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The MAGA-friendly European think tanks Trump wants to fund The Heritage Foundation identified European groups for U.S. backing.

Oh look. Trump is officially interfering in our internal politics in favour of the far right.

This isn't a conspiracy theory - this is outright White House policy

www.politico.eu/article/maga...

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

New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

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.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

I've been firmly of the belief for decades that all technology should have a neck, so we can threaten to throttle the bloody things

Zack and his boyfriend on the red carpet

Really proud to be the LGBT+ Trailblazer of the year.

And so proud of the real trailblazers - like my boyfriend - who works in palliative care.

Our NHS workers, our teachers, our cleaners.

The people who keep our country running.

And LGBT+ History month matters. Representation matters.

🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@x626.bsky.social finally a prescription that might help you

The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

I'm fond of his Churchill in Doctor Who

That and Spartacus. So many penises

I bloody loved him

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!

New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

trying to remember, lysenkoism was an overwhelming success that validated the ruling ideology, right?

All millennials want is a home filled with the gentle background thrum of the Enterprise-D warp corp

Or that Thor did it

This is state-mandated child abuse, insisted upon by the Labour Party.

So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA.

Sounds like Hegseth!

www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

@reductress.bsky.social satire

Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot Moderna said the move is inconsistent with previous feedback from the FDA on the experimental influenza shot, called mRNA-1010.

Make America Sick Again

www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/m...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Good old Bill Door

Hear, hear

Post a banger not in English.

Going old old school here

youtu.be/YuBeBjqKSGQ?...

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Cyclists jumping red lights. I watched Just Eat delivery drivers sparkling in the rain outside Lahore Karahi. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time for tea.

With the bright lights twinkling in the pouring rain, Tooting high street is like a really low-effort version of Blade Runner this evening

Also: shifting scientific funding towards "government priority areas" is a surefire way to kill creativity and innovation.

Generating scientific knowledge is not like ordering a takeaway. You can't just tick the 'science' that you want and expect anything useful.