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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

HELL YEAH!! The largest organization of professional and amateur surfers has just SLAPPED Donald Trump with a major lawsuit to protect California beaches from off shore drilling. SEE YOU IN COURT!

He's right. Read it!

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating UnitedHealth Group’s Medicare Advantage billing practices, according to the Wall Street Journal. ground.news/article/doj-...

Now open at the Fitzwilliam Museum - 'Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition' explores Cambridge's connections with Olaudah Equiano & other campaigners, plus inspiring Black figures. Amazing archival material & modern responses like Joy Labinjo's powerful portrait of poet Phillis Wheatley.

According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

February 20, 2025

Don't even know what this is. Is that ketamine? Is that what happens? I can't even read all of it. I don't know how anyone watched it.

Happy Black History Month

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

If anyone who has bought something from the mutual aid store wants to post or send us a picture with it- we’d love to see it 😊 afgeemployeemutualaidstore.com

TELL YOUR STORIES! Post on social media, write to local newspapers, talk on the radio. We are real people who do real good for the country we love. If you’ve been fired, don’t go quietly. If you haven’t, hold the line as long as you can. #fedstrong #holdtheline www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Yarvin 2008: humane genocide of non-productive people is to virtualize them into permanent solitary confinement into an immersive VR interface so they can experience a “fulfilling life in an imaginary world.” 2012: If we want to change our govt, we’re going to have to stop fearing dictators.

Yarvin 2022: making progress; read below to see what he is up to.. CONGRESS: you are not going to be around much longer if you do not check your egos at the door & start working together to hold on to democracy. Division = weak but united = strong www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04...

In a crisis, you must be willing to do things you've never done before. You have to have the behavioral flexibility to respond intentionally vs. react. The best practice for this? To be able to do things you've never done before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

Siri, what are some things that happened to kings

If you haven't read this yet today, you need to. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Dolly Parton is hoping Indiana’s governor will reverse course on plans to do away with her popular “Imagination Library” program.

Not Patriots. Insurrectionists.

Trump wants to gut Social Security but he just spent neatly $11 million in one month of our tax dollars to play golf. Trump is the Marie Antoinette of America--and we all know how that story ended. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

I think that Trump siding with Putin against Europe may be the biggest story yet. Am I wrong? (NYT and WaPo are not treating it like that. At all.)

Dark Pence is back.

Nothing to see here.

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

I'd bet cash money that he cut a deal to get a private mail delivery contract, and to hand over his project to electrify the USPS truck fleet to Tesla in exchange for his resignation. Just a hunch.