A @propublica.org investigation pinpointed at least 75 people across federal agencies who stood up to protect the integrity of the 2020 election.
Today, nearly all of those people are gone, having resigned, been fired, or been reassigned, esp. at DOJ and DHS.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
"For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect."
Matthew 24:24
On which note, it's a running theme that false prophets tend to have the most followers.
This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.
It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain.
For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
Hungarians are singing ‘We Are The Champions’ in celebration of the landslide victory of Peter Magyar
In absolutely chef’s kiss timing, Matthew Goodwin is due to speak at Orbán’s in-house propaganda group MCC *today*
Badloss strikes again.
Close-up of an apple blossom.
Apple blossom. Happy Friday!
The "review" was rushed out to the media on World Autism Awareness Day. That's not accidental, it's systematic behaviour now, to time these stunts on awareness days. It's intended to hurt, but it's just so pitifully petty.
More on what experts find when not paid to deliver a hatchet job on patients
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Meanwhile, here is the in-depth, thorough NHS ADHD taskforce report, involving specialists in the condition
www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...
This is is disgusting. No other word for it.
The "review" hastily rustled up to contradict the NHS taskforce findings, this headline, the lot. 🤢
Screenshot of Times piece with headline "Millions to be denied hospital referrals in drive to cut waiting lists."
🧵/ The NHS is about to undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history.
From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote “advice & guidance” from hospital clinicians, making it even harder to see an NHS specialist.
An advert for the Bylines Network women, justice and equality webinar, taking place Wednesday 15 April at 7 pm. The card has pictures of Ginny Smith (Sussex Bylines Editor in Chief), Anouska de Georgiou (a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein), Natalie Bennet (politician and journalist) and a logo for the No One Above campaign group with the names of two survivors of abuse by Mohammed Al-Fayed beside it- Isabella and Justine https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bylinesnetwork1/2140874
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This isn't just happening in healthcare. In other areas too blocks are being moved into place to deny chronically ill people support — care and support cost. Patients are busy coping and rarely get to see what is happening. Advocates, sector professionals see some of it. It's a war, with casualties.
There are people very highly positioned in UK healthcare policymaking who don't want clinicians to challenge their views, and their professional record, on ME especially, with evidence, let alone treatment. And this isn't happening in isolation, but in the context of denying treatment for severe ME.
There is a lot of politics and economics behind not treating post-viral illnesses, and career reputation management in psychologising them. Some of what I've heard doesn't sound good faith, not to say there aren't genuine grievances, but administration is largely down to a clinic, not practitioners.
HIS investigates clinics, not individual practitioners.
Depends who believes what. I think if someone sets out to close a clinic, for whatever reason, believing the perfect to be the enemy of the good, the result is that there is nothing.
In this situation if there is a fault, it is with the clinic, not the doctor, however overwhelmed. This is bad news.
Great article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social in today's @theguardian.com about Darwin & Henslow's plant specimens & illustrations and the fab new @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Certificate in Botany: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Links for this course & many others here:
bsbi.org/learn/traini...
She is lovely and she cares. It's all hellish 💔
Imagine coming to power with 400+ MPs then spending your time in government saying "If we don't do bad things to...(disabled/refugees/tick applicable) this nasty party with few MPs will do it" and acting like them. If you aren't in power to deliver *your* manifesto, you don't deserve to be in power.
Extract from letter to patients from Dr Claire Taylor's clinic explaining that she has not been able to run it for the past six weeks because of harassment and advising patients that the clinic is now closing and she won't be able to prescribe without a clinic.
One of the very few Long Covid doctors, Dr Claire Taylor, who's been a ray of light in the darkness, has apparently been harassed out of running her clinic. NHS clinics have shut or have nothing to offer. The government just wants to bury Covid and its victims with it. Don't get ill in the UK.
This☝️is now happening to Motability drivers.
This 👇 is different, but: if young drivers need a black box to monitor how safely they drive (can see the insurance rationale), why only disabled drivers?
bsky.app/profile/john...
Most drivers, incl. most dangerous ones aren't disabled. Black box for all?
Among many odd things, very odd is the assumption that disabled people's needs and rights should be automatically "discounted" to below everyone else's. Imagine being told "You can drive your car between Luton and London. But drive it between Liverpool and London often enough, and pay a surcharge".
This is a choice made by Motability. But it's the direct consequence of the Treasury's decision to put VAT on Motability cars. And none of this would be happening if ministers rejected the stigmatising narratives targeted at disabled people, not utilised them to justify cuts. We need a power break ⚡
Many disabled people work without state support but limited in how they can work, hence how much they earn while facing higher costs. Many can only study or work with support. Govt claiming that support is an "incentive" not to work or that kicking it from under ppl will "motivate" them is nonsense.
It means fewer people being able to access support — not just PIP payments but also gateway support it entitles them to, for arbitrary reasons that ignore the reality of impairments. Cutting support in education, in work, in mobility won't make it easier to work or learn — just costlier and harder.
This is before talking about weakening legal rights to SEND support in education; voting down safeguards for disabled people in legislation that puts them at risk; rail policies that drop accessibility; ministers undermining neurodivergence diagnoses, etc. To not see all this takes choosing not to.
Sorry to ask, but have you been out of the country for the past 18 months?
There hasn't been such a speed and intensity of assault on disabled people's welfare for some time. Or such a rise in hateful attitudes, because of government and media rhetoric. Slurs unaccepatable for decades, back in use.
