Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water. There are no warnings on bottles. Either companies do not test their products, or conceal the harms to boost profits and exec pay. What do regulators do?

So much of this is also true for the UK. Let's hope both countries - and others in the same position - can find a way through.

A year ago, U of T’s Laura Tozer was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...

As a Jew this saddens me beyond words. I pray for justice for the Nassars and that they will overcome. Reading this really hurts

Please ask your MP to add their name to this Parliamentary call for Government to lead a prime-time televised emergency briefing to the nation. Experts are clear: climate and nature breakdown threaten the UK’s security, food supply, health and economy. #NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing

Is this a joke @washghost1 asks? Gaining 1million views, and a comments section full of FUMING right wingers frothing at the mouth! No, it’s not a joke It’s not a thing It is entirely made up to elicit exactly that reaction (This is a twitter thing but the moral of the story holds here!) 🧵 1/7

Excellent analysis, as always from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social. "This is not politics as normal. And we can’t treat any of it as politics as normal." broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-message-...

#geoveille After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up - Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanats

Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward

Beautiful

Oh my God it just keeps getting worse. This #RFK sponsored #hepatitis vaccine trial in #Guinea-Bissau is being run by people whose research methods have been totally discredited. This isn’t research, it’s gun-for-hire antivax nonsense. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UK’s largest proposed datacentre is understating the scale of its planned water use. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Get. Them. All. (And what an occasion to clean house of voices that should not have had platforms for ages regardless.) And even if there had been no conflict of interest: People who rape children or are complicit in the machinery of child rape should have no public voice ever. Period.

Today is International Migrants Day. The immigration debate has become increasingly toxic - so we asked the public what they think. Watch and share if you agree 🔁

Yesterday in @commonshealth.bsky.social we were joined by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting. This is what we asked him...

2025: Labour's Steve Reed, "There have been no findings that the outcome of any election to date were affected by malign foreign interference" 2020: Stuart Hosie, "The UK government have actively avoided looking for evidence of Russian interference" Labour as pathetic as Conservatives

More evidence that the Labour manifesto really should have been labelled "Change? Fuck that, there's money to be made."

A letter to the Daily Telegraph

Good morning and happy Sunday, my loves. Enjoy some cheeky and occasionally foul mouthed, little angels. 🤣

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

My new article. 'De facto #nuclear deregulation' www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/de-fa...

Remember Cameron's EU tour before the Referendum to secure the migrants benefit brake....

Good to know UK government only wants to allow moderately inhumane and degrading treatment. Only brief episodes of torture (applied with politeness and a smile maybe)? Will they publish a guidance manual? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

It's just f**king relentless. Can't they understand? The orangutans and the rainforest ecosystem of which they're a part *IS* the gold.

They threw apple crumble at the display case; police have taken them into custardy...

“I know a disabled person who takes their Motability car on holiday” is an absolute zinger of a comeback. Famously, disabled people only go to the supermarket and hospital. I’d personally put a ban on mainland Europe.

Nigel Farage publicly promoted cryptocurrency Tether, and then received a massive donation from one of its major investors. The whole thing stinks. That’s why @LisaSmartMP.bsky.social has written to the electoral commission calling for an urgent investigation. ⬇️

Thank you. www.tom-cox.com

🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Follow along with us this week for daily #CircularEconomyStories, especially on YouTube and Instagram. Learn more: green-alliance.org.uk/publication/...

Just spend a couple of hours with the hilarious @mattgreencomedy.com Thanks Matt for a good evenings entertainment. BTW the dodgy jokes were fine.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise." But sure, keep basing your life on the idea that it's fine to get reinfected annually.

Chinese fishing firm Kaichuang reports nearly 200% increase in krill catch in Antarctica with profits jumping 270% Absolutely disgusting they are taking essential food from the whales and penguins and leaving them to starve www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-...

🇷🇺 Putin’s goal was to weaken the EU 🇪🇺 🇷🇺 Russia is known to fund far-right groups in Europe. 🇬🇧 Brexit - part of the plan to weaken the EU. 💸 Gill - associate of Farage was jailed for taking Russian bribes 🪙 £9 million gifted to Reform by billionaire - links to crypto currency used to launder 🇷🇺 💸

I’ve teared up during races before out of gratitude that my legs were working. Today it was out of gratitude that there is still beauty around us, and there are so many people who are fighting and are already laying the groundwork to rebuild after the Trump era. Keep fighting, fam.

🤦COVID continues to exert a serious toll on national health. The virus can affect multiple organs. 🤷Meanwhile, the UK restricts access to COVID vaccines, despite their vital role in reducing severe illness and protecting public health. 💉 #LongCOVID #Ventilation petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

"An ambitious scheme to restore England’s nature over coming decades has been undermined after the government inserted a clause allowing it to terminate contracts with only a year’s notice" Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Go Zack

Get your jab

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK. UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS. The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?

Finally someone says it.

How Vladimir Putin murdered Dawn Sturgess in Salisbury... the inquiry releases its report. www.ft.com/content/b516...

Thank you to @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social for pushing for Government to consider a televised emergency briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis. The public have a right to know. Sign the open letter: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... Now at over 36,000 signatories. #TimeToStepUp #NEB2025

DPH statement on today’s ACIP meeting.

Summary of ACIP so far today. In the 10 months since RFK Jr. took the helm at HHS, this committee has slipped into the realm of disinformation, conspiracies, and data torture. They have targeted vulnerable groups for stigma by blaming them for HBV even existing in the U.S.

'These findings “underscore the need for stricter journal policies to screen and retract ghostwritten papers, in order to safeguard science integrity, as well as public health and safety,” Kaurov and @naomioreskes.bsky.social wrote'