Reposted by The ChronicKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 15184771519
Reposted by The ChronicMike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The top graph shows our county-level COVlD map using the CDC's Standard Benchmarks. The bottom map shows the downshifted levels under the CDC's new system. This really makes a difference for early warning in the middle categories. I've highlighted 5 areas. 1166116
Reposted by The ChronicDr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sincerely grateful to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for his advocacy. An important thing I think is missing from his list of recent breakthroughs in science is DecodeME. This large scale, robust genetic research wipes away clean any remnants of the absurd claim it’s somehow a “psychological issue”.institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.ukX marks the spot where ME/CFS biology can be discovered | DecodeME : The world's largest ME/CFS study | Institute of Genetics and CancerScientists, people with ME/CFS, and their charities came together to create DecodeME, the world's biggest ME/CFS study – and its results are striking. 18,000 people with ME/CFS gave their DNA, enablin... 01812
Reposted by The ChronicIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We've seen a distinct drop in interest in these conditions as people have memory-holed COVID; they'd like to forget infection-associated chronic conditions, but they're impacting everyone, including kids. I'm the Scientific Director at #MEAction, and I advocate for #MECFS, #LongCOVID, & other IACCs. 015061
Reposted by The ChronicThe Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 01/09/2026The U.S.’s summer 2026 COVID-19 wave is in full swing. All disease tracking metrics report increased spread across the country, and the school year’s start and upcoming holiday weekend will cause further outbreaks. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/01/n... 13718
Reposted by The ChronicJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"The work and everyday labor of living with ME/CFS contains this recursive loop of everyday labor of being ill." For @motherjones.com, I interviewed @elimrogers.bsky.social on her book tracing the history of ME/CFS and what it's like to be exhausted in America. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comThe relentless work of being sickA new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care. 3316145
Reposted by The ChronicMother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/09/2026A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.motherjones.comThe relentless work of being sickA new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care. 08329
Reposted by The ChronicAlexis M. 🎃 @turnoftheshrew.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It really is true w/ #MECFS that the sicker you are, the less help you get. You have to be physically stable enough to research, find doctors, attend appts, fire doctors & find new ones, source & titrate meds, reorganize your whole routine & environment. No one else will do it for you. #SevereMEDay 14015
Reposted by The ChronicTom Parsons @tomparsons.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Today is Severe ME day. I never thought that I could get this sick and be receiving LESS medical care. I never thought following the advice of clinicians could leave me mostly bedbound. I never thought I would lose the whole world this way. 15322
Reposted by The ChronicThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around. 7350462752
Reposted by The ChronicJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Bad news out of Texas: the conservative Fifth Circuit of Appeals argued in a ruling that the state's voter suppression law did not violate disability civil rights laws, letting the cruel law stand in its disenfranchising glory. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA Trump judge called mail-in ballots a threat to democracyThe new ruling revived cruel aspects of Texas' voter suppression law. 215283
Reposted by The ChronicDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/08/2026When you are the only masker in the room, but you just don’t care #saltingthevibes 736545
Reposted by The ChronicSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable. 11961552224
Reposted by The ChronicJustine Barron @jewstein3000.bsky.social · 25/06/2026NEW ARTICLE from me for @fairmediawatch.bsky.social. "Media Won't Stop Psychologizing Long Covid" An overview of this unfortunate propaganda trend in the media since 2020, including where it comes from and what it gets wrong. fair.org/home/media-w...fair.orgMedia Won’t Stop Psychologizing Long CovidMedia outlets that trumpet their journalistic integrity have used their prestige to launder an unproven, anti-science conspiracy theory about Long Covid. 410247
Reposted by The ChronicHeyzell @heyzell.myatproto.social · 10/06/2026In Portland - Always Here Books still requires masks and the Constellation Reading Series at Bishop and Wilde requires masks during readings and offers a live stream of all their events 1238
The Chronic @thechronicinfo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026“We were both sick with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome or M.E./C.F.S., a devastating disease medicine has mostly abandoned.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/s...nytimes.comMay I End My Life With You? 000
Reposted by The ChronicDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/04/2026A new study predicts that Long Covid will cost OECD economies $135 billion a year, due to people leaving the workforce, lower productivity, and healthcare costs. COVID is not over.bloomberg.comLong Covid Predicted to Cost OECD Economies $135 Billion a YearThe pandemic might be over, but new research indicates long Covid is likely to reverberate across OECD economies, costing up to $135 billion a year over the next decade. 11501224
Reposted by The ChronicDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/03/2026Real talk: Progressives have completely failed to adequately address the significant impacts of Long COVID, and this has left an opening for the far right to exploit vulnerable patients and deceitfully blame vaccines for all chronic illnesses. 13550194
Reposted by The ChronicMother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/03/2026New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.motherjones.comNew York is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah AlamAG Letitia James will head an "independent assessment" of what happened to the Blind Rohingya refugee who Border Patrol dumped in Buffalo. 12765591936
Reposted by The Chronicregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 04/03/2026the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 401895808
Reposted by The ChronicTom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 28/02/2026🧵 "The Quiet Art of Extending a Life: Notes on Assistive Tools, Capacity, and the Dignity of Support" onelifelivedwell.substack.com/p/the-quiet-... Another thoughtful post from this OT who specialises in ME/CFS & long Covid She calls such devices "capacity extenders" #chronicillness #Spoonie 1/ 2165
Reposted by The Chronic🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 25/02/2026Every agent who participated in this should spend the rest of their life in prison. 452548648
