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Donald J. Davidson

@djdavidson.bsky.social
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Emeritus Professor of Host Defence & Inflammation Biology. Artist, Writer, Father. Reading, walking, politics, FRPG, watching football, enjoying good food and a tasty beer... Views my own.

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Jennie Evans @jennieep.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Please check out our new Patient and Public Involvement Network at @britsocimm.bsky.social ⬇️
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Viki Male @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
🇬🇧 The first UK data on the effectiveness of #RSV #vaccines in #pregnancy is in! 👶🏽 391 babies with RSV vs 146 controls 🧪 RSV vaccination in pregnancy was 72% effective at preventing RSV in babies, if given >2 weeks before delivery #MedSky #ImmunoSky #ObGynSky
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Bivalent prefusion F vaccination in pregnancy and respiratory syncytial virus hospitalisation in infants in the UK: results of a multicentre, test-negative, case-control study
In the real-world setting of the first season of vaccine implementation in England and Scotland, maternal RSVpreF vaccination was effective and equivalent to trial settings in reducing the risk of hos...
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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Measles is more than a rash. Around 1 in 5 children with measles need a hospital visit. Two doses of the MMR vaccine offer strong protection. Check your records & make sure your family is up to date. See our infographic & learn more: bit.ly/3PE5kbW #CelebrateVaccines
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Ahsan Akram @ahsanakram.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Our latest paper is out. We characterise a known but understudied phenomenon in fibroblast biology of phenotypic drift in culture conditions using cell surface, trancriptonic and functional assessments. @edinuni-irr.bsky.social @cruk-si.bsky.social @ukri.org rdcu.be/evD0g
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Patient derived cancer-associated fibroblasts from non-small cell lung cancer undergo phenotypic drift in culture
BJC Reports - Patient derived cancer-associated fibroblasts from non-small cell lung cancer undergo phenotypic drift in culture
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Dr. Dawn Bowdish @msmacrophage.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Just finished up tech rehersal at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse - it’s a lovely, intimate venue. Come see ‘The Perils of Being Born in the Fall’ at the #torontofringe Tickets are ‘pay what you can - see you there, Toronto! fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/...
Dawn sits in front of the Helen Phelan Gardner theatre smiling and excited about her upcoming Fringe show.
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John Tregoning @prof-tregoning.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Just 24 hours left to buy Live Forever at the frankly ludicrously low price of 99p There are a lot of things, that are a lot worse, and will cause you to die sooner that are very much more expensive. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DSJVHTL8
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Live Forever?: A Curious Scientist's Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death
Live Forever?: A Curious Scientist's Guide to Wellness, Ageing and Death eBook : Tregoning, John S.: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Explain to me how the same people who reject vaccinations are talking about drinking raw milk with H5N1 virus in it in order to build up their immunity in case avian flu spreads?
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025
Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.
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Viki Male @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The US Dept of Health and Human Services cited three safety studies to justify their recommendation that #CovidVaccines no longer be offered in #pregnancy. The problem? None of those studies showed what HHS said they showed. One didn’t even look at pregnancy 🤦🏻‍♀️ I spoke to @factcheck.org…
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"Well yeah, that's as it should be. Just because they're shorter than the average person doesn't mean they deserve less mon... Oh, I see" - Me, upon first seeing this headline
Article headline: "CEO pay dwarfs median salaries"
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Viki Male @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🤰🏽 Emerging evidence suggests that decidual #macrophages are attractive targets in #PretermLabour 👩🏻‍🔬 But understanding how macrophage subsets differ in their origin, function and localisation will help us to do this better! 📃 Our forum on this is out now! #ReprodSky #ObGynSky #ImmunoSky #MedSky
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Decidual macrophages as therapeutic targets in preterm labour
The initiation of labour in humans remains poorly understood, although there is mounting evidence for a role for decidual macrophages. These may trigg…
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Andrew S. MacDonald @profandrewmac.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Delighted to share our paper on the role of SOX9 in liver #fibrosis and #granuloma formation during #schistosome infection - a really great collaboration over the past few years with the Piper Hanley lab! #ImmunSky 🪱🧪 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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SOX9 plays an essential role in myofibroblast driven hepatic granuloma integrity and parenchymal repair during schistosomiasis-induced liver damage
Author summary Mammalian infection with schistosome worms results in the deposition of parasite eggs in the liver, where they secrete organ damaging toxins. In response, the liver generates a cellular...
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Happy 14th June to all those (except one) who celebrate.
Unhappy Birthday to Me 
 
It’s important to share, or so I’ve been taught, 
to show kindness to others, to be a good sport. 
But all of those teachings have taken a bump – 
for I share my birthday with Donald Trump. 
 
For years I knew not of this dark, dreadful fate, 
and with ignorant bliss I honoured the date – 
but then it got hijacked, sullied, gazumped 
by a self-serving bigot, a foul gibberlump. 
  
