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[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@dianekaylacy @DoDeportations Raleigh:

[HJB News @HJB_News__]

Nearly 700 undocumented men have arrived illegally to the UK in the last seven days with more arriving yesterday. Shabana Mahmood has now let in nearly 51,000 since she became Home Secretary 12 months ago. Nearly 70% crossing are Muslim.

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

Adobe: "Oh, we don't support Acrobat X, but we will still make you verify your S/N online."

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

HOT TAKE: The GOP not codifying most DOGE cuts is the single stupidest decision in the history of Republican Party.

They ALL talked about cutting spending... and that's all they did.

Elon came in with a team and a plan...

...and the GOP didn't give a damn, so disappointing

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@MrsDoubtFireSF How is the data not getting to or raising alarm bells at the @USEEOC ?

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@JobsNowPaper Doesn’t even have a stethoscope! You need to be able to hear the heartbeat to check blood pressure with just a cuff. The cuff probably cost more than a stethoscope. This dude is pretending.

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@Bobbythirdway In college we had a frat slut. She was hot.

She told a friend of mine "I'd like to do such &
such but I've got to wash my sheets this weekend."

Friend: "Man, you know you twist those sheets in your hand it's stiff like cardboard w/ all the cum on them."😆

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@GDA_Press "i'm locked out of heaven!"

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@nataliegwinters https://t.co/yACenHFMCX

[John Birch Society @The_JBS]

Today would be a great day to end Hart-Celler.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 fundamentally changed America’s immigration system. It is time to recognize the damage it has caused and end it.

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@mybrobot @JimNorton

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@KISH_KISH_KISH_ I always remember one of his jokes from Newhart about his girlfriend having a big butt: “When she sits down on Naugahyde…the sound it makes.”

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@CopaExMachina *few years.

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@CopaExMachina Notorious liar at work: "I got stranded off the coast of Hawaii while skin diving."

A few later, me: "Wait a sec! That was an episode of Magnum P.I.!"

[Adam Curry - curryirc.com @adamcurry]

No Agenda Episode 1908 - "Chivatican"

https://t.co/Ur8czQutEh

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@EDMaumbauer Looking for where the phenobarbital went.

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@TristanNATBD At least 3 of the 4 white kids look horrified. The only ones.

[Dr. Richard Harambe @Richard_Harambe]

Tennessee, it’s time to call in a professional

[Nick Plumb @PlumbNick]

I think I found the residency résumé industry.

Mount Sinai lists Dr. Ratesh Khillan as a voluntary faculty physician/Assistant Clinical Professor affiliated with Beth Israel and Mount Sinai Brooklyn. Meanwhile, his private Brooklyn USCE business advertises Mount Sinai among its “teaching affiliates” while selling clinical rotations and residency-related services to IMGs.

His Brooklyn USCE business currently advertises:

$1,550: 4-week clinical rotation
+$399: opportunity to participate in research with Dr. Khillan
LORs on hospital letterhead for some rotations plus CV review, interview prep, residency signaling guidance and other Match services in larger packages.

Then I started looking at the research.

Two completely unrelated single-patient case reports, published two months apart, have the exact same 10 Brooklyn Cancer Care authors, just rearranged. One is a liver hematoma case and the other is Stage IV endometrial cancer.

And this isn’t even the only company selling residency research credentials.

USMLE Wise openly advertises $300 “co-author” placement on an active research project and $800 “lead-author” placement. They say participants perform substantive work and meet authorship standards, but those are literally the products being sold to residency applicants.

So foreign medical graduates can now shop for American clinical rotations, research opportunities, publication credits, hospital-letterhead recommendations, interview coaching and Match strategy.

Meanwhile we’re told a publication-heavy CV proves who the “best” residency candidate is.

How much of the American residency meritocracy is actually a credential marketplace?

[Blaine @UmbertoJavier]

@still_critical There's an 80's Hitchcock episode where a wife keeps pointing out a guy that raped her to her husband. He kills him. Then: "No that the guy!" Kills him. After the third time he realizes she's crazy and he's in deep shit.

[Grok @grok]

Microsoft reported roughly 35,000 global layoffs since 2020 (major rounds: ~11k in 2023, ~15k in 2025, ~5k+ in 2026). Exact US-only totals are not fully disclosed; WARN notices show over 12,000 affected in US mass filings, mostly Washington. US staff is ~55% of workforce.

Microsoft filed ~53,000–63,000 H-1B LCAs in FY2020–2026 (DOL data via trackers; ~52.6k certified FY20–25 alone).