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Vaccine sceptic RFK Jr has called for the retraction of a Danish study that found no link between aluminium in vaccines and chronic diseases in children — a rare move... “Kennedy has demonstrated that he wants the scientific literature to bend to his will”, says Oransky. Scientific American
TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION IS RUN BY INCOMPETENT BUFFOONS.
Entitled tax-dodging grifters cost this country far more than any benefit fraud.
Utter bollocks as usual. The only mention of the ECHR was in confirming that it wasn't considered at all by the judges. Deliberate lying to incite hatred and division by the the frog-faced gobshite.
Parliament reopened today, but Nigel Farage was in Washington DC on his 10th trip to the US since becoming an MP. You don't get to earn £1m from 12 jobs by wasting time on what is meant to be your full time role.
Anyway I understand why people might turn their back on it but I am a child in all ways imaginable of late 20th/early 21st century multiculturalism so telling me it was all a lie and never existed/never should exist is insane to me.
Same with severe acute Covid 19 infections: Deficient Generation of Spike-Specific Long-Lived Plasma Cells in the Bone Marrow After Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39052732/
#4: "Mild Infections" COVID-19 Infection and Coronary Plaque Progression: An Early Warning of a Potential Public Health Crisis Jonathan R. Weir-McCall , Jack S. Bell Author Affiliations Published Online:Feb 4 pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
Michelle: Let’s encourage exercise and healthy food. RFK JR: No, let’s encourage anti-science conspiracies and mass death. The Atlantic: How could anyone possibly tell these policies apart?
I think theists have tended to invite their gods of choice to occupy every area of life that science wasn't considered to have made a reasonable stab at explaining, & as scientific knowledge expands, they feel their gods' territory is encroached upon, & obliged to push back. To everyone's detriment.
I've spent far too many hours receiving immunosuppressant meds IV from nurses who refuse to acknowledge that covid is transmitted via aerosol, & that that process is unaffected by their washdown theatrics.
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
Nine former CDC chiefs say RFK Jr. is endangering Americans. Amid a measles surge he fired Susan Monarez, installed unqualified advisers, and cut vaccine support. They urge Congress, medical groups, and philanthropy to defend science and public health.
Just now reading: this patient reported drinking ~30 ml apple cider vinegar 3x weekly after meals for the past 4yrs due to its reputed benefits for lowering lipids, particularly in relation to his fatty liver. Which resulted in liver injury, apparently reversible: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Stanford research finds "therapist" chatbots encourage users' schizophrenic delusions & suicidal thoughts futurism.com/stanford-the...
Difference between a husky and border collie... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky
You can read the study here It’s actually pretty positive www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ICYMI: Heathrow Airport has been unveiled as a "major sponsor" of Reform UK's conference this coming weekend. Reform says "big businesses flock to the Party they perceive to be most likely to form the next Government." (Heathrow is majority owned by state-owned sovereign wealth funds - inc. Qatar)
NEW: This morning, DOJ's Drew Ensign confirmed that the last of 76 children the Trump administration tried to put on planes & send to Guatemala in the middle of the holiday weekend are back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the result of a well-timed lawsuit & fast-moving judge.
This is a big deal - especially as Unite has said it has put employers "on notice" about new sexual harassment laws. Unite says the issues were "raised a number of years ago but have now resurfaced." So when did Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham (who appointed him) know about them?
Banning refugees – people whose asylum claims have been processed by a hostile system and found to be legitimate – from bringing family members has one predictable and awful effect: instead of travelling alone, men will bring their wives and children on small boats, and some will drown.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
I think thats the Constitution
Found the Epstein Files
I was pleasantly surprised myself, for the same reason.
That means that if you try and implement policies which block people seeking asylum based on their manner of entry, something which is illegal to do anyway, you want stop people coming, you just force them to be undocumented. It's counterproductive on every level. 9/ #r4today
Sorry, I was assuming you were in the UK ...
Our medical establishment believes in bodily autonomy and medical freedom for raw milk, not vaccines. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rawmilk/
I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through. www.thecut.com/article/broo... >>
A Labor Day classic: www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Victoria Bateman: "As I show in my new book, Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power, women have always been at the heart of the economy, doing everything from building pyramids to mining coal and brewing beer." @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/hist...
