@michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social
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Pregnant women who develop COVID-19 after vaccination are much less likely to be hospitalised, need intensive care, or deliver early.
A Canadian study of nearly 20,000 pregnant women found vaccination cut hospitalisation risk by 62% and critical care risk by 90% compared with unvaccinated women.
A Canadian study of nearly 20,000 pregnant women found vaccination cut hospitalisation risk by 62% and critical care risk by 90% compared with unvaccinated women.
Pregnant women vaccinated against COVID-19 less likely to be hospitalized or deliver prematurely, new data show
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Pregnant women who develop COVID-19 after vaccination are much less likely to be hospitalised, need intensive care, or deliver early.
A Canadian study of nearly 20,000 pregnant women found vaccination cut hospitalisation risk by 62% and critical care risk by 90% compared with unvaccinated women.
A Canadian study of nearly 20,000 pregnant women found vaccination cut hospitalisation risk by 62% and critical care risk by 90% compared with unvaccinated women.
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Why is there SO MUCH APATHY about the planetary climate emergency?
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #Ethics #SocialJustice #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #BCClimateAction #FalseConsciousness
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #Ethics #SocialJustice #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #BCClimateAction #FalseConsciousness
December 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Why is there SO MUCH APATHY about the planetary climate emergency?
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #Ethics #SocialJustice #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #BCClimateAction #FalseConsciousness
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #Ethics #SocialJustice #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #BCClimateAction #FalseConsciousness
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#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #Ethics #SocialJustice #bcpoli #abpoli #topoli #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #Climate #Ecosocialism #environment #Nature #BCClimateAction #capitalism #FalseConsciousness
December 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.
The baroque corruption schemes playing out in America and Russia completely outclass the kickback scandal in Ukraine.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption
The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.
www.theatlantic.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.
I hope so much that someone in Australia is looking to what America is doing to Ukraine and paying attention. Clearly if we need the alliance they will do the full Munich agreement with us, get us to sign over as many minerals as possible and then be very upset if we are insufficiently grateful.
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I hope so much that someone in Australia is looking to what America is doing to Ukraine and paying attention. Clearly if we need the alliance they will do the full Munich agreement with us, get us to sign over as many minerals as possible and then be very upset if we are insufficiently grateful.
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Bananas came by just now and did a little pruning for me at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica
#tapirs #tapiroftheday #bairdstapir
#tapirs #tapiroftheday #bairdstapir
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Bananas came by just now and did a little pruning for me at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica
#tapirs #tapiroftheday #bairdstapir
#tapirs #tapiroftheday #bairdstapir
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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
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"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people."
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
snyder.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people."
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
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"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later"
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
The myths that made Putin’s war
The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder
www.ft.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
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Buried deep down the #BBC news website under ‘Also in the news’… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians
It is the country's first formal
www.bbc.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Buried deep down the #BBC news website under ‘Also in the news’… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Capitalism is like a dead fish in the moonlight. It glitters - but it stinks.
July 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Capitalism is like a dead fish in the moonlight. It glitters - but it stinks.
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This brings us to one of the most famous slogans from the HK pro-democracy protests: 是你教我們和平遊行是沒用 - 'It was you who taught us that peaceful protests are useless.'
bsky.app/profile/niao...
Source: Telegram (Jul 2019)
bsky.app/profile/niao...
Source: Telegram (Jul 2019)
June 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
This brings us to one of the most famous slogans from the HK pro-democracy protests: 是你教我們和平遊行是沒用 - 'It was you who taught us that peaceful protests are useless.'
bsky.app/profile/niao...
Source: Telegram (Jul 2019)
bsky.app/profile/niao...
Source: Telegram (Jul 2019)
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"Freedom for the People.
Death to Imperialism"
Sticker seen in Warsaw, Poland
Death to Imperialism"
Sticker seen in Warsaw, Poland
June 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Freedom for the People.
Death to Imperialism"
Sticker seen in Warsaw, Poland
Death to Imperialism"
Sticker seen in Warsaw, Poland
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1/A Serbian rights activist, Natasa Kandic, called for paying respects to civilian victims found in mass graves in Serbia, a remnant of the Kosovo War. Then the apolitical, pro-democracy students called for Natasa Kandic to be prosecuted for "subverting the Constitution". Fuck you, Tymothy Snyder.
The Student and Civic Protest in Serbia
A New Hope for Democratization
snyder.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
1/A Serbian rights activist, Natasa Kandic, called for paying respects to civilian victims found in mass graves in Serbia, a remnant of the Kosovo War. Then the apolitical, pro-democracy students called for Natasa Kandic to be prosecuted for "subverting the Constitution". Fuck you, Tymothy Snyder.
North Korea has nuclear weapons and is safe. Iraq did not - and was illegally invaded. Ukraine had them and gave them up on the promise we would protect its borders. It was invaded. Iran does not have them and is now subject to massive attack. Why do I think that nuclear non-proliferation is dead
June 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
North Korea has nuclear weapons and is safe. Iraq did not - and was illegally invaded. Ukraine had them and gave them up on the promise we would protect its borders. It was invaded. Iran does not have them and is now subject to massive attack. Why do I think that nuclear non-proliferation is dead
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Graffiti and posters from various locations, promoting the 'International Day of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners' on June 11th.
june11.noblogs.org
june11.noblogs.org
June 12, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Graffiti and posters from various locations, promoting the 'International Day of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners' on June 11th.
june11.noblogs.org
june11.noblogs.org
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China considers Tibet a full integral part of itself! It can't be more Chinese on its own terms! If Tibetan culture is not "Chinese" enough, then nothing that isn't Han can be
June 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
China considers Tibet a full integral part of itself! It can't be more Chinese on its own terms! If Tibetan culture is not "Chinese" enough, then nothing that isn't Han can be
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Hong Kong's annual vigils for the Tiananmen victims used to attract 100,000+. Now the government has banned all remembrance activities & arrested anyone trying to commemorate June 4. Even a lamppost labelled 8964 had to be relabelled. Utterly Orwellian. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
China: Address Tiananmen Massacre 36 Years On
36 years after the killing of countless peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Beijing, the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 Tiananmen Massacre.
www.hrw.org
June 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Hong Kong's annual vigils for the Tiananmen victims used to attract 100,000+. Now the government has banned all remembrance activities & arrested anyone trying to commemorate June 4. Even a lamppost labelled 8964 had to be relabelled. Utterly Orwellian. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
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36 years on, and the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 #TiananmenMassacre.
World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. bit.ly/3FjDLD6
World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. bit.ly/3FjDLD6
June 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
36 years on, and the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 #TiananmenMassacre.
World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. bit.ly/3FjDLD6
World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. bit.ly/3FjDLD6
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“Ecology without class struggle is gardening”
May 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Ecology without class struggle is gardening”
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Russian Iskander missile strikes Chernihiv last night. A peaceful city full of sleeping civilians.
May 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Russian Iskander missile strikes Chernihiv last night. A peaceful city full of sleeping civilians.