Today is the last day of public comment on a rule that would force cancer and HIV patients to prove "significant impairment" so they can keep their exemption to Medicaid work requirements. This "will kill people, I’m literally living proof of that," said one patient with a brain tumor.

Trump to HIV and Cancer Patients: Get Back to Work - The American Prospect

A surprise rule added to the Big Beautiful Bill could disrupt access to Medicaid for people with serious illnesses who thought they were exempted from work requirements.

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We're pleased to announce the English version of our transdisciplinary care guide for people with severe #MECFS. We hope it will help family caregivers, healthcare professionals, and policymakers improve care for one of the world's most underserved patient populations.

Arguments for a biological cause are “mocked” and “overwhelmed”, science is “ignored”, and clinicians with success treating ME are “hounded out of business”. The Countess of Mar speaking about a “school of psychiatry” in the House of Lords, 2010. #MECFS

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

UK people with Long Covid or ME/CFS: please consider helping the HERITAGE project. They need to recruit 1,000 people who have not accessed an NHS specialist service within the last 3 years. heritage.leeds.ac.uk/join/

Many multidisciplinary/rehabilitation studies for ME/CFS, Long Covid, etc. pretend to have meaningful positive results. Here's one that clearly states the intervention didn't work: virology.ws/2026/07/23/t...

“Seven days after the girl’s medical team infused trillions of viruses carrying the recipe for the base editor into her spinal fluid, she died of a severe immune reaction linked to the therapy…” This, in @science.org, is an important and tragic story. (It’s also an incredibly well reported one.) 🧪

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

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This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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The UK ME/CFS Biobank (UKMEB) is looking for healthy control volunteers for a study looking at virus reactivation in ME/CFS/LC The UKMEB is still looking for women aged between 31–50 and men between 31-40 who can visit LSTHM or who live in the catchment area. meassociation.org.uk/narr

The UK ME/CFS Biobank is looking for healthy control volunteers for a study looking at virus reactivation in ME/CFS/LC - The ME Association

The CureME Team at the London School of Hygiene and […]

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1) We wrote a new article on cell and tissue analysis using genetic data. For ME/CFS, the results strongly point to neurons. One of the top hits is the medium spiny neuron, located in a region deep inside the brain called the striatum.

Cell and tissue enrichment in ME/CFS - ME/CFS Science

By matching DNA results with gene expression databases researchers can determine the tissues and cellContinue readingCell and tissue enrichment in ME/CFS

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Straightforward fascist ideology running throughout, as illustrated by this passage

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3w ago

Good morning. This is fascism. This is the US Govt creating thought crimes. It’s not about who they are arresting today, it’s about how this vague and threatening pursuit will be used against dissenters. ✨EVERY✨ fascist govt to date, has taken this step. www.state.gov/releases/off...

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Trump urged Iranians to protest and told them "Help is on the way" and now he is turning over confidential information on Iranian asylum seekers applications to the Iranian government prior to deporting them back to Iran.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4w ago

The Trump administration violated U.S. law by providing Iran’s government with confidential information detailing the asylum applications for Iranians it planned to deport, a new lawsuit filed in D.C. alleges.

BREAKING: Graham Platner drops out of the Maine Senate race, leaving Democrats in search of a candidate for a seat the party hopes to flip in November.

Graham Platner drops out of Senate race, allowing Maine Democrats to replace him

His decision comes within days of a key deadline, allowing Maine’s Democratic Party to select a new candidate to face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a critical contest for Senate control.

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🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 5 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/w6DcW

The US Administration will disgorge at least 3 new rules in the next 1–3 months that will shatter our system of recruiting global STEM talent as students at our world-leading universities. The first of these will be the 'Duration of Status' rule, explained here. Two even larger attacks will follow.

America Is About to Hand Its Best Founders to Its Rivals

On June 17, the White House cleared the final regulatory checkpoint for a Department of Homeland Security rule that would cap F-1 student visas at four years, shorten the post-graduation grace period

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At Trump’s Direction, Federal Agencies Are Abandoning Discrimination Cases www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...

At Trump’s Direction, Federal Agencies Are Abandoning Discrimination Cases

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Today is the 250th anniversary of Boston’s mass inoculation against smallpox on July 3, 1776. The city was effectively closed to commerce from July through September 1776. The mass immunization effort was cheered as evidence of true independence. Here's how I described it in my book:

The air conditioning at the Delaney Hall concentration camp failed today, so now people are roasting inside as temperatures rise above 100 degrees. It's so hot they can't breathe.

Air conditioning fails at Delaney Hall as heat wave leaves detainees struggling to breathe • The Jersey Vindicator

Advocates say temperatures became unbearable inside one housing unit as the region's heat wave intensified.

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A loud and painful reminder that COLLEGE-EDUCATED Black women bore the BRUNT of job loss last year cc @epi.org.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last mo.

So painful. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

My first post about that Wired piece: virology.ws/2026/06/09/t...

A politician that wanted my vote would rage against AI slop. It’s destroying so many communities built in good faith, with no expectation of profit, by people that just wanted to knit the world back together. Travesty so few have anything to say.

Hope all #chronicillness patients will join me in supporting this @standupforscience.net comment drive to keep politics out of scientific research. For so many of us, lifesaving cures and medicines hang in the balance.

Watching this was so moving because I never saw anyone nurse Maeve like this. It was all left to me, alone, round the clock for seven months - including during hospital admissions. I couldn't do it all. We needed help. There was no help. Getting her out of hospital was the best help, but without a

Anil van der Zee@anilvanderzee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1) This video shows a unique care unit in Norway called Røysumtunet for people with #severeME & very severe ME. It is one of the only places where the sickest patients can receive specialised care. We need this everywhere!! #pwme #myalgicE #millionsmissing #severeME

Welp *USDA CONFIRMS DEADLY SCREWWORM IN US CATTLE

George Pearkes@peark.es · 2mo ago

Man $TSN has been getting REKT what's going on over there

The purpose of the left ought not to be to love America, but to reimagine a way America could be worth loving.

What's worse, it will only reinforce the author's false premise that Long COVID "advocates" are the reason this "cure" isn't being explored. Oh, but it is. In piece after piece after piece of unsubstantiated pop-sci drivel. Dear @wired.com Cherry-picked anecdotes do not science make. #pwME