Aaron A. Thomas

Italian translator (Italian to English) |
Currently translating Norberto Bobbio |
Ride leader @Rapha Cycling Club Los Angeles |
UAW Region 6

[Said Arikat @SMArikat]

News analysis
@HillaryClinton
Hillary Clinton’s Gaza Capitulation: Genocide Denial and the Bankruptcy of the Democratic Establishment
https://t.co/4k7X52teIO

[Mona Ali @MonaAli_NY_US]

Shocking to see the realization of New Gaza, a nightmare that had been sold as a dream. I had written about its earlier Egyptian iteration last year. https://t.co/7XC16NHrpj

[astro_carafe @maxxithon]

so this seems worrisome

[Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff]

Thought this was a pretty good point from Melinda Cooper about Silicon Valley aligning itself with the right https://t.co/wDhoMDnvqa

[Aaron A. Thomas @Aaron_A_Thomas]

@Brady_H

[Aaron A. Thomas @Aaron_A_Thomas]

@dmurphy910 @MebFaber @CalPERS https://t.co/mDm8BLwiBg

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

Nearly ten years after @UN Security Council Resolution 2334 was adopted, the question is no longer whether settlements violate international law, but whether States are prepared to give legal consequence to that conclusion.

The International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ has now confirmed that Israel's continued presence in occupied Palestine is itself unlawful and has clarified the obligations that follow for Israel, third States and the United Nations.

Those obligations are not exhausted by statements of concern. They require non-recognition, non-assistance and cooperation to bring the unlawful situation to an end.

They require remedies to Palestinian victims: restitution wherever possible, and where it is materially impossible, compensation through an expanded UN Register of Damage capable of addressing the full consequences of Israel's unlawful presence since 1967.

They also require protection in the present.

Humanitarian organizations, such as @NRC_Norway, cannot assist communities at risk of forcible transfer if their presence, registration and operations are obstructed.

The law is settled. The humanitarian consequences are evident. What remains is implementation.

https://t.co/MmiShYAnnS

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

In Memory of the great Carlo Ginzburg (1939 – 2026), the historian who brought before the eyes of his readers, in magnificent prose, the meticulous reconstruction of fragments of distant lives, unknown and familiar.

https://t.co/BBso8b4WBS

[Aaron A. Thomas @Aaron_A_Thomas]

@talmonsmith Do you know if this Biden official was pained enough at about this predictable course to try to convince Biden to use the authority he had to cancel student debt with the stroke of a pen? It would be interesting to know why Biden's decisions on debt cancellation were so timid.

[Aaron A. Thomas @Aaron_A_Thomas]

@MebFaber AVMA, AVGE, AVGV, and DFAW come to mind.

[Tommaso Greco @togreco]

Cristiani e musulmani nella Sicilia, florida e splendente , del XII secolo. Se fossimo più consapevoli di ciò che siamo stati, la nostra storia e la nostra identità sarebbero un luogo di incontro e non di guerra perpetua.

#letture per #resistereallabarbarie.
@adelphiedizioni

[Aaron A. Thomas @Aaron_A_Thomas]

@Econ_Marshall Are you heading to the golf course?

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

One of the most interesting aspects of this video is how dismissive he is of ideas he has clearly not thought very much about, like critiques of militarized borders and the modern prison. He sounds like a flat-earther from the middle ages dismissing the idea of a spherical planet out of blind religious devotion to concepts he's never had the curiosity to question.

This highlights something I explore in the chapter called "What we don't know can hurt us" in Copaganda. One of the pervasive problems with mainstream news is that it never actually explains most progressive views. Whenever many progressive views are mentioned in the news (rarely), it is usually only to assert that the idea is controversial or radical or impractical. And the idea is usually described only with a label like "defund the police" but never offering any substance for why so many smart and kind and thoughtful people who develop views based on actual evidence might have come to that view. The result is cycle after cycle of ignorance, millions of words but no shared understanding of what actual policy ideas are even being discussed, let alone rejected. And, as I noted in my recent Copaganda Newsletter on popularity, when you strip labels but poll people on most of these actual policies, they are enormously popular. And they are even more popular the more evidence and time you give people.

Behavior like this from @jonfavs is extremely troubling, particularly because he's one of the few people in a position to delve a bit deeper and to expose people to a whole world of beautiful, solid, popular ideas that actually present the only path forward for a world on the precipice of authoritarian, ecological, technological, and moral catastrohpe.

[Aaron A. Thomas @Aaron_A_Thomas]

@thepromise2026 This is dumbest fucking thing I've read in a long time.

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

Keep an eye on the credit structures that were built to fund AI infrastructure.

[l'Unità @unitaonline]

Perché “Il formaggio e i vermi” di Carlo Ginzburg ha cambiato tutto: come il pensiero degli ultimi spaventa il potere. È uno di quei testi rari che riescono a cambiare non solo un intero settore di studi, ma anche il modo comune di immaginare la storia. Un libro politico nel senso più alto
https://t.co/8QzfaElOjY

[Iñigo San Millán @doctorinigo]

For nearly three decades, cancer cachexia has been viewed primarily as an inflammatory disease.

Yet despite enormous scientific effort, therapies targeting inflammatory cytokines have largely failed to stop the devastating muscle wasting seen in patients.

What if inflammation is not where cachexia begins?

In my latest scientific hypothesis, I propose that the process may start much earlier, with cancer’s remarkable demand for glucose.

Through the Warburg effect, tumors behave like a continuous glucose drain, progressively exhausting glycogen reserves throughout the body. As glycogen availability declines, the body increasingly relies on gluconeogenesis to maintain blood glucose, using amino acids from skeletal muscle as substrate.

From this perspective, muscle loss is not simply a consequence of inflammation. It may be the predictable metabolic cost of feeding a glucose-hungry tumor.

This hypothesis connects tumor metabolism, systemic glucose homeostasis, glycogen depletion, gluconeogenesis, and muscle wasting into one integrated metabolic framework.

Whether ultimately proven or not, I hope it stimulates new discussion and perhaps new therapeutic directions, for one of oncology’s most devastating syndromes.

The full article is now available as a preprint and on my Substack 👇

https://t.co/QjyAHGOS9L

https://t.co/lKLMW2oe5B

#Cancer #CancerResearch #Cachexia #WarburgEffect #Metabolism #Mitochondria #Muscle #Oncology #MedicalResearch #Science #Physiology

[Aaron A. Thomas @Aaron_A_Thomas]

@RyanPKirlin And to think I questioned their sizable allocation to EM lol

[Aaron A. Thomas @Aaron_A_Thomas]

@RyanPKirlin This is a bird's-eye view of my accounts from my advisor's client portal. It's been hard to hold over the past several years, but I'm not complaining this year.😂

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

He's back.