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BuDS has joined with 50 other charities and disabled people's organisations to urge the Timms Review of Personal Independent Payment (PIP) to consult very widely with disabled people receiving all types of benefit. buds.org.uk/timms-review...

HOLY SH*T. There it is. Trump says he will speak to the DOJ about giving Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon.

SARS-CoV-2 infection can impact peripheral nerve conduction and muscle architecture in #LongCovid, new study on dozens of Covid survivors and 30 controls suggests www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately. No further comment necessary. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Local woman always loved Jane Goodall and this just confirms it. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Thanks, Donald Trump! Burbank Airport has ZERO air traffic controllers from 4:15pm to 10pm today because of YOUR government shutdown.

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

Nearly 1 in 3 adults with severe long COVID developed an uncommon heart rhythm disorder — most of them middle-aged women — according to Swedish researchers in Circulation: Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/nea...

"If thousands of studies are telling you to look for a certain kind of harm and then millions of people start wondering why they are experiencing exactly that type of harm, is it so hard to connect those two dots?" Or has #COVID has destroyed people's ability to reason...? #disability #pandemic

Robin Williams daughter Zelda is pleading with people to stop creating AI videos of her Dad. I’m pleading with you to stop using generative AI. It’s destructive to the environment. It’s destructive to artists. It’s destructive to humanity. It steals from us and churns out slop. Just stop.

Bad news: Anti-vaxxers have been given leadership positions at US health agencies and are doing everything they can to take away vaccines. Good news: Despite all their spin, in reality they have been too incompetent to do anything effective to restrict vaccine access in any meaningful way so far.

Excellent work from @michellegamage.bsky.social - a breath of fresh air! Put the word out if BC's legion of airborne-transmission-denier quacks come after you for this. We've got your back. #Standupforscience

MaskTogetherAmerica Long COVID Defense forum, Fri, Nov 7, 5:00–8:30pm EST Join patients, doctors, & their allies to combat minimization & erasure of #LongCOVID. bit.ly/Join_LCDefen... 🎙️ @drcorthals.bsky.social @solenntango.bsky.social @adamvanbavel.bsky.social Ann Wallance @ancirabecky.bsky.social

"Blue medical masks and cloth masks are great at helping a sick person keep their germs to themselves. 🚨Only a proper fitting respirator, like an N95, KN95 or CAN95, protects the wearer from germs, especially diseases like COVID-19 and measles, which travel through the air." 😮 Pigs flew today!

I’m seeing a lot of misinformation, shaming and disinformation around masking to prevent covid. First things first, the only way to avoid Long Covid is to avoid Covid. Second, a layered approach works best to prevent infection. One of those layers is masking. 🧵

Long COVID Linked to Surge in POTS Cases. "Researchers have found that postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) occurs in almost a third of patients with severe long COVID, making it far more common than in the general population." Source: archive.md/G46Hg

Today's Private Eye magazine: Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance, "CATA believes the government is guilty of downplaying the airborne transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 virus, and other airborne pathogens, therefore not providing the correct protective equipment for staff". FFP3s needed.

COVID-19 and other viruses that spread through the respiratory route linked to the onset of vascular dementia. Clean the air. Crosswords alone are not enough. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

Cleaner air isn't a personal health choice, it's something that needs the broad mandate of the state to accomplish. But we'll never get there as a society (despite the tech being relatively simple), because we've been brainwashed by a neoliberal health ideology that's centred on individual choices.

The federal government has today finally released the long-awaited national climate risk assessment, providing the most detailed picture of the severe and far-reaching social and economic impact of the climate crisis for Australia. #climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Bravo to this superior public health messaging! 👏 “Each new COVID-19 infection increases your risk of serious illness, Long COVID, and permanent health consequences like organ damage.”

I love the Scots.

“Mayors have shown what true leadership looks like: grounded in science, built on implementation, and driven by action. Cities have proven that when empowered and financially supported, they don’t just contribute to global climate goals; they accelerate them.”

Important & alarming investigation by @hopenothate.org.uk , showing Russian efforts to incite violence & far-right terrorist attacks in the UK (&, I suspect, in Europe & the US too). The gov’t needs to step up work on building societal resilience - & demonising migrants won’t help!

#Gambling, an industry out of control doing enormous damage to individuals and communities. It needs to be treated as the huge #PublicHealth issue it is www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Poll in 4 largest EU countries show that Britain would be welcomed back into EU if it chose to rejoin… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Entirely possible that some of those 78 Texans would still be alive if Donald Trump weren't on pace to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on personal golfing vacations this term Certainly one of the places that savings could have and likely would have gone was disaster preparedness and comms

Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review. Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."

It's a seminal article written for those without a science grounding. But, all the major points are referenced and researched. This was 2022.... Nothing... And I mean nothing, has not panned out into fact.

In India CNN is allowed to talk about COVID and link it to emerging trends of ill health: youtu.be/6Tm1Cm0_e7Q?...

Big numbers. Bc of much less severe disease than in adults, authorities have gambled that COVID/long COVID in kids is of little concern. There's much evidence now to suggest that's wrong. There's a clear path to better protect kids. We should take it. www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense — yet that's what this GOP budget is all about.

The EU's proposed new climate target for 2040 ignores its own climate scientists' advice, but uses dodgy accounting and off-shore carbon laundering to pretend it's not – it's 90% on paper alone Delaying more means the changes will be even harder for households and businesses in the future

Responsible leaders of American institutions must deal with the tyrant in the Oval Office by saying unequivocally “no” and unambiguously refusing to do what he demands. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-not-to-submit-to-a-tyrant

Analysis shows 2023-24 COVID vaccine offered strong protection against critical illness. XBB and JN.1 waves First 2 months after vaccination: Overall VE: 49% Hospitalisation: 51% Critical Illness: 68% 7 to 299 days after vaccination: Overall VE: 29% Hospitalisation: 25–33% Critical Illness: 48%