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Jonathan Metzl

@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social
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Director, Medicine Health and Society @VanderbiltU; Author dyingofwhiteness.com

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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms www.milbank.org/quarterly/ar...
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Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms | Milbank Quarterly
In April 2018, a naked man with an AR-15 burst into a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee. Firing at random, he murdered four people and gravely injured five more before escaping into the ...
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Did liberal public health scholars like me fail to understand the meanings of guns and safety in conservative communities? My latest, @milbankfund.bsky.social Read the article at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
#WhatWeveBecome: Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing a rush of new members www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/u... @wwnorton.com
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Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing an influx of new members | CNN
Several niche, left-leaning gun advocacy groups said that since Alex Pretti was killed, they can hardly keep up with the surging demand for firearms training.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Murderer, Martyr or Mirror? My review of the first #luigi book - LUIGI: The Making and the Meaning, by John H. Richardson - appears in this morning’s @nytimes.com @nytbookreview.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/b...
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Murderer, Martyr or Mirror? The First Luigi Mangione Book Is Here.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
As our politics grow ever more fractured, I think back to this excellent 2022 @nytimes.com essay by @margaretrenkl.bsky.social about how our system is increasingly designed to keep the reasonable people out... www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/o...
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Opinion | Republicans ‘Have Chosen to Wreck the Nashville District’ (Published 2022)
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Silent in Flames @silentinflames.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Read #DyingOfWhiteness by @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social.
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Dying of Whiteness
Winner of the 2020 RFK Book Award. In "Dying of Whiteness" Dr. Jonathan Metzl reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences–even for the white populations they promise to help.
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Danny Satterfield @wildweatherdan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Just finished your excellent book. I’ve shared quotes from it on my social media as well. I grew up in Tulsa, and the attitudes of many in your book reminded me of my family and in some cases still does.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Shooters may have mental health problems in common, but that’s not what’s behind violent attacks, experts say www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/h... @cnn.com
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Shooters may have mental health problems in common, but that’s not what’s behind violent attacks, experts say | CNN
Mental health issues were connected to suspects in several recent high-profile attacks, but experts say that doesn’t mean mental health problems are to blame for the killings.
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"11 (More) Books to Help You Understand Gun Violence in the U.S.," by Sunny Sone in @thetrace.org. Deeply honored to see God, Guns, and Sedition featured alongside great work by @josiahbates.bsky.social, @afilindra.bsky.social, @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social and others! www.thetrace.org/2025/06/gun-...
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11 (More) Books to Help You Understand Gun Violence in the U.S.
A couple of years ago, a Trace reader asked for books about the gun violence issue. We decided it was time to update the list.
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Book Blasts @bookblasts.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#books #booklist #bookstagram #booktalk #booktok #greatbooks #greatbooksguide #recommendedreading #gunviolenceawarenessmonth #gunviolenceawareness #gunviolence #gundeaths @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He’ll Phase Out the Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...
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Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He’ll Phase Out the Agency
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled,” said Eden Tanner, a Mississippi chemist who had been working on a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Charlie @dyc.us · 01/06/2025
Please check out @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social and www.dyingofwhiteness.com
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Dying of Whiteness
Winner of the 2020 RFK Book Award. In "Dying of Whiteness" Dr. Jonathan Metzl reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences–even for the white populations they promise to help.
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Danielle Moodie @daniellemoodie.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Tending to your nervous system this holiday weekend?!? Watch my interview with @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social Healing in Chaos: Can We Regulate Our Nervous Systems Enough to Find Common Ground?! youtu.be/MKsYuKIQkoM
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Healing in Chaos: Can We Regulate Our Nervous Systems Enough to Find Common Ground?!
YouTube video by Danielle Moodie
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
FEMA chief is fired one day after telling a House Appropriations subcommittee that "the nation needs FEMA, which Trump has suggested abolishing or shrinking." politi.co/4dcj3RW via @politico.com
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FEMA chief is fired
Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton told people he was terminated Thursday.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“cutting taxes, as Mr. Trump has told Congress to do, will drive up the budget deficit — and the trade deficit” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/o... via @nytimes.com
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Opinion | Someone Should Tell Trump He’s About to Make the Trade Deficit Worse
This is the one thing all economists agree on.
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sjoyner1965.bsky.social @sjoyner1965.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Miss @ektashahmd.bsky.social recently mentioned this book; I’ve seen it before, but I’m glad she reminded me of it.
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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I love that book. Listened to it in 2020 @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social is the author! He also wrote a few other good books
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Candy @candiva.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I am haunted by this book. They will take us down with them. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiten...
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
US economic policy: Last night I woke up in the middle of the night to make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich... and it was my kitchen, it was my refrigerator, it was my apartment... and it was the BEST peanut butter and jelly sandwich that I have had in my entire life.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiten...
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland [Metzl, Jonathan M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
How is US possibly going to host #WorldCup or #Olympics if it has travel bans against citizens of large #’s of countries?
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In my book #WhatWeveBecome @wwnorton.bsky.social I call this strategy a modern-day war of southern aggression: turn #medicaid expansion and other social programs into fiscal time-bombs that will explode mainly in blue states.... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
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Slashing Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts Could Lead to Vast State Shortfalls
Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Mexico City’s Art Scene Is Thriving—And Growing news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
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Even Amid Tariff Threats, the Mexico City Art Scene Is Growing
While Trump ping-pongs back and forth with threats of tariffs, the Mexico City art scene, with dozens of galleries and museums, is growing.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
With enemies like these, who needs friends?
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We should prepare for more boycotts and protests Alarmed by Trump, a Renowned German Violinist Boycotts the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/a...
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The Violinist Christian Tetzlaff’s Tactic to Oppose Trump’s Agenda: Cancel Concerts
Christian Tetzlaff said he was disturbed by the president’s embrace of Russia and other policies. “There seems to be a quietness or denial about what’s going on,” he said.
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Zoë Plakias @zoeconomy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I keep thinking of @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social's book Dying of Whiteness, which basically talks about how a good chunk of white people will knowingly vote against their own (heath) interests due to racial resentment. They would rather get sick and die than allow BIPOC folks access to these programs.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In my book #WhatWeveBecome @wwnorton.bsky.social I call this strategy a modern-day war of southern aggression: turn #medicaid expansion and other social programs into fiscal time-bombs that will explode mainly in blue states.... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
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Slashing Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts Could Lead to Vast State Shortfalls
Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions.
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The Burnes Center for Social Change @burnescenter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
In NYC? Join @bethnoveck.bsky.social next week for @vanderbilt.edu in the City: Conversations on America with @ranaforoohar.bsky.social, Brett Banson. 📆 Thursday, March 6, 6 p.m. Register: vanderbilt.alumniq.com/index.cfm/ev...
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
@vanderbiltusac.bsky.social launches inaugural public programming in #NYC. The three-event series, “Vanderbilt in the City: Conversations on America,” begins March 6 - registration details here: news.vanderbilt.edu/2025/02/06/v...
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Vanderbilt University launches inaugural public programming in New York City
Vanderbilt University has announced that it will host its first public programming in New York City: "Vanderbilt in the City: Conversations on America," beginning March 6. The three-event series, plan...
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
@nypost.com : Tom Homan threatens to go up the butt of NYC Mayor Eric Adams if deportation quotas not met... nypost.com/2025/02/14/u...
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Border czar Tom Homan warns NYC Mayor Eric Adams he’ll be ‘up his butt’ if he fails at immigration crackdown
Border czar Tom Homan warned that if Mayor Eric Adams fails to crack down on immigration, he’ll be back in the Big Apple and “up his butt.”
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It’s time to fire the people who track inflation…. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Inflation heated up in January, new data show
Economists expect prices rose by 3.0 percent annually last month, the same gain reported in December.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A song has been composed in her honor. It is called “Moodeng, Moodeng,” and boasts a chorus that goes: “Moo Deng, Moo Deng, Deng Deng Deng Deng Deng.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/w...
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Moo Deng, the Toddler Hippopotamus, Still Has Star Power
The pygmy hippopotamus, now 6 months old, is Thailand’s biggest celebrity, and the crowds keep flocking. What explains her charm?
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"In Guatemala, you’ve never heard of someone killing someone in school.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...
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After Fleeing Violence in Guatemala, Their Child Was Killed in a U.S. School
A week after a 16-year-old was shot at her high school in Nashville, her parents made the wrenching decision to send her body back to Guatemala.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A conservative appeals court ruled Thursday that a longstanding federal ban on handgun sales to people between the ages of 18 and 20 violates the Second Amendment www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
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Appeals Court Strikes Down Federal Ban on Handgun Sales to Teenagers
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit applied the Supreme Court’s “historical tradition” test.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“This is a horrible look for the industry already trying to make the case that we’re not a bunch of hucksters, scammers and fraudsters.” politi.co/4g6olOA via @politico.com
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‘Horrible look’: Crypto lobby reels from Trump’s ‘memecoin’
Trump’s memecoin has taken off since debuting late Friday night. Not everyone in crypto is thrilled.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Vaccines turned the tide against polio. Over the past decade, there has been only one case in the United States. How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/h...
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How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence
In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West.
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John Ameen @johnameen.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social book, Dying of Whiteness, does an excellent of researching why, “reaching out to these voters” is a very simplistic way of looking at this.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Given my state of mildly under the weather I present to you my evening plans: food, knitting, and @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social’s excellent book on guns in America. About as peak me as you can possibly get. Oh, and there will be a cat in my lap.
A picture of my knitting, Bon Appetit magazine, and the book “What We’ve Become: Living and dying in a country of arms” arranged on my couch.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In the name of decongestion, I hope #NYC is planning to build a rapid train to @lgaairport.bsky.social from Manhattan and BK?
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
“The mindset of resistance may be the best way to understand tyranny, but it is not the best way to handle a moment of radical political rupture, in which tyranny is possible but not inevitable.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Why Liberals Struggle to Cope With Epochal Change
The error of their mythology about 1989 matters because we face another such moment of historical rupture today.
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Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
After a mass shooting in #Montenegro , prime minister Milojko Spajic said that the country's security council would hold an emergency meeting to "urgently consider all options" to protect the public, including a complete ban on the possession of weapons www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Montenegro: Mass shooting leaves ten dead including children
A man kills 12 people including two children, reportedly after an argument in a restaurant.
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Tim @timmypi.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Why do people who explicitly benefit from social programs support a political party ideologically opposed to the social safety net and regulatory government? @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social calls this "Dying of Whiteness"; Heather McGhee calls this "drained pool politics" Excellent analysis, as always
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Social-psych research suggests that the need for social identity can often lead to maladaptive behaviours. This particular scenario is covered in @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social’s book [link to book: www.dyingofwhiteness.com/]. arstechnica.com/health/2024/...
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Flu surges in Louisiana as health department barred from promoting flu shots
Flu is rising around the country, but Louisiana is well ahead of the curve.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I've been warning about this for a while. Sooner than you think U.S. economists may have to go Argentine, cobbling together alternative estimates of inflation, employment and so on because the official data have been corrupted.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This is not good.
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