
A. Jamie Saris
@jamie_saris
I am a medical anthropologist in Ireland. I've researched poverty, mental illness, addiction and HIV in Europe and Africa. I post as much on politics as health.
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24-07-2016 20:31:43
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A corrective to crass nostalgia peddled by Irish Far Right accounts (and associated bots) on X. 1980s Ireland (to be fair, a place with elements I liked) also had many flaws needing fixing. Leave the Past to the past: our direction of travel is the future. irishtimes.com/culture/tv-rad…





Peak Wellness-Industry-Nonsense, blended into a smoothie-from-hell. How soon b4 RFKJr insists that, "Sure that looks great, but it really needs a methylene blue shot-boost to get the full effect." Thanks to MAHA, this insanity now ranks as medical advice🤦‍♂️ We r in a new Dark Age.



America’s slide into authoritarianism under MAGA/Trump is best articulated in a Russian register. If these Russian terms, with strange spellings, but recognisable meanings, don’t terrify you as an American, then you aren’t paying attention. nytimes.com/2025/06/09/opi… via @NYTOpinion

Is “Bro culture” now mainstream and podcast the privileged medium? One line stands out: “Authenticity, it seems, is what fills the void when authority dies.” Include “expertise” here. Passionate intensity trumps all. US is now a Petri dish for demagogues. nytimes.com/2025/06/10/opi…






If this animal was Muslim, MangoMussolini and MAGA would scream, “Terrorism!” 24/7. But, he’s Christianist, hating the people MAGA hates, attacking the people they label as internal enemies. Thus, they r silent. US now has a disorganised SA. nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/… via @NYTimes

Macron is tone-deaf in conflating stripping Sarkozy of his Legion of Honour with not "respecting" the Presidency. Powerful men are vain men, and a legacy of shame is often more-feared than a slow and uncertain kid-glove punishment of political corruption. theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…


Social media posts r now formally part of the student visa application process. Undefined “hostility” to US policy and culture will bar entry. Only a weak, vain, thin-skinned country behaves thusly. MangoMussolini is remaking USA in his image. nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/… via @NYTimes
