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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.

“I’m in West Virginia — My insulin went from $6 to $80”

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools. 70 years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white. In this town, one school keeps kids divided. (Published May 2024)

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"We don't work for DOGE. We have always worked for you." Yes!

Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.

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Heroin addict and roadkill enthusiast, RFK Jr. kills flu shot campaigns and cancels a major vaccination conference.

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

BREAKING: President Donald Trump terminated Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr., the country’s highest-ranking military officer, from his position.

Stop the steal — President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump are robbing the American people.

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

“The numerous mistakes, according to people familiar with the complex world of government contracting, suggest that Mr. Musk’s team of outsiders, charged by the president with cutting spending, don’t fully understand it.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries because libraries don’t have the resources to sort through the onslaught of new books. www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Jasmine is on FIRE 🔥 🔥🔥 "...we are going to be in your face, we are going to be on your asses, and we are going to make sure you understand what democracy looks like... ...and this ain't it!"

“We have your social security money and all your financial information.”

Interim US Attorney Ed Martin just getting around to withdrawing as counsel of record in the Jan. 6 case of KC Proud Boy William Chrestman.

reading all this great reporting and the thing i want to do is interview some people who know how this system works both like technically and logistically. feel like we all need more context. so if you can nerd out on this signal me @cwarzel.92 talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

This is really astute. www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happe...

BREAKING: The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, per two sources to NBC News.

TODAY: Meet @moveon.org and us at the Treasury building to rally against Elon Musk’s hostile takeover. It’s time to tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. 👇

"In Mogadishu Somalia, the State Department instructed security guards protecting an arms depot from insurgents to simply walk off the site. When the guards asked what would happen to the armory, their government contacts told them they didn’t have any answers..." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“The Harvard Medical School physician received a stop-work order for a program designing treatment plans for people with the most drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis. Infectious diseases do not know borders, she pointed out. 'It’s terrifying'...” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

"Shuttered HIV and TB treatment programs have been told they cannot resume work without written instruction that the waiver applies to them. Few have been able to obtain such clarification because their assigned contacts at USAID have been fired or furloughed..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

AP Breaking News banner over a March 19, 2024 AP story.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

"Two-thirds of the staff of the President’s Malaria Initiative, an organization founded by former President George W. Bush, have been fired, including some of the most senior and respected scientists working on malaria control in the world..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

"I, like many Venezuelans, was very supportive of President Trump..." "Betrayed. We feel betrayed. More than betrayed. Beyond betrayed...” www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

#BREAKING: President Donald Trump said "the U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip" during a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.

"If this were happening in any other country right now, I promise you, I'd be on the air calling it a coup." Joy on what many are calling a full-on crisis in our democracy. WATCH MORE: youtu.be/DZhtJBfVfFM

Tulsi Gabbard and the guy with the network of suicide bombers. RFK Jr and the "misconduct" he will not explain to Senators. Committee votes on both tomorrow: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Jan. 6 conspiracy theory promoter named to a top State Department job www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

NEW: DoJ employees asked for guarantees in writing for the deferred resignation Fork in the Road plan. They were sent this. It strips the signer of the right to sue, and also says if you commit a felony, you’re not eligible for federal employment. Oh, the irony.