Rebecca Shadwick

IDS offers sanctuary to US health researchers amid academic restrictions - Institute of Development Studies American academics facing threats to their work on health equities can apply to temporarily relocate to the UK to continue their research, in a new initiative announced today. The Sanctuary for Health...

@altcdc.altgov.info Flagging in case useful: sanctuary programme incl temporary relocation for health researchers just opened with UK academic institute for development studies! www.ids.ac.uk/news/uk-inst...

(also - am random bluesky person but saw your post and just thought, that is just such a lovely thing to do!!) 💗

North Shore pattern by tincanknits

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... maybe this one? You could adapt the trees and skip the ocean? Pretty sure this has tiny sizes as well as adults :)

flotilla-orpin.vercel.app?fbclid=Iwb21...
All eyes on Gaza still. Flotilla data here.

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says: RECOMMENDATIONS: Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible... View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

Oooh! I have been looking for years for a way to make *good* red beans and rice without andouille sausage. Looks great. I usually lean heavily on butter to make up the silkiness but miso & soy make sense. Yum!

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.

In 1965:

-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.

-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.

-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

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⚠️ TL;DR: There’s a Legionnaires’ outbreak in Central Harlem, NYC — 67 cases, 3 deaths. If you’re in affected ZIP codes and have flu-like symptoms, get medical help fast.

Let's break down what you need to know.🧵👇

“[The mobbing of aid convoys] is an inevitable and unavoidable outcome of the level of deprivation that the Israeli government has imposed on Gaza through the blockade.”

@jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social discusses the barriers to humanitarian aid in #Gaza

@washingtonpost.com

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Gaza city

Gaza city as photographed today by Heidi Levine for the Washington Post, from a Jordanian air drop mission. Via @leloveluck.bsky.social (X)

Note: this is one of the *LESS* damaged areas in the Gaza Strip.

25% of children + pregnant women screened at @msf.ca facilities in #Gaza are malnourished, w/ severe malnutrition rates tripling in kids under five in Gaza City.

When will our hunger for meaningful change be greater than the gnawing pain of hunger for food in Gaza?

Today, on Africa's Women's Day, we're celebrating two visionary women leading MSI Africa ✨

We sat down with our MSI Africa Director and Deputy Director to learn about their backgrounds and shared vision for the future of reproductive choice across the African continent ⤵️

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LinkedIn exposes transgender users to targeted harassment after company quietly changes hate speech policy The changes involve edits to LinkedIn’s Professional Community Policies, specifically the “Hateful and Derogatory Content” and “Harassment and Abusive Content” sections.

LinkedIn has removed hate speech protections for transgender people and people of color.

www.advocate.com/news/linkedi...

#Transrights #NHS Hilary Cass has decided to show her full hand. She had Anna Hutchinson publish a paper titled "Cass informed psychotherapy for gender distressed children". Hutchinson submitted for publication with Taylor & Francis online, not surprisingly a publication which has had plenty of

‘Worst-case scenario of famine’ is happening in Gaza, food crisis experts warn The “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” the leading international authority on food crises said in a new alert Tuesday, predicting “widespread death” without immediate action.

The “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” the leading international authority on food crises said in a new alert Tuesday, predicting “widespread death” without immediate action.

The Way We Never Were, American families and nostalgia trap by Stephanie Coontz. Cover features a 1950’s style illustration of a suburban family’s outdoor barbecue. Where the father is grilling, the mother is setting a table and son and daughter are playing in the yard a suburban home.

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This is fantastic breakdown of just how fake much of the mythology around what America and American families looked like. It also deconstructs the myth of rugged individualism, from settler “pioneers” to 1950s suburbanites relied heavily on government subsidies.

Neo‑Nazi fight clubs take root in Finland amid global spread Neo‑Nazi “Active Clubs”—US‑born far‑right fight groups—have spread to Finland, forming chapters in Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere and beyond. Experts warn martial‑arts training and youth recruitment pose a r...

Neo-Nazi “Active Clubs,” have expanded into Finland, blending MMA with white supremacist ideology to radicalize youth. GPAHE has tracked over 230 chapters worldwide—including new Finnish branches linked to banned and violent extremist networks.

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Cartoon of "Satan" from South Park speaking at a podium "I will be suing South Park for $50M. Showing Trump in bed with me has done irreparable harm to my reputation"

Credit to "AJ"

#SouthPark

I was just going to say this - hearing these moments from what sounds like a lovely trip is infusing some much needed vicarious joy into my feed, thanks for sharing them with us all!

Support Grassroots Gaza: Mutual Aid for Families in Gaza & Egypt Support Grassroots Gaza: Mutual Aid for Families in Gaza & Egypt

Official aid for #Gaza is blocked, very little gets through and what does is controlled at what are now just sites of murders.
Keep pushing for the aid blockade to be lifted, AND in the meantime grassroots mutual aid DOES get through, like this: chuffed.org/project/1393...

I'm avoiding reposting graphic images but I do want to record for posterity: we are watching a people being deliberately starved in real time and the best our governments have to offer are "stern words": humanity has lost, the monsters are in charge.

This will be an increasing feature of #publichealth going forward: previously 'foreign' OR eradicated diseases showing up in wider and wider swathes of the globe as #climatechange wreaks havoc, especially (but not only) those with zoonotic vectors.

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Aluminum-Adsorbed Vaccines and Chronic Diseases in Childhood: A Nationwide Cohort Study: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0 Background: Aluminum is used as an adjuvant in nonlive vaccines administered in early childhood. Concerns persist about potential associations between vaccination with aluminum-adsorbed vaccines and i...

Truth in Numbers

New data in 1.2 million 🇩🇰 children confirm: aluminum in vaccines DOES NOT raise the risk of autism, asthma, or autoimmune disease

Indeed no increase in 50+ chronic conditions—even with higher cumulative exposure

Pretty powerful affirmation of early-life vaccine safety to my eyes

As of 15 July, 877 fatalities and 5666 injuries have been reported among people trying to access food supplies. Image of an empty bowl and spoon against black background.

People are getting killed trying to get food.

877 people have died and 5666 were injured in #Gaza trying to get food in recent weeks.

Congress has voted to rescind $7.9 billion that had been appropriated to foreign aid.

Our data show that withholding this funding will lead to 17.1 million unintended pregnancies and 34,000 preventable maternal deaths after just one year.

Never mind me, prayers for Palestine and for your family ❤️💚🖤

I've done what I can til next payday and I hope it helps! I'm so sorry we in the rest of the world haven't managed to stop this madness yet.

This.