I've uncovered the full tariff equation

April 1st: The only day of the year when people pause for critical thought instead of automatically accepting what they read on the internet!

Imagine European security now if Ukrainians didn't hold the line in the East. Europe would be on the brink of a full scale war. Maybe it's time Europeans started to appreciate the sacrifices Ukrainians have made and are making to keep Europe safe? The least we can do is to say "thank you".

Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.

It is understandable that you feel unwell, for you live in sickening times: the state of the world will nauseate you, the fear for the future will exhaust you, the spreading viruses will infect you, in these sickening times what would be worrisome is if you felt fine.

“Trump made clear his conversation with Putin would be focused on what Russia would retain in any cease-fire with Ukraine. He will, in essence, be negotiating over how large a reward Russia will receive for its 11 years of open aggression against Ukraine.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

The US under Trump is now an absolute Hell No on countries I'd travel to. I have no desire to spend an indeterminate amount of time in a for-profit detention center because Marco Rubio dislikes some social media post of mine.

A Canadian, a Brit & two Germans were detained by ICE & held indefinitely These are just the stories that make the news (likely in part because they’re white) Stop traveling to the U.S. Don’t assume you’re safe because you’re cishet, white, privileged, “there for work”. No one is safe.

When you think about how original safety tests for cars didn't take into account women's sizes, or how PPE at beginning of covid-19 was designed for male bodies, you realise it's not just about good science. It's also the difference between life and death. Great piece by @ccriadoperez.bsky.social

List of companies to boycott (together with Tesla and, well, anything american these days)

Russians have not changed in 81 years.

4/ Here we come to the principle of Trump's Razor: 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙥𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩. The stupidest and therefore likeliest explanation in this case is simply that Trump is obsessed with arbitrarily big numbers.

This is way cheaper than appeasing Putin and Trump.

Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job. /2

Seriously??? Funniest thing I've seen all day I thank my Canadian Friends

Fight between bald eagle and Canada goose in Burlington bay 'very symbolic,' says photographer: Eagle gave up and spared the goose after 20-minute faceoff, says Mervyn Sequeira www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Yes Minister. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-U...

🚨 NEW: 10 More Times Jay Bhattacharya, Trump's Pick for NIH Director, was Dead Wrong About COVID-19 A deeper review into the many pitiful errors and moral depravity that disqualify Jay Bhattacharya from serving as NIH Director. 👇 READ, SHARE WIDELY, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/10-more-ti...

No studies that come out of Nazi America can be trusted while the Nazi regime is in power you have to understand that now. It will all be pseudoscience.

so this is the plot of Ocean’s 14

And so it starts

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

By now you’ve probably heard CDC investigators say “Asymptomatic Cases of Bird Flu in Humans Are Flying Under the Radar,” but you need not worry about hearing more of this frightening news, for those investigators laboring at the CDC are all getting fired.

Aa, the Empire of America has been born. Forget 4 July and anything you though you knew about your rights.

We saw all these factors play out in the ideological bent to science in Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. The stability of recent decades has left scientists unprepared for when their independence is revealed to be so fragile with few if any legal protections. 20/24

The Trump plan for Ukraine is like the Trump plan for Gaza, Greenland or Panama: ownership, exploitation and extraction. America is no longer our ally, it is turning into an exploitative imperial power. archive.is/P30En

Some words of Winston Churchill on the eve of WWII, sum up this week's shameful kowtowing of the US leadership to Putin's criminal regime.

Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.

“COVID-19 may have subtle, yet significant, effects on brain function that are not always captured by standard cognitive tests… Distinct patterns [that] are similar to those seen in much older adults…“ www.psypost.org/new-neurosci...

New study in Nature finds no such thing as natural immunity to covid after the arrival of omicron. Pre omicron, infection provided 80% protection against re-infection one year later. This falls to under 5% at one year with omicron

Covid and the thyroid ⚠️ A review of 53 studies sheds light on thyroid dysfunction in COVID-19-related disorders and #LongCovid, "underscoring the complex nature of SARS-CoV-2 infection and its far-reaching impacts on human health."

Let us remember the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, in which the USA launched a trade war against multiple countries via tariffs. Other nations retaliated with their own tariffs. This led to a tragic decline in US GDP, bank failures, and soaring unemployment. Sound familiar?

American health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦 We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

CDC To Concentrate On Sharing Cat Photos

If you are a person who loves being fit and healthy and toned, I can tell you that it would probably be better for you to eat a whole large pizza every single day of your life than to get long covid.

So, #PaulKrugman gets it right. Donald Trump wants you to die. And you can say hey, this is about establishing control, exercising power in a new Administration, blah-blah-blah. The end result is human suffering and yes, death. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Amidst al the chaos and corruption, there's at least a ray of light in seeing more attention paid to the negligent incompetence that threw away our chance to stop the pandemic, and led to much of what we're facing today. www.scientificamerican.com/article/book...

Study finds acute Covid associated with a 50% ⬆️ in car crashes, vaccination was not protective "The odds ratio of car crashes associated with COVID-19 was comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder"

In the world of RFK Jr and his fanatical, ignorant, and dangerous followers, placebos might even be banned because of the adverse events being reported.

I try my best not to be superstitious, really, I try, but I cannot shake the feeling that we should understand the bald eagle in Illinois that recently died of bird flu as a very bad omen.

“People who had gotten COVID-19 at least twice experienced higher rates of short and long-term health effects, including heart & brain issues, compared to those only infected once.” Rather than “building immunity”, repeat Covid infections are slowly killing us. #LongCovid time.com/6553340/covi...

All right, where (and when) can I buy a waterfilter using this? When I asked some companies for such a filter 7 years ago, they thought I was a nutcase

My first thought too. C19 damage first, malaria later, and voila, another mysterious illness killing mostly kids. Wouldn't be surprised if soon we hear about strawberries and dogs (or whatever they have there)

Just read a biologist saying that apparently, for some time, biologists thought the wombat would actually form the turds into square shape manually. Like turn around and go "pat pat pat". I will no longer be surprised about the stupidity of things biologists and medical professionals say.

Poor kitties. Stupid us.