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Vaccines|Diagnostics|Virology. Gov|Industry|Academia. Former rabble rouser. Retired (maybe). Lover of dogs and sci-fi. "Grieving over who we were only gets in the way of who we need to become." ~Katarina Jones, 12 Monkeys
Even among healthy people, immune systems operate at different baseline levels.
In our new Cell paper, we show that these immune states are stable over time and are associated with the gut microbiome. 🧵
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#Immunology #SystemsImmunology
This bears repeating as I stumbled across TFG touring the Ohio Thermo Fisher facility today on TV. They also have a local facility in Maryland, and I remember from that idiot's first time around how disgusted I was that Thermo was a sucking up big time.
yahoo/news Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling Mon, March 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM PDT
This is absolutely maddening.
We “can’t afford” Medicaid, to help children with food insecurities or fund education but we can waste millions on these buffoons and their lavish lifestyles.
$25 mil on Surf and Turf for Kegseth
$200 mil for Kristi Noem’s mile-high-club.
U.S. military commanders are reportedly invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about the biblical "end times" as the U.S. bombs Iran.
Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says his organization received 15 to 20 calls a day at the start of the war.
Smol bean deposition. He's coming across as young and clueless, but he's an adult who recklessly destroyed the livelihoods of other adults and indirectly led to people's deaths. He doesn't get a pass for pretending he was there for the free coffee
This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.
And 165 non-artificial schoolchildren were blown up by all this advanced and precise targeting. Congrats to everyone involved on achieving this brave new world.
Made a short video as a response. 3 questions remain for me.
1) What is the definition of a "DEl activity," and how is it being communicated to NIH staff so they can determine whether a grant qualifies?
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I was hoping for necrotizing fasciitis.
He also… has not ended eight wars. It seems unhealthy we have people repeating this nonsense claim on major media outlets and not being immediately corrected.
“Horror and Anxiety”: Death Toll in Iran Tops 780 as Trump Says U.S. Can Fight “Forever”
The death of possibly more than 100 little girls in a primary school. How is that not a central news story today across all serious outlets?
And thank you, FT, for being one of only a few newsrooms driving attention to what happened there.
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“To tell people that they don’t need to be vaccinated is simply promoting disease,” he said. “Not only is it stupid, but it’s immoral.”
from a March 2 2026 profile of Stanley Plotkin by @helenbranswell.bsky.social in @statnews.com.
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30 years.
This video should be on every network.
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
Aliya Rahman is a U.S. citizen who was violently arrested by federal immigration in Minneapolis. She attended the State of the Union address Tuesday as a guest of Congressmember Ilhan Omar, but she was ejected from the chamber after silently standing during President Trump's speech.
Gift link from the NYT story about Axel and Epstein. When I was at Columbia he ran a lab where sexual harassment of women was business as usual. We all knew. We all warned each other.
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I know this is becoming something of a mantra but it is really disheartening to be reminded constantly how many seemingly normal folks out there are just completely bereft of the most rudimentary degree of basic decency or moral sense.
Recurring pattern: The US makes policy choices that have massive policy consequences for other countries, but rate at best a couple days of domestic news coverage. Then a decade or two later we’re utterly baffled that people in those places despise us. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...
Correction: **8** potential sites remain, including Orlando, FL and Flowery Grove, GA.
Thanks to resistance by ordinary citizens, the Trump administration has been denied 11 detention warehouses — that's roughly 35,000 beds.
6 potential sites remain: Port Allen, LA; Chester, NY; McAllen, TX; Starke, FL; Durant, OK; and Lebanon, TN.
The fight isn't over, keep going!
Judges keep issuing scathing rulings about ICE's law-breaking but then don't impose any penalties on anyone for them, and so then it's just sternly worded letters, not law.
Peace to you 🫂
The Japanese American Citizens League of Chicago, which made my trip possible, stood vigil today outside of the Broadview ICE facility. The call to action: Be the allies today that Japanese American families needed during WWII.
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ICE buys the Chester, NY warehouse. It was sold by Icahn Enterpises — a company with ties to Trump insider Carl Icahn — for an undisclosed sum.
New from me at Cato: The proposed SAVE Act still doesn't pass a basic civics test. It poses severe practical problems for voters and administrators and would give too much power over elections to the president. /1
A Dakota prayer camp has gone up across the highway from Whipple Federal Building to protest U.S. immigration enforcement. Organizers draw connections between current practices and historical injustices.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
In the 4th q now, and the only one that made me lol was Novartis' PSA ad. Boring game, too.
