"Long COVID is not just about fatigue and brain fog. A new Ohio State University study finds it can quietly chip away at several senses at once, with measurable problems in smell, hearing and balance." Source: archive.md/JL1Ap

NEW: air permit applications for a data center being built with investment from google shows it would rely on a natural gas power plant that emits more than 4.5 million tons of greenhouse gasses each year google has publicly touted its commitment to renewables but appears to be privately eyeing gas

There's been a lot of public is concerned about health risks from the chemicals, especially from the Make America Healthy Again movement. The agency's move doesn't in itself guarantee regulation. n.pr/4crnJDJ

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

8 Million People at Risk of Losing Medicaid Under Work Mandate www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

#TimelineCleanse 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

EXCLUSIVE: “I didn’t sleep for days.” Transfer notes obtained by MeidasTouch reveal a lawful asylum seeker—no criminal record—was transported across 4 states in ICE custody facing restraints for hours, overcrowding, no sleep, and alleged medical neglect.

Evidence-based treatment for drug withdrawal (alcohol is also a drug) continues to be withheld in federal carceral facilities in March 2026 even though it has been considered deadly malpractice for decades

A law professor told me on background that depending on jurisdiction, witholding medicine may not count as as disability discrimination. I'm still having trouble wrapping my brain around that when I see stories like this.

"He began managing according to the principles of Synanon, a drug-treatment program centered on verbal abuse, attack therapy and public humiliation."

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

It’s a man’s world. So far a med student faces no consequences for misogynistic social media videos. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

This movement is for ALL of us. #NoKings has ADA-compliant events across the country tomorrow. Find your spot. 👇

Right now this is all I know: bsky.app/profile/tell...

shut the website down, this is the best thing i've read on here since 2023.

The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne’ "It’s difficult to know why the word “airborne” is avoided so consistently, but the impact is clear: without that word, occupational health and safety requirements can be evaded." #COVIDisAirBorne #COVIDisNotOver #MaskUp

UnitedHealthcare pressured employees to keep claim denials within 1% of the nH Predict algorithm's recommendation, turning an AI tool into a quota system that overrides physician judgment on medically necessary care.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Even in California where LGBQTIA+ history is required, districts are uh...not teaching it.

Who could have guessed that the $50b 'rural hospital fund' used to sneakily suggest the GOP attack on Medicaid wouldn't hurt rural communities would, in fact, do nothing to protect rural providers and facilities.

If we want energy companies to stop torching the climate and invest in 21st-century power sources, the first step is to turf Republicans out of office.

The pollen has landed 🙃, which means “it’s just allergies” season is upon us. Unfortunately, allergies share symptoms with multiple viruses, so be sure to know the symptoms, and know when to treat for allergies vs when it’s something more!

Rules for you, but not me and my crew.

CDC looks to classify COVID vaccine injuries. Here's why www.axios.com/2026/03/26/c...

n those of us still talking about it every day—often to blank states, empty platitudes, if not outright hostility—still feel the sting of that abandonment every day

A great idea for those of use that can’t physically march.

They're looting the federal government

Reminds me- early in the Gaza response at USAID, my colleague was tasked by USAID response leadership with providing the location of our NGO partners in Gaza to the IDF, ostensibly for "deconfliction." Those locations were soon struck by the IDF.

Not surprising. The world will not fix our problems for us. They’ll find ways to distance themselves. It’s on us to rid ourselves of the brazen imbeciles, criminals and pedophiles in our government…and perhaps someday regain our standing.

USA: "A new COVID variant is showing up in California — here’s what to know." "BA.3.2 carries roughly 70 to 75 mutations in its spike protein compared with recent strains... Some of those changes may help it partially evade immunity from past infections or vaccination." Source: archive.md/ALU3i

By tern @1goodtern.bsky.social Him: "are you going to mask forever?" Me: "yes. are you going to be sick forever?" Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...

"Getting COVID Again Is More Dangerous Than Most People Realize" "Each COVID-19 infection is a new stress on the body. Repeated infections may increase the risk of long COVID" "What makes getting long COVID especially dangerous is that there is currently no cure for it." Source: archive.md/Re86O

New sign effect of Covid: Pneumonia archive.md/2026.03.05-1...

When I hear men worshipping guns and talking about how there’s nothing that will stop them from defending their family, my mind goes to Naaman in the Bible. Do you remember Naaman? He was a great military leader, and he also had leprosy. 1/

Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...

This is f*cking nuts. Pete Hegseth’s pastor, Brooks Potteiger, went on a far-right podcast and talked about wanting James Talarico to “die” or be “crucified with Christ.” The host even said, “I pray that God kills him.” 1/2

Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.

Please educate us on where this leaves us...

1. 'But what stood out to him were the patterns behind the unrecognized likely COVID deaths: they were most likely to have occurred among Hispanic people, at home, among less educated people, and among people with lower incomes'. Never ignore the social determinants of health.

Reminds me of the infuriating Boeing 737 MAX saga, in which the sole person actually prosecuted was the guy in charge of the simulators, which weren't even the problem, it was cheap, lazy engineering. Not one executive even indicted. Boeing itself got a tidy DOJ agreement.

Tobacco farmers received a $10 billion payout in 2004 to be excluded from future payout packages. Now they want more. Meanwhile, FEMA isnt paying out to homeowners of disasters. www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

Let’s stop softening the language. The pregnant detainees in the Texas ICE camp are children. They are not “young women.” They are minors. If pregnancies occurred while they were detained, every ICE officer must be investigated for child sexual assault. These children must be freed.

Dem Senators Fetterman and Heinrich voted in favor. Senators Booker, Coons, Durbin, Gallego, Kaine, Kelly, Paul, Peters, & Shaheen did not vote.

By a vote of 54-37, the Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Markwayne Mullin to be Secretary of @DHSgov.

Charles W is telling COVID-conscious folks not to feel demoralised. He says the high-quality research people shared in 2023 really influenced him, and encourages others to keep posting—because it does make a difference. Source: x.com/waltz_tales/...

By holocene: "Acknowledging airborne transmission also means acknowledging we have directly or indirectly killed or disabled a large amount of people by participating in chains of transmission. it’s an uncomfortable truth most people don’t want to face." Source: x.com/holo_cene/st...

It is absolutely criminal that it took 20 years for this young woman to receive a diagnosis of endometriosis. And, yet, it happens with so many different conditions to so many patients. people.com/woman-33-say...

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, pulled out of a sprawling surveillance network run by Flock Safety. The company waited months to remove its cameras installed around town, only doing so when the city finally covered them with plastic bags.

If you kill all of those jobs and automate them, who is going to buy your stuff off of Amazon? Do they not understand we run on a consumer-spending economy? When the consumers have no money, what do they think will happen next? Desperate times will call for desperate measures.