“Who was Jesse Jackson?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
06.03.2026 17:41
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“Who was Jesse Jackson?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
When the US govt terminated the National Nature Asst, @phillevin.bsky.social + the author team were determined not to let that stop them.
They re-organized, set up an advisory committee, found funding…and now the brand new Nature Record is open for public comment. 👏🌳👏🌲
Check it out (link below)!
Lebanon | "Families are once again leaving their homes in fear. Evacuation orders and hostilities are forcing people to flee from many areas of Beirut, southern Lebanon, and Bekaa."
Sally Aoun, ICRC communicator in Lebanon, shares 👇🏽
It’s an illegal war, launched by men (Trump, Netanyahu) of flawed character and questionable motives. I certainly would welcome collapse of the hideous Iranian regime, more freedom for its people, and greater security for the region. But, such interventions always have unpredictable consequences.
This is a serious and worrying failure by media - Reform need to be pressed on the core legal and moral issues at stake here
Great thread
‘The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American. Whatever their immigration status, these are human beings created in the image and likeness of God, and this is a moral inflection point for our country’
As teachers, we did our best during the deadliest pandemic in US history (www.statnews.com/2021/09/20/c...). November 2020 was an especially deadly month, with morgues & hospitals overflowing—requiring mobile morgues & field hospitals to be set up (apnews.com/article/pand...). We did what we could.
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
This one hits hard.
NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration.
The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation.
On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants.
This is so logically pleasing and yet absurdly like a science fiction story
FINALLY, finally, the University of Southern Denmark says it will investigate the proposed RFK Jr-funded trial that its researchers want to conduct in Guinea Bissau—a deeply unethical trial that lacks equipoise and puts babies at risk
Took them forever to get there
A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.
The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.
Totally appalling way to treat anyone but in this case this woman had not broken any immigration rule at all. And the British consulate were completely and inexcusably useless. Awful and I think deserves some response from the Foreign Office.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
✨✨✨New blog
What would it take for the government to fulfil its promise to halve the gap in healthy life expectancy across the country?
TLDR: improving health care won’t be enough on its own, govt urgently needs to reduce deprivation.
Full analysis here ⬇️⬇️
www.health.org.uk/features-and...
For those who think it important for the Nation to impose more tariffs, I understand that today's decision will be dis-appointing. All I can offer them is that most major decisions affecting the rights and responsibilities of the American people (including the duty to pay taxes and tariffs) are funneled through the legislative process for a reason. Yes, legislating can be hard and take time. And, yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises. But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design. Through that process, the Nation can tap the combined wisdom of the people's elected representatives, not just that of one faction or man. There, deliberation tempers impulse, and compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions. And because laws must earn such broad support to survive the legislative pro-cess, they tend to endure, allowing ordinary people to plan their lives in ways they cannot when the rules shift from day to day. In all, the legislative process helps ensure each of us has a stake in the laws that govern us and in the Nation's future. For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent. For others, it may not seem so obvious. But if history is any guide, the tables will turn and the day will come when those disappointed by today's result will appreciate the legislative process for the bulwark of liberty it is.
These words by Supreme Justice Gorsuch should be printed, in full, on tomorrow’s front pages.
#Controlled #medicines are #essential for pain, palliative care, surgery,anaesthesia,neurological & mental conditions in #Children. Lack of #access is a morally unacceptable reality: read our call in @lancetchildadol.bsky.social:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
My mother died this week. I’m not posting this for sympathy, although thank you. But I realised I was so extremely grateful for people who showed small kindnesses this week. People who let me out while I was driving to her deathbed. People who smiled when I got stuck at the self service supermarket.
Mind-boggling that the same day South Korea's former leader is sentenced to life in prison for leading an insurrection
—and the same day British police arrest a prominent royal over allegations of sick Epstein predation
—our own insurrectionist-leading predator is thus mocking the rule of law:
“The self-evident truths of public health remind us… of the basics; that ill health and inequity in health, are, via poverty, deprivation, or low-income, structurally determined, and that this is where our efforts must aim, ultimately”
Gift link in chain below - read! A reminder of humanity in dark times
The IPC’s decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete under their national flags at the 2026 Paralympics is deeply regrettable.
Allowing this while the invasion of Ukraine continues sends the wrong message and should be reconsidered.
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
So important - and so often overlooked
Every so often you hear calls for ministers to be more robust (or something) in the face of legal advice.
But one can be fairly certain government lawyers warned about both proscribing Palestine Action and cancelling local council elections.
And here we are - a defeat and a reversal respectively.
😲 This is THE most amazing thing I've seen this year. (And that's saying something!)
A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭
Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍
Since a handful of hate filled people protested outside RNLI HQ yesterday because they're angry that crews don't discriminate in their rescues and work to save all lives at sea you might want to show your support with a one off or regular donation.
rnli.org/pages/ig/new...
This is part of a bigger story that hasn't had much coverage about the FCDO being cut to ribbons.
Development funding has been slashed but foreign office staff are also being reduced by 20-30%.
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This is awesome. Hope to see some of them competing in Hawaiʻi in the future.
