Ham & bacon sold by UK supermarkets still contain cancer-causing chemicals 10 years after the WHO warned about the dangers of their use in processed meats.

Don't manufacturers, food standards age agency and supermarkets ever check what they are selling.

Too focused on putting profits before people

Mentre l’Ue rinuncia alle riforme, 2.146 mega farm italiane crescono con soldi pubblici: sofferenza animale e territori devastati

www.lanotiziagiornale.it/allevamenti-...

(il mio pezzo per @lanotizia_giornale)

La leader dei socialisti europei, Garcia Pérez: “L’Ungheria non è più una democrazia, von der Leyen agisca”

www.repubblica.it/politica/202...

Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦
Glory to our Heroes!🇺🇦l

#Ukraine

At the signal, the roofs opened remotely. Dozens of drones launched directly from the trucks, striking strategic bomber aircraft.

And — Russia can’t produce these bombers anymore. The loss is massive.
Nothing like this has ever been done before.

This will be in textbooks.
Ukraine secretly delivered FPV drones and wooden mobile cabins into Russia. The drones were hidden under the roofs of the cabins, which were later mounted on trucks.
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“The consequence will be empty shelves in US stores in a few weeks and Covid-like shortages for consumers and for firms using Chinese products as intermediate goods.” — Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok.

US at tipping point for return of endemic measles www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

Reading @anneapplebaum.bsky.social's excellent, _Autocracy, Inc._. I can’t recommend it enough as a guide to understanding the rising tide of 21st century authoritarianism. And some of what she describes sounds eerily familiar…

How to protect democracies from falsehoods?

By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this piece
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...

Exclusive: Under pressure from DOGE, employees of a Pentagon defense tech unit are resigning en masse over the next month.

“Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” said the director.

Killing democracy at home and abroad - at least he's consistent on something.

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

In less than one week, many Americans will no longer be able to apply for Social Security benefits over the phone, setting the stage for disruptions and upheaval.

Nearly 6 million seniors live more than 46.6 miles, roundtrip, from a field office, per a new analysis. trib.al/5XSPqyL

I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...

He has never acted rationally. But rational people kept constructing rational edifices to explain his behavior.

ritardi di due ore alla stazione di Milano, guasti alla rete elettrica, disastro

Trenitalia che dice "evitare o limitare gli spostamenti in treno" è l'immagine di un paese fallito.