I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”
“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...
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I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.
previously i have rejected and mocked any gambling company that offered the chaser money, upon hearing that they also offer drugs and sex on the side, i will be reconsidering this stance
This is brilliant, (the explanation is in the replies).
Matt Round@mattround.com · 2d agoWe’re very open about our vampires round here
Sarah Hanson-Young tears into ACMA following their Senate evidence, saying they’re an “absolute lapdog” for the gambling industry. “I don’t know what those people do”🔥
“It’s not a fight between left and right, it’s between top and bottom. Which is why I met with a bunch of plague cultists for the most powerful man in the entire world.”
Weedle@weedle.bsky.social · 2d agoSure the MAHA activists want to make it illegal for trans people to access hormones but they're so authentic and populist about it so
The entirety of the NHS, from inception, was made possible thanks to non-white immigrants. Every accusation is a confession. They don’t want talented people regardless of skin colour. They just want white people regardless of skills.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2d ago"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
Learn a German word with impetus today: Hitzefrei. Literally translates as „heat free“, and means you should get time off from work or school or whatever you do because it is simply too hot. #hitzefrei
RFK Jr is fighting against inclusion for disabled people at home with their families or caregivers, and against his own family’s disability rights legacy. Institutionalization costs more and is cruel. www.msn.com/en-us/health...
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Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The BMA said the Cass Review provided no evidential basis for a puberty blocker ban. But that wasn't the story many newspapers told 👇
Reporting about British Medical Association critique of Cass Review was 'factually wrong'
The mainstream media's reporting of vital information about trans healthcare was wrong. Again.
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Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
Pauline Hanson barred The Age, the ABC, and The Guardian from her Melbourne press conference, with the new state leader Warren Pickering threatening legal action against journalists for “character assassination attempts”. The full story: theageaustralia.com/4fPSuDZ
With highly-pathogenic avian influenza now in NZ, we're taking steps to protect #kakapo and #takahe by vaccinating against the disease, following a successful trial. We're aiming for ~90 kākāpō and 100 takahē in an initial phase to protect the most valuable birds/sites. #conservation #birds
I’ll support public funding for security at Jewish events, schools and synagogues, if the Jewish lobby support my right to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Of course not. This was never about the former. It was always about the latter.
In addition to this very real focus group issue, I think there's a kind of psychological thing about the potential 'availability of good tradespeople' which activates the pleasure centres of the middle class brain. One struggles to get good people to do one's renovations, doesn't one.
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last wk.The only reason Russell Group Humanities grads in politics and journalism chuff on and on about 'learning a trade' is the focus groups of hero voters assembled by... Russell Group grads. It's grim.
A lot of people I really respect have been working hard for a long time to make this style of engagement *not* be the norm in academia. None of the people I am around do this (and would never valorize it) because it is the worst thing about the academy.
Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 4d agoI don’t really want to get into this with people who feel this way, but i don’t think this is a good thing! We don’t need to behave this way! It’s not healthy to approach academic discourse as an exercise in harshness!
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.
for a very long time the republican party has been moving towards people who actually believe the slop they consume instead of people who view it as a tool, but the slop has been moving as well the fox news grandpas are now being outflanked by the groypers in the fever swamps
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d agoNot only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Academia is a bit like high school except social capital accrues to the people who are the best at making nerdy arguments rather than the captain of the football team. It gets used for bullying and domination in analogous ways
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d agoI don't think there's ever been much of an intellectual justification for this kind of culture, to me the aggro Q&A is pretty transparently service to inert nerd masculinity and serves no other function
RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods
VoteHub@votehub.com · 4d agoNEW — Montana Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alani Bankhead tells POLITICO that “absolutely nothing” would make her leave the race, barring a “lightning bolt from God” striking her. Polls show a close head-to-head race between independent Seth Bodnar and Republican Kurt Alme.
What the US government is doing to Dr. Fauci is the embodiment of what they are doing to scientific infrastructure overall.
I realize these are all things that sex workers have told us and could tell us better. Consumer-facing AI is basically a sex worker so of course it’s personalizing various iterations of financial domination for men because that’s what they want.
When people feared an Ebola survivor would be attacked, he showed up and hugged her on camera to show there was nothing to fear.
In Barcelona, hundreds of people remembered Hind Rajab by carrying her giant portrait. The six-year-old girl who asked for help over the phone while the Israeli army surrounded her. She was killed along with her family and the paramedics who tried to rescue her. Months later, her face remains