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Helen @lovelaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Trump has normalised violence, lies, deceit, bullying. His behaviour gives all right wing nationalists in the UK the boost they need. Musk is even worse.
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Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf.org.uk · 02/06/2025
“Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care” - Michael Morpurgo
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
✨Please share! My newsletter is out.✨ In this issue: 👶15% risk of Long COVID in babies, toddlers & preschoolers ⚠️WHO warning about Nimbus (NB.1.8.1) variant ✈️CDC travel warning after Measles spread on airplane 💪Skeletal muscle damage from Long COVID & much more buff.ly/zBrETtU #medsky #pedsky 😷🧪
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COVID & Health News, 6/1/25
Regional wastewater levels for COVID, RSV, Flu A, Flu B and Norovirus are all low or very low. HMPV, which causes cold symptoms, is still high.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
England's water firms have paid out an astonishing £78,200,000,000 in dividends since privitisation - with 70% of investors currently being from overseas - Ian Overton in the @bylinetimes.bsky.social Yet our bills go up? Why do we allow this con?! Nationalise water now!
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Helen @lovelaw.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Calling all UK Blue Sky folks. I'd be so grateful if you'd sign this petition by 11th May. It's a critical issue for people like me who are severely immunosuppressed. Thank you so muchhttps://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700304.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Malnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s total blockade enters its third month.
apnews.com
AP PHOTOS: Many in Gaza face malnutrition and hunger as blockade enters its third month
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Malnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s total blockade enters its third month.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
We live in a country where this didn’t make the press.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/04/2025
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Just spoke with my CDC sources. They were in tears. Budgets cut. RFJK has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak. They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent. This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him
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Covid Action UK @covidactionuk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
There are only 4,400 signatures on this petition because billionaires convinced everyone via social media and some MSM that COVID was mild and wouldn’t impact them. They thought just ‘vulnerable’ people would be impacted. Wrong! We are officially still in a Pandemic, it doesn’t take long to 🧵
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Long Covid SOS @longcovidsos.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Thanks @francesryan.bsky.social @doctoroxford.bsky.social et al for a great article looking back over the last five years
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Covid Action UK @covidactionuk.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/... With the official advice from the NHS saying that Covid-19 is mainly spread by ‘droplet and touch’ but the World Health Organisation saying the primary spread is ‘airborne’, the message to staff and patients is confused #covidaware #covidactionuk
thecanary.co
The NHS is failing to do enough to protect people from catching Covid
When Janice called paramedics for her mum, they told her 'Covid is over' and refused to mask up. This is endemic of the problems in the NHS.
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Covid Action UK @covidactionuk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
whn.global/scientific/a...
whn.global
A Comprehensive Beginners Guide to the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic (UK Edition) … or Why and How to Minimise Reinfection - WHN
Is the ongoing debate on COVID-19 a conspiracy theory? No, it isn’t. Everything explained here is supported by peer-reviewed scientific research published in reputable journals. The problem is that UK...
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@joan12s.bsky.social @joan12s.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Next Covid Action Campaign Call, 14 April. Register at bit.ly/catosapr ##covidactionuk #covidaware #covidconscious #konp
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Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf.org.uk · 14/04/2025
A huge thank you to Miriam Margolyes for supporting our petition to #EndTheCageAge for all UK farmed animals. If you're a British citizen or UK resident please add your name: ciw.org.uk/SignThePetition
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 09/04/2025
This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
mississippitoday.org
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Morning Bluesky. Trump is now talking about placing tariffs on pharmaceutical products to try to force drugs companies to move production to the US. Americans already have very high medical costs - now they’re going to get higher.
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Freulingskind @freulingskind.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I’m demonstrating virtually outside the 🇩🇪 @bundestag.de. Day 1️⃣8️⃣7️⃣ 📢 #CallForPublicHealthAction 📢 Demonstration for the right to #CleanAir, vaccines, evidence-based infection control, scientifically sound public education, adequate care & biomedical research for #LongCovid / #MECFS
Image of a demo sign with the text:

1. That respiratory protection (FFP2/FFP3/N95/N99) be made mandatory in healthcare and social care, just as hand hygiene is today, to ensure patient safety for all.
2. That schools and other public buildings be guaranteed the same high standard of air quality that politicians have already arranged for themselves with tax money.
3. That COVID-19 vaccines be made fully available to all age groups for whom the vaccines are approved.
4. Adequate care and biomedical research for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and other infection-associated chronic conditions.
5. Honest, scientifically sound public education about the risks of infection and how best to protect each other.
If you want this too, you can help boost or join the demonstration by quote-tweeting (photo is of course optional!) and tagging #CallForPublicHealthAction @inneiennyfas.bsky.social
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nervbueddel @nervbueddel.eurosky.social · 08/04/2025
📣 Online demonstration with friends outside the 🇸🇪,🇨🇦,🇬🇧 + 🇩🇪 parliaments for #cleanair and care + biomedical research for #PAIS + #MEcfs! The unscientific psychosomatization of PAIS and ME/cfs destroys people every day! Day 1️⃣9️⃣0️⃣ #CallForPublicHealthAction You agree, support us with reskeet! 🤍
Demands:
1) That respiratory protection (FFP2/FFP3/N95/N99) be made mandatory in healthcare and social care, just as hand hygiene is today, to ensure patient safety for all.
2) That schools and other public buildings are guaranteed the same high standard of air quality that members of parliament have arranged for themselves with tax money.
3) That COVID-19 vaccines be made fully available to all age groups for whom the vaccines are approved.
4) Adequate care and biomedical research for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and other infection-associated chronic conditions.
5) Honest, scientifically sound public education about the risks of infection and how best to protect each other.
If you want this too, you can help boost or join the demonstration by quote-tweeting (photo is of course optional!) and tagging #CallForPublicHealthAction
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Inneiennyfas @inneiennyfas.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
📢 Online demonstration, day 2️⃣5️⃣4️⃣. #CallForPublicHealthAction Demonstrating outside the 🇸🇪 parliament alongside friends in 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇬🇧, for clean air, evidence-based infection control, public education on COVID-19, and care and biomedical research for Long COVID & ME. @sverigesriksdag.bsky.social
Demands:

1) That respiratory protection (FFP2/FFP3/N95/N99) be made mandatory in healthcare and social care, just as hand hygiene is today, to ensure patient safety for all.

2) That schools and other public buildings are guaranteed the same high standard of air quality that members of parliament have arranged for themselves with tax money.

3) That COVID-19 vaccines be made fully available to all age groups for whom the vaccines are approved.

4) Adequate care and biomedical research for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and other infection-associated chronic conditions.

5) Honest, scientifically sound public education about the risks of infection and how best to protect each other.

If you want this too, you can help boost or join the demonstration by quote-tweeting (photo is of course optional!) and tagging #CallForPublicHealthAction

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Helen @lovelaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Fiction is often a predictor of horrors to come. The Handmaid's Tale was such a horror, years ago, but it's all come true - in Afghanistan, in Iran, and now in the United States of America. It all starts with the erosion of rights, often of female rights, then of other minorities. Stand up. Now.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“The United States has become a secret-police state. Trust me, I’ve seen it before.” - @mashagessen.bsky.social
nytimes.com
Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived.
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 08/04/2025
We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?" This is our moment. This is our time. We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"New York health officials name Ontario in #measles travel advisory." That's right. Disease spread is so bad that Ontario is being flagged as a dangerous destination. By a country whose health system is run by a anti-vaxxer. Let that sink in. www.cp24.com/news/2025/04...
DATE: April 2, 2025
TO: Hospitals, Local Health Departments, Laboratories, Emergency Rooms, Family
Medicine, Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine, Internal Medicine, Infectious
Disease, Infection Control Practitioners, and Primary Care Providers
FROM: NYS Department of Health (NYSDOH) Division of Vaccine Excellence (DOVE)
NOTE TO PROVIDES: Please display this advisory in your office and promote
these messages to your patients. For the latest clinical information on measles,
please visit our website.
Measles is only a car ride away! Measles is a highly contagious virus. Around 90% of
people who are exposed to a person with measles will become infected if they are not
vaccinated. Because measles is so contagious, it easily crosses borders. Currently,
measles outbreaks are happening in parts of the United States and Canada, especially
in Ontario, and around the world. With spring and summer travel season approaching,
anyone who is not protected can get measles while traveling and can easily spread it to
others when they return home. Large measles outbreaks are possible when measles
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I’ve been seriously ill because a business failed to take my disability accommodation seriously and used heavy fragrance after promising me they wouldn’t. I made a formal complaint only to be told “your health is not our responsibility” This is ableism & discrimination. Accommodations matter.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Yes, yes, it is.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2025
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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pink jimi photon @pinkjimiphoton.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Epting: Today is a big day. We’ve got over 1,300 activations—protests, rallies, all different types of events—where folks are coming out to make their voices heard. They’re doing exactly what you said: demanding that Trump, Musk, and the Republicans keep their hands off the things we hold so dear
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Inneiennyfas @inneiennyfas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
📢 Online demonstration, day 2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣. #CallForPublicHealthAction Demonstrating outside the 🇸🇪 parliament, along with friends in 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇬🇧 for clean air, evidence-based infection control, public education on COVID-19, and care and biomedical research for Long COVID & ME. @sverigesriksdag.bsky.social
Demands:

1) That respiratory protection (FFP2/FFP3/N95/N99) be made mandatory in healthcare and social care, just as hand hygiene is today, to ensure patient safety for all.

2) That schools and other public buildings are guaranteed the same high standard of air quality that members of parliament have arranged for themselves with tax money.

3) That COVID-19 vaccines be made fully available to all age groups for whom the vaccines are approved.

4) Adequate care and biomedical research for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and other infection-associated chronic conditions.

5) Honest, scientifically sound public education about the risks of infection and how best to protect each other.

If you want this too, you can help boost or join the demonstration by quote-tweeting (photo is of course optional!) and tagging #CallForPublicHealthAction

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
We're heading back to Victorian levels of poverty, nobody owns their own homes, you work for a lifetime to retire at 70 into a life where you can barely survive. While the millionaire Workhouse owners are now billionaires, soon to be trillionaires, but they won't pay any tax.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/03/2025
They are taking away the right to protest. They are taking away the right to express political opinions. They are taking away the right to protect your health. These are all fundamental human rights. Do not be silent about losing them.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is grim because there's nowhere to go. The US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and we have more PI-level positions than anywhere else (by far).
nature.com
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
If you're looking for an explainer on why due process matters to share with friends and family members who might ... need convincing, I've removed the (partial) paywall from my March 19 post for "One First" on the topic: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...
stevevladeck.com
Bonus 133: Due Process and the Rule of Law
Too many Americans don't understand, at a basic level, *why* the Constitution requires due process when the government deprives anyone of their life, liberty, or property.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/03/2025
Free masks for all should be included in state budgets, not mask bans. Shame on New York Governor Kathy Hochul for pushing the latter, which will make us all more vulnerable to multiple health threats including airborne viruses and climate change.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/03/2025
"Grants are getting killed “without any scientific input anywhere. It is purely political,” said a member of a senior NIH leadership team. “The science in this country is going to be destroyed if you can change what the priorities are going to be every four years. You can’t do science that way.”"
wapo.st
These 5 words have killed millions in grants and advanced Trump’s agenda
Five words in an obscure regulation are being deployed by Trump’s appointees to kill grants unilaterally across the government.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Reminder, PIP is because being disabled costs more to just exist in a world where we have different needs than the majority. A lot of disabled people work and are *and should be* eligible for extra help to level the playing field.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
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Helen @lovelaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Wow! Five years since Covid lockdowns started and UK conspiracy theorists are out in force. Where do they get these very dangerous ideas from. I don't find it laughable, I find it disturbing and dangerous.
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Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf.org.uk · 27/03/2025
Our research found that there are a whopping 147 industrial-scale farms in Norfolk, confining over 25 million animals. 😮
lynnnews.co.uk
Norfolk dubbed ‘megafarm capital of Europe’ ahead of major planning decision
The number of intensive farms in Norfolk has shot up by 20% over the past decade - with the county now dubbed the “megafarm capital of Europe”.
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Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf.org.uk · 27/03/2025
NEW REPORT: The latest Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare reveals steady progress on farm animal welfare across the global food industry. Find out which household names are leading the way.️ ⬇️
ciwf.org.uk
UK companies lead in the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare
150 global food companies have been assessed on their animal welfare policies
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I’ve read several articles today referring to RFK Jr. or Geier as vaccine “skeptics”. I again beg the media to STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION. They are not skeptics. They are lying, grifting, unqualified frauds who are promoting a conspiracy. “Conspiracy theorists” would be much more accurate.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not "It could happen here." It IS happening here. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Trump. Is. One. Petty. Motherfucker. ✨
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