Reposted by The ChronicIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 18/02/2026“It looks like the department has abandoned its commitment, which is required by law, to provide equal access to program services and activities for people with disabilities. It’s doing that in a way that is dangerous, and people are going to die as a result.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comDHS axed its civil rights staff—and opened the door to a major lawsuitThe agency is now barely pretending to follow disability law. Its former civil rights head says that makes ICE vulnerable. 12211
Reposted by The ChronicTom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026News Release 10-Feb-2026 "Long COVID linked to Alzheimer’s disease mechanisms: Diseases cause damage in some of the same ways" www.eurekalert.org/news-release... New US research. Full paper: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #LongCovid #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC #postcovid 12217
Reposted by The ChronicRav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 23/01/2026A 2-year old. This is a baby. newrepublic.com/post/205638/...newrepublic.comICE Detains 2-Year-Old Girl Days After Using 5-Year-Old as BaitICE agents continue to target kids as they crack down on Minneapolis. 512032875
Reposted by The ChronicCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/01/2026This is what love looks like. 92378453
Reposted by The ChronicThe Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 08/01/2026This week at The Sick Times, @khaoticaa.bsky.social writes that #LongCOVID advocacy is incomplete without sex workers, and that destigmatizing Black queer sex workers will make the movement stronger. bit.ly/4qfFyv4 04515
Reposted by The ChronicMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/12/2025The Trump administration has awarded Palantir a no-bid contract to build an AI system intended to prevent "SNAP fraud," among other things. The no-bid contract is for the implementation of the National Farm Security Action Plan and includes "security checks" on SNAP applicants. 13325137
Reposted by The ChronicKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday. AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck. 702661911
Reposted by The ChronicTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/12/2025There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...rollingstone.com'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water CrisisAmazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages. 7335167
Reposted by The ChronicSteven B @stevenbfla.bsky.social · 02/12/2025This kinda article reminds use we're living in a Gilded Age and it's our neighbors, friends, families, babies and even fetuses suffering so the billionaires can have more and more. Corruption from the local officeholders to the governor to the feds. Sometimes I think direct action is inevitable. 15319
Reposted by The ChronicMisa on Wheels @misaonwheels.bsky.social · 26/11/2025What society thinks disabled people want to hear: “You’re so brave!” “We look past your disability!” What disabled people actually want to hear: “We acknowledge your disability and will happily accommodate your needs.” “You can marry without losing your benefits.” “We’d like to offer you the job.” 315168
Reposted by The ChronicAndrew Gurza @andrewgurza6.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Disabled people are going to die without SNAP benefits in the US. There's no sugar coating or glad handing here, it's just the truth. Black, Brown and Disabled people who cannot work and are reliant on these systems will be affected the most. So when you see a link for help click it. 0404141
Reposted by The ChronicPeter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025🚨If YOU rely on SNAP, please like this post, and if you could share YOUR story in the replies below.🙏 I'm SO reliant on SNAP as someone on Social Security Disability with a fixed income & have Medicare & Medicaid. We must speak out because we are NOT just a statistic we are FLESH & BLOOD! INHUMANE. 51527246
Reposted by The ChronicDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/10/2025More than 420 state bills attacking key public health protections have been introduced in 2025. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted. Please call your state's elected officials! 15436228
Reposted by The ChronicDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2025This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical 10170531897
Reposted by The Chronicbulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez. 18886231
Reposted by The ChronicLitsa Dremousis @litsadremousis.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Telehealth is crucial for the tens of millions of Americans w/ #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis, #LongCovid, or dozens of other major illnesses and/or #disabilities. Please help us save telehealth! Even if you're healthy, this greatly impacts someone you love❤️ 04226
Reposted by The ChronicMother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2025“Mercy deaths.” “Special wards.” Nazi medicine cloaked mass murder in euphemisms. The first gas chambers weren’t built at Auschwitz — they were built in hospitals.motherjones.comThe forgotten history of disabled children under NazismHitler's first order of mass murder wasn't about Jews. 19427204
Reposted by The ChronicDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/09/2025The ACIP has voted AGAINST requiring a prescription for COVID-19 vaccination. With a vote of 6 yes and 6 no, the decision went to the ACIP chair, who voted no.theguardian.comKennedy’s vaccine advisers remove prescription need for Covid vaccine, emphasizing personal choiceAfter heated meeting, healthcare professionals and experts left deeply confused about committee’s recommendations 391159338
Reposted by The ChronicLong Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 18/09/2025🧪Sharing this important paper for hEDS, as many people with #LongCovid & #ME are hypermobile. 📐EDS is often part of a trifecta with MCAS & POTS - also common in LC. The immune dysfunction shown in this groundbreaking paper could show a way forward 🤞 academic.oup.com/immunohorizo... 12612
Reposted by The ChronicDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/09/2025Dean Sidelinger of the Oregon Health Authority: “Effective Wednesday, September 17, pharmacists in Oregon will have the authority to continue to administer COVID vaccines without a prescription.” FINALLY Oregon makes accessing COVID vaccines easier!wweek.comOregon Moves to Make It Easier to Get the COVID-19 VaccineThe state has authorized pharmacists in Oregon to administer Covid-19 vaccines without a prescription. 424067
Reposted by The ChronicDr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 01/09/2025🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 @christosargyrop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy 🙏🏻🙏🏻 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govNeed for awareness and surveillance of long-term post-COVID neurodegenerative disorders. A position paper from the neuroCOVID‐19 task force of the European Academy of NeurologyNeuropathological and clinical studies suggest that infection with SARS-CoV-2 may increase the long-term risk of neurodegeneration. We provide a narrative overview of pathological and clinical observa... 13110
Reposted by The ChronicDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2025When a top CDC scientist resigns citing eugenicist rhetoric from federal health agencies, everyone should absolutely be paying attention. 141669713
Reposted by The ChronicAndrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such. 663221936576