Alison Cousin

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

We are in for a wild ride, and this is just the beginning:
'World-first' vaccine designed by artificial intelligence

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have trialled what they describe as the world’s first AI-designed vaccine component in humans.

The vaccine uses an AI-designed “super-antigen” intended to train the immune system against a broad family of coronaviruses, including existing Covid variants and animal coronaviruses that could potentially cause future pandemics.

Instead of designing a vaccine around one current virus strain, researchers fed AI genetic data from many known coronaviruses. The AI then designed an antigen meant to trigger immune protection across the whole virus family, even if the virus mutates or jumps from animals to humans.

The first human trial involved 39 people and mainly tested safety. The immune response was described as modest, but the result is still seen as promising because it shows that an AI-designed vaccine antigen can be tested in humans.

A larger study with around 200 people will now examine how well the vaccine actually trains the immune system.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No, you’re not sending “more money to Ukraine,” and you never have.

You used to send American money to American arms manufacturers so that American workers and engineers could have more contracts, jobs, salaries, and tax revenue while producing American weapons in America for Ukraine or replacing old equipment from U.S. stockpiles.

That allowed the Ukrainian military to keep saving their country, while your top-tier geopolitical enemy, a KGB dictatorship obsessed with hatred toward you, could be defeated in its war of aggression in Europe and critically weakened for decades to come -- without a single American soldier firing a single shot.

But then you decided to start pretending that night is day.

[Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

This is exactly why temporary appointments to avoid the scrutiny of a confirmation hearing are so dangerous.

You can do a lot of damage in 200 days.

And he is not stopped, he will.
https://t.co/ajWWxeoWV8

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

We welcome the U.S. House's passage of the bipartisan Ukraine Support Act.

We are grateful to members of both parties for standing with Ukraine.

Now we look to the Senate – unity in support is vital for a just and lasting peace.

@HouseDemocrats @HouseGOP

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Baby food factory in Kyiv oblast where Russia killed four workers today. That tells you all you need to know about Putin’s priorities.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Or they could stop sending their man to murder Ukrainians 🤷‍♀️

[Keith Kellogg @generalkellogg]

In Normandy, France, commemorating the 82nd Anniversary of D-Day and honoring the legacy of the 82nd Airborne Division.

Behind me stands Iron Mike, the statue I had the privilege of dedicating as Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division in 1996. What struck me then, and still strikes me today, is how young this Iron Mike looks, just like the young paratroopers who stepped into the darkness over Normandy 82 years ago. By contrast, the Iron Mike at Fort Bragg is older and weathered, a soldier who has seen combat and lived to tell the story.

It was good to join Ambassador Matt Whitaker and General Grynkewich, who were also present for the unveiling of the statue honoring Jumpin’ Joe Gavin today. Gavin was a paratrooper’s paratrooper, a combat leader whose courage, intellect, and example helped define the airborne spirit.

May we all strive to live up to his example.

Airborne. All the Way.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Have the clueless, weak and arrogant DOGE bros apologized yet?

They had no idea what they were doing. They harmed Americans. They cut vital programs that protected America.

They also were lazy and made no effort to learn about important programs and functions of government.

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed the Trump administration has walked back proposals allegedly made during the August 2025 Trump-Putin summit in Alaska.

The meeting’s details were never made public, but Moscow says Washington is retreating from its earlier positions on Ukraine.

https://t.co/qZ8cOuLgrx

[Stephen Sestanovich @SSestanovich]

The Russians harp on this what-about-Anchorage theme so much—are they the only government in the world that hasn’t discovered that Trump—how to put this?—changes his mind six times between lunch and dinner?

[James Crouch @MrJCrouch]

Listened to the incredible @cathynewman interview with Alex Browder. Not only can you not help being incredible impressed, but most strikingly Alex has that big belief that he can make things better, and that we can win. My gosh, we need more of that.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Russia Could Just Be Normal. But Here We Are.

Russia has a choice. It always has. It sits on more land than any country in history, stuffed to the permafrost with oil, gas, and minerals of every conceivable variety. Brilliant engineers. World-class mathematicians. The finest vodka ever produced by human civilization.

And what does it do with all of this? It invades its neighbors. Like a drunk uncle at Christmas.

Because here is what Russians are missing. That first evening in Rome, when the sun drops behind the rooftops and the whole city turns the color of warm honey, and you are sitting outside with something cold and local, and the air smells of coffee and something frying in olive oil, and you think: this is the whole point of being alive. Or New York in October, the light doing something extraordinary between the buildings, eating a pastrami sandwich the size of a small child, feeling genuinely optimistic about the human race. Or a rainy London pub. Nowhere to be. A pint slightly too warm. The irreplaceable comfort of being somewhere ancient and unhurried.

Russians could have all of this. Instead, the Kremlin has turned the largest country on Earth into a geopolitical pariah, weaponizing its own citizens’ futures for an empire that exists mostly in the fever dreams of one increasingly peculiar man in a very large building.

Funny how every American who visits Russia comes home convinced that Putin is misunderstood. Nobody visits France and comes back defending Macron’s right to annex Belgium. France does not do that to people.

The rest of us are just outside somewhere warm, drinks in hand, watching the sun go down, absolutely baffled.

And a little sad, if we are honest. Because some of the finest people I have ever met are Russian. Warm, funny, generous people who deserve that Roman evening and that New York October and that rainy London pub just as much as anyone. People I miss. People a lot of us miss. Who knows if it ever comes back. Who knows if the thing that was broken can be unbroken. But somewhere out there, a table has an empty chair. And the drinks are getting warm.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Kharkiv is under russian drone attack right now ‼️ air defense is active.

[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @front_ukrainian]

❗️From tomorrow in Crimea, the sale of gasoline to civilians is completely stopped, — Occupying authorities.

Previously there was a limit of 20 liters per person. They say they will try to resume sales in the coming days 🤷‍♂️

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

The closure of @USAID by 20-something DOGE bros (who probably thought "screwworm" was a hilarious joke) will haunt us for years to come.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"The root cause of this war is Russian imperialism — the belief that Vladimir Putin has the right to decide who can and cannot be a nation.
We will resist you every inch of the way.
This is the last colonial war in Europe."

- Radoslaw Sikorski
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

[American Veteran @amvetsupport]

If you are one of the few who can still see my account with “Mr Free Speech, Elon” using his algorithm to silence those of us who speak out against trump, please take a minute and let me know you can still see me

[Jake Broe @RealJakeBroe]

No NATO country has ever attacked Russia and no NATO country ever would attack Russia.

Ukraine joining NATO is the best security guarantee for Russia if Russia is feeling insecure.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

SEN. BLUMENTHAL: My trip to Ukraine showed me how desperate Putin is becoming. He is losing troops at unsustainable rate, about 30,000 a month.

He's losing territory at this point. His net losses have to be deeply troubling to him. And so out of desperation, he has launched this ferocious, bloody attack on Ukraine, literally on civilians.

When we were in Ukraine, we went into bomb shelters probably three or four times a day, sometimes at 3:40 a.m. or in the midst of forums and conferences.

Putin is targeting homes, apartments, hospitals, and schools out of desperation. But he is also having to contend with tremendous technology that Ukrainians have developed.

They're helping us, they're teaching us, but they're also using it to hit St. Petersburg oil depots deep within Russia. Tremendously impressive when you think about what it shows about Russia’s vulnerability.

And that kind of technological prowess and advances they’re showing has to be deeply troubling to Putin as well.

[chicken @chickenincrisis]

thank you @jesus