NEWS Russell Brand has been charged with one additional count of rape and one additional count of sexual assault. These charges are in addition to two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, two counts of sexual assault, and one count of oral rape.

“HEPATITAS” 🤡

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a sitting member of Congress who is worth many millions of dollars, posted a birthday message for her son—along with a link to his Venmo account, encouraging her supporters to send him money. This comes at a time of significant economic uncertainty in the United States.

Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”

A nonsensical threat to: One of the most important advances in biotechnology of our time, already being used to successfully treat refractory cancers, enable genome editing, develop vaccines for infectious diseases for which there are none, treat autoimmune diseases, and more.

It’s the year of the snake So let your heart break

These are the principles, set out by the great Judge Simon Rifkind, that once governed Paul Weiss. They should take his name out of the firm’s name out of respect for his memory.

A relentless attack on universities proceeds

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The new HHS issued an immediate stop work order on BARDA's contract with biotech company Vaxart & halted the nextgen Covid vaccine clinical trial with 10,000 enrollees that was supposed to start on Monday h/t @bijans.bsky.social www.foxnews.com/politics/mul... #medsky #biosky

Forbes is reporting that weeks after being named Chair of the House DOGE Committee, that Marjorie Taylor Greene (who is a wealthy woman), bought Tesla stock.

Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped Look at that low plane, fine, then Uh oh, overflow, population, common group But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right

Bad intent and incompetence all in one.

Price of eggs has shot up again. Yes, it’s because of the raging bird flu epidemic — for poultry we have strict rules for culling. The bovine H5N1 outbreak, already badly handled, is ongoing too. And with health agencies muzzled, we are down to fingers crossed. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/b...

Banana republic.

NEWS Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app. Full Story: https://bit.ly/40dYKNY

NEWS President-elect Trump’s advisers are said to be trying to identify a disease that could help them justify closing the U.S. border with Mexico. They have spent months trying to find the right disease to build their case. Full Story: https://bit.ly/4h9oCRP

Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla traveled with his top management team to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for an off-site meeting, "according to flight records and two people familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/ad6a...

Suppression of the inflammation that occurs with aging ("inflammaging") by blocking thrombospondin-1 (Thbs1), prevented age-related blood stem cell defects and expanded lifespan in the mouse model (KO-knockout) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

JUST IN: Tesla Cybertruck explodes at the entrance to Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas

Outstanding WSJ reporting on United Healthcare's massively outlier RAF scoring in MA - driven by its owned and affiliated doctor practices. The year 1 "RAF lift" is crazy for United beneficiaries.

The GLP-1 family of drugs have anti-inflammatory effects independent of weight loss. 2 new studies shed light on the mechanisms —brain-gut-GLP axis blocks inflammation induced by TLRs (toll-like receptor) www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

CDC says H5N1 bird flu sample shows mutations that may help the virus bind to cells in the upper airways of people www.statnews.com/2024/12/26/c...

That is a lot of $$ for sex.

It's really unfortunate that Covid trends do not act like the Flu or RSV (at least yet). The difference between peak and trough: 🔸Flu: 200x 🔸RSV: 400x 🔸Covid: 9x And Covid only stays at those reduced levels for weeks, not most of the year. Always around.

The official DOGE account, which has a grey checkmark reserved for elected officials and government entities, is tweeting out misinfo/disinfo/lies. The raise takes members to $180,600. The football stadium is about transferring admin of the site to DC from fed government. No fed funds used.

Congress nears deal to rein in PBMs after years of debate www.statnews.com/2024/12/16/p... The policies in the package would put guardrails around how PBMs can operate.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

Preemptive capitulation.

Overlap between “you de-banked my startup” / “Biden wants AI to be owned by the government - they said so in a meeting” and drones truthers.

An absolute legend of a man died at age 101. Read this obituary of Victor Brombert - Literature professor but also a secret US spy during WWII. He was previously a refugee during the Nazi blight. Was lucky to have had him as a professor in college. RIP.

Our blood tests are interpreted by average reference values. That's missing a lot of rich information! Each person has their own tightly regulated setpoints. One healthy person's complete blood count setpoint can be differentiated from 98% of other healthy adults. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: ".. It’s a dreadful sign of the times that Mr. Mangione is being celebrated in too many places as a worthy avenger instead of an (allegedly) deranged killer. But that is how our culture has degraded .." $UNH @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/luig...

Hmmm

Canada Post has now been on strike for nearly a month and the sides seem no closer to a deal. https://globalnews.ca/news/10909344/canada-post-union-latest-offer-no-quick-end-to-strike/amp/

NEW @kenklippenstein.bsky.social has obtained Luigi’s manifesto and published it in full. This isn’t the fake one that was circulating online yesterday.

In a Global Test of Adult Know-How, America Comes Up Short A perfect set-up for AI taking more and more jobs The least-educated American workers are falling behind on basic skills such as reading a thermometer and planning a trip

Welker: Do you have an actual plan at this point for health care? Trump: Yes. We have concepts of a plan that will be better. Welker: Still just concepts? Do you have a fully developed plan?

Trump says RFK Jr. will investigate the discredited link between vaccines and autism: ‘Somebody has to find out’ www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

UK uncovers vast Tether laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies "A UK-led operation has uncovered a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme run out of London, Moscow and Dubai that enabled Russian spies and European drug traffickers to evade sanctions using cryptocurrency."

New: Acadia Healthcare runs the largest chain of methadone clinics, bringing in $1.3 billion since 2022. But @jsgatnyt.bsky.social and I found that its clinics are falsifying records and sometimes enrolling patients who are not addicted to opioids. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/h...

Centene cancels in-person investor’s day event in wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO killing www.statnews.com/2024/12/06/u...

Oh come on https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-12-05/raw-farm-ceo-reportedly-encouraged-to-apply-for-fda-position

Forecast of US life expectancy to 2050 vs >200 countries —"alarming trajectory of health challenges in the USA" —need to invest in "scientific innovation, health-care access, preventive health care, risk exposure reduction, and education." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

58 percent of Republican voters support eliminating the Department of Education.

I know there's so much news to track at the moment, but let me add some important science to the list: "An unknown disease killed 143 people in a south-west province of Democratic Republic of the Congo in November." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

NBA superstar Kyrie Irving allegedly stiffs therapist for $400,000 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

An unknown disease killed 143 people in Democratic Republic of the Congo's southwestern province in November, local authorities told Reuters. Infected people had flu-like symptoms, including high fever and severe headaches, officials said reut.rs/3CTrWlt

BREAKING: Biden pardons Hunter