Joshua G. Schraiber
@jgschraiber.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist, computational biologist, statistician. I like to develop mathematical models of evolutionary process and see how they fit to data. I also like cities where building apartments is legal.
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This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
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Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
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The Republican is going to win by like 7 or something
Aftyn Behn is almost certainly not going to win on Tuesday but what a gift to the discourse and vibes it would be if she did, lol.
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The Republican is going to win by like 7 or something
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Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
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It's easy to be numb because it's par for the course nowadays, but repeatedly calling a reporter who asks a reasonable question "stupid" is conduct unbecoming for a small-town mayor, let alone the President of the United States.
The press exists to play a watchdog role, not be a supplicant.
The press exists to play a watchdog role, not be a supplicant.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
It's easy to be numb because it's par for the course nowadays, but repeatedly calling a reporter who asks a reasonable question "stupid" is conduct unbecoming for a small-town mayor, let alone the President of the United States.
The press exists to play a watchdog role, not be a supplicant.
The press exists to play a watchdog role, not be a supplicant.
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at thanksgiving, being urged to explain what felching is
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
at thanksgiving, being urged to explain what felching is
Almost like he's a profound racist
Asked what Afghanis in the US legally should be thinking, Trump talks about how Somalis are allegedly taking over Minnesota
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Almost like he's a profound racist
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yeah it just isn’t the case that we can provide health care to people who aren’t currently getting it without taking health care away from or reducing the quality of care for some people who have it. and you may argue that’s worth doing, but whoever does it will lose the next election
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
yeah it just isn’t the case that we can provide health care to people who aren’t currently getting it without taking health care away from or reducing the quality of care for some people who have it. and you may argue that’s worth doing, but whoever does it will lose the next election
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“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
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JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
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Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
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The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
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As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
The only major faction which does not believe it is the far right, which understands itself to be in a cultural battle for hearts and minds which is only glancingly correlated with economic anything. It’s worked out wonderfully for them
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
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Our recent paper, "Optimal Annual COVID-19 Vaccine Boosting Dates Following Previous Booster Vaccination or Breakthrough Infection", is amongst the most-read recent articles in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Maybe because everyone can benefit from reading it?
academic.oup.com/cid/article-...
Maybe because everyone can benefit from reading it?
academic.oup.com/cid/article-...
Optimal Annual COVID-19 Vaccine Boosting Dates Following Previous Booster Vaccination or Breakthrough Infection
Optimal timing for COVID-19 boosters improves their efficacy. There is an optimal delay of boosters after breakthrough infection. Our analysis enables bene
academic.oup.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our recent paper, "Optimal Annual COVID-19 Vaccine Boosting Dates Following Previous Booster Vaccination or Breakthrough Infection", is amongst the most-read recent articles in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Maybe because everyone can benefit from reading it?
academic.oup.com/cid/article-...
Maybe because everyone can benefit from reading it?
academic.oup.com/cid/article-...
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This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
![“I was so happy when I got there [to Babson],” Lopez Belloza said. “I was just living the college life — going to events, going everywhere ... everything there was really great. I really loved the school."
She and her father also had a special shared aspiration. With her business degree, Lopez Belloza was going to help her father open his own tailor shop, they hoped.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u6ajzyiqzkzbppp2x2y7fpfu/bafkreib33kpkgmvas4z6avgq62styxbzrzuawjufqyddtoynqgbiwnhtzy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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Dems learned a recession is better than 3 consecutive quarters of above trend inflation. We’re never getting Big Fiscal again in our lifetimes
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Dems learned a recession is better than 3 consecutive quarters of above trend inflation. We’re never getting Big Fiscal again in our lifetimes
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good news: we can prevent recessions
bad news: the voters like recessions, apparently
bad news: the voters like recessions, apparently
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
good news: we can prevent recessions
bad news: the voters like recessions, apparently
bad news: the voters like recessions, apparently
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
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Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
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It’s very, very important that your political model and epistemological framework account for the possibility that SOMETIMES MOST PEOPLE ARE WRONG, and have explanations for why that can happen. Otherwise you’re going to end up somewhere very dark eventually.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
It’s very, very important that your political model and epistemological framework account for the possibility that SOMETIMES MOST PEOPLE ARE WRONG, and have explanations for why that can happen. Otherwise you’re going to end up somewhere very dark eventually.
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I seem to recall that one of the GOP's main criticisms of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal was that he betrayed the Afghan allies and didn't allow enough of them to come to the US. They shouldn't be allowed to forget that.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/...
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I seem to recall that one of the GOP's main criticisms of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal was that he betrayed the Afghan allies and didn't allow enough of them to come to the US. They shouldn't be allowed to forget that.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/...
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Collective, racist punishment.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Collective, racist punishment.
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CBS is reporting the suspect ID-ed as 29 year old Afghan national who entered US in 2021.
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
2 National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., suspect in custody, officials say
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot a few blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., and a suspect is in custody, officials say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
CBS is reporting the suspect ID-ed as 29 year old Afghan national who entered US in 2021.
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...