Two New Studies Provide Broadest Evidence to Date of Unequal Impacts of Abortion Bans | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Researchers estimate 22,180 more live births and 478 more infant deaths than expected across 14 states, including Texas, that banned abortion between September 2021 and August 2022.

Hundreds of women and infants have died unnecessarily since Dobbs.

publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/two-new...

James Bembridge on X: Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

Benefits aren't too high.

UK pensions.

The worst in the world.

Reform activist suspended over racist and antisemitic comments remains election agent Adam Mitula is acting as election agent for Reform candidates in three wards in Tameside area for 7 May polls

Disgraceful.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/14/ref...

Even better now! 70% for rejoining! 👍

Same vibe

Hi! I’m the inventor of bathroom stalls. The important thing for me is that everyone walking by a stall is able to make eye contact with the person sitting on the toilet inside. This is a critical design feature.

At least 254 killed in Israel’s devastating attacks across Lebanon Israel carries out 100 strikes across Lebanon in 10 minutes, health minister says hospitals overwhelmed with victims.

Where to find the words anymore?

What to say when Israel continues to behave like this?

And no condemnation at all from the UK Government. They carry on business as usual as if Israel aren't carrying out genocides in both Gaza and Lebanon.

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The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year.

I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry.

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Mum hospitalised in 1st wave, Dad died; she never came home, got decanted to care home, put in solitary confinement. Unspeakable misery. Boris and crew made terrible decisions, fuelled by hubris and a desire to party. I'm incandescent with rage. (Thank you Christina for making sure we don't forget).

Monarchy and the Church have always been in it together, ever since Christianity was designated the state religion of the Roman Empire. Emperors knew how powerful the idea of “one god up there, one king down here” was.

Here is a tale of ordinary misogyny.

Except it isn’t. This man is a barrister who has been warned before, and who feels so secure, that he provides his chambers contact in his Twitter profile.

Here is the Tweet, please follow the thread:

It's a "RAM is so expensive now" gif

Labour has been hoping that it can abandon left wing and progressive politics, and that the trade unions they were founded by – and who pay their bills – would just put up with it. Looks like that is no longer the case.

A recognisable phenomenon: the left vote according to their morals; the right vote according to who can wield power most effectively, even if that involves cruelty.

The two sides aren’t even playing the same game

Palantir CEO laughs about profiting from killing Palestinians using AI.

He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'.

But there is only one terrorist here, and Palantir are war criminals.

The Trump world’s assault on the people who administer U.S. elections Reuters investigates the campaign of fear being waged by supporters of Donald Trump against the people who administer America's elections.

Mob tactics
www.reuters.com/investigates...

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world The most disturbing revelation so far

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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Photos of Farage and Epstein Nigel Farage is repeatedly mentioned within the Epstein files Do you hear that, coming from the right of British politics? An unfamiliar sound: silence.

Perhaps this is because Farage's political project has never truly been about protecting women. Women and girls function as a rhetorical device, wheeled out when useful, discarded when inconvenient. Their suffering is amplified when it can be folded into a narrative about immigration, race, or national decline, and minimised when it points upwards, towards men who look uncomfortably like political allies.

The Epstein files reveal it’s “not just about individual failure. It’s ideological fraud too.A politics that claims to defend women while refusing to confront the systems that enable abuse is not protection: it’s a strategy”

Farage, you’ve gone quiet but we see you
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Wear sunscreen.
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Midlife onwards is learning the mental gymnastics of how to let go and still cultivate something within you to continue. Relationships, pets, friends, family members, familiar places, possessions, your own faculties, your looks and your own potential. Brace yourself because it's brutal.

Don't ignore your mental health.

Listen to people who are different from you, who have different opinions, and different life experiences.

every second sentence if write was "yeah, this could be taken this way, but maybe its more like this" and they said "just say the thing!", and i thought how lucky it must be for this editor to have never had an entire media ecosystem telling them to kill themselves for years on end

Do it. I beg you. This madness ends a lot faster if billionaires lose money.

TRUMP: my colon could wrestle a bear. a doctor told me. he said, have you ever considered getting surgery to have your colon removed and then entering it into a bear fight? because this is the best colon I've ever seen and I saw George Washington's

BBC NEWS: Mr Trump espouses American manufacturing

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

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As 2025 comes to an end, editor-at-large Harold Meyerson writes about why life was better “when unions were powerful, taxes were progressive, billionaires were scarce, and New Deal laws and regulations were still in place.” trib.al/zRwS1Eq