11% of veterans experience food insecurity. Let’s honor #VeteransDay by donating to local food banks. Some have been running out due to the increased demand from SNAP cuts.

The 9th Semiannual Coinstar Day, in support of the Lipkin Lab’s #MECFS and #longCovid research, was a success! In accordance with the slogan of Coinstar Day: receipts or it didn’t happen. joinus.cuimc.columbia.edu/participants...

If Trump and other autocrats are to be defeated, it will be by bold, bright, anti-establishment candidates, who speak for those who struggle with enormous rents, failing public services, lousy pay and insecure, unsatisfying jobs, rather than for those inflicting these miseries.

What is Coinstar Day? On November 9, 2021, I was reflecting on various fundraisers from prior years, mostly because November 9 was the anniversary of multiple car crashes and events in the aftermath thereof that had required fundraisers. 1/9

Here’s a way to help ME/CFS/LC patients while resisting the Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom. Remember that in March, Columbia temporarily had its funding cut by the government? Ian Lipkin’s ME/CFS/LC lab still needs support. (cont.) joinus.cuimc.columbia.edu/participants...

www.whitneydafoe.com/mecfs/?post=... Use the extra hour today to read this. I have found that all activism against this administration should converge on ME/CFS/LC: Opposed to cuts to the safety net? Stand with ME/CFS/LC patients. Opposed to RFK Jr.’s misinformation? Stand with ME/CFS/LC patients.

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

November 9 is coming. Stay tuned for this year’s effort to support ME/CFS/long Covid research and challenge the Trump administration, which everyone protesting and resisting should know go hand in hand.

I wish the tinfoil hats had been right about 5G in the Covid vaccine. My cell service still sucks.

SNAP funding runs out at the end of this month and food banks will need extra support. If you can donate, please do so. Consider donating some respirators too! Long lines in crowded place can lead to Covid spread. Let’s keep people fed & healthy!

This is jaw-droppingly bad logic. It’s equivalent to denying a wheelchair ramp to the living people today paralyzed by polio because “polio is over.“

Take a look at this list. Then take a look at it again. Bookmark it. This is why I am convinced that giving long Covid the research investment it needs will result in discoveries about all sorts of chronic diseases we don’t necessarily think of as infection-related. me-pedia.org/wiki/List_of...

One month until Coinstar Day.

If you say: EBV causes MS HPV causes cervical cancer RSV in infancy is linked to asthma Some people develop Type 1 diabetes after an infection it’s not controversial. But as soon as you say the words “long Covid,” you get buried in people telling you it’s just hysteria. Why is that?

Today, August 8, is #SevereMEDay. August 8 was chosen because it’s the birthday of Sophia Mirza, who died of ME in 2005. Today, read the story of the neglect she suffered from medical professionals who dismissed her disease. www.sophiaandme.org.uk/sophia%20&%2...

I’m not on here often but I’d like to share about the 8th Semiannual Coinstar Day. Twice a year (5/9 and 11/9) I take all the coins I’ve accrued in the last 6 months to a Coinstar and convert them into cash to donate to charity. Today’s haul (including bills) came to $73 for @openmedf.bsky.social

Anytime I advocate for better covid mitigations - people assume I want to lock them in their homes forever. In reality we could drastically limit covid transmission with the following: - Masks in healthcare - Clean air in public spaces - Free vaccines, tests & respirators - Paid time off

#ME is Wikipedia’s main page feature today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

was incomplete and maybe your perception of the patient experience needs to be updated. The IACC community is embattled and struggling. They need clinicians who are allies and understand their struggle. If you can’t be that, sit down and 🤐 Hope this helps to clarify. 🙏🏻 /end

provider, getting angry at the patient, ignoring the patient, etc. Or you could choose to do the work: partnering with the person in your care, reading more, listening and actively problem solving, referring to a clinician who is more experienced. All of the former are easy, 9/