Iwasid
@iwasid.bsky.social
Bookish. Amateur philosopher of the worst kind. Political animal who still believes we can build a better world for all. Banner is the Red Sand sea bell, tolling.
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Iwasid
@iwasid.bsky.social
· Dec 1
If you read anything today, tomorrow, this week, this year, this should be that read.
Susan Abulhawa's speech to the Oxford Union debate last week.
Susan Abulhawa's speech to the Oxford Union debate last week.
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Wasn't he the one that put out an internal email which basically told all news staff not to mention Brexit again when referring to the flailing UK economy?
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Wasn't he the one that put out an internal email which basically told all news staff not to mention Brexit again when referring to the flailing UK economy?
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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This is will be the 5th forever chemical they have approved this year, and it takes thousands of years to break down. It cannot be filtered out of water with most filtration methods, and it easily moves throughout the environment via water or in the atmosphere. It is increasingly detected in humans.
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is will be the 5th forever chemical they have approved this year, and it takes thousands of years to break down. It cannot be filtered out of water with most filtration methods, and it easily moves throughout the environment via water or in the atmosphere. It is increasingly detected in humans.
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Is Starmer actually that cynical or is he that clueless? I truly wonder
No one has been more responsible for the situation than he is and he is competing with a lot of mainstream actors who have done their utmost to mainstream the far right
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
No one has been more responsible for the situation than he is and he is competing with a lot of mainstream actors who have done their utmost to mainstream the far right
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Is Starmer actually that cynical or is he that clueless? I truly wonder
No one has been more responsible for the situation than he is and he is competing with a lot of mainstream actors who have done their utmost to mainstream the far right
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
No one has been more responsible for the situation than he is and he is competing with a lot of mainstream actors who have done their utmost to mainstream the far right
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals.
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient
Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals.
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
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“Island of strangers” wasn’t even the worst part. The ‘incalculable’ harm bit - in the intro to the white paper - and the ‘squalid chapter’ were even worse. And later, his ‘understanding’ the far right rioters outside asylum seekers’ hotels was a real low point.
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“Island of strangers” wasn’t even the worst part. The ‘incalculable’ harm bit - in the intro to the white paper - and the ‘squalid chapter’ were even worse. And later, his ‘understanding’ the far right rioters outside asylum seekers’ hotels was a real low point.
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I see some people are continuing to pretend the Island of Strangers speech was actually quite decent, gaslighting all of those of us who listened to it and even read the white paper.
Can I say, fuck off.
Can I say, fuck off.
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I see some people are continuing to pretend the Island of Strangers speech was actually quite decent, gaslighting all of those of us who listened to it and even read the white paper.
Can I say, fuck off.
Can I say, fuck off.
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We fed dozens of MQ-9s to the Yemeni mountains for 2 straight years! Three SEALs drowned themselves in the Red Sea for no reason! US army guys got themselves crushed to death by a floating dock so Biden could get a headline in the NYT! Forest Service guys hid from the IDF rape gangs at Sde Teiman!
The United States expended 25% of its entire missile defense capacity to prevent Israel from facing consequences for its war of aggression against Iran! The US Navy pushed maintenance schedules back years to kill Yemenis on behalf of Israel! They poured F/A-18s into the Red Sea for Israel!
I don't want to directly quote tweet but there are apparently still people who think the US is somehow only "indirectly" involved in the genocide in Gaza. We've spent probably $50+ billion to make sure it happens! American soldiers have killed and died making sure it continues!
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We fed dozens of MQ-9s to the Yemeni mountains for 2 straight years! Three SEALs drowned themselves in the Red Sea for no reason! US army guys got themselves crushed to death by a floating dock so Biden could get a headline in the NYT! Forest Service guys hid from the IDF rape gangs at Sde Teiman!
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The United States expended 25% of its entire missile defense capacity to prevent Israel from facing consequences for its war of aggression against Iran! The US Navy pushed maintenance schedules back years to kill Yemenis on behalf of Israel! They poured F/A-18s into the Red Sea for Israel!
I don't want to directly quote tweet but there are apparently still people who think the US is somehow only "indirectly" involved in the genocide in Gaza. We've spent probably $50+ billion to make sure it happens! American soldiers have killed and died making sure it continues!
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The United States expended 25% of its entire missile defense capacity to prevent Israel from facing consequences for its war of aggression against Iran! The US Navy pushed maintenance schedules back years to kill Yemenis on behalf of Israel! They poured F/A-18s into the Red Sea for Israel!
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I don't want to directly quote tweet but there are apparently still people who think the US is somehow only "indirectly" involved in the genocide in Gaza. We've spent probably $50+ billion to make sure it happens! American soldiers have killed and died making sure it continues!
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I don't want to directly quote tweet but there are apparently still people who think the US is somehow only "indirectly" involved in the genocide in Gaza. We've spent probably $50+ billion to make sure it happens! American soldiers have killed and died making sure it continues!
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I can't adequately express my fury and disgust at Maitliss, Barnes et al.
Staggering arrogance, personal prejudice and there being nobody at the BBC prepared to challenge their errors led them to do the opposite of journalism.
As a consequence, children in despair took their own lives.
Staggering arrogance, personal prejudice and there being nobody at the BBC prepared to challenge their errors led them to do the opposite of journalism.
As a consequence, children in despair took their own lives.
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I can't adequately express my fury and disgust at Maitliss, Barnes et al.
Staggering arrogance, personal prejudice and there being nobody at the BBC prepared to challenge their errors led them to do the opposite of journalism.
As a consequence, children in despair took their own lives.
Staggering arrogance, personal prejudice and there being nobody at the BBC prepared to challenge their errors led them to do the opposite of journalism.
As a consequence, children in despair took their own lives.
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whatthetrans.com/trans-allies...
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
Trans Allies Systematically Intimidated Inside Tavistock – What The Trans!?
whatthetrans.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
whatthetrans.com/trans-allies...
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
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Excellent piece this
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Excellent piece this
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my former employer immediately taking down all the webpages for colleagues they made redundant so all that’s left is this nauseating twee crap
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
my former employer immediately taking down all the webpages for colleagues they made redundant so all that’s left is this nauseating twee crap
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I’ve recommended it before, but Amy Kaplan tells exactly this story in Our American Israel. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Our American Israel — Harvard University Press
“Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience.” —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAn essential account of America’s most controversial alliance, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays ou...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I’ve recommended it before, but Amy Kaplan tells exactly this story in Our American Israel. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Singing and smoking with Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin 1745. Wig's off -- but dog at the right is wearing it instead! Painted by William Hogarth, born OTD in 1697.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Singing and smoking with Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin 1745. Wig's off -- but dog at the right is wearing it instead! Painted by William Hogarth, born OTD in 1697.
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A fascinating UBI experiment started in 1997 in North Carolina when the ECBI began providing dividends to all its people and that coincided with an ongoing long-term study of child poverty.
The kids grew into healthier, smarter adults who do less drugs and crime.
academicminute.org/2014/06/jane...
The kids grew into healthier, smarter adults who do less drugs and crime.
academicminute.org/2014/06/jane...
December 6, 2024 at 4:53 PM
A fascinating UBI experiment started in 1997 in North Carolina when the ECBI began providing dividends to all its people and that coincided with an ongoing long-term study of child poverty.
The kids grew into healthier, smarter adults who do less drugs and crime.
academicminute.org/2014/06/jane...
The kids grew into healthier, smarter adults who do less drugs and crime.
academicminute.org/2014/06/jane...
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Universal Basic Income recognizes the social determinants of health like stress. What we treat in hospitals is largely the result of people having insufficient incomes or too much financial insecurity. This is how the Dauphin pilot reduced hospitalization rates by 8.5%.
www.cmaj.ca/content/190/...
www.cmaj.ca/content/190/...
December 5, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Universal Basic Income recognizes the social determinants of health like stress. What we treat in hospitals is largely the result of people having insufficient incomes or too much financial insecurity. This is how the Dauphin pilot reduced hospitalization rates by 8.5%.
www.cmaj.ca/content/190/...
www.cmaj.ca/content/190/...
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A common concern about universal basic income is that people will end up buying drugs with it but in study after study, abuse of drugs tends to go down when people are provided cash. Why? Because a big reason people abuse drugs is self-medication of life stressors.
davidevans.blog/2016/11/29/t...
davidevans.blog/2016/11/29/t...
The poor don’t use cash transfers on alcohol and tobacco. Really.
Two years ago, Anna Popova and I put out a working paper examining whether beneficiaries of cash transfer programs are more likely than others to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes (“tempt…
davidevans.blog
December 5, 2024 at 5:42 PM
A common concern about universal basic income is that people will end up buying drugs with it but in study after study, abuse of drugs tends to go down when people are provided cash. Why? Because a big reason people abuse drugs is self-medication of life stressors.
davidevans.blog/2016/11/29/t...
davidevans.blog/2016/11/29/t...
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Babies born healthier may be the most transformative of all Universal Basic Income effects. Epigenetics shows that healthier babies will be healthier adults, who will have healthier babies, and low birth weight is correlated to less healthy adults who earn less.
www.science20.com/news/correla...
www.science20.com/news/correla...
December 5, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Babies born healthier may be the most transformative of all Universal Basic Income effects. Epigenetics shows that healthier babies will be healthier adults, who will have healthier babies, and low birth weight is correlated to less healthy adults who earn less.
www.science20.com/news/correla...
www.science20.com/news/correla...
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In basic income experiment after basic income experiment, and cash program after cash program, a practically universal result of unconditionally providing money to pregnant women is that their nutrition improves, and as a result their babies are born healthier.
youtu.be/z5biBPNlKJs?...
youtu.be/z5biBPNlKJs?...
Birth Weight and Cash Transfers
YouTube video by Marginal Revolution University
youtu.be
December 5, 2024 at 5:13 PM
In basic income experiment after basic income experiment, and cash program after cash program, a practically universal result of unconditionally providing money to pregnant women is that their nutrition improves, and as a result their babies are born healthier.
youtu.be/z5biBPNlKJs?...
youtu.be/z5biBPNlKJs?...
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Namibia tested UBI back in 2008. An entire village (adults and kids) got a fully universal basic income every month for two years.
The percentage of people doing paid work rose from 44% to 55% and entrepreneurship went up 301%.
Crime dropped by 42%; poaching by 95%.
www.bignam.org/BIG_pilot.html
The percentage of people doing paid work rose from 44% to 55% and entrepreneurship went up 301%.
Crime dropped by 42%; poaching by 95%.
www.bignam.org/BIG_pilot.html
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Namibia tested UBI back in 2008. An entire village (adults and kids) got a fully universal basic income every month for two years.
The percentage of people doing paid work rose from 44% to 55% and entrepreneurship went up 301%.
Crime dropped by 42%; poaching by 95%.
www.bignam.org/BIG_pilot.html
The percentage of people doing paid work rose from 44% to 55% and entrepreneurship went up 301%.
Crime dropped by 42%; poaching by 95%.
www.bignam.org/BIG_pilot.html
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Alaska has had an annual UBI since 1982 averaging about $1500 per person per year. This is one impact:
"There is no significant effect, positive or negative, on employment as a whole, although part-time work does increase by 1.8 percentage points, or about 17%."
harris.uchicago.edu/news-events/...
"There is no significant effect, positive or negative, on employment as a whole, although part-time work does increase by 1.8 percentage points, or about 17%."
harris.uchicago.edu/news-events/...
Universal Basic Income Policies Don’t Cause People to Leave Workforce, Study Finds
CHICAGO – February 14, 2018 – New research from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy suggests that a universal basic income would not cause people to leave the workforce.
harris.uchicago.edu
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Alaska has had an annual UBI since 1982 averaging about $1500 per person per year. This is one impact:
"There is no significant effect, positive or negative, on employment as a whole, although part-time work does increase by 1.8 percentage points, or about 17%."
harris.uchicago.edu/news-events/...
"There is no significant effect, positive or negative, on employment as a whole, although part-time work does increase by 1.8 percentage points, or about 17%."
harris.uchicago.edu/news-events/...
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UBI WORKS
"We have not found any evidence of a significant reduction in labor supply. Instead, we found evidence that labor supply increases globally… and the existence of some insignificant and functional reductions…These reductions do not reduce the overall supply…"
mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/22/9459
"We have not found any evidence of a significant reduction in labor supply. Instead, we found evidence that labor supply increases globally… and the existence of some insignificant and functional reductions…These reductions do not reduce the overall supply…"
mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/22/9459
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
UBI WORKS
"We have not found any evidence of a significant reduction in labor supply. Instead, we found evidence that labor supply increases globally… and the existence of some insignificant and functional reductions…These reductions do not reduce the overall supply…"
mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/22/9459
"We have not found any evidence of a significant reduction in labor supply. Instead, we found evidence that labor supply increases globally… and the existence of some insignificant and functional reductions…These reductions do not reduce the overall supply…"
mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/22/9459
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I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