Gail Watts

[Xena @Xena_chronicle]

@RupertLowe10 This is what Henry’s father had to say, so respect the family and stop exploiting his murder for your hateful racist agenda.

[Meacham @MeachamDr]

It’s like a meth family moved in….

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

They got rattled by a van with a big screen saying, “Immigration Makes Britain Brilliant,” featuring the faces of people like Mo Farah and Dua Lipa.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Good to see govt doing a review of access to face-to-face banking. While it won't be a big deal for many on here, for many elderly and vulnerable people in person banking is crucial and we need to protect it.... https://t.co/6VRJjYvfXP.

Afterall we collectively bailed the banks out during the financial crash, and that 'too big to fail insurance means in my view there is a social contract that they need to support these things.

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

If you depose a man who led you to a 174 seat majority less than two years ago, you’d better know what you’re doing, or Nigel Farage becomes Prime Minister.

[Tony Lloyd @tonylloyd50]

@narindertweets @petewylie @benhabib6 Please will the UK Government do something to stop this ‘Sale of British Democracy?’ Why is Parliament not stopping billionaires buying politicians to sow divisive rhetoric that dominates the news headlines to distract us all from the truth? @UKParliament @GOVUK @HouseofCommons

[JBL @johninsouthfla]

Here's my prediction for the next few months.

We will see massive corruption in Reform UK councils and the BBC will ignore as much of it possible! If you agree, please repost.

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴Rick Wilson's Warning From America: Nigel Farage Will Be Your Donald Trump, Unless You Act Now

The former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project founder @TheRickWilson has some hard lessons for Conservatives and Labour alike

https://t.co/QirxU75GdZ

[Tock @yvan_theriault]

Il s'appelle le Geai des chênes. On le chasse, on le déteste, on le considère comme un nuisible. En réalité, c'est lui qui a planté une grande partie des forêts de chênes que vous traversez aujourd'hui.
Ce qu'un seul geai fait chaque automne :

Collecte entre 3 000 et 5 000 glands en quelques semaines
Les transporte jusqu'à 10 km du chêne d'origine dans sa poche gulaire
Les enterre à exactement 2-5 cm de profondeur — la profondeur idéale pour la germination
Retrouve environ 70% de ses caches grâce à une mémoire spatiale extraordinaire
Les 30% oubliés germent au printemps suivant = 200 à 500 chênes par oiseau par an

Ce que la science dit :
— Sans les geais, les chênes ne pourraient pas coloniser de nouveaux territoires — leur gland est trop lourd pour voyager par le vent
— Les études forestières montrent que les forêts de chênes ont recolonisé l'Europe après la dernière glaciation grâce aux corvidés, pas grâce au vent
— Un geai sélectionne instinctivement les sites d'enfouissement selon la qualité du sol, l'exposition et l'humidité — une sélection que les programmes de reboisement humain tentent d'imiter
Ce qu'on fait : on le classe nuisible. On l'abat. En pleine crise climatique.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Remember, vote Reform for an entitled prick who doesn't pay his tax and a grifting charlatan who is bought and paid for by a crypto billionaire.
#VoteReform

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Excuse me. But banned why? Are we seriously saying Farage UK should have its own 24/7 news and propaganda channel with barely a peep from @Ofcom but if another party uses what Farage and Co have said in an election broadcast they can’t show it. Madness. Anyway do watch it. It is very powerful

[Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK]

Happy St George's Day!! ����󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

In Praise of Being Told What We Can’t Eat

I used to find European regulations mildly embarrassing. The endless directives, the committees, the solemn deliberations about cucumber curvature. It seemed like a continent-wide exercise in missing the point.

Then I looked at what was actually in my food.

More than 10,000 chemicals are permitted in the American food supply.

Nearly 99 percent introduced since 2000 were approved not by the FDA, but by the food industry itself. 

Companies writing their own permission slips, essentially. The GRAS loophole, created in 1958, allows manufacturers to self-certify that their ingredients are safe. The EU has no equivalent.

The results are specific. BHT, used to extend shelf life in cereals and crackers, is banned in Europe over endocrine disruption concerns – which is why you will never find Wheat Thins here. 

Bovine growth hormone, linked to elevated cancer markers, is injected into American dairy cows and banned across the EU. Standard American milk contains it unless the label says otherwise.

Potassium bromate, a probable human carcinogen, is still used in American bread. 

This is not accident. Three of America’s biggest lobbying firms work for the food industry. Pepsi alone spends nine million dollars a year on lobbying. Incentives, working exactly as designed.

Europe chose the precautionary principle. Prove it is safe before it goes in. America chose the reverse. Things are safe until enough people are harmed to prove otherwise.

Throw in the right to repair, universal charging cables, and food labels a human being can actually parse – and what emerges is not bureaucratic overreach. It is a regulatory culture that decided to represent the person eating the food rather than the company selling it.

Critics can call that excessive. I call it civilization.

Stay connected,
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[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Can we get this story about Farage and his dodgy tax Retweeted 10,000 times?

#NoTaxNigel #FarageOut
#FarageTheFraud

https://t.co/2bwATYQRPS

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Farage and the NHS is trending I see 👀

It would be a shame to keep resharing this video of him talking about privatising the NHS to make money wouldn’t it? 😇

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Breaks my heart that my 5‑year‑old is learning in school about all the ways he can protect our planet...

While decrepit old fuckwits are dropping tons of bombs poisoning soil, air & water for decades to come for millions of us

...but sure, you recycle that bog roll little one.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

I do think it’s Thatcher that you should be blaming…

We could have had our own domestic oil and a £1 trillion fund by now.

[David @Zero_4]

Tory MP Alex Burghart appears to be suffering with one of the worst cases of amnesia I’ve ever seen

Apparently all the issues the country face are a direct consequence of an 18 month old Labour government & nothing to do with a 14 year Tory one, in which he sat

#politicslive