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Cheryl Benson

@cherylbenson.bsky.social
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#SevereME 1991, #LongCovid Need medical for 3 strokes & 3 dystonic #ABI from malpractice & collusion Abused in 5 Toronto hospitals #Aphasia #VideoJourno @M_B_News Progressive #Film #PWD ♿️ 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 #Egalitarian

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ME Association @meassociation.org.uk · 06/10/2026
In the interview, Monbiot says of #pwME “They need more advocates. They need people like you … and they need far more journalists and far more other people, far more politicians supporting them.”
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ME Association @meassociation.org.uk · 06/10/2026
David Tuller interviews George Monbiot on recent Guardian article: 'Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed'.  Read a summary and extracts or watch the full interview here: meassociation.org.uk/y82q #MECFS
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Photo of a person interviewing another by holding a microphone to them. 
Wording reads: David Tuller interviews George Monbiot on recent Guardian article. 
MEA logo.
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ME Association @meassociation.org.uk · 06/10/2026
This MEA pilot funded project, led by Dr Amanda Heslegrave with the laboratory work being conducted by Sophie Hicks at UCL, aims to identify biomarkers that are unique to ME/CFS, unique to LC, or shared between the two conditions. Read the latest update: meassociation.org.uk/pyw9 #MECFS
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Research Update: Biomarker Study for ME/CFS and Long Covid Now Underway  - The ME Association
Latest updates on the ME Association's Blood Based Biomarker research into ME/CFS
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Cheryl Benson @cherylbenson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Christ almost got me as I was gonna say parody or what lol
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Chloé de Canson @chloedecanson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why do people with ME claim to know more about the medical aspects of their disease than their doctors? Because the mechanisms that usually ensure doctors' knowledge fail in the case of ME, and sick people have created mechanisms of knowledge production and dissemination to pick up the slack.
Screenshot of the header of a published paper: 

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Patient's knowledge, doctor's ignorance: The production of knowledge about myalgic encephalomyelitis

Chloé de Canson

Department of of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 52, Groningen, 9712 GL, the Netherlands
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: Zionism is alive and well in Canada’s news. Two outrage cycles in recent weeks were motivated purely to sling antisemitism accusations against actors who are criticizing Israel’s genocide. @alex.readthemaple.com joins me this week to discuss. #cdnpoli #cdn #cdnnews
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Zionist Canadian Outlets Throw Their Weight Around ft. Alex Cosh (Podcast)
Overt Zionism dictated who the hate mobs targeted
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 02/10/2026
ICYMI: The Catch is hosting its first live event! Join Desmond Cole, Samira Mohyeddin and Sonya Fatah at the Danu Social House on October 27th to discuss the Israeli bias and radicalization in Canadian news media. RSVP here:
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Three Years of October: Fighting Bias and Radicalization in News Media
The Catch's Scott Martin hosts a panel dissecting Canadian legacy news coverage of Israel's genocide
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Cheryl Benson @cherylbenson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What health?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/06/2026
Judges argue sanctions aimed to punish and coerce ICC decisions on US and Israeli war crimes cases.
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ICC judges sue Trump over sanctions, call measures unlawful
Judges argue sanctions aimed to punish and coerce ICC decisions on US and Israeli war crimes cases.
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Michiel @murtoz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#SevereMErgency #pwME, please sign this petition and email the hospital if you can. Instructions on the petition. @tessamunt.bsky.social - here we go again. @jamesmurrayldn.bsky.social @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social how many more times will you allow this to happen? We need safe beds for the Severe!
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Sign the Petition
Save Caroline Roberts’ Life now: A very severe ME/CFS patient with high mortality risk.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 06/06/2026
Canada’s public infrastructure is not up for sale. My address at the @novascotiandp.bsky.social convention.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables
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Cheryl Benson @cherylbenson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Canadian charity Ohr Somayach funds forced displacement in Sheikh Jarrah. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...
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Canadian charity Ohr Somayach funds forced displacement in Sheikh Jarrah
Recently reported by Charlotte Ritz-Jack at Jewish Currents Ohr Somayach is a yeshiva (traditional Jewish educational institution) founded in East Jerusalem in 1972 by a group of American educators. ...
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Cheryl Benson @cherylbenson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
savethearchive.com/newsleaders/
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Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!
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Cheryl Benson @cherylbenson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
NEW ACTION: Join me in urging Senators to stop Bill C-9! This dangerous bill will chill free expression, free assembly and criminalize dissent in Canada! share.nwmd.social/s/7QSkHXYb
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Senator: Stop C-9 and protect our rights!
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Post exertional malaise (PEM) is the hallmark symptom of #MECFS It’s not fatigue following activity. It is a dramatic deterioration and worsening of symptoms. Short video explainer - triggers, symptoms, and management. Repost for the last day of #MEAwarenessMonth
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Oh sure… we’re supposed to believe these massive AI data centers are being built to “help humanity”…not centralize power, monitor behavior, and quietly erode personal freedom at industrial scale. Totally normal.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Ford government defeats NDP bill that would have cut HST on certain food items www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ford government defeats NDP bill that would have cut HST on certain food items | CBC News
The Doug Ford government defeated an NDP bill on Wednesday that would have removed the Ontario portion of the harmonized sales tax on certain food products and non-alcoholic beverages.
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Cheryl Benson @cherylbenson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Seriously fuck off Carney!
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“This is not a life, it is miserable. So how do I feel? Not even human anymore.” A 36-year-old woman with severe #MECFS confined to bed, on oxygen and a feeding tube, unable to tolerate light, sound or vibrations. Clip from Swiss TV
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Vlad Singh @juggadijatt.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Where all the Punjabis at
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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 28/05/2026
NEW: Israel has been contacting the Carney government regarding alleged antisemitism in Canada this year, but Global Affairs Canada is keeping records of those communications secret, reveals @alex.readthemaple.com. www.readthemaple.com/global-affai...
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Global Affairs Canada Keeps Israel’s ‘Antisemitism’ Lobbying Secret
“We regret to inform you that the records you requested are all withheld.”
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/05/2026
5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7416 - Petitions
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/05/2026
3/ It even opens the door to handing your data to Trump's America without a Canadian judge. The biggest civil liberties groups like @cancivlib.bsky.social, @openmedia.org, and @citizenlab.ca call this the most expansive invasion of our rights in modern history. thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-...
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Trump Wants to Tap Your Phone. Ottawa Might Let Him | The Walrus
Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/05/2026
2/ C-22 drops the bar for police to "reasonable suspicion," the lowest threshold in Canadian criminal law, and forces your providers to keep a year of everyone's metadata. @mgeist.bsky.social calls it "a comprehensive surveillance map of virtually every Canadian."
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/05/2026
1/ Right now, a bill called C-22 is moving through Parliament. It would let police pull information on who you talk to, when, and where, all without a warrant. It's at committee this week. 🧵
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/05/2026
Another clip from my interview with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. It's important to remember that a lot of people want to see Canada as a country that stands up to the US. But the details matter. They really do.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/05/2026
Workers have fought and died for the right to strike. We will not allow this government to take us backwards.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“The Israeli government has repeatedly not only violated the laws of war, but continues to declare its intention to commit more atrocities … And they’re able to do so because there’s no restraint on the Israeli military.”
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SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Politicians celebrating the defeat of life-saving healthcare during an overdose crisis is nothing to be proud of. An overdose prevention site IS helping vulnerable people “properly.” The evidence is clear: OPS save lives, reduce public drug use, and connect users to care.
Screencap from Twitter from Sitka Media with a photo of Ken Sim and ABC councillors at a press conference. it reads "Mayor 
@KenSimCity
 says he’s “incredibly proud” of the community for successfully opposing a new overdose prevention site at 900 Helmcken:

“None of us are against helping vulnerable individuals in the city we love. All we want to do is see that it’s done properly.”
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Cheryl Benson @cherylbenson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis #mecfs
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 26/05/2026
Visually impaired Waymo users in CA say riding in a Waymo gives them a feeling of independence and spares them the discrimination they face from human drivers (Sonia A. Rao/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Cheryl Benson @cherylbenson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
It could be Parkinson’s
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Cheryl Benson @cherylbenson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Lyme
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Update on Savannah: Cyclizine was restored 2 weeks after arriving in Devon, which immediately enabled her to start eating again. After nearly 3 months of “relentless agony and begging”, oxycodone injections were also restored to a level that controls her pain.
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Donate to #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital, organized by Sam Pearce
Very Severe ME patient 23 year-old Savannah Victora-May is at … Sam Pearce needs your support for #SevereMErgency:Save Savannah from dying inside NHS hospital
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I wonder (rhetorically) whether Carney fans telling me slashing programs to pay for weapons, being open to greater integration with the US, destroying the environment and trampling on our rights is just good business realise how much they sound like Conservatives
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FF-Suze @suze-bsky.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We’re not going to take your BS anymore Druggie Fraud #FightFord #Ontario Link to Democracy Watch website democracywatch.ca/dwatch-to-fi...
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Group preparing legal challenge to Ford government freedom of information clampdown | Globalnews.ca
Democracy Watch announced Thursday it is working to file a challenge to a transparency clampdown included in the Ford government's 2026 budget.
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David Kaufman @kaufmanmd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
From: www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...
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Frontiers | Pathophysiological mechanisms of post-exertional malaise: an integrative analysis based on the metabolism-immune-neuro interaction model
Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is a common core symptom in various chronic debilitating conditions, such as Post COVID-19 Condition (PCC, also known as Long C...
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
CONTENT WARNING: state violence Truly despicable behavior from NYPD last night at wyckoff heights medical center. Cop were openly collaborating with ICE, and a white shirt was captured on camera calling “all Democrats” a “waste of human race.” (🎥 from freedomnews, Patrick Hilsman & protestors OTG)
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Bilal Khan 🍉 @bilaalkhan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Reminder: Toronto's mayoral candidate Brad Bradford voted to take away water from unhoused people days before Christmas. Not only is this incredibly cruel, it is also incredibly stupid because giving water to unhoused people saves the city lots of money by avoiding countless 911 calls and ER visits.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 16/12/2025
Up now: hot hot heat. Mayor Olivia Chow would like Council to endorse the development of a bylaw that'd require landlords to keep units from getting too hot. If this passes, a max temperature rule would be presented to council for approval next summer. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 16/12/2025
Holyday's motion to discontinue a grant program that provides bottled water to homeless people FAILS 3-22.
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Cheryl Benson @cherylbenson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
36 - 1991. post viral ME Destroyed my life
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Institute of Genetics and Cancer @uoe-igc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Did you know there is strong evidence that people are most likely to develop ME/CFS at two points in life - at an average of age of 16 or 37? Read more about this new study led by @aryback.bsky.social 👉 edin.ac/4v3uIv0
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Incidence of ME peaks in adolescence or early middle age | Institute of Genetics and Cancer | Institute of Genetics and Cancer
Researchers have found strong evidence that people are most likely to develop ME/CFS at two points in life, in a study that could help uncover causes of the disease and point to ways to prevent it.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/04/2026
“Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said on his Thursday night program. However, just before that joke, Kimmel mentioned aspects of Trump’s health, including his bruised hands. At no point in the skit did Kimmel discuss violent actions against any figures attending.
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The Trumps Call for ABC to Fire Kimmel Over Joke He Made Days Before Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting
The joke was likely a reference to the president’s declining health, not a call for violence.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Not in Canada,eh.....pity www.commondreams.org/news/marylan...
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Maryland Becomes First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing for Groceries | Common Dreams
A new law will ban retailers from using shoppers' personal data to hike grocery prices. But consumer advocates argue that it contains far too many loopholes that companies could exploit.​
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Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The real story is that no one can trust anything that happens around Donald Trump. He needs to be impeached and removed immediately.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Premier Wab Kinew is on the file. No American liquor in Manitoba until Trump drops the tariffs and releases the Epstein files.
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