Steve Cain

Hochul: "This is what I call a legal insurrection ... they know they're going to lose next year. That's the only reason they're engaged in this. It also might be a nice distraction from people asking -- all of the sudden this happens when? When they refuse to release the Epstein files."

Europe early this morning

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

It’s on!

Prices are climbing, and the big question is—how much worse will it get, and when does it stop?

Trump’s tariffs are the highest in nearly 100 years. And the promise of a manufacturing boom is just a hope and a prayer when profitability is tanking.

No one’s going to invest in uncertainty.

Health Experts Speak Out After RFK Jr. Eliminates $500 Million In mRNA Vaccine Contracts He is a danger to us all.

This man is a danger to us all.

This isn’t about accuracy. It’s about erasure.

The census isn’t just about political representation. It decides who gets funded and who gets ignored.

This move will starve communities of color of federal money for healthcare, education, disaster relief, and emergency response.

RFK wants to lean into “whole cell” vaccine technology, which has existed for decades, comes with increased risk of side effects and can take years to develop.

mRNA vaccine technology comes with far decreased risk of side effects and can take mere months to develop.

Make it make sense!

I learned the other day that the lead vocalist in The Offspring apparently wrote a heavily cited mRNA research paper. Pretty cool!

The reason it’s so powerful is that it turns /your body/ into the factory that makes the drug. It’s so exciting that the US not working on it will be seen as one of the biggest self-owns in history.

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

There’s no words for the rage I feel when I think about RFK Jr’s decision to cut funding for this life saving research.

His anti-vaxx grift has already killed and disabled many people.

Measles is back. Covid is still here and still killing.

Now he’s basically siding with cancer.

I finally added Bluesky comments and likes to my blog (and you can too!) Senior Software Engineer

I finally got around to doing this thing I've been wanting to do, and if you have an @astro.build site there's code linked for you to copy it, too!

Shoutouts to @whitep4nth3r.com , @ngerakines.me , and @ashley.dev for inspiration ❤️

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Thanks, Brittany! I just moved from Publii to Astro this week. Looking forward to checking this out.

Pulmonary risk and so many others continue for years after any COVID reinfection. How is this mild? Also this research only lasted 3 years.**

@zackpolanski.bsky.social This is the main reason our economy is in such a state.

Long COVID prevalence and risk factors in adults residing in middle- and high-income countries: secondary analysis of the multinational Anti-Coronavirus Therapies (ACT) trials Background During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, reports of long-term persistence or recurrence of symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection emerged, which are now collectively referred to as ‘long COVID’. M...

#Medsky🧪 #Episky #Science in perspectives. In Jul 2025, UNAIDS statistics estimated that 40.8 mil people were living with HIV globally in 2024
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We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

FRIEDMAN: “If the behavior this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don’t know how we will get it back.”

‘1984’ is upon us.
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Tens of thousands of cornflowers in a field in Wicken. Research shows that the sight of them will help you recover from sources of stress more quickly & boost dopamine release in your brain, lifting your mood…in case you need it just now:

What are these gigantic blue arcs near the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)? Discovered in 2022 by amateur astronomers, the faint arcs -- dubbed SDSO 1 -- span nearly the same angular size as M31 itself. At first, their origin was a mystery: are they actually near the Andromeda Galaxy, or alternatively near to our Sun? Now, over 550 hours of combined exposure and a collaboration between amateur and professional astronomers has revealed strong evidence for their true nature: SDSO 1 is not intergalactic, but a new class of planetary nebula within our galaxy. Dubbed a Ghost Planetary Nebula (GPN), SDSO 1 is the first recognized member of a new subclass of faded planetary nebulas, along with seven others also recently identified. Shown in blue are extremely faint oxygen emission from the shock waves, while the surrounding red is a hydrogen-emitting trail that indicates the GPN's age.

NASA Picture of the Day

Blue Arcs Toward Andromeda

I don’t know what it’s going to take for the government to spend any time or show any interest in looking at the mountain of research on covid which shows we should all be avoiding reinfections, nevermind the children. When will they care? Five years and they should never ever have abandoned the 🧵

Just an article in that sleezerag called Fortune referring to a peer revieuwed study that shows a minor increase in death in anyone infected with #sarscov2 just the once.
It's definately just a flu now.

Covid-19 vaccine policy changes raise questions and concerns for US adults as summer wave ramps up | CNN As Covid-19 transmission ramps up in the United States, recent changes to federal vaccine guidance have left many Americans confused about the latest policies and concerned about access to shots this ...

As Covid-19 transmission ramps up in the US, many Americans are confused about access to vaccines. RFK Jr. has announced plans to review the federal childhood vaccine schedule. Epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers (no relation!) recommends - “get the shot PDQ”.

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What you need to know about the NIMBUS variant amid a COVID summer surge in Texas A North Texas infectious disease specialist discusses the "NIMBUS" variant behind many of the COVID-19 cases in the current summer surge in Texas and other states.

#nimbus

Every #covidisnotover infection causes systemic harms increasing risk of cancer, stroke and heart attack

#weararespirator

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newsGP - COVID-19 still biggest respiratory killer, GP expert warns Respiratory diseases are at peak circulation, with influenza and RSV taking centre stage, but a GP warns COVID-19 remains one of the biggest dangers.

"COVID-19 is still causing more deaths than flu."

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Every #covidisnotover infection causes systemic harms increasing risk of cancer, stroke and cardiac arrest

#weararespirator

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Covid-19 and flu may reawaken dormant cancer cells in the lungs Mice with a handful of cancerous cells in their lungs experienced a 100-fold increase to this number after being infected with swine flu

"... researchers repeated the experiment but with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes covid-19, they saw about a 10-fold increase in the number of cancer cells in the lungs of the mice ..."

#covidisnotover
#weararespirator

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