Alex Janco

Boston sports fan, UConn Huskies super fan, USMNT diehard, RN to future FNP

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[Codziennik z Mordoru @mordownik4u]

Reprezentacja Haiti na oficjalnych koszulkach w których zagra na Mistrzostwach Świata umieściła POLSKĄ FLAGĘ!

To nie błąd projektanta ani przypadek – to wyjątkowy gest pełen szacunku, który porusza serce każdego Polaka. W 1802 roku Napoleon wysłał kilka tysięcy żołnierzy z Polskich Legionów na San Domingo (obecne Haiti), żeby zdławić tamtejsze powstanie niewolników. Polacy jednak wybrali inną drogę. Zamiast walczyć przeciwko walczącym o wolność, wielu z nich przeszło na stronę powstańców i stanęło do walki ramię w ramię z Haitańczykami przeciwko wojskom francuskim. Po zwycięstwie rewolucji i ogłoszeniu niepodległości w 1804 roku, pierwszy przywódca Haiti – Jean-Jacques Dessalines – oddał Polakom wielki hołd. Przyznał im pełne obywatelstwo, a w konstytucji nazwał ich „Białymi Murzynami Europy”. Były to słowa najwyższego uznania i braterstwa w tamtych czasach. Część polskich żołnierzy (ok. 400–500) została na wyspie na stałe, głównie w regionie Cazale, gdzie ich potomkowie mieszkają do dzisiaj. Dziś, ponad dwieście lat później, pamięć o polskiej odwadze i solidarności wciąż żyje na Haiti. Kiedy ich piłkarze wychodzą na murawę, niosą na piersi symbol naszej wspólnej historii – historii walki o wolność, która nie zna granic ani koloru skóry.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In the summer of 2010, David Fajgenbaum was everything a young man could hope to be.
He had been a Division I college quarterback. He spoke multiple languages. He was in his third year at one of America's top medical schools, the University of Pennsylvania. He had his whole life mapped out in front of him.
Then his body turned on him.
Almost overnight, his organs began failing. His lymph nodes swelled. He was exhausted beyond anything he had ever felt. Within days, he was rushed to the emergency room. Weeks of testing followed. Finally, doctors gave it a name: Castleman disease — a rare and catastrophic condition where the immune system attacks the body's own organs.
There was no cure. There was barely a treatment.
A priest came to his hospital room and read his last rites.
David said goodbye to his family.
Then, somehow, an aggressive round of chemotherapy pulled him back from the edge.
But it didn't hold. Within three years, he collapsed again. And again. And again. Five times in total, he came to the edge of death. Five times, chemotherapy bought him a little more time.
After the fifth collapse, his doctors sat with him and said the words no patient wants to hear: his body had received the maximum amount of chemotherapy a human being can survive. If he relapsed again, there would be nothing left to give him.
He would die.
Most people, hearing that, would have spent whatever time remained saying goodbye.
David Fajgenbaum picked up a medical journal.
From his hospital bed, between treatments, he began doing something no patient had ever done before — systematically studying his own disease with the full knowledge of a trained physician. He analyzed thousands of pages of his own medical records. He tested his own blood samples, looking for patterns invisible to everyone else because no one else had both the data and the desperate motivation to find them.
And he found something.
In his lymph node samples, a specific protein signaling pathway called mTOR was firing at abnormally high levels — essentially sending the immune system into a frenzy that destroyed his own organs. It was a clue no one had spotted because no one had looked in quite that way before.
Then he searched for something that could stop it.
He found it in an unlikely place: a medication called sirolimus, already approved and available, commonly used to prevent organ rejection after kidney transplants. No one had ever tried it for Castleman disease. But on paper, its mechanism was a near-perfect match for what David had found in his own blood.
Under his doctor's supervision, he began taking it.
Within days, his symptoms vanished.
Not improved. Vanished.
The man doctors had given up on walked out of the hospital. He finished medical school. He married his girlfriend Caitlin. He became a father. He became one of the youngest faculty members ever to receive tenure at Penn Medicine.
And then he turned around to face everyone still waiting in the dark.
He founded the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network, building the first global research effort for a disease that had none. He launched Every Cure — an organization that uses artificial intelligence to search all existing approved drugs for hidden matches with diseases that currently have no treatment. The idea is simple and revolutionary: there are over 1,500 approved drugs in the world and over 7,000 diseases with no treatment. The cures may already exist. They just haven't been matched yet.
Over 15 years, Fajgenbaum and his partners have helped advance 28 repurposed drugs — 14 directly led by him. MedicalXpress
A priest once came to read him his last rites.
Today, David Fajgenbaum has authored over 100 scientific papers, appeared on TIME's list of the world's most influential people in health, and continues to take his small sirolimus tablet every single morning the pill he found himself, in the darkest room of his life, when no one else was looking.
He didn't wait to be saved.

