Fabio

[Philip Pilkington @philippilk]

Remember the 2020 disruptions to shipping. Yeah, you are now here… 👇

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

“‘Vaccines don’t cause autism’ has never been proven.” Correct, because that’s not how science works.

If I say “sunning your perineum twice per day increases your IQ by 10 points” you would say, “prove it.” The burden of proof is on me, the person with a tanned perineum. If I responded by saying, “no, you prove to me perineal sunning DOESN’T increase your IQ by 10 points,” I am operating under the false assumption that my perineal sunning claim is fact without evidence to back it up.

The burden of proof is on the person claiming that vaccines cause autism, not the other way around.

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

German Greens - British Greens

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

To my colleagues in the UK media –

You may not agree with Palestine Action’s tactics, messaging, or political objectives. You may think protestors in general are noisy, irritating, and uncouth. Indeed, you may think the same of me! But all of us who work in UK journalism, in any capacity, should be horrified by the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group. It goes far beyond holding a protest group criminally liable for their activities. It makes it illegal to express support for them, in any capacity, under the threat of up to 14 years imprisonment.

Our work as journalists is built on the bedrock of legally protected free expression. But there’s no journalistic exemption to the Terrorism Act 2000. Let’s imagine that one of your colleagues, after this week, writes an opinion piece arguing that Palestine Action are brave and heroic, that they were part of a long tradition of non-violent direct action that includes the Suffragettes and the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.

You may disagree with the points they make. That’s fine – since when did everyone in the media get along?

But do you think they should be arrested? Do you think their house should be raided, work devices seized, that they should face prosecution and jail time? Because that is what the law allows for.

Perhaps you think this is unlikely. But already, journalists have been investigated under the Terrorism Act. One journalist reporting on Palestine had his home raided by police despite never being arrested or charged with an offence. He was targeted with sweeping warrants that granted police access to journalistic and legally privileged material, which were later ruled unlawful by the court. If one journalist can have their home raided by police under counter-terror powers, so can any of us.

I don’t think that free expression is a privilege that belongs solely to the media class. I don’t think that a teenager wearing a Palestine Action t-shirt should face arrest either. I don’t think someone conveying positive sentiments about the group to their friends should have to worry about prosecution. And I think that, when many ordinary people choose not to comply with the state’s restrictions on expressing support for Palestine Action after it’s proscribed, it is our moral obligation as journalists and media workers to back them up any way we can.

It doesn’t matter if you work for The Guardian or The Sun, Novara Media or The Telegraph, the BBC or GB News. The proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group is an unprecedented infringement on free expression. Every single one of us in the media, no matter our political affiliations, must stand firmly in opposition to it.

[Bob Vylan @BobbyVylan]

Silence is not an option.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

What planet are these people on? They are genuinely insane.

[Collingwood 🇬🇧 @admcollingwood]

This is disgraceful. Disgraceful! I'm sorry to say that that country is slipping into nasty authoritarianism.

[Fabio @fabiofl_]

Russia has already said no to NATO peacekeepers so why are they still talking about it?

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

So glad free speech is back

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Farage asks an important question about how many British soldiers will be sent to Russia.

Starmer doesn’t answer and says we “shouldn’t be fawning over Russia”. He’s cheered by his own backbenchers.

We could be in real trouble folks. You can’t evade basic questions like that.

[Collingwood 🇬🇧 @admcollingwood]

Doctor Strangewood wants the UK to "confront Russia directly" and "move to a war footing" because "we are at war in Europe." They actually want to start the Third World War. With these people in charge, it might be a blessing to have a pathetically small army.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Keir Starmer thanks Trump for ‘changing the conversation’ on a peace deal in Ukraine.

Any of Starmer’s own MPs pushing a peace deal several years was liable to be suspended! 🤣

These people don’t believe in anything beyond being in charge.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Not remotely surprised.

This is David Lammy three weeks ago and…today. There’s clearly no plan whatsoever.

[thefoodbae @TheF00dBae]

This video is very relevant

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

This story is so nuts. A Jewish man sees two other Jewish men in a car driving down the road in Miami, he thinks they are Palestinians so he pulls up on them and unloads 17 rounds into their car.

THEN when the two victims are in the hospital recovering, they post about the attack on social media and literally end their post with “De*th to Arabs.”

Three strangers. All Jewish. And they all hate Arabs so much that one tries to kill the other two because he thinks they’re Arabs and then the other two blame Arabs for the attack. WTAF???

[Molecule @Molecule_sci]

https://t.co/CFMMkFIEK2

[Pump Science @pumpdotscience]

calling all phdegens to join us in the desci arena

any volunteers

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

There is literally nothing he will not lie about.

The Vegas loop has a capacity of 4,500 riders an hour or 108,000 a day.

The 7 train alone in NYC carries 4,000,000 a day.

The average subway does 1,200,000 a day.

[BerberineXBiotin @BBiotin35738]

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