@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-01-28 09:11:49
"When you focus on growth in GDP as your primary goal without any concern for whether what creates that growth is of real value rather than simply being capable of being counted, whilst being indifferent to the distribution of the gains, those already vulnerable are bound to suffer as a consequence... The policy failure this chart exposes is not an accident; it will be achieved by #Labour by d…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-29 14:19:08
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s remaking of childhood vaccination policies
is fueling resistance in labor and delivery wards, where doctors say parents are increasingly hesitant to allow other routine care for new babies.
Half a dozen pediatricians in five states said they are spending more time talking to parents about standard treatments given to newborns,
including vitamin K to prevent dangerous bleeding and a topical antibiotic that protects against …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-26 02:39:46
Even before extremist Republican Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20,
progressives warned of his fascistic tendencies and plans,
often citing his platform, and highlighting what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “Trump’s playbook of dictators.”
But too few people, even on the left side of the electorate, listened.
After all, those warnings have been sounded for months if not years.
“Trump is following, point for point, the playbook of …
@floheinstein@chaos.social2026-03-24 18:43:47
Sie: "Ich hab heute herausgefunden, von wo meine Links-Rechts-Schwäche herkommt. Willst du hören?"
Ich: "Zur Sicherheit zeig mir die Richtung lieber."
*Handgemenge*
#SzeneneinerEhe
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-02-16 17:46:04
Very much mainstream Labour. Ged Cooney has had enough of what the Labour Party has become.
Former [Tameside] council leader resigns from Labour Party - Manchester Evening News https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/former-greater-manches…
@pre@boing.world2026-02-26 20:29:42
The federal government’s revenue base is essentially a tax on human time. People work, firms pay them, the government takes a cut. Individual income and payroll taxes are the spine of receipts in normal years.
Indeed. Collapse in the labour economy causes a financial state collapse when the state is funded by a tax on labour.
Productivity is surging, but the gains are flowing to capital and compute, not labor.
Which would ideally mean you tax compute and capital but how's that work when compute and capital own the government already?
The output is still there. But it’s no longer routing through households on the way back to firms, which means it’s no longer routing through the IRS either.
@davej@dice.camp2026-01-18 22:35:00
Take it from me, as an Australian who’s worked in politics: strongly reconsider following Australia’s lead in *any* sort of policy. Learn from our egregious mistakes. Please. #ukpol #SocialMediaBan
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie2026-02-06 09:37:03
This week’s Gist is about how the U.K. Labour Party unknowingly has been blowing itself up by following Morgan McSweeney’s FG electoral instincts.
They don’t know the patterns, but we do.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-labours-fg-mastermind/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-03 16:48:04
More than 10,000 Americans who suffer from chronic liver disease are on a waitlist for a liver transplant,
-- but there are not enough donated organs for all of those patients.
Additionally, many people with liver failure aren’t eligible for a transplant if they are not healthy enough to tolerate the surgery.
To help those patients, MIT engineers have developed ⭐️ “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of the failing liver.
In a n…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-08 16:51:18
A labor-led coalition plans a protest outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building Thursday to "demand an end to the bloodshed and inhumane treatment of immigrants by" Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
The coalition gathers outside the federal building every Thursday, but the protest comes one day after the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE officer in an immigration-related operation in Minneapolis.
"Protesters in San Diego are calling for an end…
