Jonathan Kahn
@jkahn01.bsky.social
Professor of Law and Biology. Northeastern University. Author of “The Uses of Diversity: How Race has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology” https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-uses-of-diversity/9780231220132/
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Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.
See if you can spot it! /s
Then you can find today's story on p A23
See if you can spot it! /s
Then you can find today's story on p A23
October 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.
See if you can spot it! /s
Then you can find today's story on p A23
See if you can spot it! /s
Then you can find today's story on p A23
@nytimes.com is hopeless! Puts it story on the No Kings protest on p. 23 of print edition. Online it gives it same weight as a story on Vance speaking at a military base in CA. 7 million protesters with the same weight as a couch f—er!
October 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
@nytimes.com is hopeless! Puts it story on the No Kings protest on p. 23 of print edition. Online it gives it same weight as a story on Vance speaking at a military base in CA. 7 million protesters with the same weight as a couch f—er!
No Kings in Wellesley MA
October 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
No Kings in Wellesley MA
Robert Post:
“I have been studying and teaching First Amendment law for more than forty years . . . this week, for the first time, I have become frightened that freedom of speech in America might actually be endangered”
verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...
“I have been studying and teaching First Amendment law for more than forty years . . . this week, for the first time, I have become frightened that freedom of speech in America might actually be endangered”
verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...
Falling Far and Fast
verfassungsblog.de
September 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Robert Post:
“I have been studying and teaching First Amendment law for more than forty years . . . this week, for the first time, I have become frightened that freedom of speech in America might actually be endangered”
verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...
“I have been studying and teaching First Amendment law for more than forty years . . . this week, for the first time, I have become frightened that freedom of speech in America might actually be endangered”
verfassungsblog.de/turn-against...
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Massive walkout at #CDC. Tick tock. Tick tock. RFK Jr. your time is up. (typo fixed). Spread the word. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
LIVE: CDC staff plan walkout at Atlanta HQ after Trump firings
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Massive walkout at #CDC. Tick tock. Tick tock. RFK Jr. your time is up. (typo fixed). Spread the word. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
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📊 New Research! With support from @changelabsolutions.bsky.social, Public Health Law Watch has released a new report tracking litigation that challenges governmental and health institution efforts to address health equity from January 2024 to May 2025.
www.publichealthlawwatch.org/health-equit...
www.publichealthlawwatch.org/health-equit...
Health Equity Litigation Report 2025 — Public Health Law Watch
www.publichealthlawwatch.org
August 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📊 New Research! With support from @changelabsolutions.bsky.social, Public Health Law Watch has released a new report tracking litigation that challenges governmental and health institution efforts to address health equity from January 2024 to May 2025.
www.publichealthlawwatch.org/health-equit...
www.publichealthlawwatch.org/health-equit...
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Now available! THE USES OF DIVERSITY offers bracing new perspective on one of today’s most vexed concepts. buff.ly/a2Z8KEE @jkahn01.bsky.social
#Genetics #SocialScience #Philosophy #PoliticalTheory #Medicine #Bioethics #ReadMore #ReadUP
#Genetics #SocialScience #Philosophy #PoliticalTheory #Medicine #Bioethics #ReadMore #ReadUP
July 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Now available! THE USES OF DIVERSITY offers bracing new perspective on one of today’s most vexed concepts. buff.ly/a2Z8KEE @jkahn01.bsky.social
#Genetics #SocialScience #Philosophy #PoliticalTheory #Medicine #Bioethics #ReadMore #ReadUP
#Genetics #SocialScience #Philosophy #PoliticalTheory #Medicine #Bioethics #ReadMore #ReadUP
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This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
www.ama-assn.org
June 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
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ONE WEEK UNTIL NO KINGS DAY!
At this time next Saturday, we will be taking to the streets across the country. While Trump wastes millions on a birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS.
There are nearly 2,000 events planned. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
At this time next Saturday, we will be taking to the streets across the country. While Trump wastes millions on a birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS.
There are nearly 2,000 events planned. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
June 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
ONE WEEK UNTIL NO KINGS DAY!
At this time next Saturday, we will be taking to the streets across the country. While Trump wastes millions on a birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS.
There are nearly 2,000 events planned. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
At this time next Saturday, we will be taking to the streets across the country. While Trump wastes millions on a birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS.
There are nearly 2,000 events planned. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Please, Democrats- if you haven’t already, develop a clear and coordinated strategy to refer to the budget exclusively as a “a disgusting abomination “ or the “We are All Going to Die” bill
June 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Please, Democrats- if you haven’t already, develop a clear and coordinated strategy to refer to the budget exclusively as a “a disgusting abomination “ or the “We are All Going to Die” bill
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absolutely!! dissent, advocate, resist www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
absolutely!! dissent, advocate, resist www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
May 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
I want to see a poll asking how people would vote if the Harris- Trump election were held today
May 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I want to see a poll asking how people would vote if the Harris- Trump election were held today
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“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
www.science.org
May 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Harvard University is suing the Trump administration.
Here is the school’s complaint, which was just filed in federal court in Massachusetts:
Here is the school’s complaint, which was just filed in federal court in Massachusetts:
www.harvard.edu
April 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Harvard University is suing the Trump administration.
Here is the school’s complaint, which was just filed in federal court in Massachusetts:
Here is the school’s complaint, which was just filed in federal court in Massachusetts:
Look what the Easter Bunny Brought! The Uses of Diversity is out! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-use...
April 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Look what the Easter Bunny Brought! The Uses of Diversity is out! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-use...
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We don't know much about Canary Mission - they doxx others but stay anonymous - but if I was at U Penn I would be asking why a trustee is funding attacks on faculty/students.
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Penn trustee’s family foundation donated $100,000 to Canary Mission, 2023 tax form shows
A 2023 tax document shows that Canary Mission — a website that “may be providing road maps for ICE” — received $100,000 from the spouse of a Penn trustee’s family foundation.
www.thedp.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We don't know much about Canary Mission - they doxx others but stay anonymous - but if I was at U Penn I would be asking why a trustee is funding attacks on faculty/students.
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
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Excited to share my latest paper on the past and future of public health law, www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Public Health Law | American Journal of Law & Medicine | Cambridge Core
The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Public Health Law - Volume 50 Issue 3-4
www.cambridge.org
March 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Excited to share my latest paper on the past and future of public health law, www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
March 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved