“3-6-9, it’s okay to not be fine!” - Your library celebrating and rooting for the chapters of you, your story 💚

If they care about you, they’ll care about your illness. The absolute least someone can do for you is Google your illness.

Everyone deserves access to The Beautiful Game 🙌

FYI for healthy people: Not every chronically ill person has a support system

Even Fortune magazine couldn’t ignore numbers like these. For MANY of us, the median cost would probably be a better measure. I would love to see it published. I know my number is close to $50,000/year.

As if we didn't have enough reasons to stop giving Bezos our money...

As shirts, stickers, etc www.etsy.com/shop/Chronic... or www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1803...

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

I post this every once in a while as a reminder.

Protest is often criticised when it isn't done in a way that is palatable for the oppressor. Newsflash! Protest is meant to cause discomfort; it is meant to disrupt the processes of oppression and injustice. If we don't speak up, over the tutting and shushing, then we are drowned out.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

“The key question is why this damage occurs in muscle,” Wirth said. In their hypothesis, he and Scheibenbogen identified disrupted ion exchange in muscle cells as the underlying cause." New science feature on ME by @martinruecker.bsky.social in TST 👀 thesicktimes.org/2026/05/14/b...

In case you missed it, some of our Unbiased Scientists recently sat down to talk women's health, menopause, and hormonal changes. You can watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/HkEuaFU3Ias

Knowledge is power!

NEW: "We deserved much better, much earlier." RECOVER's first clinical trials are failing. And people with #LongCOVID say the federal research program ignored their concerns. One behavioral trial even tested...computer games. @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social's latest 👀 thesicktimes.org/2026/05/12/r...

Today is International ME Awareness Day 💙. Thousands gathered across 42 cities in Germany this weekend to make demands for research, support, & education. The mass "lie down" protest was organized by the group #LiegendDemo. 📝:@heatherhogan.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2026/05/12/t...

Love this book! It's so important to be seen! #LongCovidFamily

Hope is a verb 🌈🌈🌈

This week's #LongCOVID research updates: thesicktimes.org/2026/05/05/r...

"You shall have no other gods before me."

“I don’t think it’s actually about the bison,” said Ryan Busse, a Democrat running in a primary in Montana’s First District. “Gianforte is fine with oil companies doing whatever the hell they want on public lands. But some bison walking around and eating grass is a threat?”

The Trump administration is moving to evict nearly 1,000 bison from federal grasslands in Montana. Handing the land over to cattle ranchers at heavily subsidized grazing rates.

Children’s literature encourages readers that books are for us. We belong in books! Their books see us, teach us, amplify empathy & kindness, make us laugh, magnify our whimsy. Books are our friends. Thank you, children’s literature authors & illustrators. You create so much wonderful work for us 💛

"We want real care, not cognitive behavioral therapy or meditation. We need medications for our lungs, hearts, stomachs, immune systems, [and] brains damaged by COVID." I love therapy, meditation, and yoga, but they're not the cure for Long Covid.

Host sites for a countywide America 250 exhibition on freedom for African Americans, Native Americans, women and LGBTQ+ people started opening their displays this week, including exhibits at the Watkins Museum and Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum. lawrenceks.news/42PBur9

"'Nothing for us, without us,' the WSP speaker said before being escorted out by security, highlighting a demand of people with Long COVID around the world."

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Chronic illness and disability in children's #picturebooks are almost entirely missing. Is there a market and #readers for characters, #parents, or #children, with a #chronicillness and #disability? Stories could be about any topic. What do you think? #childrensbooks #kidlit #libraries

Including the headline. Awful kowtowing in that headline, giving credence to his BS. Getting me to quit my anti-anxiety meds would not be "help," it would be harm.

"Kennedy Continues His Push For Disabled People To Die Instead"

“It’s easy to come to events like this and believe we’ve done something monumental ... Don’t get me wrong, prayer can be and has been the start of many monumental movements, but by praying we can also feel that we somehow fulfilled our requirement to love our neighbors without doing anything.”

Mental health is ALWAYS a priority ❤️‍🩹💚✨

Another day, another justification for war crimes, death and hatred, using someone who famously stood for peace on earth.

Patients have an expectation that when they visit a healthcare setting, they will leave in better shape than when they came in. However, many people end up with healthcare-associated infections. bit.ly/4eRAz0B

“The question KCUR is asking is not a new question. It is the question the white press has always asked about people who fight for Black freedom.” Read our latest; kansascitydefender.com/propagandaob...

This month marks PLRC’s 6 year anniversary!! 6 years ago, we released the survey that would become the first report about #LongCovid - the first data that showed the world its severity. While it always bewilders us how much time has passed, we’re proud of our work. 1/

The president's son, who was never involved in this industry before his father became president, should not be getting contracts from the Pentagon. This is absurd corruption that Republicans in congress will say nothing about and do no oversight. bsky.app/profile/atru...

You don’t need more ‘stuff’! Choose to care for the things you already own instead! Repair instead of replace, and give your clothes a new lease of life. Learn today: www.collingwoodnorrisdesign.com/visible-mend... #visiblemending #repair #makedoandmend #betterfortheplanet #sustainableliving

This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.

Thanks to all who don’t believe Long Covid is real. You’ve really made life easier for these kids. As an adult with supportive doctors & therapists, financial help and love from family & friends, long Covid has almost broken me. I can’t imagine a kid going through this. My heart breaks for them.

The Sick Times: 'I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me.' Written by Mustafa Talat thesicktimes.org/2026/04/17/i...

Clear to me. I hope clear to you. Not clear to many pastors.

90% of people who get long covid (see post below) had only seemingly mild symptoms. Everyone is at risk. It’s also airborne! We must start preventing or every wave we will have a mountain more chronically ill. The messaging shouldn’t be ‘its no more serious than the last infection’ listen, does 🧵

Let's pray that Trump considers the hard and human reality of “collateral damage”...

Tried to overthrow the government and the government's response was "we need to be very careful about how we respond to this because we don't want to upset the people who supported him trying to overthrow the government"