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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 1h

This is such a great idea that it brings back #poisonings featured in Agatha Christie’s first novel ever in 1920! (The mysterious affair at Styles) #bromism #AI

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 2h

In rare #goodnews, I got the chance to finally meet Dr. @ranaawdish.bsky.social in person today at a really great lecture and Dr. Awdish very graciously provided a copy of her new book After Shock, which I can’t wait to read. Incredible session about #humanity and empowering #patients

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 4h

The University of #Michigan has been giving me the biggest headache in the last 2 1/2 years. This was an LS&A decision. The university leadership and Regents have no right to meddle in unit decisions And it’s rich that people who never went to #UMich are calling these kids coddled or- dumb?

freep.com

University of Michigan pauses grade-covering pilot program. Here's why

The University of Michigan has paused a pilot program that would have covered grades for thousands of first-year students.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 5h

Posted absolutely without comments

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 8h

The #Wallenberg lecture to support…courage at the University of #Michigan (no further comment)

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 8h

I love this purple suit and want it now. Now sad I didn’t get to wear that regularly on Capitol Hill. Next time I have the levers of power I guess

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

no matter how badly donald trump loses the midterms he will never lose them as badly as he has lost canadian elections

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 11h

a fictional chart from 1995 to 2025 showing "guys who like sports" becoming more left-wing coded and "guys who says sportsball is the opiate of the masses" becoming more right-wing coded

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 11h

Between the Iowa Atlanta stuff today, Vivek’s baseball swing, and the shit a few weeks out with not knowing how Michigan folks refer to Ohio State, there has been a staggering display of lack of ball knowledge by Republicans recently. Absolute loser shit.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 11h

This is especially hilarious because Schmitt is from #Missouri which shares a 330 mile border with #Iowa, which is the longest of any state bordering…his home state he represents in the #Senate 🤣

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 11h

#CaseWestern has a massive edge over #OhioState. I have never met a bad person who graduated from CWRU and I know a lot, either undergrad or med, including a really awesome colleague in my division And well, #OhioState… Alma Adams is adorable and I love her hats tho

govrelations.osu.edu

Alumni in Government | The Ohio State University

Ohio State is proud of our alumni in local, state, and federal government.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 12h

Source: the voices on his TV screen on OAN or Newsmax?

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Marjie Tennyson @cranberryhorn.bsky.social · 12h

"Despite MAGA’s outrage, statistically in Arkansas, between 52 and 54 percent of food stamp, or SNAP, recipients in the state are white, as are 57.8 percent of those on Medicaid."

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 12h

Institutions of #highereducation not treating your #faculty who win literal genius grants and prizes like wayward teenagers that need to be herded Level: impossible (Exasperating admin situation I ran into this week that has me unfairly out of some money)

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 14h

I was able to spend 90% of the session weeks on #CapitolHill while having a whole ass other job in another state.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15h

To be honest, "Idiocracy" understated the kind of threat stupid government poses.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 15h

#DavidsMonthofMusic #MusicChallenge Day 11 A Song with a word that ends with "ing" in the title Muse Feeling Good (The superior cover of this, only surpassed by Nina Simone's original- sorry #Canadians, the Bublé version sucks)

youtu.be

Muse - Feeling Good (Video)

YouTube video by Muse

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 15h

If Vivek loses (and if this holds, loses bigly), I would be curious whether it is blamed on #racism or his #arrogance, #privatejet and fact he has never been a "normal #Ohio an" his whole damn life. (I think it's mostly latter with little of former, but will all be blamed on his name and brown skin)

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And I can imagine where the end game is here for Usha if her husband is trying to win a primary in a Bo French Republican Party 🙄 (divorced, with her and her children forced out of his life)

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's wild to me that people like Rufo and Salam can promote fascistic framing like this and not imagine that it might come for them or their families. But whatever guys...good luck with all of those debates about "the Indian Question" or "the Jewish Question" or "the Thai Question" or whatever.

