Q: On health care, that’s just illegal immigrants losing coverage, isn’t it?
A: No. Illegal immigrants aren’t eligible for Medicaid and a miniscule fraction of Medicaid ends up going to them. The people losing coverage are here legally. 8/https://t.co/NPDyNe5SmG
— Bharat Ramamurti (@BharatRamamurti) July 3, 2025
It is going to be another "eventful" night in several parts of Russia. In the last hour drone alerts & drones have been reported for Taman/Kerch region, occupied Zaporizhzhia Region, "DNR" & "LNR "as well as for the Rostov, Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Oryol and Lipetsk regions. pic.twitter.com/9zRMFGqJqq
Q: I’m confused. Why does this cost trillions then?
A: Because the bill mostly extends prior tax cuts that were going to expire. Those original tax cuts were highly slanted towards the rich, so it’s mostly just keeping things that way at a cost of several trillion dollars. 5/
— Bharat Ramamurti (@BharatRamamurti) July 3, 2025
Q: So what does this bill do?
A: It cuts taxes for the wealthy and corporations, kicks 17 million people off their health insurance, adds $4 trillion in debt, kills energy jobs, and makes the economy grow more slowly. 2/
— Bharat Ramamurti (@BharatRamamurti) July 3, 2025
Chanting "death to..." is really bad, American politicians say. Unless it's Israelis doing it. pic.twitter.com/V2hs4h1Wyu
Love this, with one correction: Dayton was wasn’t “the middle of nowhere” back then. Ohio was the epicenter of the Industrial Revolution & spawned not just the Wright Brothers, but Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, etc. That’s not a coincidence, but the result of a culture of ambition. https://t.co/Qnvmgf4o4w
Speedballing — mixing opioids like fentanyl with stimulants like cocaine or meth — is now a major driver of overdose deaths in the U.S.
Overdoses involving the combination of drug types have risen 50x since 2010https://t.co/ICW5n0kfR5
— The Conversation U.S. (@ConversationUS) July 3, 2025
united states dollar has weakened by more than 10% over the past six months compared to top trading partners the worst start of the year since 1973, after shifting the dollar away from the price of gold pic.twitter.com/FgKgev7vVT
— The Jason Jones Show (@JasonJonesVPP) July 3, 2025
They continue to show us who they are and today might be the worst of it. We must remain strong and become stronger. We must be there for our neighbors and each other. We must be there for the most vulnerable, the hungry and the sick. Together we will defeat tyranny. We must. The…
— Jamaal Bowman Ed.D. (@JamaalBowmanNY) July 3, 2025
Mr. President, you love playing the schoolyard bully but, at age 79, it’s time to cut it out. It’s one thing to steal one kid’s lunch money, but your bill STEALS LUNCH MONEY FROM MILLIONS OF KIDS. Now, that’s real ugly. pic.twitter.com/k33qIU2Nx1
Trendlines: It’s hard not to see Paramount Global's $16 million settlement with President Trump as a payoff — and a sell-out of CBS News, writes @GlobeNewsEd. https://t.co/5bcUfJVACn
people will complain about nyc/sf being unaffordable and choose to live alone. living with a friend in your early/mid 20’s is so consequential to your growth as an adult. don’t miss the opportunity.
