Muted a whole bunch of words and phrases for 7 days today, because it was driving me a little bit nuts. You can do that too! You should do that too! You definitely have better things to read. Look at that lovely, lovely book over there.

someone should write an article contrasting journalists’ please for us to “listen to all sides, even if we disagree with them” to how those journalists react when faced with some minor criticism. sadly, it would have to be a journalist that writes it, so it’ll never get written.

Not At All What Happens In A Democracy….

Sinclair is like Fox News ideologically, but unlike Fox it uses the public airwaves. I know that doesn't make a difference under the current regime, but it should under the next one.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

Antifa is the CIA because of Bellingcat, or something.

Seeing how they are calling for crimes against humanity, maybe it’s time to proscribe Farage and the Reform Party

They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

On the one hand, better late than never. On the other hand: why so late? The case for doing this was just as obvious in May as it is in September.

Notably and unusually, neither Fox News or Newsmax is carrying Trump's autism press conference live

Every terrible stadium deal is another piece of evidence for one of my less popular ideas: every major league sports team should be owned by some form of local government. Private ownership has significant downsides and not enough benefits. defector.com/the-commande...

A thing that happens when I am in London but I am afraid to say simply never happens in Chicago is that I just walk three miles to get somewhere because I am not in a hurry and it is nice

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Self-serving lies from CPS/Telegraph. But kernel of truth here- unsurprisingly, those on work visas (& their dependents) more likely to make +ve fiscal contribution than refugees etc. Which is why proposals to restrict ILR (from govt/Tories/Reform) likely to *cost* money (1/2) archive.ph/JSo7O

eg (as @lgilbert.co's analysis shows) even migrants in the care sector, who are indeed often on low wages, are not overall a drain on the public purse/welfare state *even leaving aside the contribution they make to the NHS/care sector*. www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...

Worth noting if you are able to have a rational discussion/debate with a Reform supporter...rare of course

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

It should be news, but the headlines should be 'insane president puts lives at risk by giving out irresponsible and false health advice'. I haven't seen the news but I doubt it is framed in quite this way.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

1/7 🚨 BREAKING: Disney caved & restored Jimmy Kimmel Live. That proves pressure works. But Sinclair & Nexstar are REFUSING unless Kimmel apologizes & donates to Turning Point. The fight just moved from Hollywood to YOUR hometown. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

Do I live a particularly sheltered life or something? Who does this kind of thing?

Nigel Farage is essentially declaring war on not just every immigrant in the UK, but on the post-Brexit immigration system. An immigration system brought about by… Nigel Farage

LOL

Big Aspirin must be behind all this.

I see the CPS is desperately trying to repair the damage. The claim that their clear errors were down to "changes in definitions" is a lie. Journalists should treat any new estimates with appropriate scepticism. archive.ph/JSo7O#select...

Nigel Farage is, and always was, far right, from his schooldays. The squeamishness about calling him out is one of the reasons we’re in such a terrible state today.

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Seriously how hard is it to say “This is an outrageous attack on our friends and neighbours who are in this country legally and have followed all the rules to get settled status, who are valued members of our communities, get to fuck frog-face”?

The more I think about this the more fucking incensed I am, honestly. WTF Labour? Frog Features declares he wants to deport legal residents who have done all their paperwork (and paid a fucking fortune to the Home Office, by the by!) and the most you can do is criticise his *Maths*?!

Annoyed the bbc say experts are skeptical. No they aren't, experts are saying it's complete bollocks, that's not skepticism.

i feel like we’ve underestimated the power of being able to just… lie. “paracetamol causes autism” no it doesn’t, that isn’t true. so what are you, a journalist, going to do about that?

It is not enough for Starmer to just argue with Farage. He needs to treat GB News as a news channel, balance the BBC board, stop MP's having second jobs while in office and make leaders airtime on news and political shows proportional to seats held. Farage is being pushed as some sort of saviour.

ICE using military-chartered flights to deport Africans is not “law enforcement”...it’s political theatre with human toll. When borders are militarized...people become props. This must end. Propaganda doesn’t justify tearing lives apart. Many of these planes are un-trackable.

They u-turned so quickly I didn’t even have to miss an episode of Alien Earth

I'm glad Kimmel is coming back. However, "free speech" where you can reverse government-coerced corporate censorship but only if your supporters make stock price influencing noise would be like a healthcare system in which you need a GoFundMe to go viral to afford treatment. ... wait.

You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

BBC News: Yvette Cooper is at "a conference". She's actually attending the United Nations General Assembly. #r4today

Instead of mocking, perhaps it’s time to ask: where next for thousands searching for a genuine political home? Read David Jobbins' letter to the editor ⤵️

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Holy double standard! The media (hello, Jake Tapper) railed Biden’s cognitive function for months while he created an economy that was the envy of the world. Now we have this and…🦗🦗🦗

Corrupt? Not according to Trump's view of the world. You use power to line the pockets of your mates Nothing to do with them then being beholden to you of course 🤔🧐🧐🧐🧐 And to reiterate, in Trump's head and world there is nothing wrong with this. It's the way the world works he reckons

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

As an aside, there’s something extremely psychologically revealing about the way the right wing press have the fantasy the U.K. is going to end up paying reparations for the empire. It’s basically the world’s most obvious guilty conscience, isn’t it?

Frustrating that the BBC is still dropping the professional title for female scientists they interview! Here’s my sister *Dr* Sura Alwan on the lack of evidence that paracetamol causes autism &the dangers of oversimplified messaging that spreads fear & blame on mums. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1i4sd...

So they've brought in Mark Littlewood to argue for Farage's side. Mark is Liz Truss's right-hand man.

your immune system handles a bajillion more threats per day than what is in a combo vaccine shot. super basic shit here. quackwatch.org/health-promo...

"Is that Bletchley Park? Can you decode the comment below?"