Justin Schardin

F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine

NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine.

Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Important info from @cato.org about how immigrants contribute to our country:

"The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023."

Facts matter.

As the U.S. bids adieu to the World Health Organization, California says hello In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following?

In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following?

I’m not anti-gambling - that would be pretty churlish from someone who has made their living off of that industry over two separate periods - the really dirty word is “financialization” which is a fancy way of saying everything is now gambling but nothing actually matters.

"Stung by Trump, America’s Top Trading Partners Shift Gaze to China" www.wsj.com/world/us-tra...

Announcers on the Broncos game talking about how Jared Stidham got the nickname "Stiddie". I never would've guessed.

Sports have mostly gotten a lot better over the years, but nicknames are much less creative. Gimme "Night Train", "Crazylegs", or "The Bus".

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

Michael Rapaport accuses the cat of being a traitor, shortly after accusing every other person and lamp in the room of being a traitor

The Traitors [USA] (Series, 2023 - )

Crypto holder loses $283 million to scammer impersonating wallet support A crypto holder has lost $282 million in bitcoin and litecoin after a scammer impersonating a customer support employee for the Trezor hardware wallet manufacturer successfully convinced them into revealing their seed phrase. After gaining access to the assets, they quickly swapped them to the Monero privacycoin. The volume of assets was so large that the Monero price spiked as the scammer laundered the finds. The scammer also swapped assets using the THORChain project, which boasted on social media about the "World record speedrun. ⚡️" (presumably without realizing they were bragging about a thief using their project to launder money). Around $700,000 of the stolen assets were frozen thanks to intervention by a security firm called ZeroShadow, although this represents only 0.2% of the total loss.

Crypto holder loses $283 million to scammer impersonating wallet support

January 10, 2026
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=trezor-support-scam

Delroy Lindo is amazing.

Shooting 67% for the half seems pretty good.

a harry potter hedwig lego set but it’s used to make a moby dick scene with moby dick underneath the pequod

become ungovernable

A flag with a black garbage bin, a green recycling bin, and a black star above them. White background. Text: “COME AND TAKE IT”

A friend of mine cooked up a flag to show support for strong municipal services and this feels like the perfect emblem of the Mamdani Moment. I absolutely love it.

I think he means that Fannie and Freddie are, combined, a bit more than $200B under the portfolio cap of MBS they can buy. Which is definitely not cash.

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!

Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

2024 Office of Financial Research annual report on financial stability risks listed "crypto" 16 times, "digital asset" 29X, and "stablecoin" 28X. The 2025 report has zero mentions of any of those, except one "digital asset" reference in a definition.

www.financialresearch.gov/annual-repor...

Kevin Garnett’s Timberwolves return was a move years in the making The process of bringing the organization's "Babe Ruth" back into the fold began long ago.

“There was a huge hole in the heart of the organization.”

Marc Lore, Alex Rodriguez and more go behind the scenes on the long, delicate process of bringing Kevin Garnett back into the fold in Minnesota.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/691...

so now crime dog, macduff crimes dog. he is saying for kids: you must go make bites in crime? or threats to the child so, crack deal, smashing of store, stabs, on on on, make plans for my big bite? this.. no. even bad burglaries child of filth life, smiles to filth, best crime macdog MUST obey, 100%

Basil II - Wikipedia

Oh hey, it's the 1,000th anniversary today of the death of memorably-named Basil the Bulgar-Slayer, who ruled the Byzantine Empire for just short of 50 years and was their last "great" emperor before the Seljuk Turks arrived.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_II

Federal Reserve Board announces reappointment of Reserve Bank presidents and first vice presidents Following a comprehensive review by the boards of directors of the regional Reserve Banks, and the unanimous concurrence of Federal Reserve Board members, the

The Fed got ahead of Trump and reappointed all the regional bank presidents 2-1/2 months ahead of time: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...

Henry III changed the rules of succession so that Edward I would inherit the minute that Henry died. Even though he was on crusade. Being crowned was now a formality. It’s why we date a monarch’s reign from the moment of their predecessor’s passing.

The impact of political pressure on the Fed

econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...

If it wasn't a three, it was spiritually a three.

this music cue perfectly captures that feeling of when there's a cat and you see the cat

Wolves did a nice little welcome back video for Luka Garza and Josh Minott. Finch called Garza a "culture driver" when he was here.

😆

Ron Coomer looking very rectangular on a Topps Heritage baseball card.