@MatteaKramer

Writer of cultural commentary (who isn't?), @TomDispatch regular. Rarely seen on the platform f/k/a Twitter. My novel THE UNTENDED hits May 2025.

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Joined April 2010
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American Mental Health Care Gutted f.mtr.cool/pbyysilrfb Funding slashed while surprising new research shows bipartisan support for expanded services. @MatteaKramer @sean_fogler #health
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Across The Margin : The Podcast contemplates addiction and generational trauma in modern America with the author of Untended, Mattea Kramer. @osirispod @mikeshza #TheUntended #Addiction Apple:podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Spotify:open.spotify.com/episode/4IS…
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“Objective” “unbiased” “reporting”
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Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” theintercept.com/2024/04/15/…

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied...

An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.

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Sean Fogler@sean_fogler6 Feb 2024
In the US, Mental Health Treatment Can Be a Death Sentence | The Nation | Thank you ⁦⁦@thenation⁩ for highlighting my latest piece with ⁦@MatteaKramer⁩ thenation.com/article/societ…

In the US, Mental Health Treatment Can Be a Death Sentence

Deploying the language of “helping” those in need, policymakers are reaching not for a Band-Aid but a club.

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.@MatteaKramer/@sean_fogler: "Disconnection and loneliness aren’t just the maladies of a relatively few Americans, but the condition of the majority of us. Vast numbers of people are reaching for some tonic or other to manage difficult feelings." tomdispatch.com/when-in-doub… #USA

When in Doubt, Strip Search and Restrain the Unwell

Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency and Israel’s war on Gaza (not to mention the flare-ups of global climate change), the...

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"Helping" People by Shaming Them — and Canceling Their Civil Rights laprogressive.com/social-jus… State lawmakers of both parties are reaching for coercive treatment and involuntary commitment to address spiraling substance use crises. @MatteaKramer @sean_fogler #drugtreatment
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@MatteaKramer & @sean_fogler at TomDispatch today: How to react when lawmakers of virtually every political stripe seek to answer a mental health crisis in America by forcing people into institutionalized treatment. tomdispatch.com/when-in-doub…

When in Doubt, Strip Search and Restrain the Unwell

Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency and Israel’s war on Gaza (not to mention the flare-ups of global climate change), the...

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When in Doubt, Strip Search and Restrain the Unwell by @matteakramer & @sean_fogler tomdispatch.com/when-in-doub…

When in Doubt, Strip Search and Restrain the Unwell

Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency and Israel’s war on Gaza (not to mention the flare-ups of global climate change), the...

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TomDispatch@TomDispatch19 Dec 2023
"It took us about 40 years to realize that our quest to be accomplished and better than other people was, in fact, causing us despair." — @MatteaKramer & @sean_fogler tomdispatch.com/todays-most-…

Today’s Most Dangerous Drug

Consider two phenomena that might seem unrelated. This fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing a marked increase in overdose fatalities nationally. Nora Volkow,...

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Sean Fogler@sean_fogler18 Dec 2023
“In the U.S., even as there is a dawning awareness that the war on drugs has been a miserable failure, many elected officials (and presidential candidates) only want to double down on harsh policies.” ⁦@TomDispatch⁩ ⁦⁦@MatteaKramer⁩ tomdispatch.com/todays-most-…

Today’s Most Dangerous Drug

Consider two phenomena that might seem unrelated. This fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing a marked increase in overdose fatalities nationally. Nora Volkow,...

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TomDispatch@TomDispatch18 Dec 2023
"When it comes to addictions, whether to drugs or to a dangerous leader, the true medicine is connection to each other." by @MatteaKramer & @sean_fogler tomdispatch.com/todays-most-…

Today’s Most Dangerous Drug

Consider two phenomena that might seem unrelated. This fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing a marked increase in overdose fatalities nationally. Nora Volkow,...

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All Empire Is Local @MatteaKramer ow.ly/MWOj50GBm1R Mattea Kramer: Over the past year, thanks to activists, the notion of redress for people of African descent found its way onto the local government agenda. ow.ly/km8I50GBm1P
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At @TomDispatch, @MatteaKramer shows us how to face the hard questions we would rather not confront. #SocialJustice #Reparations #racism Read it here: 👇 tomdispatch.com/anti-imperia…
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TomDispatch@TomDispatch28 Oct 2021
All Empire Is Local, by @MatteaKramer tomdispatch.com/anti-imperia…

Anti-Imperialism You Can Try at Home

Robin Rue Simmons had been very curious about the truth of American life as a young person. But it was only after she finished high school, left her native Evanston, Illinois, and returned as an

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ANNE LAMOTT
@ANNELAMOTT12 Jul 2021
One more time, how to write: Stop not writing. Sit down by pre-arrangement w/yourself. No one cares if you write or not so you’d better. Keep your butt in the chair. Write a small passage, badly. Make it better, ie take out adverbs & boring parts. then write another passage badly
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Greg Nance@GregNance11 Feb 2021
Beautiful piece by @MatteaKramer on the lessons #recovery can teach us as we hold Big Pharma accountable for the opioid epidemic and seek to better support those impacted. thenation.com/article/archiv…

How Can Big Pharma Make Amends for the Opioid Epidemic?

It’s unlikely pharmaceutical executives will face a full reckoning in court, but transformative justice could give victims the relief they deserve.

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ella@ellammcd18 Nov 2020
RETWEET THIS. a) donate to our bail fund. venmo @nov17-bailfund b) call the Governor’s office, Attorney General, and Dept of Health and Human Services. The number for Governor Sununu is 603-271-2121. The number for DHHS is 1-844-275-3447. The number for the AG is 603-271-3658.
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TomDispatch@TomDispatch15 Sep 2020
Medicating Isolation, by @MatteaKramer tomdispatch.com/blog/176749/
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TomDispatch@TomDispatch15 Sep 2020
From TomDispatch today: The opioid crisis and how to deal during the pandemic, by @MatteaKramer tomdispatch.com/blog/176749/
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TomDispatch@TomDispatch19 Nov 2019
From TomDispatch today: What the victims and casualties of America’s opioid wars could teach us all tomdispatch.com/blog/176631/ by @MatteaKramer
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