❌Mythbusting❌ Youth suicide & COVID ❌Myth: responses to COVID "caused" 🔼youth suicides ✅Reality: We now have 4 years of pandemic data showing that school-aged youth did NOT have an increase in suicides; in fact, rates decreased 18.3% from recent trends AND averages. /1

It's official: Mask ban in Nassau County, New York passes along party lines, 12-0 (7 abstentions). It makes wearing a mask a misdemeanor (with unclear health and religious exceptions) and gives police the power to fine people wearing a mask $1,000 and sentence them to jail time.

It would be fascinating to see historical data for this sort of thing. I strongly suspect this phenomenon of being in a tiny unrepresentative minority but believing most people agree with you (and therefore feeling empowered to act) is a social media era phenomenon.

Imane Khelif: After the sporting time, comes the legal time. Having just won a gold medal … lead(ing) a new fight: that of justice, dignity and honor. Polite way of saying, ‘Fuck around & find out wizard bigot & hateful sheep, I will own you!’🥊 #IStandWithImaneKhelif

Very interesting reading, particularly the spike in immune/autoimmune issues.

The usual geniuses keep using this photo, to make their usual dumb/hateful anti-immigration arguments. Quite ironic, to say the least. A few facts about this photo, for anyone interested in who those women were - and what their stories might tell you about Ireland. /1

A puff piece is one thing, but Audrey Young transcribing Erica Stanford's spin on the alleged maths emergency is lamentable. Stanford's account vs what the researchers *actually* said. A sample of students was tested against a new draft curriculum that isn't being taught yet.

The gig Massive Attack hope will change the music industry bbc.com/news/articles/…

I just learned about Ewa Kłobukowska, a Polish sprinter who set multiple world records in the 1960s She "failed a gender test" and was banned and had all her records stripped. The papers called her a man The next year she gave birth to a son. She never received an apology

The absolute embarrassment that is this government 🤦‍♀️

I have just learnt the so called, "multi millionaire" Andrew Tate rents his house in Romania, rents his cars on a per hour basis for photo shoots and is close to bankruptcy. O well.

Nothing has been more damning for Luxon than this

Unbelievably misogynist headline in The Telegraph. It’s not revenge, it’s justice and none of those men were taking ‘orders’.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will douse them with petrol & burn them alive or drug them till they're unconscious & invite strangers round to repeatedly rape them.

I’m going to South Korea in a few weeks, a country where up-skirting is such a problem that mobile phones don’t have a mute option when taking photos!

In his first major interview in Number 10 Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that the Conservatives “broke" the NHS ahead of a government review of the service He’s absolutely right.

Well, fuck 😒

Christopher Luxon manipulating data like this should be a crime. It is fraudulent with intent to defraud the public.

An incredibly brave woman

. Amelia Wade has a great story about the scale of cuts required if the government is to achieve its spending targets. I thought that I might add a little more information to that article. A 🧵 waikatotimes.co.nz/politics/35042…