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Wil Ranney

@wilranney.bsky.social
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Waverly, IA, Long Covid Sufferer, Christian Liberationist, lifelong Detroit Lions fan, Lit RPG enthusiast, probably resting right now.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Looking for an employment lawyer who has supported people with Long Covid for an article I'm working on who would have 15 minutes to speak Monday-Wednesday next week. Please reach out at jmetraux@motherjones.com
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Detroit lions just don’t have the juice on Defense this year.
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lmfao Jesus Christ.....this is so delicious, it simply MUST be fattening 😂😈
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still time to share your thoughts on the NIAID reorg! I used this template and also added a short paragraph asking that IACCs like Long Covid, ME, POTS and Lyme be prioritized in any NIAID reorg, for example with an IACC Office or Center.
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Long covid friends. I have a Visible Arm Band that I no longer use and will ship it to you for a cheap price. Message me if you are interested.
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The Detroit Lions Podcast @detlionspodcast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fixing the Lions: 3 ideas to help Detroit’s struggling defense after the first two weeks Offering some feasible solutions for the Detroit Lions after the team has struggled badly on defense for the first two weeks of the 2026 season
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Fixing the Lions: 3 ideas to help Detroit’s struggling defense after the first two weeks
Offering some feasible solutions for the Detroit Lions after the team has struggled badly on defense for the first two weeks of the 2026 season
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Apparently, one thing that USAID was funding before Elon put it in the woodchipper was an early warning system along those Nepali rivers billmckibben.substack.com/p/two-men?r=...
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Two Men
One as great as America ever produced, and the other Elon Musk
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Jusfaith Apparel @jusfaith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New shirt alert: Our "Progress Church Window" design is perfect for pride events. This high quality, cruelty free shirt comes in six fabulous colors. 100% profits benefit causes. Get yours here: jusfaith.com/product/progre... #Pride #LGBTQIA
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton used her gift for music to highlight the challenges of poverty, inequality, and struggle in ways that uplifted and inspired working people. “And I told 'em all the story / Momma told me while she sewed / And how my coat of many colors / Was worth more than all their clothes”
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Julia MV @julialmv.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New preprint from LoCITT-T describing our protocol and lessons learned. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... Thank you to all LoCITT-T participants for their efforts and engagement, and to all caregivers who supported their participation. 1/8
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Insights from a double-blind, randomized, direct-to-participant intervention trial for Long COVID
Background. Long COVID affects an estimated 400 million people worldwide, and is associated with low quality of life. Nearly all completed Long COVID clinical trials reported no benefit, and most requ...
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Cameron Templar @whiteheatff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🦁 Detroit Lions OT Penei Sewell mic’d up on a DEEP SHOT to WR Jameson Williams.
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Jusfaith Apparel @jusfaith.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Crazy that when you get an interdisciplinary team of specialists who believe you are sick, they are much better at helping you manage your Long COVID.
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Trial shows specialist long COVID care may reduce fatigue
The largest clinical trial of long COVID care to date has found that specialist NHS long COVID services may help reduce fatigue, one of the condition's most common and disabling symptoms. The findings...
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Abilify has done wonders for my Long Covid, but I’m already afraid that my body is adapting or that I’ve been doing too much.
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Long Covid peeps, it’s been 10 days on low dose abilify and I’m hopeful that the return of energy I’m feeling is sustained. It’s almost too good as in I have insomnia most nights.
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Abilify is giving me energy despite my Long Covid. I’ve been busting through my envelope for a strait week. I’m just worried it’s too good. Am I damaging myself with all this newfound energy.
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Jusfaith Apparel @jusfaith.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Get the shirt inspired by these daring lovebirds. 100% of proceeds benefit causes. Find it here: jusfaith.com/product/love-o...
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Jusfaith Apparel @jusfaith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We are proud to support Winthrop Wesley with sales of our "Resisting Evil" design. "Winwes" is a campus ministry serving Winthrop and surrounding schools while practicing radical inclusion. This popular design was originally conceived of by Winthrop's director. Get yours today.
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Winthrop Wesley - Jusfaith
A community of students for students. Wesley is physically located near Winthrop University, but we welcome college students (undergrad and graduate) attending Winthrop, Clinton College, and York Tech. We are intentionally open to all people, regardl
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Jusfaith Apparel @jusfaith.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
New shirt alert: Our "Progress Church Window" design is perfect for pride events. This high quality, cruelty free shirt comes in six fabulous colors. 100% profits benefit causes. Get yours here: jusfaith.com/product/progre... #Pride #LGBTQIA
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Jusfaith Apparel @jusfaith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Jusfaith is proud to support @faithfulamerica.bsky.social with our "Resistance is my worship" design. Faithful America mobilizes christians around the social justice urgencies of today. Get your shirt and support this great cause.
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Faithful America - Jusfaith
Faithful America educates, organizes, and mobilizes social-justice Christians to advance Jesus' prophetic vision of God's Kingdom and to challenge White Christian Nationalism and all the ways it harms our neighbors, our faith, and our democracy. Our
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Jusfaith Apparel @jusfaith.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New Shirt Alert! Just in time for Pride. 100% Profits go to causes. Six colors on a light-weight, high quality, cruelty free shirt. Get yours here: jusfaith.com/product/trans-... #TransRights #Pride
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Jusfaith Apparel @jusfaith.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Maybe we should add "shoot me" as another wrong option. We are falling well short of Biblical standards for caring for our Immigrant neighbors.
