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Zelensky

Zelenskyy is all of us listening to Trump speak.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

This was the absolute norm for any US politician until, well, Trump. Even Mike Pence said it when he was booed at a staging of Hamilton just after they won in 2016.

What an evil and dangerous (and completely false) thing for a Vice President of the United States to say. How dare he.

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.

I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.

Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

We don’t all share the same internet. The personalised algorithm has siloed us into parallel worlds

What a depressing day. Indecency with a megaphone, decency apparently struck dumb.

James Talarico: Our division is not by accident. The social media platforms, the algorithms, and the news networks tear us apart. We have got to find our back to each other. That is the only way we can continue this experiment in democracy

Ain't that the truth

RFK Jr’s attack on the CDC endangers global public health The US health secretary’s attack on public health safeguards is not just a disaster for the United States, but the whole world

The US health secretary’s attack on public health safeguards is not just a disaster for the United States, but the whole world.

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.

Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

Russia attacks Poland hours after Israel attacks Qatar. And Trump's response is to stroll across the street to dinner to prove DC is "crime free" and so we spend ten fewer minutes talking about his links to Jeffrey Epstein. The US plays no role in world affairs anymore. We've just quit.

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The mother featured in this NZ documentary is amazing. But it’s appalling that all round the world those with ME/CFS get so little support and medical care. It needn’t be this way.

A painting of a woman lying in a bed with a landscape of hills in the background.

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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

And they are mostly owned by very right people living in tax havens - people that don’t live or pay tax here. Why do we allow them such an outsized influence in our affairs? We need new media ownership laws that reflect the threat to our democracy of a foreign owned press.

Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

The top five most frequent non-politicians on BBC Question Time all write for a single rightwing paper

And this was from last year

@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…”

Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform.

Do we have to keep doing this?

happy to help!

Turns out Nigel Farage isn't prime minister. So why does he get so much airtime?

Nigel Farage is all rhetoric and no responsibility, but he is able to command attention by playing into people's fears.

When QAnon emerged publicly in August 2018, the media was totally blindsided. Most had either no knowledge, or had actively ignored it. There's no excuse now. The president is sharing insane prophecy cult memes, and it needs to be covered. It's not normal.

How the Trump-Kennedy Alliance Is Pushing the Boundaries of Public Health The mutually beneficial relationship between President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is based on a striking alignment of some of their views.

The two exchanges crystallized the mutually beneficial nature of the relationship between the two men, an alliance driven by political calculation and a striking alignment of some of their views. Their ties have empowered Mr. Kennedy to push the boundaries of public health and science with the support of the president, who in turn benefits from Mr. Kennedy’s coalition of followers opposed to vaccines and health mandates.

You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com.

“Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.

Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An open letter to Nigel Farage - Bishop Steven's Blog Bishop Steven writes an open letter in response to Nigel Farage MP's immigration policy which was launched in Oxford this week.

Thank you for holding Nigel Farage to account, when so many don’t seem to try - and thanks also to the Bishop of Oxford for his eloquent open letter too. Well worth reading.

blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...

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