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Key point of an excellent thread! You can’t study #LongCovid or #ME/CFS, or their potential treatments, properly if you aren’t looking at PEM. And you shouldn’t be able to pass an IRB to run studies on these populations if PEM isn’t taken into account.

23.11.2025 05:01 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.

We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.

We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

22.11.2025 22:05 — 👍 38111    🔁 7651    💬 1974    📌 516
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New meme format just dropped:

21.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 3529    🔁 518    💬 91    📌 139

you know zohran’s just sitting at home on the couch spontaneously laughing in disbelief like the rest of us

22.11.2025 01:00 — 👍 718    🔁 57    💬 14    📌 1

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

18.11.2025 13:10 — 👍 28909    🔁 10359    💬 331    📌 227

Rest in Power, Alice Wong.

15.11.2025 16:23 — 👍 900    🔁 162    💬 0    📌 4
The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! “Just the News”

The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! “Just the News”

Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores

You can’t make this shit up, folks

11.11.2025 05:53 — 👍 12978    🔁 2948    💬 1531    📌 715

progress has already been made
Australia has 4.2M rooftop solar systems, 300K of which have batteries (and by 2030 we'll have ~1.2M batteries installed in ~6M households)
with apposite regulatory standards and professional installation these home batteries are no less safe than laptops, phones, etc

11.11.2025 08:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Can Australia's staggering 'small-scale flex' save our energy future? As Australia's energy transition hits turbulence, a quiet but fundamental shift is underway.

fwiw Australia has the highest solar capacity per capita: 40% 🌞
4M / 40% of households have solar, 7% of which have batteries
in July 2025 our govt introduced a 30% subsidy to fund 1M new battery installs over 5 yrs
by 2030 ~6M / 50% of households will have solar, ~1.2M / 20% of those with batteries

11.11.2025 06:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Chart showing the world oil price

Jan 1960 - US$1.63bbl
Dec 1972 - US$1.87bbl
Jan 1974 - US$13.00bbl

Chart showing the world oil price Jan 1960 - US$1.63bbl Dec 1972 - US$1.87bbl Jan 1974 - US$13.00bbl

A lot of people when talking about Gough's economic record seriously underplay how beyond comprehension the 1973 Oil Crisis was.

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

10.11.2025 23:41 — 👍 130    🔁 42    💬 12    📌 2

Never forget that the airlines were instrumental in reducing the Covid isolation requirements and paid time off.

Why? It was hurting their profits.

They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved.

Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy.

Profit over people.

10.11.2025 08:31 — 👍 668    🔁 231    💬 18    📌 5
Karoline Leavitt standing in front of the White House 
Washington DC sign, but she's blocking everything after the White and Washing

Karoline Leavitt standing in front of the White House Washington DC sign, but she's blocking everything after the White and Washing

Let me know when you see it.

10.11.2025 04:17 — 👍 34    🔁 6    💬 6    📌 1
DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL.
 The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a
brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for
 a writ of certiorari is denied.

DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL. The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

10.11.2025 14:31 — 👍 8313    🔁 1823    💬 242    📌 538
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Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth dive into the significance behind #Frankenstein ’s extraordinary costumes, brought to life by costume designer Kate Hawley.

09.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 67    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0
An image shows Dr. Moreau and another scientist in a laboratory. Dr. Moreau is wearing glasses and a blue blazer, is pointing at a scientific poster and smiling.

An image shows Dr. Moreau and another scientist in a laboratory. Dr. Moreau is wearing glasses and a blue blazer, is pointing at a scientific poster and smiling.

OMF's CRC at Montreal published a review paper on ME/CFS #genetics and #epigenetics. It provides an overview of the role of DNA in how likely someone is to develop ME/CFS (susceptibility) and in how #MECFS affects the body's function (pathophysiology).

📖 Read now: ow.ly/HjW650XpmeW

10.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

10.11.2025 12:15 — 👍 3692    🔁 1710    💬 28    📌 39

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

10.11.2025 12:09 — 👍 10965    🔁 2475    💬 176    📌 59
Joy Division - Atmosphere [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
YouTube video by Joy Division Joy Division - Atmosphere [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

Atmosphere by Joy Division

"don't walk away, in silence..."

10.11.2025 15:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don Farrell asked why after all this time, the #NACC still hasn’t made any major findings of corruption.
“That’s an indication that the system is working. There is no corruption, & I say that's a good thing!”

Appalling response. It doesn’t even make sense. Makes my blood boil.

09.11.2025 21:28 — 👍 277    🔁 82    💬 21    📌 6

The 8 Dems who voted against ACA are embracing eugenics.

This decision will disproportionately harm disabled people.

Many Disabled people have pre existing conditions & won’t be able to afford insurance.

Many live in legislated poverty.

Guess we aren’t dying fast enough for them

10.11.2025 04:44 — 👍 446    🔁 163    💬 9    📌 8

DHS/ICE used an Olivia Rodrigo song for a video on Instagram and after calling them disgusting, Olivia's team allegedly pulled the song for use on Insta so the video has no background music.

This is the second time she's done this - previously it was a tiktok song.

10.11.2025 04:14 — 👍 857    🔁 99    💬 7    📌 4

Anarchism: Doesn't Sound So Silly Now, Does It? An introduction

10.11.2025 06:03 — 👍 594    🔁 130    💬 8    📌 6

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

10.11.2025 05:44 — 👍 4349    🔁 1403    💬 118    📌 70
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

10.11.2025 05:02 — 👍 28686    🔁 8807    💬 381    📌 413
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Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

09.11.2025 12:16 — 👍 11699    🔁 3043    💬 281    📌 849

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

10.11.2025 02:31 — 👍 15282    🔁 4126    💬 259    📌 207
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Taking Caturday to the next level...

08.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 615    🔁 137    💬 31    📌 41
Flying at 8000 feet today
News
Captain says flying at 8000 feet (!) Newark to Savannah today instead of 34000 because of air traffic control restrictions. Everyone has to say seated including flight attendants. Never in my 40 years in flying has this happened … wondering what the view will be 😀

Flying at 8000 feet today News Captain says flying at 8000 feet (!) Newark to Savannah today instead of 34000 because of air traffic control restrictions. Everyone has to say seated including flight attendants. Never in my 40 years in flying has this happened … wondering what the view will be 😀

Things are fine.

09.11.2025 20:34 — 👍 14701    🔁 3190    💬 608    📌 356
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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09.11.2025 17:26 — 👍 14214    🔁 6851    💬 324    📌 388
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Disabled People are Being Mistreated in ICE Detention Facilities Why is no one talking about it? Where's the media? Where's the public outcry? Another example of the pervasive nature of ableism and how society views disabled people as expendable.

There’s a disturbing lack of outrage over ICE’s aggressive tackling and arrest of a non verbal autistic man in Chicago.

Just like the lack of outrage over Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been held in solitary for months.

Disabled lives matter too!

09.11.2025 03:38 — 👍 1300    🔁 754    💬 52    📌 36

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