michelle slabodkin

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

Why this is HUGE:

· Could work for breast, lung, colon, pancreatic, and more
· Might stop recurrence
· Could turn "cold" tumors (invisible to the immune system) into "hot" ones that drugs can destroy

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

In lab tests, they paired it with existing immunotherapy drugs.

The result?

Stubborn tumors in mice including ones that had already resisted other treatments shrank significantly.

The immune system remembered the attack and kept fighting.

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

It’s an mRNA vaccine like COVID shots but instead of targeting a spike protein, it targets what makes cancer cancer: the chaos inside tumor cells.

It teaches your T-cells to hunt down and destroy malignant cells across the board.

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

The old approach: target ONE specific cancer marker. If the tumor mutates? Vaccine stops working.

The NEW approach (from University of Florida): train your immune system to recognize cancer like it recognizes a virus broadly, flexibly, and aggressively.

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists have created a single vaccine that could fight ANY cancer.

Not one type. Not a few.

ANY cancer.

And it just shrank tumors that were previously untreatable.

Here’s how this changes everything 🧵

[Dr. Vin Gupta @VinGuptaMD]

This country has given me more than I could ever repay: opportunity, purpose, and the privilege of serving others.

The American experiment has always been an act of optimism. May we prove worthy of it.

Happy (and safest) Independence Day to you and yours!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump and his administration have targeted at least 470 people, organizations and institutions for retribution since he took office, according to a @Reuters tally – an average of more than one a day. https://t.co/1vOIFEN3v1

[michelle slabodkin @minimichmouse]

@Tired_of_GOP_BS @PeteButtigieg @realDonaldTrump Maybe we’ll just keeping adding to the very very long list of his “illegal activities”. Then… oh forget it. 🙄😡

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

The court has spoken: Trump's attempt to get political revenge by shutting down the Hudson Tunnel project wasn't just illegal, but "flagrantly" unlawful.

This ruling is good news for the thousands of workers building the project and the hundreds of thousands of commuters who will depend on it - but these unlawful antics never should have happened in the first place.

[Bogan demographic @b_demographic]

@MikeLevin @JoJoFromJerz

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[michelle slabodkin @minimichmouse]

@0703deltavee @littleukrainian @JoJoFromJerz Exactly

[JC @JCheerio75]

@JoJoFromJerz

[SKB @sanatana_simha]

@JoJoFromJerz

[Jason @MisterZymurgy]

@krassenstein

[Father Guido Sarducci @thegoodfatherGS]

@krassenstein 👇🏻🥴👇🏻

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

@krassenstein

[Mary Kirst @marykirst]

The Smithsonian has put on a Folklife Festival celebrating the social power of music on the Mall around the 4th of July for years. They wanted to do an expanded festival this year focusing on the US for its 250th birthday, but Trump refused to give them a permit. He wanted to do his own fair instead.

This is what we could have had.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

OMFG.

THERE ARE LITERALLY 7 PEOPLE WATCHING THIS ENTERTAINMENT AT TRUMP’S GREAT AMERICAN STATE FAIR. ONE OF THEM IS ASLEEP.