The good news: We have a breakthrough cure for sickle-cell disease, using CRISPR and gene-editing technology.
The bad news: It’s owned by a private company that will charge $2.2M for a course of treatment.
Pharmaceutical research should be publicly-funded, and its results should go directly into public domain, where private providers can compete on price for manufacture and distribution. For a fraction of the money we spend on missiles and remote military bases, we can save so many lives instead.
“FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR”
Sources: NBC demanded Trump's campaign remove a video with audio deceptively edited to seem like it was from an NBC reporter after the third presidential debate (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2023/nbc-news-demands-trump-campaign-take-down-fake-clip-of-reporter
http://mediagazer.com/231210/p9#a231210p9
Weaponization of law enforcement, you say?
"David Weiss wasn’t going to charge Hunter with a felony on the tax charges. Then Donald Trump got involved, and Weiss and his team started getting intimidating messages, and he decided he would."
SMH, "Heritage and Orban love them some Putin — he’s a white strongman defending 'traditional values' like jailing journalists and LGBTQ people. They love that. They only wish Trump could be such an authoritarian monster."
https://digbysblog.net/2023/12/10/heritage-goes-full-putin/
Alex Jones owes $1.5 Billion
He has yet to pay a dime
One of his victims, Erica Lafferty, has to crowdfund her lymphoma treatments
Yet he has a yearly spending budget of over $1 Million
And multiple month-long trips to Hawaii yearly
And now Alex Jones is free to spread his lies on Nazi dumpster-fire X/Twitter as he has been reinstated…
On the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting.
Here are the 19 states where my team is litigating voting and election cases: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, KS, MI, MT, LA, NV, NY, NC, OH, PA, TX, WA, WI.
"When a historian wrote an essay the other day warning that the election of former President Donald Trump next year could lead to dictatorship, one of Mr. Trump’s allies quickly responded by calling for the historian to be sent to prison."
https://politicalwire.com/2023/12/10/talk-of-a-trump-dictatorship-charges-the-campaign/
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