Depression researchers rethink popular mouse swim tests “We don’t know what depression looks like in a mouse”

Epidemic Control in China: A Conversation with Liu Shao-hua

Mike Bloomberg prepares media onslaught against Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders Becomes First Candidate, Democrat or Republican, to Win Popular Vote in All 3 Early Voting States

There has been a steady drip of epidemiologists (inside and outside China) saying that: COVID-19 Will Probably Go Pandemic. This article explains what that would mean.

Warren, Biden and Buttigieg dangerously close to going broke

Nevada Culinary Union Members Defy Leadership To Back Bernie Sanders

Harvard—Home of Alan Dershowitz—Says the Wealth Tax Economist Is Too Much

Joe Biden Claims He Was Arrested in South Africa in the 1970s 《Pathetic》

Beforeigners is great, but I feel that the jokes would be funnier if I understood Old Norse…

A number of interesting recent sci-fi/fantasy series deal with issues of racism, migration, and refugees: Carnival Row, Beforeigners, Picard, etc. They are good, but why can’t we have more shows that tell the stories of actual migrants or refugees?

SPIDER WOMAN - The Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters, first published in 1934, is currently free on the Kindle store. (Thanks to Alex Golub for the tip!)

Blockades a genius assertion of Indigenous power: UBC-based First Nations thinker Glen Coulthard

Here’s the Medicare-for-all study Bernie Sanders keeps bringing up

Canada is fake

The US denying visas to both Hajo Funke and Eyal Weizman is very worrisome. They are academics who were invited to attend (separate) events in the US. Weizman studies state violence and Funke studies right-wing populism.

Natural gas is a much ‘dirtier’ energy source, carbon-wise, than we thought

Bloomberg Is Wealthier Than The Bottom 125 Million Americans

Mother Tongue Film Festival 2020 Program

Michael Bloomberg’s Surveillance Of Muslims Sets Dangerous Precedent For His Presidential Run 《First posted in December, but more relevant than ever.》

Welcome my partner in crime, the anthropologist @alexgolub to micro.blog! If there are any other anthropologists here, say “hi” so we can follow you.

Anybody want to fund my film about a ragtag group of unemployed mascots who defend Japan from an alien invasion?

⭐️ John Oliver Makes the Definitive Case for Medicare-for-All

Michael Bloomberg and the Dangers of ‘Any Blue Will Do’ Politics

Reading Colonialism in “Parasite”