Today, the FDA approved Rasonque (daraxonrasib), a RAS inhibitor, for treatment of the most common form of pancreatic cancer. Congratulations & thanks to all the scientists, physicians, & patients who dedicated themselves to this moment. This is just the beginning! 💜 www.fda.gov/news-events/...

FDA Approves First in Class Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Rasonque (daraxonrasib), a RAS inhibitor for the most common form of pancreatic cancer—delivering a new treatment option to patients with advanced ...

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I know this is old & played, but how do they get away with selling bullshit wellness products with pitches that say things like “slows aging at the cellular level.” When nobody regulates this stuff, & there are no standards & the public eats it up, real, evidence-based science is hurt.

It’s so refreshing to see a senator who knows how to ask questions. Too often, witnesses deflect and the senator moves on. Ossoff does what a good trial lawyer does—persists until he gets an answer or a refusal to answer. Both responses can be deeply revealing.

Steven Beschloss@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · last mo.

Sen. Ossoff exposed in repeated, unrelenting questioning the buffoonery and lies of Pete Hegseth and his bloated, false hyperbole.

Trump’s science adviser told lawmakers yesterday that the administration intended to drastically overhaul the country’s approach to scientific research by shifting research funding away from universities & toward individual researchers and private companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

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New White House plan for science and technology released yesterday www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202... 1/9

OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios

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Sup Ct justices sometimes act as though they exist outside & above the Constitution, but ”That’s not true. They’re public servants, they’re part of our constitutional system, they’re part of checks and balances.” A roadmap for Supreme Court Term Limits⬇️ majorquestions.substack.com/p/want-supre...

Want Supreme Court Term Limits? Here’s How to Do It

The Brennan Center has laid out a compelling roadmap for Congress to follow.

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How 2 explain Team USA’s sluggish play? The asshole-in-chief threw his weight around 2 bend the rules, & ended up with a dispirited team that got the message loud & clear that their president felt they needed special intervention. He ruins everything he touches. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s World Cup intervention has ruined the game | Robert Reich

We try to teach our children to follow the rules. Now an American president has chosen the opposite tack

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Last month, the CDC held a seminar focused on measuring vaccine effectiveness. Ben Lopman, a professor of epidemiology & global health, argues that this is part of a wider scheme by Trump admin leadership to manufacture a scientific debate where there isn't one.⬇️ www.statnews.com/2026/07/02/m...

CDC leadership continues to try manufacture a scientific debate on vaccines where none exists

CDC leadership continues to try manufacture a scientific debate on vaccines where none exists, writes Ben Lopman.

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I grew up idolizing Chris Evert’s astonishing concentration & baseline passing shots. (I sucked, but my Mum called me ‘little Chrissie’). Now I get to admire Chris’s tenacity in fighting ovary cancer, and the attention she brings to BRCA mutations & the importance of genetic testing. Go Chris!

SFDB@sfdb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"I have always believed in being open and honest about my health journey. This past weekend, after undergoing CT and PET scans, I learned that my ovarian cancer has returned." Good thoughts for Chris Evert...

Dr Ralph Steinman had PDAC — & won a Nobel prize posthumously — just as J was diagnosed with pancreas cancer. We became avid readers of anything we could find about the promise of immunotherapy. The incredible story of the medical researcher who treated himself ⬇️ www.rockefeller.edu/news/1816-no...

Via pancan.org A Virtual Event - KRAS & PANCREATIC CANCER: A NEW ERA OF TREATMENT. Tomorrow! Thursday, June 25, 2026 | 11 a.m. PT | 2 p.m. ET. Register below ⬇️ pancan.org/facing-pancr...

KRAS and Pancreatic Cancer: Entering a New Era of Treatment - Thursday, 6/25

Join PanCAN on Thursday, June 25, at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET, for a webinar focused on KRAS and pancreatic cancer. Our panel of special guests will talk about what KRAS is and why it’s important, the l...

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My kind of CONNECTIONS, quickly solved. Strictly word or symbol meanings, plus a little fun problem solving — pop culture knowledge not required! Connections Puzzle #1107 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

They did it!! 🧡🔵🟠🔵🟠💙 No better illustration of tRump’s uncanny knack for screwing up everything he touches than the Knicks’ only loss in the 4-1 NBA Finals occurring when he upends & offends our entire town by attending game 3. They did it!! 💙🟠🔵🟠🔵🧡

Infuriating. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/w...

Hospitals See Diseases Resurge as Vaccinations Decline

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A helluva lot nicer than the Tang-colored octogenarian who wants to put his own scowling visage on American banknotes.

Oceana UK@oceanauk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

British marine life is front & centre in the Bank of England’s shortlist for the next series of banknotes! The public can vote now on whether animals like dolphins, puffins or grey seals will feature on future notes 🐬🦭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Vote now! www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

Via Lustgarten.org, a webinar All about Daraxonrasib, a first-of-its-kind RAS-targeting therapy that demonstrated a near doubling of survival for patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer. JUNE 17 12:00 PM EDT. Register here! ⬇️ events.zoom.us/ev/AkDCv123Y...

