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One of the reasons why we need prevention of airborne diseases: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #CallForPublicHealthAction

The Pope on jailed journalists, at his first press conference: "The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...

I’m in.

Someone sent me this photo of my book at @waterstones.bsky.social and I am: a) Losing my mind; b) Never going to be able to convince my friends and family I didn't sneak it in there myself.

Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you… …seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are. Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

They don’t do it because it’s not about crime or justice or even following the law. It is about terrorizing brown immigrants. It is about keeping America as white as possible. They’ve admitted it.

Prayers please. Having my second AFib attack. If you haven’t got long Covid yet do what you can to avoid it.

This is why Vance, Musk & the rest of them talk about our ‘free speech’ being under threat while they fast track actual fascism in the USA. It’s a long con & their accomplices are far-right blue ticks with the brains of blancmange.

It was extraordinary. There is, for example, no earthly reason why a little-known radio presenter on a commercial station should have become a national rallying point for Brexit reality simply by telling the obvious truth. (He did have to step down from occasionally presenting Newsnight, though.) 😉

It's funny how the stupidest people of this year - the "Don't worry about what Trump says, he doesn't mean it" brigade - were also the stupidest people of all the Brexit/Truss/Johnson years. It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.

Trump administration officials have fired workers for the main American aid agency who were sent to Myanmar to assess how the U.S. could help with earthquake relief efforts, people with knowledge of the actions said.

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Figures.

JUST IN: My old firm WilmerHale sues to challenge Trump’s order against them, represented by the best conservative lawyer in the country, former Solicitor General Paul Clement. THE TIDE IS STARTING TO TURN 👊🇺🇸🔥 assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

This is mortifying. It's the kind of calculation you would normally make about a dictatorship. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

What happened to all the ‘anti-woke’, ‘sovereignty’ fetishising, free speech defenders? Part 212. www.ft.com/content/02ed...

Brexit. Trump. Truss. Boris Johnson. Netanyahu… It never ceases to amaze me just how much of our media & politicians waltz away unscathed after being so catastrophically & hideously wrong about all the major moments of our time.

Left: Nigel Farage says medicine shortages after Brexit is, "Utter tosh.. It's complete and utter rubbish.. Project fear.. It should be utterly completely totally disregarded" Right: "Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years"

Whoa! We just got discovery into Trump DOJ’s illegal targeting of FBI agents who worked on the 1/6 cases. Fasten seatbelts… -TN

Listening to this is like eating your way through an enchanted and utterly delectable box of chocolates that also feeds your brain and your very being

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.

Tennessee bill to criminalize ‘harboring or hiding” immigrants without legal status advances tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/20/t...

Pardons for people who attack police officers. Deportation for people who attack cars.

12. Like art, music, philosophy, and literature, science is literally part of humanity's heritage. My colleagues and I have had the amazing opportunity to be part of something vastly larger than ourselves, with meaning that transcends any state, regime, or generation. They can't take that away.

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

Thank you to Matt, who nailed the garlic question on Mystery Hour last week because he makes this stuff, for the care package. And to everyone who crashed Darkfirehotsauce.com ordering some…

Listening to the Tim Harford radio 4 doc about how children suffered from a lockdown imposed to protect adults, straight after a news bulletin full of 'young people with MH problems need to get back to work to save us all a fortune' is I have to say fairly jarring

How is this prediction going so far?

They have so much in common, after all.

I do hope European leaders understand what is happening here. Trump and Putin are carving up Ukraine and making fundamental decisions on the future of Europe--and not a single European leader is taking part in the call.

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It’s a shame because I LONG to revisit San Francisco and New Orleans and Boston and Niagra but I’m boycotting US with my tourist money until the US stops being Gilead. As a woman I would not feel safe. So Canada, here I come!

Just home from USA. Questioned re visa vs ESTA at airport, knew all was in order but questioner from ICE made me nervous. Definite tension palpable. Will not return until he is gone. Did not feel safe.

My wife asked if I wanted a return trip to NYC ( I live in UK), I'd love to, but have told her I'd rather bathe in broken glass than visit Trump's neo fascist dystopian playpen. Have decided to visit Canada this autumn instead.

On the subject of people traveling to the US right about now: Fuck, if I were from another country and I didn't need to come, I sure as hell wouldn't, the current administration has made it clear traveling here isn't safe, and why not take them at their word, there's a whole world to visit

JD Vance is currently claiming that his obnoxious comments about France & the UK planning to put 20,000 peacekeeping troops on the ground in Ukraine had, wait for it, nothing to do with France & the UK. Doublespeak, dipshit or both?

As I've been grumbling about certain BBC presenters, it's important to say that correspondents like Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet and Steve Rosenberg continue to not just deliver the finest reporting and analysis but push back against daft questions. It's such a relief to hear them instead of [redacted]

I wonder if this will be Badenoch’s Salisbury moment? Like Corbyn’s desire to give Putin the benefit of the doubt, this is a statement of obvious, politically motivated myopia at a time of political crisis. Voters saw what Corbyn was doing and never forgave or forgot. Same could happen to Kemi.

Javier Milei just deleted from his socials every trace and photo of this June 2024 visit, during which he awarded Volodymyr Zelenskyy the Order of Freedom medal. ~AA

We are taking - and making - some extraordinary calls at the moment. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...