“China wants to automate as much as possible, not because they’ll be able get higher margins like the West - but to compensate for population decline.”

Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

"President Donald Trump’s Labor Department claimed that Americans are unwilling to fill the gap left by job losses of undocumented workers resulting in significant disruptions to production costs and threatening the stability of domestic food production and U.S consumers prices.”

THIS.♻️

$83 million in profit from one store. Billions lost annually from consolidated revenue while funding criminal gangs. Illicit tobacco is not an excise problem, it’s an enforcement problem. @chrisminns.bsky.social

"In North America and parts of Latin America, deaths from suicide, drug overdoses, and alcohol use are on the rise among people aged 20–39, while half of the world’s disease burden being preventable." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

At the heart of this story is the integrity of the President of the USA. Could you get any more blatant a conflict of interest? ##4CornersAustralia

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

"Experts propose new approach to keep kids from vaping" @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social you mean the plain packaging that Australia introduced on cigarette packs back in 2012? Some more clues from the colonies: Graphic warnings and restricting e-cig sales to pharmacies. www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...

How venal is this US administration that they would deny their own people renewable clean energy? In the back pocket of the fossil fuel industry. It's what happens when you let a grifter take the Presidency.

Sitting in a hot cabin at the end of a long jetty in the middle of nowhere apparently is some people’s idea of paradise. They really need to get out more and engage with humanity.

“The illicit tobacco trade steals money from public services, undercuts legitimate businesses and funds other crimes that impact our communities." Its a no-brainer so why little action? @NSWPolice @NSWHealth www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

"Criminal networks and retailers who are emboldened by weak enforcement and minimal legal repercussions is fuelling the illicit market." How long before the penny drops? @nswpolice @NSWHealth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The tax on unhealthy foods was estimated to avert 2,775 deaths, 13,632 incident ischaemic heart disease events , 5287 ischaemic strokes, and 21, 763 type 2 diabetes cases over 20 years, generating 326,253 health-adjusted life-years." Taxes work! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Despite industry efforts to undermine the considerable gains from #MPOWER approaches globally, tobacco use continues to drop across all regions and age groups with 61 countries now on track to achieve the 30% reduction in the SDGs prevalence target. iris.who.int/server/api/c...

The renewable energy footprint in Australia is just .1% of the 3.6 mill sq kms of agricultural land and almost identical to the land used for mining. Don’t believe the liars from the LNP parading around in broad brimmed hats while denying farming communities billions in revenues.

"They discovered how the immune system is kept in check" and they won Nobel Peace Prizes for it. While Trump sees himself in the company of these esteemed scientists even with his hire of RFK - a vaccine sceptic. In his dreams. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

More than 100 million people, including at least 15 million children use e-cigarettes, fuelling a new wave of nicotine addiction, the WHO warns, with children, on average, nine times more likely than adults to vape. msn.com/en-us/health...

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

If the Trump administration is to be believed, why would anyone in the world want to travel to a country that has war zones in the major cities and military personnel with automatic weapons and masks on the streets arresting anyone who they think looks suspicious? msn.com/en-us/news/u...

"Flavored marijuana vaping is now the most common form of use among American teenagers who vape cannabis." This is how the predators "creeping incrementalism" operates to hook another generation to lifelong addiction and harms. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

"A new editorial in the Australian and NZ Journal of Public Health highlights the urgent need to reduce the number of tobacco and nicotine retailers in Australia." Stating the bleedin' obvious. It's galling why authorities wait until the problem is entrenched. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"US patients often pay nearly 3X more for prescription drugs than patients in other developed nations, where governments set rates." Sucks to live in a free-market economy where the corporations and the rich are the only winners. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

One metric I use to figure out how absolutely fucked everything is is the number of assholes like this screeching shitgibbon I agree with on a given day.

"Democrats have demanded that Republicans undo a small amount of the damage that the Billions for Billionaires bill inflicted on recipients of the Affordable Care Act. Republicans would rather shutdown the gov than help citizens pay for health insurance." www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-0...

While RFK and the jaundiced US Administration talk down the science on the efficacy of vaccines, a century of meningitis outbreaks across a sub-Saharan Africa may save hundreds of thousands thanks to new vaccines that will prevent the disease. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Why experts have to plead for what is bloody obvious is beyond me. The number of licensed tobacco retailers needs to be drastically reduced to get rid of the gangs illicit tobacco and vape sales, costing us billions in lost revenue @nswpolice @NSWHealth

Thank you @DatelineSBS for highlighting the damage that RFKs policies are having on autistic people and their families in the USA. #BadScience

How many populist right parties have preyed on simplistic voters views of a world based on the politics of prejudice, division and hate? They have no solutions, just more grift as we see with the MAGA cult.

Open carry of guns in a civilised society? The USA under Trump is going back to the wild west. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Case Study 2: "An Arizona man unleashed an extremely vicious attack on a woman inside his apartment, slamming her into a wall, punching her, and strangling the victim until she almost lost consciousness, after he caught her using his vape without asking." www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

"A 20-year-old father in Ohio is accused of strangling his girlfriend and brutally beating his newborn son, leaving the infant with brain damage after getting angry that he could not find his vape device." Not addictive huh? www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

Trump doing Kimmel a favor. Now who's the loser?

Australia often leads the way in proactive policy development for other global countries to follow, despite idiot conservatives claims we are a “nanny state”. Only against their businesses interests - not the communities the gov serves. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

While Trump embarrasses America with climate change denialism at the UN, Xi continues to take hold of the world reigns in proactive policy change. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

"What if the world’s deadliest products like tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks came with their true price tag? Right now, they don’t. The real costs are hidden while the community pays the price." #MerchantsOfDeath

The amount of dangerous misinformation that Trump and his sycophantic advisors spout is going to cost lives, many lives, and the preventable deaths are already happening. #TrumpLiesEveryDay

"China installed double the solar Australia has installed since the invention of the solar panel in just one month in May 2025." So much for the conservative's drivel about Chinese coal mines expansion. michaelwest.com.au/climate-risk...

These grifters operate in plain sight but it’s still too hard for MAGA to figure out whose interests they represent. They sure aren’t the American farmers!

Great sky on the last day of my World Bank funded WASH mission to Kiribati. A slower pace of life in the Pacific and a reprieve from the chaos in other parts of the world, especially Trumps America.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

"Five people in Louisiana have died in 2025 from a flesh-eating bacterium found in warm coastal waters, substantially exceeding the annual average on such deaths." While Trump promotes expansion of fossil fuel production. Flesh-eating bacteria in the White house. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

The one good thing about this “run America like a business” nightmare is that more people are beginning to realize how corrupt and craven many businesses truly are. Take notes. Never forget how they abandoned us. Don’t forgive their complicity.

"Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths." Are we now seeing lynchings in Trumps divided America? www.msn.com/en-us/sports...

I've worked on TB/MDR TB prevention programs in many high TB burden countries. But this is the first time I've heard of "Rat-Based Detection" - the use of trained giant pouched rats - you read it - to detect TB in patients! RFKs right onto it, if he read the literature. #Innovations lnkd.in/g_5smp-k

"18% of dengue cases can be attributed to rising temperatures—which may lead to 4.6 million additional infections annually." And this is just one of the health conditions emerging from rising temperatures and heavier rainfall #ClimateCrisis www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A first for me to get two publications accepted for publishing in the same week! This one is on a project in Bangladesh and Pakistan to support nutrition behaviour change interventions including social protection programs for the poorest of the poor. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Just to set the record straight.