Boback Ziaeian 🤦🏻‍♂️

MD/PhD | Asst Prof | CVD Outcomes & HSR | no COI | social disparities=health disparities | facts over hype | funny on occasion

[Boback Ziaeian 🤦🏻‍♂️ @boback]

“Ultimately, the secret of quality is love. You have to love your patient, you have to love your profession, you have to love your God. If you have love, you can then work backward to monitor and improve the system.” - Donabedian

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Pope Leo is greeted by the largest crowd of his papacy in an emotional return to Peru, declaring the South American country where he served as a missionary for two decades his homeland. https://t.co/g6oeFxzFoU

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This new Reuters report is stunning.

A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.

Both men deny the meeting.

Flight records show their planes parked together that day.

Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.

Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.

Congress has a duty to act.

We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.

If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
https://t.co/wUddI1206p

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Full press release from Nvidia

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump is having a full-blown meltdown: "Here we go again! With the perceived loss by the Republicans in the Midterms - I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT- the INVASION of our Country is taking place again. Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico. Many of the people in these Caravans are those that various countries don’t want - 'Send them to America,' they say - But they will not be accepted! MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED. MEXICO, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, OUR GREAT BORDER PATROL, & ICE, HAVE BEEN SO INFORMED. There will be no leniency! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after his affair with a suspected Chinese spy and reported relationship with an employee. https://t.co/b2YIWt0Lxy

[Jack Nicas @jacknicas]

I cover Mexico for The New York Times, and there is no such "invasion."

About 1,500 people recently began walking north from the southern tip of Mexico — weeks away from the United States — and very few, if any, will reach the northern border.

Over the past two years, the Mexican government has repeatedly broken up these small caravans within days of them starting. And there have been far fewer of them since Trump took office.

The reality is the number of illegal border crossings remain near historic lows.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

*NVIDIA'S JENSEN HUANG RESIGNS AS CEO

*NVIDIA NAMES KRESS INTERIM CEO, RETAINS CFO ROLE

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Received briefings from Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant disruptions to Starshield’s operations over the territory of Ukraine for several days now – along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Specifically, systematic speed restrictions are being imposed on Starshield, limiting it to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour). The Ukrainian military have already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors but systematic speed restrictions. For us, this primarily means a significant complication in intercepting Russian jet-powered drones. Unfortunately, there have already been strikes that got through because our interception systems cannot reach sufficient speeds and are unable to intercept in time. Unfortunately, this is helping the Russians kill more Ukrainians and carry out more accurate strikes against Ukraine. We are trying to establish all the circumstances with the American side.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

AWFUL. A family pleaded with ICE to deport their ill father so he could get out of detention. They even offered to pay for plane tickets. But ICE kept him jailed for two months after he accepted removal, his health deteriorating daily. He died hours after he was finally deported.

[Steve Lookner @lookner]

WSJ: "Before the affair that now threatens his job as Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang was introduced to his future romantic interest, Alice Huang, by a Chinese businessman he’d known for a decade, Kang Wei. Kang also happened to be Alice Huang’s husband, said people who know the couple. For two years, Kang appeared to accept his wife’s romantic relationship with the Nvidia CEO and spoke openly of their closeness, these people said."
https://t.co/PabxBypt0s

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Google DeepMind announces its Gemini agents have “mathematically verified” Signal's cryptographic protocol in just 4 weeks.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Pope Leo XIV declared Peru his homeland as he arrived in Lima at the start of his historic visit, crediting Peruvians with having formed him as a pastor. https://t.co/4l0fwlgJXO

[Mr. T @MrT]

Happy Veterans Day to all of our Veterans. Thank you for your Service and your Sacrifice! Thank you for your Courage and your Bravery! I salute you. #HappyVeteransDay2026

[Scott Colom @scott_colom]

Thank you for believing in me and never forgetting Mississippi. You supported early and it wouldn’t be possible without you. God bless you & your mom! #MississippiMatters

[Acyn @Acyn]

Raskin: Well, AOC and I have a $50 gift ban bill, which has been on the back burner for years under the Republicans.

In Congress, we are all governed by a $50 gift ban. And we can’t accept anything much more than a baseball cap. And most people are scared to do that. We just don’t take gifts.

Meantime, at the Supreme Court, they’re collecting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in so-called gifts from people who have a tremendous interest in the work of the Supreme Court. They take trips around the world. They take luxury vacations. They get, in Justice Thomas’s case, a $400,000 recreational vehicle, a motor coach.

I think Justice Thomas also picked up private school tuition for a great-nephew. I mean, just outrageous things. Members of Congress would go to jail for any of those things, and they’re just doing it.

So the $50 gift ban applies to Congress. It theoretically applies also to people in the executive branch, and it must apply to people in the judiciary, in the Supreme Court

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

It’s Veterans Day. And House Republicans just passed a bill to cut Veterans benefits by $57 billion, according to the VA’s own estimates.

This is how they’re thanking our heroes for their service.

[The Hill @thehill]

Democrats cry foul after Republicans fast track partisan veterans bill: ‘Dirty tricks’

https://t.co/wVliOU9HO2

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

HOUSE MINORITY WHIP KATHERINE CLARK's office sent out this note to members about the TCAVA vote:

"After publicly announcing a recorded vote on TCAVA, House Republicans asked if RM Takano and Democrats would agree to last minute engrossment corrections. While RM Takano and staff were evaluating these changes away from the podium, House Republicans called the vote up and passed it by voice within minutes — depriving RM Takano of the ability to even evaluate the proposed changes and ask for a recorded vote so Members could vote against the biggest cut to veterans benefits in US history."

[Acyn @Acyn]

SENATOR-ELECT SCOTT COLOM: We all know that prayer is only a part of our Mississippi faith tradition. You need faith. And I'll tell you, throughout this campaign, there were many times where I had to have faith. There were times that I couldn't get donors to answer the phone. They did not believe a moment like this was possible, but I kept the faith….

There's so many people that have faith in Mississippi at times where it seemed impossible. People like Medgar Evers. I can't help but think about Medgar Evers on Veterans Day. A moment like this, where he served his country and came home to Mississippi when they wouldn't let him vote. But he had faith that Mississippi could make progress. He had faith that one day everybody would have the right to vote. He had faith that a day like this was possible

[Scott Colom @scott_colom]

Let me be clear: I will never take a penny from AIPAC or Super PACs that don’t put Mississippi and America first.

This Senate seat belongs to the people of Mississippi. That’s who I’ll answer to.