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House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care.

They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely.

This won’t just harm people. This will kill people.

They own this.
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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The Sick Times: “Trump commands HHS to terminate advisory committee on Long COVID”

“We need answers of why this specific committee was targeted in light of the commitment made to Long COVID [in Kennedy’s hearing],” said Lisa McCorkell

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Trump commands HHS to terminate advisory committee on Long COVID - The Sick Times
A new executive order from the Trump Administration commands the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to terminate the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Long COVID. The order, “Commencing the...
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February 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I've been thinking about how to explain the challenge of living with ME/CFS and created this cartoon visualization.

Imagine the life of someone without ME is a rainbow of activities that each take a certain amount of energy.

ME limits your energy, and thereby the vibrancy of your life.
A stacked bar chart (oriented horizontally) labeled: Living with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome) Each horizontal bar is a disease status: Pre-ME, Mild ME, Moderate ME, Severe ME, Very Severe ME. The width of each bar represents how much energy is available in each status (100, 50, 25, 12.5, and 6.25 respectively). Each bar is divided into sections for how one might allocate their energy: hygiene & nutrition (gray); caregiving, cleaning errands (red); work (orange); exercise (yellow); friends (green); hobbies (blue); fun (purple). With worsening ME, the hygiene & nutrition takes up a larger proportion of total available energy and the amount of energy available for all other parts of life shrinks. Mild ME has most things cut in half, with exercise cut smaller. Moderate ME removes exercise altogether, and everything else shrinks. Severe ME has only tiny slivers of red, orange, green, blue and purple. Very Severe ME has only a tiny sliver of green.
February 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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"Telehealth is a luxury."

For who, though?

#Telehealth #Disability #MECFS #LongCOVID #Healthcare #Bedbound #Accessible #CivilRights #Luxury #SomeBodies
A hand-drawn comic with handwritten text. Top reads: "Some Bodies: Telehell." Just below reads: "'Telehealth is a luxury.'" Drawings show, first, a person with brown hair lying down with their head on a pillow and a blanket covering their body. Their eyes are wide. Next image is a close up on the face and wide eyes. Third, the eyes are even closer. Final image shows one eye close up with the word "how?" written on the eye like a reflection of light. The comic is signed "J.R. '25" in cursive.
February 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM