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"What is the cost of lies? It is not that we will mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we will no longer recognise the truth at all." The first words spoken in HBO's Chernobyl but somehow strangely relevant right now.
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Belfast ranks 32nd per capita for asylum seekers in the UK. Northern Ireland hosts 2,379 in total. Thatโ€™s 0.1% of its population. NI is 97% white. Asylum seekers are not โ€œillegal migrantsโ€; theyโ€™re going through a legal government process. factcheckni.org/articles/immโ€ฆ
Belfast houses more asylum seekers per capita than almost any other place in the UK. One in 200 people in Belfast is an illegal migrant. Who could possibly have foreseen civil unrest? Itโ€™s the immigration, stupid.
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Liberals are worried that Musk might use his โ€œextreme concentration of wealthโ€ to do what exactly? Explore space? Electrify automobile transportation? Advance free speech on digital platforms? Whatโ€™s the threat here?
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Replying to @AllisonPearson
But he is basing his article on the words of Shoo Lee who has been caught out lying as well as fraudulently misrepresenting the work of other doctors. Not exactly credible. pubpeer.com/publications/457โ€ฆ

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Replying to @Usafmomkim1
Silly false claims. Canโ€™t believe you still believe this stuff and donโ€™t realize it is a misrepresentation
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I mean, @DrkathyDmiller, the highest positivity rates at any point in the entire pandemic or only 15%. So obviously that 86% number you're spewing, is complete bullshit, "doctor."
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Breaking, you're an idiot and Nicholas Hulscher is a liar. Current positivity rate on PCR tests in the US for covid is 0.8%. That means, the HIGHEST POSSIBLE FALSE POSITIVE RATE is 0.8%. cdc.gov/covid/php/surveillanโ€ฆ
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Ah yes that famous โ€œnegotiationโ€ where Japan unconditionally surrendered after two atom bombs and Hitler blew his brains out.
JD Vance: If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.
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World War II ended with unconditional surrenders by Germany on May 8, 1945, and Japan on September 2, 1945, rather than negotiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditiโ€ฆ archives.gov/milestone-docuโ€ฆ nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/endโ€ฆ
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The UK planning system in microcosm - wealthy local campaigners in Cotswolds push through judicial review, even alleging breaches of Public Sector Equality Duty (topical!), just to block housing for year after year after year msn.com/en-gb/money/other/plโ€ฆ
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Just a totally delusional post that ignores the key fact that Obama signed a nuclear deal with Iran that Iran was complying with, per the IAEA, that was robust, per Trumpโ€™s Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, but that Trump, not Tehran, tore up. Leading to todayโ€™s war. Donโ€™t let these people gaslight you.
The war mongers are in Tehran, not Washington. Between 2009 and 2025, the United States spent twelve years under Obama and Biden trying to reach a modus vivendi with the Islamic Republic. Sanctions relief, diplomacy, outreach, engagement. Yet a stable accommodation remained elusive. Why? Veterans of the Obama team and their ideological supporters blame Americaโ€™s supposed โ€œwar mongers.โ€ The claim is absurd. The central argument of the hawks has never been that conflict is desirable. It is that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a revolutionary jihadi organization that can only be deterred, not seduced. Most Americans would prefer engagement to work. They are not eager for confrontation. They will give diplomacy every chance to succeed. But they are not willing to ignore reality indefinitely. The problem was never those of us warning about the impossibility of a lasting accommodation with Tehran. The problem was Tehran itself. When engagement fails year after year, American leaders return to deterrence not because American hawks are politically powerful, but because their diagnosis is far more accurate. We hawks did not scuttle engagement. Tehran did.
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Even in the most ambitious solar scenarios less than 1% of UK land will be used. Climate change is a far greater threat to farming than renewable energy.
Replying to @mgshanks
See that thing in the picture as well as pylons? It's a tractor. They are used so farmers can grow our food efficiently. Plastering the landscape with "solar farms" won't grow our food You are destroying energy security via "green" but you are also destroying food security too.
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It is frankly embarrassing that a sitting U.S. Vice President is unaware of one of the most elementary facts of World War II. Nazi Germany did not negotiate an end to World War II. The war in Europe ended with Germanyโ€™s unconditional surrender after total military defeat and the collapse of the regime in May 1945.
JD Vance: If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.
Community note
World War II ended with unconditional surrenders by Germany on May 8, 1945, and Japan on September 2, 1945, rather than negotiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditiโ€ฆ archives.gov/milestone-docuโ€ฆ nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/endโ€ฆ
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Replying to @DarrenBar88
in my experience, public ownership just avoids decent governance/market discipline. Unfortunately, the natural monopolies don't seem to be well regulated atm
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Replying to @shopmedcart
Lol. No. Do you know where the 53% number came from? Hint: it's not mortality rate. It actually proved that Remdesivir SAVED lives.
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Replying to @KPMG
@KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits ofโ€‰.โ€‰.โ€‰.โ€‰AI archive.ph/NFBpD via @ebratton26 et al @sib313 @SebRees1
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Here is a big idea the NHS doesn't get: "A queue is not a store of work. It is a generator of work." Queues in the NHS are usually a sign of huge amounts of failure demand.
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Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.
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Incredible. Publishing what appears to be (if you care to read the "evidence") a totally legitimate US program, and even citing the risks of these being used as "Russian information campaigns", Tulsi Gabbard - the gift that kept giving - presents the Kremlin with yet one more information operation. Read our investigation from 2025 where we presented evidence that the hybrid ops unit of GRU's 29155 came up with the whole "bio-labs" concept - and co-opted Tulsi into it. theins.press/en/inv/281731
Today, Iโ€™m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trumpโ€˜s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what โ€œresearchโ€ is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/โ€ฆ
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Sources of Failure Demand in Healthcare cressbrookltd.co.uk/sources-โ€ฆ via #NickDownham
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Genuine question: has Andy Haldaneโ€™s review of NHS productivity been published?
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Replying to @AlexDuncanTX
Ding Ding Ding, DUMBASS!
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