"I believe President Trump's re-election represents God giving America another chance — perhaps her last chance — to reverse this downward trajectory," said Pastor Robert Jeffress. https://t.co/QjAzWsTpZt
Donald Trump's approval rating underwater across multiple polls Trump’s Everglades Prison Can’t Even Withstand a Routine Rainstorm. Ron DeSantis Wants to Open It Anyway. Iranian Nobel Laureate Says War Dealt Big Blow to Fight for Democracy After Israel’s 12-day war dealt a severe blow to the leadership of Iran, one of the country’s leading human-rights defenders warns that authorities will turn on their own people to consolidate power. ........ “The situation for Iranian people is more dangerous now than before the war,” Narges Mohammadi, who in 2023 received the Nobel Peace Prize for her three-decade fight for democracy, told The Wall Street Journal. The interview was conducted in writing because of the poor internet connection in the village outside Tehran where she sheltered from the bombings. ........ “I am deeply concerned about the situation of civil society activists, political activists, and especially youths who are active in social activities,” Mohammadi said. “Unfortunately, I think the repression will intensify further in the coming days.” ........ Scores of Iranians have been arrested on allegations of espionage for Israel and complicity in the attacks since last week’s cease-fire. Six were executed after hasty trials. Allegations of espionage have been leveraged in the past at opposition activists. ...... Despite decades of oppression, Iran’s civil society remains vibrant and active openly and underground. Protest movements spring up every few years, most recently after the death in police custody of a young woman in 2022, and have been crushed by authorities. .......... The weakened state of Iran’s military is unlikely for now to invite an open uprising, according to political analysts. While the conflict with Israel has diminished Iran’s ability to wage war on its foreign enemies, it is still fully capable of using force against its own citizens. .......... Despite her long fight against the Islamic Republic, Mohammadi said she didn’t want foreign powers to topple it and that any change in Iran should be pushed by Iranians. Regime change pushed by a foreign power would be illegitimate, she said. ........ “In Iran, there is a misogynistic and religious government helmed by Ali Khamenei who has taken us to hell while promising paradise,” Mohammadi said, referring to the country’s supreme leader. “Netanyahu is taking us to hell while promising freedom and democracy.” ........ Even hard-line opponents who spent years fighting the Islamic Republic were seen calling for “death to Israel,” said Narges Bajoghli, associate professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. ........ “The folks who despise the Islamic Republic, we saw them willing to put their lives on the line to fight the regime. Now, the same organizers are uniting, not around the flag of the Islamic Republic, but the idea of the homeland,” said Bajoghli, who wrote a book researched inside Iran about propaganda in the Islamic Republic. ........ She has been arrested 13 times, tried nine times and sentenced to more than 36 years in prison, of which she has served roughly 10. She hasn’t seen her twin teenagers in person since 2015, when they moved to France to live in exile with her husband after she was arrested. .......... Five days after Israel began its strikes on Iran, Mohammadi fled the capital, driving through traffic-clogged streets to a village. The war in Tehran brought back memories of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. ....... Iranian authorities imposed a near-total communication blackout, making it hard for Iranians to gauge the toll of the war and whether to evacuate. The blackouts also prevented them from receiving nongovernmental information or from organizing, Mohammadi said. ...........
Israel’s campaign was the most significant blow to the Islamic Republic in four decades, but Mohammadi said that attacks on the state, which destroy infrastructure and the economy and weaken its people, will undermine any drive for democratic change.
........ “War does not have the capacity for the fundamental transformation that the Iranian people seek,” she said.
Mexico Is Showing the World How to Stand Up to Donald Trump Donald Trump loves to try to bully Mexico. But President Claudia Sheinbaum is showing the world how to stand up to the MAGA administration without playing into its hands. ......... On Sunday, March 9, over 350,000 people crammed into Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo, in repudiation of US president Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Just days before, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the reaching of an agreement which, under the cover of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), would exempt Mexico from most of the levies. “Fortunately, dialogue has prevailed and, especially, respect between our nations,” Sheinbaum told the crowd. Sure enough, when Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2, both Mexico and Canada had been excluded. ......... the administration — spurred by the reckless, nativist rage of his coterie — has taken the opportunity to ratchet up tensions again and again. This, in turn, has put to the test President Sheinbaum’s approach of handling her erratic counterpart with her now famous cabeza fría, or “cool head.” .......... On March 21, for the first time since a treaty governing shared watersheds was signed in 1944, the United States denied a Mexican request for water, in this case for the city of Tijuana. After several weeks of back-and-forth, the dispute was settled at the end of April. On May 11, the United States announced the suspension of livestock imports from Mexico due to the detection of New World screwworm (NWS) in the south of the country, to the visible frustration of Agriculture Secretary Julio Berdegué, who reminded the United States of its failure to respond to requests to assist in containing the northward march of the pest when it resurfaced in Panama back in 2023. As of this writing, the ban remains in effect. ......... In early May, a MORENA governor and her spouse had their visas revoked without explanation, setting off a froth of speculation and rumor. Then on May 16, in violation of any semblance of diplomatic protocol or ethics, newly minted ambassador Ronald D. Johnson spent his second day in the country calling the far-right, fledgling politician Eduardo Verástegui his “brother” at a chummy dinner; the moment, widely shared on social media, further heightened suspicions about Johnson — a former Green Beret, CIA agent, and one of fifty-five “advisers” to the junta during the civil war in El Salvador. ....... Shortly before, the Trump administration had allowed seventeen members of the Guzmán crime family to enter the United States, barely two months after designating the Sinaloa Cartel, among others, a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). As if to underscore fears that the designation could be used to justify US military intervention in the country, Trump told Sheinbaum in a phone call that he would be “honored” to go in and “help” with the cartels, an offer she obviously refused. ......... On May 21, House Republicans announced the creation of an excise tax on remittances, part of a larger plan to unload the cost of tax cuts onto migrants. Sheinbaum blasted the plan as double taxation and, in an appearance in the city of San Luis Potosí, broached the possibility of domestic mobilizations to demonstrate opposition to the measure. Some ten days later, Director of Homeland Security Kristi Noem — who had been received with an excess of civility by President Sheinbaum at the National Palace in March — took advantage of an out-of-context clip making the rounds to claim that Sheinbaum was egging on violent protests in Los Angeles. This was too far even for Trump, and Ambassador Johnson was tasked with walking it back. .......... On June 12, in the context of both the Los Angeles protests and ongoing Trumpian threats to cancel the visas of anyone supporting any kind of protest whatsoever, a member of the MORENA party for the state of Jalisco posted an irreverent tweet regarding her own visa. The tweet, fueled by righteous indignation to the abuses of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against those of Mexican ancestry, was similar to thousands that get published every day. Nevertheless, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau — then in the midst of a visit to Mexico — responded that he had personally given the order to cancel the young woman’s visa, in the process revealing confidential information about her status for all to see. .......... As if that petulant display of bullying weren’t enough, Landau followed up a few days later with an out-of-place rant in response to a bland news bulletin published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) regarding opportunities in trade relations with China. In addition to the impropriety of a State Department official swaggering around social media like a triggered adolescent, the tweets were counterproductive in another way. By revealing visa cancellations to be arbitrary, motivated by little more than personal bile and pique, Landau inadvertently undermined the Trump administration’s attempt to use them as a pressure tactic. ......... The icing on the cake arrived on June 25 at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee when Attorney General Pam Bondi asserted that the Trump administration “will keep America safe . . . not only from Iran, but from Russia, China, and from Mexico. From any foreign adversary, whether they’re trying to kill us physically, or by overdosing our children with drugs.” To this impromptu lumping-in of Mexico as a US adversary on par with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, Sheinbaum responded coolly that the attorney general “is not very well informed.” ........... Finally, President Sheinbaum’s long-simmering patience was to run out. The following day, the US Treasury Department, wielding the Fentanyl Sanctions Act and the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, sanctioned three Mexican financial institutions for being “primary money laundering concerns.” Sporting a more combative tone at her morning press conference, Sheinbaum challenged the Treasury Department to send proof of the allegations, “that is, if it has any.” ............ “We are not going to cover for anyone, there is no impunity, but it has to be demonstrated that there was money laundering, not with statements, but with conclusive evidence,” she noted.
“Our relationship with the United States is one of equals, not of subordination. We are nobody’s piñata.”
