Big pharma picking our pockets. Advanz, the sole supplier of liothyronine tablets (thyroid drug) in the UK, hiked the price from £20 to £248 per box – an increase of over 1,110%. Must return to Labour's 2019 manifesto - govt to produce generic drugs. gov.uk/government/new…

On the train today, I was talking to a family member about going to see their GP. A man overheard and cut in: “GPs are useless. They don’t do anything. You’re better off seeing a specialist.” The reality for GPs? Ten minute appointments to unpick complex problems. Hundreds of

Thoughts?..

Winners of the Second Annual First Things #Poetry Prize: firstthings.com/winners-of-the… Congratulations to #BrianBrodeur, who I talked with for the first time at Frost Farm last week.

Venice? No Harpley, Norfolk today. Church of St Lawrence. Well worth a visit. #churches

Senior commanders loyal to the Constitution are being purged. People whose only qualification is personal loyalty to Trump are taking their place. The Führer principle (unquestioning obedience to the leader) is key to completing the transition of the United States to fascism.

People who set these traps are the SCUM of the earth!! 🤬🤬 RT if you agree. #BanSnaresNow!! 🚫

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been released, have been informed by ICE that he could now be subject to deportation to Uganda, and he's been told to report to ICE next week, a source confirms to me. A few points about this, b/c there will be a lot of BS about it. 1/

What this confirms is how deeply corrupt and indefensible Trump and Stephen Miller's handling of this has been all throughout. Those of us commenting on this have argued all along that Trump *always* had the option of bringing him back and proceeding through lawful channels. 2/

In other words, after illegally renditioning Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran gulag, Trump could *at any point* have brought him back and moved to deport him to a third country or contested his "withholding of removal" status. We argued for this for months. 3/

Trump/Miller left him in El Salvador for months despite having the option of removing him another way. That was illegal. It defied the Supreme Court. And it was all b/c Trump/Miller calculated that defying the law would thrill MAGA and following the law would deflate it. 4/

Here is how JD Vance described all this to Ross Douthat back in May. The deception and degenerate moral reasoning on display is extraordinary, now that we're seeing Trump/Miller functionally *admit* that they had the option all along of simply moving to deport him another way. 5/

Ross Douthat Everything JD said was nonsense. They never had MS-13 evidence. The idea that his fate was up to Bukele was a lie. And all this "valid deportation order" idea really meant is that they *could* have returned him at any time and attempted removal via lawful channels, but didn't. 6/

Ross Douthat Now they're doing the very thing they always could have done rather than leave him in El Salvador: Attempt removal to a third country. This makes the ongoing prosecution of him now for trafficking look pretty suspect: Maybe they don't actually think that they can prove guilt? 7?

Ross Douthat The full weight of the Trump/WH legal/propaganda machine has been bearing down on this one day laborer and his family for months, all b/c Trump/Miller decided defying the law would thrill MAGA. No one should accept how the US gov't has treated this man. An absolute disgrace. 8/8

Help needed. Anyone in my network able to read old Dutch & looking for a challenge (sample below)? I'm looking for help transcribing documents for my Lucy Walter's biog. You'll get a reference & change history, but you will need to be sworn to secrecy. This is hot. Please DM me.

Ross Douthat Coda: Note JD piously telling Ross Douthat he hoped to obey "Christian principles." In fact, JD dissembled about his legal status, baselessly smeared him as violent, and lied nonstop to obscure that WH had the option of following the law all throughout. This is now undeniable.

You really should all go read this

No American should accept how this country has treated Kilmar Abrego Garcia. No American. Thread.👇

No content today as am in Delhi, India to lend support to the street dog battle here. Never had a scarier or more insane day. Was advised not to go to places but had to see it with my own eyes. Will share more when safer to do so.