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Ellen Duffy, PhD

@duffy-phd-micro.bsky.social
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Teaching professor of microbiology and immunology. ❤️ 🐈 🍀🦩🌈

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2026
NEW: I've filed a claim with Todd Blanche for compensation from the $1.776B slush fund for the unlawful investigation by the government into my podcast in August 2019. I'm seeking $8.647 million in compensation for weaponized lawfare - the equivalent of punitive damages, lost pay and retirement.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Taken together with impoundments, this would break everything. The president is claiming the power to not spend money he doesn't want to and now also to spend money where it's not allowed. And SCOTUS might say no one has standing to stop him. That would make him an appropriations king.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Biden in office, GOP House and Senate: DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN!! Trump in office, GOP House and Senate: DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN!! Allowing one party to control the media narrative because they’re loud and dumb is absolutely ruining people’s understanding of how anything works.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/08/2025
I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Fact check: mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia). This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs. Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/06/2025
Bondi just said DHS is helping rid us of criminals from the Sinaloa Cartel, but she failed to mention the asylum she gave to family members of the Sinaloa Cartel. She also said we're ridding the country of MS-13, but failed to mention the asylum she's giving to MS-13 leaders in the Abrego case.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/05/2025
When you’re used to being the center of the universe, equality feels like oppression—and accountability feels like persecution. Republican panic.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens.
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The simple truth is that Trump believes that, if we send money to a county in exchange for stuff, we've just lost because now they have our money
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Senator Brian Schatz is BLOCKING over 300 Trump admin nominations by refusing to let them pass with unanimous consent. "I don't think we should make anything easy going forward,” he said. BLOCK THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY! MORE OF THIS!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
One thing that is clear from these headlines is that the big news orgs don't have a vocabulary or strategy for how to report to readers when the President claims to do something he not only lacks authority to do but even the power to do. That's a very basic, foundational thing.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ossoff: This was a huge a mistake Ratcliffe: No Ossoff: This is an embarrassment. We will get the full transcript of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Pretty interesting side note to Yemen story and AEA story. If I heard Goldberg right just now, Trump didn’t know about the leak 3 or 4 hours after happened. And he said he didn’t do the AEA proclamation (which WH tried to clear up unpersuasively.) is he just bloviator-in-chief while others run gov?
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Facts: Elon Musk is not in the cabinet. Elon Musk is not a department head. Elon Musk was not confirmed by the Senate. “DOGE” is not a real department. “DOGE” was never created by Congress. “DOGE” is acting outside all legal authority. “DOGE” is fake — and 100% CORRUPT.
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Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL 01) @jonathanjackson.house.gov · 24/03/2025
Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I feel like this is getting lost. Marco Rubio has the power to ensure that data/evidence of potential Russian war crimes on abducted Ukrainian children gets to Europol. Instead, he is preventing this. Why? He won't say. Let's not let this one drop. newrepublic.com/article/1930...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/03/2025
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
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Blake Gendebien @blakegendebien.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I’m the dairy farmer running in the special election to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil being arrested by men in teeshirts as his pregnant wife watches helplessly
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/03/2025
“There’s gonna be a big presence in DC, but it’s not just DC — I want to see this in rural areas, in suburban areas, in urban areas, in red states, purple states, blue states. It’s going to take all of us.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social We’re taking to the streets nationwide on April 5: handsoff2025.com
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/03/2025
I truly hope that one silver lining we take from this coup is that voters begin to understand that when you vote for president, you’re not just selecting one person. You’re selecting all the judges they’ll appoint, and the entire cabinet.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Walz: I own this. We wouldn’t be in this mess if we'd have won the election and we didn't. We have to make sure that Americans know it's not just that Donald Trump is bad, but we're offering them something better
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Walz: If trade is so bad with Canada. He was the guy who signed the deal. I think this is how he ran business.The one thing is his claim that he's the business president. He is the worst possible business executive that I have ever witnessed
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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 12/03/2025
Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.
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Blake Gendebien @blakegendebien.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’m the dairy farmer running in the special election to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Yes, the Trump-Vance performance yesterday was a disaster and a danger. But let’s not lose sight of the fact that Trump’s rant about Hunter Biden’s bedroom and bathroom and all things Russiagate was demented, real mad king stuff. Dude is tormented and unable to control himself. Completely nuts.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
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This is the most dangerous move yet
The canary is gasping for air
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Take J. Edgar Hoover and then make him 30 times worse. The whole nation will suffer for this folly. Suffer so much more than anyone yet realizes. This was a critical benchmark Trump had to hit to advance his plan to destroy democracy. Everyone who voted for Kash Patel should live in infamy forever.
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Senate confirms Kash Patel as Trump’s FBI director | CNN Politics
The Senate voted on Thursday to confirm Kash Patel as FBI director, installing a staunch loyalist of President Donald Trump and conservative firebrand at the head of the nation’s top law enforcement a...
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Repost if you’re NOT gonna miss this guy. 🖕👋
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Goodbye, Mitch McConnell.
Or toodle-oo turtle? Either way, he's retreating into his shell just as the shit hits the fan.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Here’s the pitch: They hire back the accidentally-fired bird flu folks *and* the accidentally-fired nuclear security guys BUT they put them in each other’s jobs — also by accident! It’s TRADING PLACES meets FAILSAFE meets CONTAGION — and maybe also FREAKY FRIDAY! Need a title.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I'll set aside that he thinks chicken farms are going to build high tech security perimeters against geese. If he's talking about bio-sec and anti-virals, maybe not an ideal time to be firing everyone at USDA and CDC.
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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
There’s an immigrant taking people’s jobs… his name is Elon Musk. He’s snatching farms, government jobs (even those in which they manage our national security), and definitely those whose jobs are to root out fraud (inspector generals),
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/02/2025
Knowledge is power…
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Excellent description of today’s MAGA-Republican Party. They’re not capable of empathy or compassion. It’s all about the cruelty with them. They give themselves tax breaks while simultaneously cutting key benefits for the American people. It’s shameful and it needs to end.

Excellent description of today's
MAGA-Republican Party.

They're not capable of empathy or compassion. It's all about the cruelty with them.

They give themselves tax breaks while simultaneously cutting key benefits for the American people.

It's shameful and it needs to end.




Meme that reads: 

I don't know what word in the English language-- I can't find one-- applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets.
The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it.

~ Noam Chomsky
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Awful, but I want to make a separate point. Trump et al complained that they were undermined by bureaucratic resistance when first in office. But the bureaucracy will do pretty much anything you want as long as it is legal, as we are seeing now. Trump just did not know how to ask, now he does.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
As children die because of anti-vax lies in the months and years ahead, I hope people will print out news stories about their deaths and mail them to the offices of those 52 Senate Republicans who voted for RFK Jr.
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