Will Lykins
@willllykins.bsky.social
Ph.D in Bioengineering. Developing vaccines in Seattle. Still Sleepy.
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25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law.
Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars.
History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars.
History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
September 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law.
Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars.
History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars.
History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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The Right talks a lot about fiscal responsibility and efficiency, but for decades, that’s been code for something else: cutting essential programs and services.
September 18, 2026 at 6:51 PM
The Right talks a lot about fiscal responsibility and efficiency, but for decades, that’s been code for something else: cutting essential programs and services.
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Macklemore can sue Robert Kraft for Tortious Interference for economic harm and I hope he does. Discovery would be fun: "Which other stadium owners did you talk to?" and "We need all related emails, text messages and contracts between you and them and you and Sheeran and Sheeran's team."
September 16, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Macklemore can sue Robert Kraft for Tortious Interference for economic harm and I hope he does. Discovery would be fun: "Which other stadium owners did you talk to?" and "We need all related emails, text messages and contracts between you and them and you and Sheeran and Sheeran's team."
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If you think America has ever been even remotely leftist ask yourself how many politicians have had their careers ruined because they were accused of being fascist and how many were literally imprisoned for being communist.
September 14, 2026 at 10:18 PM
If you think America has ever been even remotely leftist ask yourself how many politicians have had their careers ruined because they were accused of being fascist and how many were literally imprisoned for being communist.
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never forget the hell that republicans and rfk jr. have been putting 9/11 responders & survivors through.
September 11, 2026 at 9:10 AM
never forget the hell that republicans and rfk jr. have been putting 9/11 responders & survivors through.
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DO NOT USE VOTESAFE DOT ORG
It is NOT a government website.
This guy is using it to steal your data for surveillance.
It is NOT a government website.
This guy is using it to steal your data for surveillance.
Hidden dangers exposed in 'slick' new MAGA voting site dubbed a 'surveillance machine'
Elon Musk’s new voter registration push comes with a major catch: its website collects a staggering amount of information about users.Votesafe.org records names, home addresses, phone numbers, birth d...
www.rawstory.com
September 9, 2026 at 10:15 PM
DO NOT USE VOTESAFE DOT ORG
It is NOT a government website.
This guy is using it to steal your data for surveillance.
It is NOT a government website.
This guy is using it to steal your data for surveillance.
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Brian Heywood isn't just putting initiatives for child genital inspections & his own massive tax cut on your ballot - he's also funding an attempted right-wing takeover of our state's Supreme Court.
His plan? Roll back our freedoms and gut our schools & healthcare via a captured high court.
His plan? Roll back our freedoms and gut our schools & healthcare via a captured high court.
Coming in November: A big election for WA’s Supreme Court • Washington State Standard
Five races for seats on Washington’s state Supreme Court are set to get much more attention over the next two months.
washingtonstatestandard.com
September 9, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Brian Heywood isn't just putting initiatives for child genital inspections & his own massive tax cut on your ballot - he's also funding an attempted right-wing takeover of our state's Supreme Court.
His plan? Roll back our freedoms and gut our schools & healthcare via a captured high court.
His plan? Roll back our freedoms and gut our schools & healthcare via a captured high court.
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Pay attention to this
Brian Heywood isn't just putting initiatives for child genital inspections & his own massive tax cut on your ballot - he's also funding an attempted right-wing takeover of our state's Supreme Court.
His plan? Roll back our freedoms and gut our schools & healthcare via a captured high court.
His plan? Roll back our freedoms and gut our schools & healthcare via a captured high court.
Coming in November: A big election for WA’s Supreme Court • Washington State Standard
Five races for seats on Washington’s state Supreme Court are set to get much more attention over the next two months.
washingtonstatestandard.com
September 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Pay attention to this
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Apologies to the career civil servants at NIH who have white knuckled through this, but I would rather see everyone fired than no one fired, and there's not even really any reason it would need to come to that. Anyone appointed since 2024 has to go, and their track record examined for malfeasance.
September 7, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Apologies to the career civil servants at NIH who have white knuckled through this, but I would rather see everyone fired than no one fired, and there's not even really any reason it would need to come to that. Anyone appointed since 2024 has to go, and their track record examined for malfeasance.