As the three institutions in question — CiBanco, Intercam Banco, and Vector Casa de Bolsa — do significant business with China, the Treasury’s maneuver gave every appearance of being an attempt to disrupt Sino-Mexican relations under the guise of fentanyl precursor tracing. ............ To be sure, Mexico is hardly alone in being on the receiving end of such treatment; indeed, inciting people the world over has been more the rule than the exception in the volatile relaunch of Trumpism. And in the face of his administration’s dogged determination to provoke reactions in order to justify a more aggressive response in turn, Sheinbaum’s stubborn refusal to be goaded has much to recommend it. It is also important to distinguish what in all of this is official policy and what — like the outbursts of the Noems, Bondis, and Landaus — may instead be the product of institutional disarray, personal toxicity, power trips, and racism. ............ That said, Sheinbaum’s belated change in tone likely reflects a growing realization that imperial antagonism cannot be impeded by charm and rational argumentation alone. The current spate of bludgeoning is simply an extension of the perennial US insistence that Mexico come to heel. And if it can do so without the messiness of an unpopular military operation, all the better. ........... To that end, every tool in the kit will be trotted out: official and unofficial slander, media smears, taxes, sanctions, border closings, visa cancellations, treaty disputes — carefully calibrated to start small so that they can be ramped up as needed. And all designed, moreover, to back Sheinbaum into a damned-if-you-do (provoking retaliation), damned-if-you-don’t (green light for further encroachment), no-win situation. .......... This is the bind Sheinbaum must avoid at all costs. The answer passes somewhere through popular mobilization, autonomous media, strategic alliances, sovereignty over core economic sectors, industrial policy, regional coordination — and, fundamentally, a rejection of any kind of naivety regarding US brinkmanship. Keeping one’s head down is no solution, nor is banking on the moderating effects of economic integration. ......... Playing nice, in short, is not going to make it go away. With the West discrediting themselves in their ongoing silence over Gaza, Mexico’s voice is one that is sorely needed on the international stage. As the world’s twelfth-largest economy and geographic bridge between the Global North and South, it must find that voice and stand up to the bully.
Sharing some glimpses from the welcome at Port of Spain. May the friendship between India and Trinidad & Tobago continue to scale new heights in the times to come! pic.twitter.com/RkAW4pQBKw
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) July 3, 2025
President Trump has been able to accomplish, with the slimmest Congressional margin in history, what George W. Bush couldn't accomplish with a much larger margin.
We are excited to reopen an office in SF. Still lots of work to do to improve the city (it was so badly run for many years) but your excellent work has not gone unnoticed, and we greatly appreciate it. 🙏 https://t.co/CbStMWEDQV
China reacts to Trump tariffs bombshell China reiterated its call for the U.S. to abolish its tariffs after a panel of federal judges ruled that President Donald Trump did not have the authority to introduce them under the emergency powers he had used. The Trump administration is appealing the decision......... He Yongqian, spokesperson for the Chinese Commerce Ministry, said Beijing has "noticed that the court ruled that tariffs imposed over [the] fentanyl issue and Trump administration's worldwide reciprocal tariffs are illegal and blocked them from going into effect." ......... "China has always maintained that there are no winners in a trade war and that protectionism has no way out," He said ...... China "urges the U.S. to face up to the rational voices of the international community and all domestic parties and completely abolish the wrong practice of unilaterally imposing tariffs." ........... He had also used those emergency powers to impose a 20 percent tariff on China, Mexico, and Canada for their roles in the illicit fentanyl trade, as the U.S. faces an epidemic of drug overdoses related to the highly potent synthetic opioid. ........... "These deficits have created a national emergency that has decimated American communities, left our workers behind, and weakened our defense industrial base—facts that the court did not dispute" .......... "It is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency. President Trump pledged to put America First, and the Administration is committed to using every lever of executive power to address this crisis and restore American Greatness."
3% is too little for a Founder.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 30, 2025
Trying to explain to a young really high profile, extremely well funded founder that frivolous employee lawsuits are the #1 reason for a company getting sued.
As soon as you sign their paycheck, the dynamic changes. You must start…
I had my first kid when I was 24. I had four kids by the time I was 32. Outside of my choice in who to marry, this was the single most important (and best) decision I’ve made.
Waiting to have kids is the biggest mistake you can make. Here’s why:
Today, a bipartisan group of leaders in the House took an important step in introducing crypto market structure legislation: the CLARITY Act. This follows the recent progress on sound stablecoin legislation and is crucial for ensuring US leadership in blockchain technologies.…
Labs with personal context to build custom dashboards for your life will be insane. And couple this with alerts that are custom and proactive. Future is glorious.
The world's greatest debtor will not forever be the world's greatest power. I promise you that. If we want to worry about being dependent, I am a lot more worried about being dependent on China to hold our debt than I am being dependent on China to buy some beryllium or lithium…
After going $0 -> $500k ARR during Y Combinator, I scaled @origamiagents from 2 to 10 people in 60 days. Here’s everything I learned about hiring (and firing) so you don't make the same mistakes as me:
At this point, having an obvious wrong citations in your AI generated report is a sign that you did not know to hit the Deep Research button on ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude.
The end of the fake-citation problem is good in some ways, but removes a major tell of bad AI use.
We just launched Perplexity Labs, a new way to search on Perplexity. Labs can handle complex tasks, output various assets (docs, spreadsheets, charts, images, code, etc) and even build mini apps on your behalf! pic.twitter.com/XLwPATufzZ
The tide has turned. The SEC’s case against us is dismissed - justice, finally.
Huge credit to Chairman Atkins and the Trump administration for standing up to regulatory overreach. The U.S. is back in the arena, ready to lead the world in blockchain innovation.
This is actually great news for the American taxpayer. And good luck with your Europe pact, it has worked amazingly well for Ukraine. https://t.co/Qer0jMwK2n
Trump just called Leonard Leo—the Federalist Society kingmaker and architect of the conservative legal movement—a “scumbag” who probably hates America.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 30, 2025
I think the saddest part of all of this is that none of the Republicans in Congress had the testicles to defend their powers and turf. Hell, even the Democrats didn't seem to have any. Not even self-preservation level. All of them neutered. Why?
Levying unilateral taxes against entire countries and tariffing things US CANNOT even produce there in enough quantity like bananas, tomatoes, coffee, tea, you name it..
Absolutely the worst political policy EVER, Trump without any business competences!
Quote for the Day: “If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.” -Lou Holtz#KFQuoteForTheDaypic.twitter.com/9NdcScuR8l
If you think ‘we’re all going to die’ is a policy position, you have been in Washington too long. The whole point of politics is to save lives and make life better. https://t.co/cweQAxxuoj
Happy to share that we’re giving UK uni students access to our best models - including Gemini 2.5 Pro and NotebookLM. They’re amazing tools for research, writing, exam prep… I wish I’d had them while I was at uni :) Enjoy, and good luck with this exam season! https://t.co/8LefTPbi6P
Jon Erlichman on X: "In 1999, Salesforce got started in this San Francisco apartment. Today, the company generates more than $100 million in revenue each day. pic.twitter.com/UwPrwBMVSj" / X https://t.co/E7OHup8ceS
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 30, 2025
Important question. Not being asked enough.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 30, 2025
The health indicator no one talks about = the strong desire to work and build things. Whether for the intrinsic love of the work, the rewards, or both. Yes we need sleep and (some need) recreation but drive is at least as important as any other metric.
— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) May 30, 2025
I had a good meeting with U.S. Senators @LindseyGrahamSC and @SenBlumenthal. I am grateful that you are in Ukraine precisely when coordination of efforts is most needed to bring an honorable and lasting peace closer.
We are proud to introduce the National Disability Support AI Agent, a joint initiative with the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) and NAB Delhi.
Today, there are over 250 welfare schemes available to persons with disabilities in India. However, most… pic.twitter.com/OhczCsEGSX
