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Shawn Connery
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Drug development in real life. PhD, Immunology.

International relations hobbyist.
Pinned
The world would be so much better if more people had a concept of *Enough*

Like, you're rich - congratulations, live on a beach somewhere

You don't need to bless the world with your half-baked political philosophy
This is from Nov. 2025 - FFS, America
US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Reposted by Shawn Connery
Instead of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist speaking, Cynthia Nevison, a climate researcher at the University of Colorado, presented data on trends in disease prevalence.
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This article is an exercise in cowardly reporting - he said, she said, no clarity at all on what's right

An Explosion, Then Survivors: Military Officers Show Lawmakers Video of Sept. 2 Boat Attack www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
An Explosion, Then Survivors: Military Officers Show Lawmakers Video of Sept. 2 Boat Attack
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Nationwide, the government has arrested about 2,600 minors

ICE Separates Boy, 6, From Father During Effort to Deport Them to China www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/n...
ICE Separates Boy, 6, From Father During Effort to Deport Them to China
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
www.wsj.com/health/for-f...
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Reposted by Shawn Connery
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 order, has put on hold a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Yep. Murder.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Reposted by Shawn Connery
The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.

Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
That's the entire plan - setting up the US public health system for lawsuits
The agenda for Friday, when the committee is scheduled to take up broader issues about the childhood vaccine schedule, lists as a speaker Aaron Siri, a lawyer who for years joined with Mr. Kennedy in court battles over vaccines.
December 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If only there was someone who could do something
But Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana and a gastroenterologist, noted on Thursday in a social media post that Mr. Siri was not an expert on childhood vaccines. “Aaron Siri is a trial attorney who makes his living suing vaccine manufacturers,” Mr. Cassidy wrote.
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Instead of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist speaking, Cynthia Nevison, a climate researcher at the University of Colorado, presented data on trends in disease prevalence.
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Clowns

Vaccine Advisory Panel Again Postpones Vote on Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/h...
Vaccine Advisory Panel Again Postpones Vote on Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
How Israel’s Settlement Surge in the West Bank Is Displacing Palestinians www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/w...
How Israel’s Settlement Surge in the West Bank Is Displacing Palestinians
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Majority of GOP: racist views no deal-breaker
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A party of conspiracy theorists
December 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What a clusterfuck

As Vote Nears on Hepatitis Shot, Criticism About Quality of Data Presented to Panel www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/h...
As Vote Nears on Hepatitis Shot, Criticism About Quality of Data Presented to Panel
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reposted by Shawn Connery
The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process.

A faction of the far right has been building this case for years.

(Published May)
The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the f...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If you're not familiar, in that environment this is akin to nominating a flat earther to lead NASA.
CDER is arguably FDA's most important division for new drugs. They just named an unqualified absolute crank to head it up.
Holy shit

Covid Denier Tracy Beth Høeg Named as FDA’s Acting CDER Chief
www.biospace.com/fda/covid-co...
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
CDER is arguably FDA's most important division for new drugs. They just named an unqualified absolute crank to head it up.
December 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Holy shit

Covid Denier Tracy Beth Høeg Named as FDA’s Acting CDER Chief
www.biospace.com/fda/covid-co...
COVID Contrarian Tracy Beth Høeg Named as FDA’s Acting CDER Chief
Høeg is the fifth person to lead the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research this year.
www.biospace.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM