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Andy O 🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇪
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Survivor. #metoo,
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When the organizers do a total headcount of NoKings2, I hope they remember to count the many online events that were held today for disabled folks - including long Covid folks - who couldn't be with us in person. Online rallies are real rallies. @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org
October 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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People are put off Woody Allen by his appearance in Moscow? Wow - it was the pedophelia that put me off him decades ago.
August 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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I’ll be on News Night With Abby Phillip tonight at 9 CT.

Last time I was on, Elon Musk got so triggered he tweeted about me at 3 am. Let’s see what happens this time.
July 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Certain Democrats tried very hard not to take Kat seriously. Now she has more cash on hand than any of the 14 other candidates in the race.
July 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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AOC seeing an opportunity for a photo op:
June 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Let's not call for more resilience, diagnoses, drugs, medicalisation & neurofication to address escalating rates of poor mental health, let's call for new social policy to tackle its social determinants & properly fund demedicalised psycho-social support. That's it in a nutshell.
June 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Canada's own Neil Young.
Keep on rocking in the free world Neil.
#handsoff #elbowsup
April 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I recall significant pushback when Michelle Obama encouraged American youth to eat in a healthier way and move consistently.

It's so nice to have a wealthy, white man calling for it now, so we can take it seriously and put a plan into action.
March 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Agree. That's what I wrote, in part, to Tufts University leadership this morning in wake of the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk. More than 175 Tufts alum and parents have signed on in support.
March 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ nope
January 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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It's an old song. But I think it has a vibe for today's stress.

youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
YouTube video by PettyYou007
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January 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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"In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator's first line of defence. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim.....1/4
January 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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January 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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‘Capitalism doesn’t want your inner life to be completely fixed- it is happy for you to be a functional depressive or a functional alcoholic, because in both instances you are still a functional consumer’ #Sedated 👇
January 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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The extreme identity politics left is fuelling working-class defection to the right, division within the left, & the resurgence of a right-wing-style tribalism that sabotages the solidarity & unity needed for economic structural reform. Such ideas explored👇
english.elpais.com/internationa...
Why wokeness has pitched the left into crisis
Criticism is emerging from unexpected quarters over the puritanical aspects of the current wave of political correctness that puts the focus on identity and difference
english.elpais.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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“Rising antidepressant prescribing is not associated with an improvement in mental health outcomes at the population level, which, according to some measures, have worsened as antidepressant prescribing has risen.” Our piece in the BMJ:

www.bmj.com/content/383/...
Curb antidepressant prescribing to improve mental health, say campaigners
A group of 31 medical professionals, researchers, patients’ representatives, and politicians has called on the UK government to reverse the increase in antidepressant prescribing seen in the past deca...
www.bmj.com
January 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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The mental health/illness dichotomy, under neoliberalism, defines 'health' as what serves the economy & 'illness' as what does not. This destroys the nuances of living in a complex social world, where 'illness' is one of the few human signals left of where society is failing us.
January 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

An MIA Report by Robert Whitaker
https://buff.ly/4h42ad4
Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All
American psychiatry, the medical community, and mainstream media have betrayed the American public by failing to make this scandal known.
www.madinamerica.com
January 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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"So many autistic influencers fetishise diagnostic categories in a way that's counterintuitive to liberation. You can't—please hear me on this—diagnose your way into anti-ableism. You can't diagnose your way into abolition. You can't diagnose your way to freedom"
- J. L. Smilges
January 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Rest in peace, king 🏡
December 29, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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“Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”
― Vaclav Havel

Truth Social that is lol
December 2, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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David Russel is once again facing forced electroshock treatment. The is an update on his situation and how you can help. @fictionandabolition lifeafterect.com/david-russel... #SupportDavidRussell #JusticeForDavidRussell #MentalHealthRights #LifeAfterECT
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David Russell Update : Forced ECT Hearing Nov. 25th - Life After ECT
David Russel is once again facing forced electroshock treatment. The following is an update on his situation and how you can help.
lifeafterect.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:29 PM