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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Breaking: In a potentially landmark decision, a major data centre project in Mayo has had planning permission overturned over climate concerns. More on @virginmedianews.bsky.social this evening.

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"We must rage against its cruelty, against the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment, against the idea that because each blow can be defended in isolation no one bears responsibility for the beating" Poignant reflections by my colleague @iainoverton.bsky.social on Jason Arday's death:

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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty

The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...

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Reforming global health architecture requires confronting its political economy

Daniel Bernal-Serrano and colleagues argue that the preventable deaths caused by global health inequity are structural outcomes of a capitalist world economy, which organisational reform alone cannot ...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is why diagnostics matter in global health, not just medicines and vaccines!! Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected @kakape.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

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EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected

A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s exhausting. For years, decades, right wing media have lied and told us #climate breakdown was just woke nonsense. Now, it’s whoopsies, yes it’s real, but relax everyone & enjoy our new “Mediterranean” climate as Europe goes up in flames around us.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

YEZTUGO (lenacapavir) is a new injectable form of long-acting PrEP that only requires 2 doses per year to prevent HIV infection, and 3 million people are expected to get access to the drug by 2028 via The Global Fund. Sounds great, right? (1/5)

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’m fascinated why kids are supposed to conserve water in Ireland. The entire population drinks just 3-5 billion litres per annum. There are 129 data centres here, each using at least 0.5 million L a >Day< - that’s 182.5 million L per annum. Multiplied by 129 centres = 23.5 billion per annum*.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 10/07/2026

The United Nations warned that at least one million women and girls had lost access to critical support due to dramatic cuts to foreign aid spending since January 2025

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One million females lose access to support amid cuts - UN

The United Nations warned that at least one million women and girls had lost access to critical support due to dramatic cuts to foreign aid spending since January 2025.

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The US-UK Pharma deal “is an abject failure of the democratic process and a damning legacy both for Keir Starmer and for Wes Streeting” “Happy birthday, USA: we’ll kill our poor people to make your rich companies richer” Amazing editorial in the BMJ 👇 www.bmj.com/content/394/...

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£45bn and 300 000 deaths: the UK’s anniversary gift to the US

Two hundred and fifty years after liberation from British colonialism, the United States is co-hosting the football World Cup. The US might even win it for the first time—although France, its former a...

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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If I read one more reference to 'gold plating' of EU law in Ireland....Can anyone show me the evidence? Should we look to the over half our rivers and lakes polluted? The trend which is getting worse? The 25% of our most pristine waterbodies now lost? A 🧵 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

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Top Government adviser calls for action to roll back ‘gold-plated’ environmental law

Laws exempting key projects from national climate goals should be followed by moves to curtail environmental screening, says taskforce chief

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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

NEW: Billions could be set to be siphoned off from our NHS to Big Pharma. This would lead to 229,000 excess deaths in England. This new research adds to overwhelming evidence that the Trump medicines deal risks taking a wrecking ball to our health and economy. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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US-UK drug deal could result in 229,000 excess deaths in England, analysis suggests

Analysis reveals extent of impact on NHS of placating Donald Trump over price of British medicine exports

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Thread: 16.3% of Irish residents were not born here, most have come with critical science, medical & programming skills. Not surprisingly, Ireland’s premier economics institute has found - Immigrants make higher fiscal contribution back to public services than Irish-born. Fascism lies about this![1]

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Immigrants make higher fiscal contribution back to public services than Irish-born, says ESRI

The findings show that there is no general pattern of immigrants being more likely to be in receipt of welfare compared to the Irish-born.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I’m not sure there is a bleaker - or older - phenomenon in politics than desperate voters turning to charlatans and bigots for change. Reform councillors will do nothing to help someone’s elderly Mum get social care or keep the local library open for kids. And Farage is laughing his arse off.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance Sobering piece by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

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AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/04/2026

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 14/04/2026

there is zero excuse for this

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/04/2026

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“A man that during the AIDS epidemic managed to help save us, and his name will forever be written on Africa” Merci @stephanienolen.bsky.social for such a wonderful tribute to Stephen Lewis www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/w...

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Stephen Lewis Was a Singular Man on a Mission

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 31/03/2026

Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the country's defence minister has said

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Israel to destroy 'all houses' near Lebanon border

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 16/03/2026

👀 A new dawn, a new day : ‪ 270+ organisations are still waiting for @vonderleyen to RSVP to the #AntwerpCounterSummit. Will the President be bold enough to accept the invitation?

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"The US is now pursuing biological data and pathogen intelligence through policies that risk reproducing the power imbalances of colonial extraction in new scientific form...African bodies are not cheap, expendable commodities." www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...

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US’s new scramble for Africa is biomedical imperialism

From Zimbabwe to Zambia, US health deals are raising fears of a new era of biomedical extractivism.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My latest for @thenation.com. For those of us in healthcare, public health, science resisting is a duty born of our commitment to serve, make the world a better place. But our institutions don't make it easy. But we still have to do it in large and small ways. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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A Motto for All Health Workers: Resist, Resist, Resist

Doing our work and keeping our heads down isn’t a victory. We need to fight this regime every day, in every way.

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 11/03/2026

In my @irishtimes.com op-ed today I argue that our climate law is the best framework we have for making energy secure and affordable, because it tackles the root cause of our vulnerability to energy shocks - our dependence on fossil fuels. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

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Hannah Daly: Irish people are again paying a high price for our reliance on fossil fuels

But renewable energy relies on resources that will never run out and cannot be cut off as act of aggression

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Back in Parliament tonight to tell MPs we need to abolish ISDS - the toxic ‘corporate courts’ which allows oligarchs, multinationals and super rich investors to subvert our democracy. #ISDSfree Great meeting @tradejusticemov.bsky.social

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Do *not* make me take O'Leary's side you prick!

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Handy debunking of some often brandished US boosterism. The US obviously presents a disastrous economic and political model; nothing to copy here bylinesnetwork.substack.com/p/decline-wh...

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Decline, what decline? The myth of dying Europe

There is a widespread view that, by comparison with the USA, Europe is in economic and social decline. But, Zucman argues, it’s not true

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Global health systems are being cut just as the Global South sends vast sums in debt repayments to wealthy states. Resources out, health capacity down. This makes no one safer. #GlobalJustice #AMR

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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The UK’s existing arms ban to Israel was already riddled with loopholes, but the idea that the UK is now considering resuming ‘business-as-usual’ by resuming arms exports to Israel and re-opening trade talks is chilling. www.newarab.com/news/rights-...

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Rights groups slam UK pledge to resume Israel arms sales

Business Secretary Peter Kyle indicated that the government could resume arms sales and restart trade talks if it enters the second phase of the ceasefire.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

And the banks. Whatever banks X uses are also liable for knowingly handling money that was made illegally

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

How is it not the Government's position - as put forward by Billy Kelleher - that the European Commission hits the immediate pause button on Grok while it's waiting for all these reviews and assessments? The power is there.

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Trump confirms he is a fascist and an imperialist of the first order. A mafia boss heading a rogue state. You cannot say we need to take action to stop Putin and continue to appease this terrorist. The world must stand up now.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

One reason why UK #AidCuts are incredibly shortsighted. Security is about a lot more than military spending, and diplomacy is also being cut www.ft.com/content/f388...

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UK aid sector braces for spending cuts in 2026

Country’s overseas spending set to fall to lowest level this century

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

These two stories are somehow connected. Apparently, if you lobby tirelessly for more pollution & ecological wreckage, that’s exactly what you get.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

In Ireland we probably averted about 500 newborn RSV hospitalizations once nirsevimab was introduced last year (~75% risk reduction). Uptake was > 80%, and that's what's threatened by these cynical safety concerns from the antivaxxers in the US government. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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