With him, I would share an infectious disease, 
a mouldy bread roll, an infestation of fleas, 
a romantic weekend at a toxic waste dump –
but please, not my birthday, Mr. Tangerine Chump. 
 
Alternative dates he’s welcome to try –  
12th Febtember, 33rd July. 
But 14th June? In a lake, take a jump
and find a new date, you deranged sewage pump. 

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🚨The NHS says it has a shortage of blood and is asking all of us - can we donate our blood - it’s looking for 200,000 new donors to come forward Giving blood is one of the most rewarding things you can do Book an appointment or register today ❤️🙏👇 blood.co.uk
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza
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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We're recruiting - one in-person (Edinburgh) & one online (anywhere) focus group We're interested to hear from folk who have experience of depression, and opinions on future possible new treatments. You can express interest in the group via this form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
A study advert flyer showing a picture of a detective in a lab coat inspecting a piece of DNA. The text says: Genetic treatment of depression, what's your view? Participate in a focus group at the University of Edinburgh. The flyer has contact details and a link to an expression of interest form, which is linked in the tweet.
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Dr. Dawn Bowdish @msmacrophage.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Publication alert: "No evidence of immune exhaustion after repeated SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in vulnerable and healthy populations" ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬ The backstory is particularly interesting-it's a tale of the conflicting needs of scientists & decision makers in times of disinformation ....1/n
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No evidence of immune exhaustion after repeated SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in vulnerable and healthy populations
Nature Communications - Repeated vaccination is needed to maintain high levels of SARS-CoV-2 immunity in vulnerable populations, but there is concern that it could lead to immune exhaustion. Here,...
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
#booksky
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Nature @nature.com · 06/06/2025
Sierra Leone has confirmed 15 deaths and more than 3,000 mpox infections go.nature.com/4kYY1ZP
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Skyrocketing mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone raises fears of wider spread
Boom in infections in the West African nation is driven by the same viral strain that caused a global outbreak in 2022.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Does that mean you go to a grocery store and they have to give you the eggs for free AND $18.00?
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Donald J. Davidson @djdavidson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"We cannot build bananas in America" 👉
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Donald J. Davidson @djdavidson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Meanderthals" 👏
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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We have officially moved in. Our Pop-Up Science Shop will be open to the public from 7th July until 3rd August 3025. Find us in the St David's shopping centre in Cardiff near John Lewis, Zara and Apple. Learn about the microbial world in, on and around us. Including the black death.
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Viki Male @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I know of 13 studies that have looked at #fertility following mRNA #CovidVaccination, all finding no effect. Yet misinformation that COVID vaccination harms fertility is *still* circulating! I spoke to @sciencefeedback.bsky.social #MedSky #ReproSky #VaccineSky #IDSky
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Czech data doesn't show COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility
Fertility rates are influenced by many variables, such as age and education. A preprint finding fewer births in vaccinated women didn't account for confounding factors. Published studies didn’t find a...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
It doesn’t get more corrupt than this. Trump pardoned a tax cheat after his mom attended a $1 million dinner and helped push a smear campaign against Biden. This is pay-to-play at its dirtiest.
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Andy Conway Morris @andymoz78.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
During the pandemic, especially in wave 2, I saw many women miscarry or suffer stillbirth as a result of Covid-19. I’ve seen zero pregnant women becoming critically ill or lose their baby through mRNA covid vaccines. This is cruel, stupid and shameful.
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RFK Jr. says Covid-19 shot will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women | CNN
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that the Covid-19 vaccine will no longer be among the recommended vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children on the...
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is one of the dumbest health policy decisions I have ever seen.
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RFK Jr. rolls back Covid vaccine recommendations for healthy children, pregnant people
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he has unilaterally struck the recommendation that healthy children and healthy pregnant people get Covid booster shots.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"People in this country have had enough of exports."
Letter in Financial Times December 19, 2016 10:58 pm

Was that a slip of the tongue from Gove?

Sir, In the light of the reports that it will take 10 years for the UK to negotiate a trade agreement with the EU, I suspect that what Michael Gove meant to say was that "the people in this country have had enough of exports".

Jan Kamieniecki
London SW2, UK

https://www.ft.com/content/fc0e6698-c5ed-11e6-9043-7e34c07b46ef
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine
A tweet from HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:

Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it's common sense and it's good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS's promise to Make America Healthy Again.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Dr Marlène Magalhaes @magmarlene.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
🔬Imaging 👩🏻‍🔬micro-dissections 🧙🏻single cell 🦴fate mapping All you KNEEd to know about synovial macrophages. Fantastic collaborators and work with @drbmalengier.bsky.social showing the establishment of protective macrophages in the joint 🐁 How does it look like? When? How? Answers below 👇
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Dr. Dawn Bowdish @msmacrophage.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
My #scicom show "The Perils of Being Born in the Fall" @toronto-fringe.bsky.social‬ is an hour of edu-tainment touring through the wackiness of early 19th century psychiatry, stealthy mid-century reproductive rights activism, and learning why cold & flu season has impacts on mental health. Details⬇️
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The perils of being born in the Fall | Toronto Fringe Festival
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Neeloffer Mookherjee @nmookherjee.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Sharing our latest publication on modulation of IL-17 mediated inflammation by #HostDefencePeptide LL-37 and citrullinated-LL-37 in the context of lung inflammation #Asthma #Immunosky #Immunomodulation #AntimicrobialPeptides pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40410820/
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LL-37 and citrullinated-LL-37 modulate IL-17A/F-mediated responses and selectively suppress Lipocalin-2 in bronchial epithelial cells - PubMed
Overall, our findings showed that LL-37 and citLL-37 can selectively suppress the abundance of IL-17A/F-mediated LCN-2, a protein that is critical for neutrophil migration in HBEC. These results sugge...
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 23/05/2025
"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper." @mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Esther de Lange, "He has made sure that two of his children have German passports" When Nigel Farage objects to a UK-EU Youth Mobility Scheme, he wants his children to travel freely around the UK and EU, but he doesn't want your children to enjoy the same right
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
THREAD on the *desperate* medical situation in Gaza from a presentation by UNRWA director at the World Health Assembly. This thread was written by Prof Anthony Costello over on X - I think it's important to share as widely as possible, so I have transferred to here. Please read and share! 0/11
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Faith Crittenden MD MPH @faithdaniellemd.medsky.social · 22/05/2025
There are 2 kinds of people in America: Those who believe kids deserve health care And those who voted to take it away 215 House reps just cut $600M from Medicaid To hurt 37 million children So the 1% could get a tax break. And this is a reason to speak up.
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John Tregoning @prof-tregoning.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
We have a funded PhD studentship on RSV antibodies working with RQ bio, deadline June 30 www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/stu...
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MRC MultiSci iCASE Studentships
MRC MultiSci iCASE Studentships enable graduates with excellent honours degrees to undertake a three and a half year training programme, which includ...
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Henry McSorley @henrymcsorley.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨 New McSorley lab paper just out in Cell Reports! Very happy to see this published - it has been a lot of work, and its turned into a really nice story. In it, we show that HpARI+HpBARI can be used as vaccines Tutorial thread below (1/16): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Vaccination against helminth IL-33 modulators permits immune-mediated parasite ejection
The murine intestinal nematode Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri (Hpb) modulates the host immune response via the Hpb alarmin release inhibitor (HpARI)…
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Gareth-Rhys Jones @gastrogrj.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Join the Jones Lab at the University of Glasgow, as a Research Assistant working on gut immunology & IBD 🧫🧬 Be part of a rapidly growing team working with me, @glasgowgutscience.bsky.social and @bainlab.bsky.social‬ 🗓️ Closing date: 12 June 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC531/r...
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Research Assistant at University of Glasgow
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Assistant at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Imperial Medicine @imperialmed.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
How does a scientist’s journey shape their groundbreaking work? Prof @prof-tregoning.bsky.social from the @imperialinfect.bsky.social shares insights on his #ImperialInaugural, discussing his career and the role of collaboration in advancing science.👇 blogs.imperial.ac.uk/imperial-med...
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The Inauguration of Professor John S. Tregoning - Imperial Medicine Blog
Prof John Tregoning from the Department of Infectious Disease shares insights on his inaugural lecture, "Viruses, Vaccines, and the Written Word," discussing his career, scientific contributions, and ...
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Thomas Christie Williams @thomascwilliams.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
After hard work from collaborators across Scotland, our new paper looking at the burden of life-threatening invasive Group A Streptococcus infection is now out @pidjournal.bsky.social journals.lww.com/pidj/fulltex...
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National 10-year Cohort Study of Life-threatening Invasive... : The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
ession to death. Methods: Retrospective, multicenter, national cohort study in Scotland investigating critically unwell iGAS cases ≤15 years old from October 01, 2013 to September 30, 2023. We incl...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/05/2025
This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face. Totally dystopian.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Jamie Raskin on Trump's Qatar plane grift: "We’re talking about corruption at just an epic scale." This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other: newrepublic.com/article/1951...
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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Today, the Covid Inquiry heard how Boris Johnson lied to the British public about the UK's ability to Test & Trace. Those in power knew that a lack of planning and underinvestment had left the country unprepared, and they tried to cover it up. Our loved ones paid the price.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
How best to describe a POTUS-endorsed investment opportunity where 58 people make money while 764,000 get taken to the cleaners? www.salon.com/2025/05/07/7...
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764,000 have lost money on Trump meme coin
The president is promoting the coin as a chance to dine with him and tour the White House.
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