NOT a small part. A big, big, big part. I am a glorified audio stenographer, to these fabulous women.
FDR: "Labor Day...belongs to all of us....Anyone who calls it a class holiday challenges the whole concept of American democracy." www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
We in @eupha.bsky.social unequivocally condemn the illegal attempt to dismiss Susan Monarez, CDC Director. Another outrageous attack on science. @standupforscience.bsky.social eupha.org/articles/sta...
If you're considered immunocompromised, you should be able to get Shingrix on the NHS; starting today, it's being made available for immunosuppressed people over the age of 18. Good luck! www.england.nhs.uk/2025/08/shin...
The pre-vaccine era was HELL for kids. We have already failed them on gun safety, we cannot fail them on the issue of vaccines. #VACCINES cause Adults!
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
How do you get this message across to 'the common man' when even the publicly funded BBC seems to be hellbent on delivering Farage's misinformation at every possible opportunity with little or no context or fact checking?
According to the BHF, the public access defibrillators were designed to be used without any training, they issue spoken instructions, & don't allow you to shock anyone who doesn't need it. Idiot-proof, if you don't count the idiots who hide them in cupboards. www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
The Guardian @theguardian.com veröffentlicht alle Namen der in #Gaza getöteten Journalisten*innen:
Maybe the Guardian could repost Timothy Snyder?
Thanks to the Guardian for an accurate headline. Trump has no authority to regulate elections. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Season Finale is up. And it is a corker, if I say so meself.
Dem Governors should make clear they “cherish our public health system as a pillar of American greatness and see vaccines as a miraculous human achievement” — unlike their foes who indulge “in juvenile conspiracy theories disparaging ‘deep state’ medical professionals.” Good @gregsargent.bsky.social
While the U.S. spent a half a billion dollars painting a fence black on their side, Mexico invited artists to paint their side to express their artistic talent. 💗 The contrast between the two countries highlights each country’s priorities.
A bit random, but... I'm on a 2-day first aid course right now and over half the participants are from Norway, Scotland, England, or Germany, and they're all SHOCKED that Canada doesn't have AEDs (portable defibrillators) absolutely everywhere. We do have them in most public buildings (schools,...
The government is holding a massive fire sale for mosquito nets, water towers, printers, iPads, chairs, generators, defibrillators, textbooks, agricultural equipment, motorbikes, mobile health clinics, and more. Until recently, these items supported the foreign-aid projects that are now canceled.
Like I said, some supermarkets, like Morrisons, as well as some charities, food banks, GPs & community centres. Washables won't be suitable for absolutely everybody, but I've known many (inc. myself) for whom they proved far less hassle than tampons. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/wha...
I always found that using a washable made my (heavy!) periods less stressful in all sort of ways. And if they can be acquired for free alongside the other sanitary products, so much the better. I don't see why offering useful advice should necessarily be interpreted as guilt-tripping anybody.
But sanitary products are also available for free in state schools across the UK, at certain supermarkets, & through various charities & GP surgeries. None of which alters the fact that if you can use a washable device, it cuts down on waste. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Though local councils can direct folk as to the various ways they can acquire free sanitary products in their council area, students can get them free at their school/college/university in term time, & the PickUpMyPeriod app can direct them to free stuff in their area play.google.com/store/apps/d...
"All"? The ones currently on sale at Tesco (other supermarkets are available) certainly aren't www.tesco.com/groceries/en...
This Guardian piece perfectly sums up the Kafkaesque reality behind the Right's eternal campaign against immigration; www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian is finally saying it: It’s all about the racism. No “both sides.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Clips of the week: Democrats shred Trump’s dictator dreams #Trump
This by @sundersays.bsky.social now ongoing useful and necessary fact check against the total nonsense most UK papers are still spouting out. As if they still really want to make it happen. I am so sick and tired of it.
“She advocated violence at a moment of national disorder, when the threat of migrant hotels being burned down was very real. How else should the state respond?" Why Lucy Connolly is no 'political prisoner' – despite what she claims
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
I went to work on my lecture over some ramen and the server asked if I worked in healthcare, because she’s a cancer bioinformatician who can’t find a job and is in now in tenuous visa territory. I’m so sad and angry about this country, and it keeps hitting me at the moments I don’t expect it
“The claim that trans people are disproportionately responsible for mass violence in America comes up every few months. It has never been true.” USA Today fact check from their extremism beat reporter www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Norway also doing what it can to hasten the collapse. Closing in on all time record in spending on oil and gas ($38 billion), or about 80% of all domestic investments. That decrease in the next 4-5 years is just dressing up the bride. www.norskpetroleum.no/en/economy/i...
Can the politics attacks on Angela Rayner please not be about tax law, thank you, as tax law is hard to understand and apply, let alone explain. ~ the legal commentary community.
We HAVE "good science on all these things." It simply doesn't say what his twisted mind wants it to say. This podcast episode from The Guardian is about Bob's quest for studies that match his made-up-ness. #maha #youarenojackkennedy #dadisashamedofyou podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Gift 🎁 link. "In interviews, a dozen public health experts, along with seven former high-ranking officials, described the C.D.C. as badly wounded and fast losing its legitimacy. It can still be salvaged, they said, but only if Mr. Kennedy listens to scientists... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. "What could go wrong?" www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
hall of fame legal AI moment: a judge figures out that someone's court submission was generated using AI because it cites "a wholly imaginary judgment for which the plaintiff claims that I am the author."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Kudos to the USA man whose local council told him that having a boat on view ruined the look of the neighbourhood, and was forced to install a fence, and had the fence painted like this as a single digit response to the council.
Have you signed & shared this? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
They never go after the Multi-Millionaires, do they ?
The Trump administration is undertaking an unprecedented strategy to try to undermine our elections. They are doing so by rewriting election rules, targeting election officials, supporting election deniers, and retreating from protecting voting rights. bit.ly/4l1lUPP
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
This is my flag.
It just seems to be a fixed feature of media culture that newsdesks + subs can do "protests anticipated" & "protests continue/swell" but will never put "protests shrink" even when they do So there is a chasm between the framing/headlines & the live reporting of smaller protests than before
People who push Christian nationalism hate it when actual Christians speak up because of course “Christian” really means “white”
This is how the Russian Wagner Group hired British citizens to carry out an attack in London.
The Liberal Democrats said Badenoch should reveal the full story behind her apparent offer. A party spokesperson said: “Kemi Badenoch spent months asking questions of the chancellor regarding her CV. It’s now time for her to answer some of her own.”
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
The word 'normal' has also lost its meaning, if a breadmaking process developed in 1961 is normal, & the one that's been around for millennia (since the origin of agriculture) isn't.
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
Hello, I am furious www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
🔴Reform UK’s Darren Grimes Under Investigation Over Fake AI Asylum Video of Keir Starmer Grimes faces an official complaint to the council after using manipulated imagery and attacking asylum seekers as ‘deviants’ bylinetimes.com/2025/08/29/r...
Interesting to see that the Daily Mail has started to push back on some of the random acts of racism that have accompanied the asylum seeker protests. See below, but also their reporting on the Scottish girl with the axe. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
With 41 (68%) of 60 arrested at a Bristol demo having been reported for domestic abuse. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
As if to illustrate this point, 41% of 899 arrested at 29 demos & riots in response to the 2024 Southport murders had previously been reported for domestic abuse (ABH, GBH, stalking, breach of restraint & non-molestation orders, controlling coercive behaviour...) www.theguardian.com/society/2025....
Spectacular article, all the major insights captured, but an early one here into how sincerely these men care about protecting our women and girls.
one of the most concerning things about Reform's polling is that we'd be looking at dozens of other MPs of the calibre of James McMurdock, a piece of human pond scum who served a custodial sentence for assaulting his ex-girlfriend and is now laughing it up with the Nazis over in the other place
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
DC's night patrols watch over the city to ensure that people are protected from state violence, false arrest, abduction, and harassment. Failing that, they document the occupation forces' constitutional violations, write Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano.
It might only take one more Tory government ...
In the wake of new federal guidelines limiting the groups for whom new COVID-19 vaccines are approved, the New Mexico Department of Health plans to take action to remove "barriers to the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine."
