FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
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FDA refuses to review Moderna’s application for mRNA flu vaccine, company says | CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said Tuesday, in another setback for the technology tha...

This is insane.

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National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells,’ alarming career scientists The National Cancer Institute is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official, alarming career scientists.

A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.

It's wild to me that the reality of millions is being determined by the sick fantasies of a few.

That's half her selfie budget!

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Colorado co-ops to Trump: Let us close our aging coal plant Tri-State and Platte River become the first utilities to challenge Trump’s emergency stay-open orders for coal plants, citing the cost to customers.

Trump's next place to lose repeatedly in court, hopefully: utilities suing to avoid having to keep running old, expensive, polluting coal plants

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10 Years of Trump, and the Alarm Keeps Going Off Every day of the past decade has felt like Groundhog Day.

"We don’t face some kind of formidable foe of the sort Lincoln imagined. We have been unable to defeat the designs of a second-rate demagogue and grifter, aided by third-rate bigots and authoritarians, and surrounded by fourth-rate opportunists and conspiracists." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

A multimillionaire thinks that paying down the national debt is so important that all the poors should get into the workforce earlier, work in it harder, and stay in it later to help pay it off.

It's the only possible way to do it!

Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
 
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
 
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

This was a bribe.

UAE royals gave the Trump family $500 million, and Trump, in his presidential capacity, gave them access to tightly guarded American AI chips.

The most powerful person on the planet, also happens to be the most shamelessly corrupt.

Screenshot of an X post by Omar Jimenez (@OmarJim…, 7h) stating that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says he doesn’t have the names of the agents who shot Alex Pretti, adding: “I’ve been a lawyer for 36 years. I’ve never seen anything like this before.” Below is a CNN video thumbnail showing a split screen: on the left, an older man in a black cap and glasses labeled “Brown | Business Owner,” and on the right, Keith Ellison in a suit. A CNN “LIVE” bug appears in the corner.

This is a cover up of a murder, led by our own federal government.

I mean we are basically living a Choose Your Own Adventure right now so…yeah possible

It’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened

Yep, this is really something the president of this country just posted this evening.

Chuck Grassley has been an elected official since 1958 and a Senator for 45 years. He is the longest serving Senator in office. He chairs the Judiciary Committee.

No civil rights violation probe into latest MN shooting, sources tell MS NOW As DHS takes over the federal investigation, current and former law enforcement agents warn that Trump’s DOJ isn’t committed to facts or fairness.

Breaking MS NOW:

Trump's Justice Department has decided there will be no civil rights investigation of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, and instead two units of DHS will investigate their own officers and the man they killed.

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Generational brain drain, such an easily-foreseeable self-inflicted wound that will hobble these agencies for quite some time to come. Idiocracy at its worst.

Chris Murphy: "This is really scary because what Bovino essentially told you is that if you just happen to be present when they are undertaking an operation, if you pull out your phone to record it, the use of force against you is justified. That is not true, it's not what the law says."

“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social

At no point have Trump officials sought to reassure Americans that there will be an impartial investigation of Renee Good's killing that builds confidence with stakeholders on all sides. Nor have officials meaningfully declared that they are willing to take active steps to avert future ICE killings.

Imagine if a Mexican political leader was openly encouraging Texas to leave the United States. Bessent is grossly unqualified as Treasury secretary, but is now also a diplomatic liability. As is Trump, for whatever cold comfort that gives.

Short of getting caught orchestrating a coup or assassination, this is absolutely the core case of what you expel an ambassador for.

Ty Cobb: “This is a man who is demented… I don’t think there’s anybody outside the boundaries of the United States who believes for a second that Trump is sane at this stage of the game.”

via @outfrontcnn.bsky.social

Trump speech reminding the audience that he is a bully, erratic and an ignorant boor. Net net, he is doing great damage to US standing and in particular to our relations with Europe and NATO. A great speech from the point of view of Moscow and Beijing.

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Trump Butchers the Golden Goose He’s convinced he has to kill liberalism and democracy to realize their benefits.

"The moral of the fable about the goose that laid the golden egg is straightforward, but it never really worked for me as a story. Like, come on: Nobody’s that stupid. Well, *almost* nobody, I guess."

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

I think the more clarifying question is where the F are:
1) George W. Bush
2) Mitt Romney
3) Dick Cheney
4) John Bolton
5) Mike Pence
6) Paul Ryan

And the list goes on...and on...