According to the WSJ editorial board, 'something something Kamala Harris word salad' was a great argument in favor of voting for Trump.

Het is volkomen idioot dat de Nederlandse overheid actief is op een platform dat haatberichten eerder stimuleert dan verwijdert.

Birkin bag? Check. Solid gold Rolex? Check. Top of the line Gulfstream with bidets and love nest? Check. Welcome to the world of Kristi Noem. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Absolute banger of a long read from @bondhack.ft.com, ostensibly about Epstein, but ends up solving the qn on who triggered the GFC. (No spoilers, but you have heard of the actual person.) Where else but @alphaville.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/6901...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Fantastic use of AI. Untangling the ideas of Donald Trump’s Fed nominee economist.com/finance-and-...

Great reporting and more evidence that the incentive structure of social media rewards the worst behaviors and has massively warped how people see and experience the world — and for the worse.

After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

The most important infrastructure project in the US, on which billions have already been spent and thousands of jobs depend, will not continue unless... www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...

It's interesting to see European right-wing politicians attempt to strike a balance between praising Trump for his $$ while trying to woo an electorate that doesn't like him. www.ft.com/content/f869...

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Kalshi users lose even more money than gamblers on other platforms, and the company tried to exert pressure on an analyst that pointed this out. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Suggesting the bullet traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep"

‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

“Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.” “For much of the 2010s…it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States.”

Full Bad Bunny speech

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Kapitalisme, hoe kan dat?"

A girl needs a menstrual pad for the first time. It takes a network of people, afraid to go outside. www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...

"Through her work computer, the FBI obtained extensive access to the Washington Post’s operations." All newsrooms need to rethink their post-WFH-era internal communications policy: gizmodo.com/the-fbi-has-...

Terwijl X de afgelopen weken een platform is geworden voor AI-seksplaatjes, gebruiken het Koninklijk Huis, de Europese Commissie en Nederlandse politici het nog volop. Maar voor wie doen zij dat? fd.nl/opinie/15618...

"These days, one doesn’t experience the news on these platforms before seeing the memes and reactions—the reaction and the news are, in essence, one thing now." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Een netwerk van AI-sites verspreidt in moordend tempo nep- en pulpnieuws. Artikelen van andere media worden er door AI herschreven en aangedikt met fictieve citaten. Op Facebook gaan de pagina's nog veel verder, met clickbait over BN'ers die ernstig ziek of overleden zouden zijn. Mijn stuk in NRC:

the uniting theory that everyone just Needs More Homies really explains everything

Een sterk pleidooi van Bart Jansen en Jeroen Veldman: de in Europa zo modieuze 'strategische autonomie' kan ook tot oligopolie en autocratie leiden. fd.nl/opinie/15781...

Does Trump think Zohran Mamdani is Saudi?

Nou is groei sowieso een compleet irrelevant gegeven als je een coalitie wil smeden, maar zowel CDA als D66 hebben er meer zetels bijgekregen dan dat JA er überhaupt heeft?

"It was also the first time since May that New Yorkers inked more than 40 contracts for apartments with price tags above $4 million, more than half of which were signed between Nov. 5, the morning after election day, and Nov. 9." www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

A US war cemetery in the Netherlands removed information on black soldiers that helped liberate Europe during the Second World War. The local government is asking the US ambassador to put the panels back. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/call...

Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Can't recommend this enough: docs.google.com/presentation...

A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.

Over Zohran Mamdani, de socialist die linkse Amerikanen energie geeft - én hoogstwaarschijnlijk de volgende New Yorkse burgemeester is. fd.nl/politiek/157...

".. which has been edited for length and clarity"

Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.

Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' on.ft.com/4nKf3MR

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Ook een goede vraag om aan de Nederlandse overheidsorganen te stellen.

A 5th grader explains that his schoolmate shielded him. That friend is now in the hospital after taking a bullet while shielding his classmate. They are only 10 years old.

Dit is een zin die helemaal niks betekent

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

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