Ellen Duffy, PhD
@duffy-phd-micro.bsky.social
Teaching professor of microbiology and immunology. ❤️ 🐈 🍀🦩🌈
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🎄 We just have to find MELIA a forever home by Christmas 🎄
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
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24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
⬇️
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
🎄 We just have to find MELIA a forever home by Christmas 🎄
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
⬇️
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
⬇️
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
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Taken together with impoundments, this would break everything. The president is claiming the power to not spend money he doesn't want to and now also to spend money where it's not allowed. And SCOTUS might say no one has standing to stop him. That would make him an appropriations king.
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Taken together with impoundments, this would break everything. The president is claiming the power to not spend money he doesn't want to and now also to spend money where it's not allowed. And SCOTUS might say no one has standing to stop him. That would make him an appropriations king.
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Biden in office, GOP House and Senate: DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN!!
Trump in office, GOP House and Senate: DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN!!
Allowing one party to control the media narrative because they’re loud and dumb is absolutely ruining people’s understanding of how anything works.
Trump in office, GOP House and Senate: DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN!!
Allowing one party to control the media narrative because they’re loud and dumb is absolutely ruining people’s understanding of how anything works.
September 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Biden in office, GOP House and Senate: DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN!!
Trump in office, GOP House and Senate: DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN!!
Allowing one party to control the media narrative because they’re loud and dumb is absolutely ruining people’s understanding of how anything works.
Trump in office, GOP House and Senate: DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN!!
Allowing one party to control the media narrative because they’re loud and dumb is absolutely ruining people’s understanding of how anything works.
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Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
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I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
August 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible
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Fact check:
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
August 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Fact check:
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
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Bondi just said DHS is helping rid us of criminals from the Sinaloa Cartel, but she failed to mention the asylum she gave to family members of the Sinaloa Cartel. She also said we're ridding the country of MS-13, but failed to mention the asylum she's giving to MS-13 leaders in the Abrego case.
June 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Bondi just said DHS is helping rid us of criminals from the Sinaloa Cartel, but she failed to mention the asylum she gave to family members of the Sinaloa Cartel. She also said we're ridding the country of MS-13, but failed to mention the asylum she's giving to MS-13 leaders in the Abrego case.
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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
June 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem.
Right fucking now.
Right fucking now.
June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem.
Right fucking now.
Right fucking now.
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When you’re used to being the center of the universe, equality feels like oppression—and accountability feels like persecution.
Republican panic.
Republican panic.
May 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
When you’re used to being the center of the universe, equality feels like oppression—and accountability feels like persecution.
Republican panic.
Republican panic.
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Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
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The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens.
April 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens. The hygiene hypothesis is not telling you to expose yourself to pathogens.
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The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.
April 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.
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The simple truth is that Trump believes that, if we send money to a county in exchange for stuff, we've just lost because now they have our money
Trump: "I spoke to a lot of leaders -- European, Asian, from all over the world. They are dying to make a deal, but I said 'we're not gonna have deficits with your country' ... to me a deficit is a loss. We're gonna have surpluses or at worst we're gonna be breaking even."
April 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The simple truth is that Trump believes that, if we send money to a county in exchange for stuff, we've just lost because now they have our money
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BREAKING NEWS: Senator Brian Schatz is BLOCKING over 300 Trump admin nominations by refusing to let them pass with unanimous consent. "I don't think we should make anything easy going forward,” he said.
BLOCK THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY! MORE OF THIS!
BLOCK THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY! MORE OF THIS!
April 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Senator Brian Schatz is BLOCKING over 300 Trump admin nominations by refusing to let them pass with unanimous consent. "I don't think we should make anything easy going forward,” he said.
BLOCK THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY! MORE OF THIS!
BLOCK THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY! MORE OF THIS!
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🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots.
A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections
Learn more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots.
A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!
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One thing that is clear from these headlines is that the big news orgs don't have a vocabulary or strategy for how to report to readers when the President claims to do something he not only lacks authority to do but even the power to do. That's a very basic, foundational thing.
March 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
One thing that is clear from these headlines is that the big news orgs don't have a vocabulary or strategy for how to report to readers when the President claims to do something he not only lacks authority to do but even the power to do. That's a very basic, foundational thing.
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Ossoff: This was a huge a mistake
Ratcliffe: No
Ossoff: This is an embarrassment. We will get the full transcript of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content
Ratcliffe: No
Ossoff: This is an embarrassment. We will get the full transcript of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content
March 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Ossoff: This was a huge a mistake
Ratcliffe: No
Ossoff: This is an embarrassment. We will get the full transcript of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content
Ratcliffe: No
Ossoff: This is an embarrassment. We will get the full transcript of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content
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Pretty interesting side note to Yemen story and AEA story. If I heard Goldberg right just now, Trump didn’t know about the leak 3 or 4 hours after happened. And he said he didn’t do the AEA proclamation (which WH tried to clear up unpersuasively.) is he just bloviator-in-chief while others run gov?
March 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Pretty interesting side note to Yemen story and AEA story. If I heard Goldberg right just now, Trump didn’t know about the leak 3 or 4 hours after happened. And he said he didn’t do the AEA proclamation (which WH tried to clear up unpersuasively.) is he just bloviator-in-chief while others run gov?
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Facts:
Elon Musk is not in the cabinet.
Elon Musk is not a department head.
Elon Musk was not confirmed by the Senate.
“DOGE” is not a real department.
“DOGE” was never created by Congress.
“DOGE” is acting outside all legal authority.
“DOGE” is fake — and 100% CORRUPT.
Elon Musk is not in the cabinet.
Elon Musk is not a department head.
Elon Musk was not confirmed by the Senate.
“DOGE” is not a real department.
“DOGE” was never created by Congress.
“DOGE” is acting outside all legal authority.
“DOGE” is fake — and 100% CORRUPT.
March 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Facts:
Elon Musk is not in the cabinet.
Elon Musk is not a department head.
Elon Musk was not confirmed by the Senate.
“DOGE” is not a real department.
“DOGE” was never created by Congress.
“DOGE” is acting outside all legal authority.
“DOGE” is fake — and 100% CORRUPT.
Elon Musk is not in the cabinet.
Elon Musk is not a department head.
Elon Musk was not confirmed by the Senate.
“DOGE” is not a real department.
“DOGE” was never created by Congress.
“DOGE” is acting outside all legal authority.
“DOGE” is fake — and 100% CORRUPT.
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Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary
March 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary
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I feel like this is getting lost. Marco Rubio has the power to ensure that data/evidence of potential Russian war crimes on abducted Ukrainian children gets to Europol. Instead, he is preventing this.
Why? He won't say.
Let's not let this one drop.
newrepublic.com/article/1930...
Why? He won't say.
Let's not let this one drop.
newrepublic.com/article/1930...
March 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I feel like this is getting lost. Marco Rubio has the power to ensure that data/evidence of potential Russian war crimes on abducted Ukrainian children gets to Europol. Instead, he is preventing this.
Why? He won't say.
Let's not let this one drop.
newrepublic.com/article/1930...
Why? He won't say.
Let's not let this one drop.
newrepublic.com/article/1930...
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Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
March 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.