Beatrice Winkler
@beatricew.bsky.social
Science geek, DV survivor, Deutsch/français, Swiss immigrant, childless cat lady still wearing a mask and salting the vibes. No longer at the Bad Place.
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Beatrice Winkler
@beatricew.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Thread by @1goodtern on Thread Reader App
@1goodtern: This is going to be a messy complicated thread... ...but there are several massive hurdles in the paths of most people that prevent them accepting that Covid infections are responsible for...
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Feeling like the only one who still cares about trying not to get or spread COVID, is hard. I'm grateful to @1goodtern.bsky.social for writing this. It helps me understand what motivates the denial and why persisting in spite of it, still matters.
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@maddow.bsky.social Gonzales, LA population 13800, says “ We don’t want ICE”
December 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
@maddow.bsky.social Gonzales, LA population 13800, says “ We don’t want ICE”
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Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
December 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
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@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social & @jimalwine.bsky.social do not mince words!
RFK Jr.’s Deepening Threat to Public Health
The current HHS Secretary is the most dangerous in U.S. history.
progressive.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social & @jimalwine.bsky.social do not mince words!
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This is revealing, but not in the way he thinks.
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
Imagine you're overseeing the termination of clinical trials, the destruction of people's livelihoods, the dismantling of scientific research in the US, and you're complaining that Twitter didn't give you a blue check 4 years ago.
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is revealing, but not in the way he thinks.
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community.
He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/
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Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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It certainly is. The public health protections that RFK Jr is rolling back will lead to more lifelong sickness that will be a gift to the pharmaceutical industry.
December 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It certainly is. The public health protections that RFK Jr is rolling back will lead to more lifelong sickness that will be a gift to the pharmaceutical industry.
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"Our nation’s public health is not in good hands." — Public health lawyer @doritreiss.bsky.social breaks down this week's gobsmacking meeting of #CDC's vaccine advisory panel, #ACIP.
The #hepatitisB birth dose is gone. Kennedy's ACIP isn't done yet. www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a...
The #hepatitisB birth dose is gone. Kennedy's ACIP isn't done yet. www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a...
RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory panel is beset by incompetence, bias, and procedural chaos
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) meetings used to be a geek’s dream: hours of long, maybe dreary presentation of extensive data
www.statnews.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"Our nation’s public health is not in good hands." — Public health lawyer @doritreiss.bsky.social breaks down this week's gobsmacking meeting of #CDC's vaccine advisory panel, #ACIP.
The #hepatitisB birth dose is gone. Kennedy's ACIP isn't done yet. www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a...
The #hepatitisB birth dose is gone. Kennedy's ACIP isn't done yet. www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a...
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The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
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A dozen former FDA commissioners decry Prasad memo on vaccine regulation www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f... via @statnews.com
A dozen former FDA commissioners decry Prasad memo on vaccine regulation
Changes to the ways in which the FDA plans to regulate vaccines represent a threat to effective vaccines and public health, 12 former commissioners say.
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
A dozen former FDA commissioners decry Prasad memo on vaccine regulation www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f... via @statnews.com
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Cassidy is directly responsible for this mess. He could have single-handedly squashed RFK Jr nomination.
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Cassidy is directly responsible for this mess. He could have single-handedly squashed RFK Jr nomination.
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Bill Cassidy, too little too late. You sold us out because you were afraid of mean tweets from the babbling idiot in the White House. You appointed RFK, Jr. You gave him power. Now the only thing you should do is demand his resignation.
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Bill Cassidy, too little too late. You sold us out because you were afraid of mean tweets from the babbling idiot in the White House. You appointed RFK, Jr. You gave him power. Now the only thing you should do is demand his resignation.
Read the whole thing to get an idea of the needless suffering RFK Jr. threatens to impose on future generations, while the Trump Administration simultaneously cripples our capacity to respond to the increased disease outbreaks certain to result.
Opinion | The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Read the whole thing to get an idea of the needless suffering RFK Jr. threatens to impose on future generations, while the Trump Administration simultaneously cripples our capacity to respond to the increased disease outbreaks certain to result.
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The impacts of long COVID in Canada and around the world are enormous.
Prevention means not getting g COVID infection in the first place.
Get vaccinated.
Wear an N95 in indoor public spaces.
Clean the air we all breathe!
Prevention means not getting g COVID infection in the first place.
Get vaccinated.
Wear an N95 in indoor public spaces.
Clean the air we all breathe!
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The impacts of long COVID in Canada and around the world are enormous.
Prevention means not getting g COVID infection in the first place.
Get vaccinated.
Wear an N95 in indoor public spaces.
Clean the air we all breathe!
Prevention means not getting g COVID infection in the first place.
Get vaccinated.
Wear an N95 in indoor public spaces.
Clean the air we all breathe!
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A reshaped CDC website suggesting that vaccines cause autism has appalled the medical community.
@ArthurAllen202 reports ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
@ArthurAllen202 reports ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
What To Know About the CDC’s Baseless New Guidance on Autism - KFF Health News
A reshaped CDC website suggesting that vaccines cause autism has appalled the medical community.
kffhealthnews.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A reshaped CDC website suggesting that vaccines cause autism has appalled the medical community.
@ArthurAllen202 reports ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
@ArthurAllen202 reports ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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RFK Jr will be Cassidy's legacy forever.
CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
RFK Jr will be Cassidy's legacy forever.
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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.”
“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
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.”
“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.”
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sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
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Senate Democrats are useless and cowardly. Not even close to meeting or understanding the moment. And just because you voted against The Cave doesn’t get you off the hook unless you call for Schumer’s resignation as Democratic leader by tomorrow.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Senate Democrats are useless and cowardly. Not even close to meeting or understanding the moment. And just because you voted against The Cave doesn’t get you off the hook unless you call for Schumer’s resignation as Democratic leader by tomorrow.
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🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
🔥 @agiftfromtodd.bsky.social : "Y’all get it now?? Do you understand what’s possible? I don't wanna hear no more 'my vote doesn't matter. Nothing ever changes.' Look what happens when you participate. We win everything. There are more of us… for the rest of your damn life, you gotta vote.”
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A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable.
A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over.
This really can work.
A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over.
This really can work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable.
A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over.
This really can work.
A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over.
This really can work.
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Truth: the two party system is terrible and needs to go.
Also Truth: until reforms are implemented to make elections more competitive, either a Dem or Republican will win almost every election, and pouting on election day only helps the party more opposed to your views.
Also Truth: until reforms are implemented to make elections more competitive, either a Dem or Republican will win almost every election, and pouting on election day only helps the party more opposed to your views.
November 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Truth: the two party system is terrible and needs to go.
Also Truth: until reforms are implemented to make elections more competitive, either a Dem or Republican will win almost every election, and pouting on election day only helps the party more opposed to your views.
Also Truth: until reforms are implemented to make elections more competitive, either a Dem or Republican will win almost every election, and pouting on election day only helps the party more opposed to your views.
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Jimmy Kimmel mocks a geriatric Donald Trump as he wanders around aimlessly with the Prime Minister of Japan 🤣
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Jimmy Kimmel mocks a geriatric Donald Trump as he wanders around aimlessly with the Prime Minister of Japan 🤣