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Aaron Rupar
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Schiff on the SAVE Act: "Jonathan, what you've just asked is essentially, Republicans have created distrust in the elections by making claims of nonexistent fraud, and shouldn't we use the distrust they've created in order to enact a voter suppression law?"
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Savchenko Volodymyr
2 days ago
🇲🇩🇺🇦 Moldovan President Sandu said that she is against her nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, because there are more worthy candidates - Ukrainian prisoners of war. Sandu emphasized that it is Ukrainians who are truly sacrificing themselves for the sake of peace and security in Ukraine and the EU.
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Mathijs Bouman
2 days ago
Zou er niet gewoon zo'n ouderwetse, grootse, avondvullende tv-actie moeten komen voor 'Help Oekraïne deze winter door'? Goed idee, NPO?
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Winteractie Oekraïne - VVO Diel
https://vvodiel.nl/winteractie-oekraine/
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The corruption in the US is stupendous.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts
The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/amazon-emerges-a-big-winner-from-gop-tax-cuts-00768985
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FVD in zeker drie gemeenten geboycot vanwege rechtsextremistische kandidaten -
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FVD in zeker drie gemeenten geboycot vanwege rechtsextremistische kandidaten
Partijen in Nijmegen, Den Haag en Rotterdam zeggen na de verkiezingen niet met Forum voor Democratie samen te zullen werken.
https://nos.nl/l/2601107
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Wanda de Kanter
3 days ago
Johan Derksen krijgt weerwoord van longkanker patholoog
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Eva Cukier
3 days ago
Een Russische duik in de Epstein-files laat zien hoe nauw het westerse zakenleven en de politiek verknoopt bleven met Rusland na de annexaties van de Krim. En hoe het Kremlin daarvan profiteerde 🇷🇺
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Liep Epstein met zijn vele Russische connecties in de val van het Kremlin?
Epstein-affaire: Uit vrijgegeven e-mails van Jeffrey Epstein blijkt hoe nauw zijn banden met Russische politici en zakenmensen waren, tot op het hoogste niveau. In de documenten spelen een FSB-agent, ...
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/02/05/liep-epstein-met-zijn-vele-russische-connecties-in-de-val-van-het-kremlin-a4919533?gift_token=4919533~1770963417~o_mmBXLjS-ySLXkKBUfaPQ~R_MIqmYvfjtlR2jGyexbumQRYcaFkcmyg8zIhdawVHk
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Chris Aalberts
3 days ago
Reminder voor iedereen die denkt dat Lidewij de Vos 'anders' is dan de rest van
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chrisaalberts.nl/2026/02/02/r...
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Ruim acht jaar FvD-extremisme heeft Lidewij de Vos nooit weggejaagd - Chris Aalberts
Wie deze foto heeft gemaakt, is onbekend. Het is ook maar een aandenken, een groepsfoto zoals die heel vaak wordt gemaakt na bijeenkomsten, teamuitjes en etentjes. We schrijven 2017, toen FvD nog maar...
https://chrisaalberts.nl/2026/02/02/ruim-acht-jaar-fvd-extremisme-heeft-lidewij-de-vos-nooit-weggejaagd/
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Mike Masnick
3 days ago
For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...
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Sarah Weinman
3 days ago
The linked essay is very good; the photo is remarkable.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
4 days ago
Incredible work here by local Chicago journalists investigating two of the especially violent DHS agents terrorizing people in Chicago & MSP. Using body cam footage, after-action reports, social media videos & much more,
@unraveledpress.com
tells a jarring and must read story:
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The Tennessee Holler
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The Bulwark
4 days ago
"Her job is to focus on foreign threats, but she's not doing that job. She's focusing on the people Donald Trump thinks are his real enemies: Americans who didn't vote for him." @saletan.bsky.social on Tulsi Gabbard's Georgia domestic adventure:
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Anne Applebaum
4 days ago
“This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.”
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post
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Myrthe Hilkens
4 days ago
Wat een uitstekende journalistiek. Drie keer hetzelfde antwoord. CDA, D66 en VVD zeggen alledrie - op de vraag waarom inkomen wordt belast en niet vermogen - dat je nou eenmaal niet alles geregeld krijgt zoals je dat zou willen. Iemand liegt.
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Peter Baker
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10 years of this and most of the mainstream media have learned nothing about Trump.
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MOVIE TIP! Go see this wonderful documentary on how Putin's autocratic regime imposes it's undesired war on a small industrial town in rural Russia.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mwTE...
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin – Official U.S. Trailer
YouTube video by Kino Lorber
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mwTELjS59t0
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Kennedy Center, Washington Post. Everything Trump touches dies (in darkness).
@washingtonpost.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Timothy Snyder
6 days ago
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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Kyle Reed 🟥
5 days ago
Option 1: Mike Johnson doesn't understand how counting works. Option 2: Mike Johnson is a POS who's happy to use the "election was rigged" lie to justify his party's longtime policy goal of rigging elections.
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The Russian connection of child abuser and rapist Jeffrey Epstein.
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Who are the Russians named in the latest Epstein files? Vladimir Putin, for one. — Meduza
Last week’s release of roughly three million additional documents from the U.S. Justice Department’s years-long investigation into the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has shed new light on the late finan...
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/03/who-are-the-russians-named-in-the-latest-epstein-files-vladimir-putin-for-one
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Jerad Walker
5 days ago
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
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Hoe ontworstel je uit de wurggreep van de Amerikaanse techbro’s? ‘Kijk eens hoe Signal bevalt, probeer eens Openstreetmap’
Onze afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse techgiganten zorgt voor groeiend ongemak. Afscheid nemen van Google, Microsoft en Meta is gedoe, maar geeft ook voldoening. ‘Ik voel me een stuk autonomer.’
https://www.parool.nl/topverhalen/hoe-ontworstel-je-uit-de-wurggreep-van-de-amerikaanse-techbro-s-kijk-eens-hoe-signal-bevalt-probeer-eens-openstreetmap~be9c76bd/
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Democracy Now!
6 days ago
Journalist
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says the FBI raid on election offices in Georgia is part of a "concerted effort" by the Trump administration to interfere in this year's midterms.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/2/fulton_county_georgia_election
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Democratic forces in the USA, be warned!
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Ian Bassin
7 days ago
I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
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Tom Cartwright
6 days ago
Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.
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Timothy Snyder
7 days ago
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
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Koen Haegens
7 days ago
Pijnlijk voor
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Na 15 jaar afbraakbeleid onder VVD-kabinetten krijgen we… … een afbraakkabinet met VVD-beleid.
www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/d66...
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D66 mag dan de premier leveren, de VVD bepaalt het kabinetsbeleid
Een vergelijking van de drie verkiezingsprogramma’s met het coalitieakkoord kan maar tot één conclusie leiden: de VVD drukt een zeer zwaar stempel, terwijl D66 grote offers brengt.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/d66-mag-dan-de-premier-leveren-de-vvd-bepaalt-het-kabinetsbeleid~b188baf3/
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Mark Duursma
7 days ago
BBC-correspondent
@bbcstever.bsky.social
over werken in Rusland. Dat hij op staatstv een 'poepende eekhoorn' wordt genoemd vindt hij niet erg. Maar 'vijand van Rusland', dat doet pijn
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Steve Rosenberg on the tightrope of reporting from Russia on Ukraine war
The BBC's Russia editor reflects on the difficulties of working as a British journalist in Moscow.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/c20g25w8j0xo
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After this great review by Sean Burns (
@splicedpersonality.bsky.social
) we know enough. "At least Leni Riefenstahl could frame a shot."
northshoremovies.wpcomstaging.com/2026/01/31/r...
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Review – Melania
MELANIA. A documentary directed by Brett Ratner. Featuring Melania Trump, Donald Trump. Rated PG. 107 minutes. In theaters. Signifying nothing One of the most stultifying moviegoing experiences ima…
https://northshoremovies.wpcomstaging.com/2026/01/31/review-melania/
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Lies Pannevis
8 days ago
Sanne Terlouw:
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Alexander S. Vindman
8 days ago
Dem veteran wins a stunning special election Saturday in a solid red Texas Senate district Trump carried by 17 points in 2024. The upset, against a Trump endorsed candidate, injects panic into the GOP and White House heading into November’s midterms.
www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...
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Democrat wins special election for red Texas Senate seat
With ballots tallied from all but a handful of voting centers, Rehmet had 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent, Leigh Wambsganss, who had a massive spending advantage.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/texas-senate-district-9-runoff-rehmet-wambsganss-special-election/
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Piet Lekkerkerk
8 days ago
Zo kun je totale onderwerping aan VVD-beleid natuurlijk ook proberen te framen.
nos.nl/artikel/2600...
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CDA viert op congres kabinetsdeelname: 'We hebben onze partij opnieuw uitgevonden'
Toch heeft partijleider Bontenbal moeite om uit te leggen wat de kabinetsdeelname het CDA nu precies oplevert.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2600397-cda-viert-op-congres-kabinetsdeelname-we-hebben-onze-partij-opnieuw-uitgevonden
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Tim O’Brien
8 days ago
“Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.”
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ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital
Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-hospitals-32cd5ca61d495e155d43b7cfd5e563b9?utm_source=onesignal
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Mike Nellis
8 days ago
Seems like it should be a bigger story that a witness swore under penalty of perjury that Donald Trump threatened a young girl, saying she would “disappear like another 12-year-old.” The media is basically ignoring that and, if the witness is lying, why isn't the DOJ prosecuting them?
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Sjoerd de Jong
8 days ago
Overlooked No More: Jimmy Reed, the Bluesman Everyone Covered, Then Forgot
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
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Overlooked No More: Jimmy Reed, the Bluesman Everyone Covered, Then Forgot
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/obituaries/jimmy-reed-overlooked.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee?
actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...
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Stop de Amerikaanse overname DigiD!
Onze privé-gegevens zijn bij overname door een Amerikaans bedrijf niet veilig! Dit lijkt ons niet de veilige manier nu president Trump in Amerika aan het roer staat. Dit kan misgaan! Als de Nederland...
https://actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/stop-de-amerikaanse-overname-digid?source=bluesky&utm_source=bluesky&share=09900fc3-cd40-4d4f-a125-d7d015e20fa0
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wouke
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Positive and comprehensive review of Laura K. Field's: Furious Minds. The Making of the MAGA New Right in Dutch newspaper NRC. "A bright and accessible 'tour d'horizon' of the thinkers of the right-wing revolution in the USA".
@lkatfield.bsky.social
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Wie zijn de mega-breinen achter de MAGA-revolte?
Ideologie: Dom rechts? De Trumpiaanse omwenteling die zich momenteel in de VS ontvouwt, is aangejaagd door erudiete schrijftafelrevolutionairen. Een politieke journalist brengt het netwerk van de eggh...
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/01/29/wie-zijn-de-mega-breinen-achter-de-maga-revolte-a4918286?gift_token=4918286~1770357582~Yyz4IJ0IEeKfgABQVoV_mg~fWDXlfnRbd496eavRF07XOYtlNs6cK4nz99PA8V7KVo
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Iets meer openbaarheid over toetsing van overname DigiD-softwarebeheer: ‘Minister kan de overname verbieden’
Demissionair minister van Economische zaken Vincent Karremans weigerde eerst, maar nu krijgt een groep tech-experts toch inzage in de geplande overname van DigiD-softwarebeheerder Solvinity door de Am...
https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/iets-meer-openbaarheid-over-toetsing-van-overname-digid-softwarebeheer-minister-kan-de-overname-verbieden~b7c89be5/
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Gift article.
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Matt Novak
11 days ago
We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.
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Timothy Snyder
10 days ago
"In order to build tyranny, you have to open zones where the law doesn't apply... one zone like that is the border. The logic of what they've been doing with ICE is to take the border everywhere."
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Snyder: Trump administration using words like ‘terrorist’ and ‘extremist’ is what tyrants do
YouTube video by MS NOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNBKQDNT0I
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