"It’s hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time as Vinay Prasad." What an opening sentence!

Robert Duvall “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” The man who was an actor, who was a legend — who even became a meme, and leaves this world as a myth. Seven decades of career, from Apocalypse Now to The Godfather, from To Kill a Mockingbird to Falling Down, simply gigantic.

2028 primary field as of today.

Still the same old church. What's left unsaid is that the bishops have no authority over the University since the Congregation of the Holy Cross, which owns & operates the university, is not subject to the authority of the bishops but to that of their own superiors within the order & to the Pope.

Paulson has always been a snake.

The article says there are security concerns. The first thought that popped into my mind was "Security against who?" I suspect that, with data held in China, it might be more difficult for US and Canadian governments to subpoena records. Just a thought.

I've never understood the reluctance of people on the left to fully embrace the the flag. After all, it's our country too. If you look at demonstrations against governments in other parts of the world—Georgia, Israel a few years ago, the Maidan Revolution— you would see a sea of flags. Why not here?

Republican Party Chair arrested for waterboarding teen child—police call it "rare torture." He beat his daughter because she did not "completely clean" oher room—leaving her with "visible bruising." Stunningly, he was released on $10,000 bond.

Amen to that.

So much for being the “Free State of Florida.” Now they can’t even baptize their gators in a Waffle House! #FloridaMan

"If it ain't one damn thing, it's another." –Somebody

They're belatedly trying to dig themselves out of the political moon-sized crater that Donald Trump, Steven Miller, Kristi Nome, Homan, and so many others have dug themselves into. They're hoping that memories will fade by November. Democrats can't let that happen.

Does anyone have a memory of a relative or family friend who had lived in a tuberculosis sanitarium? You'd probably have to be 75+ years old to remember. My aunt, my mother's brother's wife lived in our county sanitarium from 1937 to 1946. People with tuberculosis were isolated there because

So many of the harms of this period are invisible now but will be felt over years and decades as we become poorer and less healthy than we would have been if we had continued to invest in science.

I posted an article yesterday about how furious building contractors in South Texas are at the Trump Administration's deportation activities, but it's not just contractors, it seems to be pretty universal. Hispanic Americans there want the border secured but hate the way they're being treated.

Apparently, DOGE didn't cut enough people at the FCC if they can still do this.

Is this a good thing? Or a bad thing? www.al.com/politics/202...

This is all Hegseth's doing. What I don't understand though, is how doing these services held during working hours in a government building (the Pentagon) can be legal. Yes, everyone has a constitutional right to practice their religion, but not on government time in a government building.

Cassidy always responds that a hearing date is being "worked out." How hard is it for people acting in good faith (I know, I know.) to set a date? Just subpoena him.

Las Vegas ended 2025 with one of the highest jobless rates in the nation for big metro areas, amid a slump in tourism to America’s casino capital and broader economic jitters. Turns out it was "no tips, no tax" because Trump has scared away foreigners who want to visit our country.

The City of LA is about to give back millions of dollars of previously granted funds for active transportation projects because it can’t build things in any reasonable amount of time.

Jim O’Neill is out at HHS. Looks like they’re purging people who aren’t anti-vaxx enough. They might stand in the way of RFK trying to take us back to the Dark Ages.

Tuesday. Tuesday is the day when Democratic Socialists will learn for the first time how economics works. Tuesday is when Zohran Mamdani must present a balanced preliminary budget for the coming fiscal year. It's the day when the magical thinking that energized his campaign will come face-to-face

Ray Dalio, Founder and Mentor of Bridgewater Associates (one of the world’s largest hedge funds) has written a long—because it contains an entire chapter from his book—article on X about the decay and demise of the post-WW2 world order. It's well worth reading. x.com/RayDalio/sta...

A view from Japan.... Click on the alt-text for a translation of the book covers.

Why is it that the rich and famous are such suckers for these meet-and-greet invites? It seems like in a lot of cases, they could just have their people reach out to Celebrity Guy's people and set up a lunch or dinner date.

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The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

They either end up dead, in prison like Manuel Noriega (and probably Nicholás Maduro), living in exile (Idi Amin and a number of other Third World presidents-for-life), or living in cold, wet, dreary Moscow (Erich Honecker, Askar Akayev, Viktor Yanukovych, Bashar al-Assad). They never last.

Rep. Jason Crow on Rubio's Munich speech: "Not only did he say things I found disturbing, what was also important was what he did not say. He never mentioned Russia once. He never mentioned China once. There was historically revisionism."

In the firehouse of bullshit that the country has had to deal with over the past year, abortion rights have kind of slipped out of the public eye, I think. This is just a reminder that horrible restrictions are still in place and that women are still dying because of them.

Let's see, 47K victims times $10B each ... just blew up my calculator. 😳

"I never want to watch children run from our own government again." Powerful.

It's a conspiracy theory, so there can be little doubt that Trump would believe it if he knew about it. 😳

Sure, and keep moving 4hem around the country so no one can figure out where they are. 😳

"Trump has become a parody of a 1980s televangelist, openly grifting his followers for massive amounts of cash. (His ballroom is practically his own Heritage USA.) But Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart put on a more convincing show." — @playtyperguy.com

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state can put a redistricting plan on the ballot this spring that could add as many as four more Democratic seats in Congress. The referendum will take place on April 21.

Faced with power companies being unable to provide enough electricity to power their data centers and the long lead time for construction of new power plants, AI companies like xAI have brought in heavily polluting trailer-mounted gas-powered generators to fill the void.

1/2 No hyperbole, the @jmail.world team are doing some of the most important work in the world right now. If you have any interest in the Epstein files, the sites listed in the post below.

If this happens, it'll be a huge win for feminism. Women are grossly underrepresented in the dictator and authoritarian spaces. 🙄

Conspiracy theorizing is a bipartisan phenomenon.

NATO: "We are fucked!" 10 Ukrainian soldiers eliminated 2 NATO battalions in a half a day of training. So, the myth of all-powerful NATO that can stop Russia is no more. WSJ: NATO forces were horrible and wiped out in a 16,000-troop drill in Estonia. The Ukrainian troops operated 30 drones in a

It’s a great dream but let’s be honest, the Bundeswehr isn’t even the strongest conventional army in Germany right now. Germany has it's work cut out for it.

Roses are red But they're costing more green A fat Trump tariff On every stem seen Happy Valentines Day

Whenever someone asks me why I lived in Utah for 30 years....

This is what in known as "a declaration of no suicidal intent." It's more commonly used in other parts of the world than here.

Perfect!

Always assume that he means what he says and act accordingly.

He's got my vote.

We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.