The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

During a contentious interview, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several claims about COVID-19, vaccines and measles. Here are some of the statements that were factually inaccurate.

A Doctor Fact-Checks HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s CNN Interview

A public health expert fact checks RFK Jr.'s recent contentious interview on CNN with facts on vaccines, COVID-19 and measles.

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From the wetter parts of Britain to the places that ‘actually need it’

By Liz S Talking of “Fire” there is another huge problem in certain parts of the UK State , that is where droughts are also currently happening , all as a result of th…

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Indeed he did - things like "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids"

You left out the crypto qualifier 'racist' before the word 'cunt'. Also lovelu the way he associates Nicola Sturgeon with Rose West. If he'd really wanted to slide a serial-killing head of state alongside West, he should have named Boris Johnson.

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Only tiny 2% of terror referrals are in Scotland to rebut Labour scare story

In the deeply untrusted Herald yesterday, the above, and: Scotland’s only ethnic-minority and Muslim MP has called on the Scottish Government to fund a cohesion strategy in the wake of last m…

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Paul Haine@paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d ago

He also wrote this 23 years ago and somehow his career remained unaffected www.theguardian.com/society/2003...

Rod Liddle was a stone-cold arsehole who actually said in a national newspaper that he couldn't be a teacher because he would inevitably try and shag the kids Apparently his editor has said, 'he challenged conventional thinking' If you mean 'was wrong in every conceivable way' then, yes

Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.

We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d ago

And why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?

Did you know about the chaos and civil war raging inside Labour in Scotland, following Anas Sarwar's untimely departure and peerage? That's because the BBC and other media have designed to ignore it 🤷 Here's one of the potential candidates for next leader...

It's too late to stop, or even slow, the inevitable climate cataclysm. All we can do, and must do, is to develop ways to live with it, until we can't, and the planet ends us, just as we have ended it.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d ago

Greece is burning. Spain is burning. Sicily, Wales, Türkiye, Canada, the US— the entire planet is engulfed in flames. Decades of warnings ignored. Decades of corporate denial exposed. The science was right all along: our home is on fire. We need immediate, radical climate action.

Finally watching "The Guilded Age", and I've just realised that Julian Fellowes has turned Christine Baranski into Maggie Smith.

They subpoenaed an 85-year-old man who has testified before Congress 250 times. They published his private diary first. Then screamed profanity at him for not talking. Six years of investigation. Zero charges. This is what having nothing looks like. www.JackHopkinsNow.com

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.

The Labour Party (& opposition parties) in Scotland slammed the idea of keeping food Groceries/ prices down for Scots through talks with the SotGov. As a devolveed Gov the SNP have little or no power to enforce this like France or whatever English City is in charge Scotland needs to be independent

John Swinney was labelled bonkers hoping to cap food prices on 50 basic food items Trades Groups called it a "potty gimmick" because he didn't want Scots to go hungry I'm telling you now, not only has the UK Gov stolen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 oil/Gas wealth but now they're pinching the ScotGov ideas John Healy today👇

Counterpoint: "Agree to disagree" is not an appropriate stance on a novel virus that has killed more than 7 million people.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d ago

No need for anyone to agree with me - but some of the responses to this on here reminds me just how stifling and absolutist a period in our national discourse Covid was.

#FollowBackFriday Supporters of Irish Unity, Scottish Independence and Welsh Independence should follow each other other and advocate for each other. #IrishUnity #WelshIndependence #ScottishIndependence

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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100% boycott of all Zuckerberg products. get off Facebook, Insta, WhatsApp now. www.qasimrashid.com/p/corporate-...

Corporate Media Is Not Failing—It Is Collaborating

As the fourth estate falls, here's what we must do to stay informed and empowered

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The backlash against Boy George has been huge, even sparkling one of those AI Lego videos, but this from Joseph Tawadros is quite the thing. www.facebook.com/share/r/1Bff...

If you watch anything on #Moroccans coming to #Ceuta, make it this report. CBS News have interviewed some of them & they confirm that social media posts on Facebook & Instagram told them Spain had opened its borders. They're playing with people's hopes & lives. It's awful. We must combat fake news.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Over to the Supreme Court: to be heard before the end of the year www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Amnesty International UK@amnestyuk.bsky.social · 6d ago

🚨BREAKING: More than 100 peaceful protestors have been arrested today under terror laws. Amnesty legal observers attended to document the arrests and any human rights violations.

Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times