jp berning

Professor at Colorado State University; studying food economics @ColoradoStateU @CSUAgSci

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Watched the movies Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick?

The first Top Gun competition was held in 1949. The white pilots competed with the latest state of art aircraft while the black pilots were forced to compete with older obsolete planes.

After 3 days of competition The Tuskegee Airmen team of : Captain Alva Temple, 1st Lieutenant Harry Stewart, 1st Lieutenant James Harvey, and 1st Lieutenant Halbert Alexander (alternate) were announced the winners. The official results for first place were recorded as “unknown” for nearly 46 years.

There was dead silence in the room. Not one of their colleagues applauded this accomplishment. The victory was swept under the rug and the trophy ‘went missing’ and was not seen by the public for 55 years (until 2004). Introducing the real Top Guns.

73 years after the historic win, the American Association of Retired Persons’ Wish of a Lifetime organization met with Harvey to grant his “wish” – that his team be widely recognized.

[I Smoked A Predilection For Nipples @BlackKnight10k]

Only in America would we force the second most powerful person in the world to argue with a mental patient in front of the entire world for 2 hours

[jp berning @JoshuaBerning]

@RadioFreeTom

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Not just for migrants.

According to Agenda47, the detention camps are also for people who:

Use drugs
Suffer from mental illness
Don't have a place to live

[Prof Jeffrey S Morris @jsm2334]

A group of French researchers published a paper in JAMA today assessing long term cardiac outcome with 18 months after vaccine-caused myocarditis after mRNA vaccines and compared with post-covid-19 mycarditis and conventional myocarditis using a large whole-country cohort covering the entire 12-49 year old population of France.

They found 558 cases of post-vaccine myocarditis out of ~64 million doses of vaccine in this age group (376 after 2nd dose), for an incidence of 1 in 115k doses (1 in 64k after 2nd dose), and 298 with post-COVID myocarditis and 3779 with conventional myocarditis.

A total of 18/15/1 of the 558 post-vaccine myocarditis patients were rehospitalized for myocarditis, had other cardiovascular events, or all cause death, versus 12/22/4 of 298 post-covid myocarditis patients and 277/49/17 of 3779 conventional myocarditis patients.

After rigorously adjusting for confounders including age, sex, region, SES, lifestyle habits, comorbidities, vaccination history, and medications using propensity score weighting to calibrate all populatons to the conventional myocarditis group (the comparison group), they statistically compared the post-vaccine and post-covid groups to the conventional myocarditis group with respect to
(1) Rehospitalization with myocarditis
(2) Cardiac events, including heart failure, heart rhythm and conduction disorders, and cardiomyopathy
(3) All cause death
(4) Rehospitalization for any reason
(5) Composite outcomes (1)-(3)
(6) Composite outcomes (1)-(4)

From this comparison, they found the risk of all of these 6 events were all lower after post-vaccine myocarditis than conventional myocarditis by 25%/46%/47%/31%/45%/36%, respectively, while risk after post-covid myocarditis was similar to conventional myocarditis, at the higher levels.

Myocarditis is the key minority harm risk for mRNA vaccines, especially for young men and especially after 2nd dose.

Before this study, there were very little looking at moderate to long term cardiac outcomes of myocarditis, so this paper is an important addition to the literature.

More study of this important question is needed.

In this thread, I discuss a few of the details and strengths and limitations of this study.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In France, crows have been trained to collect cigarette butts and deposit them into a machine that dispenses food as a reward, showcasing a creative method for maintaining urban cleanliness

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

Has anybody actually broken down tape of the HS teams that Walz coached? Are we really potentially about to elect a Single Wing guy, or was he dropping Air Raid stuff on rural Minnesota teenagers

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

To those who served and loved the country that did not love them back.

[jp berning @JoshuaBerning]

@Jess_Hoel Yeah, the role of financial aid in this whole thing is interesting for sure, particularly across (somewhat) different markets..

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Possibly the most incredible Beethoven Ode to Joy flashmob by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Nuremberg and the Hans-Sachs-Choir in front of the St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg, Germany.

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[Ben Porter @Ben13Porter]

Take 2 minutes out of your day for the great Reggie Jackson to give you a powerful history lesson

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia, striking down laws banning interracial marriage as unconstitutional.

June 12, 1967: The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other.

Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored." The Supreme Court's unanimous decision held this prohibition was unconstitutional, overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.

The decision was followed by an increase in interracial marriages in the U.S., and is remembered annually on Loving Day, June 12. It has been the subject of two movies as well as songs. In the 2010s, it again became relevant in the context of the debate about same-sex marriage in the United States.

Despite the Supreme Court's decision, anti-miscegenation laws remained on the books in several states, although the decision had made them unenforceable.

In 2000, Alabama became the last state to adapt its laws to the Supreme Court's decision, by removing a provision prohibiting mixed-race marriage from its state constitution through a ballot initiative. 60% of voters voted for the removal of the anti-miscegenation rule, and 40% against.

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[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

So, in just 50 years, between 1830 to 1880, the U.S. slaughtered 40 million bison.

It was to subjugate the plains Natives who relied on them for food, clothing and shelter.

Should this heartbreaking historical FACT be taught public schools? 💔

[jp berning @JoshuaBerning]

Exciting to see @siwen_zhou finish her dissertation and begin working as a postdoc. #hooded

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

You never forget the first time you learn universities’ overhead rates on external grants.

[Dr. Dawn Thilmany (McFadden) @DawnTM]

The public's interest in food price inflation persists but glad to have strong @USDA_ERS reports and peer research to guide these media discussions. @RediCsu @CSUAgSci

[Lauren McCluskey Foundation @LMC_Foundation]

Thank you to everyone for your support today! 🙏 #PromiseWithPurpose #LaurensPromise #ForLauren

[Sarah A. Low, PhD @sarahalow]

Calling all Ag Econ JMCs and early-career scholars! NBER is hiring two postdoctoral fellows in agricultural economics for the 2024-25 academic year. Applications are due December 7. @nberpubs @AAEA_GSS https://t.co/Gc0UhhHqh1

[Jill McCluskey @jjmccluskey]

Thank you @KedzieMoe for this story. https://t.co/xY4EKAYqLR via @DailyEvergreen