Wael Asaad
@wael-asaad.bsky.social
Neurosurgery and neuroscience. Trying to help by understanding and modulating brain circuits.
I expect Putin and Netanyahu will be the next awardees. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/s...
What is the FIFA Peace Prize and why is Donald Trump expected to win? | CNN
As billions of fans around the world tune in to watch the World Cup draw on Friday, they’ll also have the opportunity to watch FIFA president Gianni Infantino present a new, somewhat puzzling, award.
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I expect Putin and Netanyahu will be the next awardees. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/s...
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UNACCEPTABLE: S college kid in Boston boards a DOMESTIC flight to Texas see her family for Thanksgiving, is surrounded at Logan airport by ICE agents and abruptly deported to Honduras. This insanity must stop.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
UNACCEPTABLE: S college kid in Boston boards a DOMESTIC flight to Texas see her family for Thanksgiving, is surrounded at Logan airport by ICE agents and abruptly deported to Honduras. This insanity must stop.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Hey @nytimes.com would it have been so difficult to write, simply, “Many liken Trump’s approach to extortion” and simply leave it at that, rather than adding a pointless contrast that really makes no distinction?
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hey @nytimes.com would it have been so difficult to write, simply, “Many liken Trump’s approach to extortion” and simply leave it at that, rather than adding a pointless contrast that really makes no distinction?
I look forward to one day seeing Hegseth in jail. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I look forward to one day seeing Hegseth in jail. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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Make America Great Again
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Make America Great Again
Seems like we have an unexpected vote for universal, government-run healthcare insurance?
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Seems like we have an unexpected vote for universal, government-run healthcare insurance?
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Time and again, Trump's agents are using excessive force that “shocks the conscience.”
Just this week, they violently tore a teacher—with legal work authorization—from a preschool as children watched on in horror.
I'm demanding investigations. Trump has gone too far.
Just this week, they violently tore a teacher—with legal work authorization—from a preschool as children watched on in horror.
I'm demanding investigations. Trump has gone too far.
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Time and again, Trump's agents are using excessive force that “shocks the conscience.”
Just this week, they violently tore a teacher—with legal work authorization—from a preschool as children watched on in horror.
I'm demanding investigations. Trump has gone too far.
Just this week, they violently tore a teacher—with legal work authorization—from a preschool as children watched on in horror.
I'm demanding investigations. Trump has gone too far.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Little known etymology of exododus: combines “exodus” which means a mass departure and “dodo” which is commonly used to denote someone who is foolish or dim-witted; together, the combined term references a… well we get the picture. Seems appropriate.
"exododus"
The New York Post: Come for the shameless propaganda, stay for the embarrassing illiteracy.
The New York Post: Come for the shameless propaganda, stay for the embarrassing illiteracy.
November 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Little known etymology of exododus: combines “exodus” which means a mass departure and “dodo” which is commonly used to denote someone who is foolish or dim-witted; together, the combined term references a… well we get the picture. Seems appropriate.
Obama 2028. We can play that game, too.
Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom… If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance.
November 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Obama 2028. We can play that game, too.
So good. youtube.com/watch?v=ksFr...
The Last Republican
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
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October 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
So good. youtube.com/watch?v=ksFr...
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
This sort of feels like the endgame for Western civilization: undermine places like Harvard while country clubs become universities, designed and run by MBAs for (future) MBAs. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
How a Small North Carolina College Became a Magnet for Wealthy Students
Schools are trying to attract a limited pool of higher-end families. High Point University is a blueprint.
www.wsj.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This sort of feels like the endgame for Western civilization: undermine places like Harvard while country clubs become universities, designed and run by MBAs for (future) MBAs. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Yet blue states provide more than their fair share of the government’s federal tax revenues. It’s welfare for red states. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Trump approves disaster declarations for red states, as blue states go without
“President Trump and his administration have politicized disaster relief,” one governor said, “and our communities are the ones who will pay the price.”
www.msnbc.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Yet blue states provide more than their fair share of the government’s federal tax revenues. It’s welfare for red states. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
ICE are the worst of us.
An ICE agent arrested in August on suspicion of driving drunk questioned the nationality of a sheriff’s deputy and threatened to check the deputy’s immigration status, according to newly released body-camera footage.
ICE agent threatens to check deputy’s status during DUI stop, asks if he’s Haitian
Scott Deiseroth told a Florida sheriff’s deputy that he would have his colleague deported if “not legit,” body camera video shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
ICE are the worst of us.
Pfft. I remember when the 88-hour (80-hour for non-surgical residents) work week limit was introduced as an *improvement* www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Why these companies insist on a 72-hour workweek
Start-ups are promoting hardcore cultures such as “996,” meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week, as they race to compete in AI.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Pfft. I remember when the 88-hour (80-hour for non-surgical residents) work week limit was introduced as an *improvement* www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
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$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.
Trump says his $40B bailout for Argentina's failing libertarian economy is "not gonna make a big difference for our country."
Really?
Imagine if we invested those billions on healthcare and housing for Americans, instead of bailing out Trump's pals abroad.
Really?
Imagine if we invested those billions on healthcare and housing for Americans, instead of bailing out Trump's pals abroad.
October 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.
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On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social