People used to tell me the problem with Medicare For All or a similar socialized healthcare system was that the government would control what care you could and could not receive.

And I responded with: "They already do that. Your private health insurance and doctors aren't safe. There's nothing stopping the government from revoking or banning your medical care. If they can ban abortion, they can ban anything."

And they said: "Pshaw, as if."

And obviously, here we are.

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Donald Trump has turned the US into an unreliable partner. For that reason, Europeans now buy European weapons.

The result? US Ambassador to the EU Andres Puzder is complaining that Europe will no longer buy weapons from the country which wants to invade Greenland.

Remind me again: How many French Dassault Rafale fighter jets or Swedish Gripen Jets have the US Air Force bought?