Rachel Silver Rocket

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Both China and the European Union have slapped retaliatory tariffs on the United States. Trump's idiotic tariffs (and his general misunderstanding of how they work) have unleashed a new global trade war. Buckle up — because In a trade war, there are no winners. Watch

I don’t know, millions of people got in the streets a few days ago, the moderates are freaking out about their money, and the President of the United States is carrying out a wildly unpopular, intentional demolition of the economy. Might be time for leaders with spines to actually get in the game.

Hostile political rhetoric stokes division and directly contributes to violence against migrants. We saw the outcome of the Conservatives' use of it last year with far right riots. Labour has to stop following the same path by demonising migrants. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Musk’s staffers fanned out across several agencies today, sending representatives to the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and meeting with the Labor Department to seek access to sensitive data.

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I ran #OSHA 2009-2017, and am now often asked what will happen to #OSHA in the coming Trump administration. In this longish🧵, I try to summarize what happened during Trump I and begin to predict Trump II, recognizing that this one could be wildly different than the last one. 1/

🚨BREAKING: Oil and chemical companies who created ‘The Alliance to END Plastic Waste’ have produced 1,000x more NEW plastic in five years than the waste they cleaned up. It’s hard to imagine a clearer example of GREENWASHING.

Christmas printing with Miss 10's design.

This is happening now in Beirut. X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.

This is chilling. In September, as Elon Musk began buying Trump a presidency after Trump promised him a federal department he could use to destroy his enemies, Trump agents at the Heritage Foundation began filing FOIA requests to find anyone in government who had ever mentioned Musk in any document.

Here you go, a starter pack of Independent Record Shops to follow (pass it on, guessing they’d appreciate that) go.bsky.app/FFCkVXG

It's a bit depressing, just shy of 3 years in, to get confirmation that my chance of getting better, without new therapies, is nearly zero. Alas it fits with my lived experience of just getting worse with every infection, so I suppose at least helps with the gaslighting. Hurry up please, science.

In the late 90s & early 2000s we in the UK received (very roughly) 80,000 asylum applications per year. Mainly people escaping Balkan wars. Today in these “unprecedented” times of “invasion” by small boat… we receive pretty much the exact same numbers. Had you been taken in? I wouldn’t blame you.

Here’s a piece everyone who cares or claims to care about the Gaza genocide needs to read. We can’t look away, we can’t normalise mass murder, even if only because this could one day be our fate too.

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this guy sucks so hard that he can't get any friends, so he bought a site to make all the users his friends, and they left; and he made a robot to tell him he was cool and it instead said he fucking sucks just like we all know he does how shit do you have to human to fail at paying for pals

The measles vaccine has saved 94 million lives over the past 50 years, and it plus vaccines against 13 other pathogens have cut infant mortality by 40 percent and saved 154 million lives. 154 MILLION LIVES 🧪 Anti-vaxxer RFKJ is a menace to global health www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

One iteration of this video shows only him breaking down describing kids being shot, I can't watch that one again. But here's a longer testimony clearly describing the deliberate targeting of small children by drones youtu.be/fgsK7noLGOM?... if you still think this is 'complicated' it really isn't.

Someone has invited the horse back into the hospital. He's buddies with the hippo now, so that will be interesting. youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZ...

So USA, you can look forward to all the Victorian illnesses returning and children not making adulthood because of preventable illnesses.

Many long COVID patients adjust to slim recovery odds as world moves on. "The best window for recovery is in the first 6 months after getting COVID-19... People whose symptoms last between 6 months and 2 years are less likely to fully recover" Source: archive.md/AjM68 #LongCOVID

What's with all the corgis? I mean, I'll take them over transphobes, but I'm confused. Cat for scale.

NEW: Israeli authorities have caused massive, deliberate forced displacement of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since October 2023 and are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Governments should adopt targeted sanctions and other measures, and halt weapons sales to Israel.

Economic burden of Long Covid in the UK estimated to be >$20 billion per year from real cohort data bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...

Um, hi.