Reposted by LindaDr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 04/08/2025🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 With an editorial from @daniellebeckman.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.com 3268 0
Reposted by LindaLizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Exclusive: I spoke with 15 employees at the FDA to get a sense of how the agency is functioning since the April 1 layoffs. They described tanking morale and an intensifying staff exodus. Read more here: www.statnews.com/2025/07/07/f...statnews.comInside the staff exodus and tanking morale that threaten Makary’s FDAFDA staff are struggling and missing deadlines, and the future consequences could be even more dire. 15627 0
Reposted by LindaCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/06/2025The second, on June 25th, will be a talk about the sequel, of sorts, to my book Calling Bullshit. "Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?" is the new, free online course that Jevin West and I developed about how to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT world.education.unsw.edu.auModern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Teaching students to think, learn, and thrive in a ChatGPT worldJoin Carl Bergstrom in a talk that helps teach students to think, learn and thrive in a ChatGPT world.In this session, Carl will provide an overview of the course Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machin... 39319 0
Reposted by LindaRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out. (2018) www.politico.com/magazine/sto...politico.comStephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out. 19745741870 0
Reposted by LindaSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I'm shadowbanned so if anything in the article below resonates with you, please share! Thank you 1416667 0
Reposted by LindaBen Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Frank Bongiorno on the Liberal bloodbath insidestory.org.au/are-the-libe...insidestory.org.auAre the Liberals in danger of becoming the Kodak of Australian politics? • Frank BongiornoThe party is taking a long time to understand its plight 910325 0
Reposted by LindaMargaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 04/05/2025A wonderful, generous essay full of hard truths. 164 0
Linda @lindanimmo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Wow. FABULOUS SPEECH. Small target Albo gone at last? #AusVotes2025 000 0
Reposted by LindaProf Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Australian aged care reform in 2025: an agenda for the next government. My commentary on where we are and what needs to come next johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...johnmenadue.comAged care reform in 2025: An agenda for the next Australian GovernmentAs the first of the baby boomers turn 80 this year, the major parties are on a unity ticket sharing an ideological commitment to the private market and a commitment to make older people pay more for… 184 0
Reposted by LindaNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Why was Jesus crucified? Because he became too woke. 411576186 0
Reposted by LindaGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Many of this saw this coming but much of the media did and still does downplay the threat, feeling compelled to “both sides” even now. 38835 0
Reposted by LindaKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025In addition to going through the website, I strongly encourage people to read the letter from Harvard's President, Dr. Garber. We need more scientific institutions to show this level of courage, no matter the risk. In fact, we need *all* institutions to stand up*. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...harvard.eduThe Promise of American Higher EducationNo government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue 519371 0
Reposted by LindaBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 13/04/2025The big/small men of MAGA are apocalyptic fantasists. The darkest--and in some ways most light-filled--take on on our dire moment comes from @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comThe rise of end times fascismThe governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them 418063 0
Reposted by LindaAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/04/2025A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social. We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one. We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... 25917217 0
Reposted by LindaThree Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 13/04/2025"Perhaps what is needed is a modern-day universalization of that concept: a commitment to the right to the “hereness” of this particular ailing planet, to these frail bodies, to the right to live in dignity wherever on the planet we are, even when the inevitable shocks forces us to move." 07721 0
Reposted by LindaCharles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 13/04/2025This is about as good an orientation for where we are and what’s happening as you’re going to get…and it points to the most important thing we can do: build a vision of the world we want 313635 0
Reposted by LindaThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/04/2025The rise of end times fascism. An essay by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylortheguardian.comThe rise of end times fascismThe governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them 36784327 0
Reposted by LindaDr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Trump and Noem’s threats to eliminate FEMA — a shared, if imperfect, resource for people and communities in crisis — is a very direct manifestation of end times fascism. 221356 0
Reposted by LindaPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...youtu.beThis Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TEDYouTube video by TED 942248858 0
Reposted by LindaFlick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Dear USA It would be appreciated if you kept your President on your side of the Pacific ocean. Many thanks in advance Australia 2932252315 0
Reposted by LindaIan M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Work underway to offer impacted Brisbane residents Japanese encephalitis vaccine after virus detected www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...abc.net.auJapanese encephalitis virus detected in Brisbane for the first timeQueenslanders are being warned against getting bitten by mosquitoes after the Japanese encephalitis virus was found in Brisbane. 65727 0
Linda @lindanimmo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025The divide in politics today is between unreality and reality open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...open.substack.comThe Reality of UkraineA larger meaning of the largest contemporary war 010 0
Reposted by LindaAmanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025That seems like Domestic Terrorism 2389 0
Reposted by LindaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/02/2025The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the US. It is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. The emerging battle will be global democracy vs. a global oligarchy. The US is emerging on the side of global oligarchy. 1373982911 0
Reposted by LindaCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19/02/202575 years of diplomacy, hard work and a commitment to liberal democracy has just been flushed down the toilet by Trump, Vance and their MAGA idiots. Here is my final dispatch from the NATO meetings: Where Canada and Europe goes from here. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comSPEAK NOW OR FOREVER LOSE YOUR PEACEFinal Dispatch from NATO, Brussels 781291504 0
Reposted by LindaCanililac🍁🇨🇦 @canililac.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I highly recommend Charlie Angus' writings on the current situation with the US. This article is about attending the NATO meetings in Brussels. (He's a Canadian MP from the riding of Timmins-James Bay and has been one of the most direct & preceptive Canadian politicians who "tells it like it is". 19221 0
Reposted by LindaTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Terrifying www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...theguardian.comTrump calls Zelenskyy a ‘dictator’ who should ‘move fast’ or lose country as row with Ukraine leader worsens – Europe liveUS president attacks Ukraine leader after Zelenskyy says Trump is living in a Russian ‘disinformation bubble’ 913025 0
Reposted by LindaCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 19/02/2025It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for 14348591780 0
Reposted by LindaBK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I present to you all the notice that now is displayed on the CDC HIV prevention page. Again - In these times, find a healthcare provider you trust, who follows evidence based practice grounded in science. Follow trusted sources of information. 53466187 0
Reposted by LindaIan M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 17/02/2025OMFG. This uninformed vitriolic vomitus manages to perfectly represent the region change to America. Utterly wrong-headed and untrustworthy in everything it says and does and unsupported by any reality we can observe or measure. F.R.O. 62410 0
Reposted by LindaGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Our latest Double Down News video, explaining just how billionaire power now operates and what it's doing to us. And why we need to create billionaire-free societies. 23428172 0
Reposted by LindaSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 06/02/2025This is a quote from my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT and from several of my articles. It was made into a protest sign, pictured below, by Indivisible St. Louis in 2019. 15537141 0
Reposted by LindaPaul Costin 🇦🇺🦘 @tassiepaul.bsky.social · 07/02/2025There are many events at the moment that can give rise to despair, moral injury. Staying in touch with our values; while recognising what is going on; and then acting on change no matter how small is empowering 063 0
Reposted by LindaTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...open.substack.comOf course it’s a coupMiss the obvious, lose your republic 5822812110724 0
Reposted by LindaBilly Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it? 38596252938 0
Reposted by LindaGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/02/2025If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level 931142449 0
Reposted by LindaProf Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I wrote this thing. It's far from perfect, but at least it's done. Feedback welcome, especially if you're actually doing something. jksteinberger.medium.com/a-few-points...jksteinberger.medium.comA few points for the leftA few thoughts as the flames of fascism rise up all around, consuming people and planet. 48406138 0
