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United health mentioned 🧍

(Tw) Pomona mentioned

Embarrassing that I forgot the connection but when the book started on about how Sackler began to collect artifacts from china my jaw actually dropped when I realized how many times I’ve been to the … Arthur sackler .. gallery… of Asian art . In dc

Every time the author tells us about the new drug being invented during the time he introduces them like it’s love island. A hot new bombshell (benzo) has entered the villa (the American marketplace and ads in medical journals). Her name —- Valium!

Big pharma meet your end (investigative journalist who I’m fond of after reading his book about the troubles)

I went in thinking I’d get spun some yarns about Bobby Sands and maybe just organize my preconceived timeline better, but before I knew it I’d started reading a book about preserving memory after collective trauma, reckoning that reduces harm, and a tenuous road to healing and reflection. The initiative from BC to hold and honor these stories is maybe the only good thing a catholic institution has done in. Ever

“Niall should petrol bomb you” — twitter user @nicolemcguill in a reply to Harry Styles, April 8, 2013. Early influential political text for me .

Tfw you’re an English official and you start to tweak when you realize the women you’re letting starve to death would be martyrs and every Irish person would hate you so bad you “fear even going to Boston, Chicago, or New York”. “They’re everywhere.”

So mf good. Audiobook in a thick Irish brogue >>

Books can be bad and sort of entertaining too

It’s reading like a resume :( some stuff is interesting, the LOS planning theory, the vision zero initiative she’s worked on (in the DMV!) but it did not feel like a manifesto. Or maybe yes for beginners but I’m a seasoned TWoC listener…. These are rookie numbers

These characters meet at an anti IMF/world bank protest ❤️ verbatim

It’s not like crazy groundbreaking but it is a hearty novel that never falters in pace or intrigue. Slavic lore, animalic astrology, small town murder mystery, translations within a translation. Thank you dua lipa

Dua Lipa told me to read it

Genius

This book is unironically healing my disordered eating

Bro is cooking with GAS this book is written so fucking impeccably gnarly good im dizzy