HASSAN: Did the president approve your decision to fire all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine committee in June 2025?

RFK Jr: Uhhhhh -- you mean did I talk to him directly? We talked to the White House DPC

BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated?

RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number

BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy

RFK Jr: *death growls*

BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?

HASSAN: Does the president know about your self-promoting videos using official HHS resources?

RFK Jr: I didn't know about a number of those videos. I just happened to not see them.

HASSAN: So you don't know how your own team is managing official resources?

The world faces economic turmoil caused by Trump.

Climate change threatens the future of the planet.

Putin threatens European security.

The UK has extra problems caused by Brexit

Yet, British media & politics is obsessed about a stupid ambassador appointment 2 years ago…

Britain’s military dependence on US ‘no longer tenable’, says former Nato chief George Robertson says diplomatic tone from White House is at ‘historic low’ and two allies are likely to keep diverging

Britain’s military dependence on US ‘no longer tenable’, says former Nato chief

George Robertson says diplomatic tone from White House is at ‘historic low’ and two allies are likely to keep diverging

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

"If you’re looking for a sign from God as to whether hanging out with the richest man on Earth is right for you, pay attention when he sends you not one plague, but two."

Holy shit Noah Hawley is good (and this very clearly demonstrates that he understands the Alien assignment).

Taxes on UK workers have risen at fastest rate in rich world, says OECD Survey by global economic forum shows ‘tax wedge’ in Britain increased to 32.4% of income in 2025 * Business live – latest updates Taxes on workers in Britain rose at the fastest rate among the world’s richest economies last year, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. With Labour under pressure on the economy amid the Iran war, the OECD said a key measure of the total tax paid by workers and their employers rose by the most in the 38-member club of rich nations in 2025. Continue reading...

Taxes on UK workers have risen at fastest rate in rich world, says OECD

Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations Exclusive: Internal concerns over allowing US firm linked to ICE and Israeli military to process highly sensitive data The Metropolitan police has held talks with Palantir that could lead to the London force buying the US spy-tech company’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis for criminal investigations, the Guardian has learned. Palantir, whose software is used by Donald Trump’s ICE immigration enforcement programme and the Israeli military, demonstrated its systems to senior officers in the intelligence division at the UK’s largest police force last month. Intelligence staff have been tasked with finding intelligence systems that AI could automate to increase productivity. Continue reading...

Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations

The murders continue.

The U.S. Has Now Killed More Than 180 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All @theintercept.com

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Revealed: How Big Oil is pushing Labour to drill the North Sea Oil and gas lobbyists have met ministers 96 times since July 2024 as industry pushes to overturn Labour's North Sea drilling ban and scrap energy windfall tax.

🚨 NEW: Inside Big Oil's campaign to push Labour to drill the North Sea

Oil & gas lobbyists have met UK and Scottish ministers more than once a week since Labour took office

MPs have asked questions in Parliament after meeting lobbyists, and more 🧵

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Gaza’s yellow line creeps forward as Israeli forces expand zone of control Residents waking to find line has moved overnight and they are now in free-fire zone as army takes more territory

Gaza’s yellow line creeps forward as Israeli forces expand zone of control

Residents wake to find line has moved overnight and they are now in free-fire zone as army takes more territory

The army-controlled area expanded well beyond the 53% of Gaza territory implied in the original ceasefire maps

I sure hope his lawyers plan to file an Errata pretty soon before they get embarrassed before the judge.

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

EU optimistic about joining Special Tribunal to prosecute Russian aggression against Ukraine It is increasingly likely that the European Union will formally back a new court with a mandate to prosecute Russia's leadership for the crime of aggression, a senior official in the EU's diplomatic a...

⚡️EU optimistic about joining Special Tribunal to prosecute Russian aggression against Ukraine.

Meta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AI The firm will take data from the way employees work for its artificial intelligence models.

Read the story here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meta is logging its workers’ every keystroke to train the AI that will replace them.

