Something Chronic

Go submit your testimony to the House right now! And again (or if you miss today’s House deadline) to the Senate on Tuesday! You don’t need to live in Maryland—the idea is to show this is a global problem/global market. Here’s how to submit:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thank you

Barrister accused of transphobia threatens Jolyon Maugham for defamation Last summer, Good Law Project accused barrister Sarah Phillimore of harassment and transphobia. Now, the barrister is suing its founder over the allegations

The transphobic barrister Sarah Phillimore is threatening to sue me for defamation - and we've published our response to her Letter Before Action.

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Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Karen update: Mental capacity assessment & response from East Sussex NHS Trust’s solicitors. Photo: August 2025 - Karen with her new PICC line 4 days after it had been put in. Hello Everyone Karen has now been in Conquest hospital for 1 year and 9 months. Karen is continuing to have TPN (IV f...

Latest update from the Gordon family about Karen Gordon - 15 October 2025

Karen has been in Conquest Hospital for nearly 2 years now.

All because the NHS do not have a scooby about how to treat very severe ME. 😩

#Justice4ME #SevereME

www.change.org/p/save-karen...

This is your reminder Savannah needs our help to stop the NHS starving her to death.

Please email the hospital she is in. Details in post below

www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

#mecfs #pwME #GreatestMEdicalScandal

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TW:
More deaths of #pwME 💙

@ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social
@wesstreeting.bsky.social
What are you doing about the decades-long human rights crisis of #SevereME? Why are we expendable?

@tessamunt.bsky.social
@davetuller1.bsky.social
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
#JusticeForME #GreatestMEdicalScandal

Over the last months and particularly one week Paula deteriorated very quickly. Talking became harder ...and Paula loved to talk.Feeding more difficult. Eating tiring needing longer breaks between each teaspoon. It took 3 hours to finish a small bowel of puree. We stopped watching short funny shows together. Forced into a bent over position, no longer getting to a window. She had loved standing with support briefly at the window, smelling fresh air, watching Hurley play in the garden.

Learned of another death of a friend with ME/CFS, this time someone I’d known for six years.

Very grateful to all of you who support work to relieve this terrible suffering.

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I need a safe place to live in #Melbourne
🚨Please help me escape #abuse/ #neglect / #CoerciveControl / #DV

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EXCLUSIVE: the DWP has a secret team planting benefit fraud propaganda in the mainstream media In an exclusive report, the Canary reveals that the DWP has internal guidance on placing propaganda in the MSM - including doxing claimants

The DWP has a secret team planting benefit fraud propaganda in the mainstream media

EXCELLENT investigation by my @thecanaryuk.bsky.social
colleague Hannah Sharland www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

@suey2y.bsky.social 🫂 x

An NHS hospital is starving a severe ME patient and has now stopped giving her fluids Savannah has now lived with severe ME for several years - but the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South London is putting her life at risk

"An NHS hospital is starving a severe #ME patient and has now stopped giving her fluids"
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social @tessamunt.bsky.social @joplatt.bsky.social @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social @wesstreeting-mp.bsky.social

#ME #pwME #MedSky #MEAwareness
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Governments, public health and medical authorities know much of this is caused by COVID & other infections, that a lot of this is Long Covid, which they choose to do nothing about and cover up.

They know it. They're lying about not knowing why. They're doing what the tobacco industry did.

Two years today since my friend @dutchlauren.bsky.social passed away 🕯💙

Going to eat some nuggets (which she loved) and will try to watch one of her favorite movies.

#severeME
#reMEmberLauren

An NHS hospital is starving a severe ME patient and has now stopped giving her fluids Savannah has now lived with severe ME for several years - but the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South London is putting her life at risk

Savannah is asking for anyone who can to email the chief medical director at the hospital. The Canary has drafted a template email, which can be sent as is, or adapted.

Send an email to stop this abuse & improve care for Savannah before it's too late!

#severeME

www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

🚨'Can You Keep a Secret?'. The BBC response is below in full.

In short, it essentially says:
“It’s farcical, sorry we offended you, we’ve noted your complaint.”

BUT if you (like us) aren't unhappy with this response, here is our next move... 🧵

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It’s been used in the military since at least 2018 – possibly 2016. Loads of contracts since then unfortunately.

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@teamlabouruk.bsky.social this is the behaviour that you are condoning. Not condemning this and other illegal acts is complicity.

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social this is the behaviour that you are condoning. Not condemning this and other illegal acts is complicity.

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social this is the behaviour that you are condoning. Not condemning this and other illegal acts is complicity.

Tell Your Story A chance to be heard

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Sorry had to stop & rest before but meant to add that lots of the consortium are also linked to Uni of Oslo. Helena Liira is a member & is former Editor in Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, which published the piece Tuller wrote about – link below.

And… must rest again now!

Interesting!

I also note RH’s ties to Uni of Oslo. May be incidental but interesting given the ‘Oslo Chronic Fatigue Network’ (previously Consortium) that @davetuller1.bsky.social has written about has lots of Lightning Process advocates & includes numerous key BPS people on the steering committee.

The emotional determinants of health: The Lancet-London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Commission - PubMed The emotional determinants of health: The Lancet-London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Commission

“I even withdrew my participation as an invited contributor to a series of papers about emotional determinants of health for The Lancet after I discovered this figure was a commissioner.”
Mendenhall, Substack 18 Jan

Found a 2020 Lancet article of the same name. Could commissioner be Richard Horton?