Reposted by sarahblaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I suggest some graded lit review therapy where they slowly increase the number of studies they read that explore biological mechanisms of the disease 1388
sarah @sarahwlongcovid.bsky.social · 03/06/2026My joy in life has been severely diminished due to the onslaught of corporate ai-fawners so this bubble can fucking crash any day now 000
sarah @sarahwlongcovid.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Life update: still have long covid, not recovered, actually worse rn because of trying tirzepatide in hopes of regaining some stamina, it’s been 5+ years of this and being on my feet for 45 minutes made me crash for 2 days last week. Also that one article gave me an aneurysm I think. 000
sarah @sarahwlongcovid.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I AM SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THE ABLEIST BULLSHIT Stop it. 010
Reposted by sarahJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/02/2025And hey, start with wearing a mask so you can stand with disabled and chronically ill people already being targeted by the administration. Go back for the people you’ve already left behind. 515029
Reposted by sarahJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/02/2025If you’re starting to feel willing to punch Nazis but still no desire to protect your vulnerable allies, ask yourself about that. 0498
Reposted by sarahMari Brighe @maribrighe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025If only they were some kind of obvious and direct analogy to an event in history committed by an authoritarian regime that later committed atrocities on a mass scale. 6584206
Reposted by sarahDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/02/2025Reports that Musk/DOGE is at the NIH 😬 33357112
Reposted by sarahBriana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 05/02/2025“I would punch a N*zi.” Um, you won’t even wear a mask. 553230570
Reposted by sarahThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/02/2025President Trump has opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how their actions could be consistent with the rule of law. Here are some examples of the administration’s defiance of statutes. nyti.ms/4aKnKRP 13941054359
Reposted by sarahRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/02/2025Commentary: "Americans rely on government to protect us — or at the very least do us no harm. But for Trump, this duty as protector in chief is always subordinate to an insatiable need for aggrandizement, to paint himself as the bold actor, and the strong man."rollingstone.comTrump Drains California's Most Precious Resource for a Photo OpPresident Donald Trump ordered the dumping of “billions” of gallons of water in California's rainy season, double-crossing the state's farmers. 732174
Reposted by sarahDisabled Anarchist @disabledanarchist.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Anyone can become disabled in an instant, you could wake up disabled tomorrow. The ease with which you will be discarded will be shocking. Not just from society at large, but also from friends and family. If you are abled you should be angry about the rampant ableism, because you're on bided time 715346
Reposted by sarahDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/01/2025According to leaked emails, CDC staff have been ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by 5pm today. 22474163
Reposted by sarahRep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 31/01/2025As Chair of the HIV/AIDS Caucus, let me be clear: erasing HIV/AIDS content from government websites helps literally no one. It endangers public health and abandons those who rely on these critical resources. Reckless and stupid.nbcnews.comCDC site scrubs HIV content following Trump DEI policiesThe federal health agency began removing all content related to gender identity on Friday. 2821465
Reposted by sarahShenanigans @shenanigans.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Sorry I'm just in a really bad place right now (United States) 51113973266
Reposted by sarahRandom Man James @jamesds.bsky.social · 31/01/2025abcnews.go.com/US/usda-orde... Trumpism: = dictatorshipabcnews.go.comUSDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websitesThe U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed officials to remove content related to climate change from its public websites, according to emails obtained by ABC News. 27045
Reposted by sarahErin M Speckley @speckley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Jumping off this for alternatives to the word "crazy": Wild Irrational Ridiculous Silly Absurd Strange Outrageous Out of this world Exciting Infatuated Passionate Enthusiastic Impractical Senseless 2123
Reposted by sarahSarah Brown @brownepoints.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I'm not gonna lie, I'm floored that a university would call off a Lunar New Year event open to everyone because it might be "DEI"statenews.comMSU college abruptly cancels Lunar New Year event, citing Trump DEI orders - The State NewsMSU cancelled an annual Lunar New Year celebration following new executive orders targeting DEI and concerns from students. 1101518440
sarah @sarahwlongcovid.bsky.social · 30/01/2025He knows executive orders aren’t twitter, right? Right? 🤮 010
Reposted by sarahIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 30/01/2025This will ALSO help us with The Horrors 1 like, 1 hard-won advocacy tip 3317024
Reposted by sarahChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/01/2025Bravo to Sen. Alsobrooks for her question. “We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule as Whites because their immune system is better than ours.” — RFK Jr This is the deadlier version of the racist myth that Black people feel less pain, leading to denied pain meds. 639121933762
Reposted by sarahMichael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Not shocked that RFK has zero self-awareness of how ludicrous, offensive, and ascientific his scientific racism is. 2166
Reposted by sarahSam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 23/01/2025NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science. Call Congress, 202-224-3121. 331685823
Reposted by sarahAlyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The antidote for despair is action ❤️ * Dial (202) 224-3121 * Enter zip code * Leave voicemail * Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so) “The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.” Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅ 631283907
Reposted by sarahSam Wise Masks @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 24/01/2025In these days of open fascism, the language we use matters more than ever: Using ableist and sanist language does the fascists jobs for them. After 5 years of disabled people pleading with you to see how ableism and eugenics pave the way to fascism— please listen to us NOW, at least. Do better. 1260111
Reposted by sarahChloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Any agreement with RFK je endorses his obsession with and practice of eugenics. You don’t have to hand it to this monster on anything. 0206
Reposted by sarahSighborg @sigh-b0rg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Lots of ppl talking about fighting fascism, but when was the last time you offered to deliver food to your disabled neighbors? Drive someone to an appointment? Offered to babysit? Helped someone stay housed by contributing to rent? Donated to mutual aid? The smaller acts of care are important too. 210056
Reposted by sarahBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Given the EO allowing ICE into hospitals this is an important refresher for health professionals. - The legal rights of health care providers and their patients. - How to protect your patients’ rights and your rights as a healthcare provider. www.nilc.org/resources/he...nilc.orgKnow Your Rights: Health Care Providers & Immigration EnforcementInformation for health care providers on how to prepare for and respond to enforcement actions by immigration officials and interactions with law enforcement. 37540
Reposted by sarahMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Your regular reminder that the HPV vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine and is well on track towards wiping out many forms of cervical cancer and related HPV-induced cancers. Appointing RFK Jr would be an unprecedented disaster for public health in the US and globally. 14813
Reposted by sarahBilly Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Nature: '‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel' 'In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research' www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.com‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travelIn an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research. 2199
Reposted by sarahBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comExperts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident. 23262803026
Reposted by sarahNsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 24/01/2025"Employees of the 13 agencies overseen by HHS may only travel to return from assignments or to escape life-threatening situations. That means regular meetings with state and local health officials, training sessions and grant reviews are now on hold." - @melodyschreiber.com via The Guardiantheguardian.comTravel, grant and funding cuts ‘stifling’ US health agencies in new Trump eraHalts to external communications, publishing reports and reviewing and approving research a ‘dramatic shift’ 035
Reposted by sarahMatthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 23/01/2025FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban From me and @lizzylawrence.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...statnews.comFDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI banFollowing the Trump administration's DEI ban, the FDA's move to scrub webpages has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring diversity in drug trials. 1415397
Reposted by sarahME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 24/01/20251) Good to see an article by Retraction Watch on the problematic Cochrane review on exercise therapy for ME/CFS. 35726
Reposted by sarahRobert Saunders (aka McMullen) @roberthmcmullen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025“It’s hard to find a word to describe how badly they treated everybody involved in this. It’s been pretty appalling behavior.” @hildabast.bsky.social Please sign and share the petition to withdraw the harmful review: www.change.org/p/cochrane-w...change.orgSign the PetitionCochrane: Withdraw the harmful 2019/2024 Exercise therapy for CFS review 02410
Reposted by sarahPride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 24/01/2025We have read this official declaration by the Department of State, compared it against our notes, and hate the total number of words they have placed inside the image. The fourteen words they used reads similarly to the fourteen words we very much hate. 49017
Reposted by sarahLiz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025For the first time in six decades, the CDC did not publish its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Thursday, just one effect of a flurry of executive orders & administrative moves after President Donald Trump’s January 20 inauguration. www.poz.com/article/trum...poz.comTrump Muzzles Federal Health Agencies, Withdraws from World Health OrganizationCDC and other agencies were told to halt public communications, and the NIH grant process appears to be on hold. 34722
Reposted by sarahBeth - Friend for the Long Haul @friend4thelonghaul.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Hi! I’ll be posting the Spoonie Business Network interest form sometime tomorrow! If you’d like to be listed, keep an eye out! For now it will just be a list of 🥄 business owners so we can all support each other and shop in alignment with our values. ❤️🩹 031
Reposted by sarahDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Cancer researchers said grants were on hold. Health briefings were abruptly canceled. The CDC’s famed Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report didn’t publish as scheduled. Our look at the sweeping consequences of the Trump admin’s “pause” of health communications. with @lenasun.bsky.social + palswashingtonpost.comHealth researchers alarmed as Trump administration pauses travel, communicationsThe halt has frozen research grants, meetings and key health updates. “Everything is basically in chaos,” said one cancer researcher. 41565276
Reposted by sarahDavid Lingenfelter, PhD @dlingenfelter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025An estimated 44.7 million to 48.0 million Americans (~10%) are affected by long COVID. The model estimates the annual cost per person with long COVID to be between $5,084 and $11,646, mainly from lost productivity. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ana... 26121
Reposted by sarahAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 23/01/2025This is exactly it. They want disease and death. Because they believe it clears out the unworthy. A virus doesn’t discriminate. We know that lots of “young and healthy” people are dying mysteriously. (It’s COVID.) There’s even research to suggest athletes are at risk. 244165
Reposted by sarahAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Nazis literally called disabled people unworthy of life, and they actively encouraged the spread of disease in concentration camps. That’s what killed Anne Frank. Not a gas chamber. Lest you think the parallels are dramatic, feel free to examine the Trump admin’s response to COVID. 8621115
Reposted by sarahAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Something disability justice activists have been screaming about for the last five years and some of you may just now be realizing: eugenicists believe disease is good. They believe themselves part of the “superior” race and that disease clears out the poor and unworthy. 1/ 301700630
Reposted by sarahGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 21/01/2025@imanibarbarin.bsky.social so eloquently stated what I have been too frustrated to put into words for years. The memeifcation of fascism is disgusting. It contributes to its normalization & treats this entire experience as if it is entertainment. It contributes to the TOLERANCE of fascism. 3298113
Reposted by sarahImani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 22/01/2025people keep tagging me in fuck around and find out content like I haven’t been talking about how pandemics lead to fascism since 2020. The “find out” portion isn’t just for everyone who doesn’t consider themself a liberal—it’s for them too. Haven’t masked in 4 years? FAAFO. 222456400