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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait

@jaxtait.bsky.social

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PhD in Natural Law Theory, not a medical doctor. #SSCE Green Party (views are my own & don't necessarily represent GPEW policy) #CRPS Aka Jax

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · Sep 3

This exactly how fascism always works. They make you feel threatened. They tell you the solution is to stop caring about a particular group of people. They strip those people of their rights. They manufacture another crisis to make you feel threatened. Rinse & repeat. In the end they come for you.

Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · Jan 3

Well the slope from “let the elderly and disabled die of COVID” to “let’s trash all the rest of our ethics, morals and laws” was basically a short walk on a flat path wasn’t it?

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 1d

"Even the May 2025 statement from the House of Bishops fails to denounce with sufficient clarify and force Israel’s sustained and egregious practice of war crimes, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and — as now confirmed by an independent UN commission — genocide". Jonathan Chaplin

Letters to the Editor

Topics this week include: the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury; the C of E’s response to the Gaza crisis; and clergy terms of service

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 1d

Catholics were social justice warriors for centuries before it was disparaged as "woke". The Church preaches compassion & love for neighbours, strangers & adversaries, & will keep on doing so even when fascists are telling people "empathy is a mental illness" & "immigrants don't have human rights."

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 1d

"Well it was nice while it lasted. We had an unprecedented 10 months of low and stable Covid levels in England - but this is now over. We are seeing a definite, significant wave of Covid infections across England."

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party are STILL the only major political party in the UK with compassionate, science-based policy on #Covid. Schools are not safe for kids & teachers. Workers are forced into unsafe workplaces. CV families still face hatred & exclusion. #LongCovid still destroys lives & livelihoods.

Greens Against Covid @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social · Nov 22

Action on Covid and Long covid
We call on the government to protect us all from covid.
Air quality improvements in public indoor spaces e.g.schools,hosoitals,public transport, workplaces
NHS that is safe for patients and sraff
Free lateral flow tests
Sick pay for supported isolation
Research into improved vaccines and therapeutics
Post viral chronic illness research task force for better understanding of and treatment for Long Covid, ME and Chronic fatigue syndromes
Comprehensive, safe, evidence bases vaccination and booster programme

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 1d

We can keep doing this forever, or fix public health policy. Hospitals are unsafe for workers & patients. We need suitable PPE & clean air standards to stop the spread of airborne infectious diseases. It is a political choice to govern without fairness or compassion.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 2d

We could keep doing this forever, or we could make hospitals safe for workers & patients by mandating clean air standards & providing effective masks to protect against airborne viruses. It's illegal & irresponsible to violate workers rights & ignore patient safety.
#Zacktivism

Shropshire hospitals to reintroduce face masks after Covid-19 spike

Face masks will apply to parts of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Telford's Princess Royal Hospital from Wednesday.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

The best defense against this weapon is solidarity among groups who disagree ferociously on many questions, but who agree on the need to keep America democratic and rebuild institutions and social connections to make democracy more robust.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

The struggle over regime change is about whether the aspiring authoritarians can subdue civil society. Their strategy is to play divide and conquer, rewarding friends and brutally punishing opponents. They win when society cracks, creating a self-enforcing set of expectations.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

Power is a “coordination game,” in which everything depends on what the public believes and does together. Even the most brutal tyrant does not have enough soldiers and police to compel everyone to obey at gunpoint. Authoritarian regimes need civil society to acquiesce to their rule.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

Important read for opposition actors under autocratizing contexts:

"Trump will fail in remaking American politics if people and institutions coordinate against him, which is why his administration is targeting businesses, nonprofits and the rest of civil society"

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

www.nytimes.com

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 3d

Wow 🤯

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

A judge blocked Trump from sending Oregon's National Guard into Portland.

That same judge then blocked Trump from deploying California's National Guard to Portland instead.

This isn't a "left wing" judge — Trump appointed her.

Says a lot about Trump's authoritarian power grab.

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 3d

So a hypocrite with an expensive education despises education & pretended to have principles only for as long as he thought it was in his interests to do so?

Before Pete Hegseth Joined Trump’s War on DEI, He Advocated for Educational Equity as a Harvard Student | News | The Harvard Crimson

In his first nine months as Secretary of War, Pete B. Hegseth has railed against “woke garbage” and diversity programs. But in 2013, as a Harvard Kennedy School master’s student, Hegseth advocated for...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

The illegal USAID cuts are the thing that broke me

A complete dismantling of constitutional governance in order to facilitate crimes against humanity

What Trump, Musk, the Supreme Court, etc have done to these families is beyond cruel, beyond heartbreaking, beyond unforgivable

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure enough Americans understand why authoritarianism is bad. Fascists are really bad at running the country. They destroy freedom, steal your rights, tell you your neighbour is your enemy, tank the economy & pervert democracy so you can't hold them to account: Nothing is safe in their hands.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 3d

(1) What did he say that wasn't true?
(2) Where does he say "ACA subsidies are the most important thing"?

Yes we need to articulate the many reasons fascism is bad for the country. But the fact that ~50K Americans will likely die if these healthcare cuts go through is surely one of those reasons?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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