“Lifting 2.4 million people off food stamps” is an odd way to talk about lifting food stamps off 2.4 million people.

Another beautiful summer’s morning in New Zealand! Fresh coffee, the sound of cicadas, and threats from the President of the United States of “powerful” and “obnoxious” tariffs.

Is my life better because corporations can predict what I’m going to want and provide it to me before I know it myself? Um… Hard No! Turns out the choosing and anticipation were the most human parts of the process.

I can see why the Supreme Court is taking its time to issue its tariff ruling. The fate of a nation depends on it. And that’s just Iran.

“RFK Jr is right about some things”. Yeah, or to put it another way: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!

Just to simplify the task for the US Government: you can safely assume that EVERY visitor from overseas has said or written SOMETHING disparaging about Donald Trump at some point in the last five years, so it may be simpler just to close your border.

Auckland Chamber of Commerce boss Simon Bridges is complaining that “international businesspeople see New Zealanders as ‘life stylers’ more interested in their work-life balance than in growing the economy” and I for one plead GUILTY AS CHARGED!

In no other modern democratic country would this be possible. Only a perfect storm of ignorance and stupidity in the United States could have accomplished this. 😳👇

I'm seeing reports that Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school and everyone's shocked. Hang on, what?

“We can’t tax billionaires because they’ll take their money elsewhere” isn’t an argument against taxing billionaires, it’s an argument in favour of international co-operation.

The American conception of “freedom” overlooks the fact that if you’re dead from a gunshot wound or an infectious disease you have no freedom whatsoever and your pursuit of happiness is in even worse shape.

Jesus Christ, how Bad is this Bunny? They're sending in ICE?? to police the half time entertainment at a sports event??!?

Grateful to live in a country where we're famous for the ratio of sheep to people, rather than the ratio of guns to people.

RFK Jr is in danger of getting his long sought after controlled trials for vaccines! West Coast states are forming their own alternative to the CDC to ensure best practice public health. Meanwhile Florida is providing the "control arm" by actively discouraging its citizens from getting vaccines!

Retract RFK Jr!

Anyone willing to hazard a guess as to how many people have died/are dying/will die because of the policies of RFK Jr?

The reason parliamentary democracies don’t have the type of problem the United States has right now is that a Prime Minister serves under permanent threat of removal from office.

Night of the Long Syringes.

At least during the Dark Ages they didn’t know better. What’s our excuse? 🤔

RFK Jr: “I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...you see tell it from their faces, from their body movements, and from their lack of social connection.” Dude, THEY JUST GOT OFF A LONG HAUL FLIGHT!

I’d send you a care package America, but the New Zealand Post Office won’t carry it because they can’t work out the tariffs.

#TaylorSwift is engaged? Not the Breaking News from America I was hoping to wake up to, but I’ll take it!

Major media once thought a Trump dictatorship was impossible, so they didn't warn the public about it. Major media now see the dictatorship arriving, so they're afraid to warn the public about it.

This is an industry that isn’t used to hearing the word “NO”. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

When we get infrastructure right we create the conditions for a city where young people can afford their first home, families don't have to choose between rent and groceries, and businesses can attract talent because people can actually afford to live here 🏗️🧱🪛

If you want to understand the problem of modernity, ask yourself this: HOW MANY SELFIE-STICKS HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED AND HOW MANY NOW REST IN A LANDFILL???

Actual top headline in New Zealand right now: "NZ Post suspends deliveries to the US as Trump's tariffs loom" www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I JUST WENT OUTSIDE IN MY BIG LIBERAL CITY AND WAS MURDERED BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS EVERYWHERE

Live your life so that children don’t burst into tears when they find out you’re real.

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Can you imagine if Biden had said this?!? NY Times would have run him out of town!

So far the alternative to Woke History sounds a lot like Fake History.

If we’re going to run government like a business could we at least make it a successful one?

Dems: You may need to be willing to GO DOWN FIGHTING! Because you’re going down anyway if you don’t fight.

Zelenskyy could wear his pyjamas to the White House and he wouldn’t go down in my estimation.

Novo Nordisk is lowering the price of Ozempic to a slightly less exorbitant level for some patients in response to competition. The reason? “it’s all of us looking at the same unmet needs and trying to help as many people as possible.” Pure charity! How about that? 😂

Marketing your cheap consumer product as "space age technology" doesn't really cut it any more. That could mean it was invented in 1957.

A 6-month trial of a 4-day workweek (with no pay cut) across multiple countries led to significant improvements in burnout, job satisfaction, and both mental and physical health. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Universal Basic Income that help the poor and generate economic growth from the ground up? We’ve no way of knowing that’ll work! Better we invest in artificial intelligence that is currently consuming all our power to create a John Cena lookalike that tells pornographic stories to children.

To be fair to Trump when he said he’d end the war in 24 hours he didn’t say which 24 hours.

Not sure it’s a great idea to mix the technology of the Scientific Age with the intellectual outlook of the Dark Ages, but I guess we’re about to find out 🤷🏻‍♂️

Trump is right that Washington is overrun by bloodthirsty criminals - they should all resign or be impeached.

I’ll assume a sub-editor chose this headline, but the opioid settlements are NOT WINDFALLS! They are the return of wealth wrongfully taken from communities, and paid in cash and human suffering.

In the end, we're all "self-taught".

The absurdity of the idea that private sector jobs are “real jobs” and public sector jobs are just "dead weight" is easily demonstrated by the fact that organisations, and even entire sectors, and can be swapped between public and private ownership with the stroke of a legislative pen.

If I could offer one piece of advice to science writers (as a science reader) it would be work out whether your book/article/piece is for a general audience or an academic audience and DO NOT try and straddle that divide. #scicomm

Trump can fire the statisticians and fudge the numbers all he likes. Americans WILL NOTICE rising prices and they WILL NOTICE if they can't find a job!

Finally! A one page explanation of the US health sector!

It’s easier to assume that anyone advocating for vaccines is simply bought by Big Pharma, rather than face the more complex reality: pharmaceutical companies can behave badly at times, and still sometimes align with genuine public health goals.