"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.β
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
13.02.2026 05:44 β π 2188 π 1093 π¬ 67 π 111
If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at miles_klee@wired.com or millionbear.44 on Signal.
13.02.2026 00:14 β π 1375 π 603 π¬ 13 π 7
However low your opinion is of those running the country, it's not low enough. Completely unserious, self-absorbed sociopaths. (Read the whole thread)
13.02.2026 03:41 β π 546 π 123 π¬ 10 π 0
I will admit this was one that I had to both click through and then search for myself to believe it's real.
13.02.2026 05:02 β π 915 π 262 π¬ 7 π 6
There needs to be a class action suit against RFK, Jr., NIH, and Donald Trump for endangering the lives of Americans with their kooky, unscientific negligence.
13.02.2026 03:01 β π 1874 π 625 π¬ 91 π 28
I know this sounds simplistic, but it is a very good thing that the Trump administration is now squarely on the defensive - about ICE, but also about most things - and itβs great that Dems are sustaining the pressure. Credit where itβs due.
12.02.2026 21:50 β π 1458 π 264 π¬ 29 π 3
The denaturalization project, no matter how it is cloaked in law, is inherently a politically targeted abuse of power until they go after the single most prominent case of naturalization fraud in the country: Elon Musk obtaining his citizenship by lying about his prior immigration status violations.
13.02.2026 01:17 β π 1256 π 325 π¬ 29 π 9
βThe Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.β
13.02.2026 00:24 β π 1979 π 606 π¬ 20 π 11
Will Fox be updating their story on this and giving it the same amount of airtime as they did initial arrest?
13.02.2026 00:41 β π 10696 π 3611 π¬ 450 π 132
I fear that βfood ways could often be differentβ is going to be rattling around in my head for a long time just like βpopular knapsack with many different locationsβ before it
13.02.2026 02:27 β π 129 π 13 π¬ 6 π 0
American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits youβve ever met
itβs just this comic over and over and over again, forever
12.02.2026 20:40 β π 4136 π 903 π¬ 34 π 37
When Pam Bondi was Florida's Attorney General, and was busy ignoring Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, much like now, she took a $25,000 bribe from Donald Trump to drop her investigation into consumer fraud at Trump University.
Donald knew she'd be a corrupt US AG and do as she was told.
12.02.2026 19:01 β π 3094 π 1171 π¬ 153 π 44
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas confirms Trump prison camp purchase called off, and vows to ensure that no other site in Kansas City gets one either.
KCUR story about "Platform Ventures" no sale:
www.kcur.org/news/2026-02...
Mayor's confirmation from instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DUqpKhwkUJb/
12.02.2026 19:02 β π 2310 π 741 π¬ 46 π 53
HAHAHA
12.02.2026 17:46 β π 1835 π 357 π¬ 51 π 11
BLUMENTHAL: What is so different about ICE that it regards itself as an exception to the 4th Amendment?
LYONS: We don't
BLUMENTHAL: Why did you keep your memo about the warrant policy secret?
LYONS: I didn't
BLUMENTHAL: We learned about it when whistleblowers came to us
12.02.2026 17:52 β π 3971 π 1226 π¬ 99 π 39
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says theyβve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.
Donβt be fooled by headlines when theyβve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
12.02.2026 17:22 β π 17863 π 7311 π¬ 199 π 279
Almost a year ago he said: "I'm coming to Boston. I'm bringing hell with me." What is hell within the context of legitimate law enforcement?
12.02.2026 17:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
12.02.2026 16:11 β π 5655 π 1726 π¬ 145 π 27
This is what the gop is going to face for the next 3 years. Stuttering delusional old white guys dumbfounded when someone replies βof course I am in favor of my constitutional rights, why do you hate this country?β every time they assert the secret police should be able to kill you for talking back.
12.02.2026 15:20 β π 1851 π 402 π¬ 32 π 4
In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
12.02.2026 15:18 β π 14531 π 5284 π¬ 753 π 319
You gotta admit, the staffers in the background keeping it real are the best part.
12.02.2026 06:12 β π 12730 π 3688 π¬ 738 π 347
Wedding photo top left
Wedding photo removed
SHE REMOVED THEIR WEDDING PHOTO LMAOOOOOO
Oh she HATED his guts
11.02.2026 03:40 β π 7925 π 1513 π¬ 187 π 397
Throwback to Pam Bondiβs campaign ad for Florida AG:
βIβll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.β
The ad aged. The internet remembers.
12.02.2026 03:26 β π 11954 π 5237 π¬ 1106 π 725
Weren't GOP senators demanding $500k because the DOJ researched their call records on January 6th?
12.02.2026 01:07 β π 2233 π 489 π¬ 19 π 9
If they have passports, they'll be fine. Those who have a different name on their current IDS than on their birth certificate and who don't shell out $165 for a new passport will not be able to vote if the SAVE act becomes law
12.02.2026 05:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yeah, it's a good sentiment but at the same time a little irritating when a younger generation finds it remarkable or cute that boomers can appreciate music from across many decades, including the current one
12.02.2026 05:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This guy has no fucking juice. People need to realize standing up to him works and catering to him does not.
11.02.2026 23:21 β π 3043 π 491 π¬ 79 π 12
Some personal news
12.02.2026 01:10 β π 3247 π 926 π¬ 100 π 7
Just take a look at this and remember, Pam Bondi's concern here was not with any of the victims of these crimes but with the nosy Democrats who actually gave a shit about them.
12.02.2026 00:38 β π 5187 π 1658 π¬ 108 π 37
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