In any other period of history, the Health and Humans Services Secretary would be fired and shamed for releasing a report from the committee he created: with false made up citations, broken link citations and citations from studies that were misinterpreted. Here we are. #rjkjnr

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.

RESOLVED: no one to be quoted by large-circulation media outlets about overall employment levels until they have convincingly demonstrated to a panel of economists that they understand the lump of labour fallacy.

Imagine if they put in the same amount of research and innovation into women's health especially women's reproductive system as they do into women's plastic surgery.

What amazes me about certain politicans is their epic level of hubris. Liz Truss & Nick Clegg. Why they think the public wants to hear from them, is beyond me. #NickClegg

I don't what's more depressing. Brexit supporters repeatedly the same arguments from nearly 10 years regarding yesterday's news. There are still people that believe them. #UKEUdeal

🧵 The CNN piece on Bongino and Patel is one of the clearest real-world examples of a key phenomenon in disordered discourse: The agents who stoke it can become its victims, especially when their disordered discourse meets the reality of the institutions it captures.

Just read none of the South African "refugees" welcomed by the MAGA administration, are actually farmers. The story is white Afrikaner farmers are being killed. One of them was quite wealthy in RSA.He had a mining company and a 5 bedroom house.He left his mother behind. They are just racists.

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This is interesting. A journalist who prints the facts rather than the legend of McSweeney. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-foundi...

An important sense-check on migration from @financialtimes.com Ignore the convulsing commentators of the Mail & Telegraph. The UK is about average in the OECD and in line with its peer countries when it comes to the proportion of foreign-born people living in the country.

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They are keeping a dead woman alive for her fetus. Even though its against her family wishes. Her elder son thinks she is sleeping. A woman has become an incubator. Its not about the children. Its has always been controlling womens bodies.

Brilliant thread. The Powell analogy is overblown. The real flaws and consequences of that speech are far worse. It’s Starmer accepting populism instead of fighting it.

It is bonkers people would rather believe some BS from Russian propaganda channels instead of seeing with their own eyes, someone picking up a used kleenex off the table before the start of a meeting. #macron #starmer #Ukraine

Taking a page from President Trump's playbook, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced visa restrictions, using language his critics said was dangerous.

This is a very fair criticism of the prime minister from @samfr.bsky.social and therefore really quite devastating open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

If a government with over 400 seats and 4 years left to govern cannot summon the courage to level with the public on social care then I despair at the capacity of our political system to ever deliver the change we need.

Autistic people don't lack empathy. We do experience it differently, though. And I think this misconception needs to be cleared up. (1)

Full text of US-UK "deal" confirms: 1. *Not* a "free trade" deal. 2. For UK, largely successful damage limitation: limiting US tariffs on cars/steel for not very much. But damage still done. 3. For Trump, pretty much complete climbdown. (1/3) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/681d32...

The Polish central bank's gold reserves are now larger than those of the European Central Bank, its governor has announced. “This shows the stability, abundance and solvency of the Polish economy,” says Adam Glapiński.

The most recent retweet from the new pope is 👀.

My take on today’s UK-US trade deal. The UK is a small weak country. It does what small weak countries do, which is to escape the bully, to pay the Dane-geld. Standing up for the multilateral rules-based trading system will have to be left for others.

It's #VEday. Never Forget. Except you can forget when a charismatic far right politican comes around & promises to fix Britain. Right? You can forget his ties to far right politicans & podcast hosts. He isn't as bad as foreign fascists. Right? We fought fascism. We aren't gonna try it. Right?

Worth UK-bases commentators seeing what credible US economists are saying.

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

UK: woohoo look guys we finally got a trade deal!! Trading partner: *instantly enters hot war with nuclear-capable mortal enemy*

Elon Musk’s AI company is belching smog-forming pollution into an area of Memphis that already leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations. xAI has become one of the county’s largest emitters of smog-producing nitrogen oxides.

💰 £3,029. That’s what it costs to apply for permanent residency in the UK. The actual processing cost? Just £646. We’re calling for a fee waiver for those who can’t afford it. Email your MP today and ask them to back it. 🔗 win.newmode.net/ramfel/rules

Morning Bluesky. Fiasco in Germany when Friedrich Merz failed to get the 316 votes necessary in a secret ballot to become Chancellor. It’s the first time it’s happened and at this stage it’s not known who withdrew support,

For decades the NIH has led a public health campaign credited with saving thousands of babies from dying in their sleep. The administration's cuts come as sleep-related infant deaths have been rising.

The Times found elevated levels of arsenic, lead and mercury in the yards of three homes out of 10 homes that survived the Eaton fire. These are the risks of exposure.

The Port of Los Angeles boss is offering a grim warning as the consequences of Trump's tariffs grow

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

Really cool the way Labour is correcting for the Tories' "pander to their core voters at all costs" strategy, with a "telling THEIR core voters to go fuck themselves at every opportunity" strategy

My wife uses this as a shorthand for when managers have run out of ideas. “They’re at the biscuit-banning stage.” Sure sign that they’ve no idea what to do next.

Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

“In other words, the BBC behaves much like Starmer’s government: appeasing critics on the right and far right, while suppressing the left.”

As the effects of President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on foreign goods set in, many shippers who usually send goods across the Pacific have paused or canceled their shipments. In total, the port’s data shows, import volumes will be down 31 percent next week compared to the same week last year.

Poland was the only EU country to record positive consumer sentiment in April. It has also seen the largest rise in consumer sentiment across the EU this year.

Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries. 1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration

Hi Labour, rather than learning all the wrong lessons from this election defeat - what about taking some people out of poverty and improving some lives?

As a parent of an autistic child. I can't tell you how angry this makes me. What a waste of funding. While they are stopping and cancelling funding for genuine research into autism that would help my child and millions of other autistic people around the world.

Document posted by National Science Foundation program director on LinkedIn says not only that grants are being terminated by DOGE but that they're being deleted from databases. Presumably to make it difficult or even impossible to undo DOGE's illegal actions.

Trump deported a 2 year old American citizen.

NEW: Family of Virginia Guiffre tell NBC News: “it is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night…She lost her life to suicide after being a lifelong victim of sex abuse and sex trafficking.” She was 41 years old.

This is not okay.