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?

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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.

Keep spreading viruses that open you up to secondary bacterial infections. Best plan ever. (Warning. Sarcasm.)

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

The fact that Labour is censoring someone as mainstream as Owen Jones is incredibly disturbing.

What Brett Sutton is saying now is nothing new. He was one of the few CHOs who openly stated that #COVIDisAirborne even in the early crisis years of the pandemic. This is an official Victorian Dept of Health video from 21 Dec, 2021.

1/ Who is Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire doctor who donated an undisclosed amount to the @polybiorf.bsky.social #LongCOVID program? polybio.org/chan-soon-sh...

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Helen Clark saying it's very odd NZ are playing cards so close to the chest on Gaza, when UK/Canada/Aus have gone ahead. If they really do not join in, it's basically a full MAGA tilt and knee to Trump. Fancy that - NZ was the first country to give women the vote, and showed gut on Iraq. #nzpol

The second-fastest growing cancer among 15-24 year olds is brain cancer, with a 26.7% average growth rate between 2021 and 2025e, or 10x in 10 years. 33/x chatgpt.com/share/68d044...

A child was bitten by a raccoon who’s confirmed or suspected to have rabies, and the anti vaxx mother doesn’t want her to have the vaccine. The father posted looking for legal advice to save her life, and the post has been removed. Rabies is 100% fatal. You don’t get the vaccine, you die.

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Reminder that Charlie Kirk believed the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a mistake. He fought against DEI and affirmative action. He held deeply racist viewpoints. He was not a civil rights leader.

If you want to fight censorship and stand up for free speech, cancel your Disney & Paramount subscriptions . We must refuse to allow this level of censorship as it’s the hallmark of authoritarianism. Put that money towards PBS, NPR, local radio and news stations and independent journalists.

1/ How quickly #COVID studies default to familiar slippery slopes: I.e. exercise as medicine - www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/rep...

🚨🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on a "New study: SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t just lower white cell counts - it reshapes the T-cell landscape" "Both the numbers and the quality of T-cells drop, especially in older and severely ill patients. And this has consequences. 🧵" Full thread: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19685...

While you’re cancelling your Disney and Hulu subscriptions, don’t forget to cancel Disney vacations. Their theme parks and cruise ships make a ton of money. Boycott Disney and you can boycott Florida at the same time!

We really need teaching unions to pushback over schools attendance. Children with Covid need to be able to rest or risk long covid. Clinically vulnerable children risk their lives, especially now many can’t get vaccines. This is something I feel the government has got terribly wrong. Nearly 200 🧵

A lot of people aren’t going to want to hear this but letting a tiny group of people hoard all the wealth - because of the delusion that you could somehow ever get into that group through hard work or merit - is actually the cause of most of the problems in this country

DOCUMENTS: AUSTRALIA’S KNOWING SILENCE TO PLANS FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING OF GAZA Kellie Tranter reveals internal Foreign Affairs documents reveal the extent of government knowledge of our closest ally’s complicity with Israel’s intentions of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. declassifiedaus.org/2025/09/15/d...