Monty Montano

YouTube video by Advanced Portfolio News Episode 3: Dr. Jeremy Borniger

Nice conversation on sleep and cancer with Jeremy at CSHL. Check it out! youtu.be/AVtbl8OxeZU?...

YouTube video by Advanced Portfolio News Episode 2: A Conversation with Dr. Michelle Monje

Meet Michelle Monje from Stanford and hear about cancer neuroscience advances…https://youtube.com/watch?v=GItH3Uazn8I

YouTube video by Advanced Portfolio News Episode 1: A Conversation with Dr. Erica Sloan

Great conversation with Erica Sloan about stress and cancer…https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5zJzPdzE65g

Sex differences in tissue-specific immunity and immunology Biological sex exerts a substantial influence on the immune system and immune-related diseases. Males are more susceptible to the acute effects of viral disease and certain cancers, whereas females ex...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Trump’s Fake Emergencies Follow Authoritarian Playbook Trump is using fake crises to grab power, echoing tactics of autocrats. Americans must recognize the pattern and resist.

Trump's wannabe dictator playbook:

1) Create fake emergency
2) Bypass Congress and public debate
3) Grab emergency powers
4) Repeat

(from June)
www.theframelab.org/trumps-fake-...

Sixty years ago today, Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law - securing health care for millions and saving countless lives. As GOP politicians try to tear them down, it's up to us to protect and expand these programs for Americans who rely on them today and for future generations.

US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump International non-profit Civicus says ‘sustained attacks on civic freedoms’ put US on par with El Salvador and Kenya

Sad: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A Rockville woman with developmental disabilities was laid off from NIH after 30 years. What’s next for her is uncertain. Andrea Geller loved her job in the mailroom at NIH. But after she was laid off, she's struggling to find a job accommodating her disabilites.

As cold hearted as it gets...
bethesdamagazine.com/2025/07/29/d...

A different way of practicing politics is possible - where we vigorously fight for what’s right while inviting people into our coalition, rather than pushing them away.

From “Auguries of Innocence”

Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.

- William Blake

Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.

It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.

Today, the United States is

No. 1 in billionaires

No. 1 in corporate profits

No. 1 in CEO salaries

No. 1 in childhood poverty

No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world."

- Bernie Sanders

How to make America healthy: the real problems — and best fixes The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations. Chronic disease is part of the cause, but so are guns, drugs and cars.

Sobering news on the health front in US: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This GIF is pretty appropriate for what's happening...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

RADIO FREE NEW HAMPSHIRE -- A VOICE FROM THE WILDERNESS.

Good job for the good guys

We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.

“NIH-funded basic science has contributed to the development of more than 90% of new medicines, vaccines, and devices.” www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

Last week, @rhodesben.bsky.social and I did a Munk Debates against Kevin Roberts and Kellyanne Conway on whether Trump is leading America into a new golden age.

We won. This is from my closing statement.

There’s nothing golden about a movement that bathes in gratuitous cruelty.

Lovely day in New England

The assault on Harvard and academic excellence is petty and cruel, especially now for our international scholars.

Trump and GOP’s tax bill would force cuts to Medicare, CBO says Some $500 billion in cuts to Medicare could be avoided if Congress instructs the White House budget office to disregard the reconciliation package’s debt impact.

Seems like more people should be talking about this

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I stand with Bruce Springsteen, not a treasonous deranged convicted felon.

Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians:

“We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍”
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Harvard University Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

Funding has allowed profound gains that translate into better lives and living www.harvard.edu

Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.

A research colleague at Harvard…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/ice-detention-russian-scientist.html

Brain Drain | No Mercy / No Malice The Manhattan Project, the top-secret U.S. government initiative to build an atomic bomb before Nazi Germany did, relied on hundreds of brilliant scientists from leading universities. Many of them had...

www.profgalloway.com/brain-drain/