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Quiet Piggy
Earlier this year, when I shared, in a group chat among former classmates, links to news articles about a couple of our president’s own Truth Social posts, one ending with “Long Live the King,” and the other one envisioning the future of Gaza as a casino town with tall buildings and flashy “Trump Hotel” or…
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Cruelty Is the Point, Not a Side Effect
USDA emailed grocery stores around the country telling them not to offer special discounts or deals to SNAP recipients amid the freeze, warning that doing so would violate the program’s “Equal Treatment Rule.” That rule requires stores to sell eligible food items to SNAP-EBT customers at the same prices and under the same conditions as…
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Fighting Fire with …
When I was in high school, a very good teacher of mine once told me something that I don’t think I will ever forget. Most of my friends have likely already heard me say this, possibly multiple times, but I am going to write it here again, anyways. He said: “Jaber, I think one should…
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A Modern Scientific Approach
On Thursday, Oct. 9, the Health and Human Services Secretary spoke during a cabinet meeting and shared a story about a pregnant woman “gobbling” Tylenol. “This morning before I came in here, somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman, eight months pregnant. She is an associate professor at Columbia Medical School, and…
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Lawmaker, Prosecutor, Judge, and Jury in One
“To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025 Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison,” Trump posted on Truth Social Friday evening. “You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your…
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Government Shutdown, 2025
By now, the second day after the government shutdown of 2025, we all must have heard about it, and especially the Republican talking points that the Democrats are not going along with their “clean continuation funding bill” so that they can provide trillion dollar funding for healthcare for illegal immigrants using taxpayer money. It is…
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Breaking: New Discovery on the Causes of Autism
Disclaimer: this is by no means an attempt to deny the problem of autism or minimize the pain experienced by those who suffer from it and their families. Instead, it is my attempt at highlighting how abhorrent it sounds to make light of a serious medical problem in such an insensitive manner, just to score…
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Trump’s Assaults on the First Amendment Are Nothing New
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, while being quite short, covers several very important fundamental rights. It states that Congress cannot make a law that Of these, probably the most well-known right is the freedom of speech, so much so that in many contexts, the First Amendment and freedom of speech…
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Taking Maximum Advantage of Political Violence
I have already written about how I feel about the role of violence in the society, and that it is not the solution to any problem and does not have any place in a civilized and democratic society. And by “violence,” here I really mean any kind of violence, be it political, ideological, or even…
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Thou Shalt Not Have Bias
Corporate media’s obsession with providing equal coverage for all “points of view” or making sure that they do not criticize one party more than the other, is ridiculous and has nothing to do with fairness. Fairness does not mean giving platforms equally to truths and falsehoods. Social media is already providing ample opportunity for dissemination…