Moderna launches mRNA bird flu vaccine trial after HHS cancels funding The Department of Health and Human Services had canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in funding previously committed help develop mRNA vaccines.

Moderna is launching a large-scale clinical trial of a shot to combat bird flu in humans after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department had canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for vaccine development.

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This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

FUN FACT: The official leading the probe of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer (Labor Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito) lost his U.S. House seat in 2024 amid reports that he had both his *mistress AND his fiancée's daughter* on his Congressional office payroll

April 20, 1926: That creeping feeling when a policeman approaches your car. Cartoon by Gluyas Williams.

3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

Thisn't?

Thither goes the winter not.

Afternoon's broken too.
Graupel, they say.

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Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

I mean, if Biden had MISSED four terrorist attacks, and they happened, that would be a valid comparison. But that's not what happened.

A Freeze Warning will be in effect for Fairfield and New Haven counties Tuesday from 12 a.m. until 9 a.m. EDT: forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.ph...

A Frost Advisory will be in effect for southern Fairfield and New Haven counties Monday from 12 a.m. until 8 a.m. EDT: forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.ph...

New Orleans Times-Picayune

A 1926 ad for Okeh “race records” made by Louisiana native Louis Armstrong

April 19, 1926: Baton Rouge, La., Mayor Wade Bynum declares the city will arrest any record dealer caught selling music deemed vulgar or obscene. He doesn’t specify what type of records in his state, a cradle of jazz and the blues, he considers “gutter filth.”

Trump's job rating just hit its lowest point of his second term in NBC News polling:

37% of adults approve of Trump’s performance, 63% disapprove — including 50% who disapprove strongly

Two-thirds of respondents disapprove of Trump's handling of inflation and the Iran war

Anagrammable US states
(Result = one word anagram)

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Arthur, dear little brother, don't spoil my wedding day.
Of course I know my betrothed is a gambler.
I also know exactly how much you owe him.
Cash, Arthur, not flowers. Cash.
#GirlsOwnCC

Arthur, dear little brother, don't spoil my wedding day.
Of course I know my betrothed is a gambler.
I also know exactly how much you owe him.
Cash, Arthur, not flowers. Cash.
#GirlsOwnCC

"Sir, we haven't been introduced. And until we are, I simply cannot accept your flowers, let alone allow you to throw me over your shoulders and carry me out of a burning building."

Acting on advice from GirlsOwn, Ellemenopy had the current issue rolled up and ready to go. "If you persist in your attentions, sir, I have been advised to thoroughly thwack you about the ears whilst shouting Fie! Fie!"

#GirlsOwnCC

Acting on advice from GirlsOwn, Ellemenopy had the current issue rolled up and ready to go. "If you persist in your attentions, sir, I have been advised to thoroughly thwack you about the ears whilst shouting Fie! Fie!"

#GirlsOwnCC

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest, give away lots of ❤️s, repost to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

Why Fashion Suddenly Loves Older Women

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/s...
Good trend

Yes, but not until Tuesday.

Morning has broken