Hand a caveman a railgun and he won't study physics. He'll blast his rival tribe and brag his god's stronger. That's AI today. Geniuses build god tier tools while ancient grudges get supercharged. Cavemen with lasers. Collision incoming.

In 2022 Jen Psaki was asked about claims that the US were operating biolabs in Ukraine. She denied the existence of "bioweapons" programs and then called the whole thing Russian disinformation. The White House was knowing and deliberately lying to the World. She blamed Russia.

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/…

The revelations six years later are pouring out so quickly that it is impossible to keep up much less mentally process all this: * The Director of National Intelligence has documented 120 US-funded/owned biolabs in 30 countries many of which are manufacturing and manipulating infectious diseases. * Senator Rand Paul's committee has released the receipts concerning US funding/backing of the manufactured SARS-CoV-2 virus/vaccine as part of this program. * Senator Johnson has produced definitive evidence that US public health agencies knew of the grave dangers of the shot to everyone but said nothing. * Many officials are privately admitting/proving that the whole point of lockdowns was to preserve population immunity for the shot and block other avenues toward wellness. * Hardly any of this makes the national news and one wonders if the public mind has any awareness at all.

Meet in dysfunction. Depart in function.

The Last Two Cents: I’d been in a bad space for a long time, working the program and praying. But I felt adrift, didn’t feel I was being guided, despite having prayed for guidance repeatedly. So one night, I prayed instead for knowledge that I was being guided. The next morning was a Saturday. I got up and went out. I had three stops to make in Ventura: the post office, the stationery store, and lunch. The post office had already been open for an hour when I got there. The counter was closed, but I only needed to check my PO box. As I walked in, I saw two pennies sitting on the table to my right. To me, found pennies are pennies from heaven, tokens of God’s care. I picked up the two cents and put them in my pocket, noting that probably dozens of people had walked right past them this morning, so their continued presence there was a bit unusual. Was this an answer to my prayer? Possibly, but possibly not. At the stationery store, I walked in and promptly found another penny on the floor. I knew this lone coin could still be random chance. If I’d found two, I’d have attached a lot more importance to them. I did look around for another nearby, but no luck. I shopped for what I needed, didn’t find it, and started out of the store. There, on the floor where I’d found the first penny was another. I was sure this one had not been there as I came in. I picked it up and thought, “Okay, if I find two pennies at my next stop, then the answer is that I am definitely being guided.” I went to a small fast food place called “Scoop’s” for lunch. I ordered my usual salad, sat down and ate it. It was so good, I totally forgot to look for more pennies. I didn’t remember until I literally had one foot out the door. “Well, too late now,” I thought. “I’ll have to discount being guided.” I took another step and recalled that the salad was $3.02, but the cashier had said he’d take the 2 cents out of the penny dish by the register. The other two cents were already in my pocket. And then I knew I was being guided, probably by Someone with a sense of humor.

I don’t know that he is good. SunRun is a wealth extraction scam.

Dr. El-Deiry recounts contributions to precision oncology & updates on WIN Consortium at 2026 ISOPT meeting in Shenzen, China on June 13, 2026 youtu.be/LwwSMS1NGFQ @YouTube @WIN_Consortium @Dr_R_Kurzrock @charlesbalchmd @SewantiLimaye @LiaTsimberidou @LussierY @LiangChengMD

RT @RonSFriedman:

The official narrative has gone from: -Covid was naturally occurring, and there are no biolabs in Ukraine whatsoever To: -Covid was man-made, and the US funds over 30 biolabs in Ukraine OOPS! Simple mix up! Nothing to see here! I’m sure they lied for a good reason!

The big truth that is denied. Humans need contact with animals, they need us too. We are all in it together.

Somewhere in America, a movie theater. The boy at the concession counter asked me a question about architecture, and called it butter. "You want that layered?" Layered. I looked at the popcorn. I looked at him. "Explain." "Instead of all the butter on top, I do butter, popcorn, butter, popcorn." He mimed the strata with a flat hand. He had explained this before. He would explain it again. A craftsman, patient with the public. I was not prepared. In my land, what is given is given; you do not direct the distribution of a blessing. Here, the boy stood ready to construct my popcorn in courses, like a stone wall — foundation, mortar, foundation, mortar — so that no kernel, however deep, would live unblessed. "The ones at the bottom," I said slowly, "are usually…" "Dry. Yeah. Not on my watch." NOT ON MY WATCH. The oath of a sentry, sworn over popcorn. This is who they have guarding the snacks. "Then layer it," I commanded, "as your conscience demands." He built it like a man who would be judged by it. Pour, pump, rotate. Pour, pump, rotate. Four stories. A tower of equal blessings. The film was fine. I do not remember it. What I remember is the eightieth minute, deep in the bucket, past the depth where popcorn hope usually dies — and finding the kernels there as golden as the first. The bottom of the bucket. As rich as the top. I confess I held one kernel up in the dark and simply looked at it. Butter on top blesses the surface. Butter in layers blesses the whole nation. I tipped the boy on the way out. He had already forgotten me. The best masons forget the wall, and begin the next one. Layered. Always layered. Some words you only need to learn once.

No Arab state has ever existed in history, nor exists now, where Jews have equal rights. Jews are explicitly denied equal rights in the Arab Human Rights Charter. Palestinian territories do not now, nor have they ever, even allowed Jews to live there- or even safely visit.

This paper took nine years and was, honestly, a labor of love and a fair amount of suffering. It took several labs, sustained NIH support, and a lot of people who stuck with it, a whole village! It is one of the largest cocaine self-administration studies ever done in rats. Definitely my biggest experiment (so far). Most self-administration study runs dozens of animals. We phenotyped 836, with extended access over several weeks, plus measures of escalation of intake, motivation under progressive ratio, and continued use despite footshock. A quick breakdown of the results. First, we replicate our earlier behavioral analysis, which used about half as many animals (doi.org/10.7554/eLife.90422.…): escalation of intake, motivation to seek cocaine, and compulsive-like responding are tightly correlated and cluster together. Now, with more animals we now resolve finer structure. The behaviors separate into early acquisition, late acquisition, escalation, and a motivational/compulsive factor that groups breaking point, responding during timeout, and responding during footshock. That grouping makes a lot of sense. Second, these behaviors are heritable. Phew, good ;-) SNP-based heritability came in around 7 to 16% depending on the trait. That is modest and, as expected, well below twin-study estimates, but it is real. The most heritable phenotype was a composite measure of behavior during escalation after several weeks of self-administration, and 7 of the top 10 most heritable phenotypes came from long access. That validates the importance of the long-access model. Third, we found six loci across five chromosomes tied to different addiction-like measures. One is unusually clean: a narrow region containing a family of carboxylesterase genes, the enzymes that metabolize cocaine, with a direct ortholog to the human enzyme CES1. It was associated with the time between infusions, an interval long proposed as a measure of compulsive-like intake, and the effect size (0.75 SD) is pretty large sufficient to change an individual from mild to severe. Finding a metabolic enzyme echoes human GWAS for cocaine and tobacco use disorder, which also point to pharmacokinetic enzymes for alcohol and nicotine. A nice crossspecies translational convergence on the idea that metabolism genes contributes to addiction vulnerability. This also converges with an existing therapeutic effort. For 15 years, groups have worked on engineered carboxylesterases to treat cocaine overdose and addiction, without knowing that genetic variants in that same enzyme are actually tied to cocaine vulnerability. That work has moved slowly, partly because pharma has shown little interest. Our data give the direction more reason to exist. We also picked up Trak2, which has been identified in human cocaine use disorder GWAS. Trak2 helps traffic GABA receptors in the brain, and GABA signaling is something we and others have found to be central to drug self-administration. On top of those two genes, we replicated several from human alcohol and tobacco use GWAS, including SLC10A7, PLCL1, and SATB2. Finding these parallels between human and animal data is exciting, especially now, when animal models are often dismissed as useless for understanding mental illness. They are not, and this is a clear example of why. Finally, no GWAS is much fun without new candidates. We found several genes carrying expression or splicing QTLs in relevant brain regions, including Rasd2, Gnas, Ctsz, Lsm6, Vsnl1, and Zfp831, Slc6a2, a number of them tied to dopamine/norepinephrine signaling. Thanks to @kallupi_marsida , @giodeguglielmo , and @LotCarrett in my lab for an enormous amount of behavioral work, to @AbePalmer's group @PsychiatryUcsd and first author @MontanaKayLara for the genetic analysis, and to Leah Solberg Wood @WakeForest for the HS rats. And a real thank you to our @NIDAnews program officers and the study section reviewers who backed this epic study when it was far from a sure thing 8 years ago... doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-7… @NatureComms

How does the brain turn brief experiences into long-lasting moods or habits? New preprint from the Flavell Lab at @mitbrainandcog deconstructs an aversive behavioral state in C. elegans (Roundworms-nematodes). By mapping whole-brain dynamics during repeated negative encounters, the team discovered that a global state isn’t controlled by a single master hub. Instead, it is broken down into distinct features (like speed vs. sensory priming) controlled by parallel neural integrators (ADA, AVH, and PVQ) acting on different timescales. While AVH relies on circuit-level feedback to drive sustained locomotion speed, PVQ uses cell-intrinsic persistence to prime the animal for future threats. H/T @MillerLabMIT doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.04.… #Neuroscience #Celegans #BrainConnectomics #SystemsNeuroscience #NeuralCircuits #Biophysics

False because likely after midterms. But it’s coming.

This is utterly false.

"Homo sapiens, meaning 'thinking man' or 'wise man'" - wikipedia (¿do I need 2 say it? (we gave our own species a stupid name, if we rarely do n e thinkin' y r dis far frum "wise"🍑🩸) 🖤 Ⓐ

There is one organ in the human body that has absolutely zero pain receptors. Which one is it? ​A) Heart B) Brain C) Liver D) Stomach

The correct answer is B) Brain. ​It sounds impossible, right? The very organ that processes every single pain signal in your entire body cannot actually feel pain itself. ​So if the brain has zero pain receptors, why do we get such terrible headaches? ​The pain isn't coming from your brain tissue. It comes from the structures surrounding it. The protective layers covering the brain (the meninges), your scalp, neck muscles and the complex network of blood vessels are absolutely packed with pain receptors. When these structures get inflamed, stretched or stressed, they send frantic pain signals TO the brain, which you experience as a headache. ​This unique lack of pain receptors inside the brain tissue is exactly why neurosurgeons can perform open brain surgeries while the patient is completely awake, talking or even playing a musical instrument! ​Hi, I am an Internal Medicine resident breaking down complex medical science and dropping everyday clinical pearls. FOLLOW for more!