the median midwestern voter loves two things: electing republicans and thwarting republican policy goals via ballot referendum
Mike Johansen
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Primary Care doc, likes research, teaches residents, #HSR, #MEPS, #FamilyMedicine
Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings. Wow. I mean, Erdos problems are cool (I genuinely mean that), I didn't know about the Jacobian conjecture before it got disproved. But this newest batch from OpenAI hits home in a way the previous announcements did not.
Of course he will.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterdayAn export cap “would be an extraordinarily aggressive move” — but Trump “faces the possibility of voters being confronted with $4 gas-station signs as they drive to the polls, which didn’t happen even under former President Joe Biden during the 2022 price spike.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Me buying Baumol’s goods: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me buying Baumol’s services: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
With the Aug 4 earnings call and Aug 6 stock unlock on the horizon, I have some thoughts about SpaceX and Tesla. montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
Elon Musk's Hubris May Doom any Tesla-SpaceX Merger
With Tesla shrinking fast, a bailout merger would fit the Musk pattern. But there are some key impediments to consider.
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Love people complaining about the dodgers. It's not like someone else couldn't have offered more.
No, who could have seen this coming?
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
The US would have won this war if physical reality was totally different lol
reading a manuscript with zero-inflated models in a sensitivity analysis and am feeling bad for whatever computer had to run those.
"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."
The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.
Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...
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Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.
Come on @bencollins.bsky.social; surely you can do better.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last wk.60 Minutes named four new members of the program on Tuesday, including conservative writer Ross Douthat, following months of internal turmoil at the investigative newsmagazine that left its staff depleted
Used ev's are a tremendous deal. Note the more you drive, the more you save. It's bizarre that every taxi in the country isn't an EV.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · last wk.people really sleep on the must lower cost of ownership piece. yeah most EVs are pretty expensive to buy but the savings is thousands per year
Among the most remarkable advances in medical history…
NEJM.org@nejm.org · 2w agoOn the basis of the results of clinical trials, the @fda.gov approved 36 antiretroviral drugs between 1987 and 2026 for the treatment of HIV infection. Learn more about antiretroviral therapy in a new review: https://nej.md/4wn6mg2
I'd bet glp-1's lead to more people getting peivate insurance, which also has tons of plans on which glp-1's aren't covered. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Some people are getting shut out when it comes to GLP-1 drugs. Here’s why.
A third of state Medicaid programs paid for the drugs for weight loss as of mid-2025. This year it's about one in five, according to a review by The Washington Post.
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Homer Simpson's Custom Car Debut
Alt: Homer Simpson's Custom Car Debut
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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago“.. “It’s like driving a Lamborghini to go to the grocery store to pick up milk when that was designed to be raced around a track,” he said in an interview. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/chi...
JUST POSTED: A deep investigation by The NYT of shortcuts taken to get President Trump his Qatari-donated plane in time for POTUS to show it off during 250th anniversary events-compromises that leave the plane more vulnerable to potential threats (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...
Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force One
A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.
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Periodic reminder that checking vitamin d level is a waste of time and money academic.oup.com/jcem/article...
Vitamin D for the Prevention of Disease: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline
AbstractBackground. Numerous studies demonstrate associations between serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) and a variety of common disorde
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Observational studies suggest. . . .📉 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Meningococcal B Vaccine to Prevent Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infection | NEJM
No vaccines are currently licensed for the prevention of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection. Observational studies suggest that the four-component meningococcal serogroup B vaccine (4CMenB) may reduce...
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These results are jaw-dropping. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Enfortumab Vedotin and Pembrolizumab in Cisplatin-Eligible Bladder Cancer | NEJM
Neoadjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy is a standard therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. The efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant and adjuvant (perioperative) enfortumab vedotin–pembrolizum...
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Weight loss ✅, but underwhelming MACE - underpowered Side effects- many including constipation/diarrhea investor.lilly.com/news-release...
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The underlying problem with llm investment is that llms are useful, just not revolutionarily useful.
Erika McEntarfer@erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen I ran BLS, I was asked constantly about the impact of AI on jobs. It's still one of the most common questions I get. So we put together a policy brief - for policymakers, journalists, and anyone trying to sort through what is happening with AI and jobs: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
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