The Pentagon will stop requiring members of the military to get flu vaccines. Image Hegseth, wearing a blue suit, a tie and American flag pocket square, stands in front of an American flag. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that service members would no longer have to get flu vaccines.Credit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times The Pentagon will no longer require troops to get annual flu vaccines, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, calling the policy an “absurd, overreaching” mandate.

George Washington LITERALLY would not have won the Revolutionary War had he not vaccinated the troops against smallpox.

Meanwhile, this idiot: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Orban has conceded. Majority too big for him to try any nonsense. Tisza is going to have plenty of challenges in sorting out Orban's mess but this is a good day.

David Pratt: Iran, Donald Trump and the art of a bad deal AT his hilltop base overlooking the Zab river on the Erbil plains, Commander Rebaz Sharifi is standing next to the burnt-out armoured car he says…

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These killings aren’t accidental. It’s a deliberate strategy,

Our team at Duke has spent almost a decade studying the transition of middle income countries (MICs) out of aid

Transition is of course the goal for all MICs—but we’ve studied what happens when aid donors cut aid suddenly without proper planning

SUDDEN cuts cause disease resurgence & mass death 👇

David Pratt: Shockwaves of Iran war are opening up old wounds and faultlines in Iraq A SCARLET streak shot low and fast across the night sky like a line of luminous stitches. The trail of fire was unnervingly low and the sound was…

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Cartoon of Trump welcoming cartoon and film villains to his Board of Peace

@bjennings90.bsky.social is on fire - again. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

Full on Mad King.

Austria's top court rules Meta's ad model illegal, orders overhaul of user data practices in EU Austria's Supreme Court has ruled that Meta's personalized advertising model is unlawful and ordered the company to provide users across the European Union with complete access to their personal data within 14 days of any request, in a final and directly enforceable decision that sets a binding legal precedent across the bloc.

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Covid exposed the cabinet of clowns. Thousands died.

“It’s not a negotiation, it’s a shakedown,”

What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

TRAILER - Sarajevo Safari (2022) It uncovers little-known shocking details about the Bosnian War of the 90s. The film is about rich foreigners who paid money for the opportunity to shoot civilians in the besieged capital of Bosnia an...

I remember hearing about this a few years ago . AJ were involved in a doc mubi.com/en/films/sar...

Great piece of work.

“No Money, No Care” The 75-page report, “No Money, No Care: Obstetric Violence in Sierra Leone,” documents cases of verbal abuse, medical neglect, and abandonment of women and girls facing serious obstetric complications...

“No Money, No Care” "Roughly half of the government health care workers in Sierra Leone are unpaid, working as volunteers in the hope of eventually getting paid work." www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Beautiful piece of journalism.

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist.” Brilliant.

Why global health research must stop treating communities as data sources and start honoring them as knowers - GHO Professor Seye Abimbola joins us for the Expert's Voice where he discusses epistemic injustice, the stubborn legacies of colonialism in academic global health, and why meaningful change requires us to...

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Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91 Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

"What has likewise escaped global attention are the dogged efforts by volunteers, many of them women, to take on Lochee’s undeniable challenges at street level." @libbybrooks.bsky.social goes to Dundee's much-maligned Lochee and finds a different story.

US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f... Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...

My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson

Well worth a read

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"Ebola is never just a virus; it is a mirror." www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/e...

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
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Chris Greenway, BBC Monitoring: "The advance of Russian media influence in Africa continues. Sputnik radio is now aired on FM in Addis Ababa in both Amharic and English."

While the BBC was defunded 38% 2010-24, and as a result, #BBCWorldService is cutting jobs, the Russians are advancing.

We must recognise health problems are information problems | LSHTM It’s not enough to have useful tools like vaccines to tackle disease epidemics. Those tools also need to be used. But countries are facing growing obstacles, from false information about disease

"Operation Warp Speed... was arguably the first Trump administration’s only major policy success in terms of clearly improving lives. Yet the legacy of these tools, which ended the worst of the pandemic, is now being undermined by his very own second administration."

From my piece last month:

Chart showing relative change in crime rate, and share of people who believe levels are rising

America and Britain appear to be in the middle of a crime paradox, with data showing disorder is rising in public consciousness. Is it rising in reality? https://on.ft.com/4oguUmZ

Wellcome responds to closure of The Fleming Fund | News | Wellcome Jeremy Knox, Head of Infectious Disease Policy at Wellcome, responds to the closure of The Fleming Fund, a major UK aid programme to tackle antimicrobial resistance

For the last decade, the Fleming Fund has been a flagship example of the UK’s global leadership on AMR. As with many areas of global health, cuts like these will be felt most acutely in countries in Africa and Asia. wellcome.org/news/wellcom...

Foreign Aid Cuts Will Lead To More Poor People Dying, Government Admits Spending will fall in Africa but increase in Europe.

Spending will fall in Africa but increase in Europe.

From coop to cave: Inside the high-tech hunt for H5N1 and Disease X The Telegraph joined scientists in Cambodia’s vibrant wet markets and vast bat caves to test revolutionary new disease surveillance tools

The Virology Unit at IPC is constantly working to make surveillance/Early Warning faster, better, cheaper — from air sampling to portable labs. Happy to have our work featured in this @telegraphnews.bsky.social article by @sneweyy.bsky.social 🦠🧪🐓💉🥼😷

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