For the legal scholars among us: does Article 4 § 4 of the US Constitution “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government” represent a guarantee of the federal government that each state will have a Republican government that the US will or both ?

I loved those shows Bob Dylan - Wembley Arena, London, 1987. Videos From The 15th, 16th, and... youtu.be/ZvZ4zP0aJYA?...

Our wisest voice at this difficult moment

“Erik, you’re not crazy.” A murder-suicide shows how ChatGPT fueled a dangerous man’s paranoia. A very disturbing story. Companies, regulatory bodies and medical groups need awareness of these risks with AI applications. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

We are in uncharted and dangerous territory in regard to our public health and scientific capacity. As a physician who has cared for patients nearly half a century I know how hard making medical decisions is and getting clinical care right. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

The are many anecdotes for #ChatGPT helping patients. But here's one with fallacious A.I. guidance that resulted in serious complications www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

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Gen. Caine appears to be wearing a Bluetooth enabled Oura ring in the picture on the upper right Is that an issue in the White House situation room? Can the Bluetooth be turned off ?

Article 1 § 6 Clause 1 US Constitution “They (Senators and Representatives) shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same”

My Father in Law Bernie Glassman (here at age 100) Eisenhower’s cook before D-day Stormed the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. Of Blessed Memory.

@netflix.com Just finished Dept. Q best new mystery drama I have seen in months. Great characters, pacing and development. Wonderful performances especially that of Matthew Goode who was extraordinary and always the always great Kelly Macdonald. Alexej Manvelov too. Please renew.

As in our response to disorders that we had previously vanquished via vaccination, the assumption that we can ignore the risk of a new pandemic by unilaterally disarming ourselves - losing the speed and specificity of the mRNA platform will be seen as hubris. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

In honor of Bob Dylan’s 84th birthday his acceptance speech receiving the 1991 Grammy Lifetime achievement award. He quotes Psalm 27:10 (via an exposition of Rabbi Sampson Raphael Hirsch ) on redemption from defilement. Great comedic timing too. youtu.be/k7sFHsw8-_w?...

Mixed Bag #22: Nils Wendel on Learning Psychopharmacology Wendel explores the topic using a book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/mixed-bag-...

The government seems bent on destroying Harvard for the offense of fighting back. Another rational editorial from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

@peterdkramer.bsky.social recent novel is worth your attention www.peterdkramer.com/death-of-the...

In the department of nothing changes. From the 1936 American College of Physicians Presidential Address by JA Miller MD: “Is it not at least partly true that the extraordinary development of cults of faith and mental healing in this country estimated to effect approximately 10 million of our 1/2

READ THE COMPLAINT: Harvard sues the Trump administration for its attempts to "coerce and control" the university in violation of the First Amendment, the APA, etc. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u... Looks like the Liz Truss lettuce meter has been activated.

The uncanny Bob Dylan song that inaugurated an era of dread A great piece from Sebastian Smee. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

“The University at Cambridge” i.e. Harvard is written into the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Chapter 5 Articles 1-3 with powers granted to them “forever” malegislature.gov/Laws/Constit...

A secretive team of gamblers hatched a scheme to snag a $57.8 million Texas lottery jackpot. Politicians are calling it theft. The bettors say they followed all the rules. When is the movie coming out ?

p-Tau217 is a breakthrough blood test that can predict and may help prevent Alzheimer's disease. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-breakt... Here's the rundown on it. Free, open-access.

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

It’s so unfortunate that our founders didn’t think to design our system with an Article 1 branch in charge of taxes and tariffs.

From @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social important piece in todays @nytimes.com The experience of a deep sense of rightness of honor associated with service - and listening to the calling of one’s soul is both very important and so often ignored. Especially true now.

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We are systematically and simultaneously destroying nearly every economic scientific and geopolitical advantage we have developed over the past 80 years. It is a remarkable and tragic event with few modern parallels. If not reversed quickly the effects risk becoming permanent.

“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o... As the Declaration of Independence said, referring to King George III of Britain, “A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

“You didn’t get a photo with Bob Dylan because you gave him a Gibson guitar. He has hundreds of guitars and doesn’t give a shit about that. Bob Dylan gave you a photo because you are the little guys in this ruthless business and Bob Dylan has always looked out for the little guys.”

Three studies published in Cell reveal that multiple MERS-related coronaviruses (MERSr-CoVs) utilize ACE2, rather than the canonical Merbecovirus receptor DPP4, for cell entry. These ACE2-dependent MERSr-CoVs pose a risk of zoonotic transmission to humans with high transmissibility like SARS CO-V 19

Global surveillance and countermeasures for ACE2-using MERS-related coronaviruses with spillover risk: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Worrying......

“For more than two centuries,” the chief justice said, “it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

Wow. Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC. “I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!” Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out. We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Open letter from a pediatrician to Senator BillCassidy: You promised to supervise HHS leadership. You promised to prevent the US from devolving into an anti-vaccine, disease ridden dystopia. You promised to protect children. I am begging you to please do your job.

“I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and that three or more become a congress.” – John Adams

An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Weeks ago, I predicted PubMed would go down—and now it has. The impact on scientists worldwide is profound. This is our life’s work, including countless publications funded by taxpayers, and it’s devastating that a malicious group of individuals has taken it offline. The public should be outraged.

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

We are in the most profound political crisis of my lifetime (and I was an adult during Watergate). It is rapidly becoming a constitutional crisis. Every institutional leader - presidents of universities, CEO’s of major companies, heads of law firms and religious institutions needs to speak up now.

It is well past time for the Article 1 branch to throw off its torpor of the last century and to reclaim its primacy in the constitutional structure. Self governing, immune from intrusion on its speech and debate, legislatively supreme. Able to remove any executive or judicial officer.