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MSK Library Guides: COVID Impacts: Immune
Detailed information and resources on the long-term health consequences of COVID-19 infection and the broad social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
libguides.mskcc.org
Not only have we not attained endemicity for SARS-CoV-2, we have destroyed endemicity for many other viral and bacterial infections like tuberculosis, polio, & staph-A. It's just not the case specifically because of immune system damage from covid. libguides.mskcc.org/CovidImpacts...
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Mani’s death has had me fiddling about with The Stone Roses 🎸🎶
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Mani’s death has had me fiddling about with The Stone Roses 🎸🎶
"When the Roses reformed, he was desperate for it to be like it was at the start and it broke his heart when it wasn’t. But it was nice after all they’d been through, financially and otherwise, that they got that final payday that enabled him and Imelda to have a lovely life."
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"When the Roses reformed, he was desperate for it to be like it was at the start and it broke his heart when it wasn’t. But it was nice after all they’d been through, financially and otherwise, that they got that final payday that enabled him and Imelda to have a lovely life."
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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.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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.
Appropriate datacenter policy would require water treatment and renewable energy investment for each site, but America insists the public bear all environmental costs and get none of the profit.
Some of us can read, Andy.
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Appropriate datacenter policy would require water treatment and renewable energy investment for each site, but America insists the public bear all environmental costs and get none of the profit.
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How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Last night’s #aurora show. #astronomy
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Last night’s #aurora show. #astronomy
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Spectacular #longread on the history of the right-wing opposition in Venezuela, and how during Juan Guaido's shadow government an abominable legal strategy robbed the country of $30 billion destined for corporate claims holders. Amazing work from Moe Tkacik.
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela - The American Prospect
How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault
prospect.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Spectacular #longread on the history of the right-wing opposition in Venezuela, and how during Juan Guaido's shadow government an abominable legal strategy robbed the country of $30 billion destined for corporate claims holders. Amazing work from Moe Tkacik.
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
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trump says haiti no longer meets requirements for tps.
haitians have to leave
haitians have to leave
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
www.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
trump says haiti no longer meets requirements for tps.
haitians have to leave
haitians have to leave
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timeline cleaning
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
timeline cleaning
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They didn’t even try to name it something less obvious lmao
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
They didn’t even try to name it something less obvious lmao
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Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
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The 🇺🇸 American road trip comedy film "PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES" written, produced and directed by John Hughes and starring Steve Martin and John Candy was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1987
🎬 Paramount Pictures
🎬 Paramount Pictures
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The 🇺🇸 American road trip comedy film "PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES" written, produced and directed by John Hughes and starring Steve Martin and John Candy was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1987
🎬 Paramount Pictures
🎬 Paramount Pictures
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Happy Thanksgiving, please enjoy some messed-up lore about the US's farm & food history.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByb...
Real Life Johnny Appleseed
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, please enjoy some messed-up lore about the US's farm & food history.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByb...
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The #MMIWG2S crisis spans decades, and involves 1000s of cases, and yet, even as the Epstein story captures mass media attention and builds pressure for more prosecutions, Indigenous women and girls and women-identified people continue to turn up dead.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/24/s...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/24/s...
Silenced Reports & Epstein Files: Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women Still Don’t Make News
Long before there was Jeffrey Epstein and his repulsive rape ring, there was the terror of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. The MMIW
www.counterpunch.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The #MMIWG2S crisis spans decades, and involves 1000s of cases, and yet, even as the Epstein story captures mass media attention and builds pressure for more prosecutions, Indigenous women and girls and women-identified people continue to turn up dead.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/24/s...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/24/s...
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People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link)
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
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A 12 year old girl died while sectioned in a psychiatric hospital because doctors missed autoimmune encephalitis
Psychosis is exceedingly rare in a 12 year old.
It’s heartbreaking that they locked her up rather than attempt to determine the true cause.
Psychologizing patients must stop
Psychosis is exceedingly rare in a 12 year old.
It’s heartbreaking that they locked her up rather than attempt to determine the true cause.
Psychologizing patients must stop
12-year-old girl who died after being sectioned had underlying brain disorder
A 12-year-old girl who died after she was admitted to a specialist mental health unit when she developed acute psychosis was suffering from a potentially treatable physical brain disorder, a pathologi...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
A 12 year old girl died while sectioned in a psychiatric hospital because doctors missed autoimmune encephalitis
Psychosis is exceedingly rare in a 12 year old.
It’s heartbreaking that they locked her up rather than attempt to determine the true cause.
Psychologizing patients must stop
Psychosis is exceedingly rare in a 12 year old.
It’s heartbreaking that they locked her up rather than attempt to determine the true cause.
Psychologizing patients must stop
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Really frustrating how like ~9-12 months of grappling with AI’s effects got taken up by hyperventilating sci-fi agi stuff
You can read about it in the New York Times today, as leading scholars of law and technology from around the country sound the alarm about what happens if the courts permit prosecutors to ignore basic conventions of truth and support on which we all rely. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Really frustrating how like ~9-12 months of grappling with AI’s effects got taken up by hyperventilating sci-fi agi stuff
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Our discovery that there were numerous basic errors in the response to an important emergency habeas petition we filed let to another discovery: they had done it before, and a local judge had even warned them about using AI to write briefs seeking to jail people.
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Our discovery that there were numerous basic errors in the response to an important emergency habeas petition we filed let to another discovery: they had done it before, and a local judge had even warned them about using AI to write briefs seeking to jail people.
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I manage all of this, a dialysis machine, a ventilator, tubes, a stressed out family, and more, but the government thinks we aren't professionals
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I manage all of this, a dialysis machine, a ventilator, tubes, a stressed out family, and more, but the government thinks we aren't professionals
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Asked a student how he was doing and he responded "Living the dream one nightmare at a time"
If that doesnt capture the absurdity and dread of this moment
If that doesnt capture the absurdity and dread of this moment
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Asked a student how he was doing and he responded "Living the dream one nightmare at a time"
If that doesnt capture the absurdity and dread of this moment
If that doesnt capture the absurdity and dread of this moment
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So, ordering enforced disappearance—an international crime.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
So, ordering enforced disappearance—an international crime.
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Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. Shifting law enforcement to immigration enforcement causes more law breaking. This isn't complicated. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. Shifting law enforcement to immigration enforcement causes more law breaking. This isn't complicated. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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NEW:
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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