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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 22h

This sounds an awful lot like what happened to ME patients with Ampligen. Can we please not repeat history?

The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 1d

A group of 53 people with #LongCOVID joined a clinical trial for Vyvgart. For many of them, the treatment changed everything.

Then, without warning, Argenx canceled the trial.

Most of them have now relapsed.

They're calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug: bit.ly/48l1Qp5

A photo Nicole Barrick, a woman in a pink KN95 mask, receives an infusion of Vyvgart. The text reads, "The Sick Times. Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug. By Clare Banaszewski, Nicole Barrick, Mike Bilik, Addie Davis, Mia Delli Gatti, Ellie Hayes, Roman White."

"For those living with Long COVID, every ounce of hope is hard-won. This isn’t just about physical symptoms. It’s about the emotional toll of being given hope — and then having it taken away." - Vyvgart clinical trial participants
Clare Banaszewski, Nicole Barrick, Mike Bilik, Addie Davis, Mia Delli Gatti, Ellie Hayes, Roman White

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 22h

Gorgeous!

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 23h

Girl, you’re 30 years old. That’s not perimenopause!

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 23h

I’m so tired of hearing “the pandemic was bad for my mental health & that’s why I refuse to acknowledge it’s still tearing apart hundreds of millions of lives & I definitely will never mask again & anyone who talks about it in the present tense is weird & wrong & bad & also perimenopause is rough!”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Contra Tenore @cntrtnr.bsky.social · 2d

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Melissa Mazur @phillyphile215.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds like something @lastweektonight.com should be covering 👀 (Check out JohnVsJon.com for more)

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 3d

Important thread on the #GreatestMEdicalScandal of the 21st century

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 4d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 4d

This is correct. Every year from age 0-5 is really 3 years, ages 5-10 are 2 years, 10-20 is the only time when time works correctly, & after that each decade is a year, except for 2020-2025 which has simultaneously been a long 3 weeks & also a lifetime & also maybe just one bad night of nightmares

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 4d

Honey, don't even tell me that 2005 was 20 years ago, that's just not possible. That would mean that 1995 was 30 years ago, and obviously that's absurd. Of course, 1985 was 40 years ago, that's just obvious.

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 4d

Lolsob at the person who decided my neuroimmune disease is fake because they didn’t want to mask for me anymore

Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 10d

I learned this term yesterday and my life will never be the same.

"Solution Aversion": Denying a problem when you do not like the solution.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 5d

It looks like they believe whatever makes them happiest in the moment.

1) If a bad thing is happening to others, it can't happen to me 😮‍💨

2) 💥Oh no! the bad thing happened to me! 💥

3) What a shame that bad thing was impossible to predict and also inevitable 🤷‍♀️

Repeat

indefinitely

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 4d

Ireland, man. They are doing the thing.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 5d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 6d

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t blame her but she could have just done a boudoir shoot like every other millennial & left Charli & Olivia & her fiancé’s ex out of it. I’m not a Taylor hater but I can see their point 😭

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 6d

I’m starting to think this album was mostly an excuse to show off her hot tour body before she has babies

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 6d

This sounds suspiciously like how the Bible started

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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 6d

60% of *all* americans don't make enough to cover the basics.

marginalized americans are doing disproportionately worse than that.

please regard each other accordingly.

Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 14d

Y'all don't know anyone's financial situation on here. Just accusing people of "begging" because you don't like them. Black unemployment is up over 7%. "We need community" but also "don't need community TOO much." Help or hush. You in the way.

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Cat Vincent, (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · 6d

It's still inspiration porn for ableds before it is anything for crips.

Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 7d

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"The Trouble With Recovery Stories" by Naomi Whittingham @naomiwhitt.bsky.social (with severe ME for decades)

alifehidden.com/2024/11/05/r...

An excellent, articulate article discussing “Recovery Stories” and the complex impressions and impacts they bring about

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME

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The Trouble With Recovery Stories
Posted on 5th Nov 2024

Photo of somebody up a tall mountain near the edge

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MECFS Clinic MN @mecfsclinicmn.bsky.social · 8d

Telemedicine coverage formally came to an end yesterday, October. 1, 2025, with the Congress not being able to make this change permanent. It is caught in the budget fight. Please call your state and federal representatives. Tell them how you are affected. We need more voices to be heard.

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 7d

A happy flat fuck Friday to all who celebrate!

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 8d

I cackled & then I thought “but that’s misogynistic” & then I thought “but🌲🍆🫣”

Screenshot from x

@taylorswiftliar
you know what? maybe joe alwyn did write some songs on folklore

@hsjsjsjdhfbbbbf
nd clearly travis wrote 60% of tjis one

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 8d

My friend Leah & I realized the “gifted & talented program” just meant extra work so we told our g&t teacher we quit & our regular teacher we were still going & then we played in the stairwells during class

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9d

Hard to think of a topic more tailor-made to the peculiarities of Bluesky's demographics than gifted kid discourse - seemingly everyone's a former gifted kid who's exactly 38 thus is likely to now have gifted kids of their own.

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