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One of the defining features of totalitarianism was how its leaders made war on experts, like the Soviet bureaucrats who boosted Lysenkoism. Dictatorial regimes *hate* experts, because experts reach conclusions based on evidence, not political expediency.

Muhlenberg County is the literal birthplace of the coal industry in Kentucky. This mining community will build upon their proud history of powering America with the first coal-to-solar project in Western Kentucky. Big news. A Bright Future. Watch this… youtu.be/qLD8SmXe3Z4

Professor says, “Important lessons the Air Force taught my father would be illegal today, 55 years later, if presented in any Mississippi school or university.” mississippitoday.org/2025/07/18/att…

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Cuts to NIH are having devastating effects, says fmr. director Francis Collins. One example: “Natalie Phelps… with stage 4 colorectal cancer, who was on a pathway towards a clinical trial of immunotherapy… Because of staff cuts, that got slowed down. By the time maybe she could

Mississippi colleges and universities could lose $32,513,961 in federal research grants and funding cuts under DOGE cuts. mississippitoday.org/2025/07/25/mis…

Are U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith and Senator Roger Wicker paying attention to how NIH, NFS, USDA, etc. funding delays and cancellations are impacting public research universities in #Mississippi? politico.com/news/2025/07/2…

Our children and grandchildren will suffer because the USA is abandoning scientific and medical research.

“Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world. The nation’s health security is at risk and is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.”

The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life. A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation. No more political violence.

States like Texas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi will be particularly hard-hit by the enhanced premium tax credit expiration — they have high Obamacare enrollment and haven’t expanded Medicaid. My Morning Joe Chart

THREAD: Some thoughts on the Ken Burns Revolutionary War documentary. It offered basically four kinds of historical approaches that sometimes melded well and sometimes didn't: 1) Traditional military history 2) "New" military history 3) Political history 4) Social history

“There is not one military oath. There are two. And the differences between them explain exactly who is responsible for refusing illegal orders, why the system was designed that way, and what it means for this moment.”

FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations by@LizSzabo Vinay Prasad claimed—but provided no evidence—that COVID-19 vaccines caused the death of 10 children cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vacc…

Vaccinated individuals had … a 25% lower risk of all cause mortality, with a similar association observed when excluding severe COVID-19 death. Sensitivity analysis revealed that vaccinated individuals consistently had a lower risk of death, regardless of the cause.

This is a great example of why the nation needs to keep a professional civil service and avoid a return to the spoils system.

My 71-year-old client sees his daughter maybe 6 times a year. They live 50 minutes apart. Not estranged. Not fighting. Just... busy. Holidays. Birthdays. The occasional Sunday dinner. "We text every day," he told me. "We're really close." I did the math in front of him. He's

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