Paul Kingsley

Agree. Time for a leadership change. I’m fine with them representing NY for their terms. But minority leadership can be much better served.

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A vaccine that prevents cancer. Why wouldn’t you vaccinate your kids?

SEN. KELLY : “They informed me of this in a tweet because this is not about the law. This is about the media cycle, and intimidation… We basically repeated the uniform code of military justice, and they're saying that's in violation of it. It's absurd. Comical.”

Call it what it is. I’m as blue as they come, and see folks refuse to use President Trump’s honorific, but it doesn’t change the fact that he is one of the most powerful presidents in recent history.
It’s President Trump’s Department of War. Denial doesn’t change facts on the ground.

National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.

From the National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine:

“based on our body of work on this topic and the overwhelming scientific consensus, we support the statement that vaccines do not cause autism.”

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Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at Presiden...

“…the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.”

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Trump, Xi spoke on phone Monday to discuss trade, Taiwan and Ukraine, US and Chinese officials say President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone on Monday to discuss trade, Taiwan and Ukraine, according to the White House and Chinese officials.

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone Monday on trade, Taiwan and Ukraine, with Xi stressing that Taiwan’s return to China is part of the “post-war international order,” according to Chinese state media.

The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.

Germany advises against traveling to Venezuela and warns against trips to border regions.- Der Spiegel

This is usually a normal tip we watch, along with many others, but diplomatic warnings are often a good “canary in the cage” type of thing.

Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D., Director of the Division of AIDS National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (.gov) https://www.niaid.nih.gov › about › carl-w-dieffenbach-... Nov 15, 2018 — Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D., serves as Director of the Division of AIDS (DAIDS). Dr. Dieffenbach oversees a global HIV/AIDS research portfolio of more than $1 ...

Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."

Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.

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This is so disappointing 😞

Firing great scientists diminishes science in America…which, as far as I can tell, is the goal of the 🍊🤡 cult

Iran’s president says moving capital ‘an obligation’ as Tehran sinks Ground subsidence and water scarcity in Tehran may necessitate moving the Iranian capital to a different region, the country's leader said this week

Iran is likely to be forced to relocate the country’s capital, as Tehran suffers critical water shortages & irreversible subsidence from over-extraction of artesian water.
This is the real social & economic impact of climate change.
It is not a drill
#auspol

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I think some of us who were outraged at the payoff Texas corp. TopGolf was promised feel justified. This should have been a no brainer: “hell no”.
The Costco plaza development fortunately continues:
Drive through Chipotle looks ready to open, new hotel construction progressing, as is Chik-fil-A (🤮)

Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

Home Depot could implement a policy requiring ICE to present a judicial warrant before operating on its property. Businesses are fully within their rights to decide who is allowed on their premises.

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Thanks again, Fabian. I think your point is that nonbinary aren’t being counted. My response is two-fold:
1) they can’t be counted as such in the study design, but they are counted as human beings.
2) there is no science that indicates that any gender would respond differently to flu vaccines.

I’m wish I could explain better. They are included in the numbers as humans.
There’s no evidence vaccine effectiveness in *any* studies varies by gender.
You hypothesis would have to be:
There’s no difference between male and female, but nonbinary are different?
That’s never been shown.

Again, I’ve participated in studies like this. Non-binary aren’t excluded, but they are coded as male or female based on “biological sex” (not my term).
It’s similar to political polls where some subgroups, like Muslim women, aren’t broken out in cross-tabs because not enough. But still counted.

If out of 18,000 they only observed 144 cases of flu with which to compare results, they would only expect 4 cases among the 3% non-binary. So if was 2 vs 2, or 1 vs 3, or 4-0, it’s not enough to draw conclusions.
You’d need a study recruiting 10,000 non-binary, which is a hard get.

The effect of sex on responses to influenza vaccines - PubMed The poor uptake and limited effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccines mean that influenza continues to create a significant burden of disease. It has been hypothesized that sex differences are present in responses to seasonal influenza vaccines, and that these differences may contribute to this p …

I’ve participated in several studies and often they ask “biological sex”. Given total flu for all genders for both vaccines was 57 vs 87 cases out of the total of 18,000, it’s highly unlikely there were enough numbers to distinguish results based on gender.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33180651/

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So this means Starbucks and other retail vendors will be lowering prices now, just like they raised them when tariffs were put in place, right?

www.reuters.com/business/glo...

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

DSA recommends against endorsing Ossé’s congressional bid City Council Member Chi Ossé’s planned primary challenge to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now on life support.

Democrats in disarray

www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

I think she’s smart enough not to run for senate. I’ve supported and gone door-to-door for Dem candidates upstate for decades. NY is not VT. You can check out polling for Gov where Hochul, James, Delgado, and AOC were floated. Her negatives are too high.