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To his own Board 

Yebbut he can’t do that.

Trump vows $10 billion contribution to his own Board of Peace

But not contribution of his money, contribution of our money. To his plaything. He can’t do that.

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday a $10 billion U.S. contribution to rebuilding Gaza at the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace, describing the organization as the premier world body for international peace and harmony.

See there? U.S. contribution – our money, not his money. He’s not allowed to do that. He’ll do it anyway if he’s not stopped (and if he doesn’t get bored and wander off to do something else), but he’s not allowed to.

Trump has framed the board as a supplement —

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Pretty soon you’re talking about real money 

Dang. Has Canada gone stark raving mad?

Or maybe it’s just British Columbia.

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld to pay $750,000 for violating the Human Rights Code by publishing hate speech and discriminatory content against 2SLGBTQ+ people.

“Mr. Neufeld invoked negative and insidious stereotypes about LGBTQ people, especially trans people, which denied their inherent dignity and, in some cases, reflected the hallmarks of hate against them as a group,” the tribunal said in a decision Wednesday.

I wonder if that’s true. I wonder if they are in fact talking about T people only. We know from a million examples that they love to make it about the L and the G and … Read the rest

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Disinhibition 

Useful.

Trump’s Bizarre Behavior Has a Clinical Name: Disinhibition

Colby Hall, January 20.

One of the earliest and most underreported warning signs of certain forms of dementia is not memory loss. It is disinhibition — a deterioration of impulse control, judgment, and social restraint that often manifests as reckless behavior, inappropriate speech, and diminished concern for consequences. By the time forgetfulness becomes obvious, the disease process is often well underway.

That framework matters because it closely tracks what President Donald Trump has been displaying with increasing frequency.

And increasing revoltingness.

Grievance has long shaped Trump’s behavior. His fixation on the 2020 election, anger over criminal investigations, and instinct for escalation remain constant. What has changed is the degree to which

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If Obama had invited Dolezal 

Meet Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender.

Imagine if Barack Obama had invited Rachel Dolezal, the would-be African American, to discuss the impact of Donald Trump’s policies on black America. Hillary Clinton did the equivalent this week at the Munich Security Conference where she moderated a town hall titled “Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights: Fighting the Global Pushback.” Clinton’s Rachel Dolezal figure was Sarah (né Timothy) McBride, celebrated as the first transgender member of the US Congress.

Why bring a man in to talk about women and fundamental rights? Why a man instead of a woman?

The problem is not McBride’s preferred pronouns but rather the lawmaker’s preferred policies, which elevate an ill-defined feeling known

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Sir sir you misunderstood 

He what now?

Trump said on Thursday that he had directed his administration to begin releasing files related to aliens, extraterrestrial life and unidentified flying objects, only hours after attacking former President Barack Obama for saying that aliens were real.

Well then why not release the files related to ghosts and goblins and angels and devils and people who can walk on water?

“Based on the tremendous interest shown,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media, he had directed officials to “begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important,

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He’s taking it well 

Tantrum.

Trump on Friday launched an extraordinary attack on the Supreme Court after it ruled against him on tariffs, describing justices in the majority as a “disgrace to our nation” and “very unpatriotic and disloyal to the Constitution.”

While praising the three dissenting justices in the 6-3 ruling that invalidated most of his tariffs, Trump suggested the majority was “swayed by foreign interests” and said the three Democratic appointees in the majority are “fools and lapdogs” to moderate Republicans and Democrats.

“The Supreme Court’s ruling on tariffs is deeply disappointing, and I’m ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what’s right for our country,” Trump said in remarks

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He got lucky 

Ok so we’re wallowing in Andy schadenfreude. I’m fine with that.

The image of a stunned Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor slumped back in a car after his arrest has been splashed over newspapers and websites worldwide.

Happy Birthday, sport https://t.co/1Nrmv3z7TE pic.twitter.com/hIqYrDAGQb

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) February 19, 2026

Slumped back, slack-jawed, eyes gleaming sinisterly.

And the Reuters photographer who took it, Liverpool-born Phil Noble, said capturing the moment was “more luck than judgement”.

When news broke on Thursday morning that the King’s brother had been detained by police, Noble drove six hours south from his Manchester home to Norfolk where the former prince resides.

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Effort to move past 

Maybe royalty just isn’t all that important in the first place?

Former Prince Andrew’s Arrest Upends Royal Effort to Move Past His Scandal

King Charles III’s family, long rocked by infighting and grievous losses, is facing what could be the gravest threat to its moral authority in more than a generation.

But what moral authority?

What moral authority does the “royal family” have in the first place?

They’re just a set of people descended from a set of people descended from a set of people etc for many generations. That’s all. The big difference is that their status is inherited as opposed to worked for or chosen by a majority of the people. That’s it! That’s the purported moral authority! … Read the rest

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One day a week on inclusivity programmes 

Starmer’s new Cabinet Secretary made staff join non-binary book club

Seriously?

Dame Antonia Romeo told a civil servant to join a “gender non-conforming book club” as part of their performance review.

The new Cabinet Secretary set out plans for the former staff member to spend one day a week on inclusivity programmes when she was head of the Department for International Trade (DIT) from 2017 to 2021.

These included helping to raise “awareness and visibility of non-binary identities” and attending the book club, according to documents reviewed by The Telegraph.

The employee was told to spend up to 20 per cent of their time fulfilling inclusivity goals such as encouraging colleagues to display their preferred pronouns and “recruiting non-binary staff”.

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Famous last word 

Sigh.

The problem is not emasculation.

There is no shortage of masculinity around.

Congress is no longer an all-male legislative body.

Fretting about emasculation is a standing insult to women.

I’m very tired of casual insults to women.

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North Korea vibes 

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww

Could also be Germany 1930s, Soviet Union 1950s. Could be many places, but shouldn't be America. https://t.co/cLD6rzRlrh

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 19, 2026

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where they are safest 

Classic of indifference to women and their safety and wellbeing.

A reminder: the decision to exclude trans people from the spaces where they are safest was based solely on anecdote, devoid of evidence and without any trans voices at the table.
A biased decision that will have a real impact on the dignity and safety of trans people. https://t.co/Xw15iFPFcM

— Thomas Willett (@ThomasWillett9) February 19, 2026

He means the decision to ban men from the spaces where women are safest, but of course he can’t say it that way.

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Strengthen up 

Trump has set up his very own imitation UN, and he’s giving it 10 billion dollars of our money.

Trump promised that the United States would commit $10 billion to his Board of Peace, the body created for the security and redevelopment of the Gaza Strip, although he did not specify the source of that funding.

Well it’s not coming out of his wallet.

Trump described the Board of Peace as an institution that would “strengthen up the United Nations,” perhaps answering those who questioned whether he was trying to set up a competitor to the U.N. But he also described the Board as a group that is “going to almost be looking over the United Nations and making

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Hiring 

This raises an interesting question, at least for me.

This is unlawful. Nobody should lose their job because they have a 'gender identity'. Working in a card shop doesn't sound like a sex specific occupation. I hope he gets some legal advice. https://t.co/ak54zQwCM3

— Sarah Phillimore (@SVPhillimore) February 19, 2026

At first glance “Nobody should lose their job because they have a ‘gender identity'” seems right, but then second glance isn’t quite so sure.

Having a gender identity=having a very feeble grasp on reality.

In a card shop that probably wouldn’t matter much, but in a lot of other jobs it would. I don’t think employers in general want to hire people who live a fantasy life that’s not tucked … Read the rest

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Based on self-identification 

In single-sex spaces news:

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has concluded its regulatory action following the review of policies identified through the UK Government’s 2024 call for input exercise on single-sex spaces.

In August 2025, the EHRC wrote to 19 organisations identified through this exercise whose policies misrepresented the Equality Act 2010 by wrongly suggesting there is an automatic legal right to access single-sex spaces based on self-identification. These organisations spanned the policing, education and health sectors. All 19 organisations have now removed the policies in question.

In other words people can no longer bounce into the other sex’s spaces simply by announcing “I am that other sex.” It makes sense. It’s kind of like the policy … Read the rest

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Submit 

Where we are:

Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who has argued that wives should submit to their husbands, women should be denied the vote, and Christian enslavers were on “firm scriptural ground,” led a worship service at the Pentagon this week at the invitation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Women should be stomped into submission, while men should be free to do all the things Donald Trump has done, because that’s the Christian rule. Just ask the bible if you don’t believe me.

Critics have questioned Hegseth’s elevation of Christianity within the Defense Department. The secretary instituted monthly prayer meetings at the Pentagon last May.

Fred Wellman, a West Point graduate and 20-year Army veteran running for Congress from

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Grizzled veterans 

Akua Reindorf on the protracted refusal to comply:

Even for grizzled veterans of the gender wars, it was surreal that the court needed to spell out that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, a woman is a person born female and not a person born male. More surreal still is the fact that, for ten months now, many employers and service providers have simply ignored the judgment and have continued to allow males to use women’s facilities.

What is not a surprise is that this widespread defiance of the law has been brought about by a campaign of disinformation waged by trans rights activists. It was just such a campaign that convinced employers and service providers they

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We don’t know what it’s like? 

You have got to be kidding us.

https://twitter.com/sappholives83/status/2024099224212664735

Oh yes, there’s a lot we take for granted, because we’re…not punished for acting in a way that is feminine. Is that right Bucko? Are you sure? Have you ever taken a peek at the stats on male violence against women? Given those stats, isn’t it kind of obvious that we are punished for acting in a way that is feminine? Granted not in the way you mean, i.e. being a man and putting on lipstick and a tiny skirt, but in the more general way, which codes everything women do as irritatingly wrong and sly and womany. Women are very much at risk from men with short tempers, and such men … Read the rest

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Highly disturbing allegations 

Andy Borowitz:

California US House Rep. Ted Lieu has dropped explosive new allegations against Donald Trump over the mention of the latter’s name in the Epstein files. Lieu claimed that the unredacted Epstein files, which were viewed by a select group of US House Reps, contain disturbing allegations against Trump.

“Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times,” Lieu said. “In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations, allegations of Donald Trump raping children and threatening to kill children.”

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Millions of files 

We do keep pointing it out – that misogyny is a thing, that it’s not obscure or rare, that a lot of men really do have profound contempt for women, which can easily tip into hatred and violence.

Millions of files related to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a “global criminal enterprise” that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the United Nations human rights council has said.

The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and

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