9) Proteins were measured with the SomaScan assay, which uses DNA-based reagents. Link to the paper: Germain et al. 2025. Temporal dynamics of the plasma proteomic landscape reveals maladaptation in ME/ CFS following exertion.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court denied a request to consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. nyti.ms/3Ju2Ayd

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 and how Democrats are fighting back as closely as Democracy Docket. From Texas to North Carolina to California and Virginia it's providing the critical information you need. Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

It’s Halloween-time, but we shouldn’t actually be living in a horror movie. Congress is fighting over healthcare cuts that will make access to medical care a nightmare for working families, small businesses & people with disabilities. Call Congress: www.meaction.net/medicaid #SaveMedicaid #ACA

Modern authoritarians seldom cancel elections, because they prefer the veneer of democratic choice that voting provides, and because they can tilt the playing field toward themselves. “No one likes an election better than Vladimir Putin,” the Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias told me.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Wake up! Why would ICE ever need chemical weapons and guided missile warheads? Why would they need a 700% increase in spending? And how do they justify spending more on ICE than the militaries of all but 15 countries?

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

Imagine being the largest newspaper in Washington, DC with the motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness" and thinking to publish this today. You might think WaPo editors would look out the window and realize something more important is happening. But perhaps democracy already died over there.

You need to see this: “The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...” apnews.com/article/pope...

"There is nothing beautiful about shifting the burden onto those least able to bear it. But this is precisely what our nation is now poised to do." ME/CFS and long COVID advocate Laurie Jones writes on Medicaid work requirements. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/117839?trw=no

ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on Chicago’s South Side They are creating chaos www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo: It's not "pro-life" to be anti-abortion but support "the inhuman treatment of immigrants"

The healthcare service and delivery system is crushingly difficult to navigate now. We're seeing entire organizations cancel telehealth visits because of the impending-gov-shutdown-Medicare-telehealth-expiration Those healthcare orgs aren't willing to accept *any* risk they won't get paid.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

#MECFS #LongCOVID

Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

In honor of #SevereMEDay, we’re launching #UnitedForME, a shared hashtag to amplify stories, art & education from the Severe ME community. Join us in uplifting voices that need to be heard. 💙 #SevereME @openmedf.bsky.social @solveme.bsky.social @meactnet.bsky.social

On #SevereMEDay reposting my 2022 article about caring for patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome who are too sick to see a doctor. Some can't eat, and may be misdiagnosed with anorexia. #MECFS is not psychiatric. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Today is #SevereMEDay - a day we come together to especially take time to honor the 25 percent living with the most severe form of this disease and remember those who have died from ME. Myalgic encephalomyelitis is a complex chronic disease that presents with symptoms in multiple body systems.

As we come to the end of Severe ME Day, I wish I had some powerful words that could bring you peace, hope, and encouragement. What I can do is remind you that your words have power. Your stories matter. #SevereMEday #UnitedForME #pwME

NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

Israel has severely limited the amount of food entering Gaza, where society is on the brink of collapse. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

Univ. of Virginia: 'Jie Sun, PhD, Secures Grants Totaling $6.2 Million to Study Aging and Chronic Diseases After Viral Injury' 'Over the next 5 years, the researchers will pinpoint exactly how interferon-gamma from T cells sparks this chronic inflammation' news.med.virginia.edu/featured/jie...

The very definition of (fossil fool) insanity: taxing clean, healthy energy to defend polluting, health-harming fossil fuels. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @mason4c.bsky.social @apha.org @psr.org @momscleanairforce.org @momsaction.bsky.social

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

I concur and have been complaining about this for a while, especially every time the NYT refers to him as a "vaccine skeptic." The search for neutral language undermines the truth and gives a false impression. No, he's a vaccine opponent. A vaccine foe. An anti-vaccine advocate. Pick any of these.

🧪Numerous studies have linked asbestos as the primary cause of mesothelioma, a lung disease & as a result, in part, linked to heightened mortality rates. I used to work in an old building in Detroit that had old posters w/ warnings about asbestos exposure. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Frontiers: “Unwilling or unable? Interpreting effort task performance in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome” “In sum, Walitt et al.'s (2024) data provide no evidence of altered effort preference in PI-ME/CFS patients…conclusions…unwarranted..” www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

In just five days, Trump’s administration indicted a Democratic member of Congress for engaging in oversight, threatened to arrest a Democratic governor for governing in accord with his mandate, and handcuffed a Democratic senator for asking a question at a press event. Join tomorrow’s protest!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

They’re doing jobs Americans refuse to do and they’re being hunted ….

Here’s a rare member of the U.S. Senate who seems to understand how close we are to a dictatorship.

I’ve never seen a dissent like this (on SCOTUS stripping away the asylum parole of nearly 500K human beings on the emergency docket) utexas.app.box.com/s/fkvbpqvf8w...

Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

What about pregnant woman? #COVID infection in pregnancy is shown to impact fetal brain development via maternal and placental immune activation. Several adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes have been reported. #NeuroCovid #LongCovidKids www.cell.com/trends/molec...

Please take a moment to submit a comment on HHS's recent announcement that it is restricting COVID vaccines to 65+ or high risk of complications.

Global Health Review: 'A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles' By Violet Affleck 'Long COVID poses a threat to even the healthiest individuals...' 'Some half (half!) of Long COVID cases trigger ME..' yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...