Tessera
Folgen

melinda_is_done 🐝

@melindaiscomplex.bsky.social

My body has given up but I haven't... Bed-tethered disabled Advocate on hiatus (but RESISTing) due to severe ME & LC & comorbids. Co-founder #MEAction Maryland. Orioles/Ravens/Caps fan. She/her

135 Posts1934 Follower2068 Folgt
DrSinBin@drsinbin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

#MEAction Network@meactnet.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#MECFS is not consistently recognized, diagnosed, or safely managed across healthcare settings. We're asking State Medical Boards to meet with our community & support our efforts to get ME/CFS questions on national licensing exams. Sign: https://ow.ly/vLAK50YzkCb Solve M.E. #MEAction Network

Community Letter Sign-on Form

Thank you for adding your voice to this effort. By signing on, you are joining patients, caregivers, clinicians, and allies across the country in asking State Medical Boards and State Health Leadership to recognize ME/CFS competency as a patient safety and standard-of-care issue — and to recommend that ME/CFS questions be included in national licensure exams. This form gives you the option to sign on to each of these letters: The State Medical Board Letter asks your State Medical Board to meet with clinicians and lived experience experts to discuss ME/CFS education gaps, and to recommend...

ow.ly

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4mo ago

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

@anneromatowski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ME/CFS affects ~9 million Americans. There are no FDA-approved treatments. We need medical research funding to change that. Today advocates are asking Congress to change that - join us! It takes 5 minutes: solvecfs.quorum.us/campaign/157943/ #MECFS #MEAwarenessHour

Tell Congress to Fund ME/CFS Research in FY27

9 million Americans live with ME/CFS — a serious, disabling disease with no FDA-approved treatments. I just contacted my representatives to urge them to increase CDC funding, keep ME/CFS as an eligibl...

solvecfs.quorum.us

melinda_is_done 🐝@melindaiscomplex.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NO KINGS 3 VIRTUAL RALLY organized by Stand Up for Science! Saturday, March 28th, from 12:30-2pm CT, it's an accessible and inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere. #NoKings3 #NoKings #Democracy #VirtualRally #ChronicIllness #MECFS www.standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3

SUFS NoKings3 Accessible Rally — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

NO KINGS 3 ACCESSIBLE RALLY organized by Stand Up for Science - An online and inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere, on March 28th, 12:30 - 2PM CT followed by live stream of the national flagship ...

standupforscience.net

Restorative Justice & Reparations@c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Following the violent assault of a disabled woman by ICE last week, and the many reports of abuses of people with disabilities in their concentration camps, it’s worth rereading this primer on Disability Criminalisation from the Center for Racial and Disability Justice

Disability Criminalization: A Primer

law.georgetown.edu

Restorative Justice & Reparations@c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 11mo ago

If you read 1 long 🧵today— Disability Criminalization: A Primer “Disability criminalization occurs when conduct connected to disability, such as: speech, crisis, movement is interpreted as disorderly, threatening, or criminal. It's not about crime, but about how law and culture misread disability.”

Center for Racial and Disability Justice 4d • .. . New for American Criminal Law Review, CRDJ fellow Samantha Santoro and Faculty Director Jamelia Morgan show how people with disabilities are disproportionately policed, prosecuted, and incarcerated for conduct linked to disability. From crisis response to hospitals and public spaces to prisons and jails, disability is too often framed as disorder, danger, or deviance. The result is escalation, violence, and structural exclusion. This article introduces the concept of disability criminalization to legal scholarship and argues that Critical Disability Studies provides a crucial framework to challenge it. Read the full article in the American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 62, Issue 4, 2025). https:// www.law.georgetown.edu/american-criminal-law-review/in-print/volume-62-number-4-spring-2025/ disability-criminalization-a-primer/
Laura Flanders@gritlaura.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This entire thread is important. Exactly the movement analysis and reporting that our media will never do. Watch ICE, denounce fascism all you like - we’ll never build power if we don’t learn how. The Minnesotans aren’t simply “nice.” They are deeply organized.

Harsha Walia@harshawalia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:

Ilhan Omar@ilhanmn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.