Several ironies here. First, those who yell loudest about evils of "Big Government" are more than happy to use "Big Government" to legislate what people wear. Second, same people who say this is about "integration" ignore research showing that bans like this lead immigrant women to integrate less.
dog breeding, there's just more of an acceptance in that field of the genetic component. It's just strange to me when the human medicine seem less accepting
It's strange. Long story short, my sister got diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos, although turned out her main issue was something else. I think some of my issues stem from a gradient of that, though I don't "qualify". I'm a biologist and did quite a bit of population genetics at uni, also interested in
This👇 and when challenged, mine told me to take it or leave it. Dated information leading to incorrect treatment/recommendations is the policy of the hospital.
A friend paid 19000 SEK for tests at a private hospital to confirm she has a gene polymorphism that leads to disease.
I'm so sorry you have to face this 😞
Talking about shooting yourself in both feet: making sure that you elect the party of putin's guy who didn't go to a single debate or interview, who is known to have said that, if he comes to power, Bulgarians do not need to "worry about politics anymore."
Hello more corruption, goodbye democracy.
Yes, less fetishizing elections as the be-all and end-all of democratic participation (important as it is), and more vigilance 24/7/365.
"Perhaps it’s time to tone down the (...) excessive attention to electoral periods. Counter-disinformation work should be supported continually."
A relentless nazi enthusiast who was kept on the side by SD (far-right Swedish party) for a bit is now back on their list for the elections. She was kept on the side for a while because she was a bit too overtly nazi and was damaging the image of a party that likes to deny its origins.
"Sluta använda ordet ”effektivisering” när det handlar om rena nedskärningar. Om resurserna försvinner ska även uppdraget krympas – öppet och ärligt inför medborgarna."
www.arbetsvarlden.se/debatt/chefe...
Imagine having to always do a review of the medical research on a topic to get a particular specialist, who insists on using guides from 2000s, to at least listen to you, and ending up with an authoritarian answer from them that shows they are so much into their dogma they put your health at risk.
Beyond that, Israel is engaging in wholesale ethnic cleansing of Lebanon using armored bulldozers to wipe entire towns off the map as they did in Gaza. But it's the destruction of a religious symbol that gets people upset, not the total destruction of homes and livelihoods.
A chart showing the decline in cannabis use in the last 12 months among 8th, 9th and 11th graders since 2013, according to the Minnesota Student Survey. Among 11th graders, self-reported cannabis use in the past 12 months fell from 25.2% of students in 2013 to 12.7% in 2025.
Cannabis use among youth in Minnesota has continued to decline in the years since the state legalized recreational marijuana in 2023, down by more than 50% since 2013, according to the findings of the latest Minnesota Student Survey released Monday by the MN Department of Health.
The troll and bot accounts that were calling themselves László last week, in the eve of Hungarian parliamentary elections, are calling themselves Димитър these days, as there are parliamentary elections in Bulgaria and a pro-russian who just made a party is pushed on social media and in the polls.
Dnipro is on fire! Residential buildings, garages, and cars are burning. Russia bombed the city in the middle of the night.
Reports confirm 10 people injured and 1 person killed.
We're barrelling pretty fast into annual report season, so worth catching up on this v good summary of everything tech-climate-accountability (which also mentions the latest work I led on greenwashing narratives!)
The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic.
Bingo.
It's astonishing how wedded people are to the idea that refusing to name what's happening is how we overcome it.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
With 98.2% of the vote counted, Magyar/TISZA are on 52.6% & Orban/FIDESZ on 39.0%.
Now, imagine what those numbers would be had Orban not had near-complete control of the Hungarian media and government bureaucracy, not to mention his 16 years of silencing civil society and political opposition.
Knarkkriget går så väl i England att en av tio män och nästan två av fem kvinnor utvecklat missbruk – i fängelset.
Nästan gulligt med de svenska fantasierna om "narkotikafritt samhälle" när inte ens fängelserna kan hållas knarkfria.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
This is exactly why I built my publication thedissident.news on ghost instead of substack. Substack monetizes nazis and now human traffickers like Andrew Tate.
This pattern holds a crucial lesson for America’s current moment. As democratic norms erode and elections become increasingly tilted, anti-corruption movements offer what partisan politics cannot: the moral authority to unite society against a rigged system. When traditional opposition fails, these movements succeed because they transcend party lines, mobilizing citizens around a cause larger than any candidate: the fundamental fairness of the system itself. Research shows that in polarized societies, the most effective opposition doesn’t fight on the traditional left-right battlefield where positions are entrenched. Instead, it creates an entirely new axis of conflict.1 Framing the stakes as clean versus corrupt shifts debate from rigid ideological divisions to a universally resonant moral question: are you on the side of the people or a corrupt elite?
Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics.
A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.
My problem is that even 10 usd/gallon is no way near what it should be considering the cost of climate change adaptation. We - as in the planet - have to face this 😐
I'm sorry my bad. It translates to $8 a gallon.
I'm sorry if I sound rude, this post just hit a button.
That's less than half of the cost in my area of the world. Perhaps the main problem is how cheap it is considering the state of the planet.
16 years of Orban sends a clear message: independent media are always early targets for authoritarians. States must ensure that regulatory safeguards are in place to prevent the politicization of both public and private media. Collapsed Hungarian trust in media evidence of what can happen otherwise.
It is exactly like being proud for setting the house on fire: the planet is warming up at an alarming rate, we already suffer the dire consequences of the human induced climate change and, instead of stimulating a green economy, the Swedish far-right praises itself for removing fossil fuel taxes.
These 2 pics are happening simultaneously:
LEFT: Vance after he fails to secure permanent ceasefire to the illegal war Trump launched
RIGHT: Trump attends UFC fight 5 days after threatening genocide of 90M people
This is what happens when you elect a genocidal fascist and an unqualified sycophant
