These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions. What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.

1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness

The Trump Action Tracker has an update! Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions. www.trumpactiontracker.info? 1/2

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

The next three posts on my free Substack about the first months of the Covid pandemic in the UK cover the culture and people behind the flawed strategy. Here is the first: open.substack.com/pub/thesocia...

Imagine paying the slightest bit of attention to this drivel

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

Update(s) from Serbia: the School of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad has been overtaken by the police, who have evicted the students occupying the building since the start of the student-led movement for social change. The police are now attacking citizens who came to support students.

Exactly. Public health trumps any benefits from AI in hospital management and diagnosis

The US under RF Kennedy and Trump is back in the eighteenth century for childhood infection control.

This is tragic - please please vaccinate your children against measles! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... here is Indie SAGE report on preventable childhood diseases - including measles! Screenshot from report below. please share! independentsage.org/wp-content/u... 1/2

Good morning with good news: Arizona's solar generation skyrocketed 49% in April 2025 to 2002 GWh, up from 1342 GWh in April 2024. Solar generated 25.1% of AZ's electricity in April 2025. Wow! AZ April Solar Share 2025: 25.1% 2024: 16.6% 2023: 13.5% 2021: 11.1% 2019: 9.6% 2015: 6.4% #energysky

Dismantled judiciary powers, capture of the Supreme Court, a private army of masked ICE officials terrorising ethnic minorities, massive personal corruption, oligarch bias, militarism without Congress approval, complicity with Putin. In just 6m the US moves totalitarian. Scary.

Dont be fooled by RFK on chronic disease and obesity. RFK's focus on food additives is a red herring. US citizen food intake is up to 73% ultra-processed! Low fibre, sugar +++, fructose, trans-fats, low omega 3s, emulsified and heated. Addictive + obesogenic. bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What remains of US aid under Musk/Trump? How can Republicans support an 89% cut in funds for maternal + child health? A 92% cut for reproductive health? A 93/94% cut for nutrition, agriculture and basic education?

A study that underscores the contribution of women’s groups’ presence and mobilising activities to influence Ebola response strategies in Liberia. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Labour, not good! 'On current policies the child poverty rate is projected to rise from 31% in 2023-24 to 34% by 2029-30. Targeted policy changes such as ending the two-child limit can significantly improve the outlook for lower-income households.' www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Here’s a non-X link to read about it: www.thejournal.ie/us-visa-chan...

My thoughts on the Mounjaro rollout www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Musk’s destruction of USAID sentenced millions of HIV sufferers to lose medication. Now RF Kennedy commits a crime against the world’s children and pulls all US support for global vaccines (GAVI). Structural violence based on anti-science and lies. Utterly shameful Trump.

The USA is now starting an Orwellian scrutiny of your feely x.com/rshereme/sta...

Trans fat: in margarine, vegetable shortening, ghee, fried and baked goods eg crackers, biscuits and pies. Baked + fried street + restaurant foods often contain industrially produced trans fat. TF is also found naturally in meat and dairy foods from ruminant animals (e.g. cows, sheep, goats).

‼️ Kulldorff is getting rich from anti-HPV vaccine litigation: “At a deposition in October, Kulldorff testified that the plaintiffs paid him $400 an hour & he had already billed for ~ $33,000 in legal work on the case through late September. He said he also received a $4,000 retainer in the NC case”

Alex Padilla condemns forcible removal: ‘If this is how they respond to a senator … imagine what they’re doing across the country’ “If you dissent against Donald Trump and openly disagree with the government, then you are not safe in our country.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

My latest SubStack post on the East Asia response to the developing Covid pandemic and the nine principles that guided their success. open.substack.com/pub/thesocia...

Trade policy has entered the Trump-Musk war

Bannon is urging Trump to deport Musk www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

The grifters and sycophants who are destroying US science and medicine will be held accountable when the Trump administration is over.

‘The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The consortia for H.I.V./AIDS vaccine development and immunology was reviewed by N.I.H. leadership, which does not support it moving forward,” said a senior official at the National Institutes of Health who asked not to be identified.”

Allemagne : 12 blessés dans une attaque au couteau à la gare de Hambourg, plusieurs dans un état critique

As the US government slashes Harvard’s funding, Nature has learnt that researchers at the university have lost nearly 1,000 grants worth more than US$2.4 billion. https://go.nature.com/4jg8Sxa

My X thread posted by Christina.

Continuing my analysis of the huge public health failure of Covid19, I address the historical contest between the social protection of negative freedoms and the modern biomedical model of health as medical interventions within a neoliberal order. open.substack.com/pub/thesocia...

I wrote about Lee Zeldin's assault on environmental regulation, with special emphasis on the endangerment finding. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Five years since 'lockdown' began. Here's what we @independentsage.bsky.social said about the need for Find, Test, Trace, Isolate And *Support* at the time independentsage.org/report/consu...

Do join my Substack on issues related to COVID-19, climate change, commercial exploitation of children, and culture. open.substack.com/pub/thesocia...

My first post of many on Bluesky