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David Bowen

@davidcbowen.bsky.social
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Health policy, global health, pandemics -- and a bit of scuba and sports. If you're wondering about the quote, it's Edward R. Murrow. Painted on a wall in Camden, Maine.

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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 6h
0 1 3 1 So 5 maybe.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 7h
This is amazing. It’s like he’s saying, “So, you still seem really shaken up by the breakup. Want to talk about it?”
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 9h
Not sure what the Portuguese word for badass is, but...
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 10h
Why would you assume that's what he meant?
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 10h
Had an especially tough winter at Valley Forge.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 10h
Not that he was going to get much of a reception anyway, but Trump’s appearance at the LA Olympics will generate boos that can be measured on the Richter Scale.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 20h
And I don’t know if smoothest talker plays well in Maine.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 23h
Grace Kelly would like a word. Coequal, you'd have to say.
grace kelly rear window
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Responsible for giving millions of us a cruelly unrealistic view of how elegant and romantic train travel is.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think we need lots more questions of this open ended form. Journalists try to dispute things with him. Just ask him to explain what he meant - or how the math works on those 600% cuts in the price of drugs.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Brilliant.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An appalling but all too likely scenario.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, absolutely. A month before the midterms what he really should have said is “Hell yeah, we’ll block every last one - and if you don’t like it, then just don’t vote for Abdul, Flanagan, and Jackson!!”
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sadly, almost certainly right.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Can you please explain how it would have worked under Kentucky law to replace McConnell?
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you, Oscar.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I really like going in person on the first day of early voting.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was in Brussels a while ago. Found my way to a pub dating to the 1600s. Asked for their favorite beer. They gave (ok sold for lots of euros) me a Westvleteren and said people go to the abbey to get it.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Done
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wondered that too. Is readmission vitiated? Here in Virginia, I think we’ll pass the amendment so we’ll still be in.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is why I cancelled my subscription to the NYT in 2024: their relentless rehabilitation of what Trump said.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You used to have to go to the monastery to get it.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you’re going to use names like that for President Biden, why not reveal your own instead of hiding behind an alias? Easy to throw around insults when you can do it anonymously.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seamster?
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Her life story reads like fiction. What she persisted through is incredible. Denied a career by fascism, she built a home lab amid the privations of World War II in Italy.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With a beer looking that tasty, who could blame you for day drinking…er, preserving traditions.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, that’s the point. It’s why, for example, Russia ranks behind Panama, Romania, and Turkey in GDP per person. It’s GDP divided by population.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Too busy talking about Hasan Piker.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know. I was cheering him on and now feel gross.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Canada’s GDP per person is more than 3x that of Russia.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think the critical question of constitutional principle that this court would examine is whether the president was a D or an R. once they determine that, the ruling follows.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes I’m sure he’ll say that for all the good it will do. He still won’t have the votes to stop it.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nope.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can you explain what you mean by that? If Alito retires in Nov and Thunder jams a nominee through, what actions should Schumer take?
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I mean, the people who wrote the memo are amazing lawyers, so I defer to them, but I'm not hopeful. Nothing in the constitution about the number of justices of course.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hasn't seemed to trouble them much so far.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But only if SCOTUS agrees. If they don’t want the change they just strike down the law, no?
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also Iran has agreed to make him President, China’s Communist Party is relinquishing power, and Elvis will play at the Republican convention.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thanks.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One rule for thee and another rule for me?
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How would this standard apply to the late Duke of Edinburgh? Not English because born in Greece?
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
aka "working remotely"
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Love the comment I saw elsewhere: "He pulled a grenade and threw the pin."
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Journalists virtually never do this to US politicians and it’s a massive failure.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you combine existing ideas in ways they have never before been combined, is that novel?
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I for one am riveted to find out what they conclude from this completely impartial inquiry. Seeing the results come in will be as suspenseful as election night in Pyongyang.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Past US presidents are no longer a relevant comparison. He has entered a really exclusive club with members that include Mobutu, Marcos, Putin, and the like.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sigh. Grown up leaders saying grown up things. I miss that.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Audiobooks on sleep timer.
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David Bowen @davidcbowen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Yes
Alt: Jane tennis on
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