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Elation as anti-extremists fight back against influence of billionaire megadonors through grassroots organizing

Fluxer is an open-source, independent instant messaging and VoIP platform. Built for friends, groups, and communities.

DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don’t come from judges.

Kaja Kallas says other countries ‘look up to us’ and rejects idea Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’

A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.

OK, scheint ein Fake zu sein. Rederei.fm war der Hinweis auf der Grafik

Context: ~3.5yo Drupal / Prestashop / Plain PHP dev

Whether you agree with the Guardian’s conclusions or not, the underlying issue they’re pointing at is broader than any one company: the steady collapse of ambient trust in our information systems.

UNITED STATES Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave the green light to European leaders for a new era of colonialism. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Mr Rubio offered partnership between the US and Europe to recolonise the global South.He said: “For five centuries, before the end of the second world war, the West had been expanding — its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.”

Made dinner for my fiancé last night. Sous vide strip steak, roasted brussel sprouts with balsamic reduction, sautéed mushrooms, and baked potato. Really happy with how it all turned out!

Democrats had made a number of demands to restrain the government’s immigration crackdown in exchange for their support of the funding measure but could not reach an agreement with the GOP.

Instead of discarding stock, companies are encouraged to manage their stock more effectively, handle returns, and explore alternatives such as resale, remanufacturing, donations, or reuse.

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THE Israeli government approved a proposal to register large areas of the occupied West Bank as “state property” today.The move by the Israelis is a de facto annexation of Palestinian lands.Israeli broadcaster Kan said the proposal was put forward by the country’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Defence Minister Israel Katz.Mr Smotrich said: “We are continuing the settlement revolution to control all our lands.”

Brett Wilkins Feb 12, 2026

It sucks hearing about an upcoming cyberpunk game in an article describing layoffs. A heist shooter in a cyberpunk world actually sounds like a fun idea. It reminds me of the Syndicate reboot from 2012 which had similar missions. That game didn’t deserve the “Syndicate” name but it was a fun game in its own right. I liked it, anyway. What was I talking about? Oh right, Den of Wolves. Here’s the Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1818140/Den_of_Wolves/

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

Feb. 15, 2026

https://xcancel.com/indexsy/status/2022524431005024499#m

The Young Companion, known as Liángyǒu in Chinese, was a pictorial magazine with captions in both Chinese and English, published in Shanghai, China, between 1926 and 1945. It is regarded as one of the most influential large-scale comprehensive Asian pictorials in the 1920s, and has proven useful to historians in modern times in examining the glamorous side of colonial-era Shanghai. It ran for 174 issues, including two special issues not given monthly issue numbers – the “Sun Yat-sen Memorial Special” and the “Eighth Anniversary”. This is the cover of the first issue of The Young Companion, dated 15 February 1926, and featuring a photograph of the Chinese actress Hu Die.

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ChatGPT will now predict your age based on how you interact with it

After successfully recuperating tiktok, politicians are going to once again exploit pseudo-science to outlaw the “infinite scroll.” Get ready for the comeback of the pager. Thanks libs!

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It’s another hurdle lowered for more Chinese-African trade: Beijing announced on Saturday that it would scrap tariffs for imports from 53 African countries. Eswatini is the only one not on the list as it maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan, whose sovereignty China challenges.

Addressing an estimated 250,000 people in Munich, Reza Pahlavi - who has called for the overthrow of Iran’s Islamic regime - denounced a crackdown on recent protests there.

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"There’s no question about it — whether you want it or not — the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars,” Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said recently at an event focused on addiction and mental health hosted by Action for Progress."

A woman who was trafficked from Cape Town to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean and ranch in New Mexico says her entrapment was more than physical.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a remote Siberian prison two years ago, was almost certainly poisoned with a deadly toxin found in South American dart frogs, five European governments said Saturday.

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Hosted on my own hardware currently, open source code here if anyone else wants to try it: https://gitlab.com/masland.tech/matrix-activity-tracker

see also: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments_in_the_United_States_to_Nazi_collaborators * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorials_in_Canada_to_Nazis_and_Nazi_collaborators

Burglars ransacked several safe-deposit boxes in a bank in the town of Stuhr in Lower Saxony in northern Germany, police said Saturday.

MUNICH (AP) — A top European Union official on Sunday rejected the notion that Europe faces “civilizational erasure,” pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration.

After years of wrangling, France has set out a new energy law that slashes its wind and solar power targets and drops a mandate for state-run energy provider EDF to shut down nuclear plants.

British and Canadian nationals will be able to travel to mainland China for up to 30 days without a visa from 17 February.