Neil McLaughlin

FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

“Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.”

— Hannah Arendt

😞A waste of humanity.

Bezos killed his own paper to please an illiterate clown

Is Jeff Bezos going to destroy the Washington Post? It sure looks like it | Margaret Sullivan He has the chance to be the steward of a national treasure, but he’s blowing it

Read @sulliview.bsky.social--->
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

Carl Sagan sitting on a wooden bench outdoors, smiling softly, with a stone wall and greenery in the background.

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."

— Carl Sagan

Alex Pretti’s ICE murder is beyond politics. This is about good vs. evil | Will Bunch Trump's inhumane immigration raids and two ICE murders has triggered an American yearning for a return to morality.

The senseless murder of Alex Pretti is finally showing everyday folks that the Trump regime is beyond any redemption. And in an anti-religious age, it's sparked a quest for a new American morality

It's beyond politics now. This is about good vs. evil

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/minn...

Those Venetian weddings don’t pay for themselves.

Retiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27.5M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469.

Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by.

It's past time Walmart paid them a living wage.

From The New Yorker

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”

-Edward R. Murrow

Immigration officers claim sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant

This is what fascism looks like. Use the word. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-officers-claim-sweeping-power-to-enter-homes-without-a-judges-warrant-memo-says

We know it’s harder to debunk a lie than to tell it. That's Brandolini's Law, also known as the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle.
This is why the news media can’t keep up and leaves so many Trump lies unchallenged.
But no one is forcing them to amplify Trump's lies in the first place. That’s a choice.

Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds Researchers say event described as ‘major tipping point’ for clean energy in era of destabilised politics Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels in the European Union’s power generation last year, a report has found, in a “major tipping point” for clean energy. Turbines spinning in the wind and photovoltaic panels lit up by the sun generated 30% of the EU’s electricity in 2025, according to an annual review. Power plants burning coal, oil and gas generated 29%. Continue reading...

Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds

One of the big media failures of the past decade is the ongoing search for the deeper side of Trump. There isn't one. His ideology, such as it is, is personalist, transactional, and zero-sum. That's as vain, vulgar, and wrong as you can get. He likes gold shit and applause. There's nothing beneath.

Elon Musk is donating $10 million to a Republican primary candidate in Kentucky.

That’s more money than the vast majority of Americans will ever see — much less donate.

Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

Republicans are genuflecting to the dictator.
Big Tech is bribing.
Mainstream journalists are normalizing.
Some law firms and colleges are capitulating.
Too many Democrats (such as Schumer) are pretending it's 1996.
It's up to us, as citizens, to defeat fascism. Let's get busy now, while we can.

Trump's embarrassing text to Norway about Greenland and the Nobel prize is a reminder: GOP lawmakers are doing absolutely nothing to restrain a mad king who's threatening to unravel NATO and the world order because he's sad about a prize.

My column:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Trump is ranting and hallucinating now, before a world audience, on live TV. While our decades-long allies talk about how to protect themselves.

Anyone who sounded the way he does, RIGHT NOW, would be moved from "main" part of assisted living facility to the memory unit.

Hey GOP: just listen.