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Per Damkier

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Pragmatic clinical pharmacologist and a somewhat more rigorous researcher who owns too many guitars above his playgrade. Drugs in pregnancy & lactation. Germline pharmacogenomics. Music, vinyl records, movies, history, politics (born to the left).

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Per Damkier @perdamkier.bsky.social · Dec 16

Watching this #Trump sh*tshow unfolding with aghast from overseas

With apologies to those not obeying in advance, I am stunned at the amount of shoulder-shrugging & half-assed attempts at rational🤮 takes on the incoming administration

GET A GRIP FOLKS
IT IS GOING TO BE SO MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

We've all heard that there is no free lunch.

Well, guess what?

There is no free 747 either.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

This is the way

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

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 6h

Agent Provocateurs from the FBI & police forces caused significant setbacks in public perception of the Civil Rights movement in the 60’s & 70’s. Later studies showed why:

Through a complex research design that evaluated county-level data and voting patterns, Wasow discovered that proximity to disciplined civil resistance (i.e., nonviolent protests) resulted in white people focusing on the issue of "equality" and "civil rights," while proximity to violent protests and riots shifted their focus to "law and order" and made them more supportive of state repression against the Black Freedom Movement. Nonviolent protests also "helped to grow the egalitarian coalition of white liberals, white moderates, and blacks," but protests perceived as violent strengthened an opposing coalition that pushed a more racist and authoritarian outlook. These shifts had major repercussions on politics and society. Critically, Wasow (2016) found that "in Presidential elections, the proximity to black-led nonviolent protests caused increased white Democratic vote share, whereas proximity to black-led violent protests caused substantially important decline and likely tipped the 1968 election from Hubert Humphrey to Richard Nixon." Wasow (2016) closes with this conclusion: "Tactics matter... and while violence in response to repression is often justifi-able, this research suggests it may not be strategic."
Despite agent provocateur activity and agent provocateur-like
behavior that harmed and weakened US social movements in the late 1960s, some important reforms were still won. The decline in movement effectiveness was mitigated to an important degree by persistence in disciplined civil resistance strategies by many movement activists and by the public exposure of agent provocateur activity in the early and mid-1970s. The news media and congressional hearings on the undemocratic behavior of the FBI and CIA certainly helped
spark some public backlash.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 15h

Fragile bigots. Every day, this is what we are seeing.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 7h

MAGA wants to redefine anti-fascism so they can have a blanket term to "justify" murdering and kidnapping everyday Americans that question the Trump regime, call out its numerous criminal actions, and / or ask for the release of the Epstein files.

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Per Damkier @perdamkier.bsky.social · 7h

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Vicki Bryan's Bond Angle @bondangle.bsky.social · 8h

Happy to recommend this excellent read by two of our most courageous national heroes:
Drs. Michael. E Mann and Peter J. Hotez
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social

James Aura @jamesaura.bsky.social · 2d

“Science Under Siege,” by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.
undark.org/2025/10/03/b...

Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science

"Science Under Siege," by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.

undark.org

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 19h

The article concludes with a quote:
“As Friedrich Merz, 🇩🇪 Germany’s chancellor, put it this week, ‘The threat is real... drone flights, espionage…not only in Germany…—daily acts of sabotage, attempts to paralyse data centres, cyber-attacks…We are not at war, but we are no longer at peace, either’.”

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 19h

Nice info graph of #hybrid attacks on Europe by The Economist.

www.economist.com/briefing/202...

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 17h

Call it hybrid warfare, gray-zone tactics, or whatever euphemism helps you sleep at night. But semantics won’t save you.

It’s war. Russia is at war with you, dear Europe. Whether you like it or not.

Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 19h

Nice info graph of #hybrid attacks on Europe by The Economist.

www.economist.com/briefing/202...

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Per Damkier @perdamkier.bsky.social · 8h

For an ousider, or any person of reason, this is absurd on its face. One man negating the entire legislative process at his own whim? Are the doors physically locked?
If not, all democrats should show up and carry on business - just ignore these traitors. Force their hand ffs

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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 8h

'Inconsistent with our core belief': This university is the first to reject Trump’s 'compact' www.alternet.org/news-politic...

'Inconsistent with our core belief': This university is the first to reject Trump’s 'compact'

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first school to publicly reject President Donald Trump's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," which offered "preferential access ...

www.alternet.org

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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you #MackenzieScott
Another fearless badass doing great work!

Mackenzie Scott donates $42m for Bay Area low income students

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10h

Again, these people want violence. They want their supporters radicalized and ready to commit it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 10h

The fact that we are even talking about Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize feels indicative of mass psychosis. The dude spent most of his adult life sexually assaulting women, girls and breaking the laws of business, morality and democracy. He is the most unpeaceful cunt ever.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Mr. Secretary, the president is on the phone. He sounds very angry and he keeps calling you Lil Marco.

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Per Damkier @perdamkier.bsky.social · 11h

What a collossal ignorant loser…

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 22h

The person who wrote this is chief culture editor for the Economist, and I have so many questions about what he does in that job and how he got it.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Per Damkier @perdamkier.bsky.social · 11h

USA first, 🤔?

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Posh Nigel @nigel-hewlett.bsky.social · 11h

The USA is letting a Muslim country build a military base on US soil.

MAGA must be doing their nut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Per Damkier @perdamkier.bsky.social · 12h

a bald man with a beard is saying well that escalated quickly .

ALT: a bald man with a beard is saying well that escalated quickly .

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 12h

NOBEL PEACE PRICE COMMITTEE: WE GIVE THIS AWARD, FOR PEACE

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12h

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

María Corina Machado ©
@MariaCorinaYA
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h

“‘I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,’ Pope Leo XIV states in his first magisterial document …” www.americamagazine.org/vatican-disp...

Pope Leo in first major document: Love for the poor is not optional for Christians

“I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,” Pope Leo XIV states in his first m...

www.americamagazine.org

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