Keir Starmer today called it “utterly appalling” that a Reform UK councillor described children in care as “downright evil”. This report by a Care Experienced writer reveals how that remark still reverberates in Cambridgeshire. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

1/2: MP Tessa Munt has tabled a debate on ME/CFS in Westminster Hall on 19 November 2025 from 4:30pm until 5:30pm   Please write to your MP and ask them to attend the debate next week! https://whatson.parliament.uk/event/cal53589 #pwME #MyalgicE #MECFS #WriteToYourMP #Parliament #Debate

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

"The study suggests that Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which for most people is harmless..." Yes, apart from the 69000 with Lupus, ppl w MS, ppl w certain cancers, ppl with RA, and all the other life-wrecking shit we don't know about yet because medicine didn't bother to look because meh.

#MEcfs surprise surprise

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ME Research UK is delighted to announce that we have awarded funding to Prof. Bhupesh Prusty at Riga Stradins University in Latvia for a project investigating the role of autoimmunity in ME/CFS. bit.ly/prusty070 #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

Urg. So sick of being sick, exhausted and in pain...and still having to work. It's like having to get up and choose to self-harm, by making myself sicker as the week goes on, until I collapse at the weekend. #MEcfs

Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."

Place your bets! Did they assess for PEM? Let's find out.... #MEcfs

Greg Bovino, everybody.

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

This is a must read. How British justice system fails victims from those with power and money. “In such circumstances, accountability can become politically inconvenient.” Via @sussexbylines.co.uk

This article is poorly written, which is a shame for such an important issue. But taking away blockers from someone with natural male hormones who's already been through female puberty, and never a male puberty, is sick and twisted. How often is this happening?

Study: Circulating Microclots Are Structurally Associated With Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Their Amounts Are Elevated in Long COVID Patients. Published: 02 October 2025 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Scientists reveal another piece in Long COVID puzzle. "New study reveals a structural association between circulating microclots and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in patients with Long COVID. When dysregulated, this interaction may become pathogenic" Source: archive.li/GJl3l

💙Continuing Nevra's advocacy work💙 Weakness and paralysis are not the same. In Severe ME/CFS, paralysis isn’t just “feeling weak” — it’s the body’s loss of nerve control over the muscles. Patients describe moments when the brain sends signals to move… but the body simply can’t.

Only a decade too late (how has it taken this long??)

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When I found out that I'm intersex I knew, statistically, there were lots of other people like me out there, but only about a dozen were publicly visible. It has been a great joy to me to watch this movement grow over the decades and begin to exert real pressure for our human rights to be respected.

Good riddance

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

Any decent historian reads European decline in this statement. Tightening Russian visa rules for Europe while relying on Russian resources, underfunding Ukraine, and inviting Putin to visit the EU is like decorating a bucket with a hole in it.

Ppl were prudish in the old days. Matters of the body were kept behind closed doors.....

Priorities. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]

Layoffs are reaching their highest levels since the pandemic, but America's corporate elite have never been doing better. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

I’m calling on governments to #TaxTheSuperRich for a green and just future! Add your name: act.gp/42iAjSi

An article worth reading... absolutely shameful on the part of OpenAI

#MEcfs Ron Davis involved, inconclusive results, can't find the sample size in the preprint - is it me??

"For example, if beef was swapped to plant-based protein and all dairy and cheese to plant-based alternatives, this would spare almost 40,000 metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e), 64 square kilometres of land, and 728 million litres of water"... for just one event. drove.com/.2Gso

Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Netanyahu 💥

If your response to someone asking you about how C19/LC affect a topic you are presenting on is “we don’t have much research on C19/LC” please stop, admit you just don’t know the answer, and actively learn about C19 and its chronic effects. Because 5+ years in we do know A LOT. You just don’t.

The dysregulated immune system in #LongCovid with #MECFS. with sex-specific changes, increased inflammation (as seen by cells, chemokines and cytokines), and disrupted hormone levels www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Interested in ME/CFS research? Want to do a PhD with @aryback.bsky.social, @avakhamseh.bsky.social, @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social & @cgatist.bsky.social? Then apply for a *funded* Future Medicine PhD Fellowship. See: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please contact us to discuss before applying.

ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler. "He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!" Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child. Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

RSV can cause severe illness and long-term complications comparable to influenza and COVID-19, especially in young children, older adults, and those with underlying health conditions. doi.org/g99d6r

Nope, I wanna hear it, because I ain't gonna forget it

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BREAKING: Tesla shareholders just approved a pay package for Elon Musk that’s worth up to $1 trillion.

Thread for Day 3 of the @icancmeresearch.bsky.social conference. My attempt at simultaneously sharing on X and Bsky.

They're applying a lot of Long COVID research they've done and applying it to people who got sick with ME.

We are at a very exciting point at ME research. We understand the research better than we ever had. We need to meet the moment with increased passion, pace and purpose. And need to change things up so that we actually get new treatments.

Even the most promising interventions have yielded mixed or modest results often undermined by study design or limitations. Doesn't mean intervention doesn't work but we did a bad job stratifying patients.

Current status of ME trials: Rapidly increasing global frequency of ME despite poor and declining source of research funding. No approved tests biomarkers or treatments.