Byron Good

Professor of Medical Anthropology, Harvard Medical School. Activist researcher, mental health in Indonesia. Haunted...

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the farce of Western countries telling Congo to ‘just govern properly’:

‘The Kingdom of Belgium created a slave colony in Congo for 30 years. The government of Belgium ran the slave colony for another 40 years. The CIA assassinated Congo’s first popular leader Patrice Lumumba, and then installed another dictatorship for the next 30 years.

And then Glencore and others now suck out your cobalt without giving Congo tax income. We don’t reflect on that. We say what’s wrong with you? Why don’t you govern properly?’

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1968, Bobby Hutton, an original member of the Black Panther Party was shot dead by the Oakland police, unarmed. He was only 17 years.

After being bombed with tear gas and trapped in a burning basement, he came out shirtless to prove he was unarmed and the police immediately shot him 12 times and he died.

He was only 17 years.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE is trafficking a seven-year-old Canadian girl, with autism, because they “couldn’t find their documents” in their system.

This family has lived in the U.S. for five years without any issue.

They’ve followed all the rules, they’ve done everything right, and suddenly… because a computer system didn’t register paperwork correctly… ICE threw a seven-year-old autistic child into a concentration camp.

The seven-year-old and her mom are at the Rio Grande Valley Central Processing Center… a facility infamous for caging children… where the autistic child sleeps on a mat, wrapped in a space blanket, in conditions no child should ever face.

And just to be absolutely clear… this isn’t about public safety.

This is bureaucratic chaos being weaponized against a child and her mother.

And the government’s response? Silence.

A glitch in the system… An autistic seven-year-old… Trafficked for profit, by the government.

[Byron Good @pakbyron]

@SoeTjenMarching @DrAlexArifianto Can you post the info? 😊

[Byron Good @pakbyron]

@Matt_Pinner Born at home? Bonus if in the same bedroom as your daddy was born in.

Remember when bleacher seats went up from 50 cents to 75 cents in one year? (50% increase in ticket prices. That was 1967!)

[Byron Good @pakbyron]

@hunterhockey @daveweisberger @Matt_Pinner Of course! Dont they still?

[Byron Good @pakbyron]

@daveweisberger @Matt_Pinner Add 25. Born at home. Bonus for born in the same bedroom your daddy was born in.
How many points do I get for that?

[Byron Good @pakbyron]

@daveweisberger @Matt_Pinner That makes it 24. Forgot not everyone would reach at least15-20!

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET to wish Dr. Fauci a Happy 85th Birthday!

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

This is a damning piece about a torture prison that is being used by the Trump administration. That’s why the piece was pulled. All Americans deserve to see this story. Shame on Bari Weiss.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Pro Trump supporter Bari Weiss tried to suppress 60 Minutes from showing this video.

Here is the video. You know what to do.

[Byron Good @pakbyron]

@Matt_Pinner 18

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

In his own racist words: JD Vance, on Charlie Kirk's podcast, denies that Kirk ever said anything like "Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously." He said go and watch it.

Challenge accepted, JD.
It was much worse.
https://t.co/OEBiudmGXC

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Who knew J.D. Vance opened a little Company called Acre trader that buys farms and ranches! Does it all make sense now! 🤬

[Byron Good @pakbyron]

@HalfwayPost Anthropologists call these ‘minor acts of resistance’!

[Byron Good @pakbyron]

@AfricanArchives Wearing heels!

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa wrote the following letter to Donald Trump:

1/n

[Phil Vischer @philvischer]

A 27 yr-old Iranian woman converted to Christianity, and had to flee Iran (where conversion brings the death penalty). She fled to the US to seek asylum. The Trump administration arrested her, put her in shackles, loaded her on a military plane with 300 other migrants...

[Byron Good @pakbyron]

@Farzad_MD Utter reckless insanity, disregard for public health of our nation…

[Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD]

1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers.

I have never felt so intimidated by my peers

The best and the brightest, they were star clinicians, had served in disaster zones; MD/PhDs and MSF.