Undiagnosed by Eugenia Leigh - Rattle: Poetry I’ve let a regular who tipped alright fuck me. Standing. In someone else’s bathroom.   Macramé of silver grunions manic […]

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Quote by: said Sarah Lamdan, Executive Director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.

In 2025, book bans were not sparked by concerned parents,& they weren’t the result of local grassroots efforts,” said Sarah Lamdan, “They were part of a well-funded, politically-driven campaign to suppress the stories and lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC individuals and communities.”

Turning a blind eye to blinding - ME/CFS Science Blinding is the process of keeping key persons involved in the conduct of a clinical trial unaware of group assignment.

6) That seems to be the most crucial line in the whole review. At least the authors are upfront with it!

We disagree and think it likely is a fatal flaw. For more info on why blinding is important, see this brief history that we wrote about it here:

Largely text-based graphic sharing that research paper highlights a new tool enhancing diagnostic accuracy for ME/CFS in clinical settings. Image of paper title, authors, and journal with the QR code and photo of Jaime Seltzer (white woman with long curly hair wearing glasses, green shirt, and black blazer.) Text: Building tools that clinicians actually use—tools that reflect what patients experience—requires lived experience leadership at the table from day one. MEAction Scientific Director Jaime Seltzer is co-first-author with Stephanie Grach, MD.

We’re excited to share a new study about the ME/CFS diagnostic & treatment algorithm that #MEAction’s Scientific Director & Mayo Clinic researcher-clinicians created, as part of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine grant.

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More invasive surveillance. Just say No, Dave.

Forest Firings: Trump Admin Aims to “Break the Forest Service,” Nearly 200 Million Acres at Stake The Trump administration in late March announced an extensive reorganization of the Forest Service, the federal agency responsible for managing 193 million acres of public lands across 43 states, the ...

They’re trying to had over national forests to the states & resource extractors. It’s illegal, but they’re miving ahead. Call ☎️ your reps & tell them we own this land collectively & we say No!
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If you luveceith a painbody, here is a poem for you by Travis Chi Wing Lau
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Finally up for reading this. Totally agree with it. Thanks Mary.

The problem is all our politicians are bought & paid for so I don’t think the Democrats have it in them to fight for the people. Some do, of course, & they have been winning elections, but their leadership is so weak.

SO A MEME WAS YOUR FUCKING LINE IN THE SAND You survived the felonies, the insurrection and the child rape accusations but a picture with Jesus did you in

“American CEO pay has gone up over 1,400% since 1978. Worker pay? 18%. Eighteen fucking percent in nearly 50 years. The top 1% now hold more wealth than the entire bottom 90% combined. Healthcare costs more than a mortgage. Education costs more than a house.” open.substack.com/pub/ifloz/p/...

This! How many people have had a similar experience in the ER?!! Both my spouse & i have, more than once. They told my love his kidney stone was indigestion! Ouch! www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

My Body They say “you’re so mature for your age,” but I am fourteen

Tanisha Bose is a 15-year-old poet! Unfortunately, many women can relate to this.

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Anil’s film will be part of our upcoming online exhibition, ‘Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Kills’, which will be launched on May 12th! Check out his trailer!

Today is the last day to submit your artworks to us.

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Poem from C. Dale Young!
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Took me 4.5 years to be diagnosed with ME. In that time I went from mild to moderately severe.

Queer Joy, Intimacy, and Living in a Disabled Body: Rob Macaisa Colgate’s "Hardly Creatures" - The Rumpus I entered this book as one would enter an art gallery– clueless, curious, and slightly apprehensive. Very quickly though, the book held my hand and taught me how to read it. As in an art gallery, the ...

This is a worthy book!therumpus.net/2026/03/18/queer-joy-int...

Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.”

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How Private, For-Profit Health Insurance Fails the Most Basic Test of Economics How profit-driven incentives and structural market failures have shaped the U.S. health insurance system and why it continues to fall short for patients.

“The market isn’t failing because we haven’t tried hard enough to fix it. It’s failing because it was never designed to serve patients. It was designed to serve shareholders.” And at that it has hugely succeeded. We need single-payer health care now.
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Arroz Poetica But to be perfectly clear, my enemies are not hungry. They are not standing in lines for food, or stretching rations, or waiting at the airports to claim the pieces of the bodies of their dead. My ene...

This poem! So relevant today: by Aracelis Girmay
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They profit, we pay. Fix it now. Ceasefires are not the answer - the war must end. We are paying the price for a crisis we didn't cause. This must change.

We’ve joined 130+ organizations in an open letter with 4 clear demands: end the war, tax profiteers, cancel debt and secure food and energy for all. They profit, we pay. It’s time to change that. 350.org/they-profit-...

Made by humans, for humans Why Disability Debrief doesn’t use AI (and when it does)

What does “nothing about us without us” mean if our words are written by machines?

I get that AI can be an assistive tool, but if we adopt it recklessly, we undermine an essential component of disability advocacy: how we share our lived experience.

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I Helped Sell HSAs. They're a Bad Deal. Health savings accounts cost taxpayers billions—while doing little to help the Americans most burdened by rising deductibles and medical bills.

HSA’s r the latest “scheme to transfer more tax dollars from working families to billionaires & force millions of Americans to seek care in a RAM charity clinic.” They only work 4 the wealthy, who use them as tax shelters, subsidized by US gov, who cut Medicaid/ACA
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“Undocumented workers in the United States pay roughly $20 billion in income taxes each year.”
NY Times

Most undocumented workers pay taxes. Unlike the ultra-wealthy, who get paid in stocks & pay very little %wise & corporations.

Immigrants make this country great. Billionaires leech.

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Poem by KB Brookins
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“Of the 536 members of the 119th Congress, 86% accepted corporate donations from the health insurance lobby.”
Zena Wolf

This is why our health care is terrible & why our health insurance is so expensive.

Healthcare should not be for profit!!

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Untitled by Lucille Clifton - Rattle: Poetry The main thing is to have this poem be proud of me, to have this poem feel as if she did the best she could.

The great Lucille Clifton!!!
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Just because I could do it yesterday doesn’t mean I can today, and just because today is a no doesn’t mean tomorrow will be. My body runs on its own schedule, not my expectations. mybodyistryingtokillme.com