Dr. Rebecca Noel

Professor of History, Plymouth State U. 19thC US school health curriculum, exercise, architecture, & very old belief that school makes you sick. Opinions mine.

[Dr. Rebecca Noel @RRNoel]

Book now under advance contract with Johns Hopkins UP. Save Our Scholars: The Quest for Health in American Schools, ~ 2020. Hooray!

[Dr. Rebecca Noel @RRNoel]

@LibyaLiberty @144KDNA Zoom can keep a transcript if you have a situation again where you otherwise have to rely on memory, look around for setting.

[Aleks @AleksW0nderland]

ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso.

The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until it closes.

About 3,000 people packed in per day. Loud, unsanitary quarters crawling with insects. Food so scarce that detainees steal from each other just to eat. Disease spreading through filthy rooms, showers, and restrooms that go uncleaned. People losing weight. People unable to see a doctor. People losing their minds.

Staff made nearly one 911 call per day in the camp’s first five months. One call captures a man sobbing after being assaulted by another detainee. Another has a doctor describing a man banging his head against a wall while expressing suicidal thoughts.

A nurse calls about a pregnant woman in severe pain with coronavirus. Detainees suffering seizures, some resulting in serious head trauma. Ages ranged from a 19-year-old who fell from a bunk to a 79-year-old who couldn’t breathe.

And then there’s the detail that should haunt this administration for the rest of its existence.

Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager from Columbia, Missouri, who spent weeks in the camp before being deported to the Netherlands, told the AP he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool among the staff. They were wagering on which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had put $500 in. The total pot rode on the outcome.

Ramsingh said the talk was particularly devastating because he had contemplated suicide himself.

Guards are gambling on the deaths of people in their custody. People who are hungry. People who are sick. People who are begging for help through 911 calls that come in every single day. And the staff turned it into a game.

This is not some rogue facility. This is the system working exactly as this administration designed it. Overcrowded by policy. Underfed by neglect. Understaffed by choice. They built a place where human beings deteriorate and then the people paid to watch over them place bets on who breaks first.

The AP has the data. The recordings. The interviews. The court filings. This is documented. This is real. This is happening right now in El Paso, Texas, in the United States of America.

Share this. Do not let them bury it under another news cycle.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

“This is what happens, Mr. President. When you dehumanize people, when you call them garbage and animals, people are going to get hurt. People are going to get killed.” - CT AG William Tong, shares some comments left on a post about him and his wife fostering a Black Lab

[Dr. Rebecca Noel @RRNoel]

@DannyMoylan06 I’m so sorry. This should never ever happen.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Life in England 50 to 100+ years ago 🧵

1. This is what England looked like in 1945

[Dr. Rebecca Noel @RRNoel]

@GarciaRosalind I would contact a rare book dealer. Many will travel to you if what you have is good. They may give you a single price for the lot, less than you’d get selling them individually but one and done. Or (slower) find someone who will sell individually on commission.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Why the hell was this not in the news yesterday or today?

[Seth Meyers @sethmeyers]

I love going home to New Hampshire and if it's for a good cause I know I'm going to run into Joyce Craig. I'm not registered to vote in the Granite State any more, but if I was, I'd be honored to cast my ballot to make her the next governor. I believe in NH and I believe in protecting reproductive freedom. Long story short: My choice is Joyce!

[Dr. Rebecca Noel @RRNoel]

I held it together to the end and then the last few seconds finally got me 😭😭😭

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

This is quite simply the best ad I've ever seen. #BlueWave2024

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This cartoon. 🥺

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

As we all await the outcome of what feels like a make-or-break election, I want to offer some perspective, if you’ll hand a fellow with eight-plus decades the mic for a moment.

[Dr. Rebecca Noel @RRNoel]

@CarrWrites I love that!!! It’s how I feel too!

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

the guy who just mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Holy shit, this “American girl” ad from @senecaprojectus is amazing!!!
Hard to see the letters I’m typing through the tears streaming down my face though.

[LeBron James @KingJames]

What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Remember when Trump called Kamala’s supporters trash a few weeks ago?

0 articles written about it.

[Dr. Rebecca Noel @RRNoel]

@Schwarzenegger I have no confidence that it would be four years. He has promised to suspend the Constitution. I don't know why everyone doesn't see that.

[Voto Latino @votolatino]

In response to the Trump campaign's dangerous vitriol, the heads of America’s leading Latino organizations condemned Trump and his entire campaign with statements from @votolatino @UnidosUSAF @latinovictoryus @AmericasVoice @MiFamiliaVota @HispanicFed:
https://t.co/GIkSViMSYa

[Dr. Rebecca Noel @RRNoel]

Would you be OK with this "day of love" happening at your house?

Me neither.

But it did.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Donald Trump calls January 6 a "day of love." By "love" he just means he would love for it to happen all over again.