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Distinct brain alterations and neurodegenerative processes in cognitive impairment associated with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 - Nature Communications Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) have been linked to brain alterations, but association with cognitive problems are not well understood. Here, the authors analyze blood proteins and brain MRI ...

⚠️ Mild COVID, lasting damage: Long COVID w/ cognitive symptoms shows brain atrophy, iron buildup, CSF barrier changes, and injury markers (↑GFAP/NfL)—confirmed twice. Protect your brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#LongCOVID #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #IDSky #SciSky #NurseSky #PedsSky #IMSky

Metformin at the time of Covid-19 infection and risk of Long Covid: A Target Trial Emulation Study Background: Our objective was to evaluate metformin prescribed at the time of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the risk of developing Long Covid (LC) in electronic health record data. Methods: We conducted a n...

🧵New observational study:
Starting metformin within 6 days of COVID was linked to half the long COVID risk compared with patients given other meds (fluvoxamine, fluticasone, ivermectin, montelukast): 4.0% vs 8.5% (aRR 0.47). Small study, but aligns with #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #IDSky #SciSky 1/2

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Whoa! Unacceptable.

I commend those teaching the course for their thoughtful, fair, professional, and diplomatic responses to the student.

19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.

Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?

He gets a full presidential pardon.

Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics.

Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.

Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare...

This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

FBI Investigating Dems Who Warned Military of Unlawful Orders Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The FBI has requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

What an extremely disturbing thread

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

NIH shake-up to grant decision-making draws concerns of political meddling Policy drops “paylines” based on peer-review scores and requires geography and other factors to guide approvals

🧪 The NIH is dropping public "paylines," ending funding based strictly on peer review. While aimed at portfolio balance, the move raises concerns about transparency and the potential for political meddling in science. #AcademicSky

Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

Article excerpt: Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers. As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too?

1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.

This isn’t controversial.

A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

The Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols.

This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."

They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.

I assume it was the pending lawsuits and not a crisis of conscience that prompted the pivot.

House Dems unite to tell GOP to stop "demonizing" trans people with "dehumanizing" slurs - LGBTQ Nation Rep. Nancy Mace's "tra**y, tra**y, tra**y!" tirade is just one example.

This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

In Major Rebuke to Trump, House Passes Epstein Files Resolution Trump’s grip on his party is beginning to loosen because a group of renegade Republicans.

NEW: It's done: The House has passed the Epstein resolution.
www.thebulwark.com/p/in-major-r...

This is bullshit! What are the charges?

📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence

This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby.
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...

THIS IS BIG

For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

“One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans.”

Conversion therapy is quietly rebranding — and targeting trans youths As political attacks on gender-affirming care escalate, parents and experts fear a resurgence of discredited “therapies” that seek to change transgender children’s identities.

Good article. We have reported about "Gender Exploratory Therapy" at EITM for years now - it's a subversive practice akin to "crisis pregnancy centers" that seeks to delay transition until the person gives up on being trans - they will NEVER let the trans teen transition.

This Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate the resilience, courage, and beauty of the trans community. Your lives matter, your stories matter, and your right to thrive and exist authentically is non-negotiable.

We stand with you today and every day🏳️‍⚧️

Their opposition to the ACA (and even more so to single payer) is why I have never been an @ama-assn.org member. This embracing of a grifter who is spewing nonsense on a non-existent GOP health plan just reminds me why it still is not worth supporting