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Source: the guardian
Rock structure which served as backdrop to countless proposals disappears into the Adriatic after storm
Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo Mon 16 Feb 2026 04.48 EST
The rocky arch, one of the best-known natural landmarks on the Adriatic coast, got its name as it served as a backdrop for wedding proposals, selfies and postcards, and was one of the most recognisable symbols of the Salento, one of Italy’s most heavily visited tourist areas.
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According to local authorities, strong winds, rough seas and intense rainfall in recent days progressively weakened the rock structure until its final collapse on Saturday. It is the most significant damage inflicted by coastal erosion on the landscape of the Salento.
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Mediterranean cyclones, known as medicanes, include Cyclone Harry which struck in January, have been devastating ports, homes and roads, reshaping the structure of coastlines. Medicanes are warm-core systems that are becoming increasingly frequent in the Mediterranean, driven by rising sea temperatures linked to the climate emergency.
“With the Mediterranean [experiencing] among its hottest years on record in 2025, warmer seas are supercharging the atmosphere and fuelling extreme events,” said Christian Mulder, a professor of ecology and climate emergency at the University of Catania in Sicily....................
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/16/italy-lovers-arch-puglia-collapse-adriatic-sea-valentines-day?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Maybe this devastating event will convince some people there is a #climatecrisis!!
Italy’s famous Lovers’ Arch collapses into the sea on Valentine’s Day
— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T13:36:44.954Z
Rock structure which served as backdrop to countless proposals disappears into the Adriatic after storm
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The famous arch of the sea stacks at Sant’Andrea in Melendugno, Puglia, Italy, popularly known as Lovers’ Arch, collapsed on Valentine’s Day after strong storm surges and heavy rain swept across southern Italy.
Israel's plan to install West Bank regulations denounced as illegal 'mega land grab'
Israel's plan to install West Bank regulations denounced as illegal 'mega land grab'
— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T12:11:30.494Z
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An Israeli soldier stands guard as Palestinians walk to enter their land to harvest olives during the annual olive-picking season, near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, November 4, 2025. Photo by Raneen Sawafta/Reuters
Israel's plan to install West Bank regulations denounced as illegal 'mega land grab'
World Feb 15, 2026 2:48 PM EST
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel will begin a contentious land regulation process in a large part of the occupied West Bank, which could result in Israel gaining control over wide swaths of the area for future development, according to a government decision on Sunday.
It paves the way for the resumption of "settlement of land title" processes, which had been frozen in the West Bank since the Mideast War in 1967. It means that when Israel begins the land registration process for a certain area, anyone with a claim to the land must submit documents proving ownership.
The Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now said the process likely amounts to a "mega land grab" from Palestinians.
"This move is very dramatic and allows the state to gain control of almost all of Area C," said Hagit Ofran, the director of Peace Now's Settlement Watch program. Area C refers to the 60% of the West Bank that is under full Israeli military control, according to agreements reached in the 1990s with the Palestinians.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' office in a statement called the decision "a grave escalation and a flagrant violation of international law," which amounts to "de facto annexation." It called on the international community, especially the U.N. Security Council and the United States, to intervene immediately.........................
A lawsuit seeks to stop Trump's overhaul of a 100-year-old public golf course in Washington President Donald Trump speak
The article does not say anything about Trump putting his name of this golf course but I have NO doubt that he will.
In October, the National Parks Service began dumping debris from the demolition of the East Wing of the White House onto the golf course, the complaint said 🤮
— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T12:37:30.418Z
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A lawsuit seeks to stop Trump's overhaul of a 100-year-old public golf course in Washington
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Pope Army Airfield, in Fort Bragg, N.C., Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, en route to Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
By SAFIYAH RIDDLE
A lawsuit seeks to stop Trump’s overhaul of a 100-year-old public golf course in Washington
Updated 10:44 AM CST, February 14, 2026
Two golfers in Washington, D.C., sued the federal government on Friday to try to prevent the Trump administration from overhauling a more than 100-year-old public golf course, accusing the administration of violating environmental laws and polluting a park that is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The suit is the latest in a series of legal battles challenging President Donald Trump’s extraordinary efforts to put his mark on public spaces in the nation’s capitol, including shuttering the Kennedy Center. ......................................
..........Construction on the East Potomac course has already begun, according to the lawsuit. In October, the National Parks Service began dumping debris from the demolition of the East Wing of the White House onto the golf course, the complaint said, raising concerns that the materials could contain contaminants that could pollute the air.
As a result, the plaintiffs argued, the administration of also violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to consider the harmful environmental impacts of the project.
Kjeragbolten: a massive 5-cubic-meter boulder wedged into a mountain crevasse on the Kjerag massif in Norway. It hangs
My stomach does twirls just looking at this!!
Kjeragbolten: a massive 5-cubic-meter boulder wedged into a mountain crevasse on the Kjerag massif in Norway.
It hangs nearly 1,000 meters above the fjord, and yes—you can walk out onto it if you have the nerves.
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2023314064366350476?s=20
E. Jean Carroll received a fundraising "love letter" from Trump's campaign after she won a defamation case against him f
One of Trumps priorities is that he will NEVER give any money to E. Jean Carroll.
Purple Teacher
@peaceandteachin.bsky.social
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E. Jean Carroll received a fundraising “love letter” from Trump’s campaign after she won a defamation case against him for sexual assault.
The note said “I loved you and I’m pretty sure you loved me back.
Sounds like a sick threat.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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E. Jean Carroll received a fundraising “love letter†from Trump’s campaign after she won a defamation case against him for sexual assault.
— Purple Teacher (@peaceandteachin.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T00:37:49.867Z
The note said “I loved you and I’m pretty sure you loved me back.
Sounds like a sick threat.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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Trump sexual assault survivor receives 'love letter' from his campaign: 'Sick and twisted'
Alexander Willis
February 15, 2026 9:12AM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675270768/
.........“It’s Valentine’s Day E Jean!” reads the email Carroll said she received, unsolicited, from Trump’s fundraising campaign, a lucrative operation that directs supporters to make contributions to his political action committee. “I love you, and I was pretty sure you loved me back!”
Taking to social media, Carroll shared a screenshot of the email she’d received, and insisted she never signed up to receive such emails.
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After being found to have sexually assaulted Carroll, Trump was ordered to pay an $83 million judgement, a judgement that his legal team has been desperately trying to have overturned, and by submitting false information to the Supreme Court.
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https://x.com/krassenstein/status/2023010827683684676?s=20
LIVE: Mount Kilauea erupts in Hawaii
LIVE: Mount Kilauea erupts in Hawaii
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LIVE: Mount Kilauea erupts in Hawaii
— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T09:17:12.388Z
Started streaming 6 hours ago #hawaii #volcano #usa
Live view of Kilauea, Hawaii’s most active volcano. The volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii has been erupting on-and-off since December 2024.
www.youtube.com/live/3sGEMMc... via @YouTube
Kristie Noem found her blankie........
https://x.com/mingodoo/status/2022457721719787581?s=
https://x.com/LucasSa56947288/status/2022315748287279559?s=20
that Kristi Noem spent over $200 million of taxpayer money on ads that featured her telling immigrants to leave the coun
#BREAKING: Psaki: “…this story is about more than just Kristi and Corey’s childish behavior and their companionship. It’s also about their reckless spending on the taxpayer’s dime, because the [WSJ] matched earlier reporting from ProPublica which found that Kristi Noem spent over $200 million of taxpayer money on ads that featured her telling immigrants to leave the country, money that ProPublica reports, was funneled to an ad firm tied to Kristi Noem. It’s like they think people won’t notice here. People notice.”🤦♀️
https://x.com/Emolclause/status/2023031453676609882?s=20
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So Epstein had a private desert kingdom with a mansion, an airstrip, young girls being trafficked across continents, and
I have that no one searched Epstein's NM ranch for a few days now.
Anyone know if it will searched????
Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
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So Epstein had a private desert kingdom with a mansion, an airstrip, young girls being trafficked across continents, and law enforcement searched his island, his NYC mansion, his Paris place, his Palm Beach estate…
But the massive ranch where half the survivor stories happened? Nope. Not touched. Not once.
The DOJ literally told New Mexico, “Don’t investigate. We got this.” And then didn’t search the ranch. And now the FBI won’t even comment.
Imagine a 10,000-acre crime scene sitting out there like: “Hello?? Anyone?? Maybe check the basement? The barn? THE MANSION??”
But sure, tell us again how they were “doing everything possible.”
Source: The Guardian
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2022959068558807167?s=20
ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
Damn!!
Federal agents block a door to an immigrant-detention center inside
26 Federal Plaza, Sept. 18, 2025. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY
ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/26-federal-plaza-jail-conditions-ice-judge-kaplan-ruling/
Gwynne Hogan Updated Feb. 10, 2026, 8:34 a.m.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate, secret floor where they decided that ruling didn’t apply, attorneys for the Trump administration admitted in federal court Monday.
A judge’s order last summer mandated capacity restrictions and improved conditions at the federal building, which has been a focus of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts in New York City. The order applied to any “person detained by ICE at 26 Federal Plaza,.”
But ICE has interpreted the order as applying to just one floor of the building, while conceding it has been detaining some immigrants on a separate floor.
The revelations emerged during a hearing over an ongoing lawsuit about conditions inside ICE’s holding areas inside 26 Federal Plaza, where immigrants arrested around New York City are often taken before being shipped off to detention sites across the country.
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Immigrant rights group Make the Road New York sued on behalf of people held there, and Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered ICE to make immediate improvements by providing meals, sanitary products, clean bed mats and access to confidential calls with attorneys for prolonged stays................................
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