Mike Y.
@sluggobear.bsky.social
Gay 51 y.o. leftie partnered Southern California bear.
@profgalloway.com Really enjoyed your statements on the Section webinar today!
September 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
@profgalloway.com Really enjoyed your statements on the Section webinar today!
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Traveling soon? Stay protected during the COVID-19 surge by wearing a high-quality mask in crowded or indoor spaces like an N95, KN95 or KF94. Learn more: www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
August 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Traveling soon? Stay protected during the COVID-19 surge by wearing a high-quality mask in crowded or indoor spaces like an N95, KN95 or KF94. Learn more: www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
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Help needed from LC pals!
The CURE ID survey, where you report meds and supps you’ve tried, is reopening!
If you’ve reported before, they’d love more info on what *didn’t* work for you, and what you’ve tried more recently.
And if you’re new to this, they want you to join in! Overview below:
The CURE ID survey, where you report meds and supps you’ve tried, is reopening!
If you’ve reported before, they’d love more info on what *didn’t* work for you, and what you’ve tried more recently.
And if you’re new to this, they want you to join in! Overview below:
Long Covid sky, do you know about CURE ID cure.ncats.io an FDA survey on meds you’ve trialed?
Results could help show NIH there’s more to study than melatonin & computer games! But CURE ID needs 1000 reports to start crunching data! Will you take the survey—& ask a pal to join too?
Here’s how! 🧵
Results could help show NIH there’s more to study than melatonin & computer games! But CURE ID needs 1000 reports to start crunching data! Will you take the survey—& ask a pal to join too?
Here’s how! 🧵
August 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Help needed from LC pals!
The CURE ID survey, where you report meds and supps you’ve tried, is reopening!
If you’ve reported before, they’d love more info on what *didn’t* work for you, and what you’ve tried more recently.
And if you’re new to this, they want you to join in! Overview below:
The CURE ID survey, where you report meds and supps you’ve tried, is reopening!
If you’ve reported before, they’d love more info on what *didn’t* work for you, and what you’ve tried more recently.
And if you’re new to this, they want you to join in! Overview below:
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Every single museum in America needs to print out "Actually, slavery WAS that bad" and post it on their front door today.
August 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Every single museum in America needs to print out "Actually, slavery WAS that bad" and post it on their front door today.
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Multi-omics with A.I. analytics demonstrates critical role of the gut microbiome and immune response and enables accurate diagnosis of ME/CFS, may also be applicable to Long Covid.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.ft.com/content/9cdf...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.ft.com/content/9cdf...
AI-driven multi-omics modeling of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - Nature Medicine
Analysis of a deeply phenotyped, longitudinal cohort of 249 participants elucidates the network of concurrent molecular and macroscopic patterns related to insurgence and course of ME/CFS.
www.nature.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Multi-omics with A.I. analytics demonstrates critical role of the gut microbiome and immune response and enables accurate diagnosis of ME/CFS, may also be applicable to Long Covid.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.ft.com/content/9cdf...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.ft.com/content/9cdf...
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A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.
March 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.
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COVID-19 is still going around. If you’re feeling sick, take these steps to protect yourself and others.
📲 Learn more: www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
📲 Learn more: www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
July 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
COVID-19 is still going around. If you’re feeling sick, take these steps to protect yourself and others.
📲 Learn more: www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
📲 Learn more: www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...
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"I'm going to jump off this building, but in a strategic way. As I hit 100% velocity, I'm going to develop the power of flight, which I should be able to do fairly quickly."
Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
July 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"I'm going to jump off this building, but in a strategic way. As I hit 100% velocity, I'm going to develop the power of flight, which I should be able to do fairly quickly."
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Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
July 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?
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#LisaMurkowski now goes down in history. She could have stopped this bill but capitulated as she usually does. Now it's a stain that will not wash out. Trump+Murkowski. They are joined for posterity.
July 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
#LisaMurkowski now goes down in history. She could have stopped this bill but capitulated as she usually does. Now it's a stain that will not wash out. Trump+Murkowski. They are joined for posterity.
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This is a really important point. Most Medicaid recipients likely have NO idea that they’re about to lose their coverage.
July 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is a really important point. Most Medicaid recipients likely have NO idea that they’re about to lose their coverage.
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Many get that the Trump gang is accelerating climate chaos.
Folks absolutely 100% do not get how much worse that crisis will be for them now with this combination of defunding climate science, gutting disaster responses and demolishing even our limited steps towards ruggedizing key infrastructures.
Folks absolutely 100% do not get how much worse that crisis will be for them now with this combination of defunding climate science, gutting disaster responses and demolishing even our limited steps towards ruggedizing key infrastructures.
"A generational loss for hurricane forecasting..."
The millions of hurricane-exposed Americans on the East Coast might want to know that this loss of predictive capacity will make brittle assets lose more value, more quickly.
michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/noaa-propo...
The millions of hurricane-exposed Americans on the East Coast might want to know that this loss of predictive capacity will make brittle assets lose more value, more quickly.
michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/noaa-propo...
NOAA Proposes Permanently Closing Premiere Hurricane Research Institute
In its proposed 2026 budget released Monday, NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs, including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models
michaelrlowry.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Many get that the Trump gang is accelerating climate chaos.
Folks absolutely 100% do not get how much worse that crisis will be for them now with this combination of defunding climate science, gutting disaster responses and demolishing even our limited steps towards ruggedizing key infrastructures.
Folks absolutely 100% do not get how much worse that crisis will be for them now with this combination of defunding climate science, gutting disaster responses and demolishing even our limited steps towards ruggedizing key infrastructures.
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They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court.
This is not deportation.
This is ethnic cleansing.
This is not deportation.
This is ethnic cleansing.
June 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court.
This is not deportation.
This is ethnic cleansing.
This is not deportation.
This is ethnic cleansing.
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What struck me about this paper was not just the very high prevalence of cognitive impairment and memory issues as sequelae of infection, but also that the population effects of such high rates of cognitive dysfunction must be changing society itself.
bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Long-term neurological and cognitive impact of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis in over 4 million patients - BMC Neurology
Background Neuropsychiatric symptoms emerged early in the COVID-19 pandemic as a key feature of the virus, with research confirming a range of neuropsychiatric manifestations linked to acute SARS-CoV-...
bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com
June 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
What struck me about this paper was not just the very high prevalence of cognitive impairment and memory issues as sequelae of infection, but also that the population effects of such high rates of cognitive dysfunction must be changing society itself.
bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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DOE wants to eliminate regulations which require buildings receiving fed funding to be accessible to disabled people.
We need comments submitted by TOMORROW MONDAY 6/16
Pls help push back!
Instructions+template: dredf.org/action-alert...
More background: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/09/e...
We need comments submitted by TOMORROW MONDAY 6/16
Pls help push back!
Instructions+template: dredf.org/action-alert...
More background: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/09/e...
Tell the Department of Energy to Stop Attacking Civil Rights and Section 504 - DREDF
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
dredf.org
June 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
DOE wants to eliminate regulations which require buildings receiving fed funding to be accessible to disabled people.
We need comments submitted by TOMORROW MONDAY 6/16
Pls help push back!
Instructions+template: dredf.org/action-alert...
More background: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/09/e...
We need comments submitted by TOMORROW MONDAY 6/16
Pls help push back!
Instructions+template: dredf.org/action-alert...
More background: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/09/e...
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"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
May 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
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"Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life."
Thank you to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for just telling the truth about #ElonMusk. The rest of the media should hang their heads in shame with the fawning, irrelevant pieces they ran yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life."
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The CDC has been updating #SARSCoV2 genomics every 2 weeks but has failed to do so since their 9 May post.
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
This isn't a good idea with 2 new variants emerging (NB.1.8.1 in Asia, and XFG in the US). Graph by @jpweiland.bsky.social
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
This isn't a good idea with 2 new variants emerging (NB.1.8.1 in Asia, and XFG in the US). Graph by @jpweiland.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The CDC has been updating #SARSCoV2 genomics every 2 weeks but has failed to do so since their 9 May post.
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
This isn't a good idea with 2 new variants emerging (NB.1.8.1 in Asia, and XFG in the US). Graph by @jpweiland.bsky.social
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
This isn't a good idea with 2 new variants emerging (NB.1.8.1 in Asia, and XFG in the US). Graph by @jpweiland.bsky.social
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This is a political purge of universities, a destruction of knowledge and expertise that will be felt for generations. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
Federal Cuts Become ‘All Consuming’ at Harvard’s Public Health School
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is a political purge of universities, a destruction of knowledge and expertise that will be felt for generations. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
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Every one of these is more important than the mental acuity of the former President. We are in trouble. Focus.
May 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every one of these is more important than the mental acuity of the former President. We are in trouble. Focus.
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🚨 They just advanced the Republicans’ reconciliation bill through the Budget Committee.
This bill guts healthcare, scientific breakthroughs, and a livable future to fund tax cuts for billionaires.
We need pressure NOW. More on this to come - stay tuned.
www.npr.org/2025/05/19/n...
This bill guts healthcare, scientific breakthroughs, and a livable future to fund tax cuts for billionaires.
We need pressure NOW. More on this to come - stay tuned.
www.npr.org/2025/05/19/n...
Trump's bill advances in rare weekend vote as House conservatives negotiate changes
Republicans advanced their massive tax cut and border security package out of a key House committee during a rare Sunday night vote as deficit hawks allowed it to move forward.
www.npr.org
May 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🚨 They just advanced the Republicans’ reconciliation bill through the Budget Committee.
This bill guts healthcare, scientific breakthroughs, and a livable future to fund tax cuts for billionaires.
We need pressure NOW. More on this to come - stay tuned.
www.npr.org/2025/05/19/n...
This bill guts healthcare, scientific breakthroughs, and a livable future to fund tax cuts for billionaires.
We need pressure NOW. More on this to come - stay tuned.
www.npr.org/2025/05/19/n...
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🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access:
1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
2. Contact your elected officials
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
2. Contact your elected officials
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
May 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚨 ACTION ITEMS to stop the FDA from limiting Covid vaccine access:
1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
2. Contact your elected officials
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
1. Submit a public comment to the FDA www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
2. Contact your elected officials
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
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Devastating NIH cuts to infectious disease research, eviscerating our nation’s capacity to fight emerging infections and pandemic threats. From @sanders.senate.gov report out yesterday www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
May 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Devastating NIH cuts to infectious disease research, eviscerating our nation’s capacity to fight emerging infections and pandemic threats. From @sanders.senate.gov report out yesterday www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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The next president has to do two things: 1) right the wrongs of Trump and go after those who broke the law and were corrupt. 2). Then spend time divesting power from the presidency and building real guardrails and passing laws like, “the president is not immune” etc.
And get the money out
And get the money out
May 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The next president has to do two things: 1) right the wrongs of Trump and go after those who broke the law and were corrupt. 2). Then spend time divesting power from the presidency and building real guardrails and passing laws like, “the president is not immune” etc.
And get the money out
And get the money out