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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today our government ensured 10 sick children arrived in the UK for treatment. With hospitals decimated in Gaza this was a life-saving effort. But, for those still trapped, Medical Aid for Palestinians works on the ground. I’m running a half marathon for them: www.justgiving.com/page/cat-smi...

Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, & trigger the growth of secondary cancers. There is now compelling medical evidence to this effect. Read the full story on our website: buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have just submitted an FOI to the Home Office demanding FULL TRANSPARENCY on Palantir’s role in tomorrow’s “Brit Card” mandatory digital ID scheme 🚨 WHY THIS MATTERS: Palantir already has its surveillance tentacles deep in UK infrastructure with 24+ government contracts including: Thread

www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica... Cardiac experts are saying that heart complaints are common after COVID infections and that Covid vaccines are needed to protect people. @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social Why isn’t that happening? Why are even 13 million CV not getting them. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

"I don't know anyone with long covid!" Another reason for that is that disabled people often just disappear from your life and you don't even realize it. You don't know anyone? Maybe you knew them before and now they just don't have the energy to be in contact. They're hidden, because

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Fascinating anecdote about General Motors and sperm whale oil in this article in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

me: i’d like to show off my arms clerk: okay me: and i want to look snazzy clerk: gotcha me: but also ward off vampires clerk: wait right here

An interestig read: ‘Food forests are everything’: creating edible landscapes helps nature thrive in Afro-descendant lands www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“I’m determined to put in the infrastructure that Nigel Farage will be able to use to deport everyone he dislikes”

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life - Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as 7 of 9 planetary boundaries now transgressed #climatecrisis Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We're at a turning point. Since losing Co-Founder Ondine Sherwood in March ‘25, we need your help to continue our vital work. We’ve launched a funding appeal to hire our first paid team member to keep fighting for those with #LongCovid. Can you help secure our future? Donate today: shorturl.at/J5aan

“Immunity debt” doesn’t exist, but immune damage does. Children are sicker now than pre-pandemic – many with disabling chronic illnesses. This cycle of harm can only stop when we accept reality – there’s no off ramp without cleaning classroom air. www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Healthy indoor air is a human right! To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need organizations, universities, schools, healthcare facilities, communities, etc, to sign the document below. Please spread the word! Global Pledge for #CleanTheAir: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...

If you or someone you have met does have symptoms of Covid/a respiratory virus, please do the decent, patriotic thing and keep it to yourself. Unless you are absolutely unable to do so, please isolate until your symptoms have been gone for a couple of days. (1/3)

You will probably have noticed that many people around you are starting to go down with flu-like symptoms. The official NHS data shows that there is very little influenza or common cold virus circulating at present. (1/3)

Covid infection levels in England have again risen sharply over the last week, as have other Covid measures. Infection levels are around a fifth higher, and the overall risk level remains High. A thread 🧵 buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...

Concerns have been raised about a new Covid strain that is transmitting far more quickly than previous strains, with one symptom that can go "easily missed."

I guess we should thank Donald Trump for making the relationship between fossil fuels and fascism explicit.

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

A lot of rightful anger at the harmful anti science happening in the US. But what if I told you there were similar flaws at the heart of the UK and NHS? A flawed study called the PACE trial was conducted on people with ME/CFS in 2010 and the results guide many in the NHS to this day

🚨NEWS🚨 £24.1 billion in benefits will go unclaimed in 2025/26 says new Policy in Practice report. That is 12x the government's planned benefit cuts. The highest unclaimed amounts are found in: 👉universal credit 👉council tax support 👉carer’s allowance www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/%C2%A32...

Farages political skills are normally brighter than this Either he's starting to believe facebook/twitter are the real world or he's under tremendous pressure from the cranks to start making "being a crank" official Reform policy Both are disasters for him and you'd hope his opponents notice

1. Superb article by Tess-Finch Lees published today. 'Six years into forever-Covid, the evidence is unequivocal. Coronavirus is an airborne, disabling, neuroinvasive vascular disease that can damage children’s immunity, blood vessels and organs,... Link in next post

I hear endlessly (including right now on the radio) that “the new consensus” is that Covid was “almost certainly” caused by a lab leak. This might be a political “consensus”, led by the same White House that says tylenol caused autism. But it’s not the scientific one.

Yeah honestly I don’t think we have felt the maximum impact of this pandemic yet. The people who died of the acute infection are going be nothing compared to how the disabling effects will keep rippling out for decades

We are all rightly condemning Trump and his coterie for spreading false health information but, right here in the UK, the NHS is telling equally ludicrous porkies about Covid. Think of that when your local hospital invites you to wash your hands to stop an airborne virus.

My new essay on how women end up laundering the failures of fascism here! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood review – long Covid from the inside

To save the ocean, the easiest thing to do is to stop paying for its inhabitants to be killed. 🎨 Just Comics

4/ Why avoid #Reinfections? Because #COVID likely exhausts T cells & "Exhausted T cells lose their ability to fight off viruses or cancer" (Circa 2022): @fitterhappieraj.bsky.social @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

BBC push alert tomorrow: ‘The Rapture is here. Why this could be good news for Reform UK’

Opinion: While the recognition by some of Israel’s longest-standing western allies is a historic step, it's largely symbolic and will not change the conditions on the ground in the Palestinian territories, writes the FT's editorial board. www.ft.com/content/407a...

I’m so sick of seeing Farage and co on TV all the bloody time. They now know that if thy hold a press conference on any day ending in a ‘y’, they will be given endless coverage and broadcasting hours. All this for a party that could fit all of its MPs into a hatchback car.

Their daughter, Gladys, later married a descendant of French Huguenots called Harry Farage... and Gladys and Harry are the grandparents of this man. Maybe someone should ask him who of his ancestors he'd have liked to deport. 3/3

“Bringing Britain into line with other countries such as the United Arab Emirates” is not a sentence I want to see.

Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

My new piece in @the-independent.com on the UK's tech prosperity deal: The deal does not only leave the UK even more dependent on US tech companies, it also once again shows how out of step the country is with tech sovereignty debates in the rest of Europe. www.independent.co.uk/voices/starm...

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

We can't fly *and* survive. #ClimateEmergency

Must see: The Covid Contracts, ITV. Exposes corruption & profiteering that led to 1000’s of deaths, including my mum who died of covid because her wonderful carers had inadequate PPE. Thank you @russellscott1.bsky.social et al. @cbffjuk.bsky.social @longcovidjustice.org

"Basic income is bold but necessary” Dr @ianrobsons.bsky.social, a community development worker with 30+ years in working-class communities shares how #BasicIncome could transform people's lives in Blyth, Northumberland. 📖 Basic Income OUT NOW: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/basic-...

💙 Call for contributions 💙 For the book about #ME & #LongCovid we'd love to include real voices from the community about experiences with Drs The form is short & anon Every story matters 💙 forms.gle/jSCvZN39xAum...