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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 5h

Tonight, someone in our buy nothing group, a neighbor, needed a tent because they are becoming homeless. And that is not okay. I made us give up one of our two tents that we never use. And it feels totally insufficient and dumb, phenomenally.dumb

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 2h

oh I recall — people like Sarah Palin made fun of scientific research grants on “fruitflies” without knowing their importance in biomedical research including multiple Nobel Prizes over the years

science is not common sense

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 2h

heaven help us

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 3h

Format's Last Theorem, now with proofs

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 3h

I don't understand how this OK with anyone

This is what the world sees as official American values

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 10h

For those unfamiliar -- the term is more common w far right movements in Europe than here -- "remigrate" implies not deporting migrants here illegally, which DHS does. It implies pushing legal migrants, naturalized citizens, even people born here to give up US citizenship and go 'home' [sic]

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 3h

you don't, of course

this circumstance was adventitious -- I was working on something else when I saw the post and thought "this can't be right" and typed in a couple of prompts as a lark

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 4h

I keep going back to the Take Care* clause, which bore so much weight for so long, and thus upheld our country's vision of self-rule

it has been decimated by POTUS with the Supreme Court's help & Congress's complicity

*Art II.3: "[POTUS] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed"

Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 4h

Trump is trying to extort and punish blue states into submission. (He's doing the same thing to universities, science, and the arts.)

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 4h

the audience is still left with the challenge of understanding what they're seeing and/or figuring out whom to trust

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 4h

these are the kind of relatives who you end up being glad to see at family holidays

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 4h

I fear that too few of us (or whoever's left) will know the right prompts

It's too powerful -- mainly because it can push out millions of lies that are hard to distinguish from the truth

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 5h

yes, but because of AI I was able to retrieve the raw data, create a graph of the distribution, decompose the distribution into two populations, and save both graphs in about 45 seconds

it's not right

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 5h

once again I'm begging the people who write these sorts of headlines to learn a crumb of statistics

"average" = mean, median, or mode (usually mean)
in all cases "average" depends on distribution
all assume a single mode
most things aren't unimodal

P.S. I hate how easy it was to make this graph

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 5h

"does it come in a paper bag?"

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 6h

The order takes affect Wednesday and bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to, remaining at or returning from court proceedings inside the courthouse or its parking lots, sidewalks or entryways.

Judicial warrants can still be served.

Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect

The Cook County public defender’s office and legal aid organizations had sought the move, saying they had clients who were avoiding court out of fear of being detained by federal immigration authoriti...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

yes, that's a new variable we have to contend with, but being in the same area and demographic, I also see a lot of indulgence on this and other matters that wouldn't fly in my parents's house and could never fly in mine as a parent

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 9h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 14h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

I'm genuinely frightened of the ease with which this poison took over our country, including these young people who chose to get involved in politics

I never saw anything like this as a kid growing up in Tennessee

easy to say "it's their parents" but I suspect that's a big part of it too

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

the entire clip is essential -- her critique is broad and damning

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 6h

he's got all the fallacies up his sleeve (here, tu quoque)

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 9h

Or Treasury, for that matter

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 10h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 8h

where we are as a society: former chief prosecutor hints at pressure to bring a meritless prosecution by posting an anchorman meme

Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 8h

It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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