I'm behind on vetting bc folks don't vet. It isn't just vetting who you follow but who follows you. If your account is loaded with bots, scammers, booby bots, orphans, bitcoin, and the like then it brings them to me and your followers.
I don't know why any of you haters are surprised I'm the one actually engaging here.
You're the ones who've obsessively pored over the 10,000 photos, the 30,000 text messages, and the 128,000 emails from my hacked iCloud and stolen devices.
If I am anything, I am prolific.
You know what you won't find? Any of the most heinous, hateful things you keep posting about me.
What you'll find from me here is the same thing you found there.
Total transparency. Finally on my terms. Not yours.
Under new military guidance from Pete Hegseth, the LDS Church is officially classified as a non-Christian religion.
My fellow Saints, you can love these Christian nationalists all you want, but they will not love you back.
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⚠️After seeing the response from patients, clinicians and scientists, I think this needs to be said clearly:
Re-promoting an article that has caused so much harm to the Long COVID community is not brave journalism.
It is irresponsible.
This article did not simply “open a difficult conversation.” It amplified a deeply damaging frame: that maybe patients are rejecting the uncomfortable truth that CBT, exercise and “mind-body” approaches are the way forward.
But when you present a complex post-infectious disease through that lens, without properly separating psychological support from biological treatment, you are not helping patients.
You are making their lives harder.
These narratives do not stay inside an article.
They reach families.
They reach employers.
They reach disability assessors.
They reach doctors who already know very little about Long COVID.
They reach people who are looking for an excuse to say: “maybe it is just anxiety,” “maybe you are afraid of exercise,” “maybe you are keeping yourself sick.”
That has consequences.
Social consequences.
Medical consequences.
Workplace consequences.
Psychological consequences.
Patients with Long COVID are already fighting disbelief, lack of biomarkers in routine care, lack of approved treatments, disability, isolation and medical neglect.
Using their suffering to generate clicks while repackaging old psychosomatic narratives in modern “mind-body” language is not courageous.
It is cruel.
The problem is not talking about the nervous system.
The problem is turning nervous system involvement into a story about beliefs, fear, trauma or patients refusing to accept recovery.
The problem is using recovery anecdotes as if they establish causality.
The problem is ignoring those who worsened with exercise.
The problem is presenting PEM caution as dogma.
The problem is being much more generous with “brain retraining” narratives than with the biomedical evidence already showing immune, vascular, autonomic, metabolic and muscular abnormalities in Long COVID.
If a journalist wants to write about Long COVID, they have a responsibility to understand the history of harm done to post-infectious patients.
Because this is not new.
ME/CFS patients have lived this for decades.
“Unexplained” became “psychological.”
“Normal routine tests” became “nothing is wrong.”
“Supportive care” became “cure.”
“Exercise” became “rehabilitation,” even when patients were crashing.
And now the same mistake is being repeated with Long COVID.
Patients are not angry because they reject science.
They are angry because they recognize the pattern.
They have seen what happens when medicine turns biology it cannot yet measure into psychology.
So no, this is not “a way forward.”
A way forward would be stratification, biomarkers, mechanistic trials, antivirals, immunology, dysautonomia research, PEM-safe protocols, autoantibody studies, vascular biology, tissue persistence, metabolism and serious clinical phenotyping.
A way forward would be listening to all patients, including those harmed by exercise and psychologizing narratives.
A way forward would be scientific humility: admitting what we still do not know without turning unexplained biology into psychology.
Not click-driven repetition of the same ideas that have already harmed post-infectious patients for decades.
“The supposed Bed Bath & Beyond oracle who watched a dildo get slapped across a man’s face is to have access to the most sensitive intelligence. His old denizens in the memestock world can hardly believe it. ‘If I was American I’d be crying,’ wrote one.”
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@kylegriffin1@mrspcarroll At least this one served out his sentence. That's a bit of improvement. Still not acceptable since he continues to deny that he did anything wrong.
The Heritage Foundation lecturing America about extremism is like an arsonist lecturing the fire department about fire safety. You wrote Project 2025. Sit this one out.
And now we’re supposed to believe the Southern Poverty Law Center spent decades exposing white supremacists, tracking hate groups, suing them into bankruptcy, and warning the public about extremism while secretly cheering them on? Pahleeze!
Paying people inside extremist organizations is evidence of infiltration, not proof the extremists were imaginary.
The Heritage Foundation thinks you’re too stupid to know the difference.
266,000 jobs under Biden:
“slowed”
“muddled expectations”
“fell short”
172,000 jobs under trump:
“upswing”
“vigorous”
“strong sign for economy”
This is the double standard Dems have had to deal with for the past 10 years.
It is Albanians, not Americans, who are protesting against American corruption.
The US appears to have accepted the corruption of the Trump family, so we Americans have to rely upon the sound anti-corruption sentiments of others.
Truly embarrassing, but thank you, Albania!
The SAVE Act is officially dead for now. The bill which would have affected mostly married women or anyone who has changed their name, required documentation to vote. Most Americans did not have access to the documents required.
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