IN FOCUS | Mom of 7-year-old hospitalized with brain swelling from measles: ‘I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine’

Well color me shocked! Convicted Felon Donald Trump lackeys voted as he wanted them to. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"The Times understands that the UK is yet to give permission for the US to use the bases in the event that Trump orders a strike on Iran, owing to concerns that it would be a breach of international law." This is a BIG deal given the US-UK military relationship. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

Leading Reform politician Nadhim Zahawi spoke today of an horrific encounter with a man who looked tired and threatening, and who typified the dystopian nightmare that is Broken Britain… From the new Private Eye, out now.

Sure, but who could have predicted this? *reads contemporaneous reporting and policy analysis from mid-2025* Oh, everyone. Everyone predicted this.

There is no better patriotic sight than seeing Andrew arrested inews.co.uk/opinion/ther...

BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Trump: "Frankly, if these radical left lunatic Democrats would come and say, 'Please, help us, please,' we'd stop crimes all over the place. Sometimes we have to force ourselves upon them because they're so bad."

Three ICE agents accidentally shot themselves in the leg during routine training exercises within two days last year.

The owner of a warehouse located in Socorro in El Paso Co, Texas, earmarked as a detention centre for illegal immigrants has refused to let the US government use the facility amid deepening unease over Donald Trump’s immigration policy. ft.trib.al/a4v3vgs

In honor of DHS spokesliar Tricia McLaughlin's resignation, let's revisit how her husband's company won a $220 million no-bid contract to run a stupid propaganda campaign featuring her boss, Kristi Noem, bashing immigrants while sitting on a horse in front of Mt. Rushmore.

Marco Rubio leading the fight to make sure the whole world has access to hate groups and child porn www.joemygod.com/2026/02/stat...

Warming temperatures and snow droughts in the West threatens a billion-dollar industry. One ski area is experimenting with insulated blankets to keep snow from melting. n.pr/4cANa7a

“Who the fuck are these men?” A decade after Trump took over the GOP, the Coeur d’Alene region of Idaho finds itself beset by a vexing mix of far-right activists and white nationalists who are trying to drive moderate voices out of political life.

It’s remarkable how slow so many people have been to recognise the malevolent and disruptive behaviour of Elon Musk towards British politics. This was clear from the time of the riots in the summer…

Macron slams tech giants’ claim they are defending free speech “Some of them claim to be in favor of free speech. We are in favor of free algorithms, totally transparent,” Macron said during his remarks in India. “Free speech is pure bullshit if nobody knows how you are guided through this."

The new SAVE Act’s “show your papers” requirement is a direct attack on the freedom to vote. bit.ly/4rA2p4R

NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website. substack.com/home/post/p-...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

Elon Musk is talking about Nigel Farage's Reform Party: he says Reform are trying to eradicate white people in Britain. He is a radicalised + increasingly racist lunatic - obsessed with theories of white racial extinction + promoting the idea of civil war in Britain www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

Bacteria frozen in ancient underground ice cave found to be resistant against 10 modern antibiotics | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...

On President’s Day, the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” — a tribute and act of artistic dissent — at the Lincoln Memorial. ❤️ #FirstAmendment #ArtisticExpression

Breaking: A coalition of health and environmental groups sued this morning over the Trump administration's decision to revoke the scientific finding that forms the basis of U.S. climate regulations. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Big news from @lizzylawrence.bsky.social: FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f... via @statnews.com

Somewhere in an alternate universe, Britain is the most important country in Europe. My latest on what position Britain could be in had we not voted to leave the EU in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. In short: we'd be very powerful indeed. www.thenewworld.co.uk/luke-mcgee-t...

Stephen Colbert says newly MAGAfied CBS is blocking him from interviewing Democrats. His days at CBS are probably numbered. Either Trump forces him out or he decides to leave rather than doing a censored show. But where should he go?

🗣️ “The problem with Europe is mass immigration and climate policies.” On #EuropeToday, US Ambassador to the EU says these are the reasons why US Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeated at the Munich Security Conference the US administration’s message that Europe risks civilisational erasure.

Many experts had thought sharks didn't exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica. n.pr/4rHpYsZ

New in Abortion, Every Day: Why are pregnancy remains being investigated by South Carolina law enforcement at all? How can 14-week fetal remains be ruled a “stillborn death”? And why are state authorities trying to determine the race of the pregnancy remains?

This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).

Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024 More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.” @pcgamer.com #DRAM www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...

Any Democrat running for President in 2028 must pledge that, if elected, he or she will immediately tear down/demolish Trump’s grotesque, un-American ballroom. This must be a basic minimum requirement of anyone who wants to be the Dem nominee in 2028.👇 www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

The Green Party's Caroline Lucas humiliates Reform UK's Zia Yusuf on #Newsnight "Your position is utterly incoherent" "You have provided no evidence that it's the Equalities Act that discriminates against white working class boys"

If this doesn’t flip your pancakes this morning-not much will! Bannon got to be the band leader in UK politics….thanks to Farage/Johnson who were players😡👎🏼 Epstein the Intl’ connections & money and who did he pay? In ByLineTimes Article⬇️

"Europe’s privacy watchdog has opened a 'large-scale' inquiry into Elon Musk’s X over AI-generated non-consensual sexual imagery, in the latest sign of how regulators are scrutinising the social media site’s Grok chatbot."

I think this is paywalled but you can get the gist www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Trump, his aides and many of his supporters haven’t purged contempt from our politics. They’ve mainstreamed it. Purified it. Industrialized it. It’s their push-a-button pushback against everyone who challenges them,” argues Frank Bruni.

EU privacy watchdog opens probe into X over sexualised AI images-ft

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.