sadstate

Non-profit director. Optimist. Humbled by modern science. Barnard College alum. #BeatCF She/Her

[Harshi Peiris, Ph.D. @Neuroscope_mp]

New research on Long COVID might explain why some people's bodies never seem to stand down after infection.

When you catch a virus, your immune system sends out specialized killer cells (CD8+ T cells) to hunt down and destroy infected cells. Once the virus is cleared, those killer cells are supposed to calm down and stop being so aggressive.

Researchers at UCSF and Fred Hutch tracked these killer cells in people 4 months after COVID, comparing those who fully recovered to those who developed Long COVID. They didn't just look at cells fighting COVID itself. They also checked killer cells targeting EBV and CMV, two extremely common viruses that most adults already carry quietly in their bodies for life, usually kept in check without issue.

@CellRepMed

[jezz @JezziiB]

Texas just made weed a felony after over 70% of voters voted to legalize it. Is this what we call a democracy when the representatives of a state will openly defy the will of voters because incarceration rates went down so much and prisons lost money? Texas is a fucking republican-ran hellhole.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Don’t fall for the fake Fox/GOP outrage. Two weeks ago the House passed a bill that greenlighted the transfer of Spanish territory to Morocco. Every Republican except me voted for it, but now THEY are acting shocked at the invasion.
https://t.co/a7ROEAtoOD
https://t.co/886sJycfeL

[Michelle @Michell33650674]

I'm going to make this SIMPLE for those who don't seem to understand. Elon Musk didn't just BUY the 2024 election for Trump and some GOP members of Congress. He RIGGED it! He ALTERED the results! He HACKED it! Kamala Harris was the ACTUAL winner! There WAS a Blue Wave, but Musk CHANGED the outcome! Both Georgia and Wisconsin have implicated him for ELECTION FRAUD, and there's MUCH more evidence than what they HAVE! He is now trying to do the SAME THING for the GOP in our Midterm elections! If he succeeds, we could all VOTE our ASSES off for Democrats, and it wouldn't MATTER! This is why I'm URGING you all to PRESSURE our Democratic lawmakers to IMMEDIATELY EXPOSE what Musk did in 2024, so it won't happen AGAIN in November! Then, 2024 must be ANNULLED, and Musk, Trump, everyone in the Regime, and all complicit members of the GOP must be EVICTED, ARRESTED, and PROSECUTED!

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

A Drop Site report uncovered that Brad Parscale, a longtime advisor to President Donald Trump, and his company Clock Tower X have signed a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government to deploy “websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations.” The intent of the agreement is thus to influence artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, tools like Claude or ChatGPT, to respond favorably to inquiries about the U.S.-Israeli relationship.

Parscale’s team recently told Axios they are “seeing success” at getting popular Al systems to incorporate information from their sites, though they declined to provide data.

Drop Site’s Julian Andreone pressed senators about this development and asked whether they see a conflict of interests, have national security concerns, or take objection to the corruption.

@JulianAndreone | @nick_clevelands

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

The US and Israel are currently funding a massive migrant scheme by flooding Spain with migrants from Morocco. This is in retaliation for Spain denying Israel and the US access to their airspace to target Iran. (ALSO: Elon will use this as 'anti-white colonization propaganda).

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The Trump Administration has some serious explaining to do because there’s a ton of money missing and ZERO explanation for where it went.   

It has collected an estimated $13 billion from Venezuelan oil sales.  

Take a wild guess on how much of that is currently accounted for.   

The answer is $300 million. That’s roughly 2.3 PERCENT.  

And even that information came from the Venezuelan government, not the Trump Administration.  

So where is the rest of the money?  
https://t.co/OPx5hrZMrI

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

QUESTION: Did Trump and Rubio plan on encouraging Morocco to use Migrant Warfare against Spain to punish it for not supporting the Iran war?

These borders images look just like the Russian backed MW operations on Finland & Poland's borders.

Trump sys he will run the midterms on these images. In 2019 Netanyahu's son Yair, called for Morocco to seize of Ceuta and Melilla

If the PM Pedro Sanchez Government falls over this event we should seriously investigate if it was a Washington planned Coup D'Etat.

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

In its most recent quarterly financial report, Palantir reported $1.28 billion in total US revenue. Of that amount, $687 million came from U.S. taxpayer-funded agencies—an EIGHTY FOUR PERCENT INCREASE year-over-year. Cool. Cool …1/

[Angelo Plume @poxesfoxes]

This appears to be the play: Morocco coerces Spain into handing over Ceuta and Melilla, USA gets access to those territories and uses them to control the Mediterranean now that Spain isn't a 'good ally'.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

The "invasion in Ceuta" is not a "mass migration" event, it is an orchestrated breach; participants stormed the beach (from land), shopped around, the majority left home afterwards. This was likely organised online through WhatsApp or Facebook by U.S./Musk influence networks.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

There is a reason right wing influencers and media were setup to take footage of the so called "invasion of Ceuta" and why it was distributed so quickly online, including by top US officials with anti-EU stances. Spain needs to initiate an inquiry into this orchestrated attack.

[Dr. Syed Haider: @DrSyedHaider]

Chronic sinusitis is fungal. We’ve known that for a long time. But apparently you can also just hum to get it under control.

[Scott Squires @scottsquires.bsky.social @scott_squires]

Keep in mind it took doctors decades to wash their hands after scientific proof it saved lives. Same with them smoking. So maybe by 2040 they might start masking?

Think how many lives could be saved if they did now from directly spreading & from modeling correct behavior

[Rep. Zoe Lofgren @RepZoeLofgren]

In communism, the government owns the means of production. Any Republicans in Congress willing to call out this outrageous and likely illegal move?

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Gift link to WSJ Story today. I can't believe it's not illegal to extort money from companies in exchange for access or favors from the President (like settling a lawsuit?) https://t.co/KmI3qpSGjf

[Vipin M. Vashishtha @vipintukur]

Can a simple blood test reveal who will recover from #LongCOVID—and who won’t?

➡️ A new study identifies two promising biomarkers: GDF-15, a marker of mitochondrial stress, and VCAM-1, a marker of vascular endothelial injury.

➡️ Patients whose symptoms persisted for at least 6 months maintained significantly higher levels of both markers, despite having little evidence of ongoing systemic inflammation. 1/

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Oh look, the Commerce Department quietly announced 7 new equity stakes in private companies.

Brought to you by the people fighting "communism."
https://t.co/D9XRML3izw

[sadstate @boyohboywhatnow]

@BaddCompani Unless something happens to bring forth accountability none of this matters.

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

@RickABright That is inaccurate as shown by the 2024 Dr. Marr study, "Doff Thy Gown—Shedding Contact Precautions for COVID-19"

Also demonstrated by a hand transfer study also done by Dr. Marr.

https://t.co/n37XVnMnZz