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[sumana @msumana]

@MonicaLMarks @StateDept why is this not posted in State Dept official website? Why is it a X post?

[sumana @msumana]

@AsstSecStateCA @SecRubio @StateDept Why isn’t this updated in @StateDept website? Why is it a X post?

[sumana @msumana]

@flyLAXairport Is Global Entry open?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“Zohran was married and mayor by 34, beta why are you still single and in grad school?”

[sumana @msumana]

@UPS Awful service. Package was shipped/billed on 9/24/25 as UPS 2nd Day Air but package still not delivered as of 9/30/24 and now it’s stuck in Knoxville, Kentucky. It’s 7days now and package is nowhere near destination, Irving (Texas)

[sumana @msumana]

@UPS fraud happening using your name. Got a call today morning PST to give my tracking number, home address and phone number. Someone who said employee # 426999 and name James Brandon

[sumana @msumana]

@UPS Awful service. Package was shipped/billed on 9/24/25 as UPS 2nd Day Air but package still not delivered and stuck in Rockford/Illinois

[sumana @msumana]

@UPS @UPS Awful service. Package was shipped/billed on 9/24/25 as UPS 2nd Day Air but package still not delivered and stuck in Rockford/Illinois

[sumana @msumana]

#NewProfilePic

[sumana @msumana]

@tedcruz You never showed any interest or this much enthusiasm in then Twitter (now X) except “thoughts and prayers” when precious little lives were taken away at Uvalde school shooting. What kind of a family man are you?

[sumana @msumana]

@Peoples_Pundit @grok what’s the reference?

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

The Financial Times @jburnmurdoch recently created a viral panic by pointing out a decline in young people’s “conscientiousness” & then concluding that “smartphones and streaming services seem likely culprits.”

I’m calling BULLSHIT in Rolling Stone today:

There is no doubt screen ubiquity and social media addiction are exacerbating mental health crises. We’re inside a grand experiment subjecting millions of brains to a toxic brew of FOMO living-my-best-life content and go-fuck-yourself feedback. That is terrible for kids — and limiting their phone use is a great idea.

But are phones really the PRIMARY driver of these anti-social trends?

Could there be a simpler hypothesis for the decline in positive attitudes and prosocial behavior among this cohort?

What about the fact that younger Americans have been living through a shitshow in the offline world, now culminating in a cost-of-living crisis? What about the likelihood that in the post-Citizens United era, many of them have concluded that democracy is already dead, that they have little agency, and that civic participation and extroversion are pointless?

What about those Occam’s razor explanations?

Think about it: A 27-year old American man lived through a stolen 2000 presidential election, 9/11, the Iraq War, a financial crisis, mass foreclosures, an opioid epidemic, the explosion of economic inequality, the rise of Trump, a pandemic, the doubling of college costs, the tripling of health care costs, and now the return of Trump, a brutal job market, an affordability crisis, and skyrocketing death rates among his contemporaries.

This dude has been loaded up with debt, priced out of housing, and left scrounging for a bullshit job that will barely pay him enough to survive and yet locks him into indentured servitude for fear of losing his meager subsistence benefits (if he’s lucky enough to even have them).

And when he’s tried to engage in elections or the democratic discourse to demand political change, he’s been slandered as a freak, a charlatan, or a “Bernie Bro” as every election of his lifetime has been purchased by the oligarchs endlessly kicking him and his generation in the face.

So ask yourself again: Is the decline of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and extroversion the counterintuitive consequence of screens and streaming services altering neural pathways in complicated ways?

That theory makes for spicy tweets, Instagram reels, blog posts, talk radio segments, and podcast discursions — but is it really the central explanation?Or do those trends actually reflect something simple and boring: Namely, that for young people, reality bites way more than it ever has?

And if that is what’s going on, then shouldn’t the frame be broader than smartphones and streaming? Shouldn’t the discourse be homing in on demanding the necessary financial resources to make things a little bit easier for younger generations?

Full piece here: https://t.co/7RHZPAi1ir

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

I called out @Betsy_McCaughey for calling Mamdani voters stupid. Share this clip so every young person turns out in NY. This is what the old guard thinks of you.

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

People don't understand the gravity of US's high tariffs on India.

1) Our per capita GDP is ranked 120+, we are a poor nation. And, are trying to move to a middle income country.

2) We require as many partnerships as possible. Especially, with major trading blocks of the world.

3) Alienating big economies is the fastest way to kill our growth prospects: we are not aligned with China & US doesn't want us.

Russia is a closed economy (even if they want us, it doesn't matter much)

4) It is easy to say: "we should build our own capacity". What have we been waiting for decades then? Harry Potter 10 release?

5) If building our capacity was easy, don't you think we would have done it.

We can't grow our manufacturing base. One of the top performing service sector segment (IT industry) is facing headwinds & job losses.

Schemes like Make in India have failed spectacularly to the point: where we have sitting CM's inaugurating Tesla showrooms.

Wrap all this up in the fact: that AI is going to cut labour cost massively. Nations like the US are now industrializing by building giga-factories. "Cheap-labour" is not an advantage anymore.

We need US's tech stack to build our next tech revolution (post IT), more than they need India's cheap labour.

[sumana @msumana]

@ELonMuskNewssX No. It was not successful at all.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The situation in the Gaza Strip is increasingly worrying and painful. I renew my heartfelt appeal to allow the entry of dignified humanitarian aid and to bring an end to the hostilities, whose heart-rending price is borne by children, the elderly, and the sick.

[Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc]

Dems see these two images and think the best strategy for winning is to cozy up to the billionaires.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear reveals that DOGE’s “efficiency” screws 700,000 Kentucky seniors and threatens healthcare for fired federal employees.

Watch this and retweet so EVERY American sees what a disaster this is.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

BREAKING: Jewish American activists with @jvplive have taken over the lobby of Trump Tower in New York to demand the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who faces deportation for protesting Israel's war on Gaza. Police are expected to make arrests soon.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Gonna say it again — this is not a political party right now, this is an exclusive country club offering status perks to its disgraced emeritus leaders.