GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
Good for him but I am tired of learning about all the ways a 41-year-old candidate for U.S. Senate supposedly has a lot more growing and learning to do. Maybe do that before the Senate? And maybe try out a lower office before then?
Or maybe we just watch him blossom into another Sinema/Fetterman.
A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.
I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.
Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.
I remember arguing this to a then-sitting member of Congress and future presidential candidate in 2008. That the only way to fight the rising authoritarianism in the GOP was to prosecute BushCo war crimes and crush the party, make it reform itself. But I'm just a dirty f'ing hippie. What did I know?
Here's Trump again smearing the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, and insisting that the numerous witnesses who insist that Epstein introduced him to Melanija Knavs (including Epstein himself) are wrong.
🧵!!!!!
Also, 100%. It cannot be truth & reconciliation, it must be truth & retributive consequences.
The Trump Admin has abruptly canceled an $11M contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship between the Catholic Church and the U.S. government dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.
OPINION by Michael Schaus: Every breath you take, every move you make — Big Tech is watching you for the highest bidder. And these days, that highest bidder is the government.
Read it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
The descent of the Justice Department into a crude weapon wielded by an erratic authoritarian is gathering speed and quickening the threat to America’s fraying democracy in ways that we all feared but hoped might be kept at bay for a bit longer.
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If those who have calculated the direct daily cost of US participation in the Israeli-US war on Iran at $2 billion are correct, Friday will bring the total to $100 billion. Of course, that doesn’t include all kinds of short-term and long-term economic costs caused by the war.
🧵!!! Also, don’t shop at Target & don’t use self checkout!!!!
A tweeted photo of Sarah Isgur with Brett Kavanaugh @whignewtons X.com As I note in the book, this is the quote from Texas artist Tom Lea that sits behind his desk...and I'm so grateful that he has helped show me how to live on the sunrise side "I live on the east side of the mountain. It is the sunrise side. It is the side to see the day coming. Not the day that is gone... LAST BRANCH STANDING ...The best day is the day coming, with work to do, with eyes wide open, with the heart grateful."
Just as a very general rule, when a Supreme Court pundit writes the sort of book about the Supreme Court that a sitting Supreme Court justice feels comfortable promoting in public, you should be skeptical of everything else that Supreme Court pundit says about the Supreme Court, forever
There are like two different category errors there.
“Stealing one person’s Social Security data is a felony. DOGE is accused of stealing the data of 500 million Americans, living and dead. That amounts to the greatest data theft in history.” – Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works
The thing is, the miasma of social media & the negativity it fosters *also* insured that almost no one was aware of the incredible advances in climate & energy policy under Biden.
It's not *just* the economy. It's everything. That's the point: the info environment rewards doom & resentment.
How to Think of Iran as a World War.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNV...
For the first time since 2019, the number of uninsured increased in 2024 to 26.7 million. Looking ahead, the number of people who are uninsured is expected to continue to increase due to changes to Medicaid and the ACA Marketplace. See must read update: www.kff.org/uninsured/ke...
The US military reported Monday it had killed 2 more people it labeled “narco-terrorists“ w/o one shred of evidence. Added to
the 5 it said it had killed over the weekend brings the total since the killings began to 170. Some critics call these extrajudicial killings. That’s exceedingly kind.
Apparently there’s a new live osprey cam in Salmon now.
#Idaho #IdahoEscape
www.youtube.com/live/8icMyk8...
Vanceseems to think that you can separate politics and morality and the church should stay out of the first one, even when it involves the mass slaughter of children. There is a thing in Matthew 6:3 about your right hand not knowing what your left hand is doing, but it's about charity, not murder.
A clear PR stunt from a "Doordasher from Arkansas" who was also a Doordasher from Nevada when they lobbied for the company last year
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about.doordash.com/en-us/news/d...
That's two sex pests down, anyway.
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
Brings back fond memories of writing research papers with WordPerfect (which still exists?!). That's how old I am.
John Deere has to pay farmers $99 million to resolve a class action right-to-repair lawsuit.
The company will also provide farmers with access to repair materials for 10 years.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
"“It’s worth noting that based on existing Idaho code”—Mathews offered a sheaf of printed pages—”if I were assaulted, that person would face a lighter punishment than I would for using the men’s bathroom.”"
cc: All Dem POTUS aspirants.
Also cc: all centrist DC pundits who have already pre-written their "no accountability, we must all come together" drivel pre-set to publish in November 2028.
