IT IS TIME TO GET LOUD! All of these actions are going to add to the body count of his tenure as HHS secretary...How many deaths and human rights violations will make Congress act? 1. SIGN THE PETITION. 2. TELL YOUR REP TO CO-SPONSOR THE ARTICLES 3. SHARE 🔗 www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

*taps sign* Any individual member of the House can force a vote on impeachments and anything impeachment-related.

lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is "he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly

The final stage of tetanus when nerves fire continuously & the body contorts into an agonizing posture known as opisthotonus. The mastication muscles clamp down to form the hallmark lockjaw. This 19th-century painting by Charles Bell hangs in @surgeonshall.bsky.social. #medicalhistory #skystorians

The Sick Times: 'Telehealth is vital for people with Long COVID. Don’t let it disappear' Written by Aly Laube thesicktimes.org/2025/12/19/t...

This administration specializes in fearmongering, not facts. The facts: 86% of trans youth report s*cidal ideation and 56% have attempted to end their lives. Anti trans laws increase attempts by ~72%. <1% report regretting GAC. If they are trying to protect children, science says they are wrong.

It's hard to fathom but we are now *here* on this path to fascism.

The author doesn’t appear to be on Bluesky but the WSJ website says her email is [email protected] if you’d like you share your thoughts on this story.

HHS’ proposed rules say the FDA will go after retailers and manufacturers of binders made to treat gender dysphoria

I have known this person (virtually) for years. Spoken to them in meaction video calls. Watched them go from skilled nursing facility to their current situation. gofund.me/fc191fd3c

I recently shared a thread with some #MECFS community members with needs. I need to share this person's again. They are facing homelessness. They are in desperate need of funds. They are going w/o meds & food. If you can share, I would appreciate it. @rarediseasepatient.bsky.social #pwME ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Not reading this ableist shit but as someone who has “jetway jesused,” did you know Covid is causing a dramatic increase in POTS, a condition that can make it impossible to stand in one place without fainting, but may otherwise allow you to walk just fine?

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

There's a point with #SevereME that unless you can get telehealth or home care, you just start dropping out of healthcare because getting to the (15 minute) appointments is too destabilizing. I'm right on the edge. I need to look up the home health stuff i got last year i guess.

This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.

In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications. ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care. This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.

NEW: Louisiana and lawyer Erin Hawley of ADF just asked a federal judge to IMMEDIATELY end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone while their lawsuit against the FDA proceeds. They cite Fifth Circuit opinion and the Comstock Act of 1873 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.

@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social Honor your oath. Impeach Trump.

Short German TV report on children in Hamburg with ME/CFS following Covid. Families say hospital services believe it has a psychological component, and the lack of diagnosis has resulted in child welfare reports when children are unable to attend school.

Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

@repjoecourtney.bsky.social One of your staffers told me not every offense is impeachment worthy when I asked about the resolutions to remove Hegseth and RFK. If war crimes and killing babies/destroying public health isn’t it, can you clarify where you draw the line?

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

For anyone doing archival work in #MECFS, this might be of interest. Eastern CT State University has catalogued 19 boxes of materials donated by CT CFIDS. Here’s the current finding aid, which is in process of being updated: easternct.libguides.com/ld.php?conte...

I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🇳🇴 Patients from Norway have created a petition to encourage the government to provide funding for the Daratumumab study and to strengthen future biomedical research efforts in ME CFS. You can sign the petition here:

In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake. In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak. Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

9-year anniversary of reanalysis paper on recovery in £5m #PACEtrial, with data the PACE team fought so hard to keep to themselves. Shows recovery rates in all trial arms were low, using the criteria the PIs promised in their own protocol tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #MEcfs #CFS

If you’re in the UK and were born between 1970-1990 you can just go to your GP and get revaccinated for MMR because you may have had single vaccines, which are no longer considered valid. I went & did it this summer. Easy way to help protect yourself & your community.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

The government is using face-scanning apps to check if random people on the street are citizens. And they say you cannot refuse. Our new dystopia, on this week’s Reveal:

ICE has taken Chinese dissident Guan Heng into custody and is threatening to return him to China. Guan Heng risked his life to film the Uyghur concentration camps—the same camps Secretary of State Rubio opposed when he sponsored the “Uyghur Force Labor Prevention Act” as a US senator.

Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone.

I was in Myanmar in 2015, just as identity cards were taken from Rohingya to keep them from voting. It was part of a decades-long process of redefining citizenship that ate away at their rights more every year. When governments start doing this, they can move the goalposts anytime they want to.

Most daycares and private preschools won’t enroll children with disabilities. Especially for low income families, Head Start is their *only option*.

Did they just adapt the cover of the discount publisher edition of Animal Farm I bought in India for the big screen?

What is this Disneyfied appropriate-for-toddlers cheery jokey mess??? Animal Farm is a grim tale of the dangers of totalitarianism, not... whatever this is.

This is the vice chair of the Democrat caucus straight up saying that even if Dems win the midterms, they might not impeach Trump.

Severe weather conditions in Gaza have claimed the lives of 13 people, including babies who froze to death, as Israel continues to block the entry of aid that could provide shelter to 1.5 million Palestinians living in worn-out tents. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...

THIS I still remember when I tried to explain to a nurse how little I can be active per day and she said “but you’re not active right now you’re sitting down” No it doesn’t work like that, for me not being active is lying on my bed in the dark

Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online. What a joke.

The more my life has shrunk, the more I'm thankful for every moment I get to be alive. Still, I'm scared. So many of us w/ME are out here, invisible in our homes, trying to survive with no good treatment options. Please support ME & Covid causes, even if it's just raising awareness. We need allies.