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He hated his wife & his kid, he hated having to parent. And so he doubled & tripled down on something he could do: use his non-resident fellow sinecure to go after immigrants, women, educators, public health officials, all based on cramming his resentments under the labels woke, DEI, & CRT. 2/

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's my theory of Rufo-mind: After failing to get elected to local office & being forced to work at home while his immigrant wife's career was advancing & then having to help parent their young child & be the parent part of online schoolingbecause of COVID, he realized he hated all of it. 1/

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Given I know at least 5 people my age (in 30s/40s) who are interracial Indian/white, that cat is loooong out of the bag. Let alone literally Thomas Jefferson and Strom Thurmond’s progeny. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Good luck putting that genie back in the bottle.

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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Senate can pass a bill to regulate college sports, but they can't pass bills to lower the price of gas, groceries, or healthcare. They can't rein in Trump's thirst for war in Iran or trade wars with Canada, but they can tell college athletes how often they're allowed to transfer. Cool.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They’re being deported by the Labor Reform government (I can’t actually tell what party is in power)

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Speaking of #socialworkers, at a work dinner today I found out that Alethia Battles, a social worker attorney who helps our #Geriatrics #consult team quite a bit is running for #Washtenaw probate judge. She is fierce and amazing at her job, and no better possible candidate. Vote for her

battles4judge.com

Home | Alethia Battles for Probate Court Judge

Campaign website for Alethia Battles running for Probate Court Judge.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 29/09/2026

Absolutely this. College is getting harder to afford under Trump and MAGA -- and that was deliberate. We need to reverse the trend and go all-in.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A #Geriatrician functioning without a #socialworker is like the human body functioning without a brainstem. And functioning without #art and #music for patients makes us lose our frontal lobe too

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Daniel Zhao @danielzhao.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Glassdoor Employee Confidence Index fell to a third record low of 2026 in September, the lowest level in a decade. 42.9% of employees reported a positive business outlook for their employers, down from 44.5% in August. www.glassdoor.com/blog/glassdo...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The constant administration propaganda on this would work if virtually every American couldn’t still tell there was a problem affecting them directly

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#DavidsMonthofMusic #MusicChallenge Day 10 A favorite song someone has recommended to you (Shout out to the Hill street frat last year who were playing this at a #tailgate while I was walking by and I immediately shazamed it; and to @garrt.bsky.social for using it in his classes after I posted it)

youtu.be

it's murph, Emi Grace – Stone Cold Eyes (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by it's murph

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

18. All but four Senate Republicans, including Iowa's Chuck Grassley, voted against a resolution Thursday to block Trump from ordering more strikes on Iran. They voted to continue supporting the war, despite the war eating their party from the inside out. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.com

Senate rejects measure to block Trump from ordering more strikes on Iran

The administration ignored passage of a similar resolution in June, arguing that it lacks the force of law.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

21. guilty pleasure. It’s so bad the entire thing is available for free on #YouTube which is usually not available for Oscar contenders lol

youtu.be

21 (2008) - FREE MOVIE

YouTube video by Cinema Coded

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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, a lot of the grants that got cut were funding phd students in things like biomedical engineering. There’s a ton of science just not getting done. Humanities disciplines don’t rely on federal grants for grad funding, except in rare exceptions.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I forced myself to read this and this #opinion article is ridiculous on multiple levels (I will once again say the #investigative #jounalism at WSJ is far removed from their opinions columns 1) “Many college grads pursue doctorates to escape the real world.” Huh?

wsj.com

Opinion | The Ph.D. Job Crisis Is a Needed Market Correction

Universities will produce fewer underemployed, overcredentialed and aggrieved young people.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What Trump represents is an ideology of oppositional defiance disorder. Spending a small fortune on a terrible polluting vehicle in order to own the libs.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is my "forced Americans into cars they never wanted...environmental monster" btw. Which even my engineering Ford pickup trucks for 30 years dad said has a great suspension and he drives it every chance he gets when I'm out of town 😂

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Sir, gas prices are through the roof and the strategic petroleum reserve is almost drained. What shall we do?" "LET'S INCREASE DEMAND!"

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I heard southern schools had been woo’ing northern kids with great grades. Maybe this phenomenon was after my time but I had said grades and scores and never got a single overture from a southern university. Wonder why 🤔

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John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is no mystery about this condition. Human kidneys did not evolve to tolerate intense heat, dehydration, and prolonged physical labor that clogs kidney tubules with leaked muscle proteins

thehill.com

Kidney disease of unknown origin spreads in US. Who is at risk?

People with CKDu don’t have the classic risk factors of kidney disease, like hypertension or diabetes.

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