Israel approves 19 new West Bank settlements in major annexation push https://aje.io/7xi4oe

Wat een knal in Antwerpen een halve minuut geleden.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Current plans to tackle global warming will only save 3 percent of Europe's Alpine glaciers from disappearing this century, with most melting away within the next two decades, a new study has found. 

Climate change is making us dumber, starting young: Children tend to know fewer words, letters & numbers if they experience an average temperature of 32°C or more www.newscientist.com/article/2507...

As of today, there are more electric cars than diesel cars in Norway.

The glue of the emerging Russo-American alliance is corruption. The consequences will be more imperialist aggression and more war crimes.

Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

Ik hoor op vrt radionws dat Riziv enkel naar parket kan stappen als zorgverleningsfraude niet wordt terugbetaald. Dat kan toch niet kloppen ? Fraude is toch altijd misdrijf ook als het terugbetaald wordt ? En ambtenaren hebben altijd meldingsplicht bij misdrijven ?

Breaking News: House Democrats released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein alleged that Donald Trump knew of the convicted sex offender's conduct and “spent hours at my house” with a victim.

Laat u gerust eens gaan, maar klaag dan nadien de burger niet aan die bezorgd is over de capaciteit v/d burgemeester om bij lokale rampen snel en adequaat te reageren? Zoiets vastleggen lijkt me niet onverenigbaar met de vrijheid van meningsuiting? @jogchumv.bsky.social www.hbvl.be/regio/limbur...

1/ In de VS is het zo normaal, het 'unsealen' van gerechtelijke documenten met een publiek belang. Vandaag was dat het geval in de zaak-Epstein, met kennelijk linken naar "two US presidents", maar denk ook aan bodycambeelden met daarop soms overmatig politiegeweld. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

Dit kan niet fout gaan, toch?

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

Ik twijfel wat of ik een “verbod om informatie te publiceren die niet officieel door het ministerie is vrijgegeven” zou omschrijven als “aanscherpen van regels” dan wel een “grove aanval op de vrije pers/staatscensuur”

#nmbs Soms (b)lijkt het voordeliger een gedeeltelijke spitsrit op te knippen. Mag dat? @sncb-nmbs.bsky.social @treintrambus.bsky.social @vrtnws.be Antwerpen-Gent aan 100 % spitstarief: 11,80 Opgeknipt (spitsticket tot Sint-Niklaas, vanaf daar dalticket) : 5,5 + 4,6 euro = 10,10 euro.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time. VANCE: No, George, I sai-- STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado. The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.

It may have escaped your attention, but the Belgian energy system has quietly passed an important test. During the weekend of 4-5 October 2025, our consumption was almost entirely covered by renewable energy. And yet the system ticked like a Swiss watch. /

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Nobody cares and nothing will happen but this is classically, paradigmatically fascist language. Comparing opponents to vermin and pests is straight out of the textbook.

The regime’s playbook: Launch militarized raids in America’s cities to provoke a reaction. Then claim the reaction is insurrection to justify even more authoritarian action. The regime is using state-sanctioned violence to create a crisis. There is no justification for violence by anyone.

Hoge Raad draait veroordelingen van klimaatactivisten terug

Planetary Boundaries are being breached, as humanity lives beyond Earth's ability to cope We're already exceeding Climate Change, Land System Change, Freshwater Use, Novel Entities (chemicals, plastics) & others To that list we can now add Ocean Acidification www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Newspaper @nrc.nl gets it right: "The Hague riots are not hooliganism but politically motivated violence. Intelligence agency AIVD has been warming for this."

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

The Trump administration ordered several National Park Service sites to take down materials related to slavery and Native Americans, including an 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man with scars on his back, one of the most powerful images of the Civil War era. nyti.ms/4nyyyaQ

"Not all homeless people deserve involuntary lethal injection" is one hell of an apology.

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

Reports of an attack, allegedly by a drone, on a vessel in the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), while anchored outside the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. The below video shows the moment of the incident. Keep it in mind when you read the next post. www.instagram.com/reel/DOXaR_M...

Audit Vlaanderen bevestigt: het inschrijvingsbeleid van Aalterse burgemeester Pieter De Crem (CD&V) was onwettelijk en discriminerend.

Opvallend: ex-premier Yves Leterme tussen genodigden bij militaire parade met Xi, Poetin en Kim Jong-un

This morning, we published a story saying that European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen auto-deletes all her text messages on the Signal app, including those with an EU leader, president Emmanuel Macron of France. Here is why this is a massive problem for public accountability. 🧵

Anderhalf jaar geleden heeft FTM toegang gevraagd tot de sms'jes tussen Ursula von der Leyen, voorzitter van de Europese Commissie, en de Franse president Macron. Eindelijk is het antwoord binnen. Ze blijkt haar berichten te hebben ingesteld op 'automatisch verwijderen'.

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

ICE kan in de VS nu al de talloze ANPR-camera’s volgen, en daar zouden de biljoenen (sic) beelden kunnen bijkomen als rondrijdende dashcams van burgers worden ingeschakeld.

Talloze boetes die ongemerkt in je digitale brievenbus vallen, en plots moet je 4500 euro betalen of slepen ze je auto weg. In Nederland wil de Ombudsman de eerste boete op papier. Interessant om ook hier toe te passen? (Al word je hier soms wel platgespamd via 3 e-boxen voor pakweg een herinnering)

Trump signs an executive order: "If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail."

"We deserve answers from our leaders about why placating Trump is worth the deaths of more pedestrians on European roads, worth increasing global warming, worth stripping away protections for Europeans using the internet. What is the end game here?"

Als het smeult in Parijs … dan hoop ik dat ook Vlaamse steden een serieuze tand bij steken om zomers met meermaals +40C aan te pakken. Antwerpen kan beginnen met de historische fout van het Operaplein recht te zetten.

From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning

An unfathomable humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher. RSF forces are refusing to allow in food The BBC has some of the only video www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Age verification om een encyclopedie te raadplegen. Er zijn politici (Gennez, Verlinden) die dat ook in ons land willen. Wikipedia loses challenge to UK's new internet "safety" rules - Boing Boing

In a just world, there would be an investigation and accountability for Israel committing this horrific crime. But we all know that's not going to happen, unless and until governments stop using platitudes and actually put an end to this travesty at once.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19