John Herrmann, PhD
@ablT315I
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Cancer biologist / biotech strategy guy turned VC — helping amazing biotech founders reimagine new medicines for patients in need & navigate what’s next.
Cambridge, MA
Joined March 2013
The spacing gives it a chilling, metronomic rhythm — like watching democracy erode in increments.
I feel like they are all trying to tell us something. It’s on the tip of my tongue and the bottom of their signs.
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Nice parody of authoritarian escalation: Team trump creates unrest through their own actions Then uses that unrest to justify even more heavy-handed measures. “We had to send troops because people objected to troops in their neighborhood.”
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Well done.
This American Dad’s beautifully articulate takedown of what’s happening is as powerful as it is informed “Is this greatness?’ He asks … and then answers
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What a 🤡 🎪. When @RadioFreeTom wrote “The Death of Expertise” I don’t think he factored expertise would be murdered on 5th Ave before witnesses Devalued and marginalized, but didn’t anticipate it being publicly trampled in real time on national stages.
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Power isn’t merely votes. Power is also derived by how many are too scared to take actions. Trump/their army isn’t soldiers, it’s fear itself — paralyzing average folk, silencing foes & turning citizens into unwitting accomplices in their own oppression
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I sure miss a measured POTUS
Every American needs to Watch what Obama just said about the Kirk assassination.
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Oldie, but still one of the most powerful indictments of Americans love affair with high powered weapons
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U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara interviewed Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu, a professor at MIT. Acemoglu’s central point is that economic prosperity is inseparable from strong democratic institutions. Yep. https://t.co/cmLEQVhcle via @YouTube
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Force multiplier
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Asked ChatGPT to come up with a scoring rubric for the darkest times in u.s. history since our founding It scored; Institutional threats Civil liberties erosions Social polarization Helps contextualize The detailed assessment (rationale etc) is rather solid.
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If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you.
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🚨OH MY GOD: CBS asked Texas Rep. Ann Johnson if Democrats “ran from the fight.” Her response was epic: “No, abandoning your job is going to Cancun during a deadly freeze.” Then she went nuclear: “When Trump asked Georgia GOP to ‘find 11,000 votes,’ they said no. When he asked
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Casgevy is a genuine breakthrough stuck in a bottleneck. The rollout is stalling—collections outpacing infusions—likely due to burdens of conditioning, logistics, and life disruption. Without in-vivo editing or better non-myeloablative conditioning will remain under-utilized
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Having a [high velocity x high volume x high magnitude] outrage & gaslighting machine is the ultimate asymmetrical weaponry of today’s political warfare Even with a 2025 playbook in advance @SenateDems have not so much as buffered this onslaught of rot.
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Nuclear deterrence relies on a delicate balance of credibility + stability. Injecting theatrical behavior muddies these assumptions. https://t.co/5N5oLBaNnu
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Security analysts called Trump's move a rhetorical escalation.
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The Republican budget bill is not only reckless — it’s cruel. It slashes Medicaid and takes away health care from millions of Americans. It closes rural hospitals and cuts food assistance for our veterans and seniors. It jacks up energy bills. And it could trigger deep cuts to
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