Hier een kennismaking met de VSP, een partij in studentenraden van vier universiteiten en een kweekvijver van Forum. advalvas.vu.nl/campus-cultu...

BERNANKE/YELLEN/GREENSPAN JOINT STATEMENT: “.. this is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets ..” (via @apnews.com)

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

Uiteindelijk kun je me altijd wat lekker schieten... youtu.be/K__jHroSfpk?...

Een conventie van sneeuwpoppen in het Wilhelminapark!

Idee: misschien moeten linkse en middenpartijen eens een beweging beginnen, niet alleen #FvD. chrisaalberts.nl/2025/12/28/d...

Fokke & Sukke zien nu nog meer tegen de kerst op.

#BloemrijkeDijken | Ecoloog Richa Nanne laat zien hoe @waterschaphhnk.bsky.social werkt aan meer leven en #Biodiversiteit op de dijken, door minder vaak en zorgvuldiger te maaien youtube.com/shorts/1LHds... 💧Wie minder maait, zal oogsten!

Economiestudenten leren niet goed hoe markten in de praktijk werken, vindt oud-directeur van het Centraal Planbureau Coen Teulings. Met Martijn Huysmans schreef hij een lesboek dat de rol van instituties centraal stelt.

It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites. About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4

Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Het was een keigave dag gister! youtu.be/vhw8KghMMyw?...

De vraag bij #JA21 is: is dit een soort PVV (een no-go voor velen) of een soort Leefbaar Rotterdam (een potentiële coalitiepartner)? chrisaalberts.nl/2025/07/06/d...

listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

Of all the stupid things they’ve said, this is the stupidest. And the most dangerous.

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

As someone who works with satellite and 3D imagery, this project reinforced how crucial it is to question what’s rendered as truth. Keep an eye out for some follow ups in different mediums looking ahead Full story w/ @972mag.com via Oren Ziv: www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

Ajax voetbalt lekker mee. De Fransen zijn alleen effectiever.

Dat AVROTROS heeft besloten niet aan het Eurovisie Songfestival deel te nemen als Israël meedoet, is een begrijpelijk en moedig besluit. Het getuigt van verantwoordelijkheidsbesef en leiderschap van de omroep om zich bij andere landen aan te sluiten. www.avrotros.nl/article/avro...

Over gracieus oud worden gesproken… www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

NBER: The total effective tax rate of the richest 400 Americans averaged 24% in 2018–2020, compared with 30% for the full population and 45% for top labor income earners. www.nber.org/papers/w34170

Art review! This time we''ll be looking at 'De boerendans' (the farmer's or peasant's dance) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from c. 1567. I love Pieter's art & of course I love art that depicts an era generally still considered to be bland, dark & horrid, as also being a bit fun.

A very good thread, quite related to Ziblatt’s foreign affairs piece. Autocrats succeed when their opponents grant them legitimacy. Those who deny them legitimacy often have to avoid doing what’s in their apparent short term interest. / (www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...)

“The reality of Trump’s threat to the very system that investors depend on has failed to become the conventional wisdom among traders…” There’s a cognitive dissonance here. Accurately pricing in regime change is so costly as to be psychologically unfathomable. So we just…don’t.

My new Politico Op Ed is live! Will send it out to my email list after I pick up lunch. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This is the make or break moment for Powell's @federalreserve.gov. If they do not defend Lisa Cook and treat her as still on the Board, the fight over the Fed as an independent agency will officially be over. see my Friday piece. www.crisesnotes.com/trump-vs-pow...

Open brieven van topeconomen leiden nooit tot het gewenste effect, maar de inhoud is steevast het lezen waard.

Een #D66-bestuurder in den lande stuurde me de motivatie van de nummer 2 van de kandidatenlijst. Tja.

Een juichtoon, een juichkreet, een juichgolf gaat door voetbalminnend Nederland! #vitesse

I made you guys a fossil video taking all the newest scoop from Scott Sayare’s recent guardian article into account youtu.be/LEAHCEVZ5xk?...

This is one of those moments when the hollowness of our democratic systems becomes visible to the public. Facts are verified, but deliberation is pure performance, and accountability is nowhere. The system absorbs truth without ever acting on it.

An instant post about that Japan deal. It's basically a joke paulkrugman.substack.com/p/about-that...

With everything else going on, I'm not sure people realize that Trump's latest tariff on Brazil took things to a new (lower) level paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-dic...

Wat een vreselijke ondernemer is Musk…

Krugman is on the money again, Musk money paulkrugman.substack.com/p/muskenfreu...

For the sake of comparison, 9% of Americans approve of the Black Plague.

Kruipklokje (Campanula poscharskyana) in Oudwijk, Utrecht

🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

Hmm, waren er maar dieren in NL die graag een zwijntje lusten. We zouden zo’n dier met open armen ontvangen om de natuurlijke balans een beetje terug te krijgen. Hoeven de jagers ook niet al het werk te doen.

We all know AI models can now create realistic images and videos but how do they fare at identifying where a real image was taken? Bellingcat researchers have put Large Language Models to the test: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

Truly bizarre exchange just now in which Kemi Badenoch demands that the BBC tells her whether or not Liz Truss is still in the Conservatives, despite her being in charge of the actual party herself

In case you missed it in The Other Place, Liz Truss has gone properly fucking nuts.

Timmermans: roep ambassadeur Israël op het matje vanwege grove taal aan het adres van Halsema www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...