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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 3d

"There is nothing beautiful about shifting the burden onto those least able to bear it. But this is precisely what our nation is now poised to do."

ME/CFS and long COVID advocate Laurie Jones writes on Medicaid work requirements. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/117839?trw=no

Opinion | Medicaid Work Requirements Will Devastate People With Invisible Disabilities

ME/CFS and long COVID patients must qualify as 'medically frail'

www.medpagetoday.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6d

ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on Chicago’s South Side
They are creating chaos
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Federal agents shoot woman in Chicago neighborhood after allegedly being rammed, boxed in by cars, DHS says

The woman, as well as a man whom authorities say was involved in the chaos, were facing charges Sunday morning.

www.cbsnews.com

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moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 8d

Pope Leo: It's not "pro-life" to be anti-abortion but support
"the inhuman treatment of immigrants"

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 12d

The healthcare service and delivery system is crushingly difficult to navigate now. We're seeing entire organizations cancel telehealth visits because of the impending-gov-shutdown-Medicare-telehealth-expiration

Those healthcare orgs aren't willing to accept *any* risk they won't get paid.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 19d

Clip art of pediatrician checking baby. He's saying Jesus. This baby is just filled with fluid. Fucking filled.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18d

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

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marydimmock.bsky.social @marydimmock.bsky.social · 18d

Llewellyn King @llewellynking.bsky.social · 22d

The future of electricity is being discussed in terms of how we make it... Read more here: www.creators.com/read/Llewell...

This Isn't the Time To Politicize Electricity Again, by Llewellyn King

The future of electricity is being discussed in terms of how we make it: whether it should be generated by nuclear, wind and solar or by coal and natural gas. Nuclear is favored by the utilities and...

www.creators.com

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Yann (ME/LC) @me-cfs.bsky.social · Aug 22

#MECFS #LongCOVID

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Aug 22

NYT: 'What Do You Want to Read About Disability?'

'Input from readers will help shape our coverage'

'What is our coverage missing? Do you have a story that you want to share? Let us know.'

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

What Do You Want to Read About Disability?

www.nytimes.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 23

Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.

Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built

The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy.

nyti.ms

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Aug 10

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 10

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital

Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

www.bbc.com

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Bateman Horne Center @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social · Aug 7

In honor of #SevereMEDay, we’re launching #UnitedForME, a shared hashtag to amplify stories, art & education from the Severe ME community. Join us in uplifting voices that need to be heard. 💙 #SevereME @openmedf.bsky.social @solveme.bsky.social @meactnet.bsky.social

Four organization logos appear in a row at the top: Bateman Horne Center, Solve M.E., Open Medicine Foundation, and #MEAction. Below them, bold black text reads: “Together, we’re amplifying Severe ME voices with one united hashtag:” followed by a stylized box containing #UnitedForME.

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Miriam E. Tucker @miriametucker.bsky.social · Aug 8

On #SevereMEDay reposting my 2022 article about caring for patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome who are too sick to see a doctor. Some can't eat, and may be misdiagnosed with anorexia. #MECFS is not psychiatric. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Clinicians Can Help People With Severe ME/CFS, Even Unseen

About a quarter of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome are homebound or bedbound, making medical office visits difficult, if not impossible. Some require tube feeding.

www.medscape.com

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · Aug 8

Today is #SevereMEDay - a day we come together to especially take time to honor the 25 percent living with the most severe form of this disease and remember those who have died from ME.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis is a complex chronic disease that presents with symptoms in multiple body systems.

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · Aug 8

As we come to the end of Severe ME Day, I wish I had some powerful words that could bring you peace, hope, and encouragement.

What I can do is remind you that your words have power. Your stories matter.

#SevereMEday #UnitedForME #pwME

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marydimmock.bsky.social @marydimmock.bsky.social · Aug 9

I'm so sorry, Larre.

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Liz Essley Whyte @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · Jul 29

NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding

The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

www.wsj.com

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marydimmock.bsky.social @marydimmock.bsky.social · Jul 24

Israel has severely limited the amount of food entering Gaza, where society is on the brink of collapse.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise

Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 5

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Jun 30

Univ. of Virginia: 'Jie Sun, PhD, Secures Grants Totaling $6.2 Million to Study Aging and Chronic Diseases After Viral Injury'

'Over the next 5 years, the researchers will pinpoint exactly how interferon-gamma from T cells sparks this chronic inflammation'

news.med.virginia.edu/featured/jie...

Jie Sun, PhD, Secures Grants Totaling $6.2 Million to Study Aging and Chronic Diseases After Viral Injury - Featured - Medicine in Motion News

Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medicine Jie Sun, PhD, in the UVA Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research and the Department of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and Inte...

news.med.virginia.edu

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · Jun 30

The very definition of (fossil fool) insanity: taxing clean, healthy energy to defend polluting, health-harming fossil fuels.

@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@mason4c.bsky.social
@apha.org
@psr.org
@momscleanairforce.org
@momsaction.bsky.social

Surprise Tax in G.O.P. Bill Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power

www.nytimes.com

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · Jun 27

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Jun 25

I concur and have been complaining about this for a while, especially every time the NYT refers to him as a "vaccine skeptic." The search for neutral language undermines the truth and gives a false impression. No, he's a vaccine opponent. A vaccine foe. An anti-vaccine advocate. Pick any of these.

Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · Jun 25

Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · Jun 17

🧪Numerous studies have linked asbestos as the primary cause of mesothelioma, a lung disease & as a result, in part, linked to heightened mortality rates.

I used to work in an old building in Detroit that had old posters w/ warnings about asbestos exposure.

🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos

www.nytimes.com

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Jun 13

Frontiers: “Unwilling or unable? Interpreting effort task performance in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome”

“In sum, Walitt et al.'s (2024) data provide no evidence of altered effort preference in PI-ME/CFS patients…conclusions…unwarranted..”

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | Unwilling or unable? Interpreting effort task performance in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

In a recent, high-profile study of post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (PI-ME/CFS), Walitt et al. (2024) assessed the performa...

www.frontiersin.org

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