Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦
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Grumpy old American mathematician and computer scientist, now retired. My Erdös number equals 1.
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Mark Boslough
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In 1997 Allen Whitt published a groundwater survey in New Mexico. A few years later, he was convicted in CA for a fraudulent 1998 groundwater survey. In 2006, he changed his name to "Allen West, PhD" & masterminded the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. Read more here:
www.boslough.us/blog/the-you...
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,Fine Artist-painter sculptor—Mr.Mc Goo. You done it agin !
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Kathleen Bachynski
4 days ago
“This year’s flu vaccine has proved an imperfect match to the currently circulating strains. New shots, based on mRNA technology, would have one day enabled us to avoid this kind of misfire. But the nation’s leaders have imperiled that future with the decisions they made this year.”
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Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/opinion/kennedy-vaccines-hhs-cdc.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Most mathematicians know that "Crelle" is the shorthand name for Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. But only those with a misspent youth know that "Boncompagni Bull." is shorthand for the Bulletino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche.
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Norm Ornstein
7 days ago
Of all the examples of people dying because somebody inexperienced was in charge, the biggest, most horrifying was Elon Musk and DOGE. No idea what AID did, didn’t care, blew it up and at least 600,000 people died unnecessarily as a consequence. Mass murder out of ignorance and bias. Thanks, Elon.
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I genuinely feel sorry for this guy, who experienced a terrible personal tragedy and is facing a difficult future. He has been lied to for decades. By his church. By his religion. By Trump. By government officials he trusted to treat him like a person.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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His wife was dying, his federal job crumbling. It tested his faith — in God and Trump.
One federal worker was rejected three times from the administration’s early resignation offer. Would he blame the president he voted for?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/20/trump-administration-resignation-offer-supporter/
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Don Moynihan
7 days ago
Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
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Christopher Webb
7 days ago
Trump lies so easily. About everything. Even things that are embarrassingly easy to disprove. It’s pathological, so remember that. “I was never on Epstein’s plane.” ~ Donald Trump
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Texas Tribune
10 days ago
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
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Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/texas-am-system-fired-lecturer/
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Amanda Frost
23 days ago
At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Dog That Didn't Bark: Eligibility To Serve In Congress And The Original Understanding Of The Citizenship Clause
President Donald J. Trump's 2025 Executive Order restricting birthright citizenship has prompted new interest in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment'
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5757102
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Norm Eisen
10 days ago
A Christmas week legal miracle--one that those of all faiths can enjoy: Trump's targeting of our client
@markzaidesq.bsky.social
incl pulling his security clearance was enjoined as unconstitutional retaliation A great win for him, for us
@democracydefendersfund.org
& for the superstar legal team👇
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If you're comparing the author to David Brooks and Mitch Albom, you definitely convinced me I absolutely do not want to read this book.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
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How a nearly 70-year-old debut novelist published 2025’s breakout hit
With virtually no marketing or social media presence, “Theo of Golden” somehow became a blockbuster.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/12/24/theo-of-golden-novel/
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Justin Baragona
11 days ago
Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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Russell Brand charged with further counts of rape and sexual assault
The alleged offences took place in 2009, the Crown Protection Service said
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/russell-brand-charges-sexual-assault-b2889700.html
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Jamison Foser
11 days ago
the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.
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Don Moynihan
11 days ago
And she assumed it would be easy because it was a topic she had an opinion on and so did not need to do any research. This is the epistemic world view of the ignorant, and, apparently OU leadership.
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Anne Applebaum
11 days ago
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
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Ryan Marino, MD
11 days ago
Reminder that the head of the NIH is an economist who has never conducted NIH-funded research, spent years doing paid speaking engagements for far-right extremist groups, & is best known for a study where he committed serious ethical violations & ended up wrong by greater than an order of magnitude.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
12 days ago
"Misrepresentations" and "bad faith." That’s how a federal judge once again described the conduct of Trump Admin lawyers in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case. They need to stop lying to the judge & the public and protect his due process rights. That is what this has always been about.
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Judge extends prohibition on Kilmar Abrego García’s re-detainment
Judge Paula Xinis earlier this month ordered the Trump administration to release the 30-year-old undocumented immigrant and longtime Maryland resident after finding that the government lacked a deport...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/12/22/kilmar-abrego-garcia-set-free/
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Rachel Maddow
12 days ago
“What's happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if execs think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson. This is still America and we don’t enjoy bullshit like this.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story
CBS News postponed a “60 Minutes” segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/21/cbs-news-bari-weiss-intervention/
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Chris Geidner
13 days ago
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email. It must be read:
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Gregg Gonsalves
14 days ago
#JohnsHopkins
@ucsfmedicine.bsky.social
and
@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
are not obliged to take back Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad & Jay Bhattacharya when they leave the administration.
