Reposted by B RobRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Trump says Republicans should "probably not" increase taxes on the rich in their forthcoming tax bill. Meanwhile, his tariffs will hit poor and working-class Americans the hardest. "Party of the working class." 862933628
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I bet if one of their family members had #LongCovid they wouldn’t be cutting funding 030
Reposted by B RobAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters. 772244639037
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025An interesting read. Higher levels of EBV and herpes virus (as already known) but the hypothesis of IFNa auto antibodies wasn’t apparent #mecfs #LongCovid #peME #LongCovidAwareness www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17...mdpi.com 000
Reposted by B RobRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Nothing will ever trickle down. 25461031999
Reposted by B RobRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2025If you think Putin's agenda sounds similar to Trump's, there's a reason for that. Both are trying to distract from the economic looting by their respective oligarchies. Watch this video I put out just a few years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-nO8cBD79kyoutube.comThe Real Motive Behind the GOP's “Culture War” | Robert ReichWhy do Putin, Trump, and the GOP sound so much alike? Their culture wars have similar agendas: Diverting attention from the economic looting of their respective oligarchies. At its core, it’s all about preserving wealth and power. Why Republicans are NOT the Party of Freedom ►► https://youtu.be/IPzlR_mGQIM 552381731
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 23/02/2025 Unfortunately the pharmaceutical companies can’t see that if one of their drugs helped improve or even cure #longCovid or #MECFS then they would become profit even more massively, with virtually no cost to them. But for some reason they have the heads in the sand cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...cen.acs.orgLong COVID studies stymied by pharma’s lack of cooperationAcademic researchers want to repurpose drugs for the condition. Manufacturers aren’t supplying them 161
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025‘Post Exertional Malaise’ PEM a term used by these researchers isn’t new, ME/CFS isn’t new. As someone mentioned in the comments SARS-CoV back in 2002-03 wasn’t new. Most patients with ongoing PEM have ME/CFS What’s new is the previously ignorant medical & research community is finally waking up 060
Reposted by B RobRobert Saunders (aka McMullen) @roberthmcmullen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Thanks for your continuing support, George. Please could you encourage your followers to sign and share the S4ME petition which calls for Cochrane to withdraw its harmful review of exercise therapy for CFS? www.change.org/p/cochrane-w...change.orgSign the PetitionCochrane: Withdraw the harmful 2019/2024 Exercise therapy for CFS review 35316
Reposted by B RobRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Replacing civil servants with loyalists. Upending the lives of millions who rely on federal programs. Grotesquely blaming "DEI" for disaster. Trump wants to consolidate power through divide-and-conquer tactics. We must stand together and fight back. youtu.be/wSYbNcjGjhA?...youtu.beFighting Back Against Trump II | The Coffee Klatch with Robert ReichYouTube video by Robert Reich 1002754532
Reposted by B RobBilly Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Liverpool Echo: ''I used to travel the world but now I'm 38 and trapped in my own home'' "In 2020 I got unwell with covid and developed ME [myalgic encephalomyelitis] and long covid. That gave me chronic levels of fatigue and I ended up bed bound." www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...liverpoolecho.co.uk'I used to travel the world. Now I'm 38 and can't leave my home'Linka can only experience the outside world by looking at her garden through the window 0316
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Well worth signing against the scientific fraud done by the Pace Trial authors, and by their boyfriends at Cochrane. They say “Trust the science” We say “Test the science” 131
Reposted by B RobRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board has endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.rollingstone.comJeff Bezos' Editorial Board Calls Trump's AG Pick, Who Lobbied for Amazon, 'Qualified'The Washington Post's editorial board gave a thumbs up for Trump's attorney general pick Pam Bondi, who previously lobbied for Amazon. 38450621884
Reposted by B RobProf Danny Altmann @daltmann.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Long Covid in Children - we’re still looking for families who’d like to take part and help in this research. Please get in touch 29293
Reposted by B RobWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades 495166995321
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Hope for #MECFS #LongCovid Interesting to again see T cell exhaustion, Interferon signalling, & viral persistence as suspects in post viral illness, as is the ‘Innate Immune Response’ mTOR inhibitors and HIV antivirals are suggested youtu.be/UnFZ9ZyJ1nI?...youtu.beLong COVID Research & Potential Treatments Part 1 (E27) Ft. Prof David PutrinoYouTube video by Long Covid The Answers 020
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 03/01/202585% of #LongCovid patients improved on this treatment (in the trial). Hopefully it can be repeated by other researchers and we see research discover why there’s improvement #pwME #MECFS sleepreviewmag.com/sleep-treatm...sleepreviewmag.comHuman Umbilical Cord Blood Infusion Improves Fatigue in Long-COVIDClinical trial results show that HPC, cord blood effectively treats post-COVID fatigue, with 85% of patients experiencing relief. 021
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Fantastic news to see a drug trial in #LongCovid I didn’t see PEM mentioned though. So email the researchers requesting PEM as criteria. Otherwise they will be too broad & the trial may not reach statistical significance #MECFS 1/2 clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT065...clinicaltrials.govClinicalTrials.gov 130
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Most probably we would have had a handful of treatments for #LondCovid #MECFS by the time the pandemic arrived … 020
