There is some irony in President Trump, our modern-day Narcissus, ordering the repainting of the bottom of the Reflecting Pool.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Now this is what I call great replacement. We dreamt of a (semi)creative career and now me are mopping up after bots. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

Toad went back into the house. He got into bed and pulled the covers over his head again.

Das ist übrigens die Gewalt, die in der Demokratie angeblich keinen Platz hat.

In der aktuellen #Energiekrise brauchen wir mehr Tempo beim Ausbau Erneuerbarer, keine schräge Debatte über neue #Kernkraftwerke. Nur so werden wir unabhängig von teuren Energieimporten. Doch die Regierung bremst den Ausbau und schadet der Wirtschaft.

Pedro Sánchez warns the EU is applying “double standards” between Ukraine and the Middle East. You cannot defend international law in Ukraine while ignoring it elsewhere. Credibility matters. Be like Spain 🇪🇸

When a Border Collie has no sheep to herd …and the Cat being so Catlike 😸

“At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.” In effect, this boils down to crimes against humanity. www.ms.now/deadline-whi...

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.

I am, and it is, and no, they don't

Trickle down economics is a hoax. This t-shirt is not. Get yours today and help me spread the word about this economic myth. https://bit.ly/4v94gzU

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The difference between these two is racism

In case you missed this…

Cc Vienna et al

"...this is globalized Vietnam." Robert Malley, former special envoy for Iran, explains why the U.S. military engagement with Iran is less straightforward than Donald Trump would have hoped.

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

The White House Military Office Army aide is on “Football” duty for Emperor Trump’s latest taxpayer-funded excursion to his Mar-a-Lago Club. The ~45-pound satchel follows Trump 24/7, enabling him alone to authorize the use of any of our ~1,770 deployed nuclear weapons—up to 900 on alert—at any time.

PLEASE SHARE: Google is restricting one of Android's most important features, and users are outraged keepandroidopen.org

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday.

De academische vrijheid is niet voor iedereen gelijk, betoogt universitair docent migratiegeschiedenis Nadia Bouras in de Annie Romein-Verschoorlezing. ‘Mensen die op mij lijken, doen er blijkbaar niet toe.’

Der Brotkorb der Türkei kollabiert - Buchstäblich Extreme Hitze & Dürre, sinkender Grundwasserspiegel, der Boden wird instabil, es reißen gigantische Löcher auf - mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit 186 von 240 Seen sind ausgetrocknet - 90% (!) der Türkei drohen zur Wüste zu werden #Klimakatastrophe

JUST 3 DAYS IN Nations whose citizens “Trump’s War” has killed so far (8): 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷🇦🇪🇧🇭🇰🇼🇸🇾🇱🇧 *Additional* nations now under attack in Trump’s War (6): 🇴🇲🇨🇾🇸🇦🇶🇦🇬🇧🇯🇴 *More* nations experiencing violent unrest (2): 🇮🇶🇵🇰 *Still more* nations expected to join the fray soon (1): 🇾🇪

My personal #hypothesis is that #Trump didn't promise to make the #Epstein files public to please his #MAGA base: These promises were dog whistles to people who feared exposure; it's an #extortion #racket like all of his #mob style #coercion tactics. The names that were leaked did not pay (enough).

If you spend any significant amount of time on the Elon Musk social media app, research suggests your brain is being cooked (www.forbes.com/sites/martin...) There are good alternatives on the market (but you should probably just quit all social media for good) www.gelliottmorris.com/p/you-should...

The worst figures on campus arguing that campuses had become overrun with wokeness were all best buddies with Epstein. Quelle surprise. www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...

Nederland mag niet achterblijven betogen VVD, BBB, FvD, JA21, PVV & SGP.

Agnès Callamard in der taz: "Es ist verwerflich, dass Minister in Österreich, Tschechien, Frankreich, Deutschland und Italien (...) Francesca Albanese auf der Grundlage eines absichtlich gekürzten Videos angegriffen haben, um ihre Botschaften grob misszudeuten." taz.de/Angriffe-auf...

We are no better www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The Meaning of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights Explained

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years. The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

Polluting companies use advertising and sponsorships to buff their brands, and make themselves more acceptable – often even pretending to hold the solutions to the problems they caused Like the tobacco industry, big polluters denied the problem, then denied their responsibility, and now turn to PR

Ich liefere content. Vielleicht hat ja jemand Zeit und Lust es journalistisch einzuordnen? Wäre sehr nett. Danke! Quelle: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

“There were no attacks on members of the KKK, it was a boycott of them in public life, and then slowly the KKK disappeared from Chicago. That’s kind of what we’re trying to do here, to just allow the public to know which of their neighbours are involved in this.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The EU Parliament housing committee is voting today on new rules to tackle the housing crisis in Europe The problem: they're making plans to help property developers and speculators, not people who need a home Housing policy should focus on meeting people's needs, not lining investors' pockets

The math isn't mathing 2️⃣+2️⃣=5️⃣ Join us in telling the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to drop oil and gas sponsorship from the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games before it's too late. 👉🏽 act.gp/46txajt

Vooral als je het systeem zo inricht dat werken en het benutten van menselijk kapitaal zo moeilijk mogelijk wordt gemaakt.

Gut gemachte Bestandsaufnahme zur Lage der öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender in Ö D und CH. In der Schweiz droht mit der SRG-Initiative am 8. März wieder ein Kahlschlag. www.srf.ch/play/tv/rund...

“In Austria, it’s basically legal to spread Russian propaganda”: interview with disinformation expert Dietmar Pichler #Austria insightnews.media/in-austria-i...

"Objectivity is not the same as neutrality. If there is a liar & an honest person, a corrupt individual & an honourable one, then your task is to describe that clearly & forcefully. I’m sick of those who believe in reporting both sides’ versions, when you know that one side isn’t telling the truth."

From 2023: "The main thing to understand is that Merrick Garland and the DOJ do not want to hold Trump accountable. The preservation of a corrupt institution and its secrets is their agenda, not the survival of our country or the welfare of its people." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."