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chronic illness warrior surviving a day at a time & missing my old life | attorney | artist | nature lover | embarrassed american | spoonie | #LongCovid since March 2020 | Lyme, MCAS, dysautonomia, etc, etc, my body is falling apart

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 17,180 cases across 48 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,700 measles cases (including 2 recent deaths) — a 35 year high. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Nature @nature.com · 05/08/2026
A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body go.nature.com/4fDUY9w
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COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.
Two orange cats in a cage with food and water.Two orange cats in a cage with food and water.Two orange cats laying on the floor. Two orange cats in a spare bathroom with food and water and a litter box.
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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill wrote this. ♥️
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blue chi @chicagogirl606.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Can they stop weekend at Bernie’s-ing it with McConnell so we can just get on with number 3…?
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Welltory: "What recovery pattern data can show about Post-Exertional Malaise" welltory.com/blog/what-re...
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What recovery data can show about Post-Exertional Malaise
This research note was prepared in response to requests from members of Welltory’s community of users with energy-limiting conditions. Following internal presentation of these findings, community memb...
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
It's crazy how we have both the World Cup and America 250 this year, and almost no one cares about them because this regime has wholly sucked the joy out of even momentous national events.
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Quebecoiswolf 🔜 Furpoc @quebecoiswolf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Sometimes it is the medicines that help most for the street dogs who are as sick as George when they come In. Sometimes it is the food and shelter. But in this case I think the most important factor has been the love. George gets it daily and it has changed his life. ❤️
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Trump's Supreme Court just gutted the voting rights act in a historic decision. The Voting Rights act ended Jim Crowe. This decision erodes voter protections nationwide, especially amongst Black voters. #50501movement #callais #votingrightsact
BREAKING NEWS
CALLAIS DECISION PASSES SUPREME COURT
The nation's highest court has gutted the federal
Voting Rights Act.
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fiftyfifty.one US Supreme Court Callais decision just weakened the Voting Rights Act. What happens next in Mississippi?
The ruling by the nation's highest court is triggering a special session called by Gov. Tate Reeves for lawmakers to redraw Mississippi Supreme Court districts.
Today's decision quietly hollowed out our one of our nation's most sacred civil rights protection, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, intentionally & unconstitutionally weakening the votes of Black & Brown people.
As Justice Kagan states in the dissent,
"[t]oday's decision renders Section 2 all but a dead letter" in the vast majority of cases.
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581THE DECISION IS A DEVASTATING BLOW TO CRITICAL CIVIL RIGHTS
PROTECTIONS BY
PERMITTING STATES TO USE
PARTISAN
GERRYMANDERING AS A WHOLESALE EXCUSE TO DENY BLACK VOTERS A
VOICE IN THEIR GOVERNMENT.
Read the full decision at: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-109_21o3.pdf
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581What's next for Louisiana's congressional maps after the Supreme Court's Callais ruling?
BY ALYSE PFEIL | Staff writer 1 hr ago
El 2 min to read
Louisiana leaders said Wednesday morning they were working to understand a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found Louisiana's congressional voting map unconstitutional.
The court ruled 6-3 that Louisiana improperly factored race into its decision to draw a second majority-Black district. It sent the case back to a federal district court to address its decision.
With early voting for congressional primary races set to begin on Saturday, state leaders said it was not clear whether or how the Supreme Court's ruling would affect the current election cycle.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/04/2026
Today marks the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As we honor the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire across modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, we must refuse to let history repeat itself.
In 2020, the military forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan expelled over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that had begun over 100 years prior.
On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people - and all people — to freedom, safety, and self-determination.
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blue chi @chicagogirl606.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Goodbye Tim Apple. Hello Johnny Apple.
