Sparrow Zennik (They/Them)

Finally, a united nation.

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics. 

Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.

Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare...

This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

Texas AG Paxton Has To Water Down Abbott’s Threats to Jail State Dems As soon as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) vowed to oust, arrest...

Texas AG Paxton Has To Water Down Abbott’s Threats to Jail State Dems talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for long COVID: a prospective registry - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for long COVID: a prospective registry

In the Netherlands, 232 patients with long COVID received hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

After 3 months, 56–63% reported better mental or physical health, but 13–19% worsened.

Cognitive symptoms showed the most improvement.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New orders for manufactured goods in June, down two of the last three months, decreased $30.9 billion or 4.8 percent to $611.7 billion
www.census.gov/manufacturin...

Head and shoulders illustration of a woman lying on her side flat in bed, eyes closed, eye mask just visible onto top of her short hair, a smartphone held with one hand in front of her foregrounded.

#pwME #LongCovid #ArtDirectors #PictureResearch #PictureEditors
How to illustrate ME, formerly known as CFS, and Long COVID.
Dim light level on model/subject. Make eye mask more visible. No light on bg.
@meownersclub.bsky.social @paulaknight.bsky.social @franceyme.bsky.social

Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

Temple, TX researchers sequenced over 8,000 COVID-19 samples and found Omicron spread across US cities in just 27 days on average, compared to 269 days for Alpha and 326 for Delta.

Each new variant arrived faster than the last.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The book cover for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, Edited by Kelly Hayes. The book cover features an artistic rendering of a person with long hair wading into a body of water at night in a wilderness.

Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...

Trump moves to bar nearly all abortions at Veterans Affairs hospitals The Trump administration is moving to end nearly all abortions at Veterans Affairs medical facilities, overturning a Biden-era policy that sought to protect access.

Biden had expanded VA care (for veterans & their family members) to include abortion care in cases of rape, incest or when a pregnancy threatened health. Trump is revoking that. What a sicko.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

🔥 I think now is the time to discuss how Doug Ford does not classify wildland firefighters as real firefighters so they do not get lifetime extended health coverage as they should, because they damage they incur is for life. And they’re saving us all. #onpoli

Wishing a happy 81st birthday to geneticist Georgia Dunston. She has worked on tumor immunology and research on the genetics of conditions that are particularly prevalent in the Black community, including difficulties with organ donation, and type 2 diabetes.

#WomenInSTEM #BlackHealth #MedSky 🧪⚕️

MAHA just announced that states will be able to prohibit people from purchasing junk food with SNAP.

They claim this will make people healthier. That it’ll force them to make better choices.

It won’t.

Why? They aren’t addressing the privilege involved with healthy eating 🧵

Nations will try again on plan to confront world's 'spiraling' plastic pollution mess Nations gather in Geneva Tuesday for what many hope will be the final meeting to craft a landmark treaty to end the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet.

Nations gather in Geneva for what many hope will be the final meeting to craft a landmark treaty to end the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet.

Association of COVID-19 with risks of all-cause and cause-specific mortality post-infection: A UK Biobank cohort study Background: SARS-CoV-2 infection can lead to fatal multi-organ complications extending beyond the acute phase. However, a comprehensive assessment of relatively long-term mortality risks across variou...

From Hong Kong researchers studying over 467,000 UK Biobank participants, COVID-19 survivors had elevated risks of death from multiple organ systems for up to 3 years, even in non-hospitalized cases.

Hospitalized patients faced the highest mortality.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

New cure for cancer just dropped.
(Death. The cure is death.)

x.com/LifeNewsHQ/s...

Why Your Gut Hasn’t Been the Same Since COVID IBS and gut issues are rising fast after COVID, and scientists believe long COVID may be fueling the gut-brain chaos.

Why Your Gut Hasn’t Been the Same Since COVID

"A major international study has revealed a troubling surge in gut-brain disorders like IBS and functional dyspepsia since the COVID-19 pandemic."

scitechdaily.com/why-your-gut...

I am watching a documentary about the gun violence in America and a woman said that when she goes somewhere she looks for escape routes. My lord, the only place I do that is on airplanes and it has nothing to do with guns. I simply cannot imagine living that way. America is in one hell of a mess.

I still remember the camaraderie of the early days of Covid.

For a moment it felt like we were going to put aside rugged individualism & embrace a future that was more community minded.

It felt like disabled people might get a real seat at the table.

That hope being ripped away still hurts.

It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

Don Bacon: "From my vantage point here in Nebraska, we're seeing a bit of a troubled economic mess. Right now it's a troubled time. In Nebraska the GDP has decreased by 6% over the last year and it's all about trade...so what I hear about weak jobs numbers, we're seeing that in Nebraska right now"

1) We often see statements that 50% of Long Covid patients meet ME/CFS criteria.

This is mainly based on studies by the Scheibenbogen group (Kedor et al. 2022), but this sample was pre-selected: these LC patients already suffered from moderate fatigue and exertion intolerance.

If you think prohibiting people on SNAP from purchasing “junk food” is good, you’re clearly more interested in punishing poor & disabled people than you are in healthy living.

The rich can eat as much junk as they want, but the poor must cook for themselves or go hungry?

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "As a state rep, I get paid about $600 a month. That's not much to live off of. Many of my colleagues, including myself, we have day jobs that help us pay the bills. And by breaking quorum, we are leaving those day jobs behind... So this decision was not made lightly."

I’m excited to be joining Stephen Colbert tonight on “The Late Show.”

Back in 2013, I joined “The Colbert Report” to discuss how we build an economy that works for the many, not just the few.

people might say if you jail one president for crimes youll end up jailing all presidents for crimes to which i would say rad

Hello?

I know this will get me in trouble. I usually try not to curse but my military is showing…

These stupid motherfuckers want to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Boondoggle and a straight money enema to our oligarchs.

Epstein files must be very, very bad.

Hochul: "I will put saving democracy as my top priority at any cost. Bc it's under siege. Just like those who put on uniforms to fight battles across the ages. For centuries we stood up & fought. Blood has been shed. This is our moment in to stand up for all we hold dear & not let it be destroyed."