Trump claimed he hadn't spoken to Jeffrey Epstein since 2004. But here is an email from 2018 wherein Epstein claims he was asked for 3 names to replace Steven Mnuchin. Everything Donald says is a lie.

We will not forget, and we will hold them to account.

I promise you, #WesleyForPM is on this chart, you just have to read a long, long, LONG way down.

please, i don't wanna know things about clavicular

ICYMI: I introduced my Trans Bill of Rights with @markey.senate.gov — legislation to defend trans people across this country as Republicans continue to push anti-trans rhetoric and bills. To our beloved trans community: We see you, we love you, and we will always stand with you.

“If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country” - The New Yorker

invoking "biological reality" is always just another way of saying "your body, my choice" those people are fascists

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today. I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand. There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

My god.

See? More of this, please

The best part is that we won’t even know there’s a pandemic No data, no problem

Please speak out against the new draft guidance for schools that effectively bans trans kids from socially transitioning & this high court ruling that trans people must be segregated/third-sexed in the workplace. Trans people must be able to live as the sex we transition to.

Evergreen: fuck the institutionally transphobic BBC.

Honestly, between this and "Beorn's origin is Tom Bombadil fucked a bear" one should really be grateful I wasn't hired to work on Rings of Power.

On resisting authoritarianism. With Blue City Blues podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

On why we shouldn't move on too quickly from Trump's effort to imprison six members of Congress for making a video... my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Favorite hybridizers: Arthur Bliss. 'Majestic' was introduced in 1923 and is a very good grower and bloomer. You can see that within just a few years of breeding he was already getting wider more rounded falls. Love these rich jewel tones. 🌱

I’m going to be revealing the cover of my #SmallBatchBreads cookbook and announcing preorders soon (!!!) make sure you’re subscribed to my cookbook updates newsletter if you want to be first to know when it drops: thepracticalkitchen.myflodesk.com/pgtllpsk1i

Met more than one young artist visiting London recently who'd been really anxious beforehand, as they'd seen so much on social media about it being a crime-ridden hellhole. They then proceeded to have an unexpectedly lovely time in one of the world's great cities, but it is actually just really sad.

Here's why city's only Reform UK councillor has quit the party

Jeffrey Epstein’s death was most likely caused by 'strangulation rather than hanging' a doctor present at the convicted paedophile’s post-mortem examination has said, adding it should be reinvestigated

Just totally ignorant coverage from our national broadcaster which conflates the different legal regimes for service provision and workplaces. I suppose ignorant is a step in the right direction from its usual 'malignant'?

The most corrupt pro-Putin president in US history endorses the most corrupt pro-Putin leader in Europe.

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." ~ Oscar Wilde 🌱 Wishing all'you'all the delights of today's garden #FlowersOnFriday 🌸 #Bloomscrolling ☀️ #FlowerReport #Gardening🌹 #Zone10a

Trump endorses Orban

Kiss of death , Orban is already behind in the polls!

most saturday morning cartoon villains would throw these guys out of their organizations for being too evil

Morning y'all ☕️ Let's sell a little bit of bread 🥖🍞

Doctors bear the burden as ‘medical freedom’ fuels worst US measles outbreak in 30 years reut.rs/4auOyFJ

Our friend the Apennine Yellow-bellied Toad lives in southern Italy! They only lay a few eggs at a time but are believed to breed several times a year! They also have heart-shaped pupils! A great toad for Valentine's Day! (photo by Giacomo Gola)

dunno about the rest of y’all but I absolutely spent more than that amount on sticky toffee pudding and chocolate lava cakes to support the breastfeeding

This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

Ukrainian troops outperformed NATO forces during joint exercises in 2025 using drones, WSJ reports. In one scenario, a formation including a British brigade and an Estonian division was unable to advance. The report says Western armies have not fully integrated Ukraine’s combat experience. #Ukraine

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

social media in general needs aggressive regulation but the whole world would be markedly better off if Meta in particular were just nuked from orbit

Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed that a strike in Rostov on Don on the night of Jan 13-14 destroyed three containers with FPV drones and components, about 6,000 drones in total. Several other containers were damaged. The target was a logistics warehouse in an industrial area. #Ukraine

Strikingly, I have yet to see a response from the Minister to the decision - which she has had (as we have) since Monday morning. So we have written to her. 👇

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate' www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

This is BRILLIANT. Less 'Cathy!', more rent control please

We saw this with the frothing GC reaction the Elliot Page. He didn't come out as trans until he was in his 30s and the transphobic weirdos and all their sock accounts started crying, screaming, throwing up.

Banging fists on table RESET RESET RESET

My greatest achievement in sport was being peer reviewed & published in the JCEM which is the world's leading peer-reviewed journal for endocrine clinical research and clinical practice and continues to be the most cited journal in its Clarivate category. www.google.com/url?pjf=1&q=...

Windmill at Zaandam - 1871 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7379

The US administration’s insanity on vaccines continues to have ramifications across the world – it is not that America will miss out on these potential new vaccines. It is that they simply won’t happen at all. (Or at least they’ll be indefinitely delayed.)

With temperatures falling away tonight, snow & ice warnings have been issued ⚠️

Chaucerians! I've agreed to a independent study on queering the Canterbury Tales with a student who requests "lots of weird secondary readings". I've got a handle on the classics, but would love recommendations for great recent queer, trans, etc scholarship on gender and sexuality in the Tales.

Astounding News. There is no more archaeology in Hampshire, or perhaps the County Council has no need for information & planning input for archaeology. Sust be one of those if the county archaeologist is 'redundant' couldn't possibly be they are just cutting a crucial role & calling it redundancy

Reform council boss calls for central party to expel colleague Joseph Boam