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Just a programming error? Well that’s ok then.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message: Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared. New global consensus just dropped. link.springer.com/content/pdf/10… 🧵

submitted 46 days ago • 51 comments

Seems like the relevance of this Reagan-era Herblock cartoon has risen by 200%. Washington Post, 12/22/1988.

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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 93 days ago • 1736 comments

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪

submitted 96 days ago • 156 comments

Move over Ethan Allen, here comes Lucy Welch billmckibben.substack.com/p/special-ve...

submitted 96 days ago • 51 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 96 days ago • 3278 comments

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 97 days ago • 1299 comments

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

submitted 98 days ago • 334 comments

Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

submitted 98 days ago • 451 comments

“I will wear a costume after this war is finished…maybe something like yours.” I don’t know what kind of fortitude you must have to deliver a burn like that under those circumstances, but damnmmmnnnn

submitted 97 days ago • 7 comments

Photo of two boys - one vaccinated against smallpox, the other not - published in 1901 by Dr. Allan Warner. Smallpox killed over half a billion people in the 20th century alone. On 8 May 1980, the WHO announced its eradication, which was achieved through #vaccines, surveillance, and containment.

submitted 124 days ago • 25 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 113 days ago • 513 comments

As Jamie Raskin rips into Musk’s lawlessness, a shrewd legal observer explains why he believes the Dem opposition is awakening—and what determined resistance might be able to accomplish.

submitted 121 days ago • 26 comments

Please RT to gain a ban of harmful pesticides, neonicotinoids being 7,797 times more toxic than the 'simple' DDT is. 😡 I planted from more than 4,000 varieties of wild flowers on 200 m2 only, by applying the Miyawaki method, to save the pollinators in my small way. Donate 👉 change.org/SaveTheBee 🆘

submitted 132 days ago • 5 comments

Agreed. Republicans ducked their duty to impeach Trump, on the plea that he was finished & it was time to "move on". The Right cannot complain of "lawfare" - the use of legal, instead of political checks on power -if they make it impossible to use the political checks that the constitution provides

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More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

submitted 178 days ago • 782 comments

I ran into the fabulous @mazzucatom.bsky.social yesterday, one of the world’s leading economists, & she gave this super clear explanation on why the Guardian management should be listening to its journalists. AND restructuring its board. Please watch! 1/

submitted 183 days ago • 11 comments

We could have done this in America. On January 7, 2021. We might still have a functioning democracy and rule of law.

submitted 183 days ago • 77 comments

one of the biggest lies that is told about climate change is that: it's too late. it's out of our hands. our fate is sealed. but we know how to stop the heating up. great post from @andrewdessler.com www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-ch...

submitted 185 days ago • 8 comments

NEW and FREE from me and the AHRC-funded 'All Our Footsteps' team, at @historyandpolicy.bsky.social... Given that the Government wants to increase access to the land, what could they learn from previous Labour efforts to do just that? www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

submitted 184 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone else been listening to #FileOn4 & absolutely fuming at the the scandal of university funding? Industrial scale exploitation of foreign students, used as cash cows with no regard for their plausible ability to complete the courses. International recruitment agencies raking in the profits...

submitted 184 days ago • 20 comments

And where reputable journalists and thinkers go, so do elected officials. I’ve been getting asked lately about a more serious + systemic migration to Bluesky among electeds. Idk the answer but it highlights how much of a breaking point misinfo & throttling has become for Twitter(& other platforms)

submitted 187 days ago • 434 comments

The Thailand Michelin Awards ceremony was held with Thailands first three star Michelin restaurant being announced, and four new one star restaurants. Sorn now has three stars. #Bangkok #Thailand #Thailandrestaurants #Bangkokrestaurant bk.asia-city.com/restaurants/...

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

“But sometimes [historians] are merely asking our readers […] to think, critically, about the histories that they thought they knew, and perhaps to think again.” Excellent reflection on the battle over imperial history in Britain by @lottelydia.bsky.social #skystorians

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

submitted 192 days ago • 732 comments

On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation