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Immunopolitics

@immunopolitics.bsky.social
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UK-Based Immunology academic interested in Anti-vaccine movements, pseudoscience, misinformation and their impacts on politics and economics.

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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
8) Good chance of significant instability in South America during his presidency, Venezuela has designs on Guyana, Argentina still experimental changes, etc. I mostly see him clash with Maduro, but Lula also. Elon will have his ear on this.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
7) He will try to buy Greenland again, and threaten Denmark with Tarriffs or maybe threaten Ozempic sales or production. RFK et al. Will have his ear on this.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
6) On Trumps “peace” plan, Putin will see the enjoy the offer of accepting his land grab and spending 4 years rebuilding his army capability to fully go for Ukraine and then Moldova. The Ukrainians rightfully won’t accept it and Trump will laud them and the EU as warmongers.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
5) Antifa” labelled a domestic terrorist group, this legislation is then used to go after left wing groups and paint a domestic enemy within. Destroying “Antifa” will be the number one priority for the administration at some points.
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Wrote about the deficit-populism doom loop. Imagine you are the finance minister of a European country. You lie awake at night worrying about bondholders. Your colleagues fret about the electoral success of the hard right. What are your options? www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Fear the deficit-populism doom loop
Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 14/06/2025
A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
As of 2022, only 29 US states required some kind of sex ed in schools—and about half of those didn’t require the information to be medically accurate. Where you live shouldn’t dictate your quality of education. The first episode of Crash Course Sex Ed is available now! youtu.be/SkSItIS_Xl0?...
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What is sex?: Sex Ed #1
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured ignorance that did it.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
NEW By me Thinking about a revolution Some things are changing rather fundamentally and the way we think should perhaps change too Includes Monty Python, Yeats, and C.S.Lewis Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/thinking-a... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/03/thin...
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Thinking about a revolution
Some things are changing rather fundamentally and the way we think should perhaps change too
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 04/03/2025
The US could reach a compromise with Mexico and Canada on tariffs as soon as Wednesday, according to Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary. “Both the Mexicans and the Canadians were on the phone with me all day today trying to show that they’ll do better,” Lutnick told Fox Business today
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/02/2025
Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
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Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security The net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy, analysis has found, providing high-wage jobs across the…
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Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Last year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers. TLDR: facts osf.io/preprints/ps...
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I joke but there is something hilarious about “Hey, it’s me, the leader of the Conservative Party. You know what I hate? Old people afraid of change.”
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Forgot this one
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I wish I was wrong more often
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
🇬🇧🇺🇦 The UK is ready to play a leading role in accelerating work on security guarantees for Ukraine. This includes further support for Ukraine’s military – where the UK has already committed £3 billion a year until at least 2030, - The Telegraph
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I want everyone who said they couldn't vote for Harris, because her policies didn't go far enough in one or several areas, and concluded "they're all the same", to make themselves a little scrapbook over the next four years. As an aide-mémoire for next time.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Russians attacked the shelter of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Highly likely that in a bunker somewhere in Ukraine there is some of Ukraines' very experienced nuclear engineers meeting with some of their weapons manufacturers and plans to build nukes are now action. I'm guessing these were made as a back up for a while now #Ukraine #Trumpisacoward #Moscowdon
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Just line the coast with GP receptionists - no one's ever getting in.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 11/02/2025
A fundamental story of the last decade is that a lot of basically incompetent people got fed up by competent people telling them they were wrong, constructed a more welcoming alternative ecosystem of competency cosplayers, and then somehow turned the whole government over to them.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I think it was the inevitable outcome of millions of people not understanding and not caring how their own government works
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Looks unhinged but imagine you care much more about engagement and crafting the news rather than the truth. She's workshopping the next fun story to be part of, seeing what goes viral.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Dems are still operating in a political paradigm where the public has a set of concerns, roughly reflecting the reality of life in America, and elections are about who addresses them better. But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
4) Natural disasters are rapidly accelerating in frequency, such as that in Florida and California wildfire. Increasingly these will be blamed on groups using conspiracies, such as democrats seeding clouds with technology, space lasers, god is punishing us for LGBT people etc.
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becca laurie @imbeccable.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Hypothesis: Before social media, political scientists discovered a correlation between GDP growth and incumbent performance. Liberals in politics reasoned causally from there: voters detect economic strength naturally, and it makes them happy with the ruling party. It was bad reasoning.
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It's Time To Start From Scratch
Let's accept that the simplistic liberal view of the relationship between the economy and elections was wrong. It cost the world dearly, and it's time for a rethink.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
My unpopular opinion is that the government is doing a lot. Most of it is good, some of it is very good, and some of it is not good at all. It has a narrative and a sense of moral purpose - to defeat populism through competence and service. It has an ideology, which is left technocrat.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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Tom Neenan @tpneenan.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
me: you boy what day is it today? boy: nonces shout out of the window day. me: oof you’ve absolutely done me there.
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The problem with intertwining the global economy so much is that good governments are at much greater risks of being toppled by global forces outside of their control.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/12/2024
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/12/2024
Have faith in Labour’s grownup government | Letters
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Have faith in Labour’s grownup government | Letters
Sarah Davidson says the government has a shot at solving profound generational challenges and Bryan Merton welcomes Polly Toynbee’s positive perspective. But Bernie Evans wants to see more action right now, and Philip Oliver urges Labour to keep voters…
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The Madison, Wisconsin school shooter was a radfem Columbine-worshipper who followed "radfem Hitler". Garrison Davis dug into her online presence and wrote this to explain what the hell all that means and why the right wants us to think she was transgender. shatterzone.substack.com/p/the-madiso...
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The Madison, Wisconsin School Shooter Was A "Femcel" Columbine Copycat: Here's What That Means
Also: why the far-right wants you to believe she was transgender
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
One of the worst bit about the world's descent into extremism, violence and war is that it is mostly being voted for and brought in by the elderly, because of economic conditions borne from aging populations, but it will be young people in the trenches losing their lives because of it.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/12/2024
curious phenomenon on here where someone is using an LLM bot to disagree with random posts bsky.app/profile/love...
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Sure thing, Sharepoint. I want to open Excel in my browser. Why not. I want to open my powerpoint slides in minesweeper. I don't care anymore. I want to open a can of coke in a thirty foot concrete cube. Fuck it.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Kash Patel apparently runs a "America First" clothing line. "Tired of seeing your money go overseas?" reads a product page. "Support your fellow Americans by purchasing a Protect Our People t-shirt." Shirt appears to be made on Next Level blanks ... which are made in Central America and Haiti.
A screenshot from Kash Patel's clothing line website. It shows a "Protect Our People" t-shirt. The page reads:

Protect Our People T-Shirt
$35.00

Tired of seeing your hard earned money go overseas? Support your fellow Americans by purchasing a Protect Our People T-shirt and help us raise funds to support those affected by recent natural disasters. All net proceeds will go to the Kash Foundation.

Snug fit.

4.3-oz., 60% combed ring spun cotton, 40% polyester.

Shoulder-to-shoulder taping.

Care Instructions: Machine wash cold. Only non-chlorine bleach when needed. Tumble dry low. Do not iron decoration.

Size Chart: Chest Width (Measure under the arm & around the fullest part of the chest with arms down, keeping tape horizontal.)

XS: 33-35″, S: 35-38″, M: 38-41″, L: 43-44″, XL: 45-48″, 2XL: 48-52″, 3XL: 53.5-56″, 4XL: 59-61.5A screenshot from a t-shirt supplier. The page shows one of their Next Level blank t-shirt products. The specifications for the shirt matches Kash Patel's page. Each blank costs $4.53 if you purchase in bulk. A screenshot from Next Level Apparel's website. It shows their manufacturing facilities, which are located in Central America and Haiti. A screenshot from an Excel document that you can download from Next Level Apparel's website. It shows more detailed information about where these factories are located (Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, and El Salvador)
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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Here is Kash Patel, the leading candidate for the next CIA Director, on a QAnon podcast in 2022 defending the use of the QAnon slogan "Where we go one, we go all."
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Publishing a thread I made of my Trump presidency predictions, mostly to look back on in a few years time and feel reluctantly smug or gleefully wrong about: 1) Massive GDP and wage growth, mostly from rates coming down with inflation controlled, and convergent technologies
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Immunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
When Measles inevitably outbreaks in some US states (coverage hasn't recovered for some since covid) the outbreaks and deaths will inevitably be blamed on scientists "the mmr vaccine mutated/lab leak", immigrants and pubishment from god for LGBT people. It's a grim inevitability.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation. I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
worth also pointing out a certain billionaire who might stand to benefit if there are large tariffs placed on the Big 3 automakers' operations in Mexico and Canada
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