Jack Leff
jrlefftist.bsky.social
Jack Leff
@jrlefftist.bsky.social
Grassroots organizer, abolitionist, tear gas scholar, and good Jewish boy.
Congratulations Alex, this is amazing and well deserved!
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
There was a study done by U of Minnesota professor Asha Hassan and Alison ojanen-goldsmith in partnership with planned parenthood that came out in 2023 thats the follow up youre looking for!

www.frontiersin.org/journals/epi...
Frontiers | More than tears: associations between exposure to chemical agents used by law enforcement and adverse reproductive health outcomes
Despite routine law enforcement use of chemical agents for crowd control, the reproductive health safety profiles of these products are unknown. Moreover, li...
www.frontiersin.org
October 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
There are strong reasons to believe it can cause significant reproductive and respiratory health concerns. I'd look at recent studies by Asha Hassan and Sven Eric Jordt (i also summarize the literature in chapter three of my dissertation)
October 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
While they do kill political opponents, thats not their strategy in the US. Also, there is a long history of JFK conspiracies being weaponized against the left. maybe this is just me, but I find that kind of conspiratorial thinking to be really harmful to organizers and left politics ime.
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM