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Federal judges break out exclamation points to handle Trump's BS The last year has to have been deeply weird for lower court judges as they watch the administration just gleefully ignore court orders and trample the Constitution. They continue to hold the line, ...

Federal judges break out exclamation points to handle Trump's BS

For optimal benefit, the preferred age for HPV vaccination is before sexual debut, and the schools-based vaccination programme in England is predominantly administered in Year 8 when students are aged 12–13 years. In England the legal framework allows adolescents to be vaccinated without parental consent if they are assessed as Gillick competent (believed to have enough intelligence, competence and understanding to fully appreciate what is involved in their medical treatment) [5] but written parental consent is usually sought [6]. Immunisation nurses and school staff have shown reluctance to allow girls to self-consent to HPV vaccination [7], [8], [9] and a qualitative systematic review and evidence synthesis found, in a schools-based setting, the requirement for written parental consent presented the greatest barrier to accessing of the vaccine for some young women [10].

Interestingly, in England teenagers can technically self consent to receive the HPV vaccine. But this isn't common knowledge.
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CDC reports 6 more child deaths from flu, as virus levels stay moderate to high

www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

CDC funding cuts to 4 states in limbo after judge’s ruling

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Shouldn’t Senate Dems introduce legislation providing full funding TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA, etc.—and no new funding for ICE and CBP?

Seems like pretty good ground to fight on.

Offer to come back and pass it Tuesday.

Higher pre-COVID BMI tied to greater risk of post-infection heart, GI problems in youth

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/hig...

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com

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What the Trump administration is teaching America: anyone who follows the rules is punished

(not that exclusively posting here will protect you in any substantive way)

Can’t find the sign to tap, but it bears repeating that, minus the one you’re on, every big social media site in the US is run by a defense contractor or intelligence partner.

The DHS social media team took time out of its busy schedule of posting neo-Nazi memes and anti-American propaganda to hit back at Cardi B. trib.al/I5JkFch

Bombshell Report Finds Putin Lost Twice the Number of Troops In January as the Soviets Lost In 10 Years Fighting In Afghanistan Bloomberg reported on the stunning numbers in a Thursday article, noting that Russia is now losing more men than it is able to recruit.

Bombshell Report Finds Putin Lost Twice the Number of Troops In January as the Soviets Lost In 10 Years Fighting In Afghanistan

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It will, at least at the margins, and I’m sure he knows it will. Yet he does it anyway. You have to wonder why.

Am I naive to think that this kind of statement will actually damage him politically in Britain?

Looks like ICE is opening another detention center in Tennessee — in LEBANON. Part of the $38 BILLION push, as @CoreCivic complains they haven’t detained enough people.

Cruelty is big business.

From @TNLookout: tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/13/i...

Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket to Bet on Strikes The country’s internal security agency indicted a reservist and a civilian for security offenses, bribery and obstruction of justice in connection with the bets.

Israel has arrested several people for allegedly using classified information to place bets on Israeli military operations on Polymarket

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Sitreps2Steercos @S2Steercos 5... Department of War guidance has put particular graduate schools on a "no limits" list based on a categorization of "moderate" to "high risk" List of DoD banned schools: American University Boston College Boston University Brown University Carnegie Mellon University 9:53 AM • Feb 13, 2026 • 330 Views

Sitreps2Steercos @S2Steercos • 2h S ..• Case Western Reserve University Columbia University College of William and Mary Comell University Duke University Emory University Florida Institute of Technology Fordham University Georgetown University George Washington University Harvard University Hawaii Pacific University 0 1 17 ill 214 贝 企 Sitreps2Steercos @S2Steercos • 2h S ..• John Hopkins University London School of Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Northeastern University Northwestern University New York University Pepperdine University Princeton University Stanford University Tufts University University of Miami

Sitreps2Steercos @S2Steercos • 2h S ... University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California Vanderbilt University Wake Forest University Washington University in St. Louis Yale University

DOD own goaling itself all the way to obscurity - critical thinking is woke, AI can do all our thinking for us

Just so profoundly mind numbing, in addition to everything else

LMAOOOOOOOOOO who is this for?

School HPV vaccination rate drops to 56pc in Far North Queensland Cairns Public Health Unit says students are increasingly missing their school HPV vaccinations because they do not have parental consent.

Cairns Public Health Unit says students are increasingly missing their school HPV vaccinations because they do not have parental consent.

Being real, I don't think these vaccines should require parental consent. Opt out, maybe.

Awkward moment when you ask your parents whether you can avoid cervical cancer and they say no.

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

This is essential reading for any parent.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

You didn’t think all those concentration camps they want to build are only for immigrants, did you? (Gift article)

Filed: Brief to block Justice Department’s effort to get New Hampshire's voter files, on behalf of League of Women Voters New Hampshire and @aclu-nh.bsky.social. The data includes partial Social Security numbers. @aclu.org, @brennancenter.org, and @campaignlegal.org are counsel.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) told Drop Site’s Julian Andreone that the Trump admin. has provided Netanyahu w/ a “blank check” in failing to enforce the ceasefire in Gaza or push back on new West Bank annexation measures.

He warned Israeli officials are openly working to make a Palestinian state...

Iran’s Failure to Suppress Valentine’s Day Iran officially banned Valentine’s Day since 2010. While the regime tries to control intimacy, real romance often wins out.

The Iranian regime has tried to replace Valentine’s Day with the wedding day of Imam Ali, and Fatimah, the Prophet Muhammad’s daughter, but the intiative has not yet caught on

my fave part of the event: misha's coach whispering in his ear that he just made the olympic podium and his full 10 seconds of buffering #MilanoCortina2026

I just sent a letter to Pam Bondi demanding that the DOJ stop spying on Members of Congress.

Everyone — Independents, Republicans, and Democrats — should be outraged by this surveillance by the DOJ. It needs to stop NOW.