@fastleen.bsky.social
Working for the community. Living with ME/CFS. Proud mother.
Great piece from a Dr. running a public health org and maternity hospital in India
janhavinilekani.substack.com/p/inclusivit...
'History will look back on gender-identity theory’s takeover of medicine as a shameful scandal. '
Trump's actual approach was to stiff his contractors, and then declare bankruptcy.
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map showing the Quebec-Vermont border and Venise-en-Quebec on the northern tip of Lake Champlain, where the Quebec man was fishing and detained by USCG
This is where 60-year-old Edouard Lallemand, a lifelong angler who'd been fishing these waters for decades and knows that he was miles north of the border, was fishing when he was intercepted by a much larger US vessel, rammed, taken to the US side, and jailed.
24.07.2025 18:20 — 👍 1963 🔁 618 💬 34 📌 72About half of people w/Long Covid develop the neuro disease ME/CFS, and the state of care is so bad Julia is (heaviest possible air quotes) one of the “lucky” ones—that her city even has an ME specialist, or that she’s well enuf to spend hours in transit to see them.
Often not the case. It’s dire.
George Retes pictured smiling in his US Army uniform with his arm around his wife, Guadalupe, who is also in Army uniform
UPDATE: Three days on, disabled veteran and US citizen George Retes is still missing after being kidnapped by ICE.
His wife has phoned every law enforcement agency in the area, they all say they don’t know where he is.
It was his daughter’s third birthday yesterday.
This is America now.
Skeletal muscle properties in #LongCOVID and #ME #MECFS differ from those induced by bed rest
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
This billionaire’s fortune is built atop research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and yet he seeks to destroy that agency and its investments in the scientific engine that has fueled our tech industry since the 1950s. And why? Because it tried to include more diverse scholars?
12.07.2025 14:19 — 👍 2320 🔁 724 💬 115 📌 42The Yoorrook Final Report is a must-read esp. for the testimonies. So many stories.
The “decimation of the First Peoples population in Victoria was the result of a coordinated plan of different actions aimed at the destruction of the essential foundations of the life of national groups”.
#NativeSky
Six million children are living with #LongCOVID. Their symptoms disrupt memory, energy, mood, and development, keeping them out of school, sidelined from friendships, and left without answers.
Join us for #PediatricLongCOVIDAwareness Week.
longcovidfamilies.org/advocacy/ped...
This will always be true.
#Resist #VoteOutAllRepublicans
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on July 11 cautioned the United States, South Korea, and Japan against forming a security partnership specifically targeting North Korea.
12.07.2025 20:33 — 👍 319 🔁 92 💬 79 📌 15
During last night's Russian attack on Chernivtsi,as personnel was taking children from House of Butterflies hospice to a shelter,little Zlata, a patient of the hospice,suddenly stopped breathing
The doctors,risking lives,brought her to intensive therapy,resuscitated Zlata under the Russian strikes
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In the 6th year of an ongoing pandemic, a Canadian science journalist says "Wow. So in other words, COVID is doing more than just infecting the lungs; it's going to other parts of the body".
Quite.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
"Who benefits from discriminatory college admissions policies? White men.
There are more qualified college applications from women, who generally get higher grades and account for more than 70% of the valedictorians nationwide.
Seeking to create some level of gender balance, many colleges accept
"Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were legacy students or Dean’s Interest List—a list of applicants whose relatives have donated to Harvard, the existence of which only became public knowledge in 2018"
75% of them would not have been admitted otherwise
Amazon workers are collapsing from heat, skipping bathroom breaks, and getting hospitalized. Some are dying.
While Jeff Bezos throws $50 million weddings, they live in poverty and fear.
They’re demanding a contract, safety, and respect.
And if they don’t get it? Shut. It. Down.
Op zijn snijtafel in @trouw.nl fileert @hansgoslinga.bsky.social scherp de levenloze restanten van goed bestuur.
“Het politieke einde van NSC laat, net als het verdoolde gedrag van VVD, zien hoe ver politiek vervreemd is geraakt van haar bestaansreden als ‘ernstig middel voor een ernstig doel’.”
Title page of the document
This is interesting — “The Hidden Wealth of Cities” by the World Bank, on how the PUBLIC SPACES in cities are a great economic investment and asset rather than a cost or liability. But too many cities aren’t taking smart advantage of the economic benefits. openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...
12.07.2025 16:22 — 👍 138 🔁 37 💬 6 📌 4Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"
12.07.2025 18:14 — 👍 21211 🔁 9861 💬 1780 📌 1029This seems like a bad idea. Why would Spain do this?
12.07.2025 20:44 — 👍 39 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 1It's not hyperbole to say that corpses have more rights than pregnant women in many US states.
Liz Bruenig really said "brain dead people are incubators too"
As reported by Medscape:
"Lyme infection-associated chronic illness (IACI) is real, often debilitating and long-lasting, and in urgent need of research that prioritizes treatments to improve symptoms affecting patients’ function and quality of life."
READ MORE www.lymedisease.org/nasem-lyme-r...
Zeer kritisch stuk in de VK over de VVD:
De VVD normaliseert anti-democratisch gedachtegoed, veroorzaakt toxische polarisatie en verspreidt desinformatie over andere middenpartijen.
- Trump geeft ICE opdracht om deportaties uit te breiden specifiek in door Democraten bestuurde steden zoals Los Angeles, Chicago en New York. Hij wil dat ICE zich richt op steden die volgens hem 'ooit idyllische steden hebben veranderd in dystopische scènes uit de Derde Wereld.'
16.06.2025 06:03 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1Dit is het bericht van Trump, waarin hij oproept om Democratische steden te targeten:
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Trump dag 146-147: Trump roept ICE, Pentagon en FBI op om migratiehandhaving in Democratisch geleide staten op te voeren, politica vermoord bij politieke aanslag Minnesota, inreisverbod mogelijk uitgebreid met 36 landen en grootste demonstratie ooit in VS: reportersonline.nl/trump-dag-14...
16.06.2025 05:54 — 👍 61 🔁 29 💬 5 📌 9-Vance Boelter schiet twee politici in hun huizen neer. Democratisch huislid in Minnesota Hortman en haar man Mark overlijden. Boelter wordt na twee dagen gearresteerd. Hij had een lijst met zo'n 70 namen van doelwitten, van onder andere Democratische politici en abortusklinieken.
16.06.2025 06:04 — 👍 62 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 095% of hEDS patients are misdiagnosed with a psychiatric disorder per new research
Among 429 patients, 405 (94.4%) were misdiagnosed — only 24 (5.6%) were not misdiagnosed with psychiatric illnesses
Medicine has a major psych bias problem www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/12...
Here’s the MAGA formula: Slash Medicaid, defund education, cut food aid. Why? More tax breaks for billionaires.
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