So you’re telling me that when your country welcomes talented people from around the globe, and brings them together in world-class universities, they make discoveries that save lives? Interesting. UM researchers make breakthrough to treat form of leukemia www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

This keeps happening www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/a...

Judge throws out anti-semitism case against Reginald D Hunter

This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

NEW: Barclays, a key target of pro-Palestine activism due to its financial ties to weapons firms, pressed the Scottish Government to crack down on Palestine Action before the group was proscribed www.thenational.scot/news/2...

also: I thought that writing a non-fiction I would be less likely to be misunderstood than in the fiction but that is also SPECTACULARLY untrue. we see the world not as it is but as we are. even more so with ideas. people find what they want to find in non-fiction.

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Pretty soon no one will be allowed into the US.

Boycott CBS/Paramount

The FBI sent it to handwriting analysis. Outcome of that is unclear, as in, I haven’t found it in the files yet if it is indeed there.

Many of us in the MECFS community started warning in 2020 that COVID was going to be a mass disabling event. It was, and it continues to be.

Support independent media.

Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971 #WinterSolstice

This thread of phrases expressing an optimistic outlook is in honour of today being Look on the Bright Side Day. They were originally going to have an equivalent day for pessimists but the organisers ultimately decided there was no point as it would never take off.

Fox hunting is a revolting sport. It's only survived in any form because it's done by ghastly, entitled, influential and aristocratic people who feel it's the God given right to charge about the place in silly costumes tearing animals apart for no good reason.

Cinema will find a way. 💕

Georgia O'Keeffe, You Are The Sun, 1977 #Womensart #Solstice

Who chose Steve Witkoff? Putin www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Human species were doing wood working before we were Homo sapiens. This is a superb piece of information found via this list medium.com/@tomwhitwell... which in turn I found via @levparikian.bsky.social

"It is hard to grow up as a boy," Jess Phillips tells Lewis Goodall. "I don't think that they've been included in the conversations on what has been happening to women and girls – it has felt like an attack" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/jess...

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

The Epstein Files, everybody!

One month ago.

This piece is billed as ‘father of girls thinks misogyny lessons are unnecessary’ but right at the end he actually asks the girls he is confidently speaking on behalf of and they…disagree. Amazing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Hang on in there, its nearly the shortest day, we can make it.

Straight out of the worst dystopian scenarios. The wealthiest individual in the world (and likely the one who causes the most harm, between DOGE and X) has succeeded in introducing his revisionist (denying the Holocaust) and anti-Semitic disinformation tool into (El Salvador) classrooms.

You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them. You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them. You do not know if someone is able-bodied by looking at them.

Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people

This makes a lot of sense. Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.

@chadbourn.bsky.social Worth a read. Yeah, I‘ve been harping on this. theconversation.com/deception-an...

Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence

My first Reith Lecture is now out in video form: A Time of Monsters. On moral decay, elite cowardice, and why we need a moral revolution. Watch here 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=fUJ-... (With one tiny edit at 4:28, for those who notice such things 😉)

Christ whenever another one gets elected it’s only a matter of a short time before something comes back to bite them in the arse.

🚨BREAKING: A doctor has been arrested at HMP Bronzefield as protesters call for medical aid for hunger strikers linked to Palestine Action The reasons for the arrest of Dr Ayo Moiett are currently unknown

BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2045...

The Telegraph: now advocates for mutiny. The enemy within.

doing this to someone should be as difficult and come with as many hoops for the company to jump through and safeguards for the customer as it would be for the bank to lock you out of your house even though you were totally up to date on your mortgage payments. it's that serious.

😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Trump has expanded the travel ban to more than 30 countries, alleging national security reasons. It’s a White Nationalist list - mainly Africa, some Middle East, plus Haiti and Cuba.

New head of MI6, the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, warns in her first major public speech of the threat Russia poses with the “export of chaos.” www.channel4.com/news/new-mi6...

A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them archive.ph/r0u2r

Good observation.

Jimmy Lai, the media tycoon and brave defender of democracy in Hong Kong, has been found guilty of ‘foreign collusion’. His family expect he’ll die in jail. HK’s national security law, imposed by Beijing after huge pro-democracy protests, has claimed its most prominent victim.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Awesome. 🫠 '“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.”' www.cnn.com/2025/12/14/p...

please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...

"The virus can lead to brain swelling, which can cause lasting damage, including blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities..." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

@sturdyalex.bsky.social Hi Alex, enjoy Quiet Riot and listen every week. I'm a resident doctor and wanted to share some of my views that hopefully are informative as I feel they represent the average striking doctor currently.

went to bed with a mass shooting, waking up with a different mass shooting

ahem