Most counties in the US are losing people. While out-migration is a factor, new research suggests that falling birth rates are a major part of this phenomenon. Once people move out, they aren't being replaced. Read more: www.upjohn.org/research-hig... #Econsky

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#MemeForToday ….

Ah, one of the ancient classics…

Hove 😎 🎺

And this You’ve got to BE intelligent and know how to use it for AI to function remotely safely. bsky.app/profile/iris...

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Whether it's Zohran Mamdani or Claudia Sheinbaum, progressives are finding their voice around the world 🌍

Social justice and environmental justice are one and the same thing.

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We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵

Disruption 😔

Every MP should join this group.

Before my Question Time appearance, there was an attempt to sabotage the movement we’re building. But the stakes are too high. With inequality rising, child poverty deepening, migrants under attack & an emboldened far-right, we must keep fighting. It’s socialism or barbarism.

The Big Pharma fairytale …

A few more details about Michael Prescott, the corporate lobbyist behind the “BBC bias” memo 👇🏻👇🏻

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk Points out that immigration numbers are “going off a cliff as we speak.” The Home Secretary is targeting 4% of the current total. (70% of whom are genuine asylum seekers). I say Starmer is voluntarily marching onto Farage’s territory and alienating the decent. 👇

Disruption 😔

“When the CIA makes an assessment of whether someone is likely to want to spy for them, to risk everything and betray their country in order to pass secrets to America, they talk about “MICE”…namely: Money, Ideology, Compromise and Ego.“ Which applied to Gill?

I wish the media would ask Mahmood personally about her own immigration history (i.e. how it is that someone whose family came here as immigrants can do this with a straight face).

I see that Mahmood, McSweeney and Glasman (who admires Steve Bannon) are continuing to merry go round of cruelty depicted on our current front page

She and her parents were immigrants themselves for four years... Presumably economic ones too, the worst kind, I hear

'Billions of pounds to be spent on developing #nuclear #SMR small modular reactors at Wylfa on Anglesey would be better spent on insulating Welsh homes and on #RenewableEnergy technologies that can generate electricity cheaper and far quicker' nation.cymru/news/nuclear...

The data …. ….. @ourworldindata.org

On the mathematics of Covid-19 and excess mortality in Sweden, and why their pandemic response might not have been quite as successful as first billed. Great Substack post from @adamjkucharski.bsky.social

I was watching the video of the German minister for health Prof. Karl Lauterbach again this morning. Now the situation is far from perfect there either but given the silence on COVID at least one man had the guts to get up and tell the population it was causing neurological damage and heart damage.🧵

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

Sheer cruelty on display in the Home Secretary's proposed new asylum laws, which could see refugee families with children suddenly uprooted and deported after spending years rebuilding their lives in Britain. Shameful capitulation to Reform's agenda at the expense of the most vulnerable.

Might not be tomorrow, but it will happen. See: 3/3 ca.investing.com/news/stock-m...

The White Coats ….

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"Britain has failed to base its economic strategy on what it’s good at - tradeable services, science and tech, universities, niches in advanced manufacturing. And since Brexit, it has been actively undermining its economic model, which is founded on openness to trade, ideas and people."

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🛑 The only thing that Labour are 'doubling down' on is their own climate hypocrisy. 🌏 Want bold #ClimateAction? ✅️ Join the Green Party today > Join.greenparty.org.uk #COP30

Hey Labour Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety? We're still over here 👋

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Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers. "The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."

It appears that our Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has been inspired by Kirsti Noem - and finds her to have an “under appreciated intellect and eye for detail” and is now following her lead. Isn’t that just utterly horrifying. Of all Starmer’s picks for cabinet, she has to be the worst.

Playing Cupid wasn't part of the plan. But I'll take it! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Never let this happen! Keep calling them out on the lies no matter how big or small the lie is!