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Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 13h

It hasn't gone up for 25 years?? Not even with inflation?

Why wouldn't you at least raise it in line with inflation each year, or better still, average earnings?

#UKpolitics

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 13h

#politics

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14h

Officially hitting the “you cannot leave” stage of Trump’s Nazi regime.

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 13h

#politics

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 13h

#UKmedia #UKpolitics

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 14h

Videos claiming that a new rule will ban pensioners from driving at night have been shared thousands of times online.

But this is completely false - and the videos also feature fake audio of the PM.

Fake nighttime pensioner driving ban rumour spreads online – Full Fact

A spokesperson from the Department for Transport confirmed this is not true.

fullfact.org

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 14h

#politics

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 18h

Call me old school, but I don't think a person illegally blowing up boats and unleashing masked goons on his citizens would be a serious candidate for a peace prize.

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Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 14h

#UKpolitics #UKmedia #BiasedBBC

Geoffrey Harris @geoffreyharris.bsky.social · 14h

Objectivity would be a good thing. The racists are objectively racist, the liars are objectively liars, they can be called as such and if that were the BBC's guiding principle there wouldn't be nearly as many problems

Whereas "balance" is half-way between objectivity & the biggest bluffer's bluffs

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 16h

#politics #health

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 16h

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?

Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.

To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 19h

Apparently Reform councillors are spending more because they need assistants, not spending less!

#UKpolitics

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 19h

Staffordshire Reform UK Councillors have voted to spend taxpayers’ money on political assistants…

www.facebook.com/share/r/1JV8...

Redirecting...

www.facebook.com

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 1d

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d

You'd think there would be more interest from the US media that Trump is simply delusional - at best being fed complete fabrications by his team, at worst in serious cognitive decline and unable to recognise reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 1d

#politics

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 1d

#tech #AI #markets

Sam Ro @tker.co · 1d

AI Ecosystem Capital Flows - Morgan Stanley

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 1d

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 1d

#politics #tech

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 1d

#UKpolitics

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton

The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the world’s ills, says associate editor at the New Left Review Oliver Eagleton

www.theguardian.com

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 1d

Will this help more people train to become nurses?

#UKpolitics

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 1d

Why did the Council agree, do they not have any common sense?? Or were they forced to do it by some daft legal stuff?

#UKpolitics

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Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 2d

This is completely wrong. The trend now is towards discovering physical causes (and sometimes therapies) for more and more brain conditions. E.g. insulin resistance, or mitochondrial defects causing problems with glucose metabolism, etc etc.
This **** still thinks most things are "all in the mind".

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 3d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 2d

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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 2d

Snipers on the roof, pointing their guns at peaceful protesters.

Welcome to Nazi America.

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 2d

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Former FDA vaccine chief Peter Marks joins Eli Lilly, STAT reports reut.rs/3VQlVMB

Former FDA vaccine chief Peter Marks joins Eli Lilly, STAT reports

Peter Marks, the former top vaccine regulator at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has joined Eli Lilly , STAT News reported on Tuesday.

reut.rs

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 2d

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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 2d

Republicans are trying to give their rich donors more tax cuts while your health care costs double.

"Republicans shut down the government because they care more about their rich donors' tax cuts than about your health care." Below this, two framed images contrast the financial effects:

Left Frame: Shows a photo of a diverse family of four hugging outdoors. Text above reads "Family of four making $75,000/yr". Text on a green banner at the bottom reads: "pay $3,368 more for health coverage 2026".

Right Frame: Shows a photo of three wealthy individuals, including Mark Zuckerberg. Text above reads "Person making $1 million/yr". Text on a red banner at the bottom reads: "pay $97,000 less in taxes 2027".

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 2d

I gather it's because they're not allowed to use certain money to recruit GPs, it's specifically earmarked for recruiting other staff. But I'm not an expert, and that might be wrong. You should follow @drstevetaylor.bsky.social to learn more.

#UKpolitics

Dr Steve Taylor (@drstevetaylor.bsky.social)

GP who believes in the NHS Doctors Association UK https://dauk.org

drstevetaylor.bsky.social

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Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 2d

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 2d

#UKpolitics

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Protein and veg and fasting. @mccheapo.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if any Republicans think he's going too far yet?

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 6d

Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.