Samuel Kelton Roberts
@skroberts.bsky.social
Professional historian of public health, amateur photographer, scifi/speculative fiction and music enthusiast.
Excellent piece from my colleague David Herzberg! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Opinion | I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Excellent piece from my colleague David Herzberg! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
academeblog.org/2025/07/31/a...
Powerful words.
Powerful words.
A Columbia Alum Writes to President Shipman
BY HILTON OBENZINGER Dear Claire Shipman, President, Columbia University. I received your letter and other notices about Columbia’s settlement with the Trump administration, and I’m disappointed an…
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August 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Powerful words.
Powerful words.
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Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment uncpress.org/book/9781469...
July 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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Philadelphia drug overdose deaths fall but novel substances in the street drug supplies present new dangers
Medetomidine, a nonopioid veterinary sedative, could be overtaking xylazine in the street drug supply. The drug was found in 72% of street samples from Philly last yr whyy.org/articles/phi...
Medetomidine, a nonopioid veterinary sedative, could be overtaking xylazine in the street drug supply. The drug was found in 72% of street samples from Philly last yr whyy.org/articles/phi...
May 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Philadelphia drug overdose deaths fall but novel substances in the street drug supplies present new dangers
Medetomidine, a nonopioid veterinary sedative, could be overtaking xylazine in the street drug supply. The drug was found in 72% of street samples from Philly last yr whyy.org/articles/phi...
Medetomidine, a nonopioid veterinary sedative, could be overtaking xylazine in the street drug supply. The drug was found in 72% of street samples from Philly last yr whyy.org/articles/phi...
Even the WSJ is reporting on politicians starving children... www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Why Some States Refuse Federal Cash to Feed Poor Kids
Millions of federal dollars helped pay for food for hundreds of thousands of children in Tennessee last summer while school was out. Washington made the same offer this year—and Tennessee refused.
www.wsj.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Even the WSJ is reporting on politicians starving children... www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Reposted by Samuel Kelton Roberts
Washington Square Park
3pm
Today
Let’s get to it
3pm
Today
Let’s get to it
April 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Washington Square Park
3pm
Today
Let’s get to it
3pm
Today
Let’s get to it
Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times
Trump nominee Ed Martin’s 100-plus appearances on Russian state-directed media RT and Sputnik from 2016 to 2024 alarm some former national security officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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“What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China…or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917”.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying a Generation of Knowledge
The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.
www.thenation.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China…or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917”.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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⏳ Only 5️⃣ days left until the #DayofActionforHigherEd. But it’s not too late to plan an action on your campus! Visit our website for an organizing toolkit, suggested actions, and a list of online panels and discussions.
#FreeHigherEdNow
www.dayofactionforhighered.org/toolkit
#FreeHigherEdNow
www.dayofactionforhighered.org/toolkit
Toolkit — A National Day of Action for Higher Ed
www.dayofactionforhighered.org
April 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
⏳ Only 5️⃣ days left until the #DayofActionforHigherEd. But it’s not too late to plan an action on your campus! Visit our website for an organizing toolkit, suggested actions, and a list of online panels and discussions.
#FreeHigherEdNow
www.dayofactionforhighered.org/toolkit
#FreeHigherEdNow
www.dayofactionforhighered.org/toolkit
Reposted by Samuel Kelton Roberts
Results of a university-wide survey at Columbia published on Mar. 7:
- 69% of respondents felt unsafe because of NYPD presence on campus in spring 2024
- 60.9% of respondents would feel less safe with continued NYPD presence on campus
- 69% of respondents felt unsafe because of NYPD presence on campus in spring 2024
- 60.9% of respondents would feel less safe with continued NYPD presence on campus
April 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Results of a university-wide survey at Columbia published on Mar. 7:
- 69% of respondents felt unsafe because of NYPD presence on campus in spring 2024
- 60.9% of respondents would feel less safe with continued NYPD presence on campus
- 69% of respondents felt unsafe because of NYPD presence on campus in spring 2024
- 60.9% of respondents would feel less safe with continued NYPD presence on campus
It gets worse and worse...
Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers
The Trump administration said she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.” Her friends and lawyers say all she did was co-author an essay critical of the war in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It gets worse and worse...
Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
The Great American Brain Drain commences... www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...
‘No Noncitizen Professor at My Institution Can Speak About Politics Ever Again’
Why Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, is leaving Yale for Canada.
www.chronicle.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Great American Brain Drain commences... www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...
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Opinion | Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Columbia (Gift Article)
The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil show that the culture war is no longer just a culture war.
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March 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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