Alex Knight

Your quick reminder that the reason the NHS is in this state is specifically because of what politicians have done. The NHS isn’t useless. The model isn’t defunct. Politicians have actively under-resourced our public healthcare system. It’s a travesty. 🚨

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THREAD 🧵: Yesterday was the municipal election in Pennsylvania where we chose judges and local politicians.

Republicans got their asses kicked, even in red counties.

Americans are stressed out, broke, and pissed the fuck off - and yesterday was a loud referendum on the MAGA junta.

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US pharma to abandon UK unless NHS pays more, says Trump’s ambassador Britain has offered to increase the threshold at which the NHS pays firms for medicines. Pharma firms want the government to go further.

In normal circumstances the attempt by the US to extort an allied country directly and via large companies would be a major political scandal. It isn't because the US is using such mob tactics on all other countries. We all lose out.

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That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership

Wherever Farage sets his foot, you find fraud.

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear (CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

Covid jab less likely than virus to cause rare heart issue in children Largest study of its kind shows health risks of refusing vaccination

NEW: Children faced more risk of rare heart problems after Covid-19 infection than they did after taking the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine, a big three-year study of under-18s in England has found.

Important evidence for debates over vaccine safety, particularly in the US.
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Why millions of Britons are off work long-term sick Almost seven million people have a health condition that has forced them out of work or limited the amount they can do. As workers and businesses await government plans to grapple with the spiralling ...

7m Britons can't work or do limited amount of work due to sickness

Result of
Poverty, austerity, profiteering - people can't afford good food, housing.
NHS queues
Can't see GP, dentist
Insecure work, anxiety, mental health problems
Lack of support from employers.

Need good income & public services

We had the lovely Carol Fucker around for tea.
She’s the singer with 80’s band T’Cau.
After some cake she said I was a total c*nt.
She called the vicar a twat & told Bunty to go f*ck herself.
She left blaming Ramrod our lab for the rise of knife crime in the UK.
We adored her!🥺

This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.

Thread. Shouldn’t need saying but apparently it does.

I hear there’s an argument going on in the UK right now about whether or not Donald Trump incited the crowds to violence around January 6th. Apparently the BBC in a documentary showed edits of his speech that misrepresented what he said.

New York Post headline: Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor - possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

One day I don't have to keep repeating these points. Also I threw this together super quick last night -- hoping these are clear enough short answers! If you enjoy these shorts, consider supporting… Like I wasn't going to respond... #shorts #kardashians

I couldn't leave this one alone. Like it seems silly and harmless, but this is such a slippery slope in to damaging conspiracy theories like anti-vax and climate change denial, so I'm going to keep explaining it in the hopes people start actually thinking about things.

Understandable! She painted herself into a corner on Brexit and had to jump out of the window...

Reform press conferences on what it might do were it to win an election four years from now shouldn't be getting more media coverage than concrete policy announcements from Britain's actual government

Errr... three surely? Thatcher, May, Truss (I know it's easy to forget Truss because she lasted less time than a lettuce)

Job well done, I'd say.

Do you think the Telegraph might leave the UK if we put rainbow flags outside its offices?

Fountains Abbey by floodlight yesterday evening- very atmospheric! @nationaltrust.org.uk
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Message in a bottle from first world war soldier found on remote Australian beach Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes

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Private Malcolm Alexander Neville’s light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, near Esperance, about 750km south-east of Perth.

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament

They were crooks and shysters to a man

They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today

UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy

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Several people stabbed on a train in Huntingdon, Cambs.

My favourite was that trying to make petunias purpler 🟣 led to a haemophilia drug.

FFS Daily Mail

No - the school classrooms were NOT used to teach “adult migrants”

Your own article explains this TWICE - and yet your headline…?🙄

I covered this yesterday in a thread when it was just RW accounts lying on Twitter

Now the DM are on it, let’s go again!

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After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future

💥 🍃 🧪 Major Scientific Advances from Basic Science Research

"Basic research ... is a major driver of economic growth. 'The return on investment in basic research — the return to society — is very high, typically multiple dollars back per dollar invested' ”

Some notes on the non-existence of purple The colour light forgot.

There’s a fairly reasonable chance that, if you look around, you’ll spot something purple right now. (I did – it’s a massive pillow.) Purple absolutely definitely exists. You apologise to Alice Walker, right now!

So - exactly why is it the internet thinks the colour purple does not exist?

Neutrinos are the second mot common subatomic particles in the Universe, after photons.

You live in a photon-and-neutrino universe.

Hold up your thumb.

100 billion neutrinos are passing through your thumbnail every second.

8 1/2 minutes ago they were in the centre of the Sun.