Speaker Johnson has declined a request by Jesse Jackson’s family to have the civil rights leader lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol, but alternative Washington locations are being discussed and the push for a Capitol viewing isn’t quite over.
chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...
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"Back in the day...they were mostly pre-pubertile boys who felt that they were girls. Left to their own devices, because we didn't have hormone treatments and the internet and all the rest then, most of them grew out of it and became gay men" - Hilary Cass 15th Feb '26
Accept children as they are.
"As Orwell noted, a population busy working, even at completely useless occupations, doesn't have time to do much else. At the very least, this is further incentive not to do anything about the situation." . - David Graeber
The Bullshit Jobs phenomenon exists for a reason (well many reasons).
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
In April, I’m running a Feminist Writing retreat for writers of all genres & levels. We’ll work on how to highlight everyday sexism, describe unequal power between men & women, challenge stereotypes when portraying women and craft female-friendly language.
rachelhewitt.org/retreats/fem...
Who knew that the British press doesn’t want to report any criticism of Nigel Fagashe?
Professor weighs in on why media ignored Jewish protest against Nigel Farage
www.thenational.scot/news/2585437...
"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"
www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...
#R4Today
Boom! LBC have Reforms number, thankfully.
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'The Supreme Court concluded that a biological interpretation of sex was fundamental to the EqA, by necessarily implication thereby precluding the use of s.3 HRA to circumvent that interpretation.'
Excellent piece.
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/02/11/m...
I've always had my suspicions.
Rowling has entered the fray.
My money is on her.
Children are not guinea pics.
Wow
he email landed in Lizzie Johnson’s in-tray in Ukraine just before 4pm local time. It came at a tough time for the reporter: Russia had been repeatedly striking the country’s power grid, and just days before she had been forced to work out of her car without heat, power or running water, writing in pencil because pen ink freezes too readily. “Difficult news,” was the subject line. The body text said: “Your position is eliminated as part of today’s organizational changes,” explaining that it was necessary to get rid of her to meet the “evolving needs of our business”. Johnson’s response may go down in the annals of American media history. “I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone,” she wrote on X. “I have no words.”
This is a look at how Jeff Bezos is helping destroy our democracy by destroying the Wash Post. The entire thing is nauseating but the firing of the paper's Ukraine reporter "in the middle of war zone" will ranks as one of the most diabolical things Bezos has done to date. Read @us.theguardian.com:
Whose name is mentioned more than anyone else in the #Epstein files?
DONALD TRUMP
Over 5,000 times.
I'm not distracted, are you?
A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
Well, most of us knew this.
But how do the multiple men feel who told me they knew for sure that Khelif had a functioning uterus?
They never answered the question why they were so invested in this. Do they just like watching men punch women?
It's incredible how many people tried to gaslight women calling this out.
This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,
What are the chances, eh, BlueSky?
Pam Bondi: “If we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files, the whole system collapses.”
By Jove, I think she's got it!
REPEATING: Dems really need to begin more forcefully presenting a narrative that Trump is erratic and unstable and no longer able to carry out the duties of the presidency and therefore must be removed from office. It's time.
This needs to get into the public narrative articulately emphatically now.
"If you undermine the capacity for workers to earn a wage and work, the you're going to have to replace it with something else, and the only other something else that makes sense is a universal basic income." - Prof Steve Keen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPcV...
It's heartbreaking to watch the testimony of Renee Good's brothers. They called her "unapologetically hopeful," someone who constantly chose optimism.
A beautiful tribute to her. Now, it's time to deliver the justice that she and Minneapolis deserve.
American citizen shot by ICE: The agent who shot me sent disgusting text messages to his Border Patrol buddies, literally bragging about how many times he shot me. I got sick to my stomach seeing how a federal law enforcement officer will talk this way about shooting me, a woman who he swerved into.
“I don’t know how you exist in our county right now without being terrified of our tyrannical government,” Care Study #1965: bsky.app/profile/atru...
Forgive me for swearing.
But
Bloody hell
Position Statement on Gender Surgery for Children and Adolescents
'ASPS [American Society of Plastic Surgeons] recommends that surgeons delay gender-related
breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.'
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It's a start.
www.plasticsurgery.org/for-medical-...
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
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