Niklas Hall

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Invalidating driver's licenses and enacting a bounty-style bathroom ban are the latest escalation in politicians' radical anti-trans crusade.

Kansas, we'll see you in court.

Yeah - that would be it.

Money must follow the 💜. Happy to support your important journalism and... hasta la vist NYT.

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The best Twitter riposte of the day is a community note.

A split-image portrait of Katherine Johnson, the pioneering Black NASA mathematician: On the left, a black-and-white historical photo from her NASA career in the 1960s shows a smiling middle-aged woman wearing cat-eye glasses and a light-colored dress with white collar and trim, seated at her desk with a globe and papers in the background. On the right, a color photo from 2015 depicts an elderly Katherine Johnson (in her late 90s) seated in a wheelchair during the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, wearing glasses, a dark suit jacket, an orange top, a blue ribbon with the medal, and holding a green item in her lap, as she looks directly at the viewer with a gentle expression. The side-by-side images contrast her youthful professional life with her honored later years.

Mathematician & NASA 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 Katherine Johnson died #OTD in 2020.

She was instrumental in the success of the first US manned spaceflights, calculating complex trajectories enabling humans to reach orbit & land on the moon. Her story was told in 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 (book/movie). #WomenInSTEM #BHM

YouTube video by ET Now Did Jeffrey Sachs Just Declare All-Out War On Trump During This Explosive Speech? | US News

UNDER TRUMP, EVERYONE LOSES

Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned American economist, professor at Columbia University, and leader in sustainable development. He is known for advising governments on economic reform, fighting poverty, and combating climate change.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=So59...

Wow! I also learned a lot here and she explains it so eloquently and clearly.
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A non-trivial difference! ☝️

Absolutely going to read this book! 👇

Eventually karma circles back and finishes the job. Congrats on the win! 👏

Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

Safe abortion care for all women 229 million women live in the EU, and they all deserve safe, affordable abortion care. 1 million citizens have spoken, and so has the Parliament. It’s time for the Commission to act: make safe abortio...

229 million women live in the EU, and they all deserve safe, affordable abortion care. 1 million citizens have spoken, and so has the Parliament. It’s time for the Commission to act: make safe abortion access a reality across Europe NOW! ✊💜 action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...

Helt enig. Har naturligvis tilkendegivet min støtte til forslaget.

Afskaf Palantir i Danmark Borgerforslaget går på at afskaffe brugen af Palantir i offentlige institutioner i Danmark. Palantir er i anvendelse i bl.a. Politiets Pol-Intel.

Palantirs ejer mener ikke frihed er foreneligt med demokratiet.

Jeg kan ikke understrege hvor vigtigt det er at få smidt Palantir og deres ubehagelige overvågning og samfundskontrol ud af alle danske systemer.

SKRIV UNDER! Og få andre til også at skrive under. Det her er vigtigt!

#dkpol

Ghana: Reject The Anti-Lgbt+ Bill! The anti-LGBT+ bill is back in Ghana, and this time, it has stronger political backing. We stopped it before, and together we can stop it again. Sign now to protect LGBT+ rights.

Please sign and share if you can.
The dangerous anti-LGBT+ bill is back in Ghana, with stronger political support. We stopped it once. Let’s stop it again. Sign to defend equality and human rights. a.allout.org/s/P3wrb/

I think the colour is meant to indicate 🤢

True. It’s really simple when you think about it. But probably doesn’t fit in the tariff based financial model. 🤷‍♂️

European security contractors should carefully scrutinize this and other tapes of the Palantir CEO, who exhibits all the physical characteristics of a dangerous drug addict, before signing any contracts with Palantir.

Oh - I miss my ZX Spectrum 48k! 🌈🥲

And I also remember playing Froggy on my friend’s ZX 81.

Just a few years ago. 😁

Agree!

Palantir should be kicked out everywhere!

A short note to Kristi Noem To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

DET GÆLDER OGSÅ DANMARK.

(Undskyld versalerne, men det her er vigtigt!)

Alex Karp, Palantir:

Very much this, but also broader. All sorts of education - gender/ethnic studies, social sciences, natural sciences, literature, history, philosophy - teach people to think in ways that don’t serve the purposes of the powerful.

Once again, a reminder that the "free speech" crusaders were always cynics operating in bad faith

Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality." • • I| 0:14 12:31 pm • 12 Feb 2026 • 174K Views

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

Black-and-white historical photograph of Danish equestrian pioneer Lis Hartel (1921–2009), captured in the 1950s during her remarkable career. Hartel stands beside her tall, dark bay horse, gently holding the reins close to its bridle while gazing upward with a warm, proud smile and sparkling eyes. She wears classic mid-20th-century ladies' riding attire: a tailored black hunt coat with white stock tie and prominent rosette/cravat pin at the neck, white gloves, a black top hat, and her dark hair neatly pinned in a low bun. The horse, calm and attentive, has its head turned slightly toward her, ears pricked forward. In the background, dense ivy-covered stone or brick walls create a textured, garden-like setting, evoking the elegance and determination of one of the greatest figures in equestrian history—Lis Hartel, who overcame polio paralysis to become the first woman to win an individual Olympic medal in dressage (silver in 1952 and 1956 Helsinki Games).

Equestrian Lis Hartel died #OTD in 2009.

Despite paralysis from the knee down (polio), she won silver medals in the 1952 Helsinki Games (1st woman to win an Olympic medal in any equestrian event) & the 1956 Stockholm Games in #dressage & was a 7-time Danish National #Champion. #inspiration #Denmark

For Spain’s Sánchez, the fight against tech billionaires is personal The prime minister has endured years of abuse on the social media platforms he now seeks to regulate.

“Do we want a technology that normalizes and amplifies deception? That transforms privacy into a commodity? A society where a techno-oligarch can interfere, as one of them did yesterday, in the…phones of millions of citizens to tell them lies? The answer must be a clear no, and we will not give in.”