🚨🚨🚨In a normal world, this one AP article alone would be grounds for impeachment.🚨🚨🚨

defections to whom?

Honestly don't even have the words to express how grim this is, but also absolutely the right call by the Danes

Another women's institute branch has closed, citing the Trans+ ban as the reason. Cheshire Federation of WIs voted with a 75% majority to close in protest of the ban.

BREAKING: Two former FBI agents who had been assigned to Arctic Frost — investigating the efforts to overturn the 2020 election — have sued Kash Patel over their fall 2025 firings, alleging the firings violated their First and Fifth Amendment rights. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Weggezapt. Ik kan er gewoon niet meer tegen hoe bij Eva avond aan avond VVD + nu ook PVV-aftreksel Richard de Mos opgehemeld worden. En Lidewij de (Sluwe) Vos is “heel erg populair”; zonder een woord over het oprukkend fascisme. Zelfs Youp gaf geen tegengas. Hoe kan dit: zoveel rechtse propaganda?!

Wat. Een. Land. “De senatoren, inclusief het CDA, gaan – waarschijnlijk (14 april is de plenaire stemming) – willens en wetens ondeugdelijke wetgeving aannemen uit angst voor de woede van extreem-rechts. Ze hadden ook op kunnen komen voor goed bestuur.”

Thomas Erdbrink bij EVA: "In Rusland zijn 27 mln doden gevallen in WOII." 👉https://tinyurl.com/47d87swb 🚨 Nee, dat gaat over de Sovjet-Unie in totaal! In de Russ. SFSR waren het er 14 mln (13%), in de Oekr. SSR 6,9 mln (16%) en in de Wit-