The “daring rescue” I would like to see involves the 25th Amendment. And actually not that much courage at all…

Compare that to today where drug companies invariably INCREASE the price of existing medicines year on year (to say nothing of new medicines). Why? Because they can. And because their shareholders demand it. (2/2)

There is no logical reason for drugs to become MORE expensive over time and every reason for them to become LESS expensive. The cost of penicillin fell 90% between 1945 when it first became widely available and 1950 as people worked out more efficient ways to produce it. (1/2)

C.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Mpox

Make America Rabid Again!

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In a gift to future war crime prosecutors Pete Hegseth has proudly stated that under his leadership the US military is pursuing a policy of "MAXIMUM LETHALITY, NOT TEPID LEGALITY".

I believe the legal term for this is "confession".

One does not simply “end” a war in the Middle East.

Make the shipping news boring again.

Is it possible that Trump has finally reached the limit of creating ever more serious and dramatic crises as a distraction from the previous serious and dramatic crisis?

When will America and Israel learn? These wars to “make the world safe” only work for as long as it takes the children you bomb today to grow into even more radicalised teenagers.

“Lifting 2.4 million people off food stamps” is an odd way to talk about lifting food stamps off 2.4 million people.

Another beautiful summer’s morning in New Zealand! Fresh coffee, the sound of cicadas, and threats from the President of the United States of “powerful” and “obnoxious” tariffs.

Is my life better because corporations can predict what I’m going to want and provide it to me before I know it myself?

Um… Hard No! Turns out the choosing and anticipation were the most human parts of the process.

I can see why the Supreme Court is taking its time to issue its tariff ruling. The fate of a nation depends on it.

And that’s just Iran.

“RFK Jr is right about some things”.

Yeah, or to put it another way: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!

Just to simplify the task for the US Government: you can safely assume that EVERY visitor from overseas has said or written SOMETHING disparaging about Donald Trump at some point in the last five years, so it may be simpler just to close your border.

Auckland Chamber of Commerce boss Simon Bridges is complaining that “international businesspeople see New Zealanders as ‘life stylers’ more interested in their work-life balance than in growing the economy” and I for one plead GUILTY AS CHARGED!

In no other modern democratic country would this be possible. Only a perfect storm of ignorance and stupidity in the United States could have accomplished this. 😳👇

I'm seeing reports that Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school and everyone's shocked. Hang on, what?

“We can’t tax billionaires because they’ll take their money elsewhere” isn’t an argument against taxing billionaires, it’s an argument in favour of international co-operation.

The American conception of “freedom” overlooks the fact that if you’re dead from a gunshot wound or an infectious disease you have no freedom whatsoever and your pursuit of happiness is in even worse shape.

Jesus Christ, how Bad is this Bunny? They're sending in ICE?? to police the half time entertainment at a sports event??!?

Grateful to live in a country where we're famous for the ratio of sheep to people, rather than the ratio of guns to people.

RFK Jr is in danger of getting his long sought after controlled trials for vaccines!

West Coast states are forming their own alternative to the CDC to ensure best practice public health. Meanwhile Florida is providing the "control arm" by actively discouraging its citizens from getting vaccines!

Retract RFK Jr!

You might be being generous to him? Bearing in mind the long-term effects of discouraging vaccination, cutting funding for research, and killing off international vaccination initiatives.

Anyone willing to hazard a guess as to how many people have died/are dying/will die because of the policies of RFK Jr?

The reason parliamentary democracies don’t have the type of problem the United States has right now is that a Prime Minister serves under permanent threat of removal from office.

Night of the Long Syringes.

At least during the Dark Ages they didn’t know better. What’s our excuse? 🤔

RFK Jr: “I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...you see tell it from their faces, from their body movements, and from their lack of social connection.”

Dude, THEY JUST GOT OFF A LONG HAUL FLIGHT!