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Gregg Gonsalves
14 days ago
After the Trump Administration is over, there has to be a reckoning to respond to the "massive & serious human rights violations" occurring now. We cannot "just move on." It is critical all of us call for some form of transitional justice in the wake of all this.
www.ictj.org/what-transit...
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What Is Transitional Justice? | International Center for Transitional Justice
https://www.ictj.org/what-transitional-justice
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MeidasTouch
14 days ago
WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer. Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump. Now, it’s gone.
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Sean Casten
14 days ago
48. That exception of course is the fossil fuel producer. They are hostile to energy productivity for the same reason John Henry didn't like the steam shovel. They can't compete with it. Wins for consumers come at their expense. Wins for the climate come at their expense.
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Rachel Maddow
14 days ago
one of four in a week
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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hilzoy
15 days ago
radleybalko.substack.com/p/104-murder...
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104 murders in 107 days
The Trump administration's assault on alleged drug boats has killed about one person per day since early September. These are murders, and basic humanity demands that we not get complacent about them.
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/104-murders-in-107-days
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Josh Shepperd
15 days ago
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
16 days ago
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
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Rep. Joyce Beatty
16 days ago
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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So one problem with being 68 is that very little surprises me. Almost everything seems derivative. Help me out! What's something--a book, a movie, a song, a performance--that you found genuinely innovative, novel, and beautiful this year?
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Philip Eil
16 days ago
Well that helps to explain this Brooks column from last month.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
16 days ago
trump packed a lot of crazy into 20 minutes but I keep thinking about the logical fallacy of "obamacare makes insurance companies richer so we'll give you money directly to buy your *own* insurance"
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I'd like to subscribe to a newspaper that, every year, asks readers for their suggestions about which pundit to fire, and then fires the pundit that gets the most votes. The same thing could be done for MLB umpires, except now you ask the players to vote.
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Chris Murphy
17 days ago
He's lying. How do we know? Because they released the Sept 2nd video already!! Just not the part where they illegally killed the survivors. There's nothing "top secret" about the second strike if there wasn't anything top secret about the first one.
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John Timmer
18 days ago
This is going to be a catastrophic loss, and all because a handful of people refuse to accept reality.
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Scott Shapiro
18 days ago
We made the man who bankrupted three casinos, was found by a civil jury to have raped a woman, and was convicted by a criminal jury of 34 felony counts of fraud the most powerful person in the world.
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Josh Goldstein
18 days ago
One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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Matt Novak
19 days ago
Trump is often discussed as one of the worst presidents in modern American history, but it’s important to remember that such a categorization is far too narrow. Donald J. Trump is one of the worst people in modern American history.
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Trump's Vile Post About Rob Reiner Has Some Republicans Breaking Ranks
President Trump blamed the acclaimed director for his own murder.
https://gizmodo.com/trumps-vile-post-about-rob-reiner-has-some-republicans-breaking-ranks-2000699979
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Bill Kristol
19 days ago
Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII. One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing. The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
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Emily Dickinson was wrong. Hope is not the thing with feathers. The thing with feathers is my clothes dryer, after a family member tried to dry some goose down pillows.
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Ian Boudreau
20 days ago
Every time I see Greg Bovino he has added a new element to his little obersturmführer cosplay
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Joel S.
20 days ago
Trump is trying to incite a pogrom against Somali Americans.
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NY Times Pitchbot
21 days ago
The president of the United States has decreed that the country’s most important cable news station must be sold to a conservative. Here’s why my US-based free speech organization will spend the next few years focusing on AI regulations and free speech in Europe.
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Senate Gabe
21 days ago
I would be fucking terrified about this. Canada has the unfortunate luck of the longest continuous land border in the world but US public health being destroyed affects everyone.
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Yashar Ali 🐘
22 days ago
I will never forgive RFK Jr. for what he’s done… never. The layers of hell he has unleashed in many different areas — not just healthcare — over the past two decades have caused so much damage, it’s overwhelming. He is one of the greatest villains of the 21st century.
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Common Dreams
22 days ago
As the Trump administration pushes "deadly anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, measles is making a comeback across America. People will die because of this."
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As RFK Pushes Vaccine Misinformation, Measles Cases Surge in South Carolina
US Rep. Pramila Jayapal demands Trump admin to "stop lying and follow the science" as measles outbreak in SC worsens. People are dying. The Make America Sick Agenda must end. #VaccinesSaveLives
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rfk-measles-outbreak?share_id=9089633
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
22 days ago
WOW.
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with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Gabe Ortíz
23 days ago
“Your options are limited. You either resign, Trump fires you, or you will be impeached.”
ramirez.house.gov/media/press-...
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Social Media Lab
23 days ago
Worth noting: the U.S. had maintained measles elimination since 2000, up until the Trump administration with RFK took office this year.
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Mark Joseph Stern
23 days ago
This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.
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