Moderna's mFLUSIVA has been fully approved in the US for people aged 50-64, with accelerated approval for ages 65/+. (That means they can get it now & as long as coming study results are okay.) It's a narrow authorization, but at least it's a start. Gift 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/h...
F.D.A. Approves Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine (Gift Article)
The agency had initially refused to even review the application but reversed course after a public outcry.
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Promising free DoorDash for all would probably be a winning 2028 presidential platform at this point. No, I don't know how you pay for it. Tax Elon Musk personally into oblivion or whatever. Maybe we can bribe SCOTUS to look the other way.
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
Lmao, just remembered that one of the reasons Olive Garden was so popular when it came to my town was that they had entirely separate *rooms* for smoking and non-smoking instead of just the little half wall divider that most restaurants had.
William Adler@williamadler78.bsky.social · 19h agoalso, like, everything else. In 1986 people smoked in restaurants. In a "smoking section" right because air stands still indoors suuuuure.
Watch it end up being easier to get GLP-1s for this than it is for being fat. For the first time in history the VA will get veterans being honest about how much they drink.
And if you have more time yourself, please watch this extremely well produced and sourced video from Not Just Bikes on the matter. Once you know about the threat they pose, you can only become radicalized against them. The EU worked fine without them since the beginning of the auto industry.
olivier_rbxl@olivier-rbxl.eurosky.social · 2d agoShort video covering the drastically increased risks posed to pedestrians by large SUVs and pickup trucks. Do not hesitate to share this video with your local, regional, and national elected representatives in a time when the EU27 is pressured by the Trump admin to recognize US 🚗 safety standards.
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
People really don't appreciate that Mt. Washington can kill you, despite seeming to be an easy hike.
WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston@wcvb5.bsky.social · 20h agoInjured Mass. hiker 'hops, crawls' toward Mt. Washington summit before rescue | Click on the image to read the full story
First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
You're paying $2,358 in federal taxes for Trump's mass deportations. @epi.org 's new calculator shows what your community could have instead www.epi.org/deportation-...
Every day I see web ads from Amazon telling me how they will sell me an e-bike that costs less than the UL-certified battery for my existing e-bike. There’s no chance Amazon does not understand the risk of battery fire here.
Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 14h agoMayor Zohran Mamdani announces that New York City is issuing cease and desist letters to more than 40 retailers selling illegal e-bikes (generally, vehicles that can go faster than local speed limits allow). The targeted retailers include Amazon and Best Buy.
as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15h agoReuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be unlikely to risk transit without paying."
the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 14h agoBREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 14h agowe should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something
I AM PLANNING THE FIRST LUNAR CANNABIS OPERATION POWERED BY MY CATS AND ME WHEN I’M NOT TOO HIGH
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 17h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
a visa overstayer from Chad who wants to be an American is more American than anyone who puts on the ICE mask
Semafor@semafor.com · 11h ago“Based on its extraordinary success in slashing overstays from bonded countries to near zero, the State Department has made the Visa Bond Program permanent,” a State Department spokesperson told Semafor.
Enjoyed this Esquire feature on the Churchwell brothers. IMO, they are among the last elegantly dressed men in the United States. Notably, neither are "fashion influencers." They are both distinguished cardiologists with great taste and a lifetime relationship with the same tailor.
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. This is what they wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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@uriebay.bsky.social @beyerstein.bsky.social @tomlevenson.bsky.social @anniegirl.bsky.social @doloresquintana.bsky.social @merlinofcanada.bsky.social @maej43.bsky.social #Measles, a completely preventable disease, continues to spread in the #USA.😠 H/T @annelaurie.bsky.social
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 6d agoThe confirmed #measles case count so far this year is now 2371, in only 7 months, compared to 2289 in all of 2025. Only 7 states haven't reported cases in 2026. Only 16 of these cases were imported, #CDC reports. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Stephen Miller: If every single person who wanted to enroll in SNAP, Medicaid or public housing was in a shared database that the government had access to...
Q: What message does it send if Trump fires a US attorney because there was not sufficient evidence to charge a crime? Trump's Acting AG Todd Blanche: He's allowed to do that because he's the president.
Sen. Wyden: It seems that every time Republicans get their hands on Social Security, life gets worse for older people. Thanks to Trump and the Big Beautiful Bill, the crisis is speeding up. It gave huge tax breaks to billionaires and corporations, and plundered Social Security by $168 billion.
Vice President Kamala Harris endorses Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan. “This was a hard-fought Democratic primary, and Michiganders were lucky to have such inspiring leaders step up in this moment.”
Preaching to the choir. Also: join the choir, if you haven’t already!
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 13h agoI wrote about how weird and bad it is to have a future AG going around claiming he'll make Dobbs "permanent in every single state"—unless he understands Dobbs to be a national abortion ban, and thinks his job is to force states to comply
Local news makes itself hard to love when it publishes the names of people arrested after abortion or pregnancy loss. Cut it the fuck out, lots of these charges are illegal and you're ruining people's lives
NEW: A dozen attorneys who prosecuted Jan. 6 rioters asked the Senate to stop confirming Trump's election-denying judicial nominees to lifetime seats, especially as they refuse to accept the legal facts of the event. None of the nearly 60 confirmed nominees have called Jan. 6 an "insurrection."
Jan. 6 prosecutors urge Senate to stop confirming Trump's election-denier nominees
“The institutional denial of truth — especially by potential federal judges — is dangerous, yet it’s become all too clear that President Trump expects his nominees to provide evasive answers about bot...
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NEW: Democratic senators warned Trump not to push states into conducting mass voter purges during a 90-day window before an election when federal law bars systematic removals. The warning lands on the first day of the "quiet period," which is meant to protect eligible voters from late removals.
Democrats warn Trump admin against promoting last-minute voter purges as ‘quiet period’ begins
The start of this year’s quiet period carries unusual stakes. The federal protection is now in effect, but the Trump administration and Republicans are still working to weaken it.
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NEW: Pro-voters asked the Texas Supreme Court to block Galveston County from moving some local candidates to new districts under a revised map drafted after the primary elections. They warned that, if not stopped, the move could be replicated across the state to undermine the will of voters.
A Texas county is quietly planning to swap voting maps between its primary and November election
If allowed to proceed, it would likely be the first time Texas voting maps are changed between the primary and general elections.
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