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Treatment Action Group's Basic Science, Vaccines & Cure Project, by Richard Jefferys. 🏳️‍⚧️ Primary Treatment Action Group account: bsky.app/profile/treatmentactiongro… TAG website: www.treatmentactiongroup.org

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 32m
Three days: sanctioning the international criminal court, announcing that the firing-squad execution of NH will be live-streamed, investigating the WH press on bogus antitrust charges, searching IO’s home on transparently pretextual immigration charges, financing Putin, jettisoning Zelensky.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 42m
What was once a gradual slide into autocracy has become something like free-fall. We should all be in the streets. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reports
US authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home ​of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in ‌a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 53m
Via Fox News, natch: A criminal raid, right before the election, based on some paperwork Omar’s dad filled out decades ago www.foxnews.com/politics/ilh...
The raid stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman's immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child.
Two sources close to the investigation confirmed the details of the probe Thursday, after border czar Tom Homan said in mid-September that the progressive congresswoman was subject to an ongoing "criminal" investigation.
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 17h
wait youre telling me we can make the internet livable again by just giving ukraine more money to blow up more of these??
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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Comment on peer review proposal by Oct 13th “Although NIH leadership says this proposal is the same as the NSF review process, we’ve spoken to people who have experienced review for both agencies who say that it is very different. The NSF process is transparent; there are no ‘secret scores.’…
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How to comment on a plan that decreases transparency in NIH peer review — listen on WCOM radio
Deadline to respond is Tuesday, October 13th. Research staff or anyone who benefits or hopes to benefit from health research someday can express their opinion about the proposal.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h
The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18h
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 21h
They are under investigation for possible misconduct (www.science.org/content/arti...)
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Controversial Danish vaccine research group faces new allegations
Researchers say they couldn’t find complete data for 10 trials that together enrolled tens of thousands of children in Guinea-Bissau
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If @fetterman.senate.gov doesn’t want to d the work of representing the people of Pennsylvania, then he should resign & give another Pennsylvanian the opportunity to serve. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen... Service is a privilege. @johnfetterman.com is wasting taxpayer dollars by not doing his job.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23h
Please comment on "Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review" by Tuesday (October 13th, 2026). rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3... Here is my comment: 1/6
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Request For Information
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22h
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
With this deal, the Trump administration has effectively declared war on Ukraine - and, by extension, the rest of Europe. Think about that for a moment.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you are an NIH funded scientist and have not commented, you are agreeing that this change is a good idea. If, you, like me, think ditching peer review is a bad idea, take the 5 minutes and post a comment.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Four days before yesterday’s ICE shooting in the Bronx, Judge Gary Brown of EDNY (Trump apptee) listed 7 outrages in an ICE case before him, including evasive & apparently perjurious testimony, post-hoc sworn arrest warrant containing false info, woeful lack of training … 1/2
The evidence points to numerous failings on the part of both ICE and the officers
who testified, including:
1. evasive and apparently perjurious testimony by the ICE agents, including the
testimony concerning supposed observations of the petitioner engaging in drug
transactions, which bear all the hallmarks of coordinated fabrication,12 the absence of any recovered drugs, paraphernalia or cash from the petitioner,
the failure of the agents to follow up upon these supposed observations or refer
the matter to another law enforcement agency, and the notable absence of any
reference to these observations in the voluminous documentary records, further undermining the agents' testimony;
2. the seemingly reflexive, though false, claims that the petitioner was
"misidentified" as the target of the operation;
3. fundamental misconceptions about ICE agents authorities and duties;
4. illegality of the arrest and detention of petitioner and Concepcion;
5. the post-arrest documents, which not only were procedurally and legally
suspect, but contain false statements;Notably, in its filings, Government counsel has not referenced this testimony, seemingly abandoning any argument predicated upon these sworn assertions by the agents.

6. the database search process used to justify the administrative warrant, as
described by the ranking supervisory officer, which appears designed to generate misleading information in official records; and
7. the inexperience of the agents involved, their woeful lack of proper training, understanding of law, policies and procedures, and their ready recourse to false testimony to conceal these failings.
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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Sanctioning the institution entrusted with delivering justice for the gravest international crimes is an assault on the foundations of international accountability and rule of law.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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“An assault on the administration of justice”: US sanctions against ICC threaten system of international accountability, warn UN experts
GENEVA – The US Government’s imposition of sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an institution is a brash attempt to dismantle the international legal system created by States, juris...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This is awful. Put in a full-body straitjacket and then pulled up the air stairs by his wrists and ankles. The WRAP is regularly used on ICE flights to Africa.
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"The Danish research ethics committee at the University of Southern Denmark had never considered medical studies before, but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one. While committee members with expertise argued against approving it, the majority ruled to move forward."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights
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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good clear strong words in defence of the rule of law from the Nobel Peace Prize committee
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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u... "Even if charges are never filed, Mr. Trump has already instilled fear in — and imposed steep financial costs on — potential targets, in his view giving them a taste of what he experienced when he was under investigation."
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How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil (Gift Article)
The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence...
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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Engineering Antibody Evolution: Germline-Targeting #HIV Vaccines Reach a Turning Point onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (open access)
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<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library
This commentary examines three recent Nature studies demonstrating a conceptual shift in HIV vaccine design, demonstrating how germline-targeting HIV vaccines can progress beyond expanding rare broad...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court. www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Illegal entries are down under Trump, but he's cut legal immigration even more than illegal immigration. The cuts to immigrants, refugees, parolees, students, H-1B workers, and fiancés were 2.7 times as large as the cut in Border Patrol arrests and evasions. www.cato.org/blog/trump-c...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New payment justification guidelines from HHS: www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul... (Before it was copy and paste the sentence they provided, now it is the more onerous DOGE justifications)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 09/10/2026
It finally happened. After weeks of threats and rumors, the Trump administration has sanctioned the International Criminal Court—hours after Navi Pillay, a former judge in the ICC's Appeal Chamber, won the Nobel Peace Prize, as @reuters.com points out.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tell me again how we need to be reducing administrative burden 🙄
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As measles spreads nationwide, hospitals and health officials are pouring more money into efforts to increase vaccinations, testing and surveillance of the disease. The funds include a surprise $100 million infusion in recent weeks to states from the CDC. 🎁 🔗: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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C.D.C. Offers States $100 Million in Measles Support as Cases Climb (Gift Article)
States said the cash infusion will help bolster efforts to increase vaccinations and identify cases.
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Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And human rights conferences
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just part of RFK, Jr.s decades-long efforts to sow doubt about vaccines as he faces legal challenges to his attempts to alter the US childhood vaccination schedule. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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US health secretary Kennedy launches new push on vaccine injuries
US ​Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week launched an agency-wide effort to study and document ‌any health problems reported after vaccination, the Department of Health and Human Services s...
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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A maladministration of fascist monsters.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026
Annie Andrews in 2022: "This does nothing to protect or support women or children in SC. I will always support trans youth" Annie Andrews in 2025: It's wrong to "throw this population under the bus to score political points." Annie Andrews today:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
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Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The only way to defeat Republicans extremism is to punch back hard. Not agree with them. It’s a loser strategy, politically and morally
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
lmao this is such a sick way to conclude that COVID school closures were a mistake www.kuow.org/education/20...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is what I said before about RFK Jr. wanting to use our tax money for the unethical study in Guinea-Bissau, in which they will experiment on infants from one of the poorest countries in the world by withholding the HepB birth dose. My opinion hasn’t changed. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The US canceled much of its global aid and research earlier this year, Jacobs said.
"In the face of the US canceling all this funding for vulnerable countries, and then it's still going to pay for this research to be done - that is really worrying" she said. "It seems to say we don't value your lives enough to continue to provide support overall, but we won't hesitate to experiment with your population."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ScienceInsider: NIH revives network to study emerging diseases—but its new restrictions baffle scientists By Jon Cohen @science.org @cohenjon.bsky.social bit.ly/3VXSGKR
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NIH revives network to study emerging diseases—but its new restrictions baffle scientists
Ban on hunting for new viruses in wildlife is at odds with program’s mission, researchers say
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
People voted for lower prices and fascism, and they got higher prices and fascism. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/10/...
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Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says
Tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Hey GUYS GUYS GUYS, WE'VE TAKEN THE BASTILLE" Followed by the roar of the crowd. (can't tell you how moving this is) via @LucAuffret
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🧊 NJ CONCENTRATION CAMP ⁉️ "[Stephen] Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/10/2026
The Postal Service is slowing delivery across the country. Will your mail ballot be affected? Find out if your ZIP code is affected by checking out our interactive map: demdock.com/4BcR5RR
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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Of all of the monuments to Trump that will need to be torn down in 2029 and beyond, the 450 years’ imprisonment meted out to the Prairieland 8 has to be one of the most obscene. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/m...
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Inside the Group of Texans Accused of Being Antifa Terrorists
The strange story behind the first federal terrorism prosecution of American protesters.
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Wakefield @wakefield-2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Action Alert: Urge Congress to Demand Release of Overdue HIV Research NOFOs. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...
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Action Alert: Urge Congress to Demand Release of Overdue HIV Research NOFOs
Overview Over the past months, there have been multiple delays in ensuring that the HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks (CTNs) and Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) receive their notices to renew their ...
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