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The Trump right hates Zelenskyy because he exemplifies integrity and courage, and the price of following Trump is to abjure those qualities forever.

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In case you are wondering, my doctor social media is blowing up with updates on measles cases, discussions of all the ways cuts to Medicaid or Medicare will hurt people and the realization that our patients do not understand enough about how they get their healthcare to be prepared for this moment.

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Life wisdom: it's very hard to know how important you are to another person. You might be a minor player to someone you've known for a long time, and you might be crucial to someone you've just met. Bear this in mind.

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The Medicaid programs of 27 states don’t have the word “Medicaid” in their name, perhaps out of politeness. Much as my students in Arizona would occasionally discover to their surprise that they were Protestants, quite a few people might soon find out—once it goes away—that they’re on Medicaid.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Reference Lysenko.

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Best new business idea of the week? "Require a huge increase in literally millions of meaningless reports and extraneous emails sent. And must be read." Oh, that will help.

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Excellent point. There is nothing magical or better about "data." The selection of variables matters, measurement matters, sampling matters, choice of comparison test matters. More of this, Bsky!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Simon says, "Call it Gulf of America." Now wait for the next one.

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Trump border czar Tom Homan on Eric Adams: “If he doesn’t come through, I’ll be back in New York City. And we won’t be sitting on a couch. I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying where the hell is the agreement we came to.” Sure sounds like a quid pro quo.

submitted 15 days ago • 105 comments

They're burning down the country. 80 years of global leadership, and America now self-destructs in 3 weeks.

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Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.

submitted 16 days ago • 605 comments

President Trump was officially elected chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he announced on Wednesday. The center is now entirely made up of Trump appointees when it has historically been run by bipartisan boards.

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Details here on how much money will be lost for some of the largest and best medical research organizations in the country. This is under the guise of "reducing waste." Individual universities losing over $100 million dollars.

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Josh Marshall. Cosign. "The standard should be no help on the budget or the debt ceiling until the lawbreaking stops. Period. End of story. No wilding gangs marauding through the federal government. End the criminal conduct. Period. That’s it. No nuance."

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

From a reader, attentive to 'frog' metaphors. With an apt point.

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

submitted 26 days ago • 2648 comments

This is the moment we’ve always been headed towards. If the President refuses to follow a court’s order we are in deep crisis. The GOP has courted this disaster.

submitted 27 days ago • 608 comments

The unelected, not-Senate-confirmed, not-security-cleared, not even actually employed by the US government techbros of Musk's weird militia are conducting a coup one agency at a time.

submitted 28 days ago • 33 comments

Now that's how you do it. Congress, take note.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

We keep hearing about masculinity from the Zuckerbergs of the world-- this woman has shown more courage in this 60-second clip than any of the tech billionaires have shown in recent memory as they grovel at Trump's feet.

submitted 40 days ago • 533 comments

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

submitted 40 days ago • 1181 comments

BREAKING: Trump declares an invasion and orders domestic use of the military at the southern border, authorizing full military force.

submitted 41 days ago • 220 comments

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

submitted 53 days ago • 491 comments

At the heart of social science, or indeed of Wissenschaft any sort, is the often difficult and complex task of discovering and telling the truth. I try not to get into partisan politics in these posts, but when telling the truth is involved, there's sometimes no avoiding it.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Pet peeve: at a nice small cafe, individuals who camp out for hours with laptop and phone and one cup, as groups come then leave because no tables are available.

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On Jimmy Carter: lots of folks don't know that once upon a time, there was a large, very committed white liberal Christian population of the South. They -- we, our church was part of it --vigorously supported civil rights. I do wonder where that is today.

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Old guy cheap advice du jour: try to genuinely enjoy other people's successes. They will love you for it, and it definitely improves your own life.

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Don't you just love easy people?

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Yes. And the general point is well-taken, and applicable in lots of cases.

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Interesting definitional question, watching donations to the presidential inauguration: at what point does lobbying become bribery; and when does bribery become extortion?

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

The problem isn't closing down the Department of Education. The problem is closing down education. @dianeravitch.bsky.social

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

One of the rarest things for a teacher is a student who truly wants to learn. Not just going through the motions, or working for the grade, or even doing it all seriously as a valuable exercise. But truly wants to understand the subject at hand. It's unusual for me to do, as well.

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Just remember, higher ed institutions don't rank themselves, and can't tell employers which colleges to favor as they hire. They don't determine lifetime incomes of their graduates, or their political influence, or any of that. They try to help their own students, but they don't control inequality.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, did he “tease” seizing other countries’ territory, @cnn.com? What a little scamp he is. What an incorrigible rascal.

submitted 69 days ago • 417 comments

In my experience, people who say that they "work hard and play hard" only actually "play hard."

submitted 69 days ago • 25 comments

We're back on Greenland?!

submitted 70 days ago • 4 comments

Just saw an ad for Sling TV that straightforwardly makes fun of the idea of reading a newspaper. Shows people throwing their newspaper back at the delivery person. After all, who needs literacy? Ugh...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

For scientific progress and deeper understanding, concepts and variables are incredibly important. But just remember that they don't actually exist in the real world. They are tools, not reality.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Do you think at some point people will realize that allowing the unlimited accumulation of wealth was a bad idea?

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Academic cheap advice du jour: Write fan letters. When you read something you like, let the author know. No one in academia -- even "big shots" -- are actually famous, even if they are known in our world. And most will appreciate a little appreciation. PS be substantive in your praise. Enjoy.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, please.

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