[Alex Janco @AlexJanco23]

@EliLillyandCo #stop

[Matheus Gomes @matheuspggomes]

Esse é o presidente da FIFA entregando o "Prêmio da Paz da FIFA" a Donald Trump, em dezembro de 2025.

6 meses depois, às vésperas da Copa, os EUA já:

- proibiram que a seleção do Irã durma e treine nos EUA;
- interrogaram o principal jogador do Iraque e o fotógrafo oficial da seleção, que foi deportado;
- negaram a entrada e deportaram o principal árbitro africano escolhido pela FIFA para a Copa;

Agora dá pra entender?

A FIFA está de joelhos para Trump e permite que ele transforme a Copa de 2026 numa peça de propaganda do seu governo e da sua ideologia.

A Copa ainda nem começou, é verdade, mas o "fascismo à lá Donald Trump" já mostra tudo que tem de ruim ao mundo.

[Rachel Nichols @Rachel__Nichols]

Louder than the boos for the Spurs, louder than any boos I've heard in this building in a while.

[Alex Janco @AlexJanco23]

@JoeBLynam Ever…no, but prob for the next 15+ years/however long it takes to repair the damage of this awful administration.

[Alex Janco @AlexJanco23]

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[Alex Janco @AlexJanco23]

Our country is showing just how racist the current administration is with all of these horrible decisions around an event that is about unifying the world, not ostracizing. #FIFAWorldCup #dumpsterfire

[Footballogue @Footballogue]

🔴 Énorme DINGUERIE encore des États-Unis...

L'arbitre somalien Omar Artan 🇸🇴 s'est vu refuser son entrée aux États-Unis, alors qu'il est sensé officier pendant la Coupe du Monde ! 🙄

Malgré l'aide appuyée de l'ambassade somalienne de Nairobi, qui lui a fourni un PASSEPORT DIPLOMATIQUE, M. Artan a dû faire demi tour à son arrivée aux USA.

On parle d'une personne qui a été élue MEILLEUR ARBITRE AFRICAIN EN 2025 ! 🤦‍♂️

(@Romain_Molina)

[Footballogue @Footballogue]

🔴 Énorme DINGUERIE encore des États-Unis...

L'arbitre somalien Omar Artan 🇸🇴 s'est vu refuser son entrée aux États-Unis, alors qu'il est sensé officier pendant la Coupe du Monde ! 🙄

Malgré l'aide appuyée de l'ambassade somalienne de Nairobi, qui lui a fourni un PASSEPORT DIPLOMATIQUE, M. Artan a dû faire demi tour à son arrivée aux USA.

On parle d'une personne qui a été élue MEILLEUR ARBITRE AFRICAIN EN 2025 ! 🤦‍♂️

(@Romain_Molina)

[Alex Janco @AlexJanco23]

@vulturetrades Why not?

[T 🇫🇷 @Talhaa10_]

giving the world cup to the usa was a stupid decision.

this tournament was supposed to bring the world together. instead we’re talking about shootings, visa issues, travel restrictions and whether fans from certain countries will even be able to attend

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

We all knew these situations were going to happen, and so did FIFA. Yet they still allowed the World Cup to go ahead in the U.S. They are not receiving anywhere near the level of scrutiny they should.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA finally gave Visa's to Iran's football team yesterday, but it hasn't given any to their training staff.

If FIFA wasn't corrupt it would tell Donald Trump that the USA will be disqualified if he doesn't stop unfairly rigging the competition.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[Kirkby @tranmerekev]

Iran have had to relocate their World Cup camp from the USA to Mexico.

Breel Embolo is still in Switzerland days after the team departed for the US, due to visa issues.

And a Somalia referee has been denied a visa.

Ladies & gentlemen, welcome to the Trump World Cup.

[Alex Janco @AlexJanco23]

@MLFootball @DustBaker @vikesinsider @JJVikings @VikesCentral @packers_access @OGpackersFan @LionsSyndicate @LLamorandier @HGrahamNFL @thekapman Deshawn Watson would like to have a word

[Kairos.MP5 @KAIROSMMA2]

OH MY GOODNESS. I never thought I would ever say this . BRYCE MITCHELL IS FUCKING SPITTING

[Alex Janco @AlexJanco23]

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