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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 19h

Appropriate use of air quotes by @bostonglobe.com to describe “compact” 💪
In the meantime @nytimes.com could have used appropriate air quotes for “offer”, “special”, “benefits”, and “protect”, but failed to do so

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 19h

Snap

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 1d

“No school will be forced to adhere to the compact’s principles of fairness, civility, neutrality and transparency. If schools do not want to be accountable to these requirements, they need not accept federal funding.”

😂
GTFO
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

www.nytimes.com

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 1d

MIT Strong 💪

links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 1d

🤣

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 2d

no, public health/medicine/epidemiology/health services

Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 2d

From @ryanenos.bsky.social & Levitsky: “Predictably, the extortionist has returned for more. The reward for capitulation was more extortion.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 2d

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 3d

"I was informed my APHA membership has been revoked... I was also stripped of my elected leadership position as chair of the International Health Section. My offense? Advocating (too much) for the health of Palestinians in Gaza." academeblog.org/2025/10/07/w...

What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart

BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…

academeblog.org

Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 3d

lol saying you have not received complaints is a good way to drum up some complaints
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss & Scott Bessent be like: “He ain’t talking’ ‘bout ME”

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 3d

“For some, the pain caused by the aid cuts has become so intense that death seems like the only escape. So torturous was the sight of his starving family that 40-year-old father of two Mohammed Eliyas took his own life, says his son, Mohammed Amin.”
apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 4d

Trama-dud
ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

Tramadol versus placebo for chronic pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis

Objectives The objective of our study was to assess the benefits and harms of tramadol vs placebo in adults with chronic pain. Design The research method was a systematic review of randomised clinica...

ebm.bmj.com

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 4d

"mysteriously"
www.lbc.co.uk/article/russ...

Russian head of Soviet-era newspaper mysteriously falls 70ft to his death from Moscow window | LBC

Police are investigating whether his death was a suicide, an accident or involved some kind of foul play

www.lbc.co.uk

Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 4d

“I just saw a headline”—strong legal analysis 💪💪💪

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 4d

Omigawd so annoying

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 7d

“Politicians tread on dangerous ground when their pursuit of equity comes at the cost of children’s opportunities.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Holding back gifted students in the name of equity

Zohran Mamdani treads on dangerous ground by putting equity ahead of educational opportunity.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 7d

“[The Supreme Court’s] First Amendment jurisprudence has been especially strong and significant.”

(written unironically)
😂
www.wsj.com/opinion/chie...

Opinion | The Triumph of the Roberts Court

What the Justices have wrought in his 20 years as Chief Justice.

www.wsj.com

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 8d

“‘That fking dumbass,’ one of the senior Trump administration officials told Zeteo on Wednesday, after seeing a clip of Lutnick riffing on Epstein. ‘…He just talks and talks, and doesn’t care what unhelpful bullshhhhtte comes out.’”
zeteo.com/p/trump-jeff...