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  ❤️ Donate Friday, August 7, 2026 ☀️ Sunny, high of 77. Good Morning Boston, Hey. You made it to Friday. And not that we're counting, but there's only three more of these August Fridays left. Make 'em count. But first, let's check out the news: Primary concerns: A coalition of some of Massachusetts' most powerful unions and left-leaning groups are launching a campaign today against Question 3, the ballot measure this fall to replace party primaries in the state with a top-two election system. "We are a bunch of grassroots organizations and unions and people who think every day about trying to make the world a better place, and our opposition are people with a lot of money," Jordan Berg Powers, the campaign's chair, said in an interview. What would Question 3 do? If passed, the ballot question would replace party primaries in Massachusetts with an "all-party" or "jungle primary" system in which all candidates — Democrats, Republ...

  Biology versus bullsh*t Simple but Not Easy Jake Auchincloss Feb 20, 2026 This week, I authored a guest post in  Meidas+  on the politician at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who overruled career scientists to block Moderna’s flu vaccine application from review. You can read the full piece below on how FDA Commissioner Marty Makary must be fired. “In the long contest between  biology and bullshit , biology is undefeated,” Auchincloss [told Bloomberg]. “The [FDA] commissioner is trying to wage that battle, and it’s going to be patients who lose.” The FDA is staffed by scientists who review evidence to determine the safety and efficacy of medicines. It’s a bureaucracy wrestling with biology, so of course it’s messy. But in general, they have done well. Away from the political spotlight, the FDA sifted through randomized controlled trials and debated surrogate endpoints with investigators. It became the world’s gold standard biomedical regulator. Until 2025....