Joseph Yaroch
Hike/run/photo: rocks and plants. Psychiatrist. New Mexico. Armchair philosopher, and founder of the Society of Perpetual Sophomores. Prepare for a general strike.
- The war against higher education is a part of the plan to increase the birth rate. This is the plan by the authors of Project 2025. newrepublic.com/article/2058... via @newrepublic.com
- This is some kind of cactus, probably a Mammilaria, on the vertical wall of an arroyo. That is the kind of tenacity I aspire to have.
- These are variants of what is known as a Phrygian cap. The Wikipedia entry describes another: "The original cap of liberty was the Roman pileus, the felt cap of emancipated slaves of ancient Rome, which was an attribute of Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty." It appears periodically in history.
- Without vaccines, Big Pharma will become Bigger Pharma www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...
- Desert rose, morning light.
- "Amid chants and signs saying “Hate doesn't make America great” and “Abolish ICE” students from at least Centennial, Las Cruces, and Mayfield high schools marched across town picking up more students at each high school." www.krwg.org/krwg-news/20...
- Work on the DSM-6 is underway. I am happy to see the consideration of the social determinants of mental health. Conspicuously absent is a consideration of the political determinants of mental health. #psychiatry psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
- We could use a little mercy now. We could also use a good anthem. This is the anthem. www.jambase.com/article/bruc...
- "I stopped seeing tears as something to manage and began to see them as something to honor."
- The new eugenics will not arrive in hooded robes or propaganda posters. It will arrive in spreadsheets, algorithms, funding streams, and "pilot programs." It will arrive cloaked in semantic distinctions between "public" and "private." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
- “The green dyed smoke suggests high toxicity to protesters,” he adds, “but the effect is more psychological.” @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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- Why Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership www.juancole.com/2026/01/repu...
- Snow-capped Organ Mountains, near Las Cruces, NM, USA.
- Billboard at the football stadium at New Mexico State University. If I were the parent of a prospective student touring the NMSU campus, this would give me pause. (The text of the sign is in the ALT text.)
- "A multivariate analysis showed that videos with lower-quality evidence attracted more views than those with the highest level of evidence." So much for the marketplace of ideas. www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...
- Will they still vote for him now that it's clear that the sniveling coward merely pays others to do the shooting? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-supp...
- Everett Willard Gray II, Robert Stitzel and Marquis Reed Gilmore Jr., all of Midland, Texas — repeatedly transferred wells among “a series of shell corporations, LLCs, and partnerships they created.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/new-...
- "...Good’s killing was emblematic of its true mission: to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city..." It's been said that "the cruelty is the point." That's not right. The spectacle is the point. The cruelty is merely the cost of doing business when the business is spectacle. 🧵1/3
- For years, I've wanted to go up on that ridge. Today, I did it. Got a decent view of the Organ Mountains. The location is northwest of Picacho Peak. (There is more than one Picacho Peak. This is the one near Las Cruces, New Mexico.) Landscape hiking photography. ⛰️🥾📸
- Gift link. The entire article is worth reading. "The past offers grounds neither for despair nor complacency. Recovery has never been automatic." www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
- Desert Rose
- I will link to the open-access version on MSN in the comments. My own comment is this: Knowing the cause of a problem does not always help you fix the problem. Sometimes we feel better knowing the cause, and sometimes it helps to know the cause, but sometimes not.
- The girl with the folded arms. 😣
- Diminished US nursing homes capacity may limit access to long-term care, slow hospital release | CIDRAP www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/dim...
- In an email to Sherman on Tuesday, Bright said that “issues of race, gender, and sexuality are not peripheral but integral” to the class, which focuses on ethics in public administration practice and how it is shaped by public servants and the people they serve www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
- The resulting three-part investigation digs into the subsidies baked into ranching, the environmental impacts from livestock, and the political clout that protects this status quo. Here are the takeaways from that work. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/graz...
- "Infected vectors were collected from both sylvatic and urban locations, including Franklin Mountains State Park and residential areas in El Paso (TX) and Las Cruces (NM)." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Noticing things. It's just past the solstice. Whoever designed the shade structure knew how to calculate the angle of the sun at its lowest arc, so as to ensure the playground equipment would still be shaded at this time of year.
- AI models were given four weeks of therapy: the results worried researchers www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris | WIRED www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
- There is no excuse for this, given the amount of information technology we have. "Health insurers rarely face consequences for errors in their provider directories that make it difficult for many consumers to find in-network mental health care." www.propublica.org/article/embl...
- Sunset tonight over Las Cruces, New Mexico. This was taken from a spot near the Shalem Colony bridge over the Rio Grande.
- GreenPower Motor Company chooses Santa Teresa, New Mexico for its new manufacturing facility...As part of this new venture, GreenPower will offer dealer-level pricing to the state on Class 4 all-electric, purpose-built, zero-emission commercial vehicles. www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
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- “The present study provides new evidence to support a perspective shift in social cognition research, away from individual impairments towards the dynamic interplay between participants of social exchanges." www.psypost.org/new-research...
- The US used to try to prevent this kind of thing. Now, we are causing it.
- "The evidence is compelling. A study in 2018 found that the risk of a heart attack jumps sixfold in the week after a confirmed flu infection." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Why can't we all be friends?
- Hiking landscape photography in New Mexico. This shows some of the sights at the Dripping Springs Natural Area.
- “These events highlight the reality that pathogen emergence is not a rare anomaly but an ongoing process influenced by an increasingly interconnected and ecologically fragile world,” they added. @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...
- Trump says if Iran "kills peaceful protesters," the U.S. will "come to their rescue" - CBS News Question: If ICE kills innocent civilians, will the US come to the rescue? www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...
- DOJ Sent Letters to Medical Journals. Then What Happened? Nothing. "But when Trump's officials encounter opposition, they typically crumble, making plain the emptiness of their claims and the weaknesses for which they perpetually overcompensate." www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
- Most, about 2/3, think it's the responsibility of the government to ensure everyone in the US has healthcare. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Fears Mount That US Federal Cybersecurity Is Stagnating—or Worse | WIRED www.wired.com/story/expire...
- This is a view of the Organ Mountains. You can see the Robledos mountains as well, and a bit of the Doña Anas.
- "Collective narcissism differs from simple group pride or satisfaction. It involves a defensive form of attachment where members believe their group possesses an undervalued greatness that requires external validation." www.psypost.org/perceived-sp...
