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The CDC’s chronic disease hub just got swallowed by a new agency, sinking decades of work in bureaucratic bloat — all while chronic illnesses keep climbing. buff.ly/kBy6NYE

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A wild thing that happens these days is that huge swaths of the USA will have poor air quality because of wildfires, which are exacerbated by climate change. And we receive zero information about this, or health guidance, or warnings. Many folks are working or playing outside. Kids have sports.

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That's why.

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VuMedi Video: What You Need to Know About ME/CFS The ME Association's Video – What you need to know about ME/CFS – is now available on VuMedi, a video education platform for healthcare professionals! Find out more and watch the video: https://meassociation.org.uk/brma #MECFS #pwME #MyalgicE

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I would like them to explain why they consider that His Majesty the King is not British. Preferably to HM the King’s face.

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Raise your hand if you're not even an epidemiologist and you still know covid is an ongoing public health threat. #Covid #LongCovid #EpiSky #PublicHealth

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It’s literally the Klan.

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Postacute COVID-19 syndrome & fibromyalgia syndrome are associated with anti-satellite glial cell IgG serum autoantibodies but only fibromyalgia syndrome serum-IgG is pronociceptive journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex... Screenshot from Science for ME weekly update #LongCovid #Fibromyalgia

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"Our study also verified the significant alterations in some complement components, such as C1 inhibitor, C3, and C5, within the sEV proteome of post-COVID patients." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Screenshot from the Science for ME weekly update #PASC #LongCovid

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Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office. Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.

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And the next surge starts right on queue where there is a lot of international travel. ED visits lag cases by 2-3 weeks, so we can assume that there is a LOT of spread going on in NYC.

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Thailand urging holiday travellers to wear masks in the wake of the latest Covid variant Nimbus (nicknamed razor blade throat). We’re starting to see more & more media outlets discuss masking… which is highly unusual given they’ve been driving the “it’s over” narrative for years. Respirators work!

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Josephine Baker was born June 3, 1906

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pediatric long covid is now more common than pediatric asthma, and there are no treatments for pediatric long covid

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“get the fuck out! nazi fucking cowards!” inject it straight into my soul

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This is the wholesome content I love.

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White folks didn't read Project 2025, didn't heed any of the warnings, now we are here, and it's only going to get worse. Ignorance is NOT a valid excuse. They did vote for all of this, he did say he was going to do all of this. They get no pass, they get no sympathy.

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"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

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Watched a doc on Charlotte von Mahlsdorf - a trans woman who survived the Nazis (beat her own Nazi father to death!), survived a brutally homophobic regime in East Germany, and then had to survive skinhead attacks, but never stopped finding and loving other queer people, and creating her own worlds.

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You know not one of these masked “ICE” muthafuckas bothered to mask when Covid hit. Wouldn’t mask to save a life. Will mask to ruin lives.

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someone i know who's pregnant was denied the covid vaccine this weekend by a CVS pharmacist the guy insisted that 1) new guidance means pregnant women should not get vaccinated and 2) pregnant women only ever got covid vaccines at/after 32 weeks consequences are here

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We’ll end DEI and employ people based on merit, they said 🤡

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is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

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We did it!!! We raised $2838 for @openmedf.bsky.social and @meactnet.bsky.social (and I also threw in $500 for @solveme.bsky.social), bringing us to a grand total raised of $9514 for ME advocacy and research after my employer match! Thanks so much to everyone who participated 💙

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The Spinoff: 'ME/CFS patient estimates have doubled – but the disease is still ignored' 'Tens of thousands of New Zealanders are thought to have myalgic encephalomyelitis..yet the disease remains largely neglected in medicine and politics alike' thespinoff.co.nz/society/03-0...

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DOGE is now reviewing every NIH grant that goes out, I reported last week. That review is AI-driven and is screening for DEI, trans health, China, vaccine hesitancy, and the institutions to whom Trump has blocked funding, @hannahnatanson.bsky.social reports. Gift link: wapo.st/3HhnPSt

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These parents clamored to enroll their children in the Covid vaccine trials. But they say it'll be tough — and unethical — to enroll children in placebo trials again. And they feel betrayed that their sacrifices are now going ignored. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump’s push to slash federal spending could have devastating consequences for America’s national parks, w/proposed budget cuts threatening to gut the Park Service & dismantle protections for the country’s most treasured landscapes, the NY Times reported Sunday. www.alternet.org/trump-nation...

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This is RIDICULOUS www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Yet again, Seattle is being attacked by Trump. Trump is threatening our state’s funding for defending immigrant rights. But we won’t be bullied. Our Democratic leadership will fight this in court to protect our values, people, and future.

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The owners of this ostrich farm are invested in a company trying to make commercial ostrich antibodies a thing (originally for dieting?) & in addition to ignoring the cull order, have continued to violate quarantine orders, allowing infected & even dead birds to be exposed to other wildlife & humans

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I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

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It’s genuinely hard to believe these articles aren’t satire at this point. It’s not a puzzle. It’s not a mystery. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’re still in a global pandemic. It’s a mass disabling event that society is ignoring because they wanted to go “back to normal”

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to impaired platelet function "Platelet concentrates (PCs) prepared from donors who recently recovered from COVID-19 demonstrated impaired platelet aggregation." #LongCovid onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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I am not telling you to call this hotline and hold it up by playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" over the phone to it constantly. I am also not telling you not to do that.

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Daniel Duffey [R-MT] was convicted of stalking after sending his victim and their family a torrent of messages and even creating a fake account on a gay website in their name simply because he didn't respond to text messages fast enough. There are far better ways to make new friends than that.

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I'm sick of ME/CFS being compared to a never-ending flu. This ain’t no f*ing flu. I feel like every system in my body is broken and in pieces…But even if you have a very severe flu and are bed bound, the never-ending part is a huge deal… www.whitneydafoe.com/mecfs/?post=... #MECFS #LongCovid

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In a move that could bring future research on HIV vaccines to a near halt, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases notified researchers today that it will not renew funding next year for two major consortia in the beleaguered field, Science has learned. scim.ag/4jpUm5W

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Donate to your local food pantries. There is extra demand with school letting out for the summer. And thanks to the ghoul in chief, food pantries will receive almost no assistance.

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Pride isn’t just a celebration — it’s the memory of a protest for our rights. And today, as we face attacks like never before, we protest with joy. Because joy is resistance. Joy is survival. Joy is power. #Pridemonth #Pinks

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Dr Hart pioneered using chest x-rays to screen for tuberculosis, before symptoms made the diagnosis obvious. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trai...

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Why are yall ok using the term zios when you know itnwas invented as a slur by white supremacists?

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