Sara Silverstein
@_S_Silverstein
Historian. Writer. Public & global health, rights, internationalism, migration, statelessness, Mod. & E. Europe. Prof. @UConnHistory & @UConnHRI. Views my own.
Instead of reading the recent piece in @TheAtlantic that misrepresents the history of public health, read this thoughtful and well-researched older piece from the same publication. theatlantic.com/health/archive…
"Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed — Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above." ~ Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
Madeleine Riffaud, French Resistance: “I was just a young girl caught up in history.”“The essential was not to give in. When you resisted, you were already a victor. You had already won.” When caught up in history, it was the choices she made that mattered nytimes.com/2024/11/23/wor…
I am pleased to be joining a panel discussion on "A Decade of War and Displacement: Humanitarian Consequences of Russian Invasion of Ukraine," hosted by the Vassar Alliance for Ukraine. November 16, 1:00pm, Vassar. instagram.com/p/DCFrjQxsaAk/
Unbelievable. And just one of many examples in which the NYT has been actively normalizing.
So both sides really
The Ivies will be the rhetorical target of Trump's war on higher education, but the real impacts will be felt at public universities and colleges. Of course, the @nytimes will not report on this bc they only care about what happens at Harvard.
Just listened to third Fox segment I’ve heard in two days attacking higher ed in general & ivies in particular. Meanwhile many of my Ivy colleagues imagine their elite status buffers us. Misunderstanding of Trumpism, which wants spectacle targets, brand name victims.
Yes, exactly. Watch for this. It is indeed a common MO in targeting healthcare, in the US and elsewhere.
If they don’t try to gut Obamacare, for example, it’ll be because they have a narrow majority in the House and don’t have the votes. Likely they’ll try to kill them with a million little cuts that don’t get covered, then claim they don’t work. That’s usually the MO.
This is just one example of the sort of nonsense EM is spreading. 64.5 million views. An odd dissonance with the land of reality, where I'm teaching about dissidents who resisted Soviet regimes. Havel's "Power of the Powerless" is an interesting read right now.
Yes, I've been seeing this.
All of you Harris supporters who are wondering why you lost so many followers – many of those were Russian trolls and bots. They are now off pretending to be MAGA to induce Trump supporters to hate Ukraine.
Accounts posing as Americans replying to Ukrainians are also actively disparaging Harris and her chances of winning. It's an effort to generate demoralization and doubt about the future of U.S. support against Russian aggression. Consistent strategy across the phony accounts.
In response to the July 8th attacks on the “Ohmatdyt” Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, we take a closer look at other times Russia has violated international humanitarian law by deliberately and indiscriminately targeting hospitals in Ukraine. united24media.com/war-in-ukraine…
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are introducing international humanitarian law into the training course, the decision to be welcomed, and the practice not which not every army has
I welcome the important decision by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi (@CinC_AFU), to introduce training in international humanitarian law into the military training course. This is a necessary step towards our victory and Euro-Atlantic…
First in Syria, then in Ukraine.
In response to the July 8th attacks on the “Ohmatdyt” Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, we take a closer look at other times Russia has violated international humanitarian law by deliberately and indiscriminately targeting hospitals in Ukraine. united24media.com/war-in-ukraine…