Paul Schmitt ☮️🌊

Mathematician and statistician. Go Bayes! #TheResistance #resist #BlueWave2022 BLM #LGBTQ ally #VoteBlueNoMatterWho #science #HARRISWALZ2024 #WhiteSox

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In an stunning decision, the Des Moines’s Register just announced they are endorsing Josh Turek over Ashley Hinson. This is huge.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

He was Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist whose quiet brilliance in the 1920s forever altered our understanding of the quantum world.

In 1924, Bose, then a 30-year-old professor in British India, sent a groundbreaking manuscript directly to Albert Einstein. The paper offered a novel, more elegant derivation of Planck's law for blackbody radiation by treating light quanta (photons) as indistinguishable particles—a radical departure from classical statistical methods. Impressed by its insight, Einstein personally translated the work into German and facilitated its publication in the prestigious Zeitschrift für Physik.

This exchange sparked a brief but profound collaboration. Einstein extended Bose's statistical approach to material atoms, predicting a bizarre new state of matter at ultra-low temperatures: what we now call a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), where particles behave as a single quantum wave. Bose's original framework became known as Bose-Einstein statistics, and the class of particles that obey it—those with integer spin, including photons, gluons, W and Z bosons, and the Higgs boson—was later named bosons in his honor by Paul Dirac.

Unlike fermions (matter particles like electrons), which obey the Pauli exclusion principle and cannot occupy the same quantum state, bosons can pile into identical states en masse. This "social" behavior underpins extraordinary macroscopic phenomena: the coherent light of lasers, the zero-resistance flow in superconductors, and the collective quantum coherence in BECs.

Despite the monumental impact—his statistics describe half of all fundamental particles and enabled key advances in quantum field theory, condensed matter physics, and particle physics—Bose remained remarkably unassuming. He continued teaching at universities in Dhaka and Calcutta (now Kolkata), mentored students, pursued ideas in X-ray crystallography, unified field theory, and other areas, and never sought the spotlight. Nominated several times for the Nobel Prize (notably for Bose-Einstein statistics and his later work), he was never awarded it, and his name rarely appears in popular accounts of 20th-century physics.

There's a poignant humility in his story: a man whose legacy literally names one of the two fundamental families of particles in the universe, yet whose personal fame never matched the scale of his contribution. Bose reminds us that true influence often arrives without fanfare. Some breakthroughs echo through textbooks and technologies, while their creators work in the background, content to let the universe carry their ideas forward—even if history's spotlight rarely finds them.

[Paul Schmitt ☮️🌊 @statsguy]

Wish I could disagree with your assessment, but I can’t…

[Graham Rowley @anguillaman2]

@EdKrassen @statsguy I would love to see it but doubt it’s possible in Texas.

[Graham Rowley @anguillaman2]

Fascist Trump. https://t.co/CNBWsMapzK

[Mimi 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @FacciniMyriam]

Any questions? !!!!!

[A @bluhue123]

Let’s go 💙

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Last year, Trump invited Conor McGregor to the White House… after the MMA wrestler raped a woman so brutally that her tampon had to be surgically removed.

A forensic examiner testified this in court, and McGregor was found GUILTY of rape by a 12-person jury.

Oh, AND a paramedic who examined her testified that she "had not seen a patient as bruised as her in a long time."

SOMEHOW, THIS QUALIFIED HIM FOR A TRUMP WHITE HOUSE VISIT.

Birds of a feather 🪶

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 OBAMA: “The thing is, Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons — because I put a deal in place he pulled out of… and the war he started is why the price of everything is UP… how much time do you think Hegseth spends looking at himself in the mirror? These are not serious people.”

[A @bluhue123]

Raise your hand ✋ if you SUPPORT Abdul El-Sayed

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

"That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! ... It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And somehow we've gotten them so mad."

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Lawrence O’Donnell: “Elon Musk will have to testify under oath in televised hearings where he will be presented with evidence that his destruction of USAID led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people through malnutrition, starvation, and disease because they were denied lifesaving medicines by Elon Musk and literally denied food in the middle of a famine by Elon Musk personally. Democrats do not fear the empty lying threats of Elon Musk who has no sword that he can threaten them with”

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

BREAKING: Trump demands Ilhan Omar resign for allegedly using a “fake name.”

Any comment, JD Vance? Or should I call you James David Vance? J.D. Hamel? James David Hamel? James Donald Bowman?

Funny how names only matter when you’re attacking immigrants.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Well, well, well….

An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election.

This is what voter fraud looks like.

[Yah Wehmobile @worshipmeorels]

It’s hard to argue with her logic.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: BOMBSHELL! New report shows Trump intervened to shut down the Epstein probe and Kash Patel’s FBI is helping cover it up!

In a stunning revelation, newly released emails show that Trump's deputy chief of staff was PERSONALLY INVOLVED in preparing the FBI's infamous memo declaring there was no Epstein “client list,” no evidence warranting investigations of additional suspects, and no reason to release more files.

And when the emails were finally made public, the FBI had BLACKED OUT the five lines containing the White House's suggested edits!

According to explosive new reporting from Raw Story, Taylor Budowich, then Trump's deputy chief of staff, emailed FBI Director Kash Patel two weeks before the July 2025 memo was released.

“Have something I can edit?” Budowich asked.

“Just got it from [the] DOJ. Here you go. Thanks,” Patel replied.
The following week, Budowich emailed Patel and then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche with “Some suggested edits.”

What did Trump's White House want changed in the memo that effectively shut down the Epstein investigation? We don't know. The FBI REDACTED the suggestions before releasing the correspondence.

But we DO know that Budowich shared the draft with the White House communications team and then demanded that the Justice Department put its official letterhead on the document before it went to reporters.

“I need a version on letterhead,” Budowich insisted. “Someone needs to own this. I can't give a doc to a reporter that could easily be confused with a [school] term paper.”

Someone needs to own this! Indeed …

Apparently, the White House was perfectly comfortable helping prepare the memo, but wanted the Justice Department's name prominently attached when the public saw it.

And remember: This all happened AFTER Trump had been briefed that his own name appeared in the Epstein files. The memo subsequently told Americans there was no basis for further investigation or disclosure.

“These records show that Kash Patel worked hand-in-hand with the former White House deputy chief of staff,” said Chris Swartz of the Democracy Defenders Fund, which obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

Rep. Madeleine Dean called the memo's claims “bogus” and accused Trump's team of trying to protect the president and his political allies.

The White House declined to explain what Budowich wanted changed. Instead, a spokesperson regurgitated the talking point that Trump had been “totally exonerated” in the Epstein matter, although no such formal exoneration has occurred.

We still don't know whether Budowich's edits were accepted or what those five redacted lines said. But Americans now know that Trump's White House was helping shape the official memo that told them to stop looking for answers about Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump campaigned and won the election in 2024 based in part on his pledge to release the Epstein files. Yet once in office, his White House helped prepare the very memo declaring that Americans had seen enough.

And when the public finally obtained the emails documenting that involvement, the White House's proposed changes were concealed behind FBI redactions.

That is a betrayal of the transparency Trump promised his own voters. These emails expose the White House meddling in a decision that was presented as the judgment of federal investigators, dare we say covering up the crimes of the President of the United States.

Full. Transparency. Now.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Donald Trump just announced that he is planning to sue to try and stop Alaska from certifying their election results should Mary Peltola win. He is laying the groundwork for delegitimizing the midterm elections because he knows he's losing. This has to be stopped.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

One thing is extremely clear:

European security cannot depend on the moods of Donald Trump and Elon Musk