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Happy 2nd birthday George thanks for making this day and every day special. Thank you for following and donating 😊

Madow did a whole piece last week listing all the places where local organizers had spiked the deals on detention facilities, and it's quiet and spread out and not getting a ton of attention but every fucking one is a hero.

The planned establishment of a #LongCovid outpatient clinic at the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Vienna General Hospital (AKH) will not be approved.

AKH Vienna announced this on Monday afternoon in response to an APA inquiry."

What a good, wise decision!

#MECFS #PEM

Martha Washington’s enslaved maid Ona Judge made a daring escape to freedom – but the National Park Service has erased her story from Philadelphia exhibit Ona Judge was one of 9 people George Washington owned when he lived in the President’s House in Philadelphia.

Happy President's Day 😑 theconversation.com/martha-washi...

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I had a very serious medical incident happen right after posting my last video about talking again and have been through a lot…I'm ok now, I’m recovering…

Read or listen to the whole piece on my blog👇
www.whitneydafoe.com/mecfs/?post=...

#mecfs #chronicillness #pwME #LongCovid #resiliance

My next book? 😆

“She’s not from here.”

The Epstein Class is the by-product of an economy that emerged over the last two decades, from which this new elite has siphoned off vast amounts of wealth.

Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-squalor-of-the-epstein-class

Kaikai recently joined our adoption program and she is a superstar in her own right! Wondering how to identify her? Look for:

✔️Picture perfect, Africa-shaped ears
✔️A playful gusto for life

She’s also available to adopt now! Join her foster family: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.o...

Can confirm.

Ditto MCAS, for which NHS has no pathway and no avail treatment. Hundreds of thousands with long COVID disability is MCAS.

But despite severe disability—often well controlled with administration of two inexpensive (for the NHS) antihistamines—the NHS can’t make it happen.

They leave us to rot.

This is all starting to sound ominously familiar. Is there going to be another preventable death because the government refuses to establish a national specialist service for very severe ME? The failings here are criminal. #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS
archive.ph/2026.02.15-2...

British Museum removes word ‘Palestine’ from some displays Museum revises labelling on maps and panels, saying term used inaccurately and no longer historically neutral

'Concerns were recently raised by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLIF), a voluntary group of solicitors, about references to “Palestine” '

What Israel wants it gets

The genocidal state now sets policy in the British Museum

Despicable

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

If you'd like to sob today--

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Been thinking about this all day. As an immigrant, I am not sure what they think this is going to sound like to people like me.

The Legal Attack on Superblock Barcelona - City Lab Barcelona In this blog post, I attempt to unpack what this court ruling is about, the legal arguments, and who is behind it. Did the city really do something wrong?  What will happen to the Consell de Cent proj...

Heard this one? The City of Barcelona traded 3 lanes of vehicle traffic for an exceptional 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid. Businesses sued, & eventually won in court. Then they admitted that they actually like the change.

Streets for people are good for business.

For the first time in global legal history, a country has recognized the legal rights of insects, and it is the stingless bees of the Peruvian Amazon that are taking the first step toward a new model ... Peru just made history: stingless bees in the Amazon now have legal rights, letting communities sue to defend hives and habitat.

"It is the first time anywhere in the world that an insect species receives this kind of legal status."

www.ecoticias.com/en/for-the-f....

#bees

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.

She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.

They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

the single most celebrated holiday in the world is various countries observing a national holiday to mark when they kicked the English out

I stand with Francesca Albanese. She is a truth teller, a chronicler of injustice, and is opposed to a system that has created & sustains the conditions for genocide. She is the best of humanity. May we all fight against that very system, every way possible, for collective liberation.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

"THIAGO AVILA: Israel continues its silent genocide in #Gaza"
#TranslatingFalasteen

Ofelia Torres, Teen With Cancer Who Fought For Father's Freedom From ICE, Has Died Torres, 16, died Friday. Her father was arrested in October, the day after she returned from more than a month at the hospital for cancer treatments. She shared her family's plight, and her was father...

This young girl was battling stage 4 cancer when ICE agents took her Dad.

Ofelia leveraged social media to fight for her Dad’s release.

To call out the cruelty of ICE.

She won.

A judge ordered him released on compassionate grounds & they spent her last month’s together.

“We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state.” With those words, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich abandoned any remaining pretense.

The Umani grandcalves are a delightful lot.

Mwana used to start all the games. Now she's the responsible big sister – while Lenny perches on top of her and Sulwe strikes a pose. Chief troublemakers, both of them. All born wild to orphans we rescued and raised.

sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n...

My 13-year-old son just said, “Mum, I think I have a good idea. The people in America protesting ICE should call themselves LAVA — Local And Very Angry. And lava melts ice. You should post that and see if it's a good idea"
Indivisible in Perth,Australia.

A graphic showing how life shrinks with ME/CFS

This is a very useful graphic - but maybe a wee bit simplistic. I currently range between moderate and severe, sometimes on the same day. And believe me mild is no picnic ~ it's utterly devastating.

#MECFS #NEISVOID #PWME

Dear Bluesky, I like to think of
myself as Your Jewish Friend. Let me be clear to you, the totenkopf tattoo thing is horrible. This shouldn't even be a question.