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Good to see Nath explain things, after the controversy of ‘Effort Preference’ although not a full answer, at least the rest of the interview was interesting #MECFS #LongCovid 100
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024A well written article on #LongCovid mentions #MECFS I wonder about the viral persistence hypothesis, as why would SARS-CoV2 cause the same symptoms as ME/CFS? As the disease existed before Covid. Are different viruses capable of persisting & causing ME/CFS? Or is viral persistence jst correlationcrikey.com.auLong COVID is becoming a serious social and economic issue for AustraliaAddressing this health challenge is vital to getting many people back participating fully in their lives. 321
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Throw out your black spatula… Black plastic cookware is full of toxins, like flame retardants and forevermore chemicals, as is recycled from junk plastics, often coloured black to hide contamination discolouration… 1/2t.cohttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/10/black-plastic-spatula-flame-retardants/680452/ 110
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024This is vindication for ME/CFS patients. As ‘Effort Preference’ used in a recent NIH study should never have been implemented. This new study proves something we all knew, that ME/CFS patients can’t preform cognitive tasks like healthy people. #MECFS #LongCovidyoutu.be042 - Cognition really is worse in ME/CFSYouTube video by Neuroinflammation, Pain, and Fatigue Lab at UAB 1101
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024A riveting video on the appalling history of those that made #MECFS a behavioural condition. Trigger warning: Anger inducing Please don’t attack these conmen as that’s what they previously used against ME patients to paint us as the villains #LongCovid www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiwX...youtube.comME/CFS Scandal Explainer (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)YouTube video by Broken Battery 010
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024A good video interview by David Tuller, with researcher Prof Chris Ponting who he and his team have identified 116 markers in ME/CFS. #LongCovid #MECFS virology.ws/2024/11/19/t...virology.wsTrial By Error: Professor Chris Ponting on "Replicated Blood-Based Biomarkers" for ME in Big Data Pre-Print Study | Virology BlogBy David Tuller, DrPH Along with several colleagues, Professor Chris Ponting, a geneticist at the University of Edinburgh and a leading ME/CFS researcher, r ... 172
Reposted by B RobGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024One of the forms of hybrid warfare Russia is developing to use in Western nations is cyber-attacks to disable sewerage systems, flooding the rivers with shit. How, in the UK, would we detect them? 1833815720
Reposted by B RobTerry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Terrible news today: This year, one-third of coral cover has been destroyed in two northern sections of the Great Barrier reef due to anthropogenic heating. Results for the southern sections (which were even hotter) have not been officially released. www.aims.gov.au/information-... 22954911148
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I remember reading the paper & thinking the authors had widely overstretched with the all #LongCovid patients claim, as it was only the hospitalised that they had data on Its clear non-hospitalised patients had a very noticeably different progression of disease #MECFS virology.ws/2024/11/18/t...virology.wsTrial By Error: The BMJ Corrects REGAIN Study's Expansive Claims; Results Only Applicable to Post-Hospitalized Long Covid Patients | Virology BlogBy David Tuller, DrPH In February, The BMJ published a study called Clinical effectiveness of an online supervised group physical and mental health rehabili ... 080
Reposted by B RobJulie Houston @julesahouston.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Warning! There is a fake Care For Gaza account on this site. Please see post below, report and block. #CareForGaza #Gaza #Palestine x.com/CareForGaza/... 054
Reposted by B RobBilly Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Health Rising: 'The Exhausted Immune Cell Sweepstakes: Spanish Group Proposes Exhausted T-cells and Pituitary Damage are Driving ME/CFS' 'Both Nath & these researchers..propose that an immune defect (in B or T-cells) results in..immune exhaustion..' www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/11...healthrising.orgThe Exhausted Immune Cell Sweepstakes: Spanish Group Proposes Exhausted T-cells and Pituitary Damage are Driving ME/CFS - Health RisingSpanish researchers propose that chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is an immune driven disease that targets the pituitary gland. Treatment suggestions are given. 1183
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024 A very interesting interview, brilliant questions and answers. Some will be painful to hear. If the pendulum swings too far left then that creates a lot of momentum to swing too far to the right (and vice versa) something we need to remember next for time www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...rnz.co.nzHow dominant is right-wing online culture?Podcasters and Youtubers with millions of followers, situated outside of the mainstream, are dominating over traditionally liberal and arts media, according to The Times columnist James Marriot. 020
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024If the ‘Eye in the Sky’ was instead ‘Intelligent Extraterrestrial Space Aliens’, this article would go viral… 000
B Rob @alpineopen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Microscopic inflammatory processes, possibly involving abnormal microglial activation, fibrinogen deposition, microscopic inflammation & mitochondrial damage = ‘Smouldering MS’ Maybe Prof Ron Davis is right about a ME/CFS subgroup overlapping MS #MECFS #LongCovid www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...medscape.comSmoldering MS May Warrant Unique StrategiesAn expert panel defined smoldering-associated worsening in MS, proposing a unique pathology and optimal clinical and research strategies. But one expert questioned the smoldering concept’s validity. 064
Reposted by B RobGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/11/2024The right’s response to climate breakdown destroys the idea that Trump won because of the “woke” way the left talks. No matter how you discuss it, the very mention incites fury and abuse. Trump’s view dominates because corporate and billionaire propaganda has triumphed. 1460793