Abbey Gardner
abbeyg.bsky.social
Abbey Gardner
@abbeyg.bsky.social
Former Open Society Foundation and UN. Co-Director Science of Implementation Initiative (founded by Paul Farmer). Did Russian Studies at Amherst and Georgetown.
Lived in Battery Psrk City for 17 yrs- veru happy about this! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/h...
Can a 3.5-Acre, $296 Million Park Save Lower Manhattan?
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...
April 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.

I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
April 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?"

Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”

“I’M PISSED!”
April 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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When David Brooks joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won, Brooks writes.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
bit.ly
April 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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FLORIDA- ARE YOU SICK OF WHATS GOING ON..HERE YUR CHANCE TO CHANGE IT--
Help these 2 Democrats win their April 1 special elections to shock the nation! In Florida’s District 1, Gay Valimont and Josh Weil in 6th District. 👇💙🗳
Help these 2 Democrats win their April 1 special elections to shock the nation! In Florida’s District 1, Gay Valimont and Josh Weil in 6th District. I interviewed both this week which you can watch in my article. Plus included is info on helping them: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/help-these...
Help these two Democrats win their April 1 special elections to shock the nation!
This is how we send a message!
deanobeidallah.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I’m not exaggerating when I say running on a platform of reopening Social Security offices, and reactivating phone service, will lead to a landslide election victory

www.aarp.org/social-secur...
SSA Ends Phone Service for New Benefit Applications
Verification by phone no longer an option for those applying for Social Security
www.aarp.org
March 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right

Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance moved to betray a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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BREAKING—RFK Jr’s FDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next year’s vaccine supply chain. God help us all.
February 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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🛑Closing down USAID is illegal..

📜It's an independent agency with authorities legislated by Congress.

⚠️The president has no legal authority to unilaterally abolish or move it under the State Department.

Excellent analysis by @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com

bit.ly/4i2jeAH
Abolishing USAID Is Both Unconstitutional and Disastrous
The State Department isn’t ready to handle vital disease-prevention efforts worldwide.
bit.ly
February 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Greatest security breach in American history. Foreign hostile powers could start looting the Treasury, steal our money, cripple the country.
February 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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"As global norms are set and scientific standards issued, the absence of the US [from WHO] will undermine scientific research, health security, and foreign policy," write Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/3E74dP9
January 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Excellent interview with Alex Soros.
January 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
So happy to hear that President Biden will award George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom- so well deserved for his dedication to making the world a more open and more equitable place.

Biden will award Medal of Freedom to Soros, Ralph Lauren and others
January 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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What a cool study and a powerful demonstration that Tuberculosis is largely a disease of poverty. In Brazil a large scale intervention which provided cash monthly to families living in poverty led to profound reductions in TB cases. Up to 50% among the poorest groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Effects of conditional cash transfers on tuberculosis incidence and mortality according to race, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort - Nature Medicine
Participation in Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program, one of the largest conditional cash transfer programs in the world, was associated with large reductions in tuberculosis incidence and mortality among ...
www.nature.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Made the whole thing up
Remember the FBI informant who claimed President Biden took millions in bribes from Burisma?

He admitted today in federal court that he made the whole thing up.

And that he started spinning new lies after meeting with Russian intelligence.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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If we all find 100 posts to like every day, engagement and good will on @bsky.app grows exponentially.

Is it worth a few minutes to make the platform stronger ?
December 10, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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A statement from The Onion about InfoWars.
December 11, 2024 at 5:14 AM
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One of the best pieces I’ve seen on pandemic revisionism, Jay Bhattacharya, the Great Barrington Declaration & RFK Jr (who Bhattacharya campaigned for—he even spoke at his political rallies)

By @kkjetelina.bsky.social & @kmpanthagani.bsky.social
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/hhs-picks-...
HHS picks, the House subcommittee report, and pandemic revisionism
Questions are important and needed, but we must not resort to rewriting history.
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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It is literally the case that NYT and WaPo are drowning out all content about Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth with coverage of Hunter Biden that completely ignores the corruption involved in the Hunter Biden investigation.
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
December 3, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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We pay too much attention to the most confident voices—and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones.

Conviction is not a sign of credibility. Speaking assertively is not a substitute for reflecting deeply.

It's better to learn from complex thinkers than smooth talkers.
December 3, 2024 at 12:59 PM