Web 57DHYAFZZFLZV September 4 2026    Not Losing Wisconsin

I took him back to our love of Madison

Because I did not want to lose Wisconsin

 I put him right back into the liberal mindset

I had left it decades ago myself. I let

Him wander down State Street, where underground

I had first heard folk singers and rock singers expound.

He is dancing down the street with a smile on his face

I cannot keep up with his words and dizzying pace.

He forgot all the nonsense from a place called Mar a Lago

That is stuck in a time warp of hair plugs and embargos

On fun when facing real struggles and real love and real life

We need to arm ourselves to deal with ridiculous strife

Barring us from voting, to start, and when that fails,

Sending out ventriloquist dummies who bring us travail.

He is choosing Madison and choosing Wisconsin

It will be difficult for months and then we will win.

An Australian model preserving safety and improving efficiency

Would accelerate the discovery of new drugs  which are within reach.

An experimental drug, sotorasib, blocks a mutant version of the KRAS gene,

which for decades scientists had considered resistant to drug therapy seen.

To bring Cancer under control for an energetic  woman in her eighties.

In August, the F D A approved daraxonrasib,

which makes survival in pancreatic cancer double.

Slower and costlier trials make the number of new drugs approved

per billion dollars of research and development spending halved

every nine years since the 1950s, with a plateau in the last 10 years.

The cost of a clinical trial in the U S has climbed in past years.

For Phase One trials, the cost for generating the evidence needed just to open One

 has doubled since Two Thousand Seventeen, and for some therapies can

reach a cost of millions of dollars per patient. Drug companies are opening fewer trials

 than they might have, and taking the ones they do conduct abroad, to Australia

and China. That leaves American patients with fewer chances to enroll in a clinical trial.

Even when Artificial intelligence and the genomics revolution are turning long-promised ideas

 into curative therapies. It is no longer the science that is holding back potential cures,

but our capacity to try new medicines in clinical trials. Of that, scientists are sure.

There is fear that the most important science may happen elsewhere or not at all.

We can demand a system that gives doctors the best chance to save lives for all.

Russia’s failed drone attack on a German airport was part of a pattern of escalation

 That risks sparking a confrontation with NATO whether the Kremlin wants it or not. German

 officials declared this week that the Russian state was behind the attack. in One explosive drone

 hit a Ukrainian cargo plane and another appeared to collide with a plane taking off. Both drones

 failed to detonate. Also there were plots to place incendiary devices aboard planes,

blow up railroad tracks in Poland, and burn down warehouses and shopping centers in locations

in Europe. Such attacks began occurring after Russia launched its full- scale invasion

 of Ukraine in Two Thousand Twenty Two, an effort by President Vladimir Putin to bring

 the war to the West. Russia could be planning some military incursions or provocations

 along NATO’s eastern flank, frazzling Europe, leaving officials casting about for solutions.

In response to the attack in Leipzig, Germany announced closure of a diplomatic mission

 and travel restrictions on Russians.  Polish security forces on patrol in Warsaw

suburbs last year in an effort to protect critical infrastructure threatened by Russia.

Few Western intelligence officials consider Russian attack on a NATO member probable,

not one involving Russian ground forces, which are bogged down in Ukraine and unable

to bring the fight to Europe beyond in a limited way. A number of covert responses are open

 to Western countries, including increasing intelligence support to Ukraine, conduction

of cyberattacks and undermining Russian interests in other parts of the world. The German

 government passed legislation to authorize its intelligence services to carry out actions

like sabotage and cyberattacks. If approved by parliament, the agencies would gain that power

for the first time in Germany’s postwar history. These secret responses makes it difficult for

others to assess their effectiveness, though Russia’s increase in attacks is a sign that the West’s

efforts fall short. Because they have not been deterred and Moscow has not paid a price, Putin is interpreting that as a signal to keep going. NATO tries keeping its Thirty Two member

countries aligned. After Germany’s announcement this week, allies voiced support for

solidarity, including the American ambassador to NATO although he did not mention Russia

 by name. By contrast, Prime Minister Andy Burnham of Britain named Russia

three times. The U S President fails to hold the Kremlin accountable. Since taking office last year,

costs on Putin’s transgressions have been dangled but rarely followed this year