Kyle Varner, MD 🌐 🇻🇪🇺🇦🇺🇲

@TheFuncGlitch What? This makes no sense. Tenants can stop eviction proceedings by paying the rent owed. The check not arriving would at worst be a dispute over a late fee. Not an eviction.

An HIV-positive man with colon cancer, unable to work for four years, lived in his Los Angeles apartment for almost 25 years. He says he mailed his rent on time. The landlord said the check never arrived and filed for eviction. After a trial, a jury ruled he DID mail the payment, but since it wasn't cashed, they said he failed to pay on time. A judge ordered him out. Sheriff's deputies escorted him from his home of a quarter-century. He took his dog, Simba, and his clothes. He left behind his furniture, his blankets, his two TVs, and his beloved Madonna CDs. He's now homeless, sleeping on a friend's sofa. The system will evict a dying man over a payment dispute. But a corporation can squat in bankruptcy court for years? "That's a different matter entirely."

One of the major issues with USCIS, ICE, and DOS "tough on crime" approach is they do not used reasoned decision making at any step. Here I am writing a response to USCIS' form Notice of Intent to Deny a benefit request because of the client's "criminal record." Turns out, the client was the VICTIM of domestic violence. Police arrested both individuals at the scene of the disturbance so client appears in NCIC. The state confirmed her status as a victim. Yet, this individual had their SEVIS terminated, visa revoked, and now a notice of intent to deny because she was the victim of a crime. Shame on DHS and DOS.

Venezuelans' gratitude has turned into frustration with the Trump admin. four months after Maduro's arrest, per Meganalisis polling- nearly 90% disapprove of Trump dealing with Delcy and gratitude for Trump has gone down about 40$.... meanwhile nearly 80% think things are going badly under Trump/Delcy and a large majority want elections this year.

@mattyglesias If I don't set a bill on auto pay, then I will pay late because I am too busy.

BREAKING: major, major victory by @curtismorrison and team!!! MD federal judge has granted their preliminary injunction against the indenfinite adjudication pause for immigration benefits for nationals of the 75 countries (PM-602-0192 and PM-602-0194). The applications for adjustment of status (I-485s) for the named 89 plaintiffs are ordered to be adjudicated under pre-#travelban adjudication policies but declined to force adjudication within 30 days.

@chriswithans I am old enough to remember when conservatives used to say socialism is a bad thing.

The Trump Administration bought 433 million shares of Intel for ~$20 a share and now it's trading near $80 in after hours. That's an over $25 billion gain for America. Not to mention they didn't just hand over $9 billion to Intel like Biden planned to do. More importantly, this reflects confidence in Intel's ability to make crucial semiconductors in America.

🚨 BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇻🇪 A U.S. special forces soldier who helped capture Maduro just got arrested for betting on his own mission. -Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke, active duty at Fort Bragg -Wagered $32,000 on Polymarket that Maduro would be "out" by January -Made 13 bets between Dec 27 and Jan 2, hours before the overnight capture -Cashed out over $400,000 in profits, routed through a foreign crypto vault -Now facing five federal charges -Operation Absolute Resolve extracted Maduro from the presidential palace under heavy fire The trades were so outsized they caught law enforcement attention almost immediately. Insider trading on a black ops mission is WILD. Source: CNN

@GRamsey_LatAm Es injusto que Compare a los MONOS con la Maldita criminal de Delcy Rodríguez....

@GRamsey_LatAm FUERA LA MONA

This is gross, and MCM and those around her should condemn this racist language unequivocally.

@GRamsey_LatAm Shut up, you fool. Stop trying to tone police the Venezuelan opposition.

Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar works at an ER in South Texas and is passionate about educating the public about staying healthy. She was traveling to California with her 5-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, when ICE detained her despite having work permits and a pending asylum case. ICE is targeting physicians who serve our communities. It is ripping families apart and hurting patients. The Trump Admin should release Dr. Bolivar immediately and end its indiscriminate mass deportation campaign.

Very well written essay on the MAGA voter. This is what we are up against. Sam is 61 years old and lives in a town where the Applebee’s closed in 2014 and people still mention it like it was a natural disaster. The old factory shut down years ago, but Sam keeps his faded employee badge in a kitchen drawer because he considers it proof that America peaked sometime around 1987, right between the release of Top Gun and the invention of low-flow toilets. He firmly believes the country began collapsing the moment they stopped letting people smoke in restaurants and started putting kale in things. He wakes up every morning at 5:12 a.m., not because he has anywhere to be, but because decades of shift work, untreated sleep apnea, and permanent low-grade outrage have hardwired his body into a permanent state of agitation. He shuffles into the kitchen wearing camouflage pajama pants and a T-shirt that says “I Stand for the Flag” even though he has not stood up quickly without groaning since 2009. He pours himself coffee strong enough to power farm equipment and settles into his recliner to begin his daily ritual of becoming personally offended by things happening hundreds or thousands of miles away. Within half an hour, he is enraged about crime in Chicago, drag queens in Seattle, wind turbines in California, and a college professor in Vermont he has never heard of and never will again. Sam spends most of his time marinating in an ecosystem of Facebook memes, talk radio, Fox News, chain emails, YouTube clips, and badly designed websites with names like Patriot Eagle Freedom Truth News. By noon, he has shared seven posts warning that America is under attack by socialists, immigrants, vegans, pronouns, electric stoves, and people who use the phrase “lived experience.” He believes every story because every story confirms what he already feels: that the country has been stolen from people like him and handed over to people he does not understand. Sam is absolutely convinced he is one of the last remaining “real Americans,” despite living in a county entirely populated by people who also think they are the last remaining real Americans. He misses the America of his youth, which in his memory was a magical place where every man had a factory job, every woman made tuna casserole, every child respected authority, and nobody had tattoos, gluten allergies, or opinions about gender. He is nostalgic for a version of the country that mostly exists as a combination of old pickup truck commercials, Toby Keith songs, and stories his grandfather exaggerated after three beers. His truck is the size of a military vehicle and has never once carried anything heavier than mulch and emotional baggage. His pickup truck is so large that small birds alter their migration patterns to avoid it. The truck has never hauled lumber, gravel, or equipment, but it does haul an enormous amount of political anxiety. The back is covered in bumper stickers warning that he is armed, angry, and deeply suspicious of the federal government, except for when it comes to Medicare, Social Security, highways, farm subsidies, police funding, veterans’ benefits, and keeping its hands off his lawn. He likes to tell people he is “not political,” which is impressive considering his entire personality has become an endless loop of cable news grievances. He cannot attend a barbecue, church picnic, football game, or grandchild’s birthday party without eventually bringing up inflation, Hunter Biden, gas stoves, “the border,” or how nobody can say Merry Christmas anymore even though literally everyone still says Merry Christmas. Then Trump arrived, descending from his golden escalator like a casino-themed prophet sent by God to sell steaks and grievance. Sam had finally found his perfect candidate: a billionaire from Manhattan with multiple mansions, gold-plated bathrooms, and a private jet, who somehow convinced Sam that he understood the pain of a man screaming at the self-checkout machine in Walmart. Trump was loud, angry, theatrical, and constantly under investigation, which only made Sam admire him more. Every lawsuit, scandal, or indictment was not evidence of wrongdoing. It was proof that Trump was fighting the deep state, the media, the elites, the globalists, the FBI, the Democrats, the RINOs, and possibly the ghost of George Soros. Every scandal, every lawsuit, every indictment, every accusation became proof that Trump was fighting the corrupt establishment on behalf of “real Americans” like Sam. At this point, Sam does not support Trump because of policy details. He supports Trump because Trump has become the human embodiment of his anger, nostalgia, confusion, and Facebook feed. Trump says the world Sam remembers can come back, that the people Sam dislikes can be punished, and that all of Sam's frustrations are someone else’s fault. To Sam, Trump is no longer just a politician. He is a lifestyle brand. He is a martyr, a warrior, a stand-up comedian, a victim, a patriot, and the lead singer of a traveling grievance festival. Sam owns at least three Trump hats, two Trump flags, a Trump coffee mug, a “Never Surrender” T-shirt, and a giant “Let’s Go Brandon” sign in the garage that he insists is “not political, just funny.” For Sam, that is not politics. That is therapy. Trump is not just a candidate anymore; he is an emotional support billionaire. He is a spray-tanned security blanket with a private jet. He is the gold-plated, fast-food-fueled mascot Sam clings to whenever the modern world feels confusing, threatening, or insufficiently patriotic. Trump gives him a ready-made explanation for every disappointment in his life: it is not aging, bad luck, economic change, or his own choices; it is the immigrants, the liberals, the media, the globalists, the vegans, the people with pronouns, and whoever is ruining Christmas this week. Supporting Trump lets Sam believe there is still someone out there fighting for him.

@aakashgupta If students so want to get out of the meal plan, maybe the meal plan is the problem? Why is a university so reliant on meal plan revenue? This seems absurd.

Stanford's mandatory meal plan costs $7,944/year. Students were faking Jain religious identity to opt out and shop at Whole Foods instead. Stanford's fix wasn't verifying anyone's religion. It was adding Jain food to every dining hall. Think about that sequence. A university charging $65K+/year in tuition couldn't serve food that met basic dietary needs of a religion practiced by 4.5 million people. Students noticed. Instead of complaining they reverse-engineered the accommodation policy. The workaround spread through dorms the way product hacks spread through Slack channels. Now the dining halls have Jain stations and the exemption pipeline is closed. The students who were faking lost their arbitrage. The students who actually practice Jainism can finally eat on campus. And Stanford gets to pretend this was the plan all along. The loophole was the feature request. Stanford just took 6 months to read it.

Clearest example yet that PNB have new orders when dealing with protests since Maduros removal. A police officer attempting to detain a protestor in Caracas today was stopped and dragged away by other officers #Venezuela

@m_elnaiem @mehdirhasan You abuse the concept of sovereignty by applying it in defense of the Iranian regime. There are many things wrong with Trump's war--that it violates the sovereignty of an illegitimate theocratic dictatorship is not one of them.

Mehdi Hassan is making a simple point which has nothing to do with proxy warfare (an entirely different topic). The US illegally launched a war against Iran just as Russia did to Ukraine. For both Russia and the US, only the law of the jungle applies. No respect for sovereignty.

@mehdirhasan @Kasparov63 It is convenient to resort to legalism when you lack a coherent moral compass.

You can go all ad hominem Garry, and I know you supported the disastrous Iraq war too, but the fact that a country is a dictatorship doesn’t give a foreign nation a right to attack it. It’s not legal or legitimate for Putin to attack Ukraine or for Trump to attack Iran. Weird to see you defending Trump on of all days today. You’re warmongering has gotten the better of you.

That’s a lot of words Garry to avoid agreeing with the undeniable fact that I stated: in both cases, Ukraine and Iran are the ones that were attacked in violation of the UN charter. That’s a fact.

@BaniasLaw @USCIS Holy shit

#USCIS Adjudicators Gone Wild: If you've ever wondered what @USCIS adjudicators at your local Field Office talk about, here is a little insight. I got text messages between two @USCIS adjudicators who happen to be married. Some Context: (1) these were produced in discovery (and they were not marked confidential) in an 8 USC 1421(c) case; (2) the wife adjudicator denied the N400 and the husband adjudicator reviewed the N400 denial in the N336 administrative appeal; (3) in their depositions, they testified they did not discuss the case at home; it turns out they agreed to testify they didn't discuss the case at home via text message; (4) the husband testified that he deleted all text messages (despite a litigation hold in place and a case going on--that's called spoliation); (5) the wife admits she did not put these messages in Teams, presumably to avoid production via #FOIA or discovery; (6) the couple believes they are victims despite the fact that they denied my client's naturalization application; (7) they think I am "going after them" but @USCIS adjudicators do not sign their denials; when a potential client comes to me with an absurd denial, I have no idea what adjudicator issued it. But for some reason, I have filed several cases against absurd denials and they end up being the adjudicators on the denials; (8) the wife celebrates us losing the "Darling" case; we lost on jurisdiction challenging the wife's unconstitutional retaliation against another client; (9) Not sure how either of these two can ever adjudicate any of my clients' applications ever again considering they "truly hate me." (10) Please note their attorneys picked the date, time, and location of their depositions, not me. But when you dehumanize someone, they are at fault for everything. I have nothing against this couple. I don't know them. I am sure they are nice people. I wish them the best. But I am still going to push for my client to get naturalized, despite their best efforts otherwise. That's my job, even if they hate me for i

@AmericaFirstCon @Tazerface16 Do you mean to suggest that a narcissistic strongman is now making poor decisions because his subordinates don't want to tell him things he doesn't want to hear? Who could have predicted such an unlikely turn of events?

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is reportedly urging White House aides to stop censoring reports of US military losses and Iranian military successes as well as plunging poll numbers and gas price trends from President Trump to make him realize what a disaster his great power war with Iran has become.

💥 INNOVATION: Ukrainian housewife kitchen drone equipped with a shotgun shoots down a Russian drone. Cost of a shotgun shell: $0.30

𝙑𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙯𝙪𝙚𝙡𝙖. 𝙋𝙧ó𝙭𝙞𝙢𝙖 𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙞ó𝙣: 𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙖. Highlight de nuestra entrevista al Dr. Kyle Varner @KBVMD, sobre escenarios futuros para #Venezuela 🇻🇪 Vea video completo aquí: youtu.be/SEAfl46WqOk?si…