I hope Julian Assange is relaxing.

"The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence" "The pandemic has killed over 30 million people worldwide, left more than 400 million suffering from Long COVID... It is one of the most catastrophic events in modern history—and it is not over."

Much needed synthesis of the current literature on the long term harms of Covid. Congrats Nancy for an interesting and excellent presentation

The Epstein files contain emails with doctors advising how to get babies to “suck harder”. Doctors providing abortions to underage girls. Doctors treating STIs and ectopic pregnancies in children. None of them have lost their licenses. They enabled a pedophile & they’re still treating patients.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

This woman is a hero. Mark Tramo gave Epstein “tips” to get babies to suck harder She stood outside his building with a sign that had a quote from the email She was all alone One woman & one voice She screamed as loud as she could. She made sure they heard her Tramo’s contract won’t be renewed

NBC is editing out footage of JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. CBS is state sponsored propaganda. Bezos fired over 300 journalists from The Washington Post and left many stranded in foreign countries. They’re crowd funding to get home. Support independent journalism.

More than a decade ago I worked social media for the NDIS. I realised Serco was going to be a service provider. I gave some feed back criticising the decision. Contract not renewed. And now here we are. Serco is now providing outsourced phone case management to the NDIS

Advice to governments from a public health investigation of South Australia’s algal bloom crisis – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/advice-to-go... By Prof @franbaum.bsky.social

A powerful introduction to a parliamentary debate in the Netherlands on post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS), including #LongCOVID, #MECFS, chronic Lyme & post-sepsis conditions. Dutch MP Kostić describes it as one of the biggest medical scandals of recent decades. (29/1/26)

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

Fast-tracking data centres without sober assessment of systemic risks is a policy of state violence that will contribute to & culminate in social murder via #ClimateBreakdown, increased frequency & intensity of heatwaves, dangerous fire weather, drought, extreme rainfall, floods, sea-level rise etc

“Epidemiological studies have begun to show a concerning trend: individuals with a history of COVID-19 infection are at an elevated risk for developing diabetes, often within months of recovery...” This has actually been known for years, but I’m glad to see more attention on it.

I wonder if people are really ready to live life without vaccines? Small coffins, small graves… The need to have more children to take into account the death and disability rate… What a terrible and sad step backwards…

22. Remember the flu waves in 2020/21? No, because they didn't happen, despite not acting against airborne transmission. The rebound wave in 2022 could have been mitigated by ramping up vax, masks, clean air, but no, that's not "normal". There's no humane sick pay either.

21. Ultimately, we need Govt, public health, and public opinion to cause a paradigm shift where we start taking infectious diseases seriously. Why do we tolerate "winter pressures" EVERY YEAR?! They are predictable AND preventable. The investment would more than pay for itself...

The man in the white shirt stopped one of the Bondi Beach shooters. He risked his own life to save countless others. He didn’t need a gun to do it. He doesn’t appear to have hurt the shooter. He stopped him so the police could arrest him. He’s a hero.

How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

Fifteen years of ideological choices to strangle & gut the public realm - NHS to schools to social services to local museums - is what underlies the anger "tearing our country apart"; immigration is simply the scapegoat that the far right are pushing people toward. Why can't Labour just say this?

person woman man two all beef patties special sauce camera TV lettuce cheese Hannibal Lecter pickles onions Arnold Palmer's schlong shark electricity on a cofveve sesame seed bun

1/ 🇿🇦 South Africa's worst & ongoing export, #WhiteSupremacy - www.bbc.com/news/article...

Governments have been urged to establish mandatory indoor air quality performance standards and a transparent national system of monitoring and reporting, including universal workplace monitoring and the visible display of real-time indoor air quality data. Via @croakeynews.bsky.social

Turn on the lights, put on your glasses, get out your chemistry set. It’s time to do individual responsibility style public health for meat testing. Disclaimer… you’ll have to sort out your own brain worms/other gastrointestinal disaster/sepsis if you stuff up.

btw print media turnaround time means that since we spoke, Canada did lose its measles elimination status! Also likely to happen in the US. COVID denialism continues to fuel grim failures in disease prevention & eradication.

1/ "Diseases have been eradicated before. Public Health Is Dead asks: what if public health officials had spent the past few years working to educate the public and actually stop the spread of a preventable, novel illness?":

Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

"If streateries are a pandemic relic, then they’re a monument to a moment when we correctly ordered our local politics around building community and creating a built environment that fosters maximum public benefit. "We would be wise to re-commit ourselves." Our latest opinion piece:

I wrote a piece for @deepcutnews about how the media sees some genocides as more important than others www.deepcutnews.com/p/the-age-ca...

Google symptom searches mapped over COVID waves 👀

So proud of my daughter, @katemacfarlane.bsky.social, who has been helping organize this project to distribute whistles that can alert immigrants and neighbors about ICE raids. Get your whistle and share with your friends at @wawhistles.bsky.social 1/

Ken Behrens will häve something to say about that.

Only thing is...

The report, by the House of Lords’ UK Engagement with Space Committee, discloses that half of Britain’s satellites are now dependent on Musk’s company.

And this is exactly what I was saying about Mamdani. Yes, he emphasized policy, but there was also this overarching vision. And the two go hand in hand, perfectly compatible, with one tracing the outlines of the other.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

Apart from @bylinetimes.bsky.social and assoc publications Journalists have become extinct at BBC, SKY, ITV,Telegraph, Times etc etc They’re pumped up PR artists for the right masquerading as journalists, with pretences of intellectual excellence to try & add weight to their lightweight “reports”

Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.

The next 12 months will be the most consequential for American politics since the 1850s. I don't say that glibly. We warned what would happen and they've done it and more. It appears we still have free elections, and so now they will now throw everything they have at us, a fascist kitchen sink.

People are not lying about what happens when you do this. I've had five kids so far take potatoes and three take apples.

You will never, ever satisfy the centre-right. There isn't any actual, material, clearly-defined goal they're seeking. Their goal is to send everything onto the far-right travelator. Their dissatisfaction must by definition be permanent

“A sound democratic government owes people the truth about the potential long-term harms of COVID-19, regardless of vaccination…Minimizing COVID-19 is not equitable or inclusive, it’s not democracy and it’s a violation of the centuries old social contract.”

Putting people in cages instead of feeding them is a policy choice

Steve Bannon: “Well he’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ‘28 and people ought to just get accommodated with that. At the appropriate time we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ‘28.” Hat tip to @marcofoster.bsky.social

In case this week's headlines may have given the impression that the real story is what the President thinks of the Ambassador...

1/ If there's one #COVID research paper that every doctor needs to read right now, it's this one - www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

1/ "Each participating school will receive at least one filter per classroom, along with air quality monitors and educational support to help pupils and teachers understand the importance of clean air": airqualitynews.com/headlines/ai...

Striking? Be loud, stay safe in the crowd.