Travis
@trav2421.bsky.social
Formerly @EmpaticoOrg and @GlobalNYC #LongCovid he/him 🏳️🌈
This government shutdown is on Republicans for refusing to negotiate. Democrats must continue to hold the line to protect our healthcare.
October 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This government shutdown is on Republicans for refusing to negotiate. Democrats must continue to hold the line to protect our healthcare.
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TOMORROW: Join our rapid response call to prepare for a potential Trump Shutdown. We will need to act fast to hold Republicans accountable if they force a government shutdown, so we plan to convene with national partners to lay out a strong grassroots response: www.mobilize.us/HealthcareNo...
September 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
TOMORROW: Join our rapid response call to prepare for a potential Trump Shutdown. We will need to act fast to hold Republicans accountable if they force a government shutdown, so we plan to convene with national partners to lay out a strong grassroots response: www.mobilize.us/HealthcareNo...
Tell the House to investigate government censorship of Jimmy Kimmel Live! act.indivisible.org/sign/censors...
Tell the House to investigate government censorship of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
On September 17th, ABC/Disney announced it was indefinitely suspending the late-night TV show host Jimmy Kimmel, supposedly in response to comments in his monologue regarding the murder of Charlie Kir...
act.indivisible.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Tell the House to investigate government censorship of Jimmy Kimmel Live! act.indivisible.org/sign/censors...
Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso...
Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history
The Trump regime’s campaign of whitewashing US history has reached the halls of the Smithsonian museums, with exhibits dealing with slavery, the civil rights movement, and other struggles against oppr...
act.indivisible.org
August 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso...
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Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
August 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
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🧵 1/ 🚨 Congress slashed $859 MILLION from a key research program that includes funding for ME/CFS and other critical health conditions.
We need your help to restore it. #MECFS #CDMRP #HR3906
solvecfs.quorum.us/campaign/128...
We need your help to restore it. #MECFS #CDMRP #HR3906
solvecfs.quorum.us/campaign/128...
June 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🧵 1/ 🚨 Congress slashed $859 MILLION from a key research program that includes funding for ME/CFS and other critical health conditions.
We need your help to restore it. #MECFS #CDMRP #HR3906
solvecfs.quorum.us/campaign/128...
We need your help to restore it. #MECFS #CDMRP #HR3906
solvecfs.quorum.us/campaign/128...
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1) If you have had Covid you are at risk.
2) THEY AREN’T FUCKING “BOOSTERS” THEY ARE NEW SHOTS. THE VIRUS MUTATES.
3) They are able to do this because the uptake is already so low. This is not the end game, it’s an opening gambit.
2) THEY AREN’T FUCKING “BOOSTERS” THEY ARE NEW SHOTS. THE VIRUS MUTATES.
3) They are able to do this because the uptake is already so low. This is not the end game, it’s an opening gambit.
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
1) If you have had Covid you are at risk.
2) THEY AREN’T FUCKING “BOOSTERS” THEY ARE NEW SHOTS. THE VIRUS MUTATES.
3) They are able to do this because the uptake is already so low. This is not the end game, it’s an opening gambit.
2) THEY AREN’T FUCKING “BOOSTERS” THEY ARE NEW SHOTS. THE VIRUS MUTATES.
3) They are able to do this because the uptake is already so low. This is not the end game, it’s an opening gambit.
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If we still had a White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, they’d be in Tallahassee helping the community access federal resources for survivors, families, & students. Then they’d take what was learned to help prevent it from ever happening again.
Trump killed it on day 2.
Trump killed it on day 2.
April 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
If we still had a White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, they’d be in Tallahassee helping the community access federal resources for survivors, families, & students. Then they’d take what was learned to help prevent it from ever happening again.
Trump killed it on day 2.
Trump killed it on day 2.
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A preliminary budget draft leaked to the Washington Post outlines plans by the Trump administration to cut:
- the NIH budget by 40%
- the CDC budget by 44%
- the HHS budget by 33%
This will not make America healthy. It will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.
- the NIH budget by 40%
- the CDC budget by 44%
- the HHS budget by 33%
This will not make America healthy. It will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.
April 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A preliminary budget draft leaked to the Washington Post outlines plans by the Trump administration to cut:
- the NIH budget by 40%
- the CDC budget by 44%
- the HHS budget by 33%
This will not make America healthy. It will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.
