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We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
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"the FBI director used taxpayer funds in a government shutdown to fly his country singer GF to sing at a Hulk Hogan-founded wrestling event aired on Fox Nation" is not the flashiest Trump-era headline but pound for pound it can compete with any contender
30.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 818 🔁 246 💬 19 📌 8
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On Fox Business, Cuomo continued to paint an ominous picture of New York City under Zohran Mamdani if he is elected mayor and questioned his allegiance to America and the city. “Dual-citizenship, he was a citizen of Uganda, his parents own a mansion in Uganda, he’s spent a lot of time there,” Cuomo said. He went on to again invoke 9/11 in conjunction with the candidacy of Mamdani, who was a 9-year-old boy living in New York when the attacks took place. “He just doesn’t understand the New York culture, the New York values, what 9/11 meant.”
What an odious thing to say. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
29.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 1042 🔁 159 💬 59 📌 180
Andrew Desiderio V @AndrewDesiderio X.com Funny moment just now in the Senate: Lindsey Graham whispered something into his phone and then Siri responded with full volume: "Calling Sean Hannity mobile" 8:57 AM • 10/28/25 • 276K Views
We live in an episode of Veep
28.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 29798 🔁 5827 💬 525 📌 265that's too many amazon nights
27.10.2025 20:48 — 👍 95 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 1Kershaw is warming in the bullpen. It would be so amazing to see the future Hall of Famer come in. A last farewell. A touching moment capped by giving up a grand slam to like Ernie Clement
28.10.2025 03:37 — 👍 291 🔁 23 💬 13 📌 3I'm so sorry.
28.10.2025 03:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0nailed it
28.10.2025 02:25 — 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
A shitty MS Paint reimagining of the Blue Jays logo, with a blue Jay in a tree and CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP repeated over and over.
The Blue Jays are Blue Jaying.
28.10.2025 01:26 — 👍 49 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...
news New Yorkers can use this week
27.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
New from me:
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Money is great, HOWEVER: Free fridge programs will gladly take household or individual amounts of fresh food, even portioned leftovers if labeled and dated. I donate to the ATX free fridge near me when I'm going out of town and need to get rid of veggies or anything unopened that might still go bad.
27.10.2025 01:19 — 👍 134 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 4overheard my son (almost 4) in the backseat talking to his sister: “baby, we’re going to the zoo! I think you’re gonna have a nice time. in closing, I love you.”
26.10.2025 16:12 — 👍 161 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
you probably haven’t seen CONFESS, FLETCH but you definitely should, and also there should be at least 3 more of these
31.08.2024 20:09 — 👍 143 🔁 36 💬 7 📌 31
I told my dad that i knew how to fix our toilet, he sounded mildly impressed but then said “oh was there and episode of the simpsons where they fix a toilet or something.”
26.10.2025 12:07 — 👍 4314 🔁 511 💬 58 📌 11At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.
25.10.2025 23:04 — 👍 2693 🔁 1407 💬 20 📌 28
An embarrassingly obvious point, but...
This. Is. Illegal.
If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.
In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
Hunger in America makes Page One in Knoxville, Tenn, ..
.. Indianapolis, Boston, Milwaukee ..
#SNAP #Shutdown
“.. perhaps the most cruel and unlawful offense the Trump administration has perpetrated yet — freezing funding already enacted into law to feed hungry Americans while he shovels tens of billions of dollars .. to Argentina and into his ballroom.”
@politico.com #SNAP
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
it can’t be overstated what a giant deal this could be
Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."
23.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 6244 🔁 2148 💬 407 📌 283As devastating as Mamdani’s words here are, Cuomo’s reply is so much worse. “If you want to be in government, then you have to be serious and mature.” He’s suggesting that sexual harassment is just part of working in government, and “mature” women can handle it. Disgusting.
23.10.2025 12:53 — 👍 335 🔁 84 💬 13 📌 2Slowly and accidentally becoming a Delaware fan. They wear the winged helmet. They play on Wednesdays. They have a “cock-a-doodle doo” noise on third downs. Their quarterback’s name sounds like it is pronounced “meta-coochie”
23.10.2025 01:03 — 👍 52 🔁 6 💬 6 📌 3Mutsu is the thinking man's Granny Smith.
22.10.2025 17:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s too bad that “the speech” is mostly remembered for Joe Biden plagiarizing it bc Kinnock was really cooking
22.10.2025 02:33 — 👍 473 🔁 71 💬 13 📌 5doordash driver tonight handed me my food, gave me two thumbs up and a huge smile, and then said “ok, enjoy! you are the best in town!” before walking away
maybe the best personal interaction i’ve had in… my whole life?
