Trish Cooper
@trish23.bsky.social
Optimist, granny, ex-editor (medical), traveller, hiker, often in #HenleyonThames or #Lefkada
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
Me too, but I went back to the ‘join queue’ page on the #radiohead website and it took me to the place where I’d been booted out. Got to ticket page 3rd time lucky
How?? Its happened to me three times :(
September 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Me too, but I went back to the ‘join queue’ page on the #radiohead website and it took me to the place where I’d been booted out. Got to ticket page 3rd time lucky
Oh dear - best of luck
Well done, pleased for you. I'm back in the queue…
September 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Oh dear - best of luck
Thanks #radiohead and #axs - really fucking helpful after waiting in the queue
September 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Thanks #radiohead and #axs - really fucking helpful after waiting in the queue
September 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Thanks #radiohead and #axs - really fucking helpful after waiting in the queue
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Through the wait for the queue for the queue and the queue for the queue. Now in the queue #radiohead
September 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Through the wait for the queue for the queue and the queue for the queue. Now in the queue #radiohead
September 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Hear hear!!
August 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hear hear!!
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Covid vaccination saved ~2.5 million lives between 2020-2024
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Lives and life-Years Saved From COVID-19 Vaccination
This comparative effectiveness study analyses the number of lives and life-years saved worldwide among those who had been vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2024 years.
jamanetwork.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Covid vaccination saved ~2.5 million lives between 2020-2024
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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This is actual good news and it wouldn’t have happened under the Tories and we who voted Labour should note it.
Labour launches £500m ‘Best Start’ child support programme
Labour launches £500m ‘Best Start’ child support programme
The government has announced a £500 million scheme to help disadvantaged children - Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the rollout of extra "Best Start" family hubs would offer youth services...
www.channel4.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is actual good news and it wouldn’t have happened under the Tories and we who voted Labour should note it.
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The UK’s latest climate change progress report highlights serious gaps.
How’s the UK attempt to reach net zero going? There’s good news and bad news
The UK’s latest climate change progress report highlights serious gaps.
tcnv.link
June 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The UK’s latest climate change progress report highlights serious gaps.
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8/ For those who prefer their skewering in video form, @ledbydonkeys.org have lovingly produced this soothing** look at the “godfather of Brexit” for #DanHannanDay
(**it’s not actually soothing - it’s infuriating - despite being soothingly voiced by @gavinesler.bsky.social 👍)
(**it’s not actually soothing - it’s infuriating - despite being soothingly voiced by @gavinesler.bsky.social 👍)
Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
June 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
8/ For those who prefer their skewering in video form, @ledbydonkeys.org have lovingly produced this soothing** look at the “godfather of Brexit” for #DanHannanDay
(**it’s not actually soothing - it’s infuriating - despite being soothingly voiced by @gavinesler.bsky.social 👍)
(**it’s not actually soothing - it’s infuriating - despite being soothingly voiced by @gavinesler.bsky.social 👍)
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The Bethesda Declaration people spoke out, despite the prohibition.
Former NIH director Francis Collins speaks out about why he left NIH:
“I didn’t feel I could raise alarms about the harms that were being done to medical research. I was prohibited from speaking about it.”
#medsky
www.aamc.org/news/former-...
“I didn’t feel I could raise alarms about the harms that were being done to medical research. I was prohibited from speaking about it.”
#medsky
www.aamc.org/news/former-...
Former NIH chief calls research cuts “careless” and “heartless”
Francis Collins, MD, PhD, lauds lifesaving research supported by the National Institutes of Health, explains why he left, and warns of scientific brain drain.
www.aamc.org
June 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The Bethesda Declaration people spoke out, despite the prohibition.
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Tremendous reporting from Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha in the @wsj.com on how Pentagon pranks, coverups and in some cases deliberate disinformation fed to American citizens fueled interest in UFOs.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology
U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs.
www.wsj.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Tremendous reporting from Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha in the @wsj.com on how Pentagon pranks, coverups and in some cases deliberate disinformation fed to American citizens fueled interest in UFOs.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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There is a second support letter that the public can sign.
You can help advance medical
cures in the US, and defend against Trump’s tyrannical attacks on the country, by signing it. Please do. We hope for your support.
And please share with your family and friends!
You can help advance medical
cures in the US, and defend against Trump’s tyrannical attacks on the country, by signing it. Please do. We hope for your support.
And please share with your family and friends!
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
www.standupforscience.net
June 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
There is a second support letter that the public can sign.
You can help advance medical
cures in the US, and defend against Trump’s tyrannical attacks on the country, by signing it. Please do. We hope for your support.
And please share with your family and friends!
You can help advance medical
cures in the US, and defend against Trump’s tyrannical attacks on the country, by signing it. Please do. We hope for your support.
And please share with your family and friends!
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Proud to have cosigned the Bethesda Declaration.
“We urge you as NIH Director to restore grants delayed or terminated for political reasons so that life-saving science can continue.”
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
Over one hundred NIH employees publish a letter of dissent to Trump administration attacks on medical research, the “Bethesda Declaration.” 🧪
June 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Proud to have cosigned the Bethesda Declaration.
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Trump canceled: "a grant to Emory University and Georgia State University, where researchers had developed three potential drugs that showed promise against many RNA-based viruses, including coronaviruses, Ebola, avian influenza and measles.."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Trump canceled: "a grant to Emory University and Georgia State University, where researchers had developed three potential drugs that showed promise against many RNA-based viruses, including coronaviruses, Ebola, avian influenza and measles.."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
June 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
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Take note Reform UK...
Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.
Trump races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people
Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Take note Reform UK...
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
Read this and instantly thought of @alexpodyssey.bsky.social
Would a little frog music be too expensive to include in #podyssey ?
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...
@theguardian.com
Would a little frog music be too expensive to include in #podyssey ?
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...
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‘Please don’t fart, this is art’ – Stephen Sondheim’s musical The Frogs review
A droll Dionysos, an ab-obsessed himbo and a waddling ballet for goggle-clad frogs can’t outshine Sondheim’s songs in this rarely seen version of the ancient Greek satire
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Read this and instantly thought of @alexpodyssey.bsky.social
Would a little frog music be too expensive to include in #podyssey ?
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...
@theguardian.com
Would a little frog music be too expensive to include in #podyssey ?
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...
@theguardian.com