@ilikebigb00ks.bsky.social
Voracious reader. Mom of 2. Social worker/Therapist. Acerbic wit. Long COVID/MECFS. 😶🌫️🏳️🌈🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
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Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
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"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set
January 3, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set
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As if we didn’t already treat educators horribly, now we also have to subject them to never-ending infections with an organ- and immune system-damaging virus that leave them chronically ill & jobless.
Denial is comforting only in the short term. #COVID
Denial is comforting only in the short term. #COVID
January 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
As if we didn’t already treat educators horribly, now we also have to subject them to never-ending infections with an organ- and immune system-damaging virus that leave them chronically ill & jobless.
Denial is comforting only in the short term. #COVID
Denial is comforting only in the short term. #COVID
January 2, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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IFL Science: 'What Causes All The Symptoms Of Long COVID And ME/CFS? The Brainstem Could Be The Key'
'A new theory has been put forward, suggesting that damage to this vital part of the brain could explain why these conditions affect so many bodily systems.'
www.iflscience.com/what-causes-...
'A new theory has been put forward, suggesting that damage to this vital part of the brain could explain why these conditions affect so many bodily systems.'
www.iflscience.com/what-causes-...
What Causes All The Symptoms Of Long COVID And ME/CFS? The Brainstem Could Be The Key
A new theory has been put forward, suggesting that damage to this vital part of the brain could explain why these conditions affect so many bodily systems.
www.iflscience.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
IFL Science: 'What Causes All The Symptoms Of Long COVID And ME/CFS? The Brainstem Could Be The Key'
'A new theory has been put forward, suggesting that damage to this vital part of the brain could explain why these conditions affect so many bodily systems.'
www.iflscience.com/what-causes-...
'A new theory has been put forward, suggesting that damage to this vital part of the brain could explain why these conditions affect so many bodily systems.'
www.iflscience.com/what-causes-...
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This woman has been locked up for 10 months while suffering from leukaemia
Just another example of how ICE is a disability justice issue
She’s being denied medical care. She’s lost 70lbs. She’s coughing up blood
It’s cruel & inhumane
They are choosing to let this woman suffer.
Never forget it.
Just another example of how ICE is a disability justice issue
She’s being denied medical care. She’s lost 70lbs. She’s coughing up blood
It’s cruel & inhumane
They are choosing to let this woman suffer.
Never forget it.
December 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This woman has been locked up for 10 months while suffering from leukaemia
Just another example of how ICE is a disability justice issue
She’s being denied medical care. She’s lost 70lbs. She’s coughing up blood
It’s cruel & inhumane
They are choosing to let this woman suffer.
Never forget it.
Just another example of how ICE is a disability justice issue
She’s being denied medical care. She’s lost 70lbs. She’s coughing up blood
It’s cruel & inhumane
They are choosing to let this woman suffer.
Never forget it.
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As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines | CNN
For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the ...
edition.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
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No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
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Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
December 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.
December 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Newcastle University studied 145 people with post-COVID fatigue and found those still fatigued after 200 days had worse symptoms, slower reactions, and signs of brain and muscle dysfunction.
Without recovery, neurophysiologic damage appears to build.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Without recovery, neurophysiologic damage appears to build.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Evidence of Accumulating Neurophysiologic Dysfunction in Persistent Post-COVID Fatigue
A major consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the emergence of post-COVID syndrome (PCS), and more specifically, post-COVID fatigue (pCF), with an estimated prevalence of ∼2%. We previously sh...
www.medrxiv.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Newcastle University studied 145 people with post-COVID fatigue and found those still fatigued after 200 days had worse symptoms, slower reactions, and signs of brain and muscle dysfunction.
Without recovery, neurophysiologic damage appears to build.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Without recovery, neurophysiologic damage appears to build.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Believe the victims
Believe the victims
Believe the victims
Maria Farmer first went to the FBI to warn them about Epstein in 1996.
She was ignored
Mass abuse followed
She’s been called a liar & an attention seeker for decades
One of the files released today vindicated her
Believe the victims
Believe the victims
Maria Farmer first went to the FBI to warn them about Epstein in 1996.
She was ignored
Mass abuse followed
She’s been called a liar & an attention seeker for decades
One of the files released today vindicated her
Statement from Maria Farmer: “This is amazing. Thank you for believing me. I feel redeemed. This is one of the best days of my life. Of course, it's mixed with the fact that I'm devastated about all the other little girls like Virginia who were harmed because the FBI didn't do their job. 1/
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
December 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Believe the victims
Believe the victims
Believe the victims
Maria Farmer first went to the FBI to warn them about Epstein in 1996.
She was ignored
Mass abuse followed
She’s been called a liar & an attention seeker for decades
One of the files released today vindicated her
Believe the victims
Believe the victims
Maria Farmer first went to the FBI to warn them about Epstein in 1996.
She was ignored
Mass abuse followed
She’s been called a liar & an attention seeker for decades
One of the files released today vindicated her
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We should note that yesterday Senators Durbin and Duckworth issued formal criminal referrals for actions by members of the Trump regime. I think this needs to become far more common as we must attach criminality to their outrageous actions, and not let it get normalized as just boys being boys.
December 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
We should note that yesterday Senators Durbin and Duckworth issued formal criminal referrals for actions by members of the Trump regime. I think this needs to become far more common as we must attach criminality to their outrageous actions, and not let it get normalized as just boys being boys.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
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Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
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The global prevalence of long covid is now at over 30%. When would you like it to stop going up? When would you like to lower your risk of being the next one?
December 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The global prevalence of long covid is now at over 30%. When would you like it to stop going up? When would you like to lower your risk of being the next one?
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It’s so striking when people focus on how horrible they felt it was they were encouraged to stay home when they could in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and not how horrible it felt to see hundreds of thousands of people pass away from COVID-19 in the US and millions around the world.
December 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It’s so striking when people focus on how horrible they felt it was they were encouraged to stay home when they could in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and not how horrible it felt to see hundreds of thousands of people pass away from COVID-19 in the US and millions around the world.
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Tonight, I’m published in MSNBC—sorry, MS Now.
In this piece, I explain how the right-wing war on COVID mitigation measures and politicization of science led us to this moment.
www.ms.now/opinion/fda-...
In this piece, I explain how the right-wing war on COVID mitigation measures and politicization of science led us to this moment.
www.ms.now/opinion/fda-...
Opinion | The FDA’s anti-vax turn came out of the right-wing backlash to the Covid pandemic
Walker Bragman: The Food and Drug Administration — like other HHS agencies overseen by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — is no longer moored to evidence-based reality.
www.ms.now
December 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Tonight, I’m published in MSNBC—sorry, MS Now.
In this piece, I explain how the right-wing war on COVID mitigation measures and politicization of science led us to this moment.
www.ms.now/opinion/fda-...
In this piece, I explain how the right-wing war on COVID mitigation measures and politicization of science led us to this moment.
www.ms.now/opinion/fda-...
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This is exactly what happens when a novel seasonal influenza strain meets a population with Covid-induced immune dysregulation; it's not 'like Covid again', it's the ongoing and continuous effects of Covid.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Flu: It is like Covid again, says principal as 170 pupils sick
Confirmed flu cases among adults and children across Northern Ireland have more than trebled in the last two weeks.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM