Mike Benson
@mbensonster.bsky.social
Retired rancher, psychologist, happy to be living in Catalonia and making pipes.
Americans Want Accountability With the Epstein Files. Elites Couldn’t Care Less.
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/e...
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/e...
Americans Want Accountability With the Epstein Files. Elites Couldn’t Care Less.
Each new document drop makes clear that elites operate with impunity. It's high time to banish Epstein associates from public life.
theintercept.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Americans Want Accountability With the Epstein Files. Elites Couldn’t Care Less.
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/e...
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/e...
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Deixem d'anar-hi fins que es vegen obligats a rebatejar-lo com a Cine Yermo.
Los cines Yelmo de València niegan la entrada a alumnado de un IES porque la profesora lo comunicó en valenciano
El gerente de las salas de Campanar rechazó gestionar la reserva para ver la película ‘El Cautivo’ alegando que no entiende el idioma oficial y exigiendo el uso del castellano o el inglés como condici...
www.levante-emv.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Deixem d'anar-hi fins que es vegen obligats a rebatejar-lo com a Cine Yermo.
Who, exactly, is ICE arresting, jailing, and abusing?
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Who, exactly, is ICE arresting, jailing, and abusing?
History will judge this a crime against humanity.
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Who, exactly, is ICE arresting, jailing, and abusing?
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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📝 "Si el TC acaba deixant l’arxivament de la causa contra Puigdemont, Comín i Puig en mans de Llarena i el Suprem és ben improbable que puguin tornar"
🔶 Anàlisi de Josep Nualart
🔶 Anàlisi de Josep Nualart
Hi ha una trampa en l’escrit del fiscal del TC: joc brut en l’amnistia de Puigdemont
Si el TC acaba deixant l’arxivament de la causa contra Puigdemont, Comín i Puig en mans de Llarena i el Suprem, per més que deixi clar que se’ls han vulnerat drets fonamentals, el seu retorn és ben improbable
www.vilaweb.cat
February 12, 2026 at 8:31 AM
📝 "Si el TC acaba deixant l’arxivament de la causa contra Puigdemont, Comín i Puig en mans de Llarena i el Suprem és ben improbable que puguin tornar"
🔶 Anàlisi de Josep Nualart
🔶 Anàlisi de Josep Nualart
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El dia que l’aviació feixista va bombardejar l’estació de Xàtiva, el 1939
www.diarilaveu.cat/cultura/tal-...
www.diarilaveu.cat/cultura/tal-...
El bombardeig feixista de Xàtiva en la memòria col·lectiva
El dia que l’aviació feixista va bombardejar l’estació de Xàtiva, el 1939
www.diarilaveu.cat
February 12, 2026 at 7:34 AM
El dia que l’aviació feixista va bombardejar l’estació de Xàtiva, el 1939
www.diarilaveu.cat/cultura/tal-...
www.diarilaveu.cat/cultura/tal-...
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The "stable period" of the Holocene was exceptional in the human experience
As we return to a "chaotic period" caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, it is urgent to prepare a multi-century plan to return to climate stability; and which protects human rights
This is the urgent task of our time
As we return to a "chaotic period" caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, it is urgent to prepare a multi-century plan to return to climate stability; and which protects human rights
This is the urgent task of our time
February 12, 2026 at 7:47 AM
The "stable period" of the Holocene was exceptional in the human experience
As we return to a "chaotic period" caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, it is urgent to prepare a multi-century plan to return to climate stability; and which protects human rights
This is the urgent task of our time
As we return to a "chaotic period" caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, it is urgent to prepare a multi-century plan to return to climate stability; and which protects human rights
This is the urgent task of our time
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El legado ecotóxico del genocidio perpetrado por Israel y las potencias occidentales en Gaza
✍🏼 Islam Elhabil
✍🏼 Islam Elhabil
El legado ecotóxico del genocidio perpetrado por Israel y las potencias occidentales en Gaza
La perpetración del genocidio en Gaza presenta, tras su enormidad sistémica, toda una panoplia de microformas de producción de terror, de destrucción eco...
www.diario-red.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:49 AM
El legado ecotóxico del genocidio perpetrado por Israel y las potencias occidentales en Gaza
✍🏼 Islam Elhabil
✍🏼 Islam Elhabil
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Llibre preciós i necessari! Gràcies ❤️
Dolors Marín, reivindica el paper de tretze dones cultes i compromeses que van venir a Barcelona i Catalunya mobilitzades contra el feixisme
Les dones i els dies de Catalunya Ràdio amb @montsevirgili.bsky.social
www.3cat.cat/3cat/dones-d...
Les dones i els dies de Catalunya Ràdio amb @montsevirgili.bsky.social
www.3cat.cat/3cat/dones-d...
Les dones i els dies - Dones de foc: "Volien anar al front, com els homes" - 3Cat
Les dones europees van tenir un paper actiu en la Guerra Civil Espanyola. El llibre "Dones de foc" (Angle Editorial), de Dolors Marín, reivindica el paper de tretze dones cultes i compromeses que van ...
www.3cat.cat
February 12, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Llibre preciós i necessari! Gràcies ❤️
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"The people of Palghar have won battles over immediate rights, but the war over their future, their land, their waters, and their right to work, remains ongoing."
The march must carry on
A report on Palghar's fight for livelihood and land
buff.ly
February 12, 2026 at 8:04 AM
"The people of Palghar have won battles over immediate rights, but the war over their future, their land, their waters, and their right to work, remains ongoing."
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Breaking: China’s CO2 emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole. This extends a “flat or falling” trend in China’s CO2 emissions that began in March 2024 and has now lasted for nearly two years.
NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @creacleanair.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/wC1nbXO
Read here: buff.ly/wC1nbXO
February 12, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Breaking: China’s CO2 emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole. This extends a “flat or falling” trend in China’s CO2 emissions that began in March 2024 and has now lasted for nearly two years.
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Day 76 of posting this until there is justice for brothers Fadi and Jumaa Abu Asi who were murdered by the IDF ‼️
February 12, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Day 76 of posting this until there is justice for brothers Fadi and Jumaa Abu Asi who were murdered by the IDF ‼️
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Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
February 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
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for fraud who is now in the Trump Administration, and another “expert” that works for Mike Lindell the Pillow Guy, likely mislead a Federal Magistrate Judge into issuing a search warrant to allow for Trump to raid the Fulton County Election offices and take 700 boxes of 2020 data with him.
February 12, 2026 at 4:01 AM
for fraud who is now in the Trump Administration, and another “expert” that works for Mike Lindell the Pillow Guy, likely mislead a Federal Magistrate Judge into issuing a search warrant to allow for Trump to raid the Fulton County Election offices and take 700 boxes of 2020 data with him.
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Good counter point in the “building code cost drivers” conversation.
Energy efficiency shouldn’t be a thing that we compromise on. It’s a cost of living reduction!
Energy efficiency shouldn’t be a thing that we compromise on. It’s a cost of living reduction!
Despite CA having 2x the electricity price as TX, Texans pay 28% more per capita for electricity yearly because TX uses 2.7x the elec per capita as CA (vs 2.1x in 2001, so nothing to do with weather) even with 2 mil more EVs in CA than TX
Why? Stronger effic & building standards & more BTM PV in CA
Why? Stronger effic & building standards & more BTM PV in CA
February 12, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Good counter point in the “building code cost drivers” conversation.
Energy efficiency shouldn’t be a thing that we compromise on. It’s a cost of living reduction!
Energy efficiency shouldn’t be a thing that we compromise on. It’s a cost of living reduction!
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Contra Haití y contra Cuba kaosenlared.net/contra-haiti...
Contra Haití y contra Cuba
La embajada de EEUU en Haití informó que tres buques de guerra estadounidenses arribaron a La Bahía de Puerto Príncipe el pasado martes. La operación se llama Southern Spear (Lanza del Sur).
kaosenlared.net
February 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Contra Haití y contra Cuba kaosenlared.net/contra-haiti...
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To mine MORE coal, Glencore wants to destroy 600 ha of high quality koala habitat that would impact a koala population "of national significance"
Environment Minister Murray Watt is considering the application
Don't let them take out the koalas AND worsen climate damage for private profit
Environment Minister Murray Watt is considering the application
Don't let them take out the koalas AND worsen climate damage for private profit
February 11, 2026 at 9:24 PM
To mine MORE coal, Glencore wants to destroy 600 ha of high quality koala habitat that would impact a koala population "of national significance"
Environment Minister Murray Watt is considering the application
Don't let them take out the koalas AND worsen climate damage for private profit
Environment Minister Murray Watt is considering the application
Don't let them take out the koalas AND worsen climate damage for private profit
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📝"El fet més estrany i incomprensible és la resignació amb què els catalans semblen haver-se instal·lat en aquesta incompetència del govern de la Generalitat"
Editorial de @vpartal.bsky.social
Editorial de @vpartal.bsky.social
Ni enviar un Es-Alert no sap fer aquest govern
Ahir, a les sis i vint de la vesprada, els telèfons mòbils van sonar –o haurien d’haver sonat– a tot el Principat. Van sonar a l’hemicicle del Parlament de Catalunya, per exemple, mentre intervenia la senyora –i encara increïblement consellera!– Paneque i van sonar també a la redacció de VilaWeb. Però no pas a tots […]
www.vilaweb.cat
February 12, 2026 at 7:17 AM
📝"El fet més estrany i incomprensible és la resignació amb què els catalans semblen haver-se instal·lat en aquesta incompetència del govern de la Generalitat"
Editorial de @vpartal.bsky.social
Editorial de @vpartal.bsky.social
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"PSI Inter-America, therefore, calls on all affiliates throughout the Americas to stand in active solidarity with the people of Cuba and publicly oppose the US blockade by raising their voices in protest to condemn this arbitrary and immoral measure."
PSI Inter-America condemns the US economic blockade of Cuba
PSI Inter-America condemns in the strongest possible terms the ongoing criminal, violent, and inhumane economic blockade unilaterally imposed on Cuba by the United States.
buff.ly
February 12, 2026 at 6:04 AM
"PSI Inter-America, therefore, calls on all affiliates throughout the Americas to stand in active solidarity with the people of Cuba and publicly oppose the US blockade by raising their voices in protest to condemn this arbitrary and immoral measure."
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Kristi Noem has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
February 11, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Kristi Noem has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
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“I don’t know of any faculty member at UNC that has any faith that the provost, human resources officer, or especially the university lawyers have the faculty interests anywhere in mind when they’re making these decisions.”
—Michael Palm, @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social President
—Michael Palm, @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social President
UNC-Chapel Hill Sets New Policy on Recording Professors
UNC-Chapel Hill aims to clarify guidelines after a secret recording controversy involving Larry Chavis and growing fear of surveillance.
www.theassemblync.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:23 PM
“I don’t know of any faculty member at UNC that has any faith that the provost, human resources officer, or especially the university lawyers have the faculty interests anywhere in mind when they’re making these decisions.”
—Michael Palm, @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social President
—Michael Palm, @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social President
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HEY FRIENDS
Two fun and goodnewsy pieces for @thepointau.bsky.social - grid-scale batteries are just over-performing when it comes to pushing fossil gas out of the grid 🥂🍾
Read:
1-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
2-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
Watch ->
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FWq...
Two fun and goodnewsy pieces for @thepointau.bsky.social - grid-scale batteries are just over-performing when it comes to pushing fossil gas out of the grid 🥂🍾
Read:
1-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
2-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
Watch ->
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FWq...
Big grid batteries are killing gas on Australia's power grid
YouTube video by Ketan Joshi
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
HEY FRIENDS
Two fun and goodnewsy pieces for @thepointau.bsky.social - grid-scale batteries are just over-performing when it comes to pushing fossil gas out of the grid 🥂🍾
Read:
1-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
2-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
Watch ->
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FWq...
Two fun and goodnewsy pieces for @thepointau.bsky.social - grid-scale batteries are just over-performing when it comes to pushing fossil gas out of the grid 🥂🍾
Read:
1-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
2-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
Watch ->
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FWq...
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Se llamaba Vicente Cuervo y era obrero anarquista en la fábrica Telefunken. Tal día como hoy en 1980 era asesinado por ultraderechistas de Fuerza Nueva. Días antes había sido asesinada la estudiante vasca Yolanda González. La "modélica" Transición.
www.tiktok.com/@fonsidelaisla
www.tiktok.com/@fonsidelaisla
February 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Se llamaba Vicente Cuervo y era obrero anarquista en la fábrica Telefunken. Tal día como hoy en 1980 era asesinado por ultraderechistas de Fuerza Nueva. Días antes había sido asesinada la estudiante vasca Yolanda González. La "modélica" Transición.
www.tiktok.com/@fonsidelaisla
www.tiktok.com/@fonsidelaisla
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L'opressor d'una nació colonial dient que són colonitzats. Faria gràcia, si no fos perquè només em satisfaria veure'l cremar a l'infern.
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:24 AM
L'opressor d'una nació colonial dient que són colonitzats. Faria gràcia, si no fos perquè només em satisfaria veure'l cremar a l'infern.
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Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)