Andrew Wetzel

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Our latest.

Now this is what the news is supposed to be.

Wine moms with Molotov cocktails is now the moderate position on ICE.

“In my opinion, this resolution does not get us to a better place. We are 266 days away from the election. The federal election. That’s where the fight is,” Patrick said. “That’s where we got to put our eyes on the prize. That’s the goal. But us, as the board of commissioners, we have to be concerned with all of our residents.”

Robert Patrick, a white Canadian and the only immigrant on the Board, who moved to withdraw the motion, warned that the motion could attract the unwanted attention of federal authorities and make “the target bigger.”

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DeKalb Board of Commissioners withdraws anti-ICE resolution Some commissioners said the resolution could make "the bluest county in Georgia" a target of the Trump administration or give residents a false sense of security.

Profiles in cowardice: the Board of Commissioners in Harris +64 Dekalb County, Ga., voted 4-3 to *withdraw* a resolution demanding ICE, and others under the Department of Homeland Security, “cease all tactical enforcement operations” in residential areas of the county.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

France's Viral Ice Dancing Team Has A Dark Backstory | Defector Blink and you might not have caught it. On Monday, Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry took to the rink and staked their claim to the ice dancing gold medal. Dancing to Madonna’s “Vogue,” ...

“it is unsurprising that it is [Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron’s] story—the story of the unlikely couple, thrust together by chance—that has dominated. That doesn't make the stories of those pushed into the shadows any less important”

“…she recalls her coach seeking advice about a younger skater… What that skater was doing reminded the coach of Cizeron’s ‘abusive behavior,’ as he put it to Papadakis—words Papadakis herself had never applied to her skating partner. Instead, she’d blamed herself for Cizeron’s outbursts.”

Olympic Ice Dancer Gabriella Papadakis on the Relationship That Ended Her Career In her first English-language interview, Papadakis reflects on her relationship with her ice dancing partner.

“‘When the choice is between your safety and even, like, life, the choice is not, Oh, I chose to retire. No, I was pushed out,’ Papadakis says.”

She outlines how this approach, as recommended by the Sullivan report, is a poor method for capturing data about gender minorities and broader society.

The European Social Survey: A Case Study In Gender Assignation In this article, I will show that it is incorrect to assume that “observation” can be used to find out a person’s gender or sex.

Kim Hipwell analyses how recent parallel usage of self-reported gender with their usual 'observational coding 'in the European Social Survey highlights the unreliability of observational coding.

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“This is an opportunity to hear from a progressive leader who represents a perspective not often heard at the Munich Security Conference,” he added. Duss’s role advising Ocasio-Cortez’s debut in Munich has also raised expectations that she will speak forcefully on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a longtime focus of Duss’s, said Jeremy Shapiro, research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “It’s obviously a progressive cause, and in Europe she’ll find a receptive audience to a somewhat more pro-Palestinian approach than you find in the American mainstream,” Shapiro said. Since 2024, Ocasio-Cortez has condemned what she calls Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza, a term supported by many genocide scholars but avoided by some high-profile prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidates, such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom or Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

Seems like that AOC's speech in Munich tomorrow will in some way address Palestine.

On a secondary note, it's very rare to see a US newspaper say outright that actual genocide scholars agree that Gaza has been subject to genocide.

Democrats Block DHS Funding Ahead Of Partial Government Shutdown “Americans are crystal clear on how they feel about ICE – the status quo cannot continue,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday.

Good.

yeah, sorry, but whatever their many flaws (and they are many tbc), the dems - to their very real credit - have held up pretty well on trans rights. lot of that "left" people jerk off to in europe would be infinitely better if they could even get halfway to the average dem position

you have to treat people like this with the same seriousness as you would a guy screaming at you about the lizard people on the street; they have a similar relationship with reality.

What It Means to Be a White ‘Race Traitor’

We always share the bad NYT stories, but here's a piece by @nhannahjones.bsky.social that we should think on. Gift link as always 🎁 & thanks to Adam from bringing it to my attention.

$38.3 bn for concentration camps, shuffled into the pockets of Trump's billionaire cronies in the prison industry. Nothing for health care.

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They want his portrait removed, but dean defends his inclusion, pointing to the church leader’s evolution on race. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/02/11/lds-news-morehouse-students

Watching the reaction to the end of GPT-4o, the last thing I’ll say before I shut down this account, is that SV built the most effective and _well-documented_ project to manipulate behavior at scale and when you point that out to ppl in tech, they cry it couldn’t possibly influence *their* behavior.

schoolrooms, on playgrounds, in grocery stores, in deserts, and alleyways, and homes, and offices. All of it can crumble. All of it can be reborn. It must. We must. This is another way of saying love."

Carvell Wallace:

"It all makes me think of how fragile we are. Which is good news. This means that everything that we've created can crumble. The police. The governments. The tanks and rockets. The systems, the hierarchies, the castles made upon sand, violence, the murders. In bedrooms and

Thing about this for me at least is, yeah I'm still grappling with the way I'm wired, with my faults, and all the fires, but never was I taught to fear
that we might lose it all.

YouTube video by KXT Jason Isbell "Cast Iron Skillet" (Live on KXT)

"Don't ask too many questions or you'll never get to sleep"

(Brother Isbell)

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I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.

Now imagine that he trains law enforcement (true).

funny to see this clip of an anonymous chud who needs white supremacy to feel like his life has meaning just after attending an event honoring a brilliant black scholar for her brilliant book

In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).

Brother Isbell singing to me and the ones I love (and you, probably):

"Sometimes it's nothing but the way you're wired
And that's not your fault
We're all struggling with the world on fire
And the fear we're taught"

Matt is a great guy:

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin.
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