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This, I think, is the heart of the problem with MAHA reconciliation and Trump administration apologia: it all makes it easier for Dems to fire just RFK, or just RFK and just Jay, rather than clear the entire house when they take power. And they have to. There are lab leak nuts screening proposals.
Shouldn't this read "Strategic Plan, 2026-2028"?
Because if the Democrats don't fire podcast Jay and reverse all this nonsense they don't deserve power
Because if the Democrats don't fire podcast Jay and reverse all this nonsense they don't deserve power
New NIAID Strategic plan
Launched quietly I guess. Apologies if I missed the press release.
No more discussion of emerging infectious diseases/pandemic preparedness. That's not good amid the many ongoing outbreaks/epidemics and the ones to come.
NIH Jay Bhattacharya RFK
bit.ly/4qYzkRa
Launched quietly I guess. Apologies if I missed the press release.
No more discussion of emerging infectious diseases/pandemic preparedness. That's not good amid the many ongoing outbreaks/epidemics and the ones to come.
NIH Jay Bhattacharya RFK
bit.ly/4qYzkRa
September 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
This, I think, is the heart of the problem with MAHA reconciliation and Trump administration apologia: it all makes it easier for Dems to fire just RFK, or just RFK and just Jay, rather than clear the entire house when they take power. And they have to. There are lab leak nuts screening proposals.
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Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie.
Trump claims that after 9/11, "I went down, I was building a building in New York, and I went down there very shortly thereafter -- the following day, you couldn't go down the same day -- and we worked long and hard"
September 7, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie.
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We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day.
vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
vimeo.com
September 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day.
vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
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Strongly agree with this, and I'll add that even when there was a racial/ethnic disparity in COVID vax rates that difference was mostly due to the age-based rollout: as the median age for Black and Hispanic populations skew younger, these groups waited longer for the COVID vaccine *due to policy*
This may have been true before COVID but since 2021, partisanship has become a better predictor of anti-vaxx beliefs than race.
www.brookings.edu/articles/for...
www.brookings.edu/articles/for...
September 7, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Strongly agree with this, and I'll add that even when there was a racial/ethnic disparity in COVID vax rates that difference was mostly due to the age-based rollout: as the median age for Black and Hispanic populations skew younger, these groups waited longer for the COVID vaccine *due to policy*
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JKR is alive and very rich and hating trans people is her whole deal so you can just not f with her or her work. So much art in the world that isn’t being made by someone who is trying to erase my children.
September 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
JKR is alive and very rich and hating trans people is her whole deal so you can just not f with her or her work. So much art in the world that isn’t being made by someone who is trying to erase my children.
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Voting early helps combat voter suppression, allows more flexibility for working families to get to the polls, and increases participation among all voters.
Join our No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call to learn about the coalition’s upcoming early vote activation and how you can get involved.
Join our No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call to learn about the coalition’s upcoming early vote activation and how you can get involved.
No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call · No Kings
Join our September 10 No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call to learn more about the vision, urgency, and strategy behind the No Kings coalition’s early vote activation and election protection campaign and...
www.mobilize.us
September 5, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Voting early helps combat voter suppression, allows more flexibility for working families to get to the polls, and increases participation among all voters.
Join our No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call to learn about the coalition’s upcoming early vote activation and how you can get involved.
Join our No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call to learn about the coalition’s upcoming early vote activation and how you can get involved.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.
September 4, 2026 at 7:55 PM
😭 🤮
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don't forget that the upcoming elections are also about stopping anti-vaccine policies at the state/local level, where they have the greatest impacts
Florida’s Department of Health removes 4 vaccines from required list for public schools (and wrangles with Cathloic schools, trying to force them to accept unvaccinated kids) www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt... @cidrap.bsky.social
Florida’s Department of Health removes 4 vaccines from required list for public schools
Students would still be required to get vaccinated against 7 diseases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
September 1, 2026 at 6:29 PM
don't forget that the upcoming elections are also about stopping anti-vaccine policies at the state/local level, where they have the greatest impacts
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I want to strengthen my last statement—this *is* an election-rigging scheme. And the fact that there was a conspiracy in the executive branch to hide it makes it likely this constitutes a Criminal Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud headed by Donald Trump.
