Joanna
@joasia14.bsky.social
Food, Books, Politics and pictures of my pets.
In any other period of history, the Health and Humans Services Secretary would be fired and shamed for releasing a report from the committee he created: with false made up citations, broken link citations and citations from studies that were misinterpreted.
Here we are.
#rjkjnr
Here we are.
#rjkjnr
June 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
In any other period of history, the Health and Humans Services Secretary would be fired and shamed for releasing a report from the committee he created: with false made up citations, broken link citations and citations from studies that were misinterpreted.
Here we are.
#rjkjnr
Here we are.
#rjkjnr
Reposted by Joanna
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.
RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said the agency will create “in-house” publications instead.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.
Reposted by Joanna
RESOLVED: no one to be quoted by large-circulation media outlets about overall employment levels until they have convincingly demonstrated to a panel of economists that they understand the lump of labour fallacy.
EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has a blunt, scary warning: AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next 1-5 years.
Few are paying attention: Politicians don't get it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it.
Few are paying attention: Politicians don't get it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it.
Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath
Hardly anyone is paying attention.
www.axios.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
RESOLVED: no one to be quoted by large-circulation media outlets about overall employment levels until they have convincingly demonstrated to a panel of economists that they understand the lump of labour fallacy.
Imagine if they put in the same amount of research and innovation into women's health especially women's reproductive system as they do into women's plastic surgery.
May 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Imagine if they put in the same amount of research and innovation into women's health especially women's reproductive system as they do into women's plastic surgery.
What amazes me about certain politicans is their epic level of hubris. Liz Truss & Nick Clegg. Why they think the public wants to hear from them, is beyond me.
#NickClegg
#NickClegg
May 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
What amazes me about certain politicans is their epic level of hubris. Liz Truss & Nick Clegg. Why they think the public wants to hear from them, is beyond me.
#NickClegg
#NickClegg
I don't what's more depressing. Brexit supporters repeatedly the same arguments from nearly 10 years regarding yesterday's news. There are still people that believe them.
#UKEUdeal
#UKEUdeal
May 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I don't what's more depressing. Brexit supporters repeatedly the same arguments from nearly 10 years regarding yesterday's news. There are still people that believe them.
#UKEUdeal
#UKEUdeal
Reposted by Joanna
🧵 The CNN piece on Bongino and Patel is one of the clearest real-world examples of a key phenomenon in disordered discourse:
The agents who stoke it can become its victims, especially when their disordered discourse meets the reality of the institutions it captures.
The agents who stoke it can become its victims, especially when their disordered discourse meets the reality of the institutions it captures.
In 2023, Dan Bongino, star podcaster, demanded to know: "What the hell are they hiding with Jeffrey Epstein?"
In 2025, Dan Bongino, FBI deputy director, disappointed the 2023 version of himself. "I have reviewed the case. Jeffrey Epstein killed himself," he wrote yesterday.
In 2025, Dan Bongino, FBI deputy director, disappointed the 2023 version of himself. "I have reviewed the case. Jeffrey Epstein killed himself," he wrote yesterday.
Analysis: Trump’s FBI bosses are angering the MAGA media bubble they once stoked | CNN Business
Some self-identified loyalists of President Trump are turning against Trump’s top law enforcement officials, partly because of the unsupported MAGA media claims that made those officials popular in th...
www.cnn.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🧵 The CNN piece on Bongino and Patel is one of the clearest real-world examples of a key phenomenon in disordered discourse:
The agents who stoke it can become its victims, especially when their disordered discourse meets the reality of the institutions it captures.
The agents who stoke it can become its victims, especially when their disordered discourse meets the reality of the institutions it captures.
Just read none of the South African "refugees" welcomed by the MAGA administration, are actually farmers.
The story is white Afrikaner farmers are being killed.
One of them was quite wealthy in RSA.He had a mining company and a 5 bedroom house.He left his mother behind.
They are just racists.
The story is white Afrikaner farmers are being killed.
One of them was quite wealthy in RSA.He had a mining company and a 5 bedroom house.He left his mother behind.
They are just racists.
May 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Just read none of the South African "refugees" welcomed by the MAGA administration, are actually farmers.
The story is white Afrikaner farmers are being killed.
One of them was quite wealthy in RSA.He had a mining company and a 5 bedroom house.He left his mother behind.
They are just racists.
The story is white Afrikaner farmers are being killed.
One of them was quite wealthy in RSA.He had a mining company and a 5 bedroom house.He left his mother behind.
They are just racists.
Reposted by Joanna
Bucharest 👇
May 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Bucharest 👇
Reposted by Joanna
This is interesting. A journalist who prints the facts rather than the legend of McSweeney. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-foundi...
The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney
Reports of Keir Starmer's chief adviser's supposed campaigning genius do not appear to match up with the facts
www.adambienkov.co.uk
May 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is interesting. A journalist who prints the facts rather than the legend of McSweeney. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-foundi...
Reposted by Joanna
An important sense-check on migration from @financialtimes.com
Ignore the convulsing commentators of the Mail & Telegraph.
The UK is about average in the OECD and in line with its peer countries when it comes to the proportion of foreign-born people living in the country.
Ignore the convulsing commentators of the Mail & Telegraph.
The UK is about average in the OECD and in line with its peer countries when it comes to the proportion of foreign-born people living in the country.
May 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
An important sense-check on migration from @financialtimes.com
Ignore the convulsing commentators of the Mail & Telegraph.
The UK is about average in the OECD and in line with its peer countries when it comes to the proportion of foreign-born people living in the country.
Ignore the convulsing commentators of the Mail & Telegraph.
The UK is about average in the OECD and in line with its peer countries when it comes to the proportion of foreign-born people living in the country.
Reposted by Joanna
They are keeping a dead woman alive for her fetus.
Even though its against her family wishes.
Her elder son thinks she is sleeping.
A woman has become an incubator.
Its not about the children.
Its has always been controlling womens bodies.
Even though its against her family wishes.
Her elder son thinks she is sleeping.
A woman has become an incubator.
Its not about the children.
Its has always been controlling womens bodies.
In Georgia, where the “heartbeat bill” went into effect in July 2022, doctors have kept a pregnant brain dead woman on life support for three months because of the state’s abortion law, seemingly against her family’s wishes www.newsweek.com/abortion-bra...
Abortion law forces doctors to keep pregnant brain dead woman alive
"This decision should've been left to us," said the mother of a woman who is pregnant and has been brain dead for over 90 consecutive days.
www.newsweek.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
They are keeping a dead woman alive for her fetus.
Even though its against her family wishes.
Her elder son thinks she is sleeping.
A woman has become an incubator.
Its not about the children.
Its has always been controlling womens bodies.
Even though its against her family wishes.
Her elder son thinks she is sleeping.
A woman has become an incubator.
Its not about the children.
Its has always been controlling womens bodies.
Reposted by Joanna
Brilliant thread. The Powell analogy is overblown. The real flaws and consequences of that speech are far worse. It’s Starmer accepting populism instead of fighting it.
Starmer's language was deplorable.
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
May 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Brilliant thread. The Powell analogy is overblown. The real flaws and consequences of that speech are far worse. It’s Starmer accepting populism instead of fighting it.
Reposted by Joanna
Taking a page from President Trump's playbook, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced visa restrictions, using language his critics said was dangerous.
With immigration limits, the U.K. vows to end a 'failed experiment in open borders'
Taking a page from President Trump's playbook, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced visa restrictions, using language his critics said was dangerous.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Taking a page from President Trump's playbook, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced visa restrictions, using language his critics said was dangerous.
Reposted by Joanna
This is a very fair criticism of the prime minister from @samfr.bsky.social and therefore really quite devastating open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
May 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This is a very fair criticism of the prime minister from @samfr.bsky.social and therefore really quite devastating open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Reposted by Joanna
If a government with over 400 seats and 4 years left to govern cannot summon the courage to level with the public on social care then I despair at the capacity of our political system to ever deliver the change we need.
May 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If a government with over 400 seats and 4 years left to govern cannot summon the courage to level with the public on social care then I despair at the capacity of our political system to ever deliver the change we need.
Reposted by Joanna
Autistic people don't lack empathy. We do experience it differently, though. And I think this misconception needs to be cleared up. (1)
May 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Autistic people don't lack empathy. We do experience it differently, though. And I think this misconception needs to be cleared up. (1)
Reposted by Joanna
Full text of US-UK "deal" confirms:
1. *Not* a "free trade" deal.
2. For UK, largely successful damage limitation: limiting US tariffs on cars/steel for not very much. But damage still done.
3. For Trump, pretty much complete climbdown. (1/3)
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/681d32...
1. *Not* a "free trade" deal.
2. For UK, largely successful damage limitation: limiting US tariffs on cars/steel for not very much. But damage still done.
3. For Trump, pretty much complete climbdown. (1/3)
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/681d32...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
May 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Full text of US-UK "deal" confirms:
1. *Not* a "free trade" deal.
2. For UK, largely successful damage limitation: limiting US tariffs on cars/steel for not very much. But damage still done.
3. For Trump, pretty much complete climbdown. (1/3)
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/681d32...
1. *Not* a "free trade" deal.
2. For UK, largely successful damage limitation: limiting US tariffs on cars/steel for not very much. But damage still done.
3. For Trump, pretty much complete climbdown. (1/3)
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/681d32...
Reposted by Joanna
The Polish central bank's gold reserves are now larger than those of the European Central Bank, its governor has announced.
“This shows the stability, abundance and solvency of the Polish economy,” says Adam Glapiński.
“This shows the stability, abundance and solvency of the Polish economy,” says Adam Glapiński.
Poland’s gold reserves now larger than Europe Central Bank’s, says Polish central bank chief
notesfrompoland.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The Polish central bank's gold reserves are now larger than those of the European Central Bank, its governor has announced.
“This shows the stability, abundance and solvency of the Polish economy,” says Adam Glapiński.
“This shows the stability, abundance and solvency of the Polish economy,” says Adam Glapiński.
Reposted by Joanna
The most recent retweet from the new pope is 👀.
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The most recent retweet from the new pope is 👀.
Reposted by Joanna
My take on today’s UK-US trade deal. The UK is a small weak country. It does what small weak countries do, which is to escape the bully, to pay the Dane-geld.
Standing up for the multilateral rules-based trading system will have to be left for others.
Standing up for the multilateral rules-based trading system will have to be left for others.
Britain’s trade deal with Trump may not be good news for the world
[FREE TO READ] Starmer’s choice undermines multilateralism and poses risks to the UK
on.ft.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My take on today’s UK-US trade deal. The UK is a small weak country. It does what small weak countries do, which is to escape the bully, to pay the Dane-geld.
Standing up for the multilateral rules-based trading system will have to be left for others.
Standing up for the multilateral rules-based trading system will have to be left for others.
It's #VEday. Never Forget.
Except you can forget when a charismatic far right politican comes around & promises to fix Britain. Right?
You can forget his ties to far right politicans & podcast hosts. He isn't as bad as foreign fascists. Right?
We fought fascism. We aren't gonna try it. Right?
Except you can forget when a charismatic far right politican comes around & promises to fix Britain. Right?
You can forget his ties to far right politicans & podcast hosts. He isn't as bad as foreign fascists. Right?
We fought fascism. We aren't gonna try it. Right?
May 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It's #VEday. Never Forget.
Except you can forget when a charismatic far right politican comes around & promises to fix Britain. Right?
You can forget his ties to far right politicans & podcast hosts. He isn't as bad as foreign fascists. Right?
We fought fascism. We aren't gonna try it. Right?
Except you can forget when a charismatic far right politican comes around & promises to fix Britain. Right?
You can forget his ties to far right politicans & podcast hosts. He isn't as bad as foreign fascists. Right?
We fought fascism. We aren't gonna try it. Right?
Reposted by Joanna
Worth UK-bases commentators seeing what credible US economists are saying.
Trump's "big" trade deal is with the UK:
- It's a framework not a deal
- They're our 11th largest trading partner
- They're only 3% of US trade (97% to go)
- They *already* charge average tariffs of only 1% (limited upside)
It's a photo op, not a macroeconomically significant moment.
- It's a framework not a deal
- They're our 11th largest trading partner
- They're only 3% of US trade (97% to go)
- They *already* charge average tariffs of only 1% (limited upside)
It's a photo op, not a macroeconomically significant moment.
May 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Worth UK-bases commentators seeing what credible US economists are saying.