Phil Price
@philipcprice.bsky.social
Retired Analytical Chemist. Interests - mass spectrometry, chemical safety, industrial incident investigations, environment, travel, photography, SCUBA.
Long-term measles-induced immunomodulation increases overall childhood infectious disease mortality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Long-term measles-induced immunomodulation increases overall childhood infectious disease mortality
Preventing measles prevents immune memory damage and nonspecifically safeguards against many childhood infections.
www.science.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Long-term measles-induced immunomodulation increases overall childhood infectious disease mortality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Longer read on Copper - supply & demand:
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/running-on...
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/running-on...
Running on Empty: Copper
How peak copper arrived and went completely unnoticed
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Longer read on Copper - supply & demand:
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/running-on...
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/running-on...
"Oligarch Disconnect" - things common in your experience... are foreign to them
Https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump79-stuns-with-inability-to-flip-a-coin-worst-in-history/
Https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump79-stuns-with-inability-to-flip-a-coin-worst-in-history/
Trump, 79, Stuns With Inability to Flip a Coin: ‘Worst in History’
The president’s bizarre attempt at a coin toss has people talking.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"Oligarch Disconnect" - things common in your experience... are foreign to them
Https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump79-stuns-with-inability-to-flip-a-coin-worst-in-history/
Https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump79-stuns-with-inability-to-flip-a-coin-worst-in-history/
Reposted by Phil Price
Wait. Remember this in 2018? www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
Trump pulling all U.S. troops from Syria, declaring ISIS defeated
The move contradicts President Trump's own experts' assessments and is sparking surprise and outrage from his party's lawmakers who called his action rash and dangerous.
www.pbs.org
December 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Wait. Remember this in 2018? www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
US Army: 2 KIA, 3 injured YESTERDAY in the Middle East
December 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
US Army: 2 KIA, 3 injured YESTERDAY in the Middle East
Personifies "all hat, no cattle"
December 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Personifies "all hat, no cattle"
Eugenics: if vision-impaired (use Calibri font), hearing-impsited (ASL), health-impaited (your fault), color-impaired (non-white), income-impaired (refugee)... MAGA is DONE with you. Diversity = bad
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image, administration says
The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to ...
www.pbs.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Eugenics: if vision-impaired (use Calibri font), hearing-impsited (ASL), health-impaited (your fault), color-impaired (non-white), income-impaired (refugee)... MAGA is DONE with you. Diversity = bad
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
Reposted by Phil Price
In one of the boldest, most badass moves in modern history, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shows up in Kupyansk – just 2 km from the nearest Russian position.
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In one of the boldest, most badass moves in modern history, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shows up in Kupyansk – just 2 km from the nearest Russian position.
Timely thoughts on Activism, & balancing motivation:
(H/T to "Daily Dharma")
(H/T to "Daily Dharma")
December 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Timely thoughts on Activism, & balancing motivation:
(H/T to "Daily Dharma")
(H/T to "Daily Dharma")
The USA, opposed to nuclear safety.
I feel ashamed
I feel ashamed
The US voted with Russia, China and N. Korea against most of the civilized world. This is where we are at.
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The USA, opposed to nuclear safety.
I feel ashamed
I feel ashamed
"Having money doesn't make Oligarchs smart".
Saudi plans for Neom city crash into reality:
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Saudi plans for Neom city crash into reality:
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"Having money doesn't make Oligarchs smart".
Saudi plans for Neom city crash into reality:
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Saudi plans for Neom city crash into reality:
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Stupefying ignorance of Economics 101:
LABOR is required for manufacturing, commerce, & GDP growth.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/l...
LABOR is required for manufacturing, commerce, & GDP growth.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/l...
U.S. has to stop taking in 'below-average' immigrants who won't help economy, says Lutnick
The White House is rolling out its gold card visa.
www.cnbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Stupefying ignorance of Economics 101:
LABOR is required for manufacturing, commerce, & GDP growth.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/l...
LABOR is required for manufacturing, commerce, & GDP growth.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/l...
Serious economics question:
This year, about $250 Billion in tariffs will be collected. What happens to an economy when this much NEW tax is levied?
For comparison, taxes paid to IRS run about $5,000 Billion/year; thus tariff income represents about 5% of this amount.
This year, about $250 Billion in tariffs will be collected. What happens to an economy when this much NEW tax is levied?
For comparison, taxes paid to IRS run about $5,000 Billion/year; thus tariff income represents about 5% of this amount.
December 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Serious economics question:
This year, about $250 Billion in tariffs will be collected. What happens to an economy when this much NEW tax is levied?
For comparison, taxes paid to IRS run about $5,000 Billion/year; thus tariff income represents about 5% of this amount.
This year, about $250 Billion in tariffs will be collected. What happens to an economy when this much NEW tax is levied?
For comparison, taxes paid to IRS run about $5,000 Billion/year; thus tariff income represents about 5% of this amount.
Mass spectrometer studying Mars' atmosphere... may be lost.
Https://spacenews.com/nasa-loses-contact-with-maven-mars-orbiter/
Https://spacenews.com/nasa-loses-contact-with-maven-mars-orbiter/
NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter
NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and serving as a communications relay.
spacenews.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Mass spectrometer studying Mars' atmosphere... may be lost.
Https://spacenews.com/nasa-loses-contact-with-maven-mars-orbiter/
Https://spacenews.com/nasa-loses-contact-with-maven-mars-orbiter/
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BREAKING: Fed Chair Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are raising Americans prices.
“Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs.”
“Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs.”
December 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
BREAKING: Fed Chair Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are raising Americans prices.
“Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs.”
“Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs.”
Wonder how it compares in size with the tankers seized by the Somali, Houthi, & Iranians?
Trump: "It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening."
December 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Wonder how it compares in size with the tankers seized by the Somali, Houthi, & Iranians?
Difficult to understand:
Folks VERBALIZE "pro children", but then vote for public policies ensuring high mortality/morbidity rates
Folks VERBALIZE "pro children", but then vote for public policies ensuring high mortality/morbidity rates
December 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Difficult to understand:
Folks VERBALIZE "pro children", but then vote for public policies ensuring high mortality/morbidity rates
Folks VERBALIZE "pro children", but then vote for public policies ensuring high mortality/morbidity rates
Font war madness: Calibri is apparently too "Diversity Accommodating"?
Https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-times-new-roman-font-return-state-department
Https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-times-new-roman-font-return-state-department
Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman
Memo from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Font war madness: Calibri is apparently too "Diversity Accommodating"?
Https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-times-new-roman-font-return-state-department
Https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-times-new-roman-font-return-state-department
"Oligarch Disconnect"
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month, my mother-in-law wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't."
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"Oligarch Disconnect"
Seems like my Irish immigrant 1800ds ancestors heard the same story!
Just straight up racism
Stephen Miller: "If Somalia keeps failing, if these societies all over the world continue to fail, you have to ask yourself if you bring those societies into our country & then give them unlimited free welfare, what do we think is going to happen? You're going to replicate the conditions they left"
December 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Seems like my Irish immigrant 1800ds ancestors heard the same story!
ANOTHER "settled war" comes unraveled:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
DRC fighting forces 200,000 to flee just days after Washington peace deal
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels clash with Congolese army and other groups as they march on strategic eastern town
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
ANOTHER "settled war" comes unraveled:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...