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We join our human rights and free expression partners in condemning the 4-yr sentence for Chinese journalist and whistleblower Zhang Zhan. Diplomats and governments around the world must demand her release. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Pretty sure I had that combo in the 80s

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

As a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, here are a list of exposures with conclusive evidence for adverse fetal & childhood outcomes: Alcohol Tobacco Cannabis Maternal suicide Maternal homicide Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C) Bacteria (syphilis, listeria) Parasites (toxo)

Journalists like @mathildamall.bsky.social are aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla. Their mission is simple: deliver food, medicine and other essentials to Palestinians in occupied Gaza, who are still trapped under Israel’s unlawful blockade.

1+ million people (US) reported rationing their insulin in the past year due to cost, farmers are going bankrupt, in August 2025 total foreclosure filings were up 18.1% compared to August 2024… But Trump and his family are making billions. *heavy sigh* The grift machine is working OT.

The piss tank on the ISS is now 62% full.

I am broken

Hear hear

Charlie Kirk conspiracy theorists are going wild over a second-hand report from someone at TPUSA that Charlie Kirk had no exit wound. They've gone to great lengths to show that that's impossible with a 30-06. It never occurs to them that TPUSA might be lying.

My heart is full

Are we vaccinating under 2s more than a generation (30 years) ago? We used fewer vaccines, protecting against 8 infectious diseases. These complex vaccines, containing over 3000 antigens, were good, but there was room for improvement. 1/8

Weird how wealth inequality today is pretty much exactly where me and my punk friends said it would be 20 years ago: then, the mainstream narrative said it would never come this far, and now its happening those same people are saying there's nothing that can be done about it.

Chinese authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Zhang Yadi, an advocate for Tibetan rights who had been studying in France. She could face 5 - 15 years if convicted of offenses related to "undermining national unity." www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Dick

Hit the nail on the head

FOTUS is speaking

To the shame of the UK too

Reform councillor creates copy of airport company in order to profit from council business. Why is this councillor still in office? And why does anyone vote for these self-serving grifters? www.bbc.com/news/article...

The overlap with events after Katrina are obvious en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitoun...

Chuckle

Choice

Trump in 2013 on how to avoid a shutdown: “You have to get everyone in a room. You have to be a leader.” Trump today: Cancels meeting with Democratic Leaders.

True that

Soon after its political editor denied giving Reform an easy ride, the Beeb broadcast 56 minutes of the populist’s press conference, live ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

In a speech that has gone well beyond his allotted time, the president said that he’s “here to tell the truth”. “I don’t care. It doesn’t matter to me. I’m in New York City,” Trump added. I’ve said it before: the UN needs to be headquartered in a neutral country.

Hear hear

Argentina's far-right economic "miracle" is going so great that the Trump regime is bailing them out:

WSJ - Federal economists and researchers responsible for measuring hunger in America are placed on indefinite paid leave. www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u...

Please join us to remember with love all who have died whilst homeless in 2024. 9/10/2025 Opposite Downing Street. Gathering from 6pm, we will read the names at 7pm. Organised by Museum of Homelessness as part of the Dying Homeless Project 🕯

Savings be damned, now Reform councillors want more money

A locksmith told me a few years back that burglars were only really bothering if they could nick some decent jewellery, ideally gold. The effort to reward ratio for a lot of stuff they used to target just wasn't there any more.

Still the best news of the day

I suspect he also delights in chaos, embracing the very worst possible option eveytime

This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?

Take medical advice from this conceited know nothing?

23 September 1927 | French Jewish boy, Jacques Dresner, was born in Paris. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Beaune la Rolande on 5 August 1942. He did not survive. --- VIDEO: first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau - Bunkers I & II: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Top news item: Trump has said something false again. We'll point out that it's extraordinary, controversial, unevidenced, but we won't quite say it's wrong. #r4today

“We have seen again and again the spread of conspiracy theories like the great replacement theory... invasion rhetoric and other forms of overt bigotry... You shouldn’t be surprised when that leads to violence." azmirror.com/2024/04/18/p...

Humour, captain. Gallows humour

The flag was raised today at what from 21st September is now the Palestinian Embassy in West London. A symbolic move with an historical context. It wouldn't have happened without thirty central London Palestine marches since Oct 2023. A lot more to do wp.me/p15p2Q-f6i

Nigel Farage claim: "We are not the world's food bank, it is not for us to provide welfare to people coming in from all over the world" Reality: The average migrant on the Skilled Worker visa had a net fiscal impact of +£16,300 in 2022/23. In contrast, the average UK-born adult had about +£800

Motherfuckers

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

The best news anywhere today

“This all makes you feel very unstable. But this is my life, this is where I am. It is very unsettling; I’m worried for my and my family’s future.” Nish, Youth Organiser at Praxis Nish secured Indefinite Leave to Remain after a decade of visa applications. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...