The price of privatisation The privatisation of public services has caused more harm than good northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

A Spanish naval vessel will join the Global Sumud Flotilla to provide assistance and, if necessary, conduct rescues, says Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez. Italy earlier announced it was dispatching a frigate after a night of drone attacks on the flotilla opposed by the Israeli gov't.

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.” @time.com time.com/7319963/bruc...

diem25.org/diem25-conde... @diem25.bsky.social #stopgenocide

Extraordinary, wonderful, beautiful news🍾 I really wish RFK Jr and Jay Bhattacharya had not terminated federal research on mRNA R&D (they wrote pathetic pieces about why they made their damaging decision)😞

New report brings together the thinking of experts across the world on what a powerful and effective narrative could look like on PUBLIC GOOD @jonathanglennie.bsky.social & @benphillips76.bsky.social globalcooperation.institute/public-good-...

Activists on board the Global Sumud Flotilla said they heard explosions and saw drone attacks late on Tuesday.

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

Here are two minutes of lowlights from Trump’s rambling, hour-long address to the UN General Assembly that Twitter is calling one of the most embarrassing moments in recent US history. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more.

to the art director at Wired who made this unholy image.... you will not see heaven www.wired.com/politics-iss...

Please, we are begging you, listen to REAL doctors and scientists. And in case anyone needs a reminder: neither Donald Trump or RFK Jr. are doctors.

“What has to be said is that given this performance, given the unhinged behavior of Kennedy, given the president’s total lack of knowledge about health and science, & given the sycophantic behavior of his top medical and science officials, one thing is clear: Americans cannot trust their government”

Yesterday’s attack on a Palestinian Medical Relief Society primary health care center in #Gaza City turned it into rubble. Two health workers were reportedly injured. It was among a few functioning facilities, providing blood donation, testing, trauma care, cancer & chronic disease treatment.

The continued destruction of #Gaza City's health facilities will cause more deaths and further overwhelm already overcrowded hospitals in the south. Attacks on health facilities must end. The senseless violence must stop. Ceasefire!

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.

They're trying to kill us, and they'll dismiss charges against anyone who helps. Pam Bondi dismisses charges against Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away $28,000 worth of Covid vaccines and using saline instead. fortune.com/2025/07/13/p...

Dr. Oz is a large investor in and global advisor for iHerb, a company that sells supplements for folinic acid, which is the the non-prescription version of leucovorin, the medication which is being recommended for the treatment of autism by Dr. Oz.

Dozens of people are trapped under rubble in Gaza City as deadly Israeli attacks intensify and ground forces advance.

SHAMEFUL: EU chemicals companies' profits are still being placed above people's health in poorer nations A major new investigation by @unearthednews.bsky.social & @publiceye.ch found the trade in banned pesticides has increased despite EU promises to end it unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/23/e...

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

In her #SOTEU speech, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu again stressed the need for a so-called “28th regime” for innovative companies. But a new @etui.bsky.social analysis confirms what we have been saying all along: the proposal is unnecessary and harmful.

💥 Europe's Toxic Trade Alert ! ☠️ The EU banned dozens of pesticides because they are too dangerous for our health and too toxic for nature. But European companies still produce and export those banned chemicals. Shame on the #EuropeanCommission ! See new data: www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/pe...

😢 How are flights so much cheaper than trains? Indeed, why are we forced to pick between cheap & polluting and expensive & sustainable? Well @greenpeace.eu has the answer: subsidies and MASSIVE tax breaks.

It’s just unbelievable. Never in my public health nightmares could I have imagined this.

🚨@WorldBank's mission is to fight poverty, yet @IFC_org is funding high-end unaffordable hospitals & exacerbating inequality? This approach will not deliver on the WBs target to reach 1.5 billion with access to quality healthcare! #UHC #PeopleOverProfits www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

What a privilege to get to work with Joe Stiglitz, Monica Geingos and Michael Marmot. Inequalities are bad for everyone. There is a practical path to a more equal, more secure world. And we can win.

“Huge crowds packed the squares and beaches of some of Brazil’s biggest cities to voice their opposition to rightwing endeavors to help Bolsonaro escape jail for his failed power grab”

This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles: 1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations, 2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers, 3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises. Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.

Palestinian family members at the scene say they fear as many as 50 people are trapped under the rubble.

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

At least 76 killed in Gaza City alone as 450,000 flee Israeli attacks on the coastal enclave’s main urban centre.

'Artificial intelligence tools used by doctors risk leading to worse health outcomes for women and ethnic minorities, as a growing body of research shows that many large language models downplay the symptoms of these patients.' www.ft.com/content/128e...

The brilliant @georgemonbiot.bsky.social at Stop Trump tears into this government. ‘By bringing the fascist in chief here, they dishonour us, and they dishonour themselves. By rolling out the red carpet for Trump, they roll out the red carpet for Farage.’

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you are going to watch/learn one thing today, this week, this month, let it be this: @naomiaklein.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ta...

History made for the ocean: #BBNJ Agreement enters into force, protecting high seas & deep seabed, safeguarding life under water. “Our ocean is the foundation of our very existence. Today we took an important step forward to save our ocean, & to save our future” - ED @ingerandersen.bsky.social

The 6th US veto on this.

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

Arrested for projecting images of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on Windsor Castle. There is a mounting authoritarian assault in this country. The attack on opposition to Israel’s genocide was only the beginning.

"Emphasizing the cost for ordinary people, activists highlighted that a single tear gas canister cost equal to a thousand cloves of garlic, two hundred public transport tokens, or one and half straw sacks of potatoes." jacobin.com/2020/06/sout...

If you are going to watch/learn one thing today, this week, this month, let it be this: @naomiaklein.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ta...

MSF, Islamic Relief, Save the Children and CARE International are among the aid groups issuing the joint call.

TikTok misusing our personal data is bad. Selling TikTok to a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors is even worse.

A UN commission of inquiry concluded that Israel has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention, and has such called on governments worldwide to stop sending weapons to Israel. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/un-i... #Palestine #Israel

(AP) — The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/wome...

Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins suggests Israel and states supplying it with weapons be excluded from the United Nations, in light of the genocide conclusions in the UN CoI report. @president.ie #Spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...