1/ THREAD. I just left the Vaccine Center at @nyulangone, where I gave blood for a research study looking at #COVID19 immune responses.
2/ This blood draw is to establish a baseline reading before I get a #covid booster shot on 11/2.
3/ On 11/9, a week after the booster, they’ll take my blood again & see what’s changed.
The research could help figure out whether folks like me, who had #COVID19 and then got fully vaccinated (@pfizer for me), need boosters.
4/ As I was leaving, I bumped into Dr. Mark Mulligan (@mjmull), lead investigator on the study, who told me that they’ll have a research paper based on the study published soon.
5/ Dr. Mulligan enrolled me in this study back in March 2020, from my hospital bed, when I was at @nyulangone with #COVID19.
It was nice to see him now that I’m doing so much better and pretty much recovered (even my #LongCovid symptoms are mostly gone).
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1/ Here’s the statement about the Yale Law School email controversy that Marina Edwards, president of the Yale Black Law Students Association, posted to The Wall (the YLS listserv) earlier today.
I’m posting in two parts. This is Part I (four images).
2/ And here is Part II of the statement of Yale BLSA president Marina Edwards about the Yale Law email controversy (three images).
3/ I don’t agree with everything in Marina Edwards’s message, but I think it is a measured, thoughtful, and generally positive statement about this controversy.
1/ Here's my interview with Trent Colbert, the Yale Law School student who sent the controversial "trap house" email, and a friend of his who's a fellow @YaleLawSch student.
"I was never aware of the word 'trap house' having any racial connotations. I thought of a 'trap house' as like a frat house, just without the frat. I had been calling our house the 'NALSA trap house' for months."
3/ Trent: "I’ve received many private messages of support. But nobody wants to be the next person targeted on GroupMe."
Trent's Friend: "There’s a very 'emperor’s new clothes' vibe—when someone says something is offensive, everyone else has to play along."
1/ THREAD. There is now a push to get Trent Colbert, the Yale Law School student who sent the “trap-house email,” removed as a 2L student representative.
Here’s the form letter the students who want him removed are circulating for signature.
2/ This is a terrible idea. I think it’s unfair to Trent Colbert, who I believe is the victim here.
But even if you disagree, this will just increase the ability of @fedsoc & @TheFIREorg to claim free-speech martyrdom. See @mjs_DC:
3/ Ousting Trent Colbert will just pour more gasoline on the fire.
The YLS email controversy has already made Slate and the @washingtonpost. This latest development could get it into a few more papers (maybe @nytimes).
2/ The post is doing excellent traffic, getting tons of reads, and I'm getting many new sign-ups for my Substack, Original Jurisdiction.
After 8 hours or so, the post has gotten more than 10,000 views—which, for Original Jurisdiction, is huge.
3/ But here's what I find most interesting: the post is getting little traction on social media, especially Twitter. Very few links, mentions, retweets, etc.
1/ Assuming even the partial accuracy of what @aaronsibarium just wrote (apparently based in part on leaked audio), what's going on at Yale Law School is deeply disturbing.