Jayne Smith

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

I bought an apple in New York. I brought it home to Europe and placed it next to an Italian apple on my kitchen counter.

The Italian apple was gone in two weeks.
The American apple sat there for almost two years.

I am not a scientist. But I started asking questions. What followed was three years of research into one of the most important and least discussed differences between life in America and life in Europe.

The short version: the food industry has been running two different experiments on two different populations for fifty years.

One population was protected by strict government regulation. The other was left to the industry to regulate itself.

The results are now visible in the hospitals.

In this piece: the eight substances banned in Europe still found in everyday American food, the two gut bacteria your diet is systematically destroying, what a Norwegian hospital discovered when it transferred bacteria from healthy people into IBS patients, why Americans are dying of heart disease at ages Europeans are not, the trick the food industry uses on every health-conscious shopper, and the embarrassingly simple conclusion hundreds of research studies have reached.

You are not doomed. But you do need to know what you are dealing with.
https://t.co/pZ0IjbY2gi

[Dr Ali G (🦋 @dralig.bsky.social) @AlisonGeorge10]

This should be front page news🚨‼️

@wesstreeting & @SKinnock are removing OUR RIGHT to make referrals to secondary care & YOUR RIGHT to a specialist opinion/care/treatment/surgery etc.

Ignore the spin…

@UKLabour are smashing the #NHS up w/ a sledgehammer!

@LaylaMoran
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[Steve Howell @FromSteveHowell]

Starmer could throw a spanner into Trump's genocidal works by immediately refusing to allow any US bombers to take off from British bases.

This is the moment of truth @Keir_Starmer

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK must not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.

[Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne @PeteUK7]

Sorry to trouble you @Keir_Starmer but you seem to be unaware that a threat has been made to wipe a whole civilization off the face off the earth today.
I know you want to talk about Kanye West but could you possibly find it in yourself to do or say something?
Like very soon.

[Dr Aadam Aziz @Aadam_Aziz]

Absolutely disgraceful racism from @jkyleofficial on @TalkTV. As the camera zooms in on me and @DrHWazir on the picket line, he sneers that “a lot of them have come into this country to be doctors.” He based this solely on the colour of my skin.

I was born in the UK. I studied and trained in the UK and I currently work as a doctor in the NHS. My grandfather fought for this country in WW2.

This is racist, demeaning, and utterly unacceptable.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

25th Amendment? Pretty please, USA. Your president just told the whole world that a civilisation will die tonight. That is not a campaign slogan. That is not locker room talk. That is a man who should not have the nuclear codes, the tariff lever, or unsupervised access to a social media account.

You have a constitutional off-ramp. Use it.

Regards the rest of civilisation.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Prof Colin Talbot (and my late pal Rory) @colinrtalbot]

There is no way the UK should be allowing the USA to use British bases to,carry out these attacks. They would be War Crimes.

Please RT if you agree.🇬🇧

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Hey America, can someone just put an end to this sadistic, psychopathic cocksucking piece of shit before he kills us all? Thank you kindly.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell on Fox News. An expert National Security Analyst confirms the Trump administration is completely purging the Pentagon. Pete Hegseth has fired over a dozen top generals, including the heads of the Navy and Air Force, right in the middle of a massive war.

[Jayne Smith @jayneasmith2]

@AndrewMeyerson @5By5Creativity @Keir_Starmer &@wesstreeting please listen to this doctor!!!

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Please share with the Prime Minister. Thank you. Back on shift at 22:00. Goodnight.

#SOSNHS

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

Absolutely shocking behaviour from the health secretary!

Threatening to withdraw training jobs for doctors if they don’t accept a real-terms pay cut…

Knowing that the consequences of this will be our patients who’ll find it even harder to access to specialist care

Disgraceful

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.

This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.

I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.

Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Robert Mueller died last night.

He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving.

He had integrity.

And tonight the President of the United States said good!

I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good.

I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word.

Good.

This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather.

That is what is happening. That is what has happened.

The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming.

America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner.

And the church said nothing.

Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary.

Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him.

Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart.

JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn.

These men are something more painful than monsters.

They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again.

Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing.

Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less.

That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him.

And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it.

When Trump is gone, they will still be here.

Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous.

That morning is coming.

Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say.

He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true.

He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad.

The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it.

That is all it needed to be.

A man died. His family is broken open with grief.

That is all it needed to be.

Instead the President said good.

And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[The Receipts UK ♿ @david_hollas]

Matt Hancock funneled £23M+ in NHS data contracts to Palantir during Covid—kicking off with a shady £1 "emergency" deal for hospital beds & PPE tracking, ballooning into their Foundry platform empire! But hold on—Palantir had been schmoozing Hancock & top ministers PRE-PANDEMIC, with emails revealing explicit talks on handing over PATIENT DATA and software demos. No competitive tender? Just cronies cashing in??
OpenDemocracy & Foxglove SLAMMED it with lawsuits & WON—forcing transparency on this Big Tech handover. Critics screamed mission-creep into total surveillance, human rights nightmares (Palantir's ICE deportation tech), eroding NHS trust forever. Now? Palantir lords over NHS England's federated data platform. Hancock's poisonous legacy: selling our health data to spy-tech vampires. Who's really running the NHS? 😡 #NHSPalantir #BigTechTakeover #SaveOurNHS

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The CEO of Palantir just said the quiet part out loud.
Alex Karp — whose company builds surveillance and defense technology for the U.S. government — just openly stated that AI will deliberately shift economic power away from highly educated, often female, Democratic-leaning workers and toward vocationally trained, working-class, often male voters.

He then admitted these technologies are — his word — “dangerous” and “suicidal,” and that the only justification for deploying them is the military argument: if we don’t, our adversaries will.

So let’s be clear about what was just said on the record: A defense contractor CEO told you AI is being built to restructure the American class system, that it will destroy the economic power of an entire political demographic, and that the only way to sell it to the public is to wrap it in national security.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

I’m not a fan of Starmer, but whatever he does – literally whatever he does - he is ripped apart, ripped to shreds, by the telegraph, Mail, express, Sun, spectator, the very same people who installed Boris Johnson and the appalling Liz Truss.
The same people who installed the governments that caused Brexit and the financial chaos that has ensued, the same people who have driven this country into the ground.
I’m sick to death of them.
They are the biggest threat to this country and all of us across the board, no matter what our politics are. We need to get billionaires out of the Media

[Jay @ClearThinker66]

Why bother with all those years of under and post grad study as a doctor?

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing