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When Texas was generating tech startups going back to Michael Dell, it was because state government and UT Austin were engaged in a proactive industrial policy to develop them. Now, those 2 entities have stopped governing and gone full-time culture war. We stopped trying. www.wsj.com/articles/aus...

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

The year so far: • Dems outperform in 19 of 21 specials and flip two deep-red seats • Liberals defend WI Supreme Court with double-digit victory • Dems win Omaha mayor's office for first time since 2009

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

We’ve been going with “Swamp Force One” — but this works too. 👇🏽#HamasForceOne ✈️

submitted 27 days ago • 276 comments

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of New Mexico have developed a tau-targeting vaccine that could help PREVENT the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. In preclinical trials, the vaccine REDUCED pTau, IMPROVED memory AND motor function, and REDUCED brain atrophy with NO major side effects. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 35 days ago • 117 comments

NEW: Federal court issues final declaration that the AL legislature's 2023 House map violates federal law. In 2023, the court issued a preliminary injunction barring use of that map and imposed a court-drawn map for 2024. It may remain in place for the rest of the decade, but not clear yet.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Pope Leo and the last Pope Leo's encyclical "Rerum Novarum" - what is it and why does it matter? /1

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

just over the last 5 weeks, Trump has helped swing elections (against him) in Wisconsin, Canada, Australia, and the Vatican.

submitted 32 days ago • 64 comments

Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

submitted 35 days ago • 231 comments

🚨 The Liberal Party will lead Canada's next government. CBC just called it; too early to know if it'll be a majority or minority government. "A stunning reversal," says the CBC: Conservatives led by huge margins throughout 2024, but Trump's arrival was a big factor in changing everything.

submitted 41 days ago • 61 comments

I’m not a wise political consultant but I’ve been around a while and I can tell you that somebody like Karl Rove would look at these numbers and say “we should hit him on immigration issues because that’s his only strength and we have a chance to weaken it”

submitted 52 days ago • 79 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 54 days ago • 57 comments

This is how tariffs work. ..and now I want Crab Rangoon.

submitted 58 days ago • 164 comments

p-Tau217 is a breakthrough blood test that can predict and may help prevent Alzheimer's disease. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-breakt... Here's the rundown on it. Free, open-access.

submitted 57 days ago • 22 comments

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

submitted 59 days ago • 496 comments

Keep the exodus going folks. X revenue 2022: $4.6B 2023: $3B 2024: $2.6B Source: www.techmeme.com/250409/p6#a2...

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

submitted 61 days ago • 1099 comments

dems should buy up theaters in small towns and turn them into community spaces. organize during the day and show movies at night. you can even show a pre-roll of the latest stock market charts. i'm confident this would be a lot cheaper than TV ads for geriatric silent gen voters

submitted 62 days ago • 21 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an antiviral chewing gum that may help reduce the spread of viruses. In lab studies, it cut down viral loads of two herpes simplex viruses (HSV-1 and HSV-2) and two influenza A strains (H1N1 and H3N2) by more than 95%. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 63 days ago • 117 comments

A second child has died of measles in Texas. Measles is both dangerous AND preventable. In fact high childhood Vax rates (>95%) can eliminate it completely from a country. Please read and share our recent report on once common childhood diseases. independentsage.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 64 days ago • 50 comments

A major paper @nature.com this week found a significant decline in dementia after an outdated Shingles vaccine. I've reviewed the study and many other relevant ones here erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...

submitted 65 days ago • 34 comments

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

submitted 65 days ago • 2151 comments

Exclusive: DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software - www.reuters.com/technology/c...

submitted 68 days ago • 58 comments

We heard anecdotally that Canadians weren’t visiting the states, now we have the data. A massive, shocking drop.

submitted 68 days ago • 93 comments

Important note re the WI Supreme Court: Conservatives now need to win the next 3 straight elections to take back a majority. They're defending seats in both 2026 & 2027. They've got to win both of those, then flip a liberal seat in 2028. Alternately, liberals could go up 6-1 in the next 2 years.

submitted 68 days ago • 5 comments

It's one thing to swing 10+ points from Trump's margin in a low turnout state legislative district special election. It's another to do it in a statewide race with midterm-level turnout. 2.6 million people voted in the 2022 race (similar in 2018). NYT estimates that about 2.4 million voted today.

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

Some notes about TB prevention, as a former TB patient. TB is a bacterial disease. There is a vaccine, but it has variable efficacy & is not widely used in the U.S.. So, you can't make a "personal choice" (vaccine) to maximally protect yourself against this disease. So what protects you?

submitted 69 days ago • 9 comments

Almost 800,000 people on here are following a totally-not-real account claiming it's a group of rogue park workers and who are now posting cryptic nonsense to make it seem like they're sending messages to the deep state. Also they're selling resistance merch. WTF are we doing man?

submitted 100 days ago • 441 comments

Wisconsin's update today adds roughly 100K ballots to tally. And very strong turnout in Dane + Milwaukee: 38% of the ballots added were from there. And an especially strong addition from the city of Milwaukee: more than 11% of the new ballots are from there, way more than until now). More below:

submitted 70 days ago • 10 comments

RFK Jr's move to eliminate the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled & aging people stay at home instead of being institutionalized, is disastrous. I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).

submitted 73 days ago • 233 comments

(ProPublica) - Elon Musk’s aerospace giant SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records. @jeisinger.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 65 comments

The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign. (lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)

submitted 75 days ago • 90 comments

HOW IT HAPPENED: James Andrew Malone, the mayor of a town of 5,000, ran on education, abortion rights, and opposing Elon Musk—in a district that had never voted Democratic. Until tonight. Our complete write-through of his astonishing special election win in Lancaster County →

submitted 75 days ago • 38 comments