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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse. So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries. It’s your turn.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/01/2026
The date for the next No Kings Day is set. But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵
(around the No Kings logo, images of megaphones, and a photo of protesters holding signs that read “ICE OUT”) MARCH 28
NO KINGS
NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is what letting RFK jr go wild on health looks like
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 27/01/2026
Kristi Noem must resign. And if she won’t, she must be held accountable and impeached by Congress.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
REGIME CHANGE 🇺🇸
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blue chi @chicagogirl606.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Someone, anyone, please take him…
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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blue chi @chicagogirl606.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
He should really start going by The Andrew formerly known as Prince
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor appears to have asked for ‘new inappropriate friends,’ Epstein files show
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, appears to have sent an email to Ghislaine Maxwell asking if she could set him up with "some new inappropriate friends," according to documents in t...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, wehave effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn
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blue chi @chicagogirl606.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Epstein file release be like
Scene in Spinal Tap looking at their new album cover, Nigel says ”It’s so black, it’s like, how much more black could this be? The answer is none. None more black.”
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I am convinced in the future we will look back and realise the sheer unimaginable folly of letting a virus that can cause immune dysregulation and cognitive dysfunction in humans infect and re-infect the global population over and over again. Worse still, that we encouraged it.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
There’s an amendment for this.
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Chicago News Bot @chicagonewsbot.bertshouse.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025
CPD searching for 4-year-old boy who disappeared in Little Village; father also missing abc7chicago.com/post/little-village…
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CPD searching for 4-year-old boy who disappeared in Little Village; father also missing
Chicago police are looking for a young boy who went missing on the city's Southwest Side on Wednesday.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
#Maskup folks. Wear a ffp2/3 Open windows Clean the air www.koreabiomed.com/news/article...
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Mild Covid-19 linked to structural brain changes and neuronal damage
Research shows that even mild cases of Covid-19 can lead to measurable brain damage and neurodegeneration, especially when cognitive symptoms such as memory decline persist after infection.Professors ...
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
'Australian study tracks ties between Long COVID, disabling conditions' 'A total of 86 percent of those with Long COVID met the threshold for serious disability compared with 9 percent of Australians overall.' accesspress.org/australian-s...
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Australian study tracks ties between Long COVID, disabling conditions | Access Press
When most people think of COVID now, they picture a short illness like a cold – a few days of […]
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
New studies come out all the time. I understand it’s hard to face but everyone should know the truth. “Everyone [who’s] had COVID-19 tends to have some lasting reduction in brain blood flow (CBF), mainly in frontotemporal areas – even if they feel 100% recovered [and the infection was mild].”
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Chronic Illness is like Having having severely bad eye sight and needing glasses. don't exist, Most people don't believe have bad eye sight. You get judged for not being able to see correctly, people think you are faking for attention. People tell you all the time how they wish they had your bad eye sight so they could get out of certain obligations. You cannot to work because you can't see. You cannot read page in front of your face, doctors say you are just depressed faking. around you tells you harder of people tell you to do yoga.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
chicagotribune.com
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Epstein-Barr virus is linked to development of the autoimmune disease lupus in new research www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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The Virus That Causes Mono May Also Cause Lupus
Early findings indicate that Epstein-Barr Virus may also cause the autoimmune disease lupus
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
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Gems @reflectivegem.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco/Bay Area - here are some restaurants helping with food if you’re struggling with loss of SNAP benefits. Please share!
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 05/11/2025
As many eyes will be on court downtown today, there are early indications ICE may be active in this area again. Agents reportedly snatched a daycare worker in Roscoe Village this morning.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
When operation midway blitz started, the term “detained” was used to describe federal agents taking ppl. There has been a shift in the language being used among rapid responders and Chicagoans. Abduction/kidnapped feels more accurate bc there are no warrants, no badged agents, no due process.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 03/11/2025
Practically every day we encounter someone who still has no idea ICE shot and killed someone in Chicago already. This happened before many people tuned in (and many have already tuned out again).
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/11/2025
NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range." POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy'
Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.
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Crosby’s mom, Happy’s servant. @stevash.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Chicagoland. Whistle solidarity. What do you do if you hear 4 short whistles? Move away from the whistle if you are at risk. Run towards the whistle if you can document. Everyone has their own risk. Train for Rapid Rapid response, Know Your Rights and SALUTE. @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The President of the United States thinks a test for dementia is an IQ test, and none of his sycophants will tell him he’s wrong. Let that sink in.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The CDC also published this infographic which clearly shows infections leading to organ damage and yet we still have no clear health messaging or preventive policy in place. Only a sliver of a band of vaccine offering. A vaccine only policy with no vaccines!
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about. Would be a shame if it went viral.
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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