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François Dupas 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇺🇦 🐦 @francoisdupas.bsky.social · 43m

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Sébastien Natroll @natroll.us · 3d

🇺🇸🏛️🚨 Aujourd’hui, la Cour suprême entend l’affaire Chiles v. Salazar.

Au cœur du différend, une loi du Colorado interdisant les « thérapies de conversion », ce qu’une "psy" chrétienne conteste, soutenue par la très conservatrice ADF, évoquant une violation du 1er Amdt

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Valère Ndior @hvaloche.bsky.social · 3d

Pour changer de l'actualité : mon billet sur le "Club des Juristes" pour expliquer le décret présidentiel signé par Donald Trump afin de céder TikTok US à des entités américaines... proches de lui.
www.leclubdesjuristes.com/internationa...

Quel avenir pour TikTok aux États-Unis ? - Le Club des Juristes

Le 25 septembre 2025, le Président Donald J. Trump a signé un décret présidentiel organisant, dans les grandes lignes, la cession de la version locale de TikTok à des entités états-uniennes. Les mesur...

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Sébastien Natroll @natroll.us · 56m

J’évoquais avec vous le dès 2023 la stratégie des Students For Life pour lutter contre la mifépristone : sonder les eaux usées à la recherche de traces de la la molécule.

Nous y sommes : le @nytimes.com publie un courrier de 25 élus GOP adressé à l’EPA en juin dernier.

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Collabblues @collabblues.bsky.social · 1d

Alors, si on remettait cela un poil en perspective, parce qu'il raconte n'importe quoi.

🇺🇸 "LA PEINE DE MORT C'EST BIEN !"
🇫🇷 "Ca a un effet préventif sur la criminalité ?"
🇺🇸 "Euh..."
🇫🇷 "C'est quoi ton taux de criminalité ?"
🇺🇸 "6,8 pour 100K"
🇫🇷 "Et le mien ?"
🇺🇸 "1,2..."

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Olivier Mannoni @oliviermannoni.bsky.social · 1d

La vengeance du serpent orange... La démocratie américaine est dans le gouffre.

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Donald Trump obtient des poursuites judiciaires contre la procureure générale qui l’avait condamné dans une affaire de fraude financière

Le président américain avait assumé vouloir se venger de la procureure démocrate Letitia James, deuxième figure publique à faire l’objet, en quelques jours, d’une inculpation qu’il avait directement r...

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Acermendax @acermendax.bsky.social · 17h

Aujourd’hui, la 17e chambre correctionnelle du tribunal judiciaire de Paris a déclaré Frédéric DELAVIER coupable des infractions d’injure et d’injure homophobe, pour des propos tenus sur sa chaîne YouTube entre septembre et octobre 2022 et qui me visaient personnellement.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 14h

The DPA found that Microsoft:

🍪 used tracking cookies without consent
🍪 did not provide full access to information about user's data

And when students tried to exercise their GDPR rights, nobody would give them a straight answer.

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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 14h

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft illegally tracked students, data watchdog finds.

The Austrian DPA has ruled that Microsoft 365 Education used tracking cookies without consent — illegally collecting student data - following a complaint supported by @noyb.eu

noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...

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François Dupas 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇺🇦 🐦 @francoisdupas.bsky.social · 11h

Il va falloir inventer un vaccin ARN pour tenter de guérir et d'éviter la propagation de l'antivaxxisme ... De même que les troubles dépressif, il faudrait reconnaître l'antivaxxisme comme une maladie, lol !

Damien BARRAUD MD @damienbarraudmd.bsky.social · 21h

Le terrorisme stochastique, attisé par les figures du proue françaises du complotisme.

W@rlock @amiwarlock.bsky.social · 22h

Fallait bien qu'un antivax passe à l'acte…
(J'ai peu de doute sur ses souces d'information)
www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-...

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Damien BARRAUD MD @damienbarraudmd.bsky.social · 21h

Le terrorisme stochastique, attisé par les figures du proue françaises du complotisme.

W@rlock @amiwarlock.bsky.social · 22h

Fallait bien qu'un antivax passe à l'acte…
(J'ai peu de doute sur ses souces d'information)
www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-...

Colis piégés en Dordogne : le suspect n'a pas supporté des critiques contre les "antivax" - ici

INFO ICI Périgord - L'homme arrêté ce mercredi à Clermont-Ferrand a exprimé des regrets lors de son audition, selon nos informations. Il reproche à Elodie Poux et Estelle Denis d'avoir critiqué les "a...

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Damien BARRAUD MD @damienbarraudmd.bsky.social · 15h

Of paramount importance
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Emily Fridenmaker @emilyfri.bsky.social · 1d

Discussing this article for our QI didactic on Monday. So good.

journal.chestnet.org/action/showP...

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 14h

Simon Calder's reporting on the travel impact of Brexit has been good, but the strangely-worded final line of this ("under the Brexit deal, Boris Johnson’s government negotiated for UK passport holders to become third-country nationals") suggests that, even now, Brexit isn't really understood.

LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 21h

~ New EU entry-exit warning: ‘Leave extra four hours’ for passing through new system | The Independent ~

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/eu-entry-exit-system-delay-arrival-flight-b2843028.html

New EU entry-exit warning: ‘Leave extra four hours’ for passing through new system | The Independent

A top travel industry figure has warned of bottlenecks at European airport from October 12

www.independent.co.uk

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 21h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

I doubt that was directed JUST at Maria Corina .

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 19h

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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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18h

This is a timely, excellent and important report on how "arms length" bodies in UK are vulnerable to political manipulation.

Kudos @chrischirp.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social for putting this together.

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

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17h

Waning immunity. A significant Covid wave in England. No new variant.
Thanks Prof Pagel for highlighting and contextualizing

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19h

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

iandunt.substack.com

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13h

Last 2 days in Trump's America - mainly around suppressing dissent and attacking science.

All actions available on www.trumpactiontracker.info

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGuv...

Main authoritarian things Trump has done since Wednesday - as of Fri 10th October

YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel

www.youtube.com

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 12h

These do not look like police videos. They look like campaign ones." I spoke about DHS's glossy, military like videos. The deportations are for the camera. @cnn.com @zbyronwolf.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Analysis: DHS leans into propaganda with militaristic action videos | CNN Politics

When helicopters descended on a Chicago apartment building last week with federal agents kitted out in military gear, locals saw a terrifying escalation in the federal government’s incursion into Chic...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...

Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h

"Stalinism and Stephen Miller: Cause for concern"
(video)
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Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h

If you are wearing a mask and disrupting a funeral you are not on the side of the right and the good. How about we just let people live (and grieve) in peace.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h

Is this the country where you want to live? Where people get assaulted (and hospitalized) just for talking?

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 6d

This is Brighton Park, the neighborhood where a U.S. Border Patrol agent also shot a woman earlier today. It is a predominantly Latine community on the southwest side.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 6d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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