- the NIH budget by 40%
- the CDC budget by 44%
- the HHS budget by 33%
This will not make America healthy. It will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.
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If you found it “too hard” to wear a mask or stay at home during shelter in place orders, you’re really not going to like being chronically ill.
I assure you it’s far easier to adapt when you have a choice. Wear a mask. Open a window. Get your boosters.
Adapt now or adapt when you lose your health
I assure you it’s far easier to adapt when you have a choice. Wear a mask. Open a window. Get your boosters.
Adapt now or adapt when you lose your health
March 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
If you found it “too hard” to wear a mask or stay at home during shelter in place orders, you’re really not going to like being chronically ill.
I assure you it’s far easier to adapt when you have a choice. Wear a mask. Open a window. Get your boosters.
Adapt now or adapt when you lose your health
I assure you it’s far easier to adapt when you have a choice. Wear a mask. Open a window. Get your boosters.
Adapt now or adapt when you lose your health
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The elimination of: grants to study #LongCovid, the Office of LC, & Advisory Committee on LC — have sent a chilling signal. We encourage folks to take the following action led by our partners:
1. Call your reps: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
2. Email your reps: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...
1. Call your reps: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
2. Email your reps: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...
March 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The elimination of: grants to study #LongCovid, the Office of LC, & Advisory Committee on LC — have sent a chilling signal. We encourage folks to take the following action led by our partners:
1. Call your reps: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
2. Email your reps: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...
1. Call your reps: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
2. Email your reps: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...
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🚨ACTION: #LongCovid research funding is on track to be fully eliminated & could mean the difference between treatments in our lifetime or not.
If you care about that — please take action & share this!
1. Call: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
2. Email: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...
If you care about that — please take action & share this!
1. Call: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
2. Email: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...
The elimination of: grants to study #LongCovid, the Office of LC, & Advisory Committee on LC — have sent a chilling signal. We encourage folks to take the following action led by our partners:
1. Call your reps: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
2. Email your reps: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...
1. Call your reps: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
2. Email your reps: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...
March 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
🚨ACTION: #LongCovid research funding is on track to be fully eliminated & could mean the difference between treatments in our lifetime or not.
If you care about that — please take action & share this!
1. Call: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
2. Email: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...
If you care about that — please take action & share this!
1. Call: win.newmode.net/longcovidcam...
2. Email: actionnetwork.org/letters/long...
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The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine.
This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.
This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.
March 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The Office of Long COVID Research and Practice will close as soon as this week, according to an internal HHS email obtained by Inside Medicine.
This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.
This is the opposite of what you would do if you were genuinely interested in finding treatments for chronic diseases, as RFK claims.
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Stop referring to Covid in the past tense.
It’s offensive, inaccurate, and careless.
The emergency response phase ended. The phase of mitigation efforts (wrongfully) ended. The Covid pandemic did NOT end.
Please update your language accordingly.
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
It’s offensive, inaccurate, and careless.
The emergency response phase ended. The phase of mitigation efforts (wrongfully) ended. The Covid pandemic did NOT end.
Please update your language accordingly.
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
March 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Stop referring to Covid in the past tense.
It’s offensive, inaccurate, and careless.
The emergency response phase ended. The phase of mitigation efforts (wrongfully) ended. The Covid pandemic did NOT end.
Please update your language accordingly.
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
It’s offensive, inaccurate, and careless.
The emergency response phase ended. The phase of mitigation efforts (wrongfully) ended. The Covid pandemic did NOT end.
Please update your language accordingly.
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
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So for all of the Christian right’s words about the sanctity of life, they’ve all signed up for killing millions of children as an act of public policy. WWJD?
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region.
We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant
survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
So for all of the Christian right’s words about the sanctity of life, they’ve all signed up for killing millions of children as an act of public policy. WWJD?
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On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, we want to lift up the importance of Long COVID advocacy. #MEAction & @patientled.bsky.social delivered a letter to HHS Secretary, RKK Jr calling for him to reinstate the Long COVID Advisory Committee.
Video & more info: youtu.be/hQn3kqyAT6w
#LongCovid #PwME #MECFS
Video & more info: youtu.be/hQn3kqyAT6w
#LongCovid #PwME #MECFS
March 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, we want to lift up the importance of Long COVID advocacy. #MEAction & @patientled.bsky.social delivered a letter to HHS Secretary, RKK Jr calling for him to reinstate the Long COVID Advisory Committee.
Video & more info: youtu.be/hQn3kqyAT6w
#LongCovid #PwME #MECFS
Video & more info: youtu.be/hQn3kqyAT6w
#LongCovid #PwME #MECFS
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"Remembering what COVID is and the damage it causes is crucial for anyone organizing around or working towards disability justice, racial justice, LGBTQ+ justice, migrant justice, and liberation... we have to acknowledge how we may be contributing to debilitation."
🆕❤️ from me in @forgeorganizing.bsky.social
I was nervous to share this w/ the world because it is filled with lamentation & difficult truths, my truths.
This one is for those dedicated to justice and liberation for all.
It’s year 5 & I'm daring you to remember who & what ur fighting for.
I was nervous to share this w/ the world because it is filled with lamentation & difficult truths, my truths.
This one is for those dedicated to justice and liberation for all.
It’s year 5 & I'm daring you to remember who & what ur fighting for.
Reflecting on COVID, Year 5 - The Forge
Vee Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration It has been a treacherous...
forgeorganizing.org
March 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
"Remembering what COVID is and the damage it causes is crucial for anyone organizing around or working towards disability justice, racial justice, LGBTQ+ justice, migrant justice, and liberation... we have to acknowledge how we may be contributing to debilitation."
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It is inaccurate to say “back during Covid,” “when Covid was a thing,” “during Covid times,” because it is still very much happening, disabling and killing people, and leaving millions with Long Covid.
It IS accurate to say “when Covid first started,” “in 2020,” “at the beginning of the pandemic”
It IS accurate to say “when Covid first started,” “in 2020,” “at the beginning of the pandemic”
March 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It is inaccurate to say “back during Covid,” “when Covid was a thing,” “during Covid times,” because it is still very much happening, disabling and killing people, and leaving millions with Long Covid.
It IS accurate to say “when Covid first started,” “in 2020,” “at the beginning of the pandemic”
It IS accurate to say “when Covid first started,” “in 2020,” “at the beginning of the pandemic”
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Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.
March 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.
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These cuts mean:
- Thousands dying daily from TB, HIV, Malaria, avoidable deaths!
- Devastation to global pandemic surveillance making certain next pandemic will come soon.
- Children going hungry in war torn zones
Human lives are not "waste".
This is mass murder!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Thousands dying daily from TB, HIV, Malaria, avoidable deaths!
- Devastation to global pandemic surveillance making certain next pandemic will come soon.
- Children going hungry in war torn zones
Human lives are not "waste".
This is mass murder!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rubio says 83% of USAid programs terminated after six-week purge
Surviving aid to be administered by state department in radical narrowing of definition of US national interest
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
These cuts mean:
- Thousands dying daily from TB, HIV, Malaria, avoidable deaths!
- Devastation to global pandemic surveillance making certain next pandemic will come soon.
- Children going hungry in war torn zones
Human lives are not "waste".
This is mass murder!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Thousands dying daily from TB, HIV, Malaria, avoidable deaths!
- Devastation to global pandemic surveillance making certain next pandemic will come soon.
- Children going hungry in war torn zones
Human lives are not "waste".
This is mass murder!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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NEW: Millions will observe half a decade of #LongCOVID this year as the ongoing pandemic turns five.
For @thesicktimes.bsky.social, I wrote about the courage of millions of pwLC who have led the way in the face of so much willful indifference, cruelty, and denial.
thesicktimes.org/2025/03/07/h...
For @thesicktimes.bsky.social, I wrote about the courage of millions of pwLC who have led the way in the face of so much willful indifference, cruelty, and denial.
thesicktimes.org/2025/03/07/h...
Half a decade of Long COVID - The Sick Times
Looking back on half a decade, there have been numerous milestones in Long COVID research, advocacy, and greater societal awareness, many led by people with the disease. There has also been, and conti...
thesicktimes.org
March 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
NEW: Millions will observe half a decade of #LongCOVID this year as the ongoing pandemic turns five.
For @thesicktimes.bsky.social, I wrote about the courage of millions of pwLC who have led the way in the face of so much willful indifference, cruelty, and denial.
thesicktimes.org/2025/03/07/h...
For @thesicktimes.bsky.social, I wrote about the courage of millions of pwLC who have led the way in the face of so much willful indifference, cruelty, and denial.
thesicktimes.org/2025/03/07/h...
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Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.
February 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.