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Posts by Hema Vraman, Ph.D.

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'Life of everything on earth' is at stake as EPA begins 'massive' deregulation: report CNN's chief climate correspondent issued a dire warning about the future of the planet now that the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to rip away regulations m...

But is that really such a big price to pay for slightly freer markets?

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Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.

Welfare Queen

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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

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This is where we are.

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DOGE Staffer Attempting to Fire Park Ranger is Mauled by Angry Bear β€œIt’s nice to know that someone appreciates the job I’m doing," the ranger said.

β€œIt’s nice to know that someone appreciates the job I’m doing,” the ranger said.

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When This Stanford Professor Got Cancer, He Decided to Teach a Class About It Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.

A beautiful story about a brave and caring dying Stanford doctor. Makes me proud of my university. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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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

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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.

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Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)?

A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

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Public notice:

If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).

@academic-chatter.bsky.social #OpenScience

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Trump Names Himself Principal Ballerina of Kennedy Center Ballet Trump took to Truth Social to announce a purge of the company's ballerinas.

Trump declared on Truth Social, β€œI will soon be announcing a new roster of ballerinas, with an amazing principal ballerina, DONALD J. TRUMP.”

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What a effing a$$*0!3!!

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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

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 ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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"Monstrous Originality": There is something the matter with Donald Trumps America.
🎯 @mukulkesavan.bsky.social

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How to See the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks in Love "The day steeps everything in golden liquid... A sidewalk cafe in the evening, with a wonderful amber light flooding through the doors and windows: huge, mad stars in an indigo sky. For this, you have to be great, crazy, or wildly in love."
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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!

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If an incredibly powerful person is angry at a journalist, the journalist is almost always doing it right.

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#Cartoon #Yogi https://buff.ly/4gKLVRD

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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.

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Why? No permission! 😏
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?

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The US Government Is Not a Startup Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

β€œIt 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 image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com

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Cuffed and deported: Indian immigrants share harrowing journey back from the US 104 deportees from the U.S. land in Amritsar, India, sharing harrowing tales of their journey, deception, and shattered dreams.

Deportees came shackled on plane, saw people dying on way to U.S.
www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

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Apoorvanand on Why RSS Will Not Oust Modi as Prime Minister Just Yet β€œAt this juncture, unless the corporates withdraw support from Modi, RSS is not going to undermine Modi’s supremacy.”

The corporates, RSS, and Modi
thediplomat.com/2024/08/apoo...

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Super joker this!
I'll be insulting all men if I called him a man!

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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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Elon Musk is a fascist The richest man in the world intends his far-right project to go global

Musk poses a threat to humanity.

www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-...

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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.

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India's economy slows down just when it was supposed to speed up Arvind Subramanian, chief economic adviser during Modi's first term, said the government has gone 'stale, and bereft' of ideas for tackling such problems. 'Ideas for long-term growth and boosting empl...

"Arvind Subramanian, chief economic adviser during Modi's first term, said the government has gone 'stale, and bereft' of ideas for tackling such problems as long-term growth and boosting employment"

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