Posts by Hema Vraman, Ph.D.
Today's @usatoday.com front page
First US death from measles in 10 years
First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US
All of this fully preventable
This is where we are.
A beautiful story about a brave and caring dying Stanford doctor. Makes me proud of my university. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
The only thing more embarrassing than voting with N Korea at the UN is turning over your government to the guy who invented the Cybertruck
Empirical reality completely undermines Western narratives about Chinese "debt-trap diplomacy". A Johns Hopkins University investigation of more than a thousand loans to African countries found that China never seized assets, and never even used courts to enforce payments.
Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)?
A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)
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Trump declared on Truth Social, βI will soon be announcing a new roster of ballerinas, with an amazing principal ballerina, DONALD J. TRUMP.β
What a effing a$$*0!3!!
US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off.
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps.
@sneweyy.bsky.social reports. Full story below β¬οΈ
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
"Monstrous Originality": There is something the matter with Donald Trumps America.
π― @mukulkesavan.bsky.social
When the BJp was in power 27 yrs ago, I remember that every.single.road in Delhi was dug up.
Congrats ppl of Delhi...now you can enjoy the dug up roads...forever!
If an incredibly powerful person is angry at a journalist, the journalist is almost always doing it right.
We all knw that Union HM is the only brains behind the Union Govt &BJP. There is no more cabinet left. Even a once sane voice such as EAM has been asked to shut his trap.
Someone should document the number of times
"Narendra Modi"/"Modi" was uttered on SM. It will tell us how weak he really is.
Why? No permission! π
What do the seeking of "permissions" serve? If any impromptu sessions do take place on the streets, cannot the police discern what the likely or potential threats could be? Do police constables recieve no training?
βIt maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own imageβ¦ This is the way of the startup.β @wired.com
Super joker this!
I'll be insulting all men if I called him a man!
Whatsapp Uni msgs STILL promote the greatness of Modi.
How he has transformed Bharat, and how India is now still a Vishwaguru etc, etc, etc...
This is no longer delusional, this is something else.
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I can think of only 1 reason: the fear of seeing their own children grow up & "becoming" one. Many folks return to India just b4 the chdrn hit puberty: thy can thus inculcate desi values.