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.
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Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…
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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Nearly 4,000 jobs. 47,000 solar panels a day. Made top-to-bottom on American soil. This is the clean energy promise kept: good jobs, lower bills, and a better future. electrek.co/2026/06/11/g...
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Georgia is about to have the biggest solar cell factory in US history
Qcells is making solar cells in Georgia at what will soon be the largest solar cell factory in US history. Here's why that matters.
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Friends please sign this petition.
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚨🎯🎯 article from Dr. @alvelda.bsky.social & his AI tool: A Methodological Deconstruction of Alan Levinovitz's "The Painful Truth About Long Covid" (yep, THAT Wired article) fleet.brainworks.ai/foundry/long... [ IMO this is a worthy exception to the usual (& often valid) complaints about AI use ]
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The Painful Truth About Wired’s Long COVID Story
A methodological deconstruction of the evidentiary and rhetorical claims in Alan Levinovitz’s June 2026 Wired essay on Long COVID. 9,800 words, 45 citations, 7 exhibits.
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Jusfaith Apparel @jusfaith.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We are proud to support Winthrop Wesley with sales of our "Resisting Evil" design. "Winwes" is a campus ministry serving Winthrop and surrounding schools while practicing radical inclusion. This popular design was originally conceived of by Winthrop's director. Get yours today.
jusfaith.com
Winthrop Wesley - Jusfaith
A community of students for students. Wesley is physically located near Winthrop University, but we welcome college students (undergrad and graduate) attending Winthrop, Clinton College, and York Tech. We are intentionally open to all people, regardl
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My new pet peeve is the media calling indiscriminate bombing “kinetic warfare”
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The new Wired article on Long Covid was painful to read. It’s fundamentally flawed, grafting experiences of other medical conditions onto LC, when in fact our understanding of LC is in its infancy. They might as well have been critiquing the scientific method. +
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Wow, just wow. 😳The federal govt is suing Minnesota after state legislators passed a bill that would ban prediction market companies from operating in the state. Basically, Trump Jr is a paid strategic advisor for Kalshi, and a major investor and advisor for Polymarket! abcnews.com/amp/US/feder...
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Federal government sues Minnesota over prediction market ban
The federal government sued Minnesota after a state legislators passed a bill that would ban prediction market companies from operating in the state.
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LA Felleman @lafelleman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Poem "Approval Rating

Great Leader craves Dow favor.
Solely.   Only.   Truly.   Always.
World Leaders’?  Don’t be ludicrous.
Media Darlings’?  Zero chance.
[us] Voters’?  Not in this lifetime.
Politicians’?  That would be no.
Campaign Donors’?  Nope to nuh-uh.
Public Pollsters’?  Not even close.
Great Leader hungers Dow admiration.
Salvation.     Obsession.     Exclamation.
Dow’s slump is Great Leader’s denigration.
Dow’s surge is Great Leader’s exculpation.
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I didn’t take Colbert that long to get a new show. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Clever. But, sad...
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Julia MV @julialmv.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@cureid.bsky.social now makes it easier to see what treatments made people better or worse. Please continue to report what you try & the effects. This is one of the sources I cite in grant applications & sometimes it's the only/best data we have on a given treatment. cure.ncats.io/explore/long...
A bar graph from the top of the page at:
https://cure.ncats.io/explore/long-covid/case-reports
Showing the top treatments, how many times they've been reported, and the frequency with which people reporting using the treatments reported improvement, undetermined effect, and deterioration. Top treatments include low dose naltrexone, propanolol, famotidine, ivabradine, antihistimines, asprin, and mestinon.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 09/05/2026
🔥 AOC on whether she'll run for Senate or President in 2028: "They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go... But single payer healthcare is forever. A living wage, worker's rights are forever. ✊🏼
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/05/2026
Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...
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‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of ...
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 07/05/2026
Shout out to the #LongCovid & #CovidConscious communities who warned us. They said: -keep masking in public spaces -invest in high quality indoor air filtration -don't declare the pandemic is over prematurely -demand single payer health care The majority of us didn't listen. It's a shame.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/05/2026
a thought i had while talking to a friend is that a federal end to partisan gerrymandering has to be at the top of the democratic party's agenda, and may likely get there because of threat the status quo poises to black representation, and thus black political involvement altogether.
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My agencies new carbon mitigation strategy.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A Supreme Court where 5 of 6 conservative justices appointed by GOP presidents who initially lost popular vote & confirmed by senators elected by minority of Americans just effectively killed Voting Rights Act, country’s most important civil rights law. This is not democracy
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
As a past Wizards employee I approve this message.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/04/2026
We’re getting ready for a massive day of economic disruption on May Day. There are many ways you can take action, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Zohran Mamdani: "A democratic socialist politics … can flourish anywhere because, frankly, there is only one majority in this country — that's the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what it is that we're pursuing and not as part of the appendix."
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@ben-raven.bsky.social also liked the way your trade down scenario played out.
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Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@ben-raven.bsky.social tell Kory I’m neither a senior or junior. My minor claim to Detroit fame is that I’m Jim Brandstatters nephew and grew up sitting with him in the press booth at the silver dome while he called games.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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