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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Also I've just been "at the gym" for nearly 3 hours because 90+ minutes of my trip here was spent on the phone with a friend while I sat in my car in the parking lot. Typical Thursday shit.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Came all the way back here just to say that this shit is so embarrassing.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Thank you to my boyfriend who just came home and immediately found the thing I had spent all day looking for and also brought me a milkshake.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 13/05/2025

today marks 40 years since Philadelphia police bombed the Black liberation group MOVE's home in West Philadelphia. 6 adults and 5 children burned to death. over 60 homes were destroyed from the resulting fire, and over 250 people left homeless. (resharing @kimkelly.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com)

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What You Need to Know About the MOVE Bombing

And how Philadelphia became "the city that bombed itself."

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Quite possibly the most "me" picture of me ever taken. Courtesy of Alyssa Kitlas ❤️

Me to the right, at an overdose meeting sitting like the bisexual autistic that I am, making faces, and conveying 80% of the information I have to give with my hands. Reid, to the left, being self contained and wearing a great hat.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Just a reminder that there is 1 week left on our chuffed fundraiser for harm reduction orgs in Ukraine who have provided services non-stop since Russia invaded in 2022. The material need is real and great. Every share or donation helps. Funds are being delivered next week chuffed.org/project/1187...

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Support Harm Reduction in Ukraine

Club Eney is a peer-led harm reduction organization that has been operating in Kyiv Ukraine for more than 30 years. In addition to syringe and naloxone access, Club Eney provides clients with HIV test...

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl    ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Shipped the 29K metric tons of US food on US ships instead of letting it rot in a Texas warehouse. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl    ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting minerals youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl    ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50K people in Central America youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl    ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl    ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The disruptions at USAID are directly impacting essential services in Ukraine, including life-saving services offered by Club Eney in Kyiv. Please consider supporting our fundraiser for Club Eney or sharing it with your friends. Every bit helps and is so very needed! chuffed.org/project/1187...

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A HUGE THANK YOU IS DUE. We sold 49 shirts + 8 posters, w 100% of the funds benefitting Club Eney, Kyiv’s harm reduction org doing harm reduction *in wartime* like utter rockstars. 🥹 Thank you to everyone who purchased or boosted! Thank you to my co-conspirator, @jencarroll.bsky.social!

A sandy colored t shirt w a design. The design is of rows of sunflower seeds in yellow and blue, the colors of the Ukrainian flag. There’s text in Cyrillic. It translates to “harm reduction is love”

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Is it just me, or does young Kier Egan look an awful lot like now Paul Rudd, and how inconsolable am I going to be when Paul Rudd doesn't show up by the season finale?

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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This week's Internet winner goes to...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect

Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Putin has set up a trap for Trump by repeating his claim that russia is always prepared to negotiate, but cannot negotiate with Zelensky because he's illegitimate. Pu also flatters Trump by referring to the 2020 election as stolen. I hope Trump's advisors hold him off from falling into the trap.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Let's talk about why sunflower seeds. 🌻 are a symbol of Ukrainian culture and identity. But also, there is this lady: "You are occupiers, you are fascists! At least put (🌻)seeds in your pockets so that when you fall and die (in battle) flowers will grow there." www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

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Ukrainian woman offers seeds to Russian soldiers so 'sunflowers grow when they die' – video

A woman is being hailed on social media after she offered a heavily-armed Russian soldier sunflower seeds – so that flowers grow when he dies on Ukraine’s soil

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It's not too late to order one of these AMAZING shirt (or posters) designed by @clairezagorski.bsky.social. You can pre-order your own until 1/28. The text reads "harm reduction is love" in Ukrainian and all $ goes directly to Klub Eney, a peer-led Harm Reduction org in 🇺🇦 rawpaw.ink/collections/...

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Seeds of Resistance by Claire Zagorski

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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Seeds of Resistance by Claire Zagorski

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Harm reduction orgs in Ukraine are doing SUCH important, life saving work, even military threat and daily missile strikes. Help us support them by donating to our fundraiser. Every penny goes to Club Eney, which offers support with food, medicine, diapers, everything. chuffed.org/project/1187...

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I think there's a lot of good things to be said about RedNote, but one ongoing question I have is that if a CCP-controlled app is where 🇺🇸 people are encountering Chinese culture for the first time, what's the available platform for encouraging them to Google "uygjur internment" for the first time?

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Ha. Also my feelings were really about the results of the test but more about how obvious it was to my frontal loan that my brain stem desperately wanted to be praised for doing well on the test. Like, I felt very much like a pigeon in a Skinner box despite my best efforts at emotional Independence

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

But if you respond to your neurodivergence-fueled morning paralysis by buying delicious breakfast burritos for yourself everyday, you can FEEL rich. Also there's a reason why our group got along so smoothly in high school. I'm starting to wonder if I actually know any allistic people.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Propaganda? Puh-lease A very authentic Soviet joke: Man walks into a completely empty store and scoffs: Not a single loaf of bread, what are we supposed to eat?? Annoyed sales woman responds: Comrade, here we don't have shoes. They don't have food next door.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Get ready for your inner gifted and talented child who seeks validation through academic success to get way over invested in the IQ test. I had feelings about that shit for days.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Reminds me of that time I crashed my bike as a little kid, and I told my mom, who always warned me about reckless "hotdogging" in the street, that I fell because I was "trying to be a hamburger." This is instance 184/infinity when it inexplicably occurred to zero adults to screen me for autism.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Cool! Cool. Cool cool cool. Has anyone checked to see if the CEO of Bioemergent is actually Sauron? Cause it might actually be Sauron, actually. www.nasdaq.com/articles/eme...

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I must interrupt you to bring you this important update: cats love bathtubs.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Johnson is spot on, of course.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

For those interested in Fassin's Enforcing Order, the PDF of the whole book is online for those who want to Google. If you are curious, you can listen to my DIY audio version of the prologue here: jumpshare.com/s/CeZcRkBLzN... It's a great book. Whet them appetites! I'll be posting about it shortly.

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Susipsych Just trying to stay sane-ish @susipsych.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Snagged the e-book subscription 😸 Link again: www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/book-club

Confirmation screen, joining monthly Haymarket e-book club

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

17/ Next week we're reading a critical response to Kelling and Moore that really (REALLY) takes them to task for glossing over the issue of race in their historical analysis. It's called "The Evolving Strategy of Police: A Minority View" You can read it here: www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/ni...

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

16/ And all this matters because both police and civilians regularly buy into this mythology and incorporate it into their norms, values, and morals. This will have major consequences when we start discussing the intangible risks of police participating in scientific research.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

15/ but the big takeaways are: 1) Policing isn't concrete. It has changed with politics and public opinion over time. 2) We think of parts of policing as "normal" (911, DARE) because they were marketed to us by the police. The circular logic is "you need us, we need this, you need us to have this."

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a man sitting in a chair holding a piece of paper that says sounds logical on it

ALT: a man sitting in a chair holding a piece of paper that says sounds logical on it

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

14/Though this takes place long after the article was written in 1988, some people now consider the "Homeland Security Era" (starting on 9/11) to be the historical era of policing that we are in today. But the residues and legacies of all these old policing strategies can still be seen everywhere.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

13/ Side note: Lest you think I am just a cranky bitch who hates drug edu programs (I am, and I do, but there is more to it), here's a slide I sometimes use when speaking. D.A.R.E. at best had no impact, at worse increased substance use among kids and (later, as adults) decreased treatment. IT BAD.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

12/ The WoD continues to be marketed, but now, police are targeting Black ppl AND volunteering in schools, because the WoD propaganda has warped our minds to the point where the idea that crime law enf professionals naturally make good heath educators made sense. (they really really don't)

A photograph of middle school students being subjected to a D.A.R.E. presentation led by a uniformed police officer and Nancy Reagan. News cameras are there, supposedly for Nancy Reagan's visit and to promote the DARE program.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

11/ All these troubles gave way to the "Community Policing" era in the 1980s (alongside Broken Windows theory) and saw police taking on more community-involved roles. 911 is demarketed (now emergencies only). Neighborhood watches form. Police are supposed to see citizens as partners.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

10/ Former Nixon council John Erlichman told Harper's Magazine in 2016 that they concocted the WoD and many of its most pernicious myths for the express purpose of criminalizing [anti-war] hippies and Black people. He doesn't mince words. That's literally what he said. harpers.org/archive/2016...

A screen shot from an online article in Harpers, published April 2016, called "Legalize It All" by Dan Baum. There is a screenshot of the article which reads:

"At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

I must have looked shocked. Ehrlichman just shrugged. Then he looked at his watch, handed me a signed copy of his steamy spy novel, The Company, and led me to the door."

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

9/ The War on Drugs is still in the room with us. The civ rights and anti-war movements did not sway all of the US public (don't forget MLK was called a domestic terrorist when he was alive) but they were the biggest threats to the legitimacy of police and "law & order" policies. Nixon knew this.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

8/ Hold onto your pearls everyone. Those strategies don't actually work. Research emerged in the 1970s proving as much. Also crime escalated in the 1960s despite these strategies being in use. Also the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-War Movement seriously challenged the legitimacy of the police.

A famous photograph from the civil rights movement. It depicts a young Black man standing on a crowded street while being attacked by german shepherds. Uniformed police officers hold the leashes of the dogs and also pull on the collar of the young man, seeming to be pulling him in closer to the dogs whose mouths are already on him. The version I am using was found in a retrospective article in the Seattle Times. This is the caption that the Seattle Times offered with the image: "Police use dogs to quell civil unrest in Birmingham, Ala., on May 3, 1963. Birmingham’s police commissioner “Bull” Connor also allowed fire hoses to be turned on young civil rights demonstrators. These measures set off a backlash of sentiment that rejuvenated the flagging civil rights movement. (Bill Hudson / The Associated Press)"

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

7/ This is also the era when regular car patrols and 911 emerged. Like most police things, they emerged b/c they were sold to the public as effective crime prevention strategies b/c police sold THEMSELVES as crime prevention. The public was convinced thru marketing they needed these things.

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Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor @jencarroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

6/ In the Reform Era, the US public CANNOT EVEN with the political role of police. Changes are made to legitimize police as law enforcement agents independent of electeds. They limit the role to crime prevention and response. I love this quote from the article explaining this shift:

The quote reads "...A generation of police officers was raised with the idea that they merely enforce the law..."

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