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Guha Krishnamurthi

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Professor, Maryland Carey Law (he/him); maybe Chidi

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · Dec 9

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 12h

His cardiac age is 27!

Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 12h

And he says he is in perfect health! So no qualifying condition

Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 15h

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 15h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 13h

With DHS and HHS both severely weakened and incompetently led, we are at our most vulnerable. It’s very worrisome

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 15h

What segment of the NYT readership wants anything that Douthat does? I genuinely wonder…

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 17h

Idk this does not sound like peace

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: What guarantees did you give Hamas to persuade them Israel will stop the bombing campaign once hostages have been exchanged?

TRUMP: What did I do with respect to them? Well, you know, I spoke a little bit tough ... they knew retribution would be tremendous. Would've been complete obliteration.

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 18h

I wasn’t planning on going to this, but I guess I’m going now

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 18h

h/t @davidedmonds100.bsky.social

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Death in a Shallow Pond

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, a fascinating account of Peter Singer’s controversial “drowning child” thought experiment—and how it changed the way people think about charitabl...

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 18h

I did not realize that Peter Singer’s shallow pond experiment grew out of Pakistan’s genocide of Bengalis in then-East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 19h

I saw Banerjee at the airport, I was completely star struck, and I was a bumbling idiot

Though I love their work, it’s not my area. The main thing I have taken from Banerjee is that I wear a kurta and vest as my formal suit

Spencer Wells @spwells.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave US for Switzerland 🧠🛫 www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave US for Switzerland

The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks o...

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 20h

Kash Patel is the least qualified “white person,” in a certain sense

Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 22h

MIT should start a law school

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Four cheers for MIT.

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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 1d

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 1d

I had a very similar experience, adverse to a pathological liar who could extend the litigation by continually claiming they had no rational state of mind

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like remember 5 words. It’s the easiest test

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

asked why he's going to Walter Reed tomorrow for his second physical exam since the start of the year, Trump brags about the cognitive exam he took in 2020, which he describes as "not the easiest test ... there aren't a lot of people in this room that would get every single question right."