More good news: Revolution Medicines says drug for pancreatic cancer shows strong results in drug trial share.google/IKS5BQ6P7HPx...

A little light in the darkness. It's about time we had some good news. 'Oslo patient' likely cured of HIV after getting stem cell transplant from his brother, who is genetically resistant to the virus | Live Science share.google/6Oj9SvGoFAnr...

#satire Source: @reductress.bsky.social

Another one www.modbee.com/news/local/a...

Oh, how progressive... 🙄 EPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water | US Environmental Protection Agency | The Guardian share.google/Ah9QXSaCQ294...

As always, you-know-who is spot on, and cuts through all the silly window dressing to the heart of things, and on top of that is eloquent as can be. Reading this is a breath of fresh air. Treat yourself, turn your notifications off, and just enjoy a few minutes of thoughts from someone thoughtful.

The Clarke Orbit is going to look like Jakarta soon... Starlink satellite 34343 disappears in ‘fragment creation event’ — observation 'immediately detected tens of objects in the vicinity of the satellite after the event' | Tom's Hardware share.google/XApRXaFeIjgF...

If you don't make your pharmaceuticals yourself, you're trusting the whole supply chain, because the FDA keeps it secret. But secrets have a way of wanting to be free... projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector...

Shout out to the lady at the bookstore who gave me the nod when I referred to Dostoyevsky as "Big Daddy D".

The original CECOT crisis was last March. How many people have disappeared into El Salvador in the ensuing year?

Fav immigration tidbit is that immigrants only start committing crimes at the rate of native born Americans as they assimilate into our culture. The xenophobes like to poopoo immigrants for not “assimilating” but that just means they’re atypically law abiding relative to the broader population.

Promising idea using the KRAS inhibitor daraxonrasib, the approved lung cancer drug afatinib, and a protein degrader known as SD36 for drug-resistant pancreatic cancer; good results in mice. New Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Wipes Out Tumors and Blocks Drug Resistance scitechdaily.com/new-pancreat...

HRT Reagent Testing with DanceSafe Kits Curtesy of @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social & @4thievesvinegar.bsky.social

If you're interested in thinking about humanity on a millennial scale rather than a daily one for a few minutes, this is a thing to geek out on: A 5,500-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals the Deep Origins of Syphilis scitechdaily.com/a-5500-year-...

Mm-hmm... Who could have guessed? Oh right: everyone.

US watching a movie where a vigilante’s entire family is wiped out: “Oh yeah, time for fucking vengeance, this dude will never stop. Get them!” US watching Iran pick a Supreme Leader who just had his entire family wiped out: “This guy is plainly going to be reasonable and fold.”

This is from 1975.

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

"As women, we have no state; as workers, we have no state; as migrants, we have no state; as Indigenous peoples, we have no state. "When we say we have no state, we mean there has never been, and will never be, a state that represents us, protects our interests, or prioritizes our well-being." 🧵⬇️

Part of looking out for a community is including everyone in that community. Not just your friends. Not just the likeable folks. EVERYONE.

"Come on mothers throughout the land... ...Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box."

"If our hearts were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer.”

Your effusive support and love for your neighbor, that is the key that opens you. Don't stop now, let it wash over your whole politic, this policy is everything pragmatic and sensible and caring that you ever imagined yourself to be.

#OtD 3 Mar 1903 the Immigration Act of 1903 (aka: Anarchist Exclusion Act) was signed into US law by President Theodore Roosevelt. It barred entry to the US for anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of sex workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1020...

A little light in the darkness. Luigi Mangione avoids federal death penalty after prosecutors decline appeal share.google/nzgoIT2cZctb...

is it still a civil war if the two sides don't realize they're fighting each other?

Two women face life-imprisonment for kissing under Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, introduced in 2023, one of the harshest homophobic laws in the world.

TC Pipeline is a trans relocation org located in Colorado which is near Kansas It would be helpful if you could signal boost them. They could use funding and volunteers, and trans folks in Kansas may want to contact them if they need extraction Also: the letters may be illegal tcpipeline.org

And it doesn't take much to know what's next. Y'all know what to do. Don't wait. Help the people who need it. Do it now.

it begins

Bringing this up again. It's all well and good so donate to rent funds; but that's a short-term stopgap. If you give people a home, by sharing yours, you're saving lives. Not figuratively, not metaphorically. Savings lives.

Coming soon. youtu.be/CNiE_BMmFW8

Excuse me, but could we not make it out like it's their fault? We poisoned their ecosystem, and this is what their bodies do to survive. Crabs Are Creating Nanoplastics That Can End Up in Seafood We Eat share.google/GifOHSJePc4N...

"In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity." Because it was never about sports. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u... Bypass here: archive.ph/jUvSO

Our own version of 'the good germans.'

Watch closely as people who have given zero fucks previously, flip out about this particular revelation. Files reveal Epstein was offered chance to buy US Pentagon, FBI buildings | Military News | Al Jazeera www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

just checked and a 1tb sd card i bought for $90 in 2024 is now going for $200. jesus CHRIST

#OtD 19 Feb 1913, suffragettes in England bombed the new country house of Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd George - just one of many violent attacks of the time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9083...

@suegainz

Highly recommended. She left the US for a few years, and stayed for the health care share.google/cyN21G3u2lJB...

Okay so this guy is one of the top negotiators in the world, and went in with a plan, used tricks of voice and phrasing to tip the odds in his favor; however, often you can do this too, if you have the courage to ask. youtube.com/shorts/FqQuu...

Who would have thought? Oh right: everyone. Report suggests link between sugary drinks and anxiety www.bbc.com/news/article...

Crazy. Who could have guessed? Besides everyone, I mean. Autocracy concerns in the U.S. continue to grow : NPR share.google/jEDem58izr2N...

"Administrators and frontline medics reportedly chipped in to buy basic items including swabs, sutures, and infant feeding tubes." Botswana health crisis deepens as diamond trade drains the country’s finances www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

DNA Mutations Discovered in The Children of Chernobyl Workers : ScienceAlert share.google/JAm1afUcCuI9...