Danielle Lescure

We finally might have a reliable treatment for pancreatic cancer after all these decades. Usually survival is 13% at year 5–but those who took the mRNA vaccine & responded to drug—almost all still alive in year 6! However, RFK Jr just cancelled billions in mRNA research funding.

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

“If verified, this would represent the largest alleged self-dealing scheme by a president in the history of the United States.”

Look at their faces. What do you see? I wanted to look them in the eye and say, on the record, that they are attempting to reconstruct this government to undo Black progress. Their targeting of @calvin4clerk is rooted in that reality, and it needed to be called out plainly. I showed up speaking for myself. No organization in Louisiana sent me. No party asked me to come. I say that to make clear much of this work is being done independently, without formal partnerships, and without the budgets, staff, or institutional backing many established organizations have. I came because what they are doing is wrong. The court reconstruction happening in New Orleans has been done in different ways already in Baton Rouge and across this state—especially in the largest, Blackest cities—to dilute Black political power. I started Civics for the People because I know many of us don’t know what is happening inside government or how these systems are used. It’s my way of teaching the game and helping our people move with knowledge. Their elections are in 2027. We can send them home to frown and chew grass much gum as they please. If you believe this work matters, support Civics for the People at the link in my bio so I can teach the people and send some on these people home. Share if you care 🦾

Europe has significantly less violent crime than the United States. Large countries like Germany, Spain, and Italy have homicide rates only a little bit higher than Japan’s. This is a bizarre lie.

Long term follow up of a phase 1 trial of an mRNA tumor vaccine shows that 7/8 patients with pancreatic cancer, who mounted an immune response to the vaccine, are still alive 6 years later. This is breathtaking data and shows the promise of mRNA vaccines. nbcnews.com/health/cancer/…

I stopped reading at this passage. Naveah Crain is dead because the state of Texas put a layer of bureaucracy between women and their healthcare providers. Period. Abortion bans kill women.

We are committing superpower suicide in real time. Trump is making China Great Again.

Facts.

'voter fraud' is just a completely made up issue. They've done audit after audit after audit and found nothing. The sole reason the GOP has made it an issue is that they want to use it to help them win elections.

Latest in @TheAtlantic . The Ukrainians are no longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and therefore how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift link. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…

It's amazing how Republicans control every branch of government and still speak of 'Washington DC' like it's someone else. Trump is currently suing the federal government and directing his flunkies to settle the case by giving him billions. That's the corruption.

In 1984, Ruth Coker Burks was 25 years old, visiting a friend at a hospital in Little Rock, when she noticed nurses drawing straws outside a patient's room. Someone had to go in. She didn't wait for the straws. She opened the door herself. What she found inside would define the next decade of her life. 🕯️** Inside was a young man reduced to bones — maybe 80 pounds, dying alone, terrified. He kept whispering one word. *"Mama."* Ruth told the nurses to call his mother. They laughed. *"Honey, we've called. He's been here six weeks. Nobody's coming."* Ruth made them give her the number. She tried one last time. The mother's answer was cold and final: her son was sinful, already dead to her, and she would not be coming. So Ruth went back into that room. She took his hand. She stayed. For 13 hours, she held the hand of a dying stranger, promising him he wouldn't leave this world alone. When he died, his family refused to claim the body. Ruth decided she would bury him herself. She owned plots in her family cemetery in Hot Springs — where her father and grandparents rested. The nearest funeral home willing to handle an AIDS death was 70 miles away. Ruth paid from her own pocket. A local potter gave her a chipped cookie jar for an urn. She used posthole diggers to dig the grave herself. She spoke kind words over the earth because no minister would come to pray over a man who died of AIDS. Ruth thought that would be the end. It was the beginning. Word traveled through the quiet networks of fear and desperation across Arkansas. *There's a woman in Hot Springs who isn't afraid. There's a woman who will sit with you. There's a woman who will make sure you're buried with dignity when your own family won't claim you.* They started arriving. Dying young men from rural hospitals across the state, abandoned by the people who were supposed to love them most. Over the next decade, Ruth Coker Burks cared for more than 1,000 people dying of AIDS. She personally buried 40 of them in Files Cemetery — digging the graves herself, with her young daughter beside her carrying a small spade, holding their own funerals because no one else would speak over these graves. Of those 1,000 people, only a handful of families didn't abandon their dying children. Ruth called parents. Begged them to come say goodbye. To claim their child's body. Most refused. *"Who knew,"* she said, *"there'd come a time when parents didn't want to bury their own children?"* But she also witnessed something else — something that stayed with her. She watched gay men care for dying partners with a devotion that shattered every stereotype. She watched a terrified community take care of its own — and take care of her. *"They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here'd come the money. That's how we bought medicine. That's how we paid rent. If it hadn't been for the drag queens, I don't know what we would have done."* By the mid-1990s, new treatments emerged. The crisis began to shift. And then, like so many heroes of the AIDS crisis, Ruth Coker Burks faded from public memory. She wrote a memoir in 2019 called *All the Young Men* because she needed people to understand what happened in Arkansas. What happened across America. What happens when fear convinces people to abandon their own children. And what happens when one person refuses to walk past a door everyone else fears. She didn't have medical training. She didn't have institutional backing. She didn't have money. She had compassion. Courage. Posthole diggers. And a family cemetery. That was enough to make sure 1,000 people didn't die believing they were worthless. The next time someone says one person can't change anything — Remember the red bag on the door. Remember the 13 hours she stayed with a stranger. Remember the 40 graves she dug with her own hands. She walked through that door in 1984. And 1,000 lives were forever changed because of it.

Reminder he’s never authored a paper, never done journal club, never taken a single biological science course post high school, never, taken a stats class, has no training in epi… But called a well-controlled study “garbage”. The audacity of his ignorance

The $40K figure has no source because there isn’t one. Undocumented parents cannot collect federal benefits. A citizen child qualifies for SNAP and Medicaid. SNAP for one child runs about $200-300 a month. Medicaid is healthcare coverage, not a check. Miller is not describing a policy problem. He is describing a number he invented to make you angry at a newborn.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…

Don't forget that "Alligator Alcatraz" is still open and still rife with abuses and inhumanity: lnk.thebulwark.com/4cQfkuF

The phones were cut on April 2, days after a federal judge ordered unmonitored legal access. Then came documented beatings, pepper spray, a knee on a neck, a broken wrist, an older man losing consciousness. Court filings. Attorney photos. On the record. The facility was ordered closed by a district court last summer. Two Trump-appointed appeals judges reopened it. An Amnesty International report published in December used the word "torture" in the title. Ossoff and Durbin sent three pages of questions to DHS about outdoor shackling in direct heat with no water. No public response. This is not fading into the background. The abuses are accelerating.

The forced birth crowd knew this would happen… they don’t care. Abortion bans mean doctors face the possibility of jail time and criminal charges for providing care to women having miscarriages. They will delay as long as possible, and those delays will kill people.

The PBS NewsHour has documented the Trump family's unprecedented conflicts of interest. Jared Kushner, a 'volunteer' with no official position, has $6 billion in assets from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar-the same governments he is negotiating with on Middle East peace. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have invested in drone companies that are now competing for Pentagon contracts in the war their father started. Forbes estimated that Eric and Don Jr., they were worth about $40, $50 million each before the 2024 election. About a year later, Eric at $400 million and Donald Trump Jr. at about $300 million. They're using war and diplomacy to enrich themselves