[110] 'Startbanen' voor statushouders

Gillian Tett, "We live in a hate filled, polarized age whipped up by social media" "Tragically, at the same time the elephant in the room is that Netanyahu has tried to present any criticism of his policies as anti Semitism and that has become collated"

Er dreigen drinkwatertekorten. Drinkwater bestaat niet, maar wordt gemaakt, uit bijvoorbeeld zoet water uit rivieren. Tata gebruikt gelukkig bijna geen drinkwater.... Volgens Tata. Dus niets aan de hand. Consumenten moeten wel veel minder water gebruiken vindt de overheid.

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26 Church of England bishops automatically sit in the House of Lords, where they vote on laws and intervene in debates It’s anti-democratic - only the UK and Iran give clerics of the established religion votes in their legislatures. They should go. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Goh. Acties. Consequenties. Je weet wel.

The ice loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet is hard to grasp! This is what the 30 million tonnes of ice that Greenland loses every hour looks like, if it were positioned next to the Eiffel tower before melting:

Trump is behalve rancuneus, ook een enorme, strategische onbenul.

Op deze dag in 1945 pleegde Adolf #Hitler zelfmoord in Berlijn. In de maanden ervoor commandeerde hij, losgezongen van de werkelijkheid, niet bestaande legers. Hij bracht zijn laatste dagen door in de #Führerbunker, terwijl het land en de stad om hem heen in een ruïne veranderde. #Parallellen

Statement from Barack Obama about today's SCOTUS decision gutting the Voting Rights Act.

Reuters: White House quiet as China ramps up trade leverage before Trump-Xi summit – ‘Two U.S. ​industry sources told Reuters the Trump administration had been briefed by industry groups on the rules and the new leverage they gave China. The ​U.S. officials had been ⁠in “listening mode,”’

Yep, except the second time around he tapped into the vein of stupid to stay out of prison.

Turkey: Suspended DEM party mayor of Hakkâri is sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for allegedly leading a terrorist organisation

“A few days of joviality will hardly guarantee Trump’s erratic affections for long, as Starmer found out the hard way. What will last far longer is the sense of complicity: the indefensible has yet again been legitimised.” My col. on the royal White House trip. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Day 1528 of my 3 day war. OTD in 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself. A madman with unjustified historical grievances & territorial demands, he started a genocidal war & lost against a determined enemy. He spent his last days isolated in a bunker, detached from reality...

We're told people vote for right-wing parties because they want change & reforms. If you listen closely, that's not what they're saying. When they say 'change', they mean rolling back progress. They want to un-do change. Far-right voters don't want to prepare for the future. They want the past.

❗️US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon has released the $400 million in Ukraine funding previously criticized as being held back, telling lawmakers the money was allocated for European capacity building and released as of Tuesday. #US

Frontline service for Ukrainian soldiers will be capped at two months, army chief says.

You mean to say that diplomatic pressure on this Israeli government can actually yield results?

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Groenwerkers van de gemeente zijn deze ochtend druk bezig met het monument in #Leidschendam na de brand gisteravond. Er wordt echter gevreesd dat de rode beuk het niet zal overleven.

BREAKING NEWS: Israeli strikes on targets in southern Lebanon.

Plaza de Cataluña en París, de jungla de asfalto a bosque urbano. 📷 @modacitylife.com

Ukraine defends itself. It’s quite rich for anyone to be asking them to spare russia for the sake of oil prices.

Imagine going to space on a publicly funded project of discovery, seeing how small and fragile our earth is, and then returning to live in a country dead set on destruction and division. Their blood is probably boiling in a way we can’t fully comprehend.

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⚡️Russian overnight attack on Odesa damages kindergarten and residential buildings, injures 16. Russia launched a mass drone attack on Odesa overnight on April 30, striking residential neighborhoods across multiple districts of the city and injuring at least 16 people, local officials reported.

Tesla Cybertruck began to fail before the buyer even drove it off the lot, lawsuit says

The last thing someone who dances like this needs is a ballroom.

Toch benieuwd waar die twintig miljard per jaar extra voor nodig is bij defensie. Wat lesjes brandveiligheid en twee blushelicopters?

We need to talk much more about military mobility in Europe (and especially Germany). If 800.000 soldiers would need to pass through Germany to get to the Eastern flank, this has significant implications - and also makes GER a more relevant target for hybrid or not-so-hybrid attacks.

A depressing correction for Americans (and Brexiteers!): You may think we Europeans are cappuccino drinking, piano playing, cheese eating surrender monkeys but in fact, we do destruction as well as anyone.

Der Kongressabgeordnete von Nebraska, Don Bacon, einer der wenigen öffentlichen republikanischen Kritiker auch von Trumps Ukraine-Politik.

The most significant part of this story is buried toward the end. “We have restored from a three-month-old backup.” A three-month backup. Three months. I back up files every day, and the only person who‘d lose out if I didn’t is me. You run a *business*. Three months. Jesus.

🚨🚨In a follow up to the @euractiv.com story by @elisabraun.bsky.social I shared earlier PM Magyar met @ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu yesterday in Brussels yesterday in an effort to unlock frozen EU cash — with a political deal now targeted for late May. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/pete...

Echt schandalig dit. Ik vermoed inmiddels dat biologische voeding vooral misbruikt wordt voor extra winst van de supermarkten. Dit kan toch onmogelijk verklaard worden door de prijsverschillen bij de boeren of extra kosten die de supermarkten maken. nos.nl/artikel/2612...

Als het een beetje meezit is hier 48 uur aandacht voor in de media en het publieke debat en dan gaan we het daarna weer hebben over de benzineprijs en azc's.

While Hegseth was giving testimony about what a great success the Iran War was, Brent crude rose above $119.50 a barrel, the highest level since June 2022.

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

Nu in het AD! De succesformule van het fascisme! Wordt ook een succesvol fascist, het AD legt uit!

"U.S. has fired more than 1,000 long-range Tomahawk missiles since the war with Iran began, as well as 1,500 to 2,000 critical air-defense missiles, including Thaad, Patriot and Standard Missile interceptors. Fully replacing stockpiles of weapons fired in the Middle East could take up to six years."

Two wrongs don't make a right. Be disciplined like the Ukrainians who are defeating the Russians without killing Russian civilians even though the Russians have been murdering, torturing and raping their civilians every single day for years, including lots and lots of kids.

King Charles presented Trump with a Golden Bell, an end-owment whose pointed resonance will not be lost on those possessing even a modicum of cultural refinement.

So Sen. Lindsey Graham did tell Karim Khan that the ICC is "is for Africa and thugs like Putin, it is not for democracies like Israel and the United States." Watch the ICC chief prosecutor's full and exclusive interview with me: zeteo.com/p/karim-khan...

Apparently can't have an unscripted conversation/speech that's meaningful/coherent. No wonder "the astronauts remained expressionless" as he rambled on. And *this* (& his endless corruption) is what GOP Supremes & politicians are working to keep us saddled with for at least another 2.5 yrs.

🇺🇦🌍 Ukraine will supply food to the "hot spots" of Africa Ukraine opened the first agricultural hub in Ghana and plans to supply products to Sudan, Chad and eastern DR Congo. The kits will include Ukrainian flour, macaroni, sunflower oil, canned goods, sugar and other products.

🔥 Panic is hitting the streets of Russia. Citizens are raiding banks to rescue their savings before the state freezes every account. 👉 The banking system is finally shattering under the weight of this war. youtu.be/wNRmAYtPmpA

“.. After spending recent weeks on life support, LIV Golf has lost the funding of its Saudi backers.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/sports/golf/...