Sarah O'Connell

My son developed #LongCovid and #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis at age 7. He is now 11 He doesn't remember what his body felt like when it was healthy. @HSELive, please help our children; provide services for #pwME & #LongCovid now @DrMaireadDB @brownecfm @MEAdvocatesIre @TomKindlon

Lying on a heat mat on max so that your chronic back pain calms down enough to let you sleep for a few hours..when it's 26 degrees in your bedroom. 🥵 #pwME #LongCovid #HeatWave #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain

@amiandlife Most definitely

being severely chronically ill in England rn is horrific anyway, but the awful heat on top of it is just horrendous 😣😣😣 #mecfs #mcas #chronicillness

A father and his young daughter lie dying having been hit with a precision missile (US made) by Israel. The ambulance crew arrives to try help. Israel then hits them with a missile. All on camera. Proven. War crimes. Yet our leaders still arm them & support them. Why?

This is Adam Hoffman, a 49-year-old Waco, TX attorney. He faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy. Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender. A judge increased his sentence to a whopping 60 days. He gets out in June. Not an immigrant. Not a trans person. Not a Black or brown person. Every MAGA accusation is a confession. Full story: letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/ken-paxtons-…

Looking forward to hosting this discussion on women's health & #LongCovid. Women with post infectious diseases like LC & #MECFS report higher rates of gynaecological disease & earlier perimenopause. I myself suffer from #endo & #PMDD Register at link below. #pwME #MEAwareness

UK Lawyers for Israel are accused of using “lawfare” to mount a series of complaints against teachers, healthcare workers, and even museum staff. Their actions are now coming under scrutiny. But my research shows that their patrons are closely linked to Keir Starmer’s Labour.

This new North Carolina House bill would jail or authorize the murder of women due to their personal use of birth control, such as an IUD, or for having or attempting to have an abortion. Call your legislators. #NCpol HB1232 ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/202…

“Very severe ME is quite a unique condition in that there is effectively no NHS specialist services that are available for someone in James’ position.” Our co-founder @KarenLHargrave speaks to @theipaper about the financial cost of supporting a loved one with very severe ME.

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. But the story of how he got it is even worse. County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent. That is absolutely insane. Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Is there an association between human herpesviruses (HHVs) reactivation and Long COVID? We analyzed HHV DNA shedding in saliva and found that HHV-6 correlates with Long COVID severity. Claire Laxton, @S_Tabachnikova, Lily Cooke, Kexin Wang et al. medrxiv.org/content/10.648… (1/)

🚨 14 YEAR OLD TAYLOR HAS BEEN MISSING FOR TWO WEEKS NOW 🌍 BARNSTAPLE, DEVON Please continue to share until he is found.

@Perky_43 Xx

🔺 APPEAL | Detectives working to identify a woman whose body was found in woods in Camborne earlier this month are releasing an e-fit image in the hope those who knew her will come forward. At 7.45am on Sunday 3 May police received reports that a body had been found in the Pendarves Woods area. Since the discovery, detectives have been carrying out enquiries to try and establish the woman’s identity and also the exact circumstances surrounding her death. As yet, the deceased woman has not been identified. Investigating officers have obtained the e-fit attached so that a likeness of the woman’s face can be made public. The Force previously released images of the front and back of a necklace found on the woman, and despite information about the necklace being received, the woman remains unidentified. The death is being treated as unexplained but is not believed to be suspicious at this time. Anybody who recognises the woman is asked to call 101 or visit our website quoting 50260111111. Source Devon and Cornwall Police.

The Trump admin is quietly deleting info about the Capitol attack from the DOJ website as it prepares to give funds to J6ers. This week, DOJ deleted a press release about one man with an ongoing child solicitation case who came to the Capitol with bear spray. Before and after:

In my opinion, the dismantling of USAID by the current US administration is a large part of why the current Ebola outbreak was not detected earlier. There are likely people dead and dying right now who would otherwise not have been. Politics is the greatest biological risk.

Global Sumud Flotilla activist Dr. Margaret Conolly condemns Israeli interception of aid ship and calls for sanctions on Israel ➖ ‘What we experienced in the last three days was barbaric, cruel, ugly and violent. I never saw such ugly, ugly control by an army’ ➖ ‘They are locked, 2.3 million, into an open concentration camp’

Dr Nigel Speight explains why the term ME carries more weight than “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” and how it would be like renaming Alzheimer’s “Chronic Forgetfulness Syndrome”. He also describes how a boy’s CFS diagnosis was weakened, leaving the family open to prosecution.

“They took my pants and grabbed me by the genitals and told me, ‘Let’s see how resilient you are” Sadistic bastards.

The Ebola outbreak break has taken the lives of over 130 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with hundreds believed to be infected. The people of Congo need our attention and help however possible. Please support aid orgs, and share reports of what's happening in Congo.

Huge congratulations to Róise on completing her project on air quality, and, echoing her, I wish that every school in the world had air purifiers!