Aru Panwar MD
@arupanwar.bsky.social
Head & Neck Cancer Surgeon, Educator, & Researcher.
Indian by birth 🇮🇳, American by choice 🇺🇸, curious by nature, & hopeful through practice.
Indian by birth 🇮🇳, American by choice 🇺🇸, curious by nature, & hopeful through practice.
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Aru Panwar MD
@arupanwar.bsky.social
· Sep 22
The largest professional organization representing ENT doctors in the U.S. has endorsed gun silencers, a scientifically flawed policy blunder.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/e...
www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/e...
I’m a surgeon. My society waded into gun regulation — and chose politics over science
The largest professional organization representing ENT doctors in the U.S. has endorsed gun silencers, a scientifically flawed policy blunder.
www.statnews.com
Read my opinion in @statnews.com: The largest ENT doctors’ organization in North America endorsed gun silencers. They should be urged to retract their flawed endorsement. #medsky #otosky #otolaryngology
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Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...
February 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...
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"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"
this case is maybe the single best example of one of the most destructive tendencies of this court: the tendency to treat their job as a collegiate legal seminar where they operate in hypotheticals rather than deal with the real world as it exists
February 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"
What do we do with all the ‘occupy Mars’ merch now? 🤦🏻♂️
February 9, 2026 at 6:17 PM
What do we do with all the ‘occupy Mars’ merch now? 🤦🏻♂️
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After artificial intelligence was added to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions and adverse events reut.rs/46G6Naa
February 9, 2026 at 11:55 AM
After artificial intelligence was added to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions and adverse events reut.rs/46G6Naa
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free… so that we can warehouse them.
Terrible people in positions of responsibility, making terrible and flawed decisions.
Terrible people in positions of responsibility, making terrible and flawed decisions.
“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”
208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark
Late Friday, two of the nation's most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and ideological spectrum) have overwhelmingly rejected
www.stevevladeck.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free… so that we can warehouse them.
Terrible people in positions of responsibility, making terrible and flawed decisions.
Terrible people in positions of responsibility, making terrible and flawed decisions.
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“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”
208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark
Late Friday, two of the nation's most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and ideological spectrum) have overwhelmingly rejected
www.stevevladeck.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:34 PM
“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”
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donald trump is a trickle-down racist www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM
donald trump is a trickle-down racist www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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1 dollar still equals 1 dollar tho
BITCOIN EXTENDS FALL, BRIEFLY DROPS BELOW $64,000, LAST DOWN 11.5% AT $64,328
February 5, 2026 at 8:22 PM
1 dollar still equals 1 dollar tho
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This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 12:53 AM
This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
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Yep.
Let’s call a lie a lie, gang
Presumptions of good faith are naive
Let’s call a lie a lie, gang
Presumptions of good faith are naive
Have you noticed this? I have.
"The news media doesn’t seem to know how to bring anything other than wide-eyed credulity to his utterances, even after all the lies and deceit of the past decade."
That's @sulliview.bsky.social at her site.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...
"The news media doesn’t seem to know how to bring anything other than wide-eyed credulity to his utterances, even after all the lies and deceit of the past decade."
That's @sulliview.bsky.social at her site.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...
Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says
Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism
margaretsullivan.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Yep.
Let’s call a lie a lie, gang
Presumptions of good faith are naive
Let’s call a lie a lie, gang
Presumptions of good faith are naive
“Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, a group that has persistently questioned the evidence around gender-affirming care, which Republicans have used to justify legislation restricting or banning it. The group… funded evidence reviews referenced by ASPS”
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended that gender-affirming surgeries be delayed until a patient is at least 19 years old www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/g...
Plastic surgeons society recommends delaying gender-affirming procedures until age 19
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended that gender-affirming surgeries be delayed until a patient is at least 19 years old
www.statnews.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:36 AM
“Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, a group that has persistently questioned the evidence around gender-affirming care, which Republicans have used to justify legislation restricting or banning it. The group… funded evidence reviews referenced by ASPS”
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By acknowledging uncertainty in measuring and forecasting public opinion, the consultant/strategist creates space for leaders to campaign on what they believe in — particularly, but not only, when it will match up with future opinion. As I write in the conclusion:
February 3, 2026 at 3:24 PM
By acknowledging uncertainty in measuring and forecasting public opinion, the consultant/strategist creates space for leaders to campaign on what they believe in — particularly, but not only, when it will match up with future opinion. As I write in the conclusion:
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Quantum sensing technologies test existing privacy frameworks severely because they bypass the physical boundaries—walls, distance, the opacity of the human body—on which existing doctrine depends, write Zahra Takhshid, Mark Gyure & Vivek Krishnamurthy. The issue deserves more scrutiny, they say:
Quantum Sensing Will Test Legal Frameworks for Privacy
Zahra Takhshid, Mark Gyure, and Vivek Krishnamurthy say quantum technologies pose profound challenges to established conceptions of privacy.
