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Ben Rush
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consultant in public health medicine
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December 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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It's not like Nigel Farage to be a Hypocrite.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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US FDA removes longtime director of over-the-counter drugs office reut.rs/48hDPif
US FDA removes longtime director of over-the-counter drugs office
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is moving Theresa Michele, longtime director of the office of non-prescription drugs, to a new role, a federal official said on Wednesday.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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If the Telegraph can do this, why can’t #BBC journalists challenge all politicians who bemoan our lack of growth on the elephant in the room: the damage of #Brexit+what can be done to repair it? @omrgriffiths @Nshallice @dianamartinbbc @JonathanAspinw1 @JohntNeal @jonathancmunro
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.

Elite capitulation continues.

Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump Angrily Threatened to Sue BBC. Then Things Took a Darker Turn.
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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🍂 🏛️ 🦠 👿 🧪
Breaking News: The CDC quietly appointed Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who has been critical of vaccines, as its second in command. During the Covid pandemic, he promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign.
C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Oh good. We can inject ourselves with antifreeze when the bird flu epidemic hits. I'm sure that'll work. 🙄 🧪 😷🩺⚕️🩻Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Sums up Farage n Johnson who sold Brexit to the gullible n the super rich tax avoiders on lies
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Very sad. Apparently the patient was someone with comorbidities that placed them at higher risk of a bad outcome. At a time when the threat of new pandemic is higher that ever we need our public health and surveillance systems strengthened not dismantled.
www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...
1st human known to be infected with H5N5 strain of bird flu dies, Washington state officials say
The first human to have ever been infected with H5N5 strain of bird flu has died, Washington state health officials confirmed late Friday.
www.linkedin.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Hey, it's a good job the United States of America isn't a country built entirely on the back of mass migration ... because if it was... oh wait
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Helluva week in America... here are 5 minutes breaking down some of the key things you should know!

All these actions and more available on www.trumpactiontracker.info

youtu.be/3xjl2U2QteY
Undermining democracy this week in America
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:

“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”

“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political opponents and calling for their executions.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Men will spend billions on building their own AI rather than go to therapy.
November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation.

I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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From an ageing population to the rising tide of antimicrobial resistance, we’re set to face some enormous challenges in the coming decades.

That’s why the work of the life science community has never felt more important.

In London we're investing in science and progress.
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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"don't unpack yer suitcase, Paddington" - Labour
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Hey Labour

Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?

We're still over here 👋
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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"Earlier this month, we reported on a talk by Professor C. Pagel & associates @UCL in @grassrootsforeurope.org webinar about Trump Action Tracker project.
now there is a new report, ‘Strengthening the institutions we rely on’ by Pagel
by @hj4euinspain.bsky.social
in @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Strengthening the institutions we rely on
A new report finds that the UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM