So yesterday in the afternoon open thread, donnah was trying to get a link to her project to work. I was on my way out the door, but said I’d post if for her later. It’s the coolest hook rug with a great story. I wanted to celebrate Christopher Robin and his love for Pooh …
Get up, get into it, get involved
Running for office is probably the single best thing anyone can do to effect change. If any of you runs for office and wants me to run a campaign video and do a fundraiser, let me know. Balloon Juice reader Gary Trauner just announced that he’s running for Senate in Wyoming. Here’s his campaign video. …
The President Presents the New National Security Strategy
The President will be giving an address at 2:00 PM EST to introduce his administration’s first/new National Security Strategy. You can find the document here. If you want to see the previous one to compare them, prepared by the Obama Administration and released in early 2015, you can find that document here. The new National …
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Monday Afternoon Spoiler Alert (Open Thread)
Whoa if true: I gotta say, Rey being Jar Jar Binks's daughter was a fucking curveball. Didn't see that shit coming. #TheLastJedi — Chip Reiderson (@ChipReiderson) December 16, 2017 I’ve noticed a stealth phenomenon that may just exist in my imagination: You know how Trump keeps implying that he made it legal to say “Merry …
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“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
It’s a virtual certainty that the GOP will ramrod the “Pass-Through Entities Enrichment and Donor Relief Act” this week, giving the Scheißegibbon a much-needed “win” by leveraging the U.S. tax code to widen the already Gilded Age-scale wealth inequality gap. But today is still a good time to call your senators: (202) 224-3121 Why bother? …
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CAR-T therapies and network games
CAR-T cancer therapies look to be super-promising. They also look to be super expensive. They also are tough to administer with significant credentialling and training needed to safely use the therapies. Yescarta is a CAR-T therapy for non-Hodgkins Lymphona which promises intriguing results and has a significant caveat: In the single-arm ZUMA-1 study, Yescarta demonstrated …
So Trump is Totally Going to Fire Mueller
This sort of seals the deal: President Trump on Sunday sought to douse speculation that he may fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III amid an intensifying campaign by Trump allies to attack the wide-ranging Russia investigation as improper and politically motivated. Returning to the White House from Camp David, Trump was asked Sunday whether …
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