John Boylan

“If going for a walk looking like a paramilitary is wrong, I don’t want to be right.” “The germs only have to get lucky once.”

[John Boylan @jboylan]

On an ICU filing cabinet.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

This is the silent part that people wouldn't know.

Behind closed doors inside a medical conference, a large group of clinicians and researchers giving a standing ovation to another group of clinicians and researchers who found a way to increase survival in patients suffering from one of the, if not the, worst cancer in humans.

Metastatic pancreatic cancer.

They'll do this and then be on their way to see their patients the next day as if nothing happened.

And then work on something new to better what they did in this room.

That is how medical science works.
Value it and value its practitioners.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Truly morally sickening: that anyone should wish all of Ukraine to suffer the fate of Mariupol or Bucha. Russian occupation of Ukraine means random arrests, executions, concentration camps; the destruction of language and culture; mass kidnapping of children. All of these things have been documented in the occupied territories and continue to go on.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Please read exchange below between renowned historian @DalrympleWill and Sky journalist @adamparsons

It matters, not only for the point it argues - that "ethnic cleansing" is correct term for what Israel is doing in southern Lebanon - but more widely about journalistic ethics

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Onion produced this as Satire less than 3 years ago.

It is now reality.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

TRUST IN TRUMP.

"Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - It always does!" - President Donald J. Trump. 🇺🇸

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

“No one will stop him. The only people who can stop Trump are Republicans. They’re not going to stop him. They’re going to let him keep crashing and killing and destroying.” —Stuart Stevens https://t.co/lMS6Spi6U6

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“Trump doesn’t want a celebration of America; he wants a celebration of Trump…We should not be allowed to pretend that Freedom 250 is a great patriotic event.”

https://t.co/ge2PF6kGeB

[Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen]

Not sure who neds to hear this, but when russia invades a European country, levels its cities to the ground, r*pes its women & children, calls for the extermination of its people, and openly says it wants to do the same to the rest of Europe then yeah, they really are our enemy.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

The issue is not the ratio of people, it’s Hegseth, inserting himself into the process and overruling promotion boards - including an attempt to promote someone the services passed over “several times”
Trumpism is the revenge of the third string.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Iran beat Trump in a war he started

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Trump was handed the opportunity to preside over a feel-good moment of national unity on July 4, 2026. All he had to do was for once in his life, not act like an egomaniacal lunatic. Instead, he's made a complete fiasco of the nation's 250th birthday. My latest https://t.co/77WQanV3kI

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Only the best!

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

This is a fun story, but note that Barack Obama and Joe Biden both also had to deal with Israel’s desire to get a war with Iran going and managed to actually avoid this situation rather than just yelling on the phone.

[Rod Wong, MD @docrodwong]

a standing ovation for daraxonrasib at asco. over 40k oncologists, entrepreneurs, investors, and patient advocates together celebrating revmed's breakthru in the fight against pancreatic cancer. u never forget these moments. it's what innovation is all about.

[Palestina En Español 🎒 @PalestinaVence]

El General Yakovleff (ex alto mando francés) rompió el silencio con una crítica dura y directa.

“Hay que dejar de decir que Israel se defiende. Israel no se defiende
.
Israel masacra y tortura a Líbano, y lo estamos dejando hacer. Trump está de acuerdo.
Me repugna, me da asco.”Además, denunció el concepto israelí de “alto el fuego unilateral”:

“El alto el fuego solo aplica para el lado de enfrente.
En un año: 0 muertos israelíes en Israel y 2.500 muertos en Líbano. ¿Quién es el agresor?”

Este testimonio de un militar experimentado es muy fuerte porque viene de alguien que no forma parte del activismo pro-palestino, sino de un análisis militar y ético.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Allow me to be the first to congratulate the MAGA morons, who spent years howling about the $1.7B that Obama returned to Iran.

Your 4D chess master is handing Iran $300B, to open the Strait of Hormuz, that Obama kept open for free.

Brilliant!

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

As a continuation of interesting salvos against the primacy of philology in the Classics, here's Hugh Trevor-Roper's infamous attack, delivered as President of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Wilamowitz and Housman come in for especial criticism. Will post all later.

[Martin Davies 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 @martindvz]

Brexit explained by someone who isn’t a liar and was there and who knows:

[Привид “Ghost” Слава Україні 🇺🇦🇺🇦 🌻 🌻🤍🥷🏼✙ @_hawkeyed]

@SwedishPM @not_kavun 💙💛 Gripen

[Ulf Kristersson @SwedishPM]

You can do a lot with Gripen fighter jets.

But they’re built for one thing.

Good luck, Ukraine.