This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016

Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers -69 mil married women who took partner’s name -21 mil w/out valid drivers license www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The amount of sadness I feel with the constant paternalistic lense by long covid experts is profound. It’s hard to accept that this seems to always be the pattern. Compression garments can make me crash and whenever I’m sitting it’s supported and it still makes me feel like shit.

BONDI: You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein BALINT: Weak sauce BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution-- BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*

Pam Bondi just attacked Rep. Balint as “anti-Semitic” when Balint lost a grandparent in the holocaust, and Balint walked out. Pam Bondi must go. This is shameful.

The wait is over. On February 17, we move from protest to power. 📅 FEB 17 📍 Local Offices Nationwide Find an event near you or learn how to host one. 🔗 All details here: citizensimpeachment.com/february-17t... See you in the streets and in their lobbies.

ugh anybody know an ME- and/or EDS-literate PT in the Baltimore area? Please share

Today’s CBO report says US consumers pay 95% of tariffs. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social www.cbo.gov/system/files...

Lol. Lying down during the day is what enables me to cook, walk around my house, complete personal hygiene, sit at a table, etc. But sure I’ll just do supported sitting all day and then do… none of those things? Which path seems better both cardiovascularly & functionally? It’s so silly.

Exactly. Such nonsense. It’s so profoundly disconnected from the patient experience.

I’m so tired of the chronic, at this point seemingly willful misunderstanding of our population. No one is bedbound if they can do more. Being bedbound is a nightmare of proportions unimaginable to anyone not living it, and I am so insulted by the insinuation it’s a choice.

Putrino’s own clinical guidance treats PESE and PEM as equivalent which is a huge problem and leads exactly here.

Statements like below in this pre-print lead straight back to graded exercise bc few providers understand their pts level of function or trust when pts say they can’t exert more than they are. Which leads providers to feel their pts are difficult or non-compliant, further eroding care.

1) "Incorporating PEM into a new conceptual model of long covid cardiac rehabilitation programmes is essential to clinically distinguish it from cardiovascular deconditioning and to safeguard patients from unintended harm"

Sadly, this is why Democratic leaders needed to act when the iron was hot — to lead, get out on the streets, and mobilize public opinion. It may now be that their moment has passed and the public has moved on. If so, what a shame; what a lost opportunity.

Talking about 2028 is dangerously naive; the danger is now. Trump is directing the military and justice department to go to "war" on US cities and his enemies, from TV hosts to former FBI directors. Keeping the 2026 midterms fair may be the last stand. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is the @economist.com misleading with statistics. Pull up a chair and let’s do some background. There are two broad ways Schumer can obstruct in the Senate, ways that don’t change the Senate schedule, and those that do. 1/

Click here for the template & get creative with the subject line! citizensimpeachment.com/leadership-s...

Almost every death in ICE custody is preventable. That doesn’t get said enough. The people who are dying could have been saved with proper medical intervention. Conditions in the camps cause illness, disability & death. It cost this Canadian his life.

the statute that Jeanine Pirro reportedly tried to indict congressional Dems under, 18 USC 2387, was originally passed as part of the 1947 Smith Act, a notorious law used to clamp down on free speech during the Red Scare

We've got the numbers: Last year we published (in partnership with the @brennancenter.org and @umd-cdce.bsky.social) survey results showing that some 21.3 million Americans could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act, which the House''ll vote on tomorrow. Time to send this thing back to its grave.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

All of us who got #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis in the '90s were told we were lying or that we could get well if we tried harder and that M.E.--then referred to by the hideous misnomer "chronic fatigue syndrome"--wasn't potentially fatal. Every single part of that was wrong. M.E. kills. #pwME

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Goldman: You said references to ICE as secret police encourages threats. The problem is you have it backwards sir. People are making valid observations about your tactics which are outright fascist. If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime, stop acting like one.

Rep. Nellie Pou (D-N.J.) with one of the grimmest questions of this hearing, to ICE chief Lyons: "Will you provide us with a list of people ICE has transferred from New Jersey to other states, so I can inform their families where they are?" Lyons says yes.

HOOOOOO boy. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?" Lyons: "Yes ma'am." McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?" "Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

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Second chance to support this exciting Long Covid legislation tomorrow/Tuesday February 10th! Submit your testimony between 8am & 6pm Eastern Time. You don’t have to be in Maryland! Instructions here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Submit Written Testimony Alert! Tuesday, Feb 10th ONLY! 8am-6pm ET SB 0392 Long Covid Innovation Grant & Loan Program Submissions are required to have a my MGA account NOT required to be a Maryland resident Please see linked 🧵 for details #LongCovid

"More disabled people are going to be forced into institutions. There’s no shortage of people who love their partner and want to take care of them, but in the absence of supports and systems and infrastructure like the life-saving infrastructure of Medicaid, they literally can’t do it."

Meanwhile, if you want you can listen in to the Maryland House hearing on the Long Covid bill today at 2pm! Here’s the Committee’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@mga-hlt2698...

Again you do not need to live in Maryland to send your story to support the Long Covid Innovation bill! #LongCovid

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

As ICE and CBP testify in Congress, we have updated our tracker of deaths at the hands of immigration enforcers. 25 have been killed with another 18 seriously injured, and there have also been 44 deaths in ICE/CBP custody. Wondering if this will come up at the hearing. prospect.org/2026/01/29/i...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

It's more than 762,000 people from the dismemberment of USAID alone.

Tomorrow I will testify before subcommittee of House Judiciary Committee against the proposed "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act," which would authorize exclusion/deportation of all or most non-citizen Muslim immigrants. My written testimony posted here: reason.com/wp-content/u...

'ME and Long Covid have brought my children's lives to a standstill' www.bbc.com/news/article... Mentions Rosetta Stone study which is funded by the ME Association #MEcfs #LongCovid #POTS

FOI response shows uptake of ME/CFS e-learning from the government delivery plan: • Intro: 371 • Community care: 101 • Severe ME: <50 From a workforce of ~188k doctors & ~423k nurses This is the problem when training is “promoted” and not mandatory.

Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI. one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."