Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Every child needs to hear this, and remember it, as a teen, as an adult, when they are very old. Rest in Power Rev. Jesse Jackson

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

We've been on the Northern Line. The idea that it's 2000 years old seems completely reasonable.

Great response! “It’s very hard to believe these accusations. I come from a country [Estonia] that is number two in the Press Freedom Index – so hearing criticism regarding press freedom from a country like the United States, which is 57th on this list, is interesting."

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

@rogerprotz.bsky.social Something you would almost certainly be interested in

London has the lowest rates of MMR immunisation in the country. Map via @houseofcommons.parliament.uk library.

Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw

This evening's Starling murmuration on Sinker's Fields, Whixall.

This is so spot on

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Large electric powered container ships are already a reality. When posting about this 2 years ago the so-called “experts” said it is impossible. Can people stop listening to oil and gas “experts” soon?

Two weeks ago, Peter Mandelson told us he had no recollection of planning to buy a £2m apartment in Rio via a Panama holding company and a Brazilian company. Yesterday we found notarised incorporation documents for the Brazilian company, with Mr Mandelson's signature.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

I can’t even conceptualise what a vaccine against EBV would mean for those of us with bodies prone to post viral fatigue and ME, let alone MS. Just like… whole decades of lives lost to that fucker and to think we are this close to preventing it and now this

Hegseth has radicalized Richard Leon, the most conservative partisanly Republican judge not appointed by Trump I've ever met.

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

Jim Ratcliffe is a prick. I always thought he was. He has done nothing to suggest that he is not a prick. I loathe Jim Ratcliffe and as a result I find it very hard to get behind his cycling team. He was a prick before he got into cycling. He’s always been a prick. I hope that clears things up.

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Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025. Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

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Donald Trump is: - Openly racist - Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children - Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state - Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders - Polling at 38% amongst the American people

"The Post proudly adopted the motto “democracy dies in darkness” after Trump was first elected. Now the paper is an exhibit of his attempts to smother democracy in broad daylight." My Swamp Notes with @grimeslikedimes.bsky.social on oligarch destruction of US media. as.ft.com/r/f2dcdea9-a...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Very clearly communicated argument about the plan 2 tuition fee system by Oli Dugmore

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The only way Labour can win the next election is by governing well. That might not be enough, but it’s the bare minimum. The questions to be asking about any potential new PM are “what is their agenda and can they achieve it?” Not “do they currently poll well?” Or “can they handle a media round?”

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Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to and helped make this year’s Winter Showcase such a success. A special congratulations to our prize winners: Talks: 🥇Alexander Sterling; 🥈Toby Maccormack; Posters🥇Katie Gilbert; 🥈Alexander Uner Congratulations! A fantastic showcase of impactful science! 🎉

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Chicago, in the snow, chanting: "I believe that we will win!" In protest at ICE and the Trump administration

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching neighbours inform on neighbours from our apartment above.

It’s fair to say that when judges do this sort of thing, you are not in a constitutionally or legally normal place.

“I said we’d kill people if the resistance didn’t stop, it didn’t and so we did”

BBC editorial making some very questionable choices, given its charter obligations

Two hundred years ago #OnThisDay the magnificent Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford, was opened. Read more about it on my web site: www.anglesey-history.co.uk/places/bridg...

In Minneapolis, American Revolutionary Democracy is being re-invented from first principles.

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The Working Time Directive: only partly there to protect workers from unscrupulous employers. Also partly there to protect tossers like this from themselves.

"UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British" Matt Goodwin, Reform UK Ltd candidate Braverman - parents from Mauritius and Kenya Zahawi - born in Iraq Kruger - South African parents Marco Longhi - Italian father Lia Nici - Italian father Zia Yusuf - Sri Lankan parents

Raman spectroscopy enabled scientists to study the fluid used to preserve Charles Darwin’s Galápagos Island specimens, without opening their 200-year-old containers.

Tell me that this is not an execution by a death squad. Right wing paramilitaries in 1980s El Savador. During the dirty war in Argentina. In Honduras. In Columbia and Venezuala. And now on the streets of Minneapolis.

Something tells me some conservative professor is working on a theory of the 2nd Amendment that excludes ICU nurses.

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

We can have ICE or we can have democracy but we can't have both and it's obvious which side Trump has chosen.