Extract what workers know. Model it. Cut the workers.
This is happening because governments are letting it happen. On this. On Palantir. On facial recognition.

Inaction is still a choice. And someone is making it.

ICC judges reject bid to release former Philippine President Duterte Appeals judges ruled on Wednesday that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, dismissing a bid to throw out his trial over his alleged pivotal ​role in the murder of thousands of people.

ICC judges reject bid to release former Philippine President Duterte reut.rs/4e3zFOf

World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to rise

World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns

Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to rise

Victims of sexual violence distressed by MPs’ ‘pugnacious’ questioning Exclusive: Victims’ commissioner makes formal complaint after committee session left one attender ‘shocked, upset and extremely distressed’

Victims of sexual violence distressed by MPs’ ‘pugnacious’ questioning

Exclusive: Victims’ commissioner makes formal complaint after committee session left one attender ‘shocked, upset and extremely distressed’

Ukraine war briefing: Quick loan in pipeline as Druzhba reopens Russian oil can flow again, says Ukrainian president, leaving ‘no grounds’ for blocking €90bn EU package; warning of all-out Kremlin cyberwar. What we know on day 1,519

Ukraine war briefing: Quick loan in pipeline as Druzhba reopens

Russian oil can flow again, says Ukrainian president, leaving ‘no grounds’ for blocking €90bn EU package

Warning of all-out Kremlin cyberwar. What we know on day 1,519

A hundred years after her birth, we still over-revere Queen Elizabeth II. The monarchy? Not so much | Jonathan Liew To survive, the house of Windsor must maintain the illusions it once sustained. That is clearly no longer possible, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

A hundred years after her birth, we still over-revere Queen Elizabeth II. The monarchy? Not so much
Jonathan Liew

To survive, the house of Windsor must maintain with a straight face the elaborate illusions it once sustained. That is clearly no longer possible

Eurosky Portal Your Portal to the Atmosphere

Hence:
Eurosky.social for AT hosting.
Ecosia.org for search and browser
Or
Quant.com for search & browser.
Not hosted in the US.

Tech giants and giant slayers: the case for digital sovereignty Digital Sovereignty – control over a country’s digital infrastructure, data and technology – is critical for economic and national security

A handful of global tech firms now underpin our economies, governments, & public discourse.
They aren’t elected.
They aren’t neutral.
And increasingly – they aren’t accountable.

Clive Lewis MP on the UK's growing dependency ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @labourlewis.bsky.social

BREAKING: White House staffers are reportedly "freaking out" about the growing, increasingly bipartisan effort in Congress to have Donald Trump (and all presidents after him) publicly take a mental fitness test.

FT Exclusive: The number of Americans seeking Irish citizenship through ancestry jumped 63% last year, as the Trump administration’s harsh rhetoric and policies fuelled demand for ‘plan B’ passports. ft.trib.al/VLmOiJH

EU to cut Venice Biennale funding over Russia’s participation, Kallas says The Italian art exhibition is set to host Russia for the first time since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

#EU to cut Venice Biennale funding over russia's participation, Kallas says

🖊️ Martina Sapio

The Italian art exhibition is set to host russia for the first time since its full-scale invasion of #Ukraine in 2022.

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Friends of the Lake District’s rainforest plea Help save a moderate rainforest habitat in Cumbria, and for one week your donation will be matched, so what you give will be worth twice the amount

Help save a moderate rainforest habitat in Cumbria, and for one week your donation will be matched, so what you give will be worth twice the amount | Mike Glover

Black children in England and Wales almost eight times more likely to be strip-searched than white peers – report Demographic also overrepresented when police officers use force such as handcuffs, firearms or Tasers, says children’s commissioner

Black children almost eight times more likely to be strip-searched than white peers
Demographic also overrepresented when police officers use force such as handcuffs, firearms or Tasers, says @childrenscomm.bsky.social
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