Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed." Russia in Ukraine:

The takedown of the US system of childhood vaccines which worked exceedingly well for decades for preventing diseases and major adverse outcomes

Big Bottom looking up towards Ditchling Beacon #sussex

This guy is still a Fellow of the Royal Society. The system is truly broken.

Check out this page: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

The course on Psychology for Crowd Safety Management is designed for all professionals who work in crowd/ event safety. More details below www.sussex.ac.uk/research/lab...

🦁 'Roar: How Patients Fought to get Heard' is a powerful chapter that describes the history of AIDS activism and the shift of paradigm created for the patient voice. @drrageshri.bsky.social discusses the lessons other patient activists can learn from HIV/AIDS activists Key is collaboration 💙📚

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

Scandalous

Could this possibly be true in the UK? Fast food ‘Anti Depressants’ ++ for people who aren’t depressed etc etc

The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. But who benefits from those riches? Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%. See the problem?

The last thing we need..... gift link wapo.st/4jmm2ZT by @ddiamond.bsky.social

Mental health conditions are over diagnosed theconversation.com/are-mental-h...

@dailymail.co.uk coverage of study of antidepressants and sudden cardiac death: 'another shocking example of an adverse effect that's taken too long to come out even though we had good reason to suspect that these drugs are cardiotoxic' www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

Mental health conditions are over diagnosed theconversation.com/are-mental-h...

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

“I got DOGEd” will go down in American history. Perhaps the most ignominious in the country’s near 250-years.

This study is important because although effects were small, they were independent of depression and there was a dose effect. It showed increased risk of cognitive decline, death and fractures associated with antidepressant use in people with dementia bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

This flew under the radar, but Trump revoked a minimum wage hike for companies that contract with the government. An estimated 390,000 workers will now see significant pay cuts. It's not surprising that Trump's populism is fake, but it's hardly ever been more clear.

Having already spent over $7M backing the right-wing candidate in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election, Elon Musk's Super PAC is now offering Wisconsin voters $100 each to sign its petition against "activist judges." This is what a broken campaign finance system looks like.

The anti-Musk poster campaign in London: a growing backlash London's public transport network has become a canvas for unauthorised posters targeting Elon Musk @stephenking.bsky.social @everyonehateselon.bsky.social @gemmagould.bsky.social

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

#LongCovid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New levels of stupid reached...🤦‍♂️🙄 This could severely hamper any chance we have of limiting the damage done by a potential H5N1 pandemic. Nuts, self-destructive, and nuts again 🤦‍♂️🤬 finance.yahoo.com/news/health-...

Is the message in re moving this wonderful mural that black lives don’t matter? Every day a new outrage 😱😡

Wow shocking data @bmj.com: “In 2023, 302 black candidates applied to anaesthetics, with only five offers made, meaning only 1.66% of applicants were successful. For white candidates, 47% of applications were successful.”

When I got Long Covid, I was 38 and healthy. If you are anything like I was then, it is hard to understand how bad Long Covid is. I think that we all have an instinct to just… look away. But, please, it is important that you look. #LongCovidAwarenessDay

Not all psychology is good. Far from it. This guy calls himself a “business psychologist”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📣 1/2. The countdown is on!! Join us in 1 hour (2pm GMT) for our Community Strategy Launch! Featuring the #LongCovid Support Community Banner & keynote speeches from our Trustees @margaretohara.bsky.social, @daltmann.bsky.social & Aimie Cole. Link below ⬇️ #LongCovidAwarenessDay

So for all of the Christian right’s words about the sanctity of life, they’ve all signed up for killing millions of children as an act of public policy. WWJD?

A very Happy 15th of March to one and all.

Maybe the crisis in seabirds with multi-organ failure from exposure to plastics will help raise awareness of their serious hazard and lead to action science.org/doi/10.1126/...

whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

"But what Trump is doing is not reform, it is subversion. And it could not come at a worse time." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social @newyorker.com

You can no longer order free COVID tests from the government. Despite still having $500 million worth of COVID tests stockpiled, covidtests.gov is closed.

'Despite the overwhelming science finding that COVID-19 impacts nearly every organ system and documenting the risk of reinfection, our federal government and health agency leaders deny and minimize the disease'

Another unvaccinated child dies from measles, a fully preventable disease, and only the second child to die from measles in the US in the past 22 years

In the US alone, each year, norovirus causes ~20 million acute gastroenteritis cases, 70,000 hospitalizations, up to 800 deaths, at a cost of ~$10.6 billion annually. An pill vaccine shows considerable promise in a clinical trial, establishing mucosal immunity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My interview about my new book with Nick Fortino for the Psychology Is podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicP...

The number of obese children and teenagers in the UK will rise by more than half by 2050, new research suggests, with children as young as five much more likely to be affected. app.independent.co.uk/2025/03/03/2...

Hero

The U.S. pressured Ukraine to withdraw its European-backed U.N. resolution demanding an immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine. But Ukraine refused to pull its draft resolution. So the US voted... with Russia, Iran, Israel & North Korea... against Ukraine. Now read that again.

This is how our government has been corrupted:  1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.  2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.  3) Donors make a huge profit.  4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

Yeshi Jampa in the great Taste Tibet resturant Magdalen Rd #oxford

Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings - Idiocy! electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

This looks timely