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Screenshot of a tweet by Rep. Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) praising a breakthrough in pancreatic cancer research, calling it "the best of America" and noting that lead researcher Dr. Balachandran is the son of Indian immigrants and works at Sloan Kettering. He quote-tweets Ian Weissman, DO (@DrIanWeiss...), who reports that an mRNA pancreatic cancer vaccine showed lasting results in an early trial, with nearly all responding patients still alive six years later.

Science leads to amazing breakthroughs. Immigrants lead to amazing science.

I’d like to see a Buttigieg AOC ticket in 2028. Either one will excel as President. I know it won’t happen. I’m not an idiot. I’d just like to see smart, energetic liberals in charge of our country.

Al Gore:

“This is the most corrupt administration not only in American history, but more corrupt than I could ever have imagined a president would be able to get away with to the extent that he has. It’s shocking to me.”

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

If trickle-down economics worked at all, the world gaining 400 billionaires last year would have set off an economic boom, given everyone raises, and lowered our prices.

But it didn't. Because trickle-down economics is a scam designed to make the rich richer off the rest of us.

They laughed at us because people were stupid enough to vote him back into office. Now they look at us with disgust and distrust.

This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

We’re voting, Tennessee

mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise.

In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival.

This is why sustained investment in science & research matters.

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Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

If you live in Virginia, tomorrow you have a huge opportunity to make it clear to the GOP that if they want to win, it won’t be by changing the rules and redrawing maps. At least, not without a fight. Vote YES on the redistricting vote, and push back!

A major US court case could help fix the ills of Citizens United | David Sirota A Maine lawsuit has suddenly become the most significant anti-corruption battle inside America’s legal system

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AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter.

And I think today was an important turning point

“World’s most dangerous and corrupt gangster.” We must treat him as such.

Hungarian foreign minister urgently destroys documents on sanctions at Foreign Ministry – Hungary's new PM

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Cork Airport to get Ireland's largest 'Solar Carport' Waterford's Greenvolt Next will install the energy-generating roofs

Good news, everybody!

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Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.

Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either:

a. Incompetent
b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't
c. a & b

Guessing this is why he's having 'Executive Time' until 2 PM today ... 😉

Whew!

Hillary Clinton this morning on the US-Iran talks that fell apart:

“This is hard, disciplined effort that has to go into diplomacy to reach any results. And I don’t see this administration either wanting to do it or, frankly, being capable of doing it…”

He is correct.

It is right-wing news saying one outlandish thing after another to get stoopid people to agree and educated to debate.
Causing debate and division.

"Left wing news" spends its time countering with overly polite reporting, not to offend right wingers.

Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."

So glad to see someone so beautifully articulate what I think about almost every day….

Opinion | We Are Witnessing the Rise of a New Aristocracy

We Are Witnessing the Rise of a New Aristocracy The wealth of tech titans makes Rockefellers and Vanderbilts look quaint. In the last 2 years, 19 families have added $1.8 trillion to their coffers-the size of the economy of Australia.
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Emperor penguins, the world’s largest penguin species, are now on the list of wildlife endangered by global warming, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced on Thursday. nyti.ms/3OqmmwS

Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.

New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients in "persistent vegetative states," leaving families with agonizing choices. nyti.ms/4tbDW6X

The Trump administration has systematically pressured immigration judges, threatening them if they do not deport more people and firing those seen as insufficiently supportive of the president’s aggressive enforcement agenda, a New York Times investigation has found. nyti.ms/3Q3IZaU

Top C.D.C. Official Delays Report on Covid Shot’s Effectiveness

The acting head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter.

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