The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

Not only is this organization sucking precious funds from Dem candidates, it also completely turns off people from donating and even voting for Dems and thus helping the GOP. Totally evil IMO, all for greed.
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Pneumonia? Left lung atelectasis? (Childhood memories, haven’t seen an x ray in many many years)

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: history, current situation, and outlook | Journal of Virology Influenza virus pandemics are caused by influenza A viruses and happen in irregular intervals (1). The H1N1 subtype caused a pandemic in 1918 that claimed between 20 and 50 million lives, followed by H2N2 in 1957 (1–4 million deaths), H3N2 in 1968 (1–4 million deaths), and another H1N1 pandemic in 2009 (approximately 280,000 deaths) (2, 3). Typically, after causing a pandemic, these viruses establish themselves in the human population and become seasonal influenza viruses. Currently, H1N1 and H3N2 (as well as influenza B viruses) are circulating as seasonal influenza viruses in humans and cause millions of severe infections and up to 650,000 deaths per year globally (4). In addition, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) of the H5N1 subtype has caused a panzootic in birds since 2021, devastating poultry production around the world as well as infecting multiple mammalian host species. An outbreak in US dairy cattle has resulted in thousands of cows infected across 16 states, with subsequent spillback to birds and spillover to other mammals. Human H5N1 infections have concurrently increased, as exposures to infected animals have become more frequent. The risk of an H5N1 influenza pandemic continues to grow.

'The specific H5N1 virus that infected dairy cattle is a genotype B3.13 virus and was introduced into cows by a single bird-to-cow transmission event, most likely in Texas in late 2023'

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Prague, 23 November 1911 Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie, Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:

(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

WHY I AM BECOMING A FASCIST My MAGA hat arrived this morning

Great read in Hanif Kureishi’s Substack
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Can you name them all? 🤩

Spoiler alert: Alligator, bat, clam, dolphin, elephant, frog, gecko, horseshoe crab, icefish, jellyfish, killifish, lobster, moose, newt, octopus, pangolin, quail, rhinoceros, sand dollar, turtle, urchin, vampire, worm, Xenopus, yellowfin tuna, zebrafish

Beautiful

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Like a photographer choosing between quick snapshots or careful portraits, our immune system balances fast action and precise antibody creation.

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How do autoimmune CD4+ T cells handle exhaustion? Chronic antigen exposure is frequently associated with T cell exhaustion. In a recent study, Aljobaily et al. show that pancreatic islet-infiltrating CD4+ T cells in mouse autoimmune diabetes may circ...

"The identification of stem-like CD4+ T cells that replenished the autoimmune lesion mirrors earlier findings of islet-specific stem-like CD8+ T cells in both mice and humans with diabetes"
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I’ve started loving B cells too! Please add me

This was exhilarating!

I love T cells too!

Today, we mourn the loss of Giancarlo Comi, a true pioneer in neurology and a leading expert in multiple sclerosis. He was a brilliant clinician, coordinating landmark clinical trials, and was among the first to propose early treatment for MS. We neuroimmunologists are poorer for his loss.

AIRR-C Seminar Series, Sep 26, 2024 - Giulio Isacchini, Imprint Labs, USA YouTube video by AIRR Community

Curious about generative modeling for T and B cell receptor repertoires and its role in understanding immune system diversity? Watch my talk here youtu.be/HVUYG-UmRH8?.... Thanks to the @airr-community.bsky.social and @victorgreiff.bsky.social for the opportunity to share our work!