The Obama Presidential Center opens to the general public on Juneteenth after a celebratory dedication in Chicago with dignitaries. The roughly $850 million project covers both the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president.
So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
@Dayyvidd_ She had no credible chance. Has nothing to do with being a woman. She should’ve recognized that and conceded along with Matt Mahan. They split dem votes. That’s the problem
@oaklandreportca Let them strike, cut then amend the contract, and rehire a % of workers back as at-will. This ain’t the economy to huff and puff your chest. Union members have drained the coffers. The jig is up
@RonShiley@allenanalysis How has it changed? Use your words. Is this nation more accepting of diversity, equity, & inclusion vs then? Ruby’s integration in white school (racial diversity), except parents removed their kids, equal access to 🏫 , but needed👮🏽 to escort (equity), no inclusion if called slur
A quick communication lesson for Talarico. Don’t answer the vegan attacks with “Actually, I eat barbecue.” It leaves the exchange on grounds Paxson wants. So does the “I’ve been eating barbecue since before his first indictment.” Cute line. But it’s still Paxson’s framing. 1/
@Geiger_Capital Just tax the loan when billionaires and the uber wealthy borrow against assets. Close the loop hole. They avoid taxable income by taking lines of credit in perpetuity. Close that hole and they have to sell their assets. That simple.
@OSUDOC63@TeamTalaricoHQ@jamestalarico Paxton just released a known child rapist and kept him off the registry. I don’t give 2 💩 💩 what Talarico believes or eats. Bruh like what?!? I don’t want the guy who thinks raping little kids is an okay thing to do to represent Texas let alone citizens.
Do you?
@StealthQE4 Insert “Too Big To Fail”. They already conditioned the market with the “slip” by OpenAI CFO on govt backing this year. When this crashes, cuz it will, they will ask for ‘08 levels of financial assistance , NOT because 50% of our GDP is tied to it but…because…because…
No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.
As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
@BarbaraLee_CA@KTVU You went on TV to claim victory to things not driven by you. Crime is down nationally, including homicides. This isn’t bc of Ceasfire but increased policing by CHP & SF. Affordable 🏠 already in pipeline b4 you. Let’s see biz tax 💵 , homeless pop, foreclosures under your tenure
@Dan_Jeffries1 What one man eats doesn’t make me 💩 … stop using China as a boogeyman to circumvent the fact that our, America’s labor market and future prospects are shitty. We don’t care what China will do, so what. Maybe we ought to diversify our economy back and not have 50% of GDP be AI
@MarioNawfal +50K new senior voters did not just show up in KY-4 in one cycle 🤣 . Stop it, blatant fraud in this race. GOP primaries had 23% drop btwn 2020-2022. Need to check if there was a surge in new registrations, cuz if not. Yeah these books are cooked
@EllenBarkin Election tampering. Yall don’t want to believe it but he’s running the same playbook from 2024. All votes should be hand counted.
Massie lost to a person with little to no campaigning and 50K new votes vs 2024 totals showed up and went all to Ed. Wake up ppl. It’s cheating
And there it is.
A person in the 95th percentile nationally is now declared lacking in “merit” because someone else scored in the 99th percentile.
This is exactly the reductionist ideology many of us in medicine reject.
You are no longer distinguishing between qualified and unqualified. You are constructing a caste system inside the extreme right tail of human performance and then pretending the tiny numerical differences between extraordinarily gifted people fully determine future physician quality.
Medicine learned long ago that they do not.
The irony is extraordinary: the same people who insist medicine is about “merit” keep defining merit so narrowly that judgment, communication, leadership, resilience, professionalism, empathy, trust, composure under pressure, and clinical decision-making barely count at all.
The body does not care what percentile you scored in organic chemistry when the operating room suddenly becomes quiet.
And this is the part he cannot seem to process: a student scoring in the 95th percentile nationally would rank above the average admissions metrics of most medical schools in America, including many schools producing excellent physicians every year.
Yet he speaks as though such applicants are academically suspect because others scored slightly higher on a standardized exam.
This man does not understand what makes a doctor. He understands numerical sorting, prestige signaling, and hierarchy. Medicine is far more complicated than that.
And yes, predictably, his response will be to call anyone racist who refuses to believe that tiny percentile differences among extraordinarily gifted human beings fully determine future physician quality.