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Angry vet. (Col)lapsed academic. (Un)civil servant. I have fifteen friends. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

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Un nuevo camino para la anguila europea La anguila europea es una de las especies mΓ‘s enigmΓ‘ticas de nuestra faunaΒ y que pasa desapercibida para muchos de nosotros.

ArtΓ­culo del Secretario General de @wwf.es @jcdelolmowwf.bsky.social sobre la anguila.

Debemos actuar ahora, hemos perdido casi 20 aΓ±os desde la aprobaciΓ³n de su Reglamento UE e ignorado 5 aΓ±os la recomendaciΓ³n de @icesmarine.bsky.social de captura Cero. @miteco.gob.es
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16.02.2026 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@timmiller.bsky.social on Rubio's speech: "A respect for the rule of law and a respect for the beautiful and great things that have been created in Western culture... it requires continued work and effort and commitment to those values. And these guys are a straight attack on all of them."

17.02.2026 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

False herring. Aka harengula clupeola.

17.02.2026 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

15.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 40358    πŸ” 13627    πŸ’¬ 648    πŸ“Œ 581

The infuriating thing is that it was *crystal clear* 10+ years ago that enforcing continued racism-wrangling and crackdowns as the only alternative to the vicious right, in a visibly crumbling and more cruel Britain, would be a horrific disaster. But it was all fingers-in-ears, lala I can’t hear you

16.02.2026 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
If Democrats want to lose the rabid levels of support they've seen in the first year of American tyranny, they will go the way of Labour and squeamishly offer an agenda that concede fascist talking points, inspires no one to defect from the right, and alienates core supporters.
Or they will fight. Those, for better or worse, are the only remaining choices.

If Democrats want to lose the rabid levels of support they've seen in the first year of American tyranny, they will go the way of Labour and squeamishly offer an agenda that concede fascist talking points, inspires no one to defect from the right, and alienates core supporters. Or they will fight. Those, for better or worse, are the only remaining choices.

www.liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...

16.02.2026 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eurasian sparrowhawk in the courtyard of my hotel.

15.02.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thinking Clearly About the Global Authoritarian Movement Day after day we’re seeing more signs of Donald Trump’s slipping grip...

"It is not so much an anti-democratic world β€” though it is certainly that β€” as an anti-civic world. It’s a world of private, one-off deals, mutual pledges of secrecy, often enforced by soft, mutual extortion, and above all, a rejection of democratic accountability." β€”Β @joshtpm.bsky.social

15.02.2026 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 225    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Bullshit.

15.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3105    πŸ” 579    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 30

Rubio speech at MSCβ€”in short: US sees global trade, diplomacy, migration, immigration, global institutions and global affairs in general as a β€œfoolish post-WWII mistake” and invites Europe β€œso save itself by each protecting sovereignty, closed borders, and Christianity” alike Trump’s America.

14.02.2026 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 668    πŸ” 306    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 80
this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the
memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link
between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization - Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the
common civilization to which we have
fallen heir.

this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization - Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

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15.02.2026 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3090    πŸ” 816    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 466
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

14.02.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 23085    πŸ” 8097    πŸ’¬ 592    πŸ“Œ 1345

It’s hard not to get choked up watching this. His story is a barometer of how much the tide is turning in this country. This needs to go viral.

14.02.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 381    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5
Headline card with text at the top that reads: "Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump's immigration crackdown". A photo illustration shows ICE officers arresting someone overlaid with a yellow pedestrian crossing sign.

Headline card with text at the top that reads: "Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump's immigration crackdown". A photo illustration shows ICE officers arresting someone overlaid with a yellow pedestrian crossing sign.

Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.

13.02.2026 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 898    πŸ” 644    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 99
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The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch The outrageous lies of the Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a commerce secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished.

Gift article: "We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs truth and consequences."

13.02.2026 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 607    πŸ” 194    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 22

Taken together, an overall look at protest patterns in 2026 reinforces the sense of a growing, durable, and disciplined pro-democracy movement increasingly mobilized at the grassroots.

12.02.2026 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 367    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...

talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/priva...

12.02.2026 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

11.02.2026 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4074    πŸ” 815    πŸ’¬ 116    πŸ“Œ 62
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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

10.02.2026 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 8853    πŸ” 2748    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 242
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Are liberal values a luxury the West cannot afford? Yes, China has impressive high-speed trains. That is no reason for the West to adopt iron-fisted rule

Are liberal values a luxury the West cannot afford? Europeans & US allies hear that now in Washington & from Asian, MidEast govts. But here’s the trap: when democracies turn illiberal they don’t become efficient technocracies, they become Russia or Hungary. My column
economist.com/internationa...

11.02.2026 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Many decades later occasionally some anecdote would leak out about some specific goofy adventure, and Mom (now gone) would always raise her eyes in shock and disbelief β€” β€œI NEVER KNEW ABOUT THAT!!!”

β€œOf course not. Wasn’t your adventure.”

10.02.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. β€œI always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, β€˜You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le

10.02.2026 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5445    πŸ” 1735    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 300

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THIS IS THE LAST TIME THAT SUSAN COLLINS WILL EVER ANNOUNCE THAT SHE IS RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION

10.02.2026 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

The right omnicause! Will your gun even fire if your wife can vote?

10.02.2026 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Democracy isn’t just elections and it can’t ever be just that without failing.

10.02.2026 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I give you, of course, Shadi Hamid…or like any others.

10.02.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Bangladesh Has Exposed Democracy’s Deeper Problem

Institutions matter. They matter more than even some democracy experts would claim. This why, during Trump I, many like me were so frustrated by the persistence of idiots excoriating anti-Trumpism as anti-democratic.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...

10.02.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thread. 🧡 (1/x)

On the superiority of water as the primary decontaminant for tear gas and peppery spray on skin and eyes.

To make it clear to people, this is a thread. Some of you are not clear on the concept. I will reply this with another post and mark it with a number in (x). And so forth. (1)

10.02.2026 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 435    πŸ” 206    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 29

Yep

09.02.2026 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hong Kong court jails pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai for 20 years Lai was sentenced for offences under the city's controversial national security law.

Hong Kong court jails pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai for 20 years

09.02.2026 05:54 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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