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This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

The indictment of Raúl Castro makes it clear: No one over the age of 70 is safe from American justice @JordanKlepper

YES 💯💯💯 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Bruce Springsteen appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show tonight and COOKED Trump and his goons “I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke…. and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about”

我悟了！

Stone cold racism on a scale I have NEVER seen in my lifetime is happening in real time.  Louisiana Governor Landry suspended a primary election — where tens of thousands of people had ALREADY VOTED — to redistrict and eliminate Black representation. Our country is supposed to be about the expansion of liberty and freedom. We're seeing the exact opposite.

Huntington's disease in numbers: 30,000 Americans currently symptomatic 200,000+ Americans carry the gene 0 disease-modifying treatments approved 1 drug with 75% slowing of progression in trials 1 FDA reversal blocking access This is what a regulatory failure looks like in human terms. $QURE #AMT130

1863. The Central Pacific Railroad needed to cross the Sierra Nevada. White workers quit. “Too high, too cold, too dangerous.” The foreman hired 50 Chinese men from California. They worked. By 1868, 12,000 Chinese men were 90% of the workforce. Pay was $28/month. White men got $35 + board. Chinese bought their own food. Slept in tents at 8,000 feet. They called them “Celestials.” Said they were too small. Then they watched. Chinese crews laid 10 miles of track in one day — April 28, 1869. A record never broken. White crews managed 2 miles. They hung in baskets off cliffs to blast Cape Horn. Snow tunnels through Donner Summit — 15 tunnels, 1,659 feet of granite. No machines. Black powder, chisels, and nerve. Hundreds died in avalanches and explosions. Company records say “2 dead.” Graves say 1,200. In 1867 they struck. 5,000 men walked off. Demanded $40/month and 8-hour shifts in tunnels. The boss cut off food and supplies. Starved them back in 8 days. May 10, 1869. Promontory Summit. Golden Spike ceremony. The photo has zero Chinese men. They were told to step aside. They built 1,776 miles of America. Excluded from citizenship until 1943.

A very special visitor came to Ames — the designer of the Artemis II Moon mascot, “Rise.” We welcomed Lucas Ye and his family, who joined us as we watched the Artemis II crew return back to Earth after successfully flying around the Moon. His zero gravity indicator was selected from thousands of submissions from over 50 countries. His design was inspired by the iconic Earthrise moment from the Apollo 8 mission. Congratulations again to Lucas!

Today, I almost got into a wreck with my kids in the car. I try to avoid driving in the rain, but it was Easter, and I wanted to be with my family. At one point, the rain got so heavy that water pooled across the highway. Suddenly, my car started to hydroplane. I was swerving, trying to regain control. And in those seconds, I had two thoughts at the same time: Stay calm for the kids. Fix this. I was able to correct the car. I got control back. And I turned around and said, “See? Everything is fine!” - like we hadn’t just come dangerously close to something much worse. But here’s what stayed with me… My brain worked exactly the way it needed to in that moment. Fast. Focused. Responsive under pressure. And that’s what terrifies me. Because I have Huntington’s disease. And I know there will come a day when my brain won’t respond that way. When those split-second decisions - the ones that keep you alive - don’t happen fast enough. That’s not hypothetical. That’s progression. And while we wait…while treatments like AMT-130 sit in limbo…my brain doesn’t pause. It keeps changing. It keeps declining. Every delay has a cost. Today, I was lucky. Next time, luck may not be enough. To the FDA and to Congress: this is what delay looks like in real life. This is what’s at stake. We don’t have time to wait for perfect certainty while our brains deteriorate. Move with urgency. Hold the line for patients. Before it’s too late. #DelayIsDamage #DelayStealsTime #HuntingtonsDisease #ActWithUrgency #StandUpSpeakUp4HD @SenRonJohnson @SenRickScott @SenGillibrand @SenateAging @US_FDA @FDACBER @DrMakaryFDA @BeckyQuick @PrivateBeckyQ @Help4HDI @HDYOFeed

One example why a medication has been taken but doesn’t work. What other examples are there?

In her final semester at Harvard, Amanda Nguyen was raped. She did everything survivors are told to do. Then she discovered that the physical evidence collected from her own body would be destroyed in 6 months — unless she filed paperwork to stop it. And then filed it again. Every 6 months. Forever. She was 22 years old. She decided to change federal law instead. 🌟 Amanda had interned at NASA. She had big plans. The kind of future that takes years of hard work to build was finally within reach. Then everything shattered. She went to the hospital. She reported the assault to police. She endured the forensic exam. She made the careful decision to file her rape kit anonymously — worried that an open case could affect security clearance applications for her dream careers. That's when the system revealed how broken it truly was. Because she was anonymous, Massachusetts law gave her only 6 months before her rape kit — physical evidence collected from her own body — would be permanently destroyed. Not the 15 years the state allowed for pressing charges. Six months. No official process to extend it. No clear instructions. No one to guide her. She had to figure it out herself, every 6 months, forcing herself to relive the worst experience of her life just to preserve her right to eventually seek justice. She started researching rape kit laws in all 50 states. What she found was staggering. Some states kept kits for years. Others destroyed them in as little as 30 days. Some states charged survivors for the cost of their own kit collection. Others never notified survivors what happened to their evidence. No consistency. No standard. *"Justice should not depend on geography,"* she said. But it did. In November 2014, Amanda founded Rise — a nonprofit dedicated to changing that reality. Everyone who worked with Rise was a volunteer. They fundraised through crowdfunding. Their goal was rewriting federal law. She met with lawmakers across Washington. Staffers told her it wasn't a priority. Some questioned her story. She kept going. She learned that the most powerful thing she could do was stop being abstract — to walk into a room, look a senator in the eyes, and say: *this happened to me. I am sitting in front of you.* Together with Senator Jeanne Shaheen, she drafted the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act — proposing that survivors should never be charged for their rape kit collection, should receive testing results, and must be notified at least 60 days before their evidence was scheduled for destruction. In February 2016, the bill was introduced. It passed the Senate unanimously. It passed the House unanimously. Not a single vote against. On October 7, 2016, President Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act into federal law. Amanda Nguyen was 24 years old. Rise continued working state by state. To date, Rise has helped pass 33 laws across the United States, covering protections for over 84 million rape survivors. A movement started in spare time, with no budget and only volunteers, became one of the most effective civil rights campaigns of its generation. And Amanda never stopped reaching for the stars — literally. In 2024, Blue Origin announced she would be the first Vietnamese woman to fly to space. The young woman who had once feared that fighting for justice would cost her a future in space proved the two didn't have to be a choice. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Named a Time Woman of the Year. She wrote a memoir called *Saving Five.* But perhaps the most remarkable thing about Amanda Nguyen's story is not any single achievement. It is the fact that she turned the most painful moment of her life into something that made the world more just for millions of people who will never know her name. She was a college student who needed the system to work. When it didn't, she rebuilt it herself. **At 24 years old.

$qure Listen to Sarah Tabrizi explaining AMT-130 and how two patients went back to work. Please share and retweet. This was last week at the Samuel Gee lecture.

👺为什么不用AI核实一下，再发出来？川普的话你也能信？奥巴马执政的是国际法庭的判决书：几十年前伊朗向美国支付了4亿美元购买武器，但美国一直没有交货，因此美国欠伊朗4亿美元，国际法庭判了13亿美元的利息，一共17亿美元。因为伊朗被制裁，无法接收美元转帐，只能接受现金。注意：这17亿美元的现金也根本不是从美国的银行取出去的，而是分成两笔，由美国政府从美国分别转帐到荷兰和瑞典的两家银行，再由这两家银行提取现金，从欧洲用飞机运往伊朗。这是欠伊朗的钱，不是给伊朗的，如果奥巴马当年不执行国际法庭的裁决，利息会越滚越多，欠帐还钱，这不是天经地义的吗？

🚨 一台机器人刚刚取代了人工抽血，它现在已经在欧洲的医院投入使用。 这款名为 Aletta 的设备已获得 CE 认证，相当于美国的 FDA 认证，并且已经在实际患者身上投入使用。 Vitestro 公司研发的这台机器利用人工智能驱动的多普勒超声波技术绘制静脉图，以亚毫米级的精度锁定目标静脉，完成穿刺、抽血、拔针和包扎等所有操作，全程自动进行。 整个过程中，无需人工接触患者，一名训练有素的主管即可同时监控多达三台机器的运行。 98% 的体验者表示，他们愿意再次接受这项服务。 这台机器不会在意患者的静脉是否难以找到，也不会考虑肤色、体型或以往抽血是否疼痛。 它几乎可以为每位患者找到合适的静脉，而仅在美国，每年就有大约 14 亿次抽血。 目前，所有这些工作都由人工完成，而这些人工的职业名称是抽血师。 如今，美国大约有13万名抽血师，而这项技术正直接威胁着他们的工作。 美国最负盛名的医院系统之一——西北医学中心，已经与Vitestro公司签署了一项多年合作协议，旨在将这台机器引入美国各大医院。

Snake hunter in the Florida Everglades discovered two Burmese python nests right next to each other...with both combined having 120 eggs 🤯

《水果是最适合人吃的食物》图片版

😂😂😂 Absolute humiliation for Trump. A national security expert points out Trump is desperately trying to negotiate the exact same Iran nuclear deal he ripped up in 2018. The US literally went to war just to get back to the agreement they already had. Total incompetence.

Sorry Donald! It ain’t gonna happen! #WeSayNoKings