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Truth Social’s new subscription service is unprecedented—and the existing laws may not have caught up to it yet, @willgottsegen.com reports in The Atlantic Daily:
Trump Tests the Definition of Insider Trading
A new Truth Social subscription service is another way for the president to profit from his office.
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James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."
Nice piece from our neighbors up north on responsible #AI in #health care, research, and education. mededu.jmir.org/2026/1/e91626 #ELSI #Governance
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a statement from Fauci's lawyers says Rand Paul has "an intense & seemingly pathological course of retribution, revenge, & obsession with Dr. Fauci ... The accusations that Chairman Paul continues to propagate are false and disgraceful, and we will examine all options to hold him accountable."
A lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:
Public Health Needs MAHA
The field must swallow its pride and admit where the insurgent movement is right.
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This is actually on the CDC site as of July 22. Just shameful anti-science nonsense. URL: buff.ly/8BCFg7T
This is Nazi Germany shit. Fuck you Todd Blanche.
I completely understand 1930-40s Germany now.
How the fuck do we have $300 billion to rebuild Iran after we spent $80 billion bombing it, when we don’t “have the money” for pediatric cancer research?
Amazing news! Cervical cancer deaths in younger women have plummeted in England following the rollout of the HPV vaccine, according to new research, published today in The Lancet. Read more: cruk.ink/4ozraO5
I have two roku's, one each for my 2 old tv's. Guess I'll have to use another brand for my streaming in future. Because there's no way I'll willingly give my business to anything Fox. apnews.com/article/fox-...
Fox to buy streaming pioneer Roku in a $22 billion deal
Fox Corp. is buying streaming platform Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion.
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If you're interested in the hot (yet complex) field of cancer immunotherapies with >2,000 approved or in the works, I've done a rundown and future outlook erictopol.substack.com/p/the-remark...
Watch Stephen Colbert's show and then never watch CBS again. Make em feel it.
“Please enjoy Colbert’s final shows,” John Oliver told viewers at the end of Sunday's 'Last Week Tonight.' “He’s the f*cking best. Good night, and good luck, motherf*ckers!” Full story: latenighter.com/news/john-ol...
Trump just put him in charge of the FDA. He has no medical background at all. But he does turkey hunt with Don Junior so ok. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Taps Don Jr.'s 38-Year-Old Turkey-Hunting Pal to Lead FDA
Kyle Diamantas, a hunting buddy of Donald Trump Jr., has been tapped to lead the Food and Drug Administration on an acting basis.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has temporarily restored mail-order access to the abortion drug mifepristone, after a federal appeals court curtailed access to the drug.
Supreme Court restores abortion pill access — for now
Justice Samuel Alito froze an appeals court ruling that limited access to the drug.
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Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/
Patients with CVD who take calcium supplements are not only at risk for harming their heart but may also trigger recurrent disease, based on a new study. Men may be at greater risk if they take calcium supplements without accompanying it with vitamin D supplementation. www.tctmd.com/news/cvd-pat...
For CVD Patients, Calcium Supplements May Spur Recurrent Events
In line with earlier studies of the general population, the findings should encourage a thoughtful approach to calcium, experts say.
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Former tobacco executive joins CDC senior leadership, raising concerns over industry influence www.statnews.com/2026/04/22/n... via @statnews.com
Former tobacco executive joins CDC senior leadership, raising concerns over industry influence
Naming a former Imperial Brands executive for a CDC job is the latest example, advocates say, of tobacco industry influence in Trump administration.
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DEATH MERCHANT JOINS CDC Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. It kills 1,300 Americans every day and 480,000 each year. (He was also a lobbyist for the fossil fuel industry which causes hundreds of thousands of deaths annually through air pollution)
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3mo agoFormer tobacco industry executive Stephen Sayle has been appointed to a senior leadership role at the CDC. Sayle was a lobbyist for Chevron before working for Big Tobacco.
Looking for a route into clinical safety and transformation? www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
If you’re from pharmacy with EPS experience across community and or primary care settings, and you’re curious about what digital transformation actually looks like from the inside, I might have… | Darren Powell
If you’re from pharmacy with EPS experience across community and or primary care settings, and you’re curious about what digital transformation actually looks like from the inside, I might have something...
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"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power." {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
