@VirginiaSports Director of Creative Services, lifelong Wahoo but married a Terp. #GoHoos

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Ryan Mahanes retweeted
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Football is back. #GoHoos ๐Ÿ”ถโš”๏ธ๐Ÿ”ท โ€“ at Charlottesville, VA
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We just crossed a line in medicine that humanity has been walking toward for a hundred years. For the first time, doctors can take a biopsy of your specific tumor, read its unique DNA mutations โ€” the exact fingerprint no other cancer on earth shares โ€” and build a custom mRNA blueprint written for one human being. Yours. It doesn't poison the cancer. It teaches your own immune system what to hunt. And this week, Phase 3 results confirmed it works. Added to the best immunotherapy we already had, this individualized cancer vaccine has been dramatically cutting the odds that high-risk melanoma comes back. In the earlier data, the combination reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 49%, and the risk of the cancer spreading to distant organs by 62%, compared to the standard treatment alone. This week's Phase 3 readout confirmed the benefit holds. That is not a modest tweak. That is a different trajectory for a human life. And melanoma is just the first door. The same approach is now in trials across lung, bladder, and kidney cancers โ€” a whole program of them, racing forward. Understand what this actually means, because it's bigger than one drug. For all of history, we fought cancer with blunt weapons. Cut it out. Burn it with radiation. Flood the whole body with chemotherapy and hope the cancer dies before the patient suffers too much. We were swinging a hammer in the dark. This is a blueprint. A weapon designed atom by atom for one person's disease, that turns their own body into the thing that finds and destroys it. We are watching medicine shift from managing cancer to hunting it. I've spent my life as a physician, and I did not expect to see this so soon. We were told personalized cancer vaccines were a thirty-year dream. They are happening right now, in real patients, with real data, in our lifetime. I don't say this lightly, and I say it as a doctor who knows exactly how rare these moments are: this is one of the most hopeful things to happen in the history of the field. I woke up thinking of the words of the morning prayer โ€” Modeh Ani โ€” I thank You. Gratitude, the moment you open your eyes, for a soul returned and a day given. To be alive at the exact hour when human beings learned to teach the body to cure itself feels like standing inside that prayer. We are not at the end of cancer. But we are, unmistakably, at the beginning of the end of its reign.
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RT @iamwesmoore: This is what losers do. They don't solve problems. They slam the table and blame the rules. Instead of addressing risingโ€ฆ
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Led by the best ๐Ÿซก @theACC George Gelnovatch @UVAMenSoccer Tony Elliott @UVAFootball Todd DeSorbo @UVASwimDive Bowen Sargent @UVAMensGolf Vin Lananna @UVATFCC #GoHoos
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A multi-part Knicks documentary is in the works at A24 & HBO. The series will follow the Knicks' entire history up to their first NBA championship in 53 years. Directed by Ben Stiller.
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Very on-brand for the ignorant and incurious barstool
There canโ€™t be more than 11 people in the United States who knew what Cรดte d'Ivoire was before the World Cup.
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Sleep well, NY.
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Ghostface and Raekwon got to witness Finals history in person tonight and thatโ€™s really all that matters tbh
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Ryan Mahanes retweeted
THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE WHO BLESSED MSG TODAY TO GET THE STANK VIBES OUT YOUR SERVICE IS APPRECIATED
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Ryan Mahanes retweeted
Here's what the booing sounded like inside MSG when Trump was shown on the Jumbotron:
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Very bad vibes on this release for a team thatโ€™s been operating at historically high vibe levels
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Ryan Mahanes retweeted
Trump, Musk and Rubio slashed aid and scoffed that it was woke nonsense. Now they're seeing that it not only saved one life every 10 seconds but also protected us from diseases like Ebola. Their actions constituted a security failure as well as a moral one. More broadly, their fecklessness contrasts with the courage and humanity of doctors and aid workers in Congo and Uganda, lacking adequate PPE but still risking the virus to care for fellow humans. Trump, Musk and Rubio might learn something from them. nytimes.com/2026/06/03/opiniโ€ฆ
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Ryan Mahanes retweeted
quote so evil it could be used in a childrens comic book to be widely and easily understood as โ€œthats the bad guyโ€
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This past weekend, we lost a beloved member of our Virginia Football Family. We celebrate the life and legacy of Donovan Johnson and send our heartfelt prayers and condolences to his family. ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ โ€“ at Charlottesville, VA
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๐—ฉ๐—œ๐—ฅ๐—š๐—œ๐—ก๐—œ๐—” ๐—ช๐—œ๐—ก๐—ฆ ๐—ง๐—›๐—˜ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ ๐—ก๐—–๐—”๐—” ๐—–๐—›๐—”๐— ๐—ฃ๐—œ๐—ข๐—ก๐—ฆ๐—›๐—œ๐—ฃ ๐Ÿ† The Cavaliers are once again atop college tennis for a seventh national championship!
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๐€๐‚๐‚ ๐‚๐‡๐€๐Œ๐๐ˆ๐Ž๐๐’ ๐Ÿ† For the first time in program history, the Cavaliers are outright ACC Regular-Season Champions! #GoHoos
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Ryan Mahanes retweeted
the fact that this guy is also the tortoise dresser guy from a couple weeks ago ๐Ÿ˜ญ
The face he makes after her โ€œtf you talking aboutโ€ is killing me
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Ryan Mahanes retweeted
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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