Kitty Kat

do you happen to have a source on it because google isnt showing that for me

poland's not in quite the same category as russia and belarus when more than half of poles polled are in favour of same-sex marriage. within the eu, better examples may be lithuania or bulgaria - but even then neither particularly hold the religious theocracy context in their homophobia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/07/17/trump-administration-allows-killing-species-threatened-with-extinction/ The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could soon declare that pygmy rabbits or Florida manatees are threatened with extinction. But under a policy change issued by the Trump administration on Friday, Americans could still kill, trap and harass them. That action — paired with another issued Friday that requires regulators to consider the economic toll of habitat protection — is part of President Donald Trump's broad attempt to reinterpret the 1973 Endangered Species Act in ways that weaken protections for imperiled plants and animals. In March, the administration convened the so-called God squad in a 15-minute session that decided oil and gas companies no longer need to abide by Endangered Species Act protections in the Gulf of Mexico. Last week, the administration repealed a decades-old rule so that habitat destruction will no longer be considered a "harm" to endangered species. On Friday, the Fish and Wildlife Service rescinded what is known as the "blanket rule," which was first instituted in 1975 and gave threatened species the same protections as endangered ones — broadly prohibiting illegally killing, trapping or harassing them. The rollback would only apply to newly declared threatened species, such as the Florida manatee, whose case is still pending. Species that previously received the label would continue to have greater protections under the Endangered Species Act. Rescinding past protections or issuing new ones can now only be done for threatened species one at a time.

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas d...Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licenses.Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The Labour Party's 2024 manifesto - which the new leader said he would follow - had pledged to not issue new licences but to honour existing ones. At the heart of the debate are two oil and gas fields in Scotland - Rosebank and Jackdaw - which regulators approved in 2022 and 2023 under the then Conservative government, but were overturned in 2025 after a legal challenge. The announcement will form part of a flurry of measures from Burnham, including plans to take water and energy companies under public control and a new council house-building programme.

ABC NewsWhite House teleprompter operator made more than $100K be...President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Trump's speeches, sources say.White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: SourcesWhen President Donald Trump approached the podium to deliver his State of the Union address in February, one of the few people who knew what he was about to say was allegedly setting himself up to profit from the president's words. Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on that speech and more than a dozen others on the prediction market Kalshi, federal investigators with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to the president who has been operating Trump's teleprompter since 2016, is in talks with federal regulators to settle allegations he used his inside knowledge of the president's speeches to win more than $100,000, the sources said.

Agenzia ANSATajani stands his ground after Nicaragua says it's breaki...Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani stood his ground on Thursday after Nicaragua said it intended to break off diplomatic ties with Italy following his criticism of the central American