POLITICO: “As Europe’s political class moves to clean up its mess and address its shame concerning ties with Epstein , it’s inadvertently highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in 🇺🇸- No prominent politicians have taken a fall.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Do they all get deported now? Is that how this works?

No progress in Poland to ease the strict abortion ban because of anti-choice politics or reluctance in the gov't - but five years after Poland's top court gutted abortion rights, access to legal abortion has expanded a bit – only for women who learned to work within a system designed to say ‘no’.

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

It’s bad enough that we’re subsidizing extremely profitable sports teams with our tax dollars to build stadiums, but we’re letting them charge us $17 dollars for a beer and $11 dollars for a damn hotdog at the concession stand?

Enough. Here’s one thing we can do about it.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

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“ 'Never in the history of this planet has a forest been logged back to health,' said Stearns, 71, who is the founder of the preservation group Friends of Bell Smith Spring."

Great read. Spread it far and wide. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Instead of looking at it through the Wall Street lens of profitability, let's think of conviction as a deeply rooted, sincere belief in the goodness, value, and importance of an investment.

The Meaning of Conviction https://bit.ly/4aOJdv5

AI is draining more than the holiday spirit — Big Tech promised 100% renewable energy, yet companies like @Google, @Meta, @Amazon, and @Microsoft are turning to fossil fuels to power AI.

action.greenamerica.org/page/86928/a...

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.

Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Republicans spent years attacking Hunter Biden’s foreign ties. Meanwhile, Jared Kushner raised billions from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. And now he sits at the center of U.S. media consolidation and back-channel diplomacy. The double standard is glaring.

www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...

Russia has an Antenna Array of 32 installations designed to Jam/interfere with GPS placed in Kaliningrad.
Its effective range is 5-6 thousand Kilometres.

Moscow can disable GPS across entire Europe.

🇵🇱 scientists currently work on systems what use Light spectrums and natural radiation to Dodge it.

Kristi Noem and Tom Homan hiring the best and the brightest for their new ICE Army. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Billions in taxpayer dollars have become virtually untraceable.

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