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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.

submitted 21 hours ago • 667 comments

Here's an action to take today: If you're in TX or LA, call Ted Cruz or Bill Cassidy and ask them why they're letting Trump piss away America's competitive advantage w/o lifting a finger. Mention this article. Cruz (Chair of Commerce): (202) 224-5922 Cassidy (Chair of HELP): (202) 224-5824

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 2 days ago • 987 comments

“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful—embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” said Anderson, 30. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 758 comments

The accelerationist belief that if things get bad enough, then things will start to get better is quite something to see in the wild. It’s wrong though. Historically, misery creates more misery and is visited on the most marginalized in ever intensifying cycles of horror.

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

Here are eight ways that Trump can tank the Biden economy, my money is on a stock crash cepr.net/publications...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

🦠 Thanks for the shoutout this morning, @pkrugman.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

@baldwin.senate.gov WI resident here. This is why your support of Sean Duffy for DOT Secretary was a huge mistake.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Dem leadership still isn't quite understanding that if it doesn't stand up more fiercely now, there won't be any midterms to win.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

It takes over 25 ¶¶ before WaPo explains why Trump is failing to meet the deportation numbers he promised: Stephen Miller lied about the number of criminal aliens in the US to fearmonger and get Trump elected. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

If there’s a Disease X outbreak in the next four (or more?) years we literally will be flying blind, we just fired the people who would have tracked it

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

submitted 8 days ago • 560 comments

It's getting tiring to keep saying this, but for posterity's sake I will: any previous administration would have been instantly sunk by this. Before January 20, 2017, this would have been the most stunning corruption scandal in the history of the American justice system. Now, it's...a Thursday.

submitted 8 days ago • 59 comments

At this point, there are only two options: A) Elon is so dishonest that he is willing to peddle obvious lies to score PR points B) Elon really is this stupid

submitted 9 days ago • 317 comments

"Foreign adversaries typically spend years attempting to penetrate government systems such as these...It’s as if someone found a way to rob Fort Knox by simply declaring that the new official policy is to fire all the guards & allow unescorted visits to the vault." foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration. “Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 205 comments

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

submitted 15 days ago • 157 comments

Capitol Square Madison WI! Several hundred people here representing ! #50501

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

Signing back into Bluesky to repost this but it so perfectly articulates my own suspicions about this stuff

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a fifth of the US economy. He does not, our sources say, have "read only" access, but high-level admin privileges on a mainframe housing all the code.

submitted 18 days ago • 519 comments

Ah. So this explains the need to access classified information at USAID. If this info gets leaked, it puts our intelligence officers abroad — including (and especially) sources they may have — in serious danger.

submitted 19 days ago • 44 comments

this is really well done — but there’s no way that the US media would cover such happenings in a foreign country with half this much depth, detail or accuracy

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

still think folks are missing woods for trees on security. very big problem: people plugging random shit into federal systems somehow even bigger problem: entire federal workforce being demoralized somehow even biggest problem: entire world's private sector deciding to buy not-american in future

submitted 20 days ago • 34 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 21 days ago • 503 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 21 days ago • 4939 comments

Again, just stop w/the focus on Trump’s BS DEI claim. Fact of the matter is people died while he was busy social engineering and he refuses to take any responsibility. Stop lowering standards bc he’s a rich white man.

submitted 22 days ago • 51 comments