Dr. Rebecca Noel

Book now under advance contract with Johns Hopkins UP. Save Our Scholars: The Quest for Health in American Schools, ~ 2020. Hooray!

ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso. The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until it closes. About 3,000 people packed in per day. Loud, unsanitary quarters crawling with insects. Food so scarce that detainees steal from each other just to eat. Disease spreading through filthy rooms, showers, and restrooms that go uncleaned. People losing weight. People unable to see a doctor. People losing their minds. Staff made nearly one 911 call per day in the camp’s first five months. One call captures a man sobbing after being assaulted by another detainee. Another has a doctor describing a man banging his head against a wall while expressing suicidal thoughts. A nurse calls about a pregnant woman in severe pain with coronavirus. Detainees suffering seizures, some resulting in serious head trauma. Ages ranged from a 19-year-old who fell from a bunk to a 79-year-old who couldn’t breathe. And then there’s the detail that should haunt this administration for the rest of its existence. Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager from Columbia, Missouri, who spent weeks in the camp before being deported to the Netherlands, told the AP he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool among the staff. They were wagering on which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had put $500 in. The total pot rode on the outcome. Ramsingh said the talk was particularly devastating because he had contemplated suicide himself. Guards are gambling on the deaths of people in their custody. People who are hungry. People who are sick. People who are begging for help through 911 calls that come in every single day. And the staff turned it into a game. This is not some rogue facility. This is the system working exactly as this administration designed it. Overcrowded by policy. Underfed by neglect. Understaffed by choice. They built a place where human beings deteriorate and then the people paid to watch over them place bets on who breaks first. The AP has the data. The recordings. The interviews. The court filings. This is documented. This is real. This is happening right now in El Paso, Texas, in the United States of America. Share this. Do not let them bury it under another news cycle.

“This is what happens, Mr. President. When you dehumanize people, when you call them garbage and animals, people are going to get hurt. People are going to get killed.” - CT AG William Tong, shares some comments left on a post about him and his wife fostering a Black Lab

@DannyMoylan06 I’m so sorry. This should never ever happen.

Sitting in my dorm at Brown University preparing for this press conference to hear how many of my classmates are dead.

Life in England 50 to 100+ years ago 🧵 1. This is what England looked like in 1945

@GarciaRosalind I would contact a rare book dealer. Many will travel to you if what you have is good. They may give you a single price for the lot, less than you’d get selling them individually but one and done. Or (slower) find someone who will sell individually on commission.

I’ve been going through my academic parents’ thousands of books that span 300 yrs, including mid 20th c first editions and an 18th cookbook that was beautifully rebound in the 19th c. It is onerous. Most I’m just boxing up for the next generation, bc 1/

Why the hell was this not in the news yesterday or today?

I love going home to New Hampshire and if it's for a good cause I know I'm going to run into Joyce Craig. I'm not registered to vote in the Granite State any more, but if I was, I'd be honored to cast my ballot to make her the next governor. I believe in NH and I believe in protecting reproductive freedom. Long story short: My choice is Joyce!

I held it together to the end and then the last few seconds finally got me 😭😭😭

This cartoon. 🥺

As we all await the outcome of what feels like a make-or-break election, I want to offer some perspective, if you’ll hand a fellow with eight-plus decades the mic for a moment.

@CarrWrites I love that!!! It’s how I feel too!

the guy who just mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale

Holy shit, this “American girl” ad from @senecaprojectus is amazing!!! Hard to see the letters I’m typing through the tears streaming down my face though.

What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!

Remember when Trump called Kamala’s supporters trash a few weeks ago? 0 articles written about it.

@Schwarzenegger I have no confidence that it would be four years. He has promised to suspend the Constitution. I don't know why everyone doesn't see that.

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org

In response to the Trump campaign's dangerous vitriol, the heads of America’s leading Latino organizations condemned Trump and his entire campaign with statements from @votolatino @UnidosUSAF @latinovictoryus @AmericasVoice @MiFamiliaVota @HispanicFed: votolatino.org/media/press-re…

Would you be OK with this "day of love" happening at your house? Me neither. But it did.

It's great to be in Manchester this morning. As mayor, I ✅ Delivered over 2,000 new homes ✅ Secured $44 million to support our bio-manufacturing industry ✅ Raised the minimum wage for all city employees And I’m ready to continue fighting for families in Concord. #NHPolitics