Not every Chotiner interview is him making some blowhard look foolish. Sometimes he has experts explaining complex situations in clear terms. Also good discussion of the comparison to Noriega, which was my first question this morning about all this...

Well if there’s one good thing, we’ve learned over the last few decades that people always embrace the US and democracy after their leaders are removed by the US military. So this should work out — hold on, I’m getting an update …

Oh so no, we apparently just kidnapped the leader of a foreign country. What the actual fuck.

Thanks. "5. After they finish freaking the fuck out" and "Oh, yeah...and the deductible & out of pocket cap will be reset for 11 months instead of 12, so anything they pay towards that in January won't be counted." Hope I'm really wrong but shit's about to get really serious for many many people.

Subtweeting a conversation -- my SAT scores were an accurate reflection of a dehydrated, exhausted and still somewhat drunk 17 year old version of myself was capable of that day.... I sure as hell hope I've grown a bit since then.

Reading abstracts for a conference and I'm trying to figure out how to write in useful detail "NOOOOOO..... THAT ESTIMATOR DOES NOT DO THAT WITH THOSE ASSUMPTIONS"

What happens when you remove medical debt from credit reports? I'll be presenting on this topic at #ASSA2026 in Philly on Saturday at 10:15am (Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth Hall D). DM me if you'd like to meet up.

We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

#rejection 1 for the year Goal is 18

2026 is already here in Australia! Here is our Year End Wrap Up , just in time for triangleblogblog.com/2025/12/31/y...

When you’re definitely not leading a heist of German bearer bonds

Pretty much the same here... I look exceptionally productive on my annual review (due next week) despite my life getting complicated because of good co-authors and systems to create functional pipelines

This is the power of coaching and consulting. ✨ Powerful conversations that help us remember ✨ Support to do it well ✨ Space to see the broader vision of how it fits into our lives In October 2025, I founded my coaching and consulting business, Optimizing Health Collaborative, PLLC.

2025 was a BIG YEAR 2026 will be a better year

I admire the Dutch for many reasons, one of which is that they celebrate the New Year with doughnuts. I’ve taken a leaf out of their book, and so Oliebollen, the doughnuts in question, are #RecipeOfTheDay. And Happy New Year! www.nigella.com/recipes/new-...

Not sure if knowing what to do with a couple of salmon steaks OR knowing that parchment paper is amazing is a better signal that I'm in my mid-40s and well domesticated

My reaction when I teach to the rural health care transformation fund is it is a great example of the "-illions" problem When I am not teaching my reaction is "that is adorable....."

Thinking about how hard it is for people in the U.S. to budget & accurately predict healthcare costs as I stare down this bill for my 2.5 y/o son's birth. Yes, 2.5 years later.

excited to go on a tour at the carolina tiger rescue today. www.ourstate.com/to-the-rescue/

Previously, I posted that Na-ion batteries were likely to reach Li-ion battery energy density faster due to the prior advances and experience from Lithium work. Well, that’s appears to be the case. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.uh.edu/news-events/...

Got 2 minor R&Rs for Christmas

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

Possible record warmth here for Christmas. Have I mentioned that we hope to continue hiring in the years ahead? :)

Good driving music open.spotify.com/artist/1p0Nh...

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate

Merry Christmas to all celebrating starting tonight. (Everyone else, meet you at the movies and Chinese food)

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget." Public Universities FTW!

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

Here’s a more normal colored one. I took this around 6 AM in February 2024.

Chapel Hill will finish in the top ten wettest years on record despite an abnormally dry fall. The 8.66 inches departure from normal is almost entirely from 3 hours of rainfall in July from tropical depression Chantal.

Chapel Hill- go catch the sunset, right now.

This post-holiday party pile of balloons has been sitting in the @hopkinspress.bsky.social basement for several days and I believe I showed admirable restraint for those several days but today I could restrain myself no further

Weiss in this move is revealing herself as monstrous. What happened in our name at CECOT shocks the conscience. But not hers, suggesting its absence. That shocks requires empathy, recognizing other humans as real and of value. Evil can be defined as knowing better yet choosing to do & be worse.

@tomlevenson.bsky.social, @anniedemoranville.bsky.social

I honestly can’t take a fourth presidential election cycle in a row in which privileged white leftists claim that the Democratic Party doesn’t do anything because they’re too lazy to spend 5 minutes doing a Google search.

Feels sort of under the radar amidst everything else: CMS has until December 31 — just six business days away — to decide awards under the Rural Health Transformation Program. Every single state is waiting to learn what share of the $50 billion pie they’ll be getting.

Tale of two states: Effects of strict silver loading or the lack thereof in the 2026 ACA marketplace xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/tale-of-tw...

Kenneth Gainwell: catch of the year candidate

Here’s my version of the chocolate fudge brownie. There’s several different versions of the recipe bouncing around the intertubes. Including on the Palmer House’s website. The brownie itself was invented there. Mrs Palmer wanted a signature desert for the World’s Columbia Exposition 1893. 1/

Double chocolate mousse pie time! Ingredients: 16 ounces of heavy whipping cream divided. 8 ounces of dark chocolate (I mix the 66% & 74%) 1 box of chocolate teddy grahams 6 ounces unsweetened butter Vanilla extract to taste (a splash) 1/

Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada. www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

James Madison’s collapsing just like his vision of checks and balances did.

I've got notes on our entire system of tribal sovereignty, the BIA and alla that but the healthcare opportunities that open up for Lumbee people - that alone is HUGE

Big eligibility shock for #ACA as pricing and enrollment rules for AI/AN individuals are v different

so it's not a good idea to deep fry my frozen turkey next to my dried out tree?

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?" Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.