“.. The Monday interview is on pace to shatter clips of Colbert’s December interview with pop superstar Taylor Swift ..” @forbes.com #TXsen @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/mikest...

Trump is stalling a vote on a bipartisan bill to ramp up sanctions on Russia’s energy sector, two senior Democratic senators warn www.semafor.com/article/02/1...

Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan AP: Zero NYT: Zero WashPost: Zero Reuters: Zero Politico: Zero Axios: Zero

Goldman: "If Trump wants to put his name on everything, as he does, then let's start calling this the Trump-Epstein files"

What I heard in Munich? "Europe needs to emancipate itself from the US as fast as possible"

And there it is … bsky.app/profile/atru...

Russia is losing territory in Ukraine and suddenly Trump is calling for Ukraine to "come to the table fast". Purely coincidental.

Wholly in favour of this as long as it also applies to Eton, Westminster etc.

This would be completely unacceptable. Ireland would need to boycott any such fixture. www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

There you have it - the moment Reform won the next election. Wait, what?

Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.

Fintan O'Toole not pulling any punches on Sinn Fein's opposition to the EU providing loans to Ukraine. "Presumably, though, Sinn Féin is no longer against big imperial countries seeking to annex and dominate their smaller neighbours – there’s 800 years of oppression out the window."

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

My biggest issue with AI is the same issue I have with conservative culture generally: it's completely sterile Best case scenario, all either of them can do is imitate what some freakhow human genius created from thin air. Worst case: Millennial Grey minimalism, forever

we are, at all times, cursed with two political parties: the Republicans and the Republicans of twenty years ago

I’m just going to leave this here

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Annexing the West Bank is the Western 'red line' on Israel after it crossed red lines of genocide, forced starvation, war crimes, destruction of infrastructure, massacring children in incubators, gang rape, solo rape, torture, execution of medics, kidnapping, aparth edition.cnn.com/2026/02/15/m...

Nope. Definitely not. This is complicity.

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

Exactly. Much of the speech sought to undermine the basic tenets of the EU and co-opt it into the Christian nationalist and anti-environmental vision currently being espoused by Trump.

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

Of the 3,500 detainees who have been held at Dilley Immigration Processing Center, more than half are children. Children like Amalia, an 18-month old who suffered respiratory failure, was hospitalized, and was returned to Dilley where they CONFISCATED the medicine she was prescribed.

So the people protesting to protect "women" are harassing women who are taking part in counter-protests. "The abuse women have faced from far-right protesters has been utterly disgusting to see, and it lays bare the sheer hypocrisy of these men who claim to be acting in the name of women’s safety."

It's a sign of how far the US has diverged from Europe under Trump that its strongest relationship on this side of the atlantic is now with Hungary. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Putin murdered Alexei Navalny in the most disgusting and performative way. He's a psychopath and a monster. Now look at politicians in Britain, Europe, and America who are either looking the other way - or engaging in abject whataboutery.

Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal: “Nearly a year after we won, the same Israeli settler who attacked me after I returned from LA again led an attack against my family. 4 of my family members are currently arrested, one in the hospital… we call the police, they do nothing.”

mostly I am tired of people with 3 passports and 6 multinational conglomerates lecturing me on the virtues of ethnic nationalism

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

The “caveats” would seriously undermine the EU and its values. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

Seems in the U.S it's only women that face consequences for their connection to Epstein while the men who had financial dealings or were on his island get their asses covered

Why on earth did Rubio’s speech get such a positive reaction? It essentially said Europe should follow Trump’s awful destructive agenda.

This boy been waiting to haul off on somebody for 14 years and today he got to live the dream and stand on the right side of history. Friday the 13th is the greatest day of his life.

Two years ago. And counting.

Israeli Haaretz Journalist Chain Levinson: "The formal policy of the Israeli government today is to kill Arabs... No need to hide, no need to conceal" Subtitles by ireallyhateyou

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

see this kind of behavior is not something that can be rehabilitated

The BBC is accused of 'grossly misleading' viewers after Reform UK politician Nadine Dorries – a former Tory culture secretary – was presented on Question Time as a 'columnist and author'

Ending ETS just at the point when solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels in order to give dirty dangerous and old fashioned technology of the 19th and 20th century would be very stupid and send Europe’s industry into the past

James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born on this day, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from historical to science fiction – he is one of the most important Scottish writers of the 20th century. A 🎂 🧵 … 💙📚 1/10 digital.nls.uk/learning/sun...

June 2025: Speaking in Brussels on Wednesday, Micheál Martin said there has to be “consequences” for Israel’s human rights violations during its 20-month bombardment and invasion of Gaza. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Fantastic news - A massive victory for common sense and the rule of law and the right to protest. Labelling Palestinian Action as terrorists was always a political act - an appeasement of the real terrorists in this issue - the state of Israel. buff.ly/BK5pWPq

Name names. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Martin Kulldorff, Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Donald Trump. All of them contributed to this by their relentless attacks on vaccines and biomedical R&D.

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The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect

Board of Deputies of British Jews statement: "The practical impact of Palestine Action’s activities on Jewish communal life has been significant and deeply unsettling." How does spraying paint on military aircraft or attacking property qualify as "unsettling" for Jewish communal life in the UK?

Blue Labour founder, McSweeney confidante and Farage pal Maurice Glasman was proud of his connections with Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel when we interviewed him last autumn. Wonder if he’s having second thoughts after the Epstein files subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/b...

Outstanding. A triumph for liberty and against unrestrained state power. The government should be ashamed of having to be forced into this position. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.