Calling all proud Disabled, Queer performers in the Washington, D.C. area. Drag performers, burlesque artists, singers, dancers, musicians, poets, clowns, puppeteers, magicians—Disability Culture Cabaret is the (accessible) stage for you! Please apply by July 6 using the link in comments.

Very relatable as I also worked in homeless services until I was too sick post covid to work at all.

"I was discharged from the rehab facility with a SARS-CoV-2 infection I’d caught there...not long after, I lost my job of four years working in homeless services..[and] became trapped in my inaccessible home, no longer able to walk or climb stairs." thesicktimes.org/2026/06/26/i...

Climate scientists will recognize this playbook. Controversialize science that isn’t controversial by platforming a small group of “skeptics” who generally have little to no expertise in the subject, in order to delay necessary action at the price of countless lives.

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

it is truly perverse working in an industry in which some of the most respected outlets insist the illness many of their own colleagues have is not real

"[WIRED] has not responded to questions from FAIR about the article, including about whether it was factchecked." 🫣 A great deep dive into the media's troubling, six year trend of spreading false and harmful information on Long COVID, by @jewstein3000.bsky.social fair.org/home/media-w...

A new COVID-19 antiviral called Xocova (ensitrelvir) will soon be available in the U.S., the first approved as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). But its impact will hinge on how easily people can access it. Read @mileswgriffis.bsky.social's reporting at The Sick Times: bit.ly/44udxGE

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

I wrote about Mona Khalil's life and death, and what it means to do conservation work amid bombs, invasion, and occupation defector.com/mona-khalil-...

NEW: I reported on the FDA approval of Xocova (ensitrelvir). The post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) drug for COVID-19 will be available in mid-July in the U.S. with a list price of $1,400. thesicktimes.org/2026/06/23/f...

Today @thesicktimes.org: A new COVID-19 antiviral called Xocova (ensitrelvir) will soon be available in the U.S., the first approved as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). But will it be accessible? @mileswgriffis.bsky.social got new info from the drug's manufacturer Shionogi for this story!

Please take a moment to read through and share information about the changes to Medicaid and what that means for the disability community! #NEISvoid #MECFS

💊 Two recent studies have added more evidence that the diabetes drug metformin can reduce the risk of Long COVID 💸 Preprint: Long COVID disproportionately impacts Indigenous people in California 🤧 A new article evaluates a diagnostic consensus for MCAS #LongCOVID bit.ly/44mzYxm

Today @thesicktimes.org: Nearly one year after the U.K. published its final delivery plan for myalgic encephalomyelitis, it's failed to actually improve conditions for people with ME, argues @nickbenton.bsky.social. thesicktimes.org/2026/06/19/t...

Daphne Sara Safaei writes about the ways Long COVID emphasizes the racism and ableism of the public health sector, and calls for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses to be prioritized over profits. bit.ly/4xA8uBS

We would all be better off if infrastructure was updated to provide cleaner indoor air in public places, using technology that is already well understood and known to be safe-- it's just not happening.

Celebrate Pride with The Sick Times! Many in-person events aren’t accessible to people with Long COVID and related diseases and disabilities, so we're hosting our own virtual variety show! Register now: luma.com/ih0oq3yw?mc_... 🏳️‍🌈 😷 We're excited to see you there!

In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Sick Times: “How is Minnesota Addressing Long COVID?” ‘As many governments shutter and defund their Long COVID programs, Minnesota is ramping up’ Betsy Ladyzhets speaks with Kate Murray from MDH and Terri Wilder of #MEAction Minnesota open.spotify.com/episode/19sM...

Why I Don’t Use “Patient Zero”

"IL-6 also inhibits mitochondria, the parts of a cell that generate energy. Wallace thinks that this suppression of the cells’ powerhouses is actually what’s encouraging cancer growth. (Mitochondrial dysfunction is also a prime suspect in the cause of Long COVID.)" www.latimes.com/science/stor...

"A recent essay on Long COVID published in WIRED magazine shifts the burden of proof back onto the people we should be helping; those who suffer with the disease." Todd Davenport (@sunsopeningband.bsky.social) on freeing people with Long COVID from the "mind-body trap": shorturl.at/SaKG6

“Adds to the growing body of evidence illustrating the risk…of allergic conditions after COVID-19 infection in both children and adults. Our findings highlight the potential public health burden of these conditions…and suggest a mechanistic link between COVID-19…and type 2 inflammation.”

This seems genuinely fascistic. Hot take, I guess, but I don't think that people should be arrested and charged with terrorism for holding cardboard signs that say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Environmental remediation is hard, dirty, complicated work, and this worker isn't the only one facing health issues because his employers failed to protect him. Great longform investigative piece really digging into his story.

An absolute travesty of justice and another nail in the coffin for fairness in the UK as four anti-genocide activists convicted of criminal damage by a jury have been sentenced as terrorists by an out-of-control judge aligned with the government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Neurologic manifestations in Ebola survivors persisted more than 7 years after acute infection, data from the prospective PREVAIL III study showed. Read more at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/generalneurology/121707

Activists in Los Angeles from @nolympicsla.bsky.social bring their messages—"FIFA Brings ICE" & "Red Card US Empire"—to a World Cup fan zone in LA www.instagram.com/p/DZg1TqhG_o...

Is anyone else’s ad algorithm on socials just exclusively electrolyte supplement companies talking shit about each other…

Today @thesicktimes.org: We republished a great essay from @sunsopeningband.bsky.social, responding to last week's WIRED piece. "Any claim that exercise still needs to be tested is not made from a position of impartiality. These claims are made from the decision to ignore the existing literature."

"The existing scientific literature describes [Long COVID as] a multi-system disease of bioenergetic failure, immune dysregulation, and vascular dysfunction." Todd Davenport on freeing people with Long COVID from the "mind-body trap". Today in @thesicktimes.org 🪤🦠 thesicktimes.org/2026/06/12/w...

New study: more evidence of alterations associated with Alzheimer’s disease in people with Long COVID NIH recently launched the second phase of their adult observational study within RECOVER Veteran Affairs is leading a potentially harmful trial of dieting and exercise for LC shorturl.at/d5mco

“The community is not a mob protecting a story. It is a population that watched a treatment paradigm hurt its own members and now flinches when the same machinery rolls out under a new name. That flinch is learned, and it was learned the hard way.”

I don't know how to convince you to take care of your comrades. But Long COVID impacts every fight for justice, every social movement. Honor the energy and integrity of the folks in my latest @thesicktimes.org feature. Be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together.

Today @thesicktimes.org: @brittashoot.com on how Long COVID takes people out of social justice movements. "Long COVID has taken many beloved people from us and caused others to lose capacities to be part of some community activities where they were very much needed," wrote @deanspade.bsky.social.

If you have any tips about the editorial process behind WIRED's pseudoscientific article on Long COVID and want to speak, text me on Signal at milesgriffis.31

I am extremely pleased to have this essay, on how American fiction has grappled with COVID, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social. This is a subject I care deeply about and had been wanting to write about at length for a long time. Please give it a read.

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

it’s happening again

Reminder that when people w/ ME or Long Covid express anger about the #GreatestMEdicalScandal of the 21st century, it’s because real people—mostly young women—are being abused by the medical system, abandoned by society, blamed for their suffering, & robbed of their lives. RIP Mirjam 💙🕯️

Highly unusual for a journalism article to not be retracted when several sources and people mentioned in the article were misrepresented and have come forward about it — your move, @wired.com #LongCovid

The Pod Save America bros hosted one of the most transphobic columnists in mainstream media for a friendly chat. *groan*

Bari Weiss was exactly like this on a smaller stage, as my editor when I wrote book reviews for the WSJ over a decade ago, constantly trying trying to inject her politics into my pieces, even post copy editing.

“Before the Pink Triangle was christened w/Champagne, it was blessed by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who have been a part of the tradition for decades.” “Blessed be all those who came before us, who stood up and fought,” prayed Sister Sinfurs. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p... #Pride

Check out the latest episode of Still Here! I talked with author Aisha Mirza about low-spoon cooking and the isolation of chronic illness 🍜🥣😷

Newark Police Department is not allowing people to access Delaney Hall if they’re wearing masks and *the mayor’s office* is the one that instituted that requirement, according to one NPD cop denying access.

WIRED: Long COVID is “psychogenic” and researchers are “baffled” LC Researchers: We identified a causal link showing a subset of people with Long COVID have autoimmunity and it’s been replicated and published in a top science journal thesicktimes.org/2026/06/02/r...

We are so honored to have @thesicktimes.org republish our article on bookstores with masking and other covid mitigation measures! Subscribe to Who Even Reads and The Sick Times for more content like this! 📚💙