buff.ly
February 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Quantum sensing technologies test existing privacy frameworks severely because they bypass the physical boundaries—walls, distance, the opacity of the human body—on which existing doctrine depends, write Zahra Takhshid, Mark Gyure & Vivek Krishnamurthy. The issue deserves more scrutiny, they say:
Oh the inconveniences of having laws and the constitution!
February 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Oh the inconveniences of having laws and the constitution!
The Indian independence movement led by Gandhi was centered on peaceful action and civil disobedience. But sure, Mr. Yarvin and his pseudo intellectual ilk would certainly know better than any of us since they know a thing or two about making stuff up.
February 1, 2026 at 9:57 PM
The Indian independence movement led by Gandhi was centered on peaceful action and civil disobedience. But sure, Mr. Yarvin and his pseudo intellectual ilk would certainly know better than any of us since they know a thing or two about making stuff up.
This is the strength and the playbook that @osbornforne.bsky.social will leverage in a tough challenge to Pete Ricketts in the Senate election in #Nebraska later this year. 🤞🏼
February 1, 2026 at 6:46 PM
This is the strength and the playbook that @osbornforne.bsky.social will leverage in a tough challenge to Pete Ricketts in the Senate election in #Nebraska later this year. 🤞🏼
Dunno about a ‘cabal’, but certainly seems like a coterie of people who benefited from network effects, and at the very least chose to look the other way.
homer simpson says i see nothing i know nothing i was never here in a cartoon
ALT: homer simpson says i see nothing i know nothing i was never here in a cartoon
media.tenor.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Dunno about a ‘cabal’, but certainly seems like a coterie of people who benefited from network effects, and at the very least chose to look the other way.
Goes nowhere unless in a must pass funding bill.
January 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Goes nowhere unless in a must pass funding bill.
Slovakia getting ready for Trump-tariffs and hoping that the US President has some other thing to distract him today. 🤡
January 28, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Slovakia getting ready for Trump-tariffs and hoping that the US President has some other thing to distract him today. 🤡
What??? No f-ing way!
January 28, 2026 at 5:23 PM
What??? No f-ing way!
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Immigrants in the US consumed about 24% fewer welfare and entitlement benefits per capita than native-born Americans in 2023, new Cato Institute research finds.
Learn more from Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo: https://ow.ly/2w4Z50Y4Bsj
Learn more from Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo: https://ow.ly/2w4Z50Y4Bsj
January 27, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Immigrants in the US consumed about 24% fewer welfare and entitlement benefits per capita than native-born Americans in 2023, new Cato Institute research finds.
Learn more from Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo: https://ow.ly/2w4Z50Y4Bsj
Learn more from Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo: https://ow.ly/2w4Z50Y4Bsj
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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Trump’s return supercharges institutionalized corruption, and as always there is profit to be made. Right?
January 25, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Trump’s return supercharges institutionalized corruption, and as always there is profit to be made. Right?
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"Just like the killing of Renée Good, Saturday morning’s shooting once again raises the question of why it is so damned difficult to hold federal officers—and the federal government itself—accountable if and when they violate our rights."
Me on the federal accountability gap—and how to close it:
Me on the federal accountability gap—and how to close it:
204. Accountability After Minneapolis
A short post explaining (1) why it's so hard to hold federal officers and/or the federal government liable for violating our rights; and (2) how a one-sentence statute could (and *SHOULD*) fix it.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM
"Just like the killing of Renée Good, Saturday morning’s shooting once again raises the question of why it is so damned difficult to hold federal officers—and the federal government itself—accountable if and when they violate our rights."
Me on the federal accountability gap—and how to close it:
Me on the federal accountability gap—and how to close it: