Ed Roycroft

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

If you are grown ass adult defending Dr. Fauci and his ridiculous Covid rules in 2026, then do all us all a favor and watch this.

Then dispute it. You can't. Enough already.

[Efrat Fenigson @efenigson]

🧵 Ireland: EU's First Testing Ground for Digital ID & Wallet

1/9 🇮🇪 Ireland just launched a pilot for its Government Digital Wallet: a state-run app to store ID, birth certificate, driving license, and more. They're calling it "optional." For now.

Here's why you should pay close attention 👇

(Please share!)
https://t.co/mJ5KBZImuB

[Roman Bystrianyk @RBystrianyk]

The common belief that the decline in infectious disease deaths is due to modern medicine, like antibiotics and vaccines, is incorrect. The vast majority of the decline, particularly in the early 19th and 20th centuries, preceded these medical ideas.

Three key developments drove the earlier progress:

1. The rise of robust public health infrastructure, including engineered sanitation and sewer systems, protected municipal water supplies with filtration and chlorination, systematic garbage collection, early measures to control water and industrial air pollution, food safety regulations (e.g., meat inspection), and vector control (e.g., mosquito reduction).

2. Profound improvements in personal and socioeconomic well-being, such as vastly improved nutrition and increased dietary diversity, rising wages, less crowded housing with better ventilation (which increased exposure to sunlight and thus vitamin D production), the enactment of protective child and adult labor laws, public education, and greater public personal hygiene.

3. The abandonment of harmful medical practices, including treatments with mercury, arsenic, and strychnine, bloodletting and purging, and the “hot regimen,” cleared the way for more supportive care.

Data strongly support the pivotal role of public health infrastructure. Research indicates that nearly 90% of the decline in infectious disease mortality among American children occurred between 1900 and 1940, a period before the widespread availability of antibiotics and most vaccines. A parallel, even steeper decline—over 98%—was observed in England and Wales, underscoring that this was a widespread phenomenon driven by societal factors rather than specific medical interventions (and in fact far fewer medical interventions).

“...nearly 90% of the decline in infectious disease mortality among US children occurred [from 1900] before 1940, when few antibiotics or vaccines were available.”
[“Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: Trends in the Health of Americans During the 20th Century,” Pediatrics, December 2000, pp. 1307-1317.]

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 NEW: Fmr. CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield Now Says the COVID Jab Should Not Have Been Called a Vaccine

“It was never meant to prevent transmission … It probably was a misnomer to call it a vaccine. It's really more like a medicine. It doesn't stop infection.”

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

The United States has formally withdrawn from the World Health Organization. We are reclaiming our independence, protecting American sovereignty, and putting U.S. public health policy back in the hands of the American people.

[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

🔥THE ULTIMATE ORANGE PILL🔥

Here’s the thing nobody wants to say out loud because it ruins brunch:

The natural state of a free market is deflation. Prices falling. Abundance increasing. Life getting easier. More stuff, cheaper, better, faster, forever. That is what competition plus technology actually does when left alone.

If this sounds insane to you, congratulations, you have been successfully domesticated like the tax cattle that you are!

Every year humans invent machines that do more work for less energy, less time, less labor. Computers get cheaper. Software scales infinitely. AI is about to vaporize entire white-collar industries while running on electricity that gets more efficient every decade. In a sane system, this means your money buys more every year and you work less to live better.

But that cannot be allowed!

Because the entire global economy is a rotting debt tower duct-taped together with the promise that tomorrow will fix today. And deflation is kryptonite to debt. Deflation is debt sobriety. It’s the moment the drunk realizes the bar is closed.

So instead, they light money on fire on purpose.

They call it “stimulus.” They call it “growth.” They call it “2 percent inflation targets,” like that isn’t a polite way of saying “we will steal from you slowly so you don’t riot.”

Inflation is the anesthetic required to keep this corpse economy moving. It makes debt lighter, assets explode upward, and wages chase prices like a dog chasing a car it will never catch.

That’s why your grandparents bought a house on one salary and you need a dual-income household, a side hustle, a crypto portfolio, and mild alcoholism just to rent a condo with inspirational wall art.

Technology is screaming, “Everything should be cheaper.”

Central banks are screaming back, “Shut the fuck up.”

Bitcoin says: what if money actually reflected reality?

What if productivity gains weren’t stolen before they reached you? What if saving wasn’t a financial death sentence? What if the future wasn’t a leveraged hallucination funded by your shrinking purchasing power?

That’s the orange pill.

It’s realizing that inflation is a controlled demolition of your time, your labor, your future, dressed up as economic management.

And deflation, the thing they tell you to fear, is just abundance trying to happen before being beaten back into submission.

And once you see that, you don’t unsee it. You just sit there quietly at dinner, smiling, while everyone else argues about interest rates like hostages negotiating with their captors.

Welcome to the ultimate orange pill.

BUY BITCOIN AND INHERIT THE PRODUCTIVITY GAINS OF HUMANITY WITHOUT DEBASEMENT.

[Today In History @historigins]

One of the greatest lecture in the world.

[Maria Dubovikova @politblogme]

Just two sentences—yet packed with so many rhetorical manipulations.
Let’s break it down.

The statement—“Regulating digital platforms to protect citizens, democratic debate and the rule of law is not censorship. It is responsibility.”—employs several persuasive techniques. These can be seen as forms of linguistic or argumentative manipulation designed to shape desired perception.

Here are the main techniques used:

🚩Reframing

The core approach is to redefine a potentially controversial action (government-mandated regulation of online speech) as something positive and uncontroversial.
“Regulation” is presented as “protection” and “responsibility,” shifting attention from possible restrictions on expression to noble goals like safeguarding citizens, democracy, and the rule of law.
🔺This sidesteps the negative connotations of censorship, oppression and suppression, making opponents appear irresponsible or even anti-democratic.
🔺Evidence from policy debates (e.g., discussions around the EU’s Digital Services Act) shows this framing is deliberate and systematic: proponents describe platform rules as “systemic risk reduction” or “enabling healthy debate,” even though they involve direct government influence over speech.

🚩 False Dichotomy (or Strawman Setup)

The structure “It is not X. It is Y.” forces a binary choice: either accept regulation as “responsibility,” or be seen as endorsing “censorship” (implicitly portrayed as illegitimate and harmful).
It preemptively dismisses critics by associating them with defending unchecked harm, rather than engaging with legitimate concerns such as overreach and chilling effects on free speech.

🚩 Euphemism

“Regulating digital platforms” acts as a mild, bureaucratic euphemism for measures that may include mandating content removal, algorithmic demotion, or imposing liability for user speech—actions that amount to censorship.
Similar terms like “content moderation” or “harm reduction” are routinely used in global debates to soften the description of severe speech restrictions.
Such euphemisms make restrictive policies more palatable and reduce public resistance by avoiding stark terms like “suppression” or “control.”

🚩 Appeal to Authority and Virtue (Loaded Language)

Invoking “protect citizens,” “democratic debate,” and “rule of law” employs emotionally charged, virtuous language to justify the measures.
This appeals to widely shared values (safety, democracy, legality), implying that supporters are morally upright and forward-thinking, while opponents threaten those same ideals.

🚩 Preemptive Denial

Explicitly stating “is not censorship” anticipates and neutralises the most common objection.
This defensive tactic controls the narrative frame, forcing critics to argue against a denial rather than on the policy’s merits.
It parallels debates where “hate speech regulation” is framed as “harm prevention,” and curbs on viewpoint diversity are presented as “disinformation countermeasures.”

Taken together, these techniques manipulate perception by portraying regulation as both inevitable and ethically unimpeachable, while downplaying reality behind these oppressive measures such as viewpoint bias, over-censorship, or the erosion of free expression.

In other words, they fully understand exactly what they are doing—suppressing free speech—and who they truly are: a dictatorship desperate to cling to power by any means necessary, while denying people the right to think independently and access alternative viewpoints that might threaten their grip. Yet they insist that you believe they are acting in your best interest, all in the name of democracy.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

A 2026 gift from the European Central Bank.

A CBDC.

Enjoy 😂

[Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ @alexandrosM]

You froze the bank accounts of Jaques Baud, a Swiss citizen residing in Belgium, and banned every EU businesses from transacting with him such that he can't even buy bread or pay rent, and your own rationale is that you didn't like what he was saying. You did this with no due process, no right of appeal, and no way to defend himself from your slanderous and ruinous accusations. And he's not the only one.

You obviously have no comprehension of the terms you use, what their meaning is, or what is the purpose of the principles you so easily throw around.

Unfortunately, EU citizens never elected you, so they can't unelect you. You'll keep turning the EU into USSR until your failed experiment comes crashing down. Until then, spare us the lectures. Your actions are deafening.

[Jay Bhattacharya @DrJBhattacharya]

Modern censors work in the shadows, so victims never know who squelches their speech. They use NGOs and universities, with euphemisms like "prebunk", to launder their censorship. This is the beating heart of the EU's & UKs silicon curtain.
https://t.co/liYn8h3BYE

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

Dear Vaccine Fanatics,

Game Over.

Anyone considering vaccinating anyone for anything please watch and listen to this - the statistics and evidence provided is now simply indisputable.

Vaccines do more harm than good. Period.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

An actual truthful email circulating inside the FDA. Read and weep.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

The FDA now recognizes that the covid vaccines killed healthy children who were in no danger from covid itself.

That’s the tip of a gigantic iceberg—bioweapon leaks, science fraud, regulatory capture, a global coup by the “public health” bureaucracy against traditional medicine, the debut of a lethal new vaccine platform, shredding of the First Amendment, and robotic pens used to brazenly pardon criminal masterminds—all lurk just below the surface.

Thanks to @VPrasadMDMPH for stepping up.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

We can trust Oracle to centralize our data in a single place to create digital IDs, says Larry Ellison. We can't. Thanks to a "previously unknown & widespread vulnerability" in Oracle's "E-Business Suite software" thousands of us recently had our personal data stolen.

[Humanspective @Humanspective]

Dr. Stanley Plotkin exposed.

Praised by Bill Gates, renowned vaccinology expert Dr. Stanley Plotkin looks at the camera (1m 20s) and realises he is cooked by Aaron Siri, in a stunning deposition where he admits the laughable safety monitoring for routine vaccines.

The Pharma-Regulatory cartel creates an illusion that vaccines are "100% safe and effective", but clinical trials are intentionally designed without an inert placebo control....they can NEVER find causality.

The trials are not designed to hold the product accountable, given an extra layer of protection with the 1986 vaccine injury act. It's clear they knew by doing trials where they aren't comparing true placebo, that they could legally say no causality exists.

How can you prove a "causal" link if they aren't doing the studies which are a pre-requisite for that evidence?

[The Daily Sceptic @LD_Sceptics]

Trust in the BBC has been collapsing for years. For many, it finally died during Covid when the national broadcaster took on the role of chief cheerleader for the lockdowns, no dissent allowed. A reckoning is long overdue. https://t.co/q9dJXMR6k3

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Now that America has removed mercury from all vaccines, I call on every global health authority to do the same — to ensure that no child, anywhere in the world, is ever exposed to this deadly neurotoxin again.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

In 2022, Obama gave a speech at Stanford Cyber Policy Center advocating sweeping censorship of the Internet. Now, Public has discovered the same Center last month hosted a secret meeting with EU, UK, Brazil, & Australia officials to plot global censorship — including of the US.

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

John Collison of Stripe: Ireland is going backwards. Here’s how to get it moving https://t.co/aPTfmQzoo6