced.

(For Senators:) I ask that you block all business in the Senate until Articles of Impeachment are introduced in the US House, and when they pass the House I expect you to vote to impeach.

Thank you.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
These bans were hard won and are backed by lots of science. PFAS chemicals cause cancer (kidney and testicular) and are linked to pregnancy problems and liver and thyroid disorders. And make vaccines less effective. They really are trying to kill us. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’
EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants
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Data Against Fascism @dataagainstfascism.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard. DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!
A screencap of the Tableau Dashboard "USA Disappeared Tracker" which monitors persons "disappeared" in the USA by ICE.
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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
They’re straight up disappearing people off the streets for their political beliefs. I don’t even know what else to say about this
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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I am grateful to those who wrote this letter--and for the opportunity to sign on. "We are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
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BREAKING: 2,000 Jewish Higher Education workers and students denounce Trump’s campaign to exert existential terror on our institutions and communities
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Weird fash nerds running around inside the federal government twiddling knobs and flipping switches and going "what does this one do?" Getting big blobs of jelly on everything. Somehow no one is telling them to fuck off. Cards on the table I don't really care for any of this!
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
stone text inlay: HERE WE ADMIT A WRONG
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/01/2025
California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order: "It does nothing" "It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach" Will not comply.
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Luskin Center for History and Policy @historypolicy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
In the wake of unprecedented #wildfires in #California, this week’s revisited episode of #then&now delves into the concept of thermal inequality with Bharat Venkat, who contemplates the future of extreme heat and potential solutions to mitigate its effects. Full episode here: tinyurl.com/3cb2yyvx
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Something to celebrate on a Friday - my latest article is now available OA first view: on the challenges & findings of contagious human disease studies in Antarctica "From Operation Snuffles to the Killer Kleenex" inc. huskies, tragedies & *lots* of snot. #histSTM � www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Germs, infections, and the erratic ‘natural laboratory’ of Antarctica: from Operation Snuffles to the Killer Kleenex | Medical History | Cambridge Core
Germs, infections, and the erratic ‘natural laboratory’ of Antarctica: from Operation Snuffles to the Killer Kleenex
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
this sort of naked cynicism is jarring, but you’re going to see more of it because this is how kleptocracy works. it makes groveling and sycophancy the rational choice, because it will very often be rewarded.
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
And you can find @maryhicks.bsky.social new book from @uncpress.bsky.social CAPTIVE COSMOPOLITANS right here. Use code 01HATM30 to get 30% off this and all other titles. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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Captive Cosmopolitans | Mary E. Hicks | University of North Carolina Press
From the bustling ports of Lisbon to the coastal inlets of the Bight of Benin to the vibrant waterways of Bahia, Black mariners were integral to every space ...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Oh this is wicked, I like it very much.
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Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Two of my fabulous authors with their fabulous (newly published) books. @chloeireton.bsky.social & @amoterocleves.bsky.social #AHA25 @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 31/12/2024
The city of New Orleans uses the Mississippi River as drinking water. Our current governor begged the state to remove funding from the city of New Orleans to fix the pumps and the decaying sewage and water system UNTIL the DA agrees to prosecute women for abortions. www.essence.com/news/louisia...
Louisiana's Governor-Elect Wants To Withhold Funds For New Orleans® Decaying
Water Infrastructure Until
Women Who Seek Abortions
Are Prosecuted
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IN A HORRIFYING INTERSECTION OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, JEFF LANDRY HAS URGED THE STATE TO WITHHOLD FUNDS BECAUSE OF HIS PERSONAL FEELINGS ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
#AHA25
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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Thrilled to share this news from the Berkshire Conference!! With immense gratitude to the jurists for their generous reading and encouraging words. berksconference.org/annual-prize...
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Book Prize Winners - Berks
Explore winners of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Annual Book Prizes that both focus and do not focus on the history of women.
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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
An additional 300+ people die in police vehicle pursuits/crashes and 300,000+ people are impacted by non-fatal police use of force each year. Our organization Mapping Police Violence has tracked more than 1,000,000 cases of police violence to date at policedata.org
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Police Data
The largest police use of force database in America. Built by the Mapping Police Violence organization. Get the facts. Make the case for change.
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Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Police killed more people this year than any other year on record, killing 3.4 people per day nationwide. mappingpoliceviolence.us
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