Shahram Shahangian, PhD
@shahramshahangian.bsky.social
Health Scientist
Positive Freedom
Freedom to, positive freedom, involves thinking about who we want to become. … If we don’t think of freedom as positive, we won’t even get freedom in the negative sense, since we will be unable to tell what is in fact a barrier.
Timothy Snyder, Yale University. On Freedom. 2024.
Freedom to, positive freedom, involves thinking about who we want to become. … If we don’t think of freedom as positive, we won’t even get freedom in the negative sense, since we will be unable to tell what is in fact a barrier.
Timothy Snyder, Yale University. On Freedom. 2024.
May 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Positive Freedom
Freedom to, positive freedom, involves thinking about who we want to become. … If we don’t think of freedom as positive, we won’t even get freedom in the negative sense, since we will be unable to tell what is in fact a barrier.
Timothy Snyder, Yale University. On Freedom. 2024.
Freedom to, positive freedom, involves thinking about who we want to become. … If we don’t think of freedom as positive, we won’t even get freedom in the negative sense, since we will be unable to tell what is in fact a barrier.
Timothy Snyder, Yale University. On Freedom. 2024.
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
A must-read document, a 122-page draft report, not released but later published by The Washington Post on how social media platforms give fringe politicians and their allies mass-scale mis-/disinformation weapons
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
cdn.sanity.io
March 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A must-read document, a 122-page draft report, not released but later published by The Washington Post on how social media platforms give fringe politicians and their allies mass-scale mis-/disinformation weapons
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
A must-read document, a 122-page draft report, not released but later published by The Washington Post on how social media platforms give fringe politicians and their allies mass-scale mis-/disinformation weapons
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
cdn.sanity.io
March 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A must-read document, a 122-page draft report, not released but later published by The Washington Post on how social media platforms give fringe politicians and their allies mass-scale mis-/disinformation weapons
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
“Democracy does not die in darkness. It degrades through deal-making — a procession of pragmatic transactions between those who have power and those who want it or fear it.”
Ezra Klein. The New York Times. January 12, 2025
Ezra Klein. The New York Times. January 12, 2025
January 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“Democracy does not die in darkness. It degrades through deal-making — a procession of pragmatic transactions between those who have power and those who want it or fear it.”
Ezra Klein. The New York Times. January 12, 2025
Ezra Klein. The New York Times. January 12, 2025
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
— Søren Kierkegaard
— Søren Kierkegaard
January 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
— Søren Kierkegaard
— Søren Kierkegaard
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Russell Vought ordered all employees at CFPB to stop all work. This means that the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog has been pulled off the street, prevented from providing oversight over financial institutions that could be hurting consumers. 😡😠😡
Russell Vought ordered all employees at CFPB to stop all work. This means that the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog has been pulled off the street, prevented from providing oversight over financial institutions that could be hurting consumers. 😡😠😡
February 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Russell Vought ordered all employees at CFPB to stop all work. This means that the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog has been pulled off the street, prevented from providing oversight over financial institutions that could be hurting consumers. 😡😠😡
Russell Vought ordered all employees at CFPB to stop all work. This means that the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog has been pulled off the street, prevented from providing oversight over financial institutions that could be hurting consumers. 😡😠😡
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Top IRS lawyer is removed from his role as Musk’s DOGE clashes with career staff over access to taxpayer records, officials say.
William Paul, acting chief counsel of the IRS, was removed from his position as billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE seeks to replace him by Andrew De Mello.
Washington Post
William Paul, acting chief counsel of the IRS, was removed from his position as billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE seeks to replace him by Andrew De Mello.
Washington Post
March 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Top IRS lawyer is removed from his role as Musk’s DOGE clashes with career staff over access to taxpayer records, officials say.
William Paul, acting chief counsel of the IRS, was removed from his position as billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE seeks to replace him by Andrew De Mello.
Washington Post
William Paul, acting chief counsel of the IRS, was removed from his position as billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE seeks to replace him by Andrew De Mello.
Washington Post
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Think about it. …
March 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Think about it. …
Think about it. …
March 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Think about it. …
Top IRS lawyer is removed from his role as Musk’s DOGE clashes with career staff over access to taxpayer records, officials say.
William Paul, acting chief counsel of the IRS, was removed from his position as billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE seeks to replace him by Andrew De Mello.
Washington Post
William Paul, acting chief counsel of the IRS, was removed from his position as billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE seeks to replace him by Andrew De Mello.
Washington Post
March 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Top IRS lawyer is removed from his role as Musk’s DOGE clashes with career staff over access to taxpayer records, officials say.
William Paul, acting chief counsel of the IRS, was removed from his position as billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE seeks to replace him by Andrew De Mello.
Washington Post
William Paul, acting chief counsel of the IRS, was removed from his position as billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE seeks to replace him by Andrew De Mello.
Washington Post
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Russell Vought ordered all employees at CFPB to stop all work. This means that the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog has been pulled off the street, prevented from providing oversight over financial institutions that could be hurting consumers. 😡😠😡
Russell Vought ordered all employees at CFPB to stop all work. This means that the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog has been pulled off the street, prevented from providing oversight over financial institutions that could be hurting consumers. 😡😠😡
February 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Russell Vought ordered all employees at CFPB to stop all work. This means that the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog has been pulled off the street, prevented from providing oversight over financial institutions that could be hurting consumers. 😡😠😡
Russell Vought ordered all employees at CFPB to stop all work. This means that the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog has been pulled off the street, prevented from providing oversight over financial institutions that could be hurting consumers. 😡😠😡
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
— Søren Kierkegaard
— Søren Kierkegaard
January 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
— Søren Kierkegaard
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Democracy does not die in darkness. It degrades through deal-making — a procession of pragmatic transactions between those who have power and those who want it or fear it.”
Ezra Klein. The New York Times. January 12, 2025
Ezra Klein. The New York Times. January 12, 2025
January 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“Democracy does not die in darkness. It degrades through deal-making — a procession of pragmatic transactions between those who have power and those who want it or fear it.”
Ezra Klein. The New York Times. January 12, 2025
Ezra Klein. The New York Times. January 12, 2025
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Republicans are using strategic litigation to effectively rewrite the Fourteenth Amendment to prioritize conservative white men and embryos above and beyond everyone else. newrepublic.com/article/1896...
The GOP Is Rewriting What It Means to Be a Person
The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who isn’t a white man.
newrepublic.com
January 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Republicans are using strategic litigation to effectively rewrite the Fourteenth Amendment to prioritize conservative white men and embryos above and beyond everyone else. newrepublic.com/article/1896...
Reposted by Shahram Shahangian, PhD
Book Review: If you’ve wondered how you would have behaved in the late 1930s when the world pitched toward authoritarianism, Ken McGoogan’s Shadows of Tyranny is an almanac of character sketches of people who saw it coming and tried to stop it.
Are we fascist yet?
Ken McGoogan’s Shadows of Tyranny is a calm work born of panic, written before Trump was re-elected. If you’ve ever wondered how you would have behaved in the late 1930s when the world pitched toward…
buff.ly
January 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Book Review: If you’ve wondered how you would have behaved in the late 1930s when the world pitched toward authoritarianism, Ken McGoogan’s Shadows of Tyranny is an almanac of character sketches of people who saw it coming and tried to stop it.