@shrutinha
Leader, speaker & facilitator. Former #UKHousing Association Chair. #RaceEquality champion. Troubleshooter, change agent, strategy, systems. Independent citizen, views my own. Post menopause chronic #fibroids survivor. Don’t even try to put me in a box…
“Farage has said he wishes the party "hadn't bothered" to take minority control of Worcestershire County Council, because of its financial problems”
V much summing up his approach to power.
Grifting and gobshiting - yes please.
Hard work and responsibility - god no.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.
Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media.
www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...
The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one.
#NoBrainer
www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...
Another hush money payment.
BREAKING: Ed Davey accuses Kemi Badenoch of competing with Nigel Farage to be Donald Trump's "biggest cheerleader" over Iran
Keir Starmer - “He's right... if they had been leading the country we would be in a war and they'd now come to Parliament to say oop..”
#PMQs
BREAKING: “Just hanging about. That’s how she described our pilots in the region. They have been flying sorties in 7 of the 10 countries in the region night and day, taking out incoming strikes, protecting the lives of others whilst risking their own”
Keir Starmer
#PMQs
The results of the Guatemalan research—which Clinton described as "reprehensible"—were never published. The case only came to light when Reverby found the records of John Cutler, a former U.S. Public Health Service scientist, buried in the archives of the University of Pittsburgh. They told the story of a man who devoted his life to conquering sexually transmitted diseases and led a 2-year effort in Guatemala to monitor and treat syphilis and gonorrhea. In the 1940s, when it seemed that penicillin was successfully rooting out syphilis in the United States, Cutler worried that simply relying on the pill after the disease had been diagnosed wasn't enough. He wanted to test out various other chemicals people could apply right after having sex that would prevent the disease entirely. To do that, of course, he needed newly infected patients.
Between 1946 and 1948, Cutler performed his research on Guatemalans in a national prison, an army barracks, the country's only mental hospital, and the national orphanage. He relied on syphilis- and gonorrhea-infected prostitutes to transmit the diseases to prisoners. At the asylum and the army barracks, he and his team also infected patients with infectious syphilis bacteria taken from humans and animals, mixed with beef heart broth, distilled water, or spinal fluid. One method of inserting it involved scraping the skin off his patients' penises and dripping the solution onto the abraded flesh for an hour or two, according to letters cited by Reverby. Children at the orphanage were not infected with syphilis, but Cutler used them in blood testing. Reverby says she found no indication that patients were informed about what was happening to them. Instead Cutler gained consent from the institutions, often in exchange for showering them with supplies. Patients were treated with penicillin after an infection was confirmed.
/...And this pattern wasn't restricted to the US alone. Historian Susan Reverby revealed how a US Public Health Services doctor John Cutter experimented on orphans, asylum inmates, sex workers and prisoners in Guatamela, infecting them with syphilis and gonorrhea.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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And it continued, of course. Infamously the Holmesburg prison experiments, from the 1950s to 70s, which illustrate how the possibilities for commercialization and profit made American physicians especially eager to experiment on/exploit prisoners.
books.google.ca/books/about/...
"They lied to the men from the very beginning."
As the Guardian article linked above notes, the most obvious parallel is the "US Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis at Tuskegee and Macon County, Alabama, 1932 -1972."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctzn...
The precedents for what RFK Jr is doing are everywhere in the histories of US medicine. Consider the stories of Lucy, Betsey and Anarcha, enslaved women who were experimented on for fistula by physician J Marion Sims./
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
"The study...would have looked at the overall health effects of giving hepatitis B vaccines by only vaccinating half of the newborns in the study at birth despite an 18% prevalence rate in adults of the illness.."
Monstrous, as ever.
@melodyschreiber.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com I put together a systems diagram and wrote poetry to explain it - because of how hard it was to keep explaining when I was utterly debilitated and didn’t have the physical or mental capacity to keep doing it…
The NewsAgents on GB News platforming claims that immigration is a genocide against white people, why that language socialises interethnic violence, + why there is just a shrug when GB News promotes extremism and racist radicalisation to shift the boundaries
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
Made worse by having a ‘taboo’ gynaecological condition…
Long story, but missed out on nearly 20 years of payments that I should have got.
Huge impact in my mental health and wellbeing by Scottish Provident’s approach.
Yes @lbc.co.uk @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com - spot on re: finding it hard to deal with institutions whilst chronically ill. Missed out on too much, bad decisions/ mistakes, then lacking ability to take them to task. Particularly on income protection.
It is important that the government actually gives out - in writing - what it is claiming and not claiming about the fiscal impact of its settlement proposals. Ministers are now consistently making misleading claims, factually, in speeches outside parliament, + inadvertently in parliament itself
And it is done. Who your dad is no longer gives you a guaranteed say on the law of the land. We have tonight done what so many Labour people have sought to do throughout our history: no more hereditary peers
This is appalling. The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world’s most dangerous countries from changes to the UK’s immigration system
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rand Paul: "As far as reasons for the war, there have been many different ones floated, but none have been very convincing... we were told their nuclear weapons were obliterated, and now we're told their nuclear weapons are just moments away from being a bomb. I don't think the arguments are valid."
Farage and Badenoch are absolute clowns: startled by the entirely foreseeable series of events they failed to foresee. A demonstration of their total lack of judgement.
BREAKING: As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the war with Iran, according to sources familiar—far higher than the Pentagon’s publicly disclosed figure of just 8 seriously wounded troops. The true toll of this war is already far worse than the public has been told. (Reuters)
Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the governments jury trial reforms
Every Labour MP should listen to her incredibly powerful and brave statement in parliament today
When the curtain is whipped back there, they stand. Why the hell we put up with this nonsense, I really do not understand. It's not enough to say "it was only Andrew and Sarah".
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
BREAKING: @andyburnham.bsky.social says the Duchy of Lancaster is treating people in the north as “second-class citizens” after failing to support the clean-up of a huge illegal waste dump near Wigan
An investigation by Ch 4 News uncovered that the estate of King Charles is connected to the site
I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.
Johnson: I think what we are learning from the Epstein files was a well-coordinated act of treason. If you think about how they use blackmail to get policymakers to act outside of the best interests of this nation and our Constitution, that’s treason.
America always howling about nuclear threats, is the only country to ever drop a nuke on anyone…two actually.
And now a dementia ridden, terminally ill narcissist with raging sadism who will happily burn the world down before he dies has started a fckn war and has the nuclear codes.
Congress: 🤷♂️ 🤷♀️
Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."
