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Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
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Let's go to Denmark, how beautiful every person is special🌹

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Kash was begging for a Community Note

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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Texas Is Asking Voters to Protect the Rich and Punish the Poor. Will They Do It? Among 17 potential constitutional amendments, voters will be deciding the fate of corporate welfare and inherited wealth.

Texans will vote on 17 constitutional amendments on Nov. 4.

Here’s the ballot in plain English: If you’re wealthy, the state promises to protect your fortune. For everyone else, there’s small perks, patriotic gestures, and pothole-filling promises.
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Very High Prevalence of Nonoptimally Controlled Traditional Risk Factors at the Onset of Cardiovascular Disease:

According to health data from more than 9 million adults nearly everyone who develops heart disease and suffers a major cardiovascular event has one of four major risk factors in the lead-up. www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

Tailoring nanoscale interfaces for perovskite–perovskite–silicon triple-junction solar cells - Nature Nanotechnology ‘Ultrathin’ gold interlayers are shown to form nanoparticles that balance optical losses and electrical contact, enabling efficient perovskite–perovskite integration for scalable and durable triple-junction photovoltaics.

A University of Sydney-led team has set a record for solar technology, creating the largest and most efficient triple-junction perovskite-perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell reported. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SafeTraffic Copilot: adapting large language models for trustworthy traffic safety assessments and decision interventions - Nature Communications Predicting traffic crashes and outcomes is challenging due to the diverse and complex nature of the data involved. Here, authors develop a framework that fine-tunes large language models on crash data to predict outcomes and identify high-risk scenarios.

AI-based model can help traffic engineers predict future sites of possible crashes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dinheiro da Transição Justa financia hotéis de luxo em Grândola e Santiago do Cacém Dos 99 milhões destinados a compensar os efeitos socioeconómicos pelo encerramento da central a carvão de Sines, mais de 19 milhões vão para projectos turísticos. Câmara de Sines critica escolhas.

Dinheiro da Transição Justa financia hotéis de luxo em Grândola e Santiago do Cacém www.publico.pt/2025/10/08/e...

Flying to the end of the shutdown Friends,

Robert Reich: "the shutdown ends when air traffic controllers have had enough." substack.com/app-link/pos...

THIS!👇👇

Newsom Uses Johnson’s Own Words to Question Him on Epstein Files California Gov. Gavin Newsom seems to be relishing his role as the Democrats’ troller-in-chief. On Monday he clapped back at Speaker Mike Johnson for saying “when the simple truth is on your side, you...

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This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

Moedas acusa Leitão de “projecto de ódio” contra ele e “nosso projecto de sociedade” O oitavo dia de campanha para as autárquicas vai contar com a presença da líder do BE, Mariana Mortágua, depois de integrar a flotilha de ajuda humanitária para Gaza e ter sido detida por Israel.

Carlos Moedas está absolutamente desesperado: "Moedas acusa Leitão de “projecto de ódio” contra ele" www.publico.pt/2025/10/07/p...

What a shocker. Naturally, she couldn’t bring herself to admit that the DOJ is sanitizing the Epstein files to wipe away any trace of Trump’s dirt.

"I'm not going to discuss that": Bondi clashes with senators over Comey, Epstein and Trump Senators demanded answers. Bondi refused to give them.

Attorney General Pam Bondi refused Tuesday to answer senators' questions about investigations into former FBI Director James Comey and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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So many important-people windows deaths in Russia.
I wonder why so many people carelessly fall out of windows in Russia?

September 2025 was the 3rd warmest on record. This map shows how it ranked compared to all Septembers since 1940.

Best sign I’ve seen recently…

Good Job Gavin 👏🏻, That Should
Save A Few Jobs......

NEW

The Epstein flight network just got a lot bigger.

A new analysis by Zalingo Data Refinery uncovered 2,348 additional connections to Epstein’s island across 5,253 flight records (1995–2007) — bringing the total to nearly 5,000 flights linked to that island.

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