Aru Panwar MD

I know I'm late to this realization, but the Medal of Freedom, the Purple Heart, the Legion of Merit, the Medals of Honor, and also the very presence of the men's hockey team is all...*all...about Trump basking in their reflected glory.

A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

Maher: So being Christian is an important part of being truly American?

Boebert: Absolutely

Talarico: I always speak up on behalf of my non-Christian neighbors. Because we as Christians are called to love them as ourselves, and forcing my religion down their throats is not love.

News flash: He’s not asking the Congress. He’s just creating personal slush funds. It’s open season for corruption in plain sight.

The Los Angeles Olympics enter the chat.
I’m worried that the US political dysfunction, Trump admin policies, a climate of fear, and Epstein related upheaval at the top organizational level for the games are all set to end the streak. We’ll be rooting for the games’ success, but man…

Ever notice that multiple‑choice quizzes often feel strangely predictable? I recently dug into why answers so often sit in the middle—and what this reveals about our deep, systematic difficulty with randomness. It’s more surprising than you might think. 🧵👇
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Trumpists do not believe that people who disagree with them are entitled to a voice in government.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

It’s the “two weeks” thing… all the time.

Demonizing others who may not align with your worldview sure doesn’t seem conducive to healthy debate or discourse.

Want sincere exchange of ideas? Start by being… sincere.

Pillen: “these young people here today inspire all of us to… say ‘we can have a good debate, we can talk, we can work through it.’”

Also Pillen: “I see it as right & wrong, God and Satan.”

Reconcile the two statements. A whole lot of lip service to healthy debate, while masking partisan vitriol.

Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...

"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"

What do we do with all the ‘occupy Mars’ merch now? 🤦🏻‍♂️

After artificial intelligence was added to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions and adverse events reut.rs/46G6Naa

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free… so that we can warehouse them.
Terrible people in positions of responsibility, making terrible and flawed decisions.

208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark Late Friday, two of the nation's most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and ideological spectrum) have overwhelmingly rejected

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

donald trump is a trickle-down racist www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1 dollar still equals 1 dollar tho

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Yep.

Let’s call a lie a lie, gang

Presumptions of good faith are naive

“Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, a group that has persistently questioned the evidence around gender-affirming care, which Republicans have used to justify legislation restricting or banning it. The group… funded evidence reviews referenced by ASPS”

By acknowledging uncertainty in measuring and forecasting public opinion, the consultant/strategist creates space for leaders to campaign on what they believe in — particularly, but not only, when it will match up with future opinion. As I write in the conclusion:

Quantum Sensing Will Test Legal Frameworks for Privacy Zahra Takhshid, Mark Gyure, and Vivek Krishnamurthy say quantum technologies pose profound challenges to established conceptions of privacy.

Quantum sensing technologies test existing privacy frameworks severely because they bypass the physical boundaries—walls, distance, the opacity of the human body—on which existing doctrine depends, write Zahra Takhshid, Mark Gyure & Vivek Krishnamurthy. The issue deserves more scrutiny, they say:

Oh the inconveniences of having laws and the constitution!

The Indian independence movement led by Gandhi was centered on peaceful action and civil disobedience. But sure, Mr. Yarvin and his pseudo intellectual ilk would certainly know better than any of us since they know a thing or two about making stuff up.

This is the strength and the playbook that @osbornforne.bsky.social will leverage in a tough challenge to Pete Ricketts in the Senate election in #Nebraska later this year. 🤞🏼

homer simpson says i see nothing i know nothing i was never here in a cartoon ALT: homer simpson says i see nothing i know nothing i was never here in a cartoon

Dunno about a ‘cabal’, but certainly seems like a coterie of people who benefited from network effects, and at the very least chose to look the other way.

Goes nowhere unless in a must pass funding bill.