Geoffrey Kabat

Friday, Trump makes it clear he is blowing up the post WW2 international order. Today, he makes it clear he will blow the economy to smithereens. I’m getting a little nervous about tomorrow.

The number of ways to activate the immune system attack vs cancer keeps increasing. Here, using bacteria to amp up the response to wild tumor, the mechanism via a surge of interleukin-10 is elucidated
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @cellpress.bsky.social open-access

Top HHS spokesperson quits after clashing with RFK Jr. Thomas Corry resigned over disagreements with the HHS secretary and his approach to the measles outbreak.

RFK Jr’s top spokesman at HHS resigns after just 2 weeks after reporting clashing with him about his response to the measles epidemic in Texas. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Other world leaders are also arriving in London: Olaf Scholz, Justin Trudeau, Ursula von der Leyen, and Mark Rutte are also on site

Help Wanted: Leader of the Free World A very important job is now, unfortunately, available.

We have gone from being "the shining city on a hill" to becoming the Belarus of the West. Some thoughts from me on why and what it means. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/help-wante...

Photo of text from a newspaper article that says “Kennedy advances the lies that vaccines cause autism, increase cancer risk, and result in higher death rates. None of this is true, but Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence showing the safety of vaccines. His goal is to cause fear over vaccines and public health ini-tiatives, which he does for profit Kennedy will promote decreased vaccine uptake, as he did when he influenced government officials in Samoa to stop measles vaccinations; in the resulting measles epidemic, 83 people died from measles, mostly chil-dren. The same will happen here.”

Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening.

An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:

“The same will happen here”.

8 years cancer free! ❤️❤️
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The Kleptocracy Club Autocrats dump their democratic allies and keep the company of kleptocrats.

If America has different allies, are we the same kind of country?

@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and I made a podcast episode discussing this last summer

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

Right-Wing Commentator Named F.B.I. Deputy Director (Gift Article) The choice of Dan Bongino is a radical departure from the bureau’s history of having a veteran agent serve in the key role that oversees operations.

“The choice of Mr. Bongino is a radical and abrupt departure from that practice and raises startling questions about how two people who have never served as F.B.I. agents will oversee the vast surveillance and investigative powers of an agency of 38,000 people…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

Winner Take All Why the tech bros want authoritarian government.

“Because the key insight is this: The tech sector operates as a winner-take-all economy. But our political economy is based on perpetual competition.” @jvl.bsky.social

Important editorial: the "existential moment requiring careful and consistent action to preserve the values and ambitions of science."
"The weeks ahead may be the greatest test that the US scientific community has ever faced"
By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Two people in US hospitalized with bird flu, CDC reports Wyoming woman still in hospital while Ohio man released after facing ‘respiratory and non-respiratory symptoms’

#H5N1: 2 people—1 in Wyoming, the other in Ohio—diagnosed w/ #birdflu. A Wyoming woman is still hospitalized; an Ohio man has been released. Both experienced respiratory & non-respiratory symptoms.The cases arrive amid the worst seasonal flu outbreak in 15 yrs www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's never good when the richest person in the world and the worst person in the world are the same person.

The businesses hoping to boom under an RFK Jr.-led HHS Several corners of industry are eagerly awaiting what they see as a new era for health care.

Open season for grifters.
www.axios.com/2025/02/24/s...

Opinion | America Has a Rogue President The firing of three judge advocate generals is one more element of this administration’s attack on the rule of law.

"It’s time for the American people, across the political spectrum, to recognize what is happening. America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledge that and respond." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

This is indeed brilliant

Trump plans to impose tariffs on pharmaceutical & medical products. Ireland, China, Germany, Switzerland & Mexico are the top exporters to the US. Products include medical equipment, medications & active pharmaceutical ingredients. Consumer costs will rise www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

There's nothing more frustrating than to hear Trump voters saying they didn't vote for this. It's not as if Trump isn't the most chronicled & easily understood criminal in modern political history.

I’m sure Trump & Musk will condemn Putin for this since they claim to care so much about peace and the Ukrainian people.

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests?

There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

This is the most dangerous move yet The canary is gasping for air

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

Séamas O'Reilly: Trump and Musk's malfeasance hits America like an asteroid "Planes literally falling from the sky is a heavy-handed metaphor for all that’s been going on but it is, unfortunately, what we’re left with."

Spread this around. No curse quite like an Irish one. Thanks @seamas.bsky.social! "Musk is just a blinkered, blundering dunce; a man who thinks his ability to buy companies renders him a Godlike superintelligence, pathologically resistant to the idea...1/ www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

New coronavirus discovered in Chinese bats sparks alarm The virus binds to humans in a similar way to the virus that causes COVID-19.

A new bat #coronavirus discovered in China is causing alarm. The virus has capacity to spread to humans & is similar to the one behind the #Covid pandemic. It's called HKU5CoV2 & was found by the team led by virus hunter Shi Zhengli—Batwoman—for her work in bat caves www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

The DOGE Brain Drain Has Begun It’s not just jobs cut and agencies gutted. It’s the talent that will be lost for generations to come.

"Among accomplished researchers, the fear is that this coming generation of scientists will look overseas or leave their fields entirely, endangering America’s multigenerational standard as the leader in scientific research." ICYMI @samsteindc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...

A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years.

Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

Opinion | Who Will Stand Up to Trump on Ukraine? In their silence, Republicans are betraying the Ukrainians, national security and their own party’s values.

“On Mr. Trump calling Mr. Zelensky a dictator, [Senator Thune] said only, “The president speaks for himself.”

No, he does not. He speaks for America, and for the Republican Party he leads. When he is wrong, it is the duty of his lieutenants and allies to tell him so.”

Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling The Trump administration appears to be flouting a judge’s order pausing the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D.

Emergency food, TB tests & HIV drugs: All of this vital health aid remains frozen by the Trump regime despite a court ruling to release it to countries in need. The regime appears to be flouting a judge’s order regarding foreign assistance via USAID www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...