Paul Semenza
paulsemenza.bsky.social
Paul Semenza
@paulsemenza.bsky.social
Professor, consultant. Interested in technology, policy, business.
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Trump's MRI raises new questions about Biden's health.
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
He always smiles when he lies
Number of states where average gas prices are below $2:

Zero.

Number of states where average gas prices are anywhere NEAR $2:

Zero.
HASSETT: Gas prices dropped below $2 a gallon in a lot of places

CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon

HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
November 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Interesting, my version is watered down
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
So... he's a scumbag like his brother
Apparently this is for real.

Trever Nehls is running for Congress to replace his identical twin brother Troy Nehls.
November 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.

Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?

He gets a full presidential pardon.

Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Look, every single “deal” reached by a university with the Trump administration is a moral stain that will be seen with deep embarrassment once we’re through this. But for Northwestern to do this now, when the administration is visibly weakened, is even more shameful and inexcusable.
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Bringing America down to the level of a 2nd tier petrostate
“For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump’s inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of… opportunity” www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I was told that only a small band of Bluesky fanatics hated AI?
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Kill? You mean pardon?
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It's a sad commentary that a free society has chosen to subject itself to this
This is what Trump thought was an appropriate Thanksgiving message. It's hard to know whether the lies, the hatred, or the disdain for our country and its laws are the worst part of this.

Please read the full text, available here: www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/t...
Trump: Most foreigners eating alive Great American Citizens and Patriots
The Thanksgiving post departed from Trump's, and the MAGA movement's, insistence they oppose "open borders" and instead favor "legal" immigration.
www.palmbeachpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's a very sick country that chooses to allow a psychopath to control it
Donald Trump finally posts a Thanksgiving message — and uses it to call Governor Tim Walz “seriously retarded.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Make sure you don't share the fact that Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Let's illegally put a tax on consumers and then send out checks that people should use at casinos
When the strongest argument for your policy is a list of lies (I count 7) and exaggerations (another 5), you reveal more than a wonky list of truths ever would.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Look, you work for a dog food company, you gotta eat dog food
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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There are already wild rumors and participatory make-believe circulating about this on here. As always, please take a pause to wait for more information to surface instead of attaching to whatever immediate claim makes you feel like you’ve made sense of the situation.
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Crow emerges from this profile looking like a proto-fascist
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Never before has a President gotten out of all his criminal prosecutions in the first year of his term.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If the hammer industry plundered the world's forests and built its own steel mills that taxed existing energy production, tried to force people in the market for screwdrivers into buying hammers, and then got companies to compel their employees to use hammers in their work, bluesky would be pissed/1
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!

Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072

(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social great thread, would like to read it direct rather than via @gtconway.bsky.social reposts from the Nazi site
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
They are putting thugs on the streets without any training or command structure
Aiming a gun at an unarmed civilian who is not posing a threat.

Should be an immediately fireable offense.
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Trump put tariffs on Brazil for prosecuting the guy who tried a coup.
Brazil said eat your f-ing tariffs and put the coup guy in prison so he couldn't try to hide in the US embassy.
Trump dropped the tariffs and said 'Bolsonaro? Never met him'
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"triumph of the Gaza peace deal"
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM