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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 1h

This was exactly what I was thinking about.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 7h

I am very poorly paraphrasing a hopefully more ethical study design too.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 7h

My sister told me she read a study in her social work practicum that if you put multiple people with such delusions in a room they don’t actually get into conflict.

They just tend to think the other people are insane.

Dunno why I thought of that.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 8h

This administration definitely would jail the people hiding the little girl in the attic

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 8h

Nor do I, it’s partly why I’m partial to the read that Bessent is receiving personal benefit for the bailout, then there’s the latent election interference thing.

Unless there’s something else I’m missing?

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 8h

@waitmanwbeorn.com, I believe it was in the first edition of your “Holocaust in Eastern Europe” where you go over some of the characteristics of rescuers during that time.

I was struck by a lot of the spontaneity of it in much the same way I am here.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 8h

They were absolutely 100% already planning for months to do these exact RIFs, and they’re so dumb that they think choosing to do it now will make somebody else take the blame.

Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 11h

NEWS: Trump administration officials have revealed that, so far, over 4,100 federal workers have been laid off in this round of RIFs

The administration is "actively considering whether to conduct additional RIFs related to" the shutdown, per a new court filing
www.notus.org/trump-white-...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10h

This Newsmax host compares the ordination of a PC(USA) pastor to a Universal Life Church online ordination.

PC(USA) ordination requires a three-year masters of divinity, passing an ordination exam, and a host of presbytery requirements.

The Presbyterian tradition is older than the U.S.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 15h

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 9h

I just want to remind folks that while the Insurrection Act sounds very scary, the point of it is to allow mil to enforce *existing laws.* It doesn't mean summary executions, or (more illegal) internment camps, or that Stephen Miller gets to be Viceroy of Chicago, despite what he may think.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 10h

Whoa, Judge Perry says the Feds’ declarations about unrest at ICE facilities are not credible because some of the incidents they cite in their declarations were separately no-billed by grand juries

The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants' declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants' declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

I got the impression that was why she adopted it.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

It does appear after further reporting the answer is “principal agent problems”.

Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 1d

Why are they choosing their first major political prosecutions against some of the most well prepared people on the planet to make them look stupid?

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

Ah, the wonderful too understaffed to discipline dynamic.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 10h

I increasingly agree with you, and it also explains why the wheels seem like they’re really coming off the admin.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 11h

portland frog protestor with that “If only you knew how bad things really are.” 4chan post below it

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

I would never do that to you.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

Totally valid question and the answer I give lay folks is that if it’s an acute change it’s an emergency either way and if you’re told later it’s a TIA it means that whatever happened resolved spontaneously without dead brain tissue on imaging.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

Like, you can *see* this. I am keeping my analysis publicly to what you can *see* happening.

And I am very open to push back to any of it and would frankly welcome it.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

It’s totally normal for folks post stroke (in this case the syndrome looks like a lacunar stroke) to both tire more easily and have a worsening of their symptoms when they are tired, stressed or whatever in early recovery.

Which brings us back to the MRI, and why that’s necessary.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

If you’re having deficits that long then it is necessarily a stroke. “Transient” doing the work in “transient ischemic attack”.

The thing at issue would be if the recurring symptoms are new infarcts or “recrudescence” which is a temporary re emergence of prior stroke symptoms without new infarct.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

Like, you can see it. It's not subtle.

It can be normal part of recovery but it'd be hard to tell without an MRI. Couldn't tell with just a CT, so you get the MRI.

Takes a few hours to take and read and go over results etc.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

I'm fairly certain it's because Walter Reed has an MRI, all the cognitive tests you could do at the White House and you can get a neurologist to come in for that.

Dude still shows deficits when he's tired. He gets facial droop and more slurred speech that does it for me.

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 12h

trump's second biannual yearly routine checkup that he had to go to walter reed for as opposed to them coming to him lasted about three hours, as these things do, i guess

ain't kremlinology fun? i always wished i had a pair of binoculars and was writing reports on Andropov

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

It would be very funny tho if they tried to make an appointment for the president and because of some slapstick comedy of errors he's stuck waiting for a low priority outpatient appointment and no one bothers to fix it.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

Pretty normal in neuro to have phased appointments to gauge recovery, in this scenario you're not in the waiting queue anyway.

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 11h

Why would a 79 year old man have a several hour appointment at a hospital 30 days after he appeared in public with facial droop and ataxic gait.

One wonders.

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