D Muthulingam
@dmuthu.bsky.social
Writer, infection doctor, St.Louis (HIV/STI). Essays on science, med, tech, culture, care work & post-empire. Eelam Tamil diaspora. Once & maybe future med academic. Sex, drugs, microbes. Writing book re: post-imperial science https://www.dmuthulingam.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
you have to understand the military (now policing) industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about is a literal mass monetary incentive for division & violence--if profit is the ultimate good (w/ no other checks or values), & violence is profitable, then violence is cause & solution to every problem
March 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
you have to understand the military (now policing) industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about is a literal mass monetary incentive for division & violence--if profit is the ultimate good (w/ no other checks or values), & violence is profitable, then violence is cause & solution to every problem
concise & illuminating summary
March 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
concise & illuminating summary
Alice spakle kat - the harder truth is that we have far more power than we are ready to face. But the time has come.
March 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Alice spakle kat - the harder truth is that we have far more power than we are ready to face. But the time has come.
The Navy, tbf aggressively enforces imperial property and bases abroad. Does mothering lose money? Does healthcare? Scientific research? What is life for
March 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The Navy, tbf aggressively enforces imperial property and bases abroad. Does mothering lose money? Does healthcare? Scientific research? What is life for
Amrita sen, nobel prize economist: famines are political. If our efforts not integrated w/ anti-imperialism & real economic democracy--people having sovereignty over their land, resources, political power--beyond contingency of USAIDs, we will continue this cycle. Famines are imperial acts of war.
March 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Amrita sen, nobel prize economist: famines are political. If our efforts not integrated w/ anti-imperialism & real economic democracy--people having sovereignty over their land, resources, political power--beyond contingency of USAIDs, we will continue this cycle. Famines are imperial acts of war.
Also related to this point is this excellent essay by @erikmbaker.bsky.social in The Drift last year
www.thedriftmag.com/the-fortress...
www.thedriftmag.com/the-fortress...
March 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Also related to this point is this excellent essay by @erikmbaker.bsky.social in The Drift last year
www.thedriftmag.com/the-fortress...
www.thedriftmag.com/the-fortress...
Such concise summary
March 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Such concise summary
really fascinating thinker and writer (im into epistemology now)
March 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
really fascinating thinker and writer (im into epistemology now)
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Radiation therapy for throat cancer is class warfare
Medicine is class war fare
Public health is class warfare
It is not we who are wagimg the war, but maybe we should defend ourselves
Medicine is class war fare
Public health is class warfare
It is not we who are wagimg the war, but maybe we should defend ourselves
February 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Radiation therapy for throat cancer is class warfare
Medicine is class war fare
Public health is class warfare
It is not we who are wagimg the war, but maybe we should defend ourselves
Medicine is class war fare
Public health is class warfare
It is not we who are wagimg the war, but maybe we should defend ourselves
There is a profound lack of triage capacity within our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/rupamary...
open.substack.com/pub/rupamary...
February 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
There is a profound lack of triage capacity within our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/rupamary...
open.substack.com/pub/rupamary...
February 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Meanwhile DSA raising funds to buy off medical debt in the midwest; anarchists distributed food, water, masks in disaster zones; PSL organizing protection from ICE raids; churches are building out their foodbanks. The democratic party is the opioid of the bourgeois evading material reality
February 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Meanwhile DSA raising funds to buy off medical debt in the midwest; anarchists distributed food, water, masks in disaster zones; PSL organizing protection from ICE raids; churches are building out their foodbanks. The democratic party is the opioid of the bourgeois evading material reality
Happy birthday, Dr. Newton!
February 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Happy birthday, Dr. Newton!
My current research & writing is about epistemicide, inc how do we salvage, protect & transmit scientific & medical knowledge that threatens centralized power. Pls get in touch if interested : )
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
February 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My current research & writing is about epistemicide, inc how do we salvage, protect & transmit scientific & medical knowledge that threatens centralized power. Pls get in touch if interested : )
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
such a familiar energy in healthcare and academia, 50 years later. We can demand more than these insidious deflections, as have those before us
www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/so...
www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/so...
February 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
such a familiar energy in healthcare and academia, 50 years later. We can demand more than these insidious deflections, as have those before us
www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/so...
www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/so...
How are we developing our creative problem solving today
February 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
How are we developing our creative problem solving today
Kwame Ture on health disparities research (essentially)
February 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Kwame Ture on health disparities research (essentially)
"There's no shame in having been wrong--only in not being able or willing to take accountability"
Via mar._unfiltered on iG
Via mar._unfiltered on iG
February 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"There's no shame in having been wrong--only in not being able or willing to take accountability"
Via mar._unfiltered on iG
Via mar._unfiltered on iG
"Liberals at heart are non-confrontational" - bill burr
This has been deeply true in both interpersonal and political levels. Finding courage, especially those who hold access & power is urgent.
This has been deeply true in both interpersonal and political levels. Finding courage, especially those who hold access & power is urgent.
February 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"Liberals at heart are non-confrontational" - bill burr
This has been deeply true in both interpersonal and political levels. Finding courage, especially those who hold access & power is urgent.
This has been deeply true in both interpersonal and political levels. Finding courage, especially those who hold access & power is urgent.
Appreciate these eloquently simplified summaries- how to resist shock & awe...prob helps to ration social media consumption too...working on it
www.instagram.com/p/DFyd9vySe3...
www.instagram.com/p/DFyd9vySe3...
February 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Appreciate these eloquently simplified summaries- how to resist shock & awe...prob helps to ration social media consumption too...working on it
www.instagram.com/p/DFyd9vySe3...
www.instagram.com/p/DFyd9vySe3...