Postal Service plans may keep voters from getting ballots, whistleblower says
An anonymous federal official warns that a rushed USPS portal tied to Trump’s mail-voting order could reject large batches of ballots before the midterms.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I want to strengthen my last statement—this *is* an election-rigging scheme. And the fact that there was a conspiracy in the executive branch to hide it makes it likely this constitutes a Criminal Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud headed by Donald Trump.
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When Salk developed the polio vaccine, “Church bells tolled, factory whistles blew. People ran into the streets weeping…Eisenhower invited Jonas Salk to the White House, where he choked up while thanking Salk for saving the world's children”
Today we have RFK Jr 😢
www.npr.org/sections/npr...
Today we have RFK Jr 😢
www.npr.org/sections/npr...
Defeating Polio, The Disease That Paralyzed America
On April 12, 2015, the world will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Jonas Salk's vaccine that helped defeat a contagious, crippling virus.
www.npr.org
August 30, 2026 at 7:03 PM
When Salk developed the polio vaccine, “Church bells tolled, factory whistles blew. People ran into the streets weeping…Eisenhower invited Jonas Salk to the White House, where he choked up while thanking Salk for saving the world's children”
Today we have RFK Jr 😢
www.npr.org/sections/npr...
Today we have RFK Jr 😢
www.npr.org/sections/npr...
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Wear an N95
Get vaxxed
Advocate for clean air
Get vaxxed
Advocate for clean air
PMC COVlD Update, Week of Aug 29, 2026
▪️Outbreaks in 29 states/territories (see Alt)
▪️A projected 13th wave is under way
▪️1 in 95 Americans estimated actively infectious
▪️Peak anticipated around Labor Day
THREAD 🧵(1/4)
▪️Outbreaks in 29 states/territories (see Alt)
▪️A projected 13th wave is under way
▪️1 in 95 Americans estimated actively infectious
▪️Peak anticipated around Labor Day
THREAD 🧵(1/4)
August 29, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Wear an N95
Get vaxxed
Advocate for clean air
Get vaxxed
Advocate for clean air
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RFK Jr. could film vertical video in Times Square wearing a fucking swastika armband and we’d still be debating “work with MAHA” versus “reject quackery for science.” These people are building camps and foaming at the mouth about communist physiognomy. I just feel fucking insane
August 30, 2026 at 2:33 AM
RFK Jr. could film vertical video in Times Square wearing a fucking swastika armband and we’d still be debating “work with MAHA” versus “reject quackery for science.” These people are building camps and foaming at the mouth about communist physiognomy. I just feel fucking insane
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Wear an N95. Get a vaccine once they are available. Fight disinformation. And remember to check your voter registration.
PMC COVlD Update, Week of Aug 29, 2026
▪️Outbreaks in 29 states/territories (see Alt)
▪️A projected 13th wave is under way
▪️1 in 95 Americans estimated actively infectious
▪️Peak anticipated around Labor Day
THREAD 🧵(1/4)
▪️Outbreaks in 29 states/territories (see Alt)
▪️A projected 13th wave is under way
▪️1 in 95 Americans estimated actively infectious
▪️Peak anticipated around Labor Day
THREAD 🧵(1/4)
August 30, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Wear an N95. Get a vaccine once they are available. Fight disinformation. And remember to check your voter registration.
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Just a reminder this statement was said by a sitting Congressman to the public, Trump and his DOJ offered not one pushback, denial or lawsuit.. it’s still just sitting out there
August 27, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Just a reminder this statement was said by a sitting Congressman to the public, Trump and his DOJ offered not one pushback, denial or lawsuit.. it’s still just sitting out there
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Twenty years on from Gardasil vaccine launch, Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer
Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer 20 years on from vaccine launch
Twenty years on from the launch of the world-first vaccine against cervical cancer, Australian Immunisation Register data shows HPV vaccine coverage for girls and girls is dropping.
www.abc.net.au
August 27, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Twenty years on from Gardasil vaccine launch, Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer