📌Yes, this Ellison takeover of CNN is dangerous as hell, but also why that damn station should have treated a possible Trump second term as a national emergency.

Instead, they shoved amateur "both sides" journalism down our throats.

Yup. It’s what Putin did. It’s what Orban did. It’s what so many of us warned Trump would do and were called hysterics. It’s heartbreaking.

If France could lead the world with Minitel in the 1980s, surely Europe can free itself from Silicon Valley’s shackles now? | Alexander Hurst Back then, France punched above its weight when it came to tech. The EU needs it to rediscover its taste for the cutting edge, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

If France could lead the world with Minitel in the 1980s, surely Europe can free itself from Silicon Valley’s shackles now? | Alexander Hurst

💔Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region.

Russian forces are wiping a Ukrainian city from the map. Homes and innocent lives destroyed.

Absolutely horrific.

📹: libkos, 28th Mechanized Brigade

Mason is a scandal and he tarnishes the reputation of the BBC who should replace him with a genuine independent journalist.

Chris Mason on the BBC's Gorton and Denton by-election 'Newscast' suggesting that Reform's massive defeat is somehow still good for them because they collectively (alongside the Greens) got such a large section of the vote, like in Caerphilly with Plaid.

I'm not sure that's how elections work...

Russia fires 187 drones overnight: 20 hit home, one killed in Kharkiv Oblast, hotel struck in Sumy Ukrainian air defenses shot down or suppressed 165 out of 187 Russian drones launched overnight on 26-27 Feb.

Ukraine's air defense downed 165 of 187 Russian drones overnight

In Sumy, a hotel was struck-when rescuers arrived, Russia hit the same spot again. 50 people were evacuated. In Kupyansk district, a 67-year-old man was killed, his wife was injured
euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/27/r...

Your Trump-handpicked Commerce Secretary, everybody.

Not sure who the guy on the left is.

They appear to be on some sort of island.

In the full photo you see a bunch of dudes standing around. Weird how there are no "wives" or "nannies" or "children" anywhere to be seen.

Huh.

Ukraine opens drone factory in small British town – 1,000 battlefield-tested drones per month, built beyond Russia’s reach Ukrspecsystems makes eight drone types already used on the front line.

A small town in Suffolk is now producing Ukrainian combat drones - 1,000 per month, beyond Russia's reach.

Eight drone types already battle-tested on the front line, now built with a second layer of resilience.

euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/26/u...

JUST DO IT!

Consequences?

Ah yes. We’ve been expecting you. The latest kick in the nuts for all the racist & racist-adjacent ‘mainstream’ UK journalists who mocked the notion that Trump’s administration was far-right & fascistic. Don’t expect any apologies, though. It’s Brexit 2.0.

They will become more lines in the endless lists of Russian war crimes. But the traumas and the pain of millions of Ukrainians who endure them can never be compensated.

In Kharkiv and Kharkiv region, 14 people are injured, a 7 year old boy among them.

Russia launched 420 drones &39 missiles of various types,including 11 ballistic missiles,at #Ukraine last night.

Damage has been reported in 8 regions. Numerous private houses and residential high-rise buildings were damaged. Dozens of people were injured in the Russian attack, including children.

Trump’s Push for Election Power Raises Fears He Will ‘Subvert’ Midterms

NEW: An emboldened President Trump has shown an increased eagerness to leverage the full investigative, prosecutorial and legislative powers of the federal government to bend election mechanics to his will.

On rising fears of subversion w/ Nick C: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

The Other Red Hat (You'll like this one better)

February 26 is an important date in the history of resistance, and it has to do with knitters during WWII. Come read the story. If you’re a knitter, maybe you’ll want to cast on with me tomorrow? And if you aren’t, there are other ideas for you here. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by @professorshaw.bsky.social for @thenerve.news which starts with ‘Yachtgate’, Mandelson’s 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska
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A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

Ever since Russia started its full-scale war on Ukraine, there probably hasn't been a single day that Russia hasn't killed Ukrainian civilians.

Last night, Russian aerial bombs struck Zaporizhzhia region: four people killed, a child injured. Homes damaged.

In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage

Johnson/Farage/Bannon lives on: Reform UK pioneered crypto donations; ally Gill pushed blockchain voting at Kremlin forum. Now Thiel's protégé JD Vance as VP extends the network! 12/12
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

"Entertain"? I'm not sure he ever had that ability.

Those who most loudly assert their patriotism are always the first to sell us down the river. Both Johnson and Nigel Farage were in active discussions with Bannon, for whom Brexit was a major prize. Bannon was feeding intelligence back to Epstein, who also wanted the UK out of the European Union.

We don't want him!

Four years ago Russia began it's full scale invasion of Ukraine. They expected it to fall in days. They were wrong. Long live Ukraine.

Please shoot me.

Has anyone seen one of these factories?

"clear and demolish" - and the people?

These fines are self defeating. That's £700k less for infrastructure and management get away scot free.

"invited" 😂