Timothy Raben
@timothyraben.bsky.social
Genetics. Physics. Tango. Dogs. Musicals. Courts. https://traben.github.io/
The only narrow crack seems to be (1) if an appeals court just overrules this or (2) if the district court appoints a new interim US attorney and the new attorney decides to indict within the 6-month 'do over' grace period.
MORE: Judge Currie basically slams the door on re-indicting Comey here. She notes that "there is no legitimate peg" to extend the expired Sept. 30 statute of limitations. The window for James is a little wider. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The only narrow crack seems to be (1) if an appeals court just overrules this or (2) if the district court appoints a new interim US attorney and the new attorney decides to indict within the 6-month 'do over' grace period.
Slot had 2 weeks off to implement changes. All the players on international duty looked great. How come #LFC look the same they have for 2 months?
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Slot had 2 weeks off to implement changes. All the players on international duty looked great. How come #LFC look the same they have for 2 months?
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Last month I wrote about two new papers presenting the new Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (TPMI), a resource with genetic and EHR data from about half a million participants.
This was special as my mom went to NTU & worked in some of these medical centers. 🇹🇼
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This was special as my mom went to NTU & worked in some of these medical centers. 🇹🇼
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Taiwan invests in genetic resource for health
A large biobanking effort captures genetic and health data from half a million people in Taiwan, widening the diversity of genomes used to predict disease risk.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Last month I wrote about two new papers presenting the new Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (TPMI), a resource with genetic and EHR data from about half a million participants.
This was special as my mom went to NTU & worked in some of these medical centers. 🇹🇼
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This was special as my mom went to NTU & worked in some of these medical centers. 🇹🇼
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This isn't that complicated. Both Plaskett and Trump should resign!
Plaskett: You want to talk about texting felons, how often do you text President Donald J. Trump?
November 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This isn't that complicated. Both Plaskett and Trump should resign!
Here's how I think the "Epstein Files" stuff will play out:
Senate will pass the bill. Trump may not even veto, but if he does it will gets overridden. DOJ will then release an extremely limited set of heavily redacted files. Patel and Bondi may end up in a cong. hearing and act sanctimonious.
Senate will pass the bill. Trump may not even veto, but if he does it will gets overridden. DOJ will then release an extremely limited set of heavily redacted files. Patel and Bondi may end up in a cong. hearing and act sanctimonious.
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Here's how I think the "Epstein Files" stuff will play out:
Senate will pass the bill. Trump may not even veto, but if he does it will gets overridden. DOJ will then release an extremely limited set of heavily redacted files. Patel and Bondi may end up in a cong. hearing and act sanctimonious.
Senate will pass the bill. Trump may not even veto, but if he does it will gets overridden. DOJ will then release an extremely limited set of heavily redacted files. Patel and Bondi may end up in a cong. hearing and act sanctimonious.
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I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago
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Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
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First time on Bsky and first big announcement!
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes - Nature
WGS data were used from 347,630 individuals with European ancestry in the UK Biobank to obtain high-precision estimates of coding and non-coding rare variant heritability for 34 co...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
First time on Bsky and first big announcement!
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
This was me! I was a "whole language" kid in the 90s! I have a vivid memory of a middle school English teacher telling us that she was going to "close the doors, shut the blinds, and teach us some parts of speech".
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This was me! I was a "whole language" kid in the 90s! I have a vivid memory of a middle school English teacher telling us that she was going to "close the doors, shut the blinds, and teach us some parts of speech".
So it's just a complete coincidence that the only people who voted to cave are people *not* up for reelection soon? I think it's a safe bet that there were many more senate dems who wanted to cave, but also didn't want it to hurt them electorally.
I think Schumer as Chamberlain is most apt.
I think Schumer as Chamberlain is most apt.
Essentially nobody on the D side thinks the actions of the 8 "bipartisaners" were anything but wrong, indeed stupid. But now - as the Trump Regime and its captive party are badly stumbling - is not the time to encourage a fracture in the opposition, and a descent into openly warring cohorts. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
So it's just a complete coincidence that the only people who voted to cave are people *not* up for reelection soon? I think it's a safe bet that there were many more senate dems who wanted to cave, but also didn't want it to hurt them electorally.
I think Schumer as Chamberlain is most apt.
I think Schumer as Chamberlain is most apt.
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social can we get a minute by minute update on your reaction to every twist and turn of this Seattle mayor vote count?
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social can we get a minute by minute update on your reaction to every twist and turn of this Seattle mayor vote count?
All these feelings and plans are besides the point. It's far past time Schumer and Durbin stepped away from leadership (and hopefully the senate as well).
Many feel betrayal and frustration, and the feelings are hot right now.
I get it. I have my own feelings.
🧵
I get it. I have my own feelings.
🧵
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
All these feelings and plans are besides the point. It's far past time Schumer and Durbin stepped away from leadership (and hopefully the senate as well).
Donnarumma had a clear view, Robertson ducks out of the way and doesn't interfere. That has to be a goal.
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Donnarumma had a clear view, Robertson ducks out of the way and doesn't interfere. That has to be a goal.
Support for court reform should be necessary to win a democratic primary at this point.
BREAKING: the Supreme Court has granted Trump administration’s request.
So the justices will weigh the irreparable harm to the government of having to transfer the funds against the irreparable harm of tens of millions of people not eating
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Support for court reform should be necessary to win a democratic primary at this point.
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NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
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Gettleman calls some of the alleged conditions "disgusting."
"To have to sleep on a floor next to an overflow toilet, that's obviously unconstitutional," he says.
But that doesn't amount to a ruling yet. We're just getting started.
"To have to sleep on a floor next to an overflow toilet, that's obviously unconstitutional," he says.
But that doesn't amount to a ruling yet. We're just getting started.
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Gettleman calls some of the alleged conditions "disgusting."
"To have to sleep on a floor next to an overflow toilet, that's obviously unconstitutional," he says.
But that doesn't amount to a ruling yet. We're just getting started.
"To have to sleep on a floor next to an overflow toilet, that's obviously unconstitutional," he says.
But that doesn't amount to a ruling yet. We're just getting started.
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Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
Was absolutely the best chess educator out there and created tons of great content. Also seemed like a genuinely decent person. It was tough to watch him struggle with all of the drama over this past year. Really sucks that he is gone.
This is torture. Naroditsky was perhaps the best chess educators ever. He had been posting seemingly healthy a couple days ago and then all of his Twitch streams were deleted. My heart goes out to his family
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Was absolutely the best chess educator out there and created tons of great content. Also seemed like a genuinely decent person. It was tough to watch him struggle with all of the drama over this past year. Really sucks that he is gone.
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This is torture. Naroditsky was perhaps the best chess educators ever. He had been posting seemingly healthy a couple days ago and then all of his Twitch streams were deleted. My heart goes out to his family
October 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is torture. Naroditsky was perhaps the best chess educators ever. He had been posting seemingly healthy a couple days ago and then all of his Twitch streams were deleted. My heart goes out to his family
Slot is out of leeway. You can't try to install almost an entirely new starting 11 *and* a new style. Szobo, Chiesa, and Grav only people playing well and two of them are forced to play defense for half of every game and the other cant get on the field.
October 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Slot is out of leeway. You can't try to install almost an entirely new starting 11 *and* a new style. Szobo, Chiesa, and Grav only people playing well and two of them are forced to play defense for half of every game and the other cant get on the field.
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A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now
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The goal shouldn't be to set everything back to the 2015 status quo.
FIX THE DAMN PROBLEMS THAT WERE EXPLOITED
FIX THE DAMN PROBLEMS THAT WERE EXPLOITED
October 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The goal shouldn't be to set everything back to the 2015 status quo.
FIX THE DAMN PROBLEMS THAT WERE EXPLOITED
FIX THE DAMN PROBLEMS THAT WERE EXPLOITED
90 minutes in and I'll make the "bold" decision that the court rules 6-3 for petitioners and effectively says "section 2 still stands, but you must apply strict scrutiny and that's impossible."
October 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
90 minutes in and I'll make the "bold" decision that the court rules 6-3 for petitioners and effectively says "section 2 still stands, but you must apply strict scrutiny and that's impossible."
I don't like this.
Today, Judge Readler (CA6) explained in a concurrence that he used Chat GPT to help determine whether the phrase "monkey ass" was evidence of racial harassment for purposes of Title VII. It also cites Urban Dictionary.
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
![Does the term “monkey
ass,” a phrase understandably not included in traditional dictionaries, have the same racial
connotation as the term “monkey”? See Monkey Ass, Urban Dictionary (last visited Sep. 22,
2025), https://perma.cc/RRF9-D7ZC (offering definitions such as “One who acts badly or
stupid,” “A stubborn child, esp[ecially] one that exhibits monkey-like traits (e.g. small, agile, and
wild),” and “The resultant condition from prolonged periods of poor personal hygiene . . . .”); see
also ChatGPT, “What does monkey ass mean?” (Sep. 23, 2025), https://perma.cc/SS32-JRUX
(explaining that monkey ass can be “potentially racial (depending on context)” but also an “insult
or put-down (non-specific),” “emphasizing someone acting wild or stupid,” or “used in joking or
aggressive banter” (citation modified)).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qwxftspzayyqtmwv5t4rtdsm/bafkreiaf2e36o6urdtarejiqys3lpmyujhqta44chzrdn65hrghxv6qk6a@jpeg)
September 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I don't like this.
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