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How well are #Rush doing with the branding and marketing of the upcoming "Fifty Something" Tour? This week on the #RushFanCast, we speak with branding expert and #RushFanatic Andris Pone of Toronto-based Coin Branding Inc. to break it all down! Join us, #RushFamily!
December 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...

"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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"Téllez was on his way to drop his kids at school in north Portland when he was pulled out of his car by federal agents.

"The arrest drew dozens of neighbors into the streets to record the arrest and push back against immigration authorities...

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Portland leaders condemn use of pepper balls during immigration arrest
City leaders urged federal authorities to “immediately cease the use of chemical munitions” in Portland’s neighborhoods.
www.seattletimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Just so you know- Bari Weiss is in charge now...
It ain't the show you used to revere.
December 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Monday on the #RushFanCast, we've got a new episode for you! We discuss the marketing and branding of the upcoming #Rush "Fifty Something" Tour with Toronto branding expert, Andris Pone! Follow or subscribe today, and join us, #RushFamily!
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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What is the point of having a sprawling national security state if they can’t find out who did a mass shooting in broad daylight five days ago?
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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This week on the #RushFanCast, it's another #Rush covers episode! We serve up 10 different versions of the Rush classic #TomSawyer, in styles ranging from bluegrass-flavored jazz to 8-bit arcade antics. So catch the mystery, catch the drift, and listen today #RushFamily!
December 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Continued attacks on our trans youth, lead by MTG.
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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BREAKING: Four House Republicans joined Democrats to force a vote on a straight three-year extension of the enhanced Obamacare tax credits that expires Dec. 31.
Frustrated GOP moderates join Democrats to force Obamacare extension vote
Fitzpatrick said "it is House leadership themselves that have forced this outcome."
www.politico.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
December 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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New insights into how opposing proteins within the CCR4-NOT complex regulate mRNA stability could advance understanding of gene expression balance and inform future disease treatment strategies. doi.org/hbft6x
Opposing forces in cells could hold clues to treating disease
A newly revealed molecular tug-of-war may have implications for better understanding how a multitude of diseases and disorders—including cancers, neurodegenerative diseases and immune disorders—originate, as well as how to potentially treat them, according to researchers at Penn State.
phys.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy.
#BarackObama
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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I’m proud and eternally grateful to be the governor of a state where we cherish our diversity.

In joining together with our Jewish community to light the menorah tonight, Illinoisans once again have reaffirmed that the light outshines darkness.

Happy Hanukkah.
December 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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You know who's very bad for our country? This "guy."

#TrumpIsSick #TrumpIsVile #TrumpMustGo #USPol
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The brawl over the Colorado River is the highest-stakes water fight the U.S. has seen in more than a century.
The brawl over the Colorado River is about more than water
The lifeblood of the West is drying up — and scrambling state and local politics.
www.politico.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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We have reached a point where this derranged sociopath needs to be institutionalized
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This is both disgusting and expected.

The Scumbag-in-Chief
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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New episode alert! This week on the #RushFanCast, we tackle another playlist of #Rush cover songs, this time ONLY of Rush's arguably finest composition, Tom Sawyer! Join us for a fun episode, #RushFamily! #RushCovers www.podbean.com/ea/pb-p9ggk-...
Ep. 202: Rush Covers, Pt. 5 (Tom Sawyer Edition)
This week, we're doing something we haven't done in 3 years: a Rush covers episode! But we're doing something different this time. We decided to focus our attention on one song, perhaps the most famou...
www.podbean.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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A deep-sea squid in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone was observed mimicking sponge stalks, highlighting previously undocumented camouflage behaviors and the need for further study of abyssal cephalopods. doi.org/hbfp9m
Deep-sea squid caught masquerading as sponge stalks in Pacific abyss
Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the deep sea.
phys.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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PRO PUBLICA on the Trump regime insidiously using antisemitism claims to crack down on universities:

“Trump’s DOJ threatened UCLA with discrimination lawsuits, demanded $1 billion+ in fines, pressed for changes that had nothing to do with antisemitism.”

www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
December 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained.

He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
trib.al/p9Edy6F
December 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I gotta get up early in the morning to go get an MRI done
Don’t worry, I’ll ace it and get a perfect score, cause that’s how it works of course

And after that I’m going to a book convention to try and find some manga and stuff

Will be a pretty busy day here
Hope all of your days are good too! 💜
December 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM