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This piece is a lot, but it's vital.
And it resonates with Carole's own article underlining foundational role of patriarchy & misogyny:

"A culture which reveres female youth and innocence despises female age and experience. It disgusts them, scares them..."
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We tend to think of batteries as the ones in our phones. But the real shift is happening at grid scale.

Utility-scale “mega batteries” now have hundreds of millions of times the capacity of a smartphone battery.

Costs are down ~40% since 2024, and capacity in 2024 was 12x higher than in 2020.

"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI.

AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

such terrible grammer

who comes up with this garbage

And it's not just FCO and the World Service.

The BBC more generally is having to make vast cuts as are the National Gallery, British Library, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company...

The list goes on.

The UK is destroying its own cultural identity as well as its soft power.

"[L]aw enforcement on the scene were [allegedly] unable to find any bullet holes in the house ... [A]t a hearing, [Julio] Sosa-Celis' attorney showed photographs depicting bullet holes through the front door of the duplex and in an interior wall."

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.

"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
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so a top-down implementation of what the elite believes peace and order should look like without any input from the dispossessed or independent oversight

what could go wrong

Instances of racial profiling we *documented*

- a war vet grabbed by agents and held for three days.

-construction worker who gave agents his ID, which they dismissed as false. He was arrested 2x.

-A man who was tased and grabbed

All are citizens -and Latino

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

President Trump's Claim of an "Irrefutable" Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text ... Yesterday I noted the latest set of unhinged social media posts from President Trump in which he declared that voter id requirements and other election changes would be imposed in the midterms via exe...

🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326

YouTube video by Independent Lens Poor conditions and neglect reported at Dallas's juvenile detention center (@dallasnews)

If you are a Black child, and you are innocent, and can still be charged with a crime. This happens a lot.

You can be in detention for months and even years before you get to see a juvenile court judge to prove your innocence and go home.

During that time, you will be sent to a facility like this.

Part of the reason it’s been so hard to get any traction on anti-ICE legislation - or even people in power openly criticising their actions - is because it’s basically impossible to thread the needle of condemning their brutality and cruelty while “supporting law enforcement” since cops do the same.

this really feels like there’s an age-of-consent issue here

like: children can’t tell adults it’s okay to come in

not that i think ice would let that stop them from being the victimizer

Hmong grandmother detained in Texas for 2 weeks still doesn’t know why After being repeatedly visited by ICE, Thi Dua Vang and her husband, both in the U.S. legally awaiting green cards, are in hiding.

Federal agents convinced an 11 yr old boy to open the door at 7:30 a.m., then detained this Hmong grandmother for 2 wks in TX, where she shared a cell w 20 women. What did she do wrong? She still has no idea, ICE keeps returning to her door

She's still in hiding

www.twincities.com/2026/02/15/h...

Ghislaine Maxwell Appears to Have Lied on Her Citizenship Application — The New Republic The revelation could put her citizenship status at risk.

Ghislaine Maxwell lied on her US citizenship application. She checked the no box when asked if she had ever procured anyone for prostitution.

She had been trafficking since 1994. This could get another 25 years added to her sentence.

USA hasn't done anything FOR Ukraine, except to cost them more distruction, and loss of life.

Zelensky is right... Without security, they might as well continue fighting. Because it only means Russia will not be held to account, as they are permitted to go without now.

Russia owns 200k war crimes

He Wants to Deport 100 Million “Third World Savages.” He May Win Statewide Office in Texas. He calls his opponents “gay” and “retarded,” and he wants to deport 100 million “third world savages.” Naturally, he’s running for railroad commissioner.

“Wants to deport Native Americans” is a laugh line for some people but it’s also one of those cases where it is probably most important and not just a leftist gotcha to remember that that was the historical policy of the U.S. from its founding

"The alternative is a populist movement that tells the truth, a populist movement that says, this is an injustice. You are being screwed over, and that story is not a cultural one, but a class one," which gets a huge pop.

far too many of the Very Serious People in the msm and government have been poison-pilled by the idea that the stonk market or the gdp is an accurate measurement of social and economic well-being

I think that linking worsening material conditions for working class people, out of control healthcare costs, the Democratic party being too cozy with tech billionaires, and how ALL of this ties directly to an increased risk of fascist takeovers is a much more useful explanation than "The GOP sucks"

i too endeavor to do the impossible

#thePersonalIsPolitical

No water or electricity, and children begging in streets filled with rubbish – but this is why I won’t leave Cuba Whether you blame the US or the communist regime, there is no doubt that this is an island spiralling into tragedy

The US is deliberately starving millions of people across the world including Cuba. This is a brilliant, enraging piece by Ruaridh Nicoll

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

This is wild.

41 DUI arrests by a Tennessee trooper. All dismissed. 22 drivers were completely sober.

He “resigned”. No explanation. No accountability. No apology. His personnel file doesn’t even mention the cases.

Police departments shouldn’t be in the business of shielding corrupt officers.
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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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Climate tipping point crossed, experts warn at Munich Security Conference - Türkiye Today 'Top 10 threats to the economy, 5 of them were ecological,' says Germany's environment minister

Sikorsky said such impacts are already straining security systems worldwide, noting that “militaries around the world (are) deployed to respond to climate disasters,” while competition over food and water resources is intensifying geopolitical tensions.

www.turkiyetoday.com/world/climat...

Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness.

A feature in Nature examines the research about aphantasia, which is the experience of people with no mental imagery, and how it could offer a window into consciousness. #Neuroskyence 🧪

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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Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

My favorite photos from the Olympics are of this Italian figure skater Daniel Grassl. He looks absolutely insane in so many of them. It's great.

UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings. After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.

His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

(Published Feb. 2023)