My family's been loving the DVD section at the library this year as we cut back on streaming $. The kids love getting to pick them, and as a parent, it's nice to have a finite limit to some of the movies. 🤫😆

This. Read this and take it to heart. You know someone with Long Covid and they justifiably feel abandoned.

No more pretense or excuses. Trump and his team have made the white supremacist foundations of this project explicit and clear. If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way. Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.

The #LongCOVID crisis is accelerating while the national response collapses. Your support strengthens the national infrastructure families urgently need. Donate or start a fundraiser: https://bit.ly/FR4LC26#LongCOVID#GivingTuesday #PublicHealthMatters

When tens of thousands of Kansas City residents take to the roads and skies this holiday season, they will unknowingly spread germs as they go. That’s where the Kansas City mutual aid group 816 COVID Crew comes in — by helping provide free, high-quality masks to the public.

For up to half of people with #LongCOVID, activities like exercise can trigger post-exertional malaise (PEM). Yet Long COVID clinics around the world are offering exercise as treatment while dismissing its serious harms. Read more from @spichaksimon.bsky.social: bit.ly/4aaDRJW

Today @thesicktimes.org: big story from @spichaksimon.bsky.social examining exercise trials for Long COVID. His analysis found that, among LC exercise trials registered on clinicaltrials.gov, less than 20% even *mention* PEM in their trial registration. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...

CDC time of death: November 19th, around 9:30pm EST. This is political chess. And last night, they cornered our king.

Did you know that trans people are more likely to report having Long COVID than cis people are? On this annual Transgender Day of Resilience (TDOR), we’re sharing our resource on Long COVID in trans people. Created with @longcovidjustice.org longcovidjustice.org/lc-in-trans-people

Groundbreaking research suggests that food allergies might actually begin with the skin, not the stomach. Those messy meals, the drool rashes, the eczema patches that so many babies develop—they could be secret doorways for creating lifelong allergies.

Leading #LongCOVID and related disease researchers presented updates to their work Friday at the PolyBio Research Foundation’s Fall 2025 Symposium. As always, we live blogged the event. Check out summaries of each talk: bit.ly/4o38Gne

Enhanced credits for health insurance purchased from the Affordable Care Act marketplace expire at the end of this year. If they aren’t renewed, premiums will skyrocket for many people in Kansas and nationwide.

Thrift, buy secondhand, support small/local businesses when you can, attend clothing/toy swaps, shop the library book sales, make gifts, get a bottle from the local vineyard/brewery/distillery... Don't buy into the corporate greed, esp when the corporations are enabling this administration.

Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️ thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Picture this: You’re reaching for the green beans at Thanksgiving when Aunt Sue gasps, “Don’t eat those! They’re cooked in SEED OILS!” Your cousin chimes in about how measles is actually good for kids & someone just called the COVID vaccine “experimental gene therapy.” Pass the wine.

That's our family, especially after the kids watched an episode of Nature Cat on that topic. Let the leaves be!

🤝 This is what true public health partnership looks like- collaboration between organizations and the community to protect and inform the public. 2/4

The COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project is proud to have donated high-quality N95 masks to the DC Public Health Association (DCPHA)! After learning more about #LongCOVID, DCPHA will be partnering with us to continue working to raise awareness leading up to Long COVID Awareness Day in March. 1/4

The Sick Times: “Long COVID advocacy is more than lobbying Congress: Here are some ways to get involved” By Chelsea Rudman People with infection associated chronic conditions (IACCs) use a broad range of strategies to fight for awareness and better care thesicktimes.org/2025/11/11/l...

Libraries host food drives, have reading challenges with certificates for free burgers & pizza to encourage kids to read, have lunch-at-the-library programs in the Summer, have seed lending libraries to help grow your own food… Libraries are adamant our neighbors be fed, that they never go hungry 💛

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

Shutdown battle ebbs, but Trump won’t give up trying to withhold full SNAP benefits | via @fischler.bsky.social #ksleg

"In America today, 42 million souls rely on SNAP benefits — some 1 in 8 U.S. residents... Poverty has a thousand faces. Your neighbor... The medical resident... Your barber, mailman, Amazon delivery person... your old friend, working furiously to keep up appearances." www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

Tick-tock-tick-tock... I'm eager to heel these socks, but I can't till 8 p.m... ⏳ 🧶 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

I waited for menopause…only to learn I had missed it. When my doctor mentioned something about postmenopausal symptoms, I did a double-take. Wait- what? And then it hit me… By Jen Covich Bordenick

Last Friday, students at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor participated in the first-ever case competition focused on #LongCOVID and infection-associated chronic conditions (IACCs). Read @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social's reporting from the event: bit.ly/43VHy2f

Hey, remind me what happened after the Roaring 20s?

Happy Halloween! We have a some last-minute #LongCOVID themed costume ideas for you! 👻

Food security advocates throughout Douglas County are discussing an emergency response plan if SNAP benefits don’t come in for November. Here are some resources, plus info on how to help. lawrenceks.news/4op5hAb

More than 188,000 Kansans will not receive SNAP benefits at the start of the month due to the shutdown. "You know, COVID scared the heck out of us. And this is right up there with that level,” said Brian Walker of the Kansas Food Bank. (@kmuw.bsky.social)

The City of Lawrence's Community Building will no longer be available for free play and exercise starting in January, and rec centers will not be open for warming and cooling during extreme weather. lawrenceks.news/4p2SMdJ

NEW: More than two dozen Democratic-led states, including Kansas, are suing the Agriculture Department after the Trump administration said it would not use emergency funds to pay SNAP benefits during the shutdown.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

Things the government clearly has enough money for: Argentina, gold ballrooms, private jets for Kristi Noem. Things the gov't says it doesn't have money for: feeding hungry citizens (a good many who work for Trump's billionaire CEO friends who pay poverty wages)

The knitters 🧶 dream 🪢

Great framing.

That’s $500 million lost per day

An MRI? Of what?

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Ok, #knitsky, calling on knitters and retro gamers... any great knitting patterns featuring old school video game/arcade patterns (but not Super Mario)? Big SEGA and NEO-GEO fan in my life, but not exclusively those two. I've searched a million different ways on Ravelry (8-bit, Pac-Man, etc). 🧶 🕹️

Trump’s new ballroom you’re paying for is going to be bigger than the White House itself. Because he believes he is more important than the country. The symbolism is disgraceful and obvious. Again: Republicans would lose their minds if Obama did this.

"We believe that we’ll look back on how Long COVID was covered thirty years from now and see The Sick Times as a key light in the darkness of denial.” Thanks for including @thesicktimes.org among so many great newsletters, @jloeppky.com! discojourno.com/featured-spe...

Now through Oct. 22, the full purchase price (your entire order amount) of purchases made at www.ricksteves.com/shop will be donated to the ACLU (up to $50K) & I'll also match that amount $1 for $1 for a total combined donation of up to $100K to the ACLU in defense of our liberties and our democracy

“The demonstrations were very small.”

“In this country, a person who believes that he is the law cannot be president.” Texas representative @algreen.house.gov tells @premthakker.bsky.social that he’ll introduce new articles of impeachment for Donald Trump.