Elisabeth Vallet

Doctrinalism, originalism, pragmatism/prudentialism, structuralism, textualism, and "coding error"

The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked…

Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.

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“We’re being chased by guys with guns… They acted like vigilantes.”

That’s what humanitarian aid workers screamed to Border Patrol in Sasabe, AZ—while plainclothes Homeland Security agents pointed rifles at them.

And what did Border Patrol do?
They helped detain them at gunpoint.

Je sais qu'on est tous désensibilisés à ce point-ci, mais l'homme le plus riche de la planète retweet des choses comme ceci.

The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.

Pete Hegseth continues his purge of women from U.S. military leadership, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.

Water is bringing the bad news about climate change…

Updated Forecast for Lake Powell Water Levels Will Impact Launch Ramps - Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service) Updated Forecast for Lake Powell Water Levels Will Impact Launch Ramps

Boat ramps start closing as Lake Powell takes a nose dive due to diminished river flows and unchecked demand for water in the Southwest: www.nps.gov/glca/learn/n...

Don’t Degrade Church With Politics Church intervention in electoral races is an efficient polarization machine.

Churches can now openly involve themselves in elections, but Elizabeth Bruenig argues that “what may appear to be a triumph over liberalism could in fact be a loss, the supersession of heavenly concerns by earthly ones.”

How the EU dashed to Trump’s Scottish hideaway — and got the deal it craved Von der Leyen finally gets some good news, but only after she sat through the U.S. president’s rant against windmills.

There was something deeply ironic in the EU's top brass having to fly to Britain to seal the bloc's biggest deal since Brexit.

But that's what Donald Trump wanted and that's what Donald Trump got.

Berlin left in the dark as Washington weighs troop cuts in Europe Germany’s quiet diplomacy helped secure U.S. support for Ukraine. But its long-term security ties to Washington are entering uncertain territory.

For decades, the US military presence on German soil has been the backbone of America’s global operations — and a pillar of Europe’s defense.

But as Washington prepares to reassess where its troops are based, officials in Berlin are increasingly unsure what that will mean for them.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Why uterine fibroid awareness is low despite affecting a large percentage of women

Why uterine fibroid awareness is low despite affecting a large percentage of women

PBS NewsHour 7/26/2025

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#UterineFibroid #WomensHealth #Health #Healthcare

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What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.

This is a new one. In order to hide the cost of Trump’s bribe from Qatar, the DoD has moved $934 million from the new ICBM program to pay for the plane’s renovations. The cost of our nuclear arsenal is so huge, that they thought no one would notice. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series The Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela, will not be able to participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year.

The Trump administration has barred a team of 15- and 16-year-olds from Venezuela from entering the United States to compete in the Little League Senior League World Series. The team from Maracaibo won the Latin America tournament to qualify for the World Series in South Carolina

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Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities A Customs and Border Protection “Industry Day” deck also asks for drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls.

U.S. Border Patrol wants “advanced AI” to surveil residential areas and “see through walls” theintercept.com/2025/07/23/c...

Climate change continues to be politicized while wildfires and flash floods destroy us Climate change continues to be politicized even as wildfires and flash floods destroy land, property and people on both sides of the border.

“Flash flooding… wildfires… No city’s infrastructure was designed to handle our increasingly unpredictable and volatile weather and it’s time we stop politicizing climate change and mobilize.” #climatecrisis
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Ex-U.S. military translator from Afghanistan arrested by ICE in CT. Attorney calls it ‘nonsensical.’ The 35-year-old husband and father of five was taken into custody by ICE agents outside a routine green card appointment in East Hartford.

Zia, an Afghan interpreter who risked his life to help U.S. troops, is being detained by ICE in Massachusetts.

He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan.

Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.

Andrew Phillips: What’s happening in Gaza is indefensible, by any reasonable standard Week after week after week, Palestinian civilians desperate for food are being killed.

What’s happening in Gaza is indefensible, by any reasonable standard

#Opinion from the Star's Andrew Phillips

« A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting him in a jail cell for nearly two hours.
(…) said he nearly drowned during the ordeal (…)after the Coast Guard’s boat “pushed” his boat, causing it to capsize»

Affaire Hockey Canada | Quel impact sur les victimes de violences sexuelles ? Les cinq joueurs de hockey accusés d’agression sexuelle ont été acquittés jeudi, au terme d’un procès hautement médiatisé. Quel pourrait être l’impact de ce verdict-choc sur les victimes de violences ...

« La jeune femme a été contre-interrogée pendant sept jours par les équipes légales des cinq accusés. « C’est inhumain », déplore Mme Lemay. En comparaison, un seul joueur a pris la barre, les accusés n’étant pas obligés de témoigner dans un procès criminel. »
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Drimonis: CAQ’s zero-sum politics add up to a loss for Quebec This government would have us believe that when one of us is cut down, the other becomes taller. In truth, most of us want to move forward, side by side.

“Over the last few years, I’ve grown increasingly tired of watching Quebec’s English-language institutions spend so much energy, time and money fending off attacks by the Coalition Avenir Québec instead of focusing on what they do best: educating students.”

www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

This is some insane Soviet bullshit. The idea that any American news organization would agree to something like this is unconscionable. I don't know how any self-respecting journalist could work for an outlet that's doing this.

Holy - and I cannot emphasize this enough - shit.

Also, this guy was a senior project 2025 organizer.

POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.

Tennessee woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried - Nashville Banner Denial of prenatal care to unmarried women in Tennessee raises concerns over the state's Medical Ethics Defense Act.

Hippocrate se retourne dans sa tombe. #AbjectsEtSansLimites
« On April 24th, Tennessee’s 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act went into effect. It gives physicians, hospital systems and insurers, among others, the legal right to deny healthcare to patients based on religious, moral or ethical beliefs ».

He’s suing his girlfriend’s doctor for prescribing abortion pills. Could this gut access everywhere? Texas lawyer Jonathan Mitchell is going after a California doctor, Here’s why that’s terrifying.

In a case aimed at breathing new life into the Comstock Act—and at thwarting abortion-friendly states—a Texas man has sued a California doctor for allegedly mailing abortion pills to his girlfriend. He is asking the court to prevent the woman, who is pregnant, from having another abortion.

Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.

“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.

This is horrifying beyond words.

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Reconnaissance de la Palestine : Macron franchit (enfin) le pas Le président a annoncé que la France reconnaîtra l’État de Palestine en septembre. Après avoir longtemps attendu des soutiens occidentaux et arabes, le chef de l’État a décidé d’avancer seul. Une annonce dont la portée dépendra notamment de la capacité de Paris à résister aux pressions israéliennes.

Reconnaissance de la Palestine : Macron franchit (enfin) le pas

Par @ilyesramdani.bsky.social‬

Agence américaine de protection de l’environnement : 10 reculs pour satisfaire les vieux démons trumpiens En six mois, le président américain a transformé l’institution gardienne du climat et de la santé en cheval de Troie du backlash écologique. «Libé» recense les reculs les plus inquiétants.

Agence américaine de protection de l’environnement : 10 reculs pour satisfaire les vieux démons trumpiens