Per Koch

Ghana Set to Host Controversial Anti-LGBTQ+ 'Family Values' Summit Ghana will host a major African anti-LGBTQ "family values" conference in 2026 — and rights groups are raising the alarm.

I am not against "family values". I simply think those values should be based on compassion and inclusion and not hatred of those you do not understand.

www.mambaonline.com/2026/02/28/g...

A chart is titled "2026 Olympics: Final Winter Olympics Medal Count." A table lists the top five countries — Norway, United States, Italy, Germany, and Japan— with their respective gold, silver, bronze and total medal counts. Norway leads with 41 medals total.

From @theathletic.com: More than 200 athletes competed across 16 sports at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Norway dominated, breaking its own record with 18 gold medals and claiming the most medals overall.

Here are the full and final standings: www.nytimes.com/athletic/int...

New poll shows Trump is severely underwater on the two main reasons people voted for him: the economy and immigration.

And on top of that, he and Republicans are in deep denial.

A coordinated network of 18,000 bots are being used to drive the algorithms on X to amplify Nicki Minaj’s right-wing political posts. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. @nlanard.bsky.social

The US deported a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal A woman who sought asylum in the United States after fleeing a country where homosexuality is illegal says the Trump administration's third-country deportation system sent her to another one.

"The US deported a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal."

We are living in dark times. I am glad there are still good people out there who are bringing some much needed light.

apnews.com/article/trum...

#LGBTQ

Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

This N.J. Trump voter’s husband was detained by ICE: ‘I thought they’d focus on criminals.’ Sandra Hafraoui, who identified as MAGA and voted for Trump three times, now says the president's immigration policy has "ruined our lives."

‘I thought they’d focus on criminals.’

Voters of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party are not very bright, are they?

www.nj.com/mosaic/2026/...

Per Koch posted a story update on LGBTQA Refugees in East Africa Need Your Help! Here's another update from Nakafeero Swabulah and her friends in the refugee camp in South Sudan. Thanks to your donations we have managed to get some of the group members who remained in Kakuma i...

New report on the situation in the camp in South Sudan. New LGBTQ refugees have arrived from Kenya and they need roof over their heads.

fundrazr.com/stories/fN2N...

LGBTQA Refugees in East Africa Need Your Help! Nakafeero Swabulah is a lesbian leader of LGBTQ refugees i Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya and in another camp in South Sudan. They need medication, shelter, food, sanitary pads, detergents, clothes and ...

1. I am leading a group of Ugandan LGBTQ refugees in a camp in South Sudan - 100 souls, half of which are children.

I do not like asking for help, but the truth is that we do not have enough for food, medicine and other necessities.

Any amount helps!

Crowdfunder: fundrazr.com/LGBTKakuma?r...

This says it and it’s exactly what it is….

Over at the magazine I am editor of there is a discussion regarding Rudolf Steiner and a local #Steiner college. Steiner was a speculative occultist. But he was also an interesting philosopher. So what do you do?

www-fpol-no.translate.goog/steinerhoysk.... (Google translation)

There is this saying: "The Devil eats his own". I am reminded of this when I see Trump and his serfs collapse i fear and confusion as his MAGA rhetoric stops working. There is still hope for American democracy. Keep on fighting!

Per Koch posted a story update on LGBTQA Refugees in East Africa Need Your Help! Those of you who have followed Nakafeero and her Uganda LGBTQ-friends for a while, know that they originally fled to Kenya and lived in the Kakuma refugee camp over there. Due to anti-LGBTQ hara...

I have posted a new post on the needs of my LGBTQ-friends in the Kakuma camp in Kenya. We need to get them out of there due to harassments and threats.

fundrazr.com/stories/5N0q...

#LGBTQ #transgender

My friend Nakafeero is asking for donations that can help her get #trans friends in Kenya to where she and her group are right now. It is relatively safer in the South Sudan camp and the chances of getting to a LGBTQ-friendly country higher.

I am part of her admin team.

#LGBTQ #transgender

Living as LGBTQ Refugees in South Sudan How is it to live as a LGBTQ refugee from Uganda in a camp in South Sudan?  Nakafeero tells the story. By Nakafeero Swabulah, Ugandan LGBTQ ...

My friend Nakafeero has published an article about how it is to be a queer refugee in South Sudan.

lgbtqkakuma.blogspot.com/2026/02/livi...

#LGBTQ

This is what makes being so human so hard: bigots who project their own fears and desires onto other groups, thinking that erasing them will end suffering. The fact is that these prejudices *cause* much of the suffering.

World’s First Tool-Using Cow Shocked Cognitive Scientists YouTube video by Anton Petrov

Scientists have tried to draw a clear line between humans and other animals. Toolmaking was the litmus test. Now we know that chimps, crows, dolphins and octopuses use tools, and now COWS. We are going to look at our burgers in a different way from now on.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq3o...

Canada is interviewing refugees in South Sudan Nakafeero tells me that Canada is accepting quite a few refugees from their camp in South Sudan and that her and her group of LGBTQ refugees...

I have updated the blog I manage for the LGBTQ refugees I am helping in South Sudan. I dare not to hope: Could they be accepted by the Canadians?

lgbtqkakuma.blogspot.com/2026/01/cana...

Former Norwegian Chief of Defense to Aftenposten: "USA under Trump is a Fascist banana-republic."

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

The US government is essentially leaving all organizations that are not willing to fully embrace MAGA ideology. It is as if tTrump & Co do not understand basic concepts of human interaction and learning.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? The oldest known writing dates to around 5000 BCE. It origins are mysterious.

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like?

theconversation.com/what-were-bo...

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

So the US has attacked #Venezuela and kidnapped its president. I have no sympathy for #Maduro, but Trump has essentially killed any trust the rest of the world has about the US following international law. I suspect the Danes are preparing for war now.

LGBTQ refugees in South Sudan preparing Christmas meal YouTube video by Per Koch

My LGBTQ refugee friends in South Sudan have shared some photos and videos from their holiday celebration. I cannot give you photos of the 100 people taking part for security reasons, but I can share images of the food being prepared.

youtube.com/shorts/-WmRh...

fundrazr.com/stories/2Mvu...

That was the year I was born. Great picture!

Science is based on trust. Not perfection. Trust. If you remove that trust, 1st class science becomes 3rd rate science. This is where the US is heading.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/20/data-information-federal-government-trump/

https://archive.ph/fA6Tr

Here is an overview over all the articles in the latest edition of the Nordic magazine I am editing: Forskningspolitikk (Research Policy). There are some articles in English, as well.

www.fpol.no/forskningspo...

Dersom EU lempar på det digitale personvernet, undergrev dei sitt eige mål om styrka konkurransekraft, meiner den irske personvernforkjemparen Johnny Ryan.

www.fpol.no/omkamp-om-pe...

Senior-galaksenes utfordring | Forskningspolitikk Det var vitenskapsmannen Thomas Kuhn som populariserte paradigme-begrepet i boken Vitenskapelige revolusjoners struktur.  Han dokumenterte at når en disiplin står overfor en krise – i den forstand at ...

"Vi kan stå overfor et paradigmeskifte på linje med relativitetsteorien og kvantefysikken, ja. Men det er bare om man tror at all vitenskap leverer objektive fakta at dette er et problem. All læring er en prosess."

www.fpol.no/senior-galak...