Tulsi Gabbard was among the loudest proponents of Russia’s biolab conspiracy theory back in 2022 — so much so that Russian state media started calling her “Russia’s girl.” In one of her last moves as DNI, she revived that conspiracy theory once more. My latest for @BylineTimes:

From #ASCO26: a Portuguese real-world study in patients with HER2-low breast cancer, adding to the growing body of literature on "ADC after ADC" with similar payloads! (Original data on the top, digitalized and re-plotted by patients on the bottom for better visualization!)

The overly sensitive Russian dictator continues to murder his critics globally. Russian artist Semyon Skrepetsky, known for his sharp criticism of the Kremlin was reportedly shot dead in the Polish city of Biała Podlaska. According to Polish media reports, the attacker approached Skrepetsky in the parking area of a residential building and opened fire at close range. A suspect has reportedly been detained near the Belarusian Embassy, while investigators are also examining the possible involvement of a taxi driver who allegedly transported the attackers. Authorities have increased security around schools and kindergartens attended by his children. Reports also indicate that Skrepetsky's Telegram channel has disappeared. Born in Russia's Altai region as Robert Kuzovkov, Skrepetsky became widely known for political cartoons depicting Putin, Kadyrov, Lukashenko and Navalny. After relocating to Poland in 2021, he remained active in anti-Kremlin demonstrations across Europe.

The Russian dictator is now so paranoid that he had this Russian artist murdered in Poland for paintings like this. It'd be a shame if we made his works more popular than ever.

What happened to the magazine "Living Marxism" is actually relevant. They accused the war correspondent Ed Vulliamy of faking this image, were sued for libel, lost, and went bankrupt. This matters because Chomsky still cites the libellous article in his Bosnian genocide denial.

1/ In occupied Sevastopol, it's currently every man and woman for themselves in the face of the ongoing fuel shortages. Even Russia's anti-drone mobile fire teams are being abused by civilians who are angry that they're skipping the queue for gasoline. ⬇️

This is one reason the Ukrainians are fighting like hell to save their country. They know that if they lose, this is the fate that awaits many of them.

1/ Iran has reportedly assessed that Donald Trump is "mentally incompetent" and has incorporated psychologists into its negotiating team to adapt the wording of the proposed agreement "as if the recipient were a [mental] patient ... whose capacity is limited." ⬇️

What an exchange

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Hey, as an Irish politician have you considered not sending 14 ships full of alumina to Russia every month?

I read the ODNI report regarding the so-called Ukrainian biolabs, and it is almost entirely a rehash of publicly available information. The new data, which btw. also contains inaccurate maps of Ukraine, supplements publicly available data. There is not a single bombshell in it. Laboratories containing highly contagious and dangerous pathogens for humans and animals are the absolute normal in most countries around the globe. In Germany we have a range of them, with different biosafety levels. The laboratories in Marburg e.g. have a BSL-4, the highest maximum-containment level, and probably the best known one. Ukraine has not a single BSL-4 lab. Outgoing DNI Gabbard singles out Ukraine, regardless, trying to argue that the threat assessment is higher due to the ongoing war, which however has been started by Russia. Knowing that Russia is infamous for randomly destroying civilian objects, including healthcare institutes, makes the warning prudent at the first glance. The problem arises with Gabbard's framing. She not only conveniently omits this fact in her emphasis and tries to built a political case which does not exist, but also carefully refrains from pushing back against Russian lies of existing "bioweapons programs for offensive capacities". It is highly unlikely that this omission has been done by accident. There is no cover up. Virtually everything has been known. The report questions this not with one syllable. So why the fuss? Well, Gabbard's "departure" as DNI - despite counter claims - is probably not the result of her own choosing. The ongoing civil war in the MAGA bubble only found another victim, initially in a quiet manner. It also reminds us of former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent, who resigned in protest of the events around Iran. Gabbard is well known for being an "anti-interventionalist". In this capacity she is more of problem for Trump than for anyone else. The war in Iran defies everything what she believes in. I still remember when the US President said: "I don't care what she (Tulsi) says." I'm absolutely certain that she never forgot those words, but she is clever enough not to antagonize the President, while still formulating her protest by trying to set things on fire before leaving the building.

今ネットで話題になっているSpaceXの27歳女性、郭璨。スターシップの女王と言われ注目されている。 SpaceXのミッションコントロールルームを支える中核エンジニア ↓ ロケットエンジンのパラメータをリアルタイムで監視、異常があれば中止指令を出す統括 ↓ 彼女が20代で開発したコードが打ち上げ制御ロジックとしてメインで使われている ↓ 年俸はたった13万ドル（約2,000万円） シリコンバレーのこの役職では低年俸 ↓ しかしSpaceXを8-15万株ほど保有しており、先日の上場で資産価値が2,400万ドル（約38億円）に 単なる個人の話ではなく、低現金高株式で恩恵を受ける分かりやすいロールモデルとなった

Suspiciously a Russian colonel Oleg Sokolenko was found dead outside his apartment in Moscow after falling out a window. He definitely was not pushed…

Elon Musk again supports Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories 😭

Hey dumbasses, “Biolabs” are research facilities, the type that track things like tick diseases. The US does fund them globally, including in Ukraine, that’s not a secret. Pretending it is a secret and pretending it’s something dangerous is a literal Russian talking point.

he turned this skit into a company called neiborhood 95 and became the most famous and richest russian speaker in entertainment. thats not dumb.

It was my pleasure to present Grand Rounds at Moffitt on Cracking Cancer Resistance via N-of-1 individualized biomarker-matched treatments

Thank god we're not a bunch of stupid monkeys.

BREAKING: The British authorities announce that the man who stabbed a 17-year-old girl in the neck in Burnley yesterday is a man born in the UK with Pakistani roots. The unprovoked attack was made from behind and the girl could have easily lost her life.