A Deeper Dive into Our Understanding of Daraxonrasib

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Via pancan.org, a virtual event. KRAS AND PANCREATIC CANCER: A New Era Of Treatment Thursday, June 25, 2026 | 11 a.m. PT |2 p.m. ET Register here! pancan.org/facing-pancr...

KRAS and Pancreatic Cancer: Entering a New Era of Treatment - Thursday, 6/25

Join PanCAN on Thursday, June 25, at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET, for a webinar focused on KRAS and pancreatic cancer. Our panel of special guests will talk about what KRAS is and why it’s important, the l...

pancan.org

How is it that we are not TERRIFIED by a mad POTUS ranting in real time in the middle of the night & his finger on the nuclear codes? He is berserk, he is dangerous, & he is showing us his mental illness day & night. Dispirited some hosts at MSNOW play him 4 laughs as they share his maniacal posts.

I’m sure Jack Schlossberg is a perfectly nice person, & he should take some of that quirky energy & put it to good use. But many of us are over the Kennedy coronation thing….as his mother Caroline learned during her short quest to be appointed to HRC’s senate seat. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/o...

Opinion | He’s Entitled and Nepotistic. This Is Not What Democrats Need.

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- Political Appointees Take Control of Grant Awards (§200.205) - DEI, Gender Research, and Related Topics Banned as Grant Conditions (§200.300) - Peer Review Is No Longer Binding (§200.205(d)) - Applicants Can Be Denied Based on Organizational “Affiliations” (§200.206) 2/x

Via NPR.org The tRump administration is finding new ways to punish science. Money approved by Congress is not reaching scientists at the rate it should be, & a lack of transparency at the NIH is compromising the integrity and reliability of research. www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...

Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science

Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.

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Hard to reconcile the comments of Letai & Kennedy (X screenshot) with the reality of pediatric cancer funding as described in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/o...

RFK may have gone underground with it, but he's continuing to work aggressively to turn HHS against vaccines. Don't let the relative public silence fool you. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/h...

Kennedy Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence

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Today, thousands of Nat Academies Science, Engineering, & Medicine members have signed & submitted an Open Letter to Congress demanding Trump restore the 22 National Science Board members he illegally fired on April 24th. Support by adding your name here ⬇️ www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter...

NASEM Open Letter to Congress demanding the restoration of the NSB — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Support NASEM's open letter to Congress by signing your endorsement now!

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Via lustgarten.org Your Mother’s Day gift in support of pancreas cancer research will be doubled today! PDAC has a 5-yr survival rate of just 13%. Lustgarten drives research in 3 priority areas: early detection, personalized medicine, & therapeutics development. Donate ⬇️ lustgarten.org/mothersday/

Mother's Day Challenge

Join our Mother’s Day Matching Gift Challenge in support of the innovations that will one day transform pancreatic cancer into a curable disease.

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Profiteering, grift, corruption, graft. The tRump family has used the presidency to steal billions: crypto deals, government contracts, foreign influence & payments, upgrades to tRump properties, & pay to play. Is tracking this all we are doing about it?! oversightdemocrats.house.gov/trump-family...

Trump Family Digital Grift Wealth Tracker | The U.S. House Committee on Oversight

The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Democrat Oversight Committee

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Cancer cachexia a baffling aspect of J’s PDAC history. Post Whipple, he regained nearly all weight & we worked hard 2 maintain. For 6 yrs, success; last 2 yrs not. Scans continued 2 show stable disease whilst continuing chemo/parp inhibitor….yet profound weight loss www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Anatomical dynamics define cancer cachexia subtypes and identify systemic inflammation as a marker of lethal wasting

Cancer cachexia is a wasting syndrome that remodels the anatomy of the patient. How this remodeling unfolds across tissues, whether it defines distinct disease states, and how these states relate to u...

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Immigration changes R driving foreign researchers to leave the U.S. - or not come at all. “International scholars will stay home," said Matthew Alexander, prof of pediatric neurology & genetics at the U of Alabama. "They'll stay in Europe and they'll stay in Asia." www.statnews.com/2026/05/04/t...

Immigration changes are driving foreign researchers to leave the U.S. — or not come to begin with

Labs are seeing fewer applications from international students and researchers, and some doctoral students are considering leaving early.

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Watching this dummy Pete Hegseth reminds me of the homicide detective character in Monk — Lt Disher — who inanely insists on giving names to his detecting endeavors (“We’ll call this ‘The Lipstick Killer’ Case”) while others are processing the crime scene.

#11DayPowerPlay raises $ (>$11M since 2017) for cancer causes in WNY. 11DPP has >2,300 pairs of skates hitting the ice in 3-hr shifts in an 11-day hockey game! My bsky buddy‘s sons are participating⬇️ communityshift.11daypowerplay.com/AlexSmiraglia communityshift.11daypowerplay.com/ChristianSmi...

Annina@absmiraglia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are 2 months away from the event! Thank you SO MUCH to those who have donated (@purplepurpose) and for those who haven’t yet, there’s still plenty of time! #11DPP #hockeybeatscancer