Mark Martino
@edsermark.bsky.social
This is insane. White House: “For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property—yet the Fake News remains in shameful denial about the Radical Left’s reign of terror.”
Do they know we have the internet?
Do they know we have the internet?
October 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is insane. White House: “For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property—yet the Fake News remains in shameful denial about the Radical Left’s reign of terror.”
Do they know we have the internet?
Do they know we have the internet?
Lived long enough to witness digital pogroms. Sad for humanity.
September 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Lived long enough to witness digital pogroms. Sad for humanity.
Didn’t see traveling to the Dark Ages for my senior years. For some strange reason, I seem to be depressed.
September 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Didn’t see traveling to the Dark Ages for my senior years. For some strange reason, I seem to be depressed.
Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else reut.rs/42wHUf1
Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else
After the fatal shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, U.S. Republicans have a warning for Americans: Mourn him respectfully or suffer the consequences.
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September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else reut.rs/42wHUf1
ACLUTX: The Texas House just voted to expand the state’s extreme abortion ban by criminalizing anyone who makes, prescribes, or transports abortion medication — even out-of-state.
Texas already has poor reproductive health care, and this will make it worse.
Texas already has poor reproductive health care, and this will make it worse.
August 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
ACLUTX: The Texas House just voted to expand the state’s extreme abortion ban by criminalizing anyone who makes, prescribes, or transports abortion medication — even out-of-state.
Texas already has poor reproductive health care, and this will make it worse.
Texas already has poor reproductive health care, and this will make it worse.
The beasts’ favorite cat food just went up 50% as tariffs kick in. FDT.
August 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The beasts’ favorite cat food just went up 50% as tariffs kick in. FDT.
Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between Trump and Putin in Anchorage.
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
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Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
www.npr.org
August 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between Trump and Putin in Anchorage.
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
38.9 percent rise in fresh and dry vegetables prices from June to July (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Largest increase since the 1940s.
Largest increase since the 1940s.
August 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
38.9 percent rise in fresh and dry vegetables prices from June to July (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Largest increase since the 1940s.
Largest increase since the 1940s.
NYTimes: The Trump administration said it would conduct a review of Smithsonian exhibitions to assess their “alignment with American ideals” giving museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”
August 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
NYTimes: The Trump administration said it would conduct a review of Smithsonian exhibitions to assess their “alignment with American ideals” giving museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”
Kroger seems to have a lot of “New Low Prices.”
Not new lower prices, mind you.
Not new lower prices, mind you.
August 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Kroger seems to have a lot of “New Low Prices.”
Not new lower prices, mind you.
Not new lower prices, mind you.
A Trump political appointee will review and decide which research projects should be funded.
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Stops Wasteful Grantmaking
ENDING GRANT ABUSE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order stopping unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from wasting taxpayer dollars
www.whitehouse.gov
August 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
A Trump political appointee will review and decide which research projects should be funded.
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
mRNA HIV Vaccine Shows Strong Early Results
A new mRNA HIV vaccine triggered robust B and T cell responses, with 80% of recipients developing Tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in early trials.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A new mRNA HIV vaccine triggered robust B and T cell responses, with 80% of recipients developing Tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in early trials.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Vaccination with mRNA-encoded membrane-anchored HIV envelope trimers elicited tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in a phase 1 clinical trial
Membrane-anchored HIV envelope trimer mRNA vaccines elicited high response rates of serum autologous tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in humans.
www.science.org
August 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
mRNA HIV Vaccine Shows Strong Early Results
A new mRNA HIV vaccine triggered robust B and T cell responses, with 80% of recipients developing Tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in early trials.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A new mRNA HIV vaccine triggered robust B and T cell responses, with 80% of recipients developing Tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in early trials.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian has removed President Trump from its impeachment exhibit at the Museum of American History. The exhibit now states that "only three presidents have faced impeachment," referring to Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton. Like it did in 2008.
August 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian has removed President Trump from its impeachment exhibit at the Museum of American History. The exhibit now states that "only three presidents have faced impeachment," referring to Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton. Like it did in 2008.
Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome are six times more at risk for the sleeping disorder. Now scientists are studying them in hopes of finding remedies beyond the CPAP machine. www.wired.com/story/eds-sl...
The Hyperflexible People Who May Help Unlock Better Sleep Apnea Treatments
Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome are six times more at risk for the sleeping disorder. Now scientists are studying them in hopes of finding remedies beyond the CPAP machine.
www.wired.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome are six times more at risk for the sleeping disorder. Now scientists are studying them in hopes of finding remedies beyond the CPAP machine. www.wired.com/story/eds-sl...
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that private citizens have no standing to sue for disability-based violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the landmark federal legislation which protects, among other things, the right to voting assistance for disabled people.
Voters can't sue for disability discrimination, court rules
The conservative Eighth Circuit restricted voting rights enforcement to state officials—even in notoriously anti-voter states.
www.motherjones.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that private citizens have no standing to sue for disability-based violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the landmark federal legislation which protects, among other things, the right to voting assistance for disabled people.
HUD plans to halt its probe into allegations that a Texas agency diverted $1B in disaster mitigation money from Houston and other communities of color hit hard by Hurricane Harvey toward more rural, white communities less damaged by the storm.
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Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under T...
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July 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
HUD plans to halt its probe into allegations that a Texas agency diverted $1B in disaster mitigation money from Houston and other communities of color hit hard by Hurricane Harvey toward more rural, white communities less damaged by the storm.
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What to know about Journavx:
•Targets a specific sodium channel
•Has a first-in-class mechanism
•Is approved for acute pain
“This is the first new compound introduced in decades that gives promise for targeting different pain pathways than what we’ve done before.”
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•Targets a specific sodium channel
•Has a first-in-class mechanism
•Is approved for acute pain
“This is the first new compound introduced in decades that gives promise for targeting different pain pathways than what we’ve done before.”
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Redirecting...
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July 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What to know about Journavx:
•Targets a specific sodium channel
•Has a first-in-class mechanism
•Is approved for acute pain
“This is the first new compound introduced in decades that gives promise for targeting different pain pathways than what we’ve done before.”
www.facebook.com/share/p/1JD3...
•Targets a specific sodium channel
•Has a first-in-class mechanism
•Is approved for acute pain
“This is the first new compound introduced in decades that gives promise for targeting different pain pathways than what we’ve done before.”
www.facebook.com/share/p/1JD3...
mRNA vaccine that may be able to fight almost any type of cancer without needing chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation. It boosts type-I interferons which help the body detect and attack cancer cells.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Sensitization of tumours to immunotherapy by boosting early type-I interferon responses enables epitope spreading | Request PDF
Request PDF | Sensitization of tumours to immunotherapy by boosting early type-I interferon responses enables epitope spreading | The success of cancer immunotherapies is predicated on the targeting o...
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July 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
mRNA vaccine that may be able to fight almost any type of cancer without needing chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation. It boosts type-I interferons which help the body detect and attack cancer cells.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
“ICE officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the US….”
Law enforcement now has access to medical records.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Law enforcement now has access to medical records.
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Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients' personal data, including addresses, to ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.
apnews.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
“ICE officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the US….”
Law enforcement now has access to medical records.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Law enforcement now has access to medical records.
apnews.com/article/immi...
“…Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
(1919, W.B. Yeats)
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
(1919, W.B. Yeats)
July 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“…Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
(1919, W.B. Yeats)
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
(1919, W.B. Yeats)