1/17. 🔪Let’s slay some protein myths once and for all! I’ve spent 10 years studying cancer and protein structure & function. The US says I have “exceptional ability” in my field & I’ve been (am!) a protein and process development scientist in biotech firms & startups. A 🧵👇🏼

You've served your country. Led through crisis. Put mission before self when it mattered most. The discipline that got you through deployment? The teamwork that built communities? That's exactly what we need in office. Ready to step up and serve again?👉 thenextmission.us

We’re proud to support this new generation of servant leaders running for Congress. Veterans like JoAnna Mendoza, Maura C. Sullivan, Rebecca Bennett, and Cait Conley are stepping up to serve in a new way, bringing courage, commitment, and character back to Washington.

As the summer heat intensifies, think of the animals enduring the high temperatures on filthy factory farms and in metal transport trucks. This pig could barely take the long, hot drive to the slaughterhouse.

Trump and Musk talked about waste in humanitarian aid--and I found it. In a warehouse in West Africa, I found millions of doses of valuable American medicines meant to prevent river blindness and other ailments. But Trump canceled distribution, so now they're just gathering

Texas just passed a law to require warning labels on foods with potentially toxic additives. Incredibly, the law excludes all meat products and additives. So bleached flour will have a warning label, but chlorinated chicken and ractopamine-fed pork will not.

Switzerland’s food labels are about to get real. Starting July 1, sausage might be labeled as: "This pig was castrated without anesthesia."

The New York Times on Netanyahu: "He pressed ahead with the war in April and July 2024, even as top generals told him that there was no further military advantage to continuing." It's over a year later, and children are still being killed every day.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

Last year was the largest one-year percentage point decline in murder ever recorded. This year is on track to do so again. In fact, nearly every category of crime is down sharply, with many at multi-decade lows or even the lowest per-capita rates ever recorded.

This is what your bacon looked like before it ended up on a plate. A baby screaming. Tail cut off. Thrown like trash. No excuse for this. Not taste. Not habit. Not tradition.

What's stunning about this hunger crisis in Gaza is that it is not unfolding in some remote part of the world, allowing leaders to feign ignorance; no, this starvation is in the headlines, on television and much discussed -- yet still the world shrugs and the US is complicit.

Sue and Mike McCloskey built a dairy empire — including the ever popular Fairlife brand — with promises of humane treatment and transparency. A slate of investigations have torn that narrative to bits. Read all about it in my new feature on Fairlife:

I don't get to write about a lot of good news, but this is a really big deal — the global fur industry has collapsed over the last decade. My rundown on the numbers and how it unfolded: vox.com/future-perfect…

This guy lives in my neighborhood and we've chatted briefly. Couldn't be nicer. When most viral social media is terrible, awesome to see someone get huge based off positive content. And then use that influence to do even more positive things like this.

Some VCs will fight to the death for your right to stare at TikTok all day, but won’t lift a finger for mRNA tech that saved millions.

Spend 18 seconds reading this pls…

Forget lab meat, we already eat lab-distorted chicken. Chicken labs have distorted the bird so much that up to 225M/year die from collapsing under their own weight. "The pain is often so intense that a chicken will die of thirst rather than walk."

My wife has Stage 4 lung cancer. She is one of the people the COVID vaccine actually helps. Thanks to the current mess at HHS, CVS is unable to get her the vaccine. nytimes.com/2025/08/28/wel…

Back in December, Musk and Trump world folks were apoplectic that people were accusing them of cutting funds for pediatric cancer when they blew up the government funding deal. 8 months later, we get headlines like this nytimes.com/2025/08/28/wel…