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Catherine Walter
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She/her. Applied Linguistics, Mama Bear, LGBTQI+ Ally, Long Covid community member. Powerlifter.
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altnps.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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elhopkins.bsky.social
At Christmas please spare a thought for those in Britain who have been left to self shielding for 6 years with really poor vaccine access, no ffp3 respirators in healthcare and no clean air. I wonder when this will be discussed. Hundreds of thousands of people left behind.
December 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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elhopkins.bsky.social
Please watch the Covid inquiry folks. Labour still has the wrong guidance in place.
elhopkins.bsky.social Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · Oct 31
Here is Dr Barry Jones explaining that they knew from ‘day 1’ it was airborne and a virus of some consequence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpR...
UK Covid 19 Inquiry - Module 3 Hearing - 12 September 2024 AM
YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry
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December 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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drrachelclarke.com
I've written this open letter to Keir Starmer &
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social because, though I am desperately worried about NHS patients over the next 5 days, I know this strike by resident doctors is a desperate act of last resort.

Please read.
An Open Letter to Keir Starmer & Wes Streeting as NHS Resident Doctors Commence Their 5-day Strike 17/12/25 Dear both, In 2016, when junior doctors (as we were then called) went on strike against Jeremy Hunt’s reviled new contract, he deployed exactly the same tactics as you do today. He tried to divide and rule BMA leaders from their members, to turn public opinion against striking doctors, to smear us to the press at every opportunity. His favourite term of abuse was “militants”, though you favour words like “self-indulgent”, “irresponsible”, “dangerous”, “reckless,” “abandoning patients in their hour of greatest need.” Jeremy Hunt learned from his mistakes. He has spoken publicly about bitterly regretting his bullying tactics. You, on the other hand, appear to have learned nothing from 2016. You assume the worst of the young doctors out on strike today – that they care only about self-enrichment, that they don’t give a damn about their patients. You could not be more wrong. They hate striking, which is a desperate act of last resort. But what choice do they have? Today’s young doctors face something beyond ludicrous - the modern farce that is NHS doctor unemployment. You, Wes Streeting, the man responsible for NHS workforce planning, lead a system so broken that there are doctors today literally unable to find jobs in the NHS you claim to be rebuilding. What a travesty in a country so desperately short of psychiatrists, GPs, radiologists, acute medics and NHS doctors of every kind. You offer the creation of some (not enough) new training posts to striking doctors as though this is benevolent, gracious. Well it’s not. It is frankly grotesque to say, “I won’t pay you more, but I am willing to decrease (though not eradicate) the chances of you being unemployed next year.” Small wonder we’re losing resident doctors to Australia in droves. Every attack and smear you deploy against resident doctors over the next five days only exacerbates their despair. Slo…
December 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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goodlawproject.org
I've made a complaint to the BBC about its bald misstatement of the truth about what the Supreme Court decided in the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.
"In her Introduction to her interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson Laura Kuenssberg said. "Attention has often focused on who should be able to access single-sex spaces whether changing rooms or girls' sports teams but the Supreme Court said in a landmark ruling in April that it was biological sex not a person's chosen gender that should determine that answer." That sentence is simply wrong. The easiest way to explain why is to refer to an interview published with the presiding Supreme Court judge in that April decision, Lord Hodge, In The Times on 12 September 2025 which contains these paragraphs: "Hodge, who presided over the case with two female Justices, defended the decision and pointed out that the case before the court had nothing to do with how or where single-sex spaces should be created. These points weren't argued before us,' he said. "We were not there to decide points that were not put to us or were not raised in the course of argument, because we hadn't heard each side's position on it." With her statement Ms Kuenssberg stepped Into a highly contentious area and baldly misrepresented the truth. I would like her to issue a clarification and apology, please."
December 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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elhopkins.bsky.social
In 2023 the BMA sent this letter to the government asking for ffp3 respirators. Not a word said about this today!
December 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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profstevegriffin.bsky.social
So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...

1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
I've been trying to use AI to support a narrative review. Has worked well in many aspects of the work. But it's screwed up royally in three ways:

1. Failed to suspect a study with 100% response rate and 100% agreement by >6000 participants to have a blood test. Saw this as a "quality feature".
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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wtafc.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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martinmckee.bsky.social
🧵1/ Romania has the highest cervical cancer incidence & mortality in Europe. Yet screening coverage is under 30%. Why? Our new study explores the emotional & practical barriers faced by vulnerable women.
@cbigscreen.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in people’s mailboxes in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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seenpoliceuk.bsky.social
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SEEN Police has today taken the decision to begin judicial review proceedings over the EHRC’s refusal to disclose the Draft “Code of Practice on Single-Sex Services.”
The refusal is unlawful, discriminatory, and has created a dangerous information imbalance.
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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longcovidadvoc.com
🔬🧠Brain‑training games for LC cognitive dysfunction? The RECOVER‑NEURO trial shows they don’t address the underlying pathology. Games can’t fix inflammation, microvascular issues, or neuro‑immune dysfunction - we need interventions that understand the biology not candy crush 🍭
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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shobitap.org
This essay is wonderfully written, and lays bare the media’s impoverished understanding of objectivity, i.e., reporting on “both sides”—which the right manipulates to its advantage.
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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cleanairie.bsky.social
The Mayor of London's rollout of HEPA filters in classrooms to improve air quality for children in schools shows real vision, leadership, and concern for children's health and wellbeing. Hopefully, it isn't long before Irish politicians recognise the numerous benefits of this policy.
#cleantheair
Mayor of London invests £2.7m in air quality filters for schools to clean up air in classrooms Research has found that PM2.5 levels in classrooms with HEPA filters were between 27 and 68 per cent lower compared to those without. Air pollution increases the risk of developing asthma, lung cancer, heart disease and stroke, and there is growing evidence that air pollution exposure increases the risk of developing dementia. "I want every single child to breathe clean air in and around their school. In those vital early years, the difference this can make to young people’s health and wellbeing can be lifechanging. " - The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
November 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
The East Wing was built in 1902 & rebuilt in 1942, long after asbestos was used as a fire retardant. So, I’m sure the White House took steps to prevent a known carcinogen from entering the air during the current willy-nilly demolition.

Kidding! These irresponsible assholes don’t care who they kill.
October 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
"nearly half..." ???

it's an open book test.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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davejorgenson.bsky.social
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
hcwalterelt.bsky.social
On Friday, the UK High Court stated that the Gender Recognition Panel was wrong to rule that a person had to be sterilised in order to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate. Thanks, @goodlawproject.bsky.social !
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goodlawproject on Instagram: "An incredibly important third win in a row in our ongoing fight for the rights and dignities of trans peopleView all 494 comments"
An incredibly important third win in a row in our ongoing fight for the rights and dignities of trans people
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October 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Please remember that many disabled people won’t be at the No Kings rallies tomorrow.

A lot of the planned events are not accessible and/or disabled people are not safe or well enough to attend.

Anything you can do to increase accessibility and inclusion will help the resistance!
October 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM