Reposted by Norah MacKendrickSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026lol lol lol lol lol lol lol 913443930
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickMichelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 20/09/2026My book is part pop history, part COVID memoir, and part feminist polemic. It's a dive into a history we've mostly forgotten - the real roots of alt-health. A history increasingly relevant for our world today. Official pub is Jan 2027, but pre-orders available below! utppublishing.com/do... 0162
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickSarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026In Gary, Indiana, two weeks without power left disabled people stuck in their apartments, parents unable to use EBT cards to get food, elders without any ability to run medical equipment. People lost wages and groceries and were thrown into crisis. My report from a climate and humanitarian crisis.prospect.orgGary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American ProspectThis community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster. 29166
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It captures the promise of acknowledgements as well as their contradictions and limits. An acknowledgment should not signal the end of a commitment to think about land and territory. 000
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 27/07/2026As college professors prepare syllabi, email signatures and all the rest of it, this is a must read: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating. (Gift Article)Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point. 210
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Dozens of teens on Bluesky! Wow! Who are these 12 teenagers? 000
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickThe Future is Unwritten @abrightgreencity.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Ok... "Dozens of teens" is actually pretty funny 1183
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/07/2026Trump is holding a primetime address so that he can try to manipulate the public into believing his tired old lies about the 2020 election that he lost. See if you get BINGO tonight with all his favorite boogeymen. 716647
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickAngela Frederick @angelafrederick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026My book Disabled Power has been recognized with 5 awards –4 from sections of ASA and 1 from the National Hurricane Conference. Love the recognition that disability analyses belong at the center of sociology and that disabled people belong at the center of extreme weather planning. 261
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 16/06/2026And here’s a link to the publisher’s page: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/elizabeth-de...rutgersuniversitypress.orgElizabeth Detention CenterOver three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been detained at the privately-run Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey, under inhumane conditions. This volume unites the perspectives of form... 011
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Book Launch in front of Elizabeth Detention Center this Thursday, June 18 at 11AM. If you can’t make it, get your hands on this book! Tells the story of this center through the eyes of those who have been on the inside. 131
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 06/06/2026An important update on what’s happening at Delaney Hall in NJ. This post ⬇️ provides links to orgs who are supporting detainees and their families, if you’re able to make a donation. #NJ #Delaneyhall #democracyopen.substack.comThe Delaney Hall Strike Is WorkingHow to support the strike and maintain momentum 000
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Best line in the Ezra Klein - Helen Lewis interview on masculinism: “Many of my friends are academics. I can see how it slightly deranges people.” Yup, pretty much. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 030
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/04/2026Animal-derived skincare is trending, from salmon sperm facials to moisturizers made with beef tallow. Promoted as natural alternatives to synthetic products, these ingredients are gaining popularity across social media and high-end spas. 17339
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Wait until he hears about Roundup. 47560123
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickIlliberalism Studies Program @illsp.bsky.social · 10/03/2026New piece! Norah MacKendrick on Make America Healthy Again, its attitude toward science, its defining characteristics, and how it fits within Trump's illiberal second administration. Check it out! @nmackend.bsky.social @ieres-gwu.bsky.socialilliberalism.orgRenegade Science: The Politics of MAHA’s Illiberal Health Agenda illiberalism.org |Norah MacKendrick on Make America Healthy Again, its attitude toward science and its defining characteristics, and how it fits within Trump's illiberal second administration. 053
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 10/03/2026This is my first time writing for the Illiberalism Studies Program. Not sure why RFK Jr. looks so pained in this image. Maybe he's unhappy with my representation of the movement? Read up to understand how MAHA is not anti-science but defines a new, illiberal science to implement a MAGA agenda. #MAHA 074
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Office of Personal Management is aiming high in their training of our civil servants by the sounds of things. 😳 020
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickRobert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 23/02/2026V. cool data +: “Key unknowns include emission inventories for rockets and satellites, lack of a systematic observational survey of mesospheric metals, altitude-time ablation profiles, chemical lifetimes, particle size-composition distributions, and transport pathways into the lower stratosphere.” 0118
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 27/01/2026How to explain this headline? This goes beyond so-called journalistic objectivity. I suspect NYT enjoys a little rage bait. #pretti #newyorktimes @nytpitchbot.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/us/100... 120
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/01/2026“LET US OUT!” women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc. In our name🇺🇸 39075594639
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickClaudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Delta: ICE OUT NOW. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...actionnetwork.orgTell Delta: ICE OUT NOWJoin us in demanding Delta: Publicly call for an immediate end to the ICE “surge” into MN and for ICE to leave the state; Exercise their 4th Amendment rights and publicly post signage denying entr... 011
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickClaudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Enterprise: ICE OUT NOW. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...actionnetwork.orgTell Enterprise: ICE OUT NOWJoin us in demanding Enterprise: Publicly call for an immediate end to the ICE “surge” into MN and for ICE to leave the state; Exercise their 4th Amendment rights and publicly post signage denying... 001
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Correct. But what’s with the “WHAT IF”?? www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin... 030
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickRobert Field @robertfield.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Ok, but EPA at least show some pictures of what you mean www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 031
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 10/01/2026It’s about time we had a men’s section in the cereal aisle. 240
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Beef tallow is a small part of the report. What is more “interesting” is that RFK promised to end industry influence over dietary guidelines but his scientific panel takes money from cattle + dairy industries. And 🥛 and 🥩 just happen to be at the top of the new inverted pyramid. 010
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 02/01/2026So should you freak out about glyphosate residues in your food? Yeah, a little bit. But the solution isn’t shelling out for so-called glyphosate-free food. The solution is to push the EPA to re-evaluate this pesticide. I have zero faith that this will happen under a Trump administration. 010
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Glyphosate is a big problem full stop. It comes down to two things: 1. lack of independent research establishing its safety and 2. the huge volumes of this pesticide applied in agriculture all over the world. #glyphosate #roundup #pesticides www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...nytimes.comA Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup 121
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickJ. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 22/12/2025If you VPN into Canada you can watch the 60 Minutes CECOT story here (for now). Global TV appears to have posted the original tape by accident watch.globaltv.com/series/2893d...watch.globaltv.comHome | Global TV App | Watch Shows, Movies and Live TVThe Global TV App is home to some of the most watched Canadian channels. Watch full episodes, Live TV and Global News. 1207102
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 13/12/2025This will be an interesting test of MAHA’s power. Will we see, in a month or two, a kind of capitulation to Zeldin, in the interest of keeping MAGA-MAHA aligned? Hard to imagine MAHA winning real reforms at the EPA.nytimes.comMAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back. 020
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 13/12/2025What podcast is this? Looking for original source. 100
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 13/12/2025If you want to understand the ideas behind this administration, read this and Field’s new book, Furious Minds. Essential reading for understanding the logic behind the MAGA machine.nytimes.comOpinion | The Closing of the MAGA Mind 040
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickJessica Kutz @jkutzie.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I was able to interview Indigenous photographer Cara Romero about her stunning art in her "First American Doll" series. If you need a visual pick-me-up this is it. 19thnews.org/2025/12/firs...19thnews.orgShe reimagined dolls for her daughter — and defied stereotypes about Indigenous womenIn her “First American Doll” series, Indigenous photographer Cara Romero showcases the diversity of tribes and their unique regalia and cultural histories. 1359
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 06/12/2025If you read/cite/teach from journals, read this thread. We need librarians more than ever. ⬇️ 072
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 06/12/2025www.cbc.ca/news/health/...cbc.caStudy on popular weed killer retracted after journal editor says Monsanto may have helped write it | CBC NewsAn influential research article that claimed a popular weed-killer was safe has been retracted 25 years after it was published, prompting environmental groups in Canada to ask the federal government t... 000
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickProgram on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · 05/12/2025The chemical lobby has been spending millions of dollars to change the Toxic Substances Control Act. That's the main law that works to protect people from harmful chemicals. What does industry want? They want less oversight and less concern for your health. #badidea 054
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 25/11/2025Beginning on Dec. 10, @lkatfield.bsky.social, the author of “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right,” will teach a 6-part class on the conservative intellectual movement and how it has shaped Donald Trump’s presidency as a part of the Lawfare Lecture series. 24816
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickJacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Once mocked as unsophisticated, Donald Trump in his second term has put forward an ambitious vision to reshape America. Surrounding the president is a loose network of intellectuals who provide his policies with a philosophy. An important new book maps it out.jacobin.comMAGA’s Court PhilosophersOnce mocked as unsophisticated, Donald Trump in his second term has put forward an ambitious vision to reshape America. Surrounding the president is a loose network of intellectuals who provide his policies with a philosophy. An important new book maps it out. 7246
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickAlex Lefebvre @lefebvrealex.bsky.social · 15/11/2025“Few books in political theory foreground the author’s biography this much. But it lands.” My LARB review of Furious Minds by Laura Field. A terrific book. @princetonupress.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mo...lareviewofbooks.orgA Mole in MAGA’s Midst | Los Angeles Review of BooksAlexandre Lefebvre reads “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field. 32012
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/11/2025I'm a few chapters into @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book on MAGA intellectuals and I thought the close of her introductory chapter made a very important point about the dangers of talking about MAGA as it it is an intellectual desert. It's more like a refulgent swamp of shitty, toxic ideas. 1120146
Reposted by Norah MacKendrickDemocracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 31/10/2025BREAKING: A federal court blocked the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to cut off food assistance for 42 million people during the ongoing government shutdown. We'll keep fighting to ensure that federal programs serve their lawful purpose: to help, not harm, people and communities. 1017764
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 30/10/2025These programs are amazing: fresh food for those on public assistance and more money in farmers’ pockets. Now the Big Beautiful Bill is kicking thousands of people, just like @writingelizabeth.bsky.social here, off of #SNAP. And the shutdown threatens everyone’s benefits. Cruelty is the point. 010
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 30/10/2025When doing research for my book, I spoke to mothers who felt ashamed to use SNAP at farmers’ markets, because it’s perceived to be too posh for the poor. But it’s smart budgeting. #SNAP dollars often go further at these markets because of special programs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | $149.57 Is Going to Have to Feed My Family Indefinitely 150
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 26/09/2025As a Canadian in the U.S. this is 💯 accurate. 031
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Take, for example, this position statement from the largest professional organization representing endocrinologists. These people study the endocrine system. Are they feeling chill about environmental chemicals? Nope. #endocrinedisruptorsendocrine.orgEndocrine-Disrupting ChemicalsEndocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are defined as: “an exogenous chemical, or mixture of chemicals, that can interfere with any aspect of hormone action”… 010
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Calling it “chemophobia” gets it wrong. It sweeps valid concerns under the rug at a time when we have very solid science showing that many of the pesticides and chemicals in our food and consumer products are not safe. This framing plays right into the hands of the chemical industry. #greenskyhuffpost.comA New Type Of Phobia Is Spreading Through American Households — And MAGA Is Partly To BlameThe fear tactic strikes a nerve with both conservatives and liberals alike. Here’s what you need to know. 110
Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social · 28/08/2025It's gonna be hard to enforce this at hockey games.cbc.caQuebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public | CBC NewsThe Quebec government intends to present a bill banning prayer in public. Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge said Thursday that the “proliferation of street prayer is a serious and sensitive is... 040
