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Could a Cancer Vaccine Developed Long Ago Hold the Key to Long-Term Survival? DURHAM, N.C. – A small group of women with advanced breast cancer received a vaccine via a clinical trial more than 20 years ago. Today, they’re all still alive. Scientists say that kind of long-term ...

This is encouraging!

A vaccine given to breast cancer patients 20 y ago has kept them alive. The 5 yr relative survival rate of women w/ metastatic cancer is 32%.

This vaccine elicited long term immune responses.

It is too expensive to be antivax.
🧪 corporate.dukehealth.org/news/could-c...

Shining Science on X: "Also: Pet ownership is associated with greater cognitive and brain health in a cross-sectional sample across the adult lifespan https://t.co/FqpDJ22nzg" / X Also: Pet ownership is associated with greater cognitive and brain health in a cross-sectional sample across the adult lifespan https://t.co/FqpDJ22nzg

Proof that having a pet is good for you 🧪 “In overarching multivariate analyses, we found clear support for the association between pet ownership and cognitive/brain health in an adult sample ranging up to 74 years. These effects were strongest for dog owners” x.com/shiningscien...

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Under Trump, US strikes on Somalia have doubled since last year. Why? As Trump hits the Horn of Africa, experts caution against drone strikes, saying the US needs to invest in peacebuilding.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/....

How much does that add to the deficit??
Losing immigrants does NOT improve
our economy,
our communities,
Our Future!!!

Have you ever felt like this 👇

Hatch Act infringed upon by T's cronies. https://www.fns.usda.gov/fns-contacts?sort_bef_combine=title_fulltext_ASC&f%5B0%5D=fns_contact_state%3A265

Hatch Act Infringement!!!
Where are the attorneys?

www.fns.usda.gov/fns-contacts...

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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In dreams 🌫️ BlueSkyers 🦊 💭

Keystone Kash needed a distraction from the story that he took another private govt jet to watch his girlfriend sing. apnews.com/article/detr...

Tell Congress: Restore PBS and NPR Funding President Trump and his cronies in Congress are escalating their war on public media – slashing $1.1 billion from PBS and NPR. This is $1.1 billion in funding that local PBS and NPR stations were cou...

I just signed a Common Cause petition urging Congress to restore funding for PBS and NPR – and I hope that you will, too:

act.commoncause.org/petitions/sa...

Trump's Great Gatsby party, he never read this book nor any other, so the quote would be lost on him.

Your giggle of the day 👇😹

Who are the REAL welfare queens?

You can’t see it, but this is my surprised face.

Make America What-it-used-to-be Again!

Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator

Carbon footprint calculators for air travel have been massively underestimating personal emissions with simplistic models that ignore numerous critical factors. A new calculator hopes to rectify this.

#CarbonEmissions #AirTravel 🧪

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) on pink Coneflowers (Echinacea). North Haven, Connecticut, USA, August 2025.

As we enter the Dark Time, here's some sun from early last August.
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I caught another nice meteor spanning between two frames with persistent ion train.

#astronomy #astrophotography

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

So… Are Black Holes Dark Energy? In today's bite, we investigate a controversial paper from two years ago, tracing its origins and attempting to finally answer the question: are black holes dark energy?

From Lucas Brown @lucasb413.bsky.social : In today’s bite, we investigate a controversial paper from two years ago, tracing its origins and attempting to finally answer the question: are black holes dark energy? 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/10/30/a...

Awesome 👇👇

It'll be a while for the
cool-down to be
comfortable.

30 million light years

You're seeing how it appeared
30,000,000 years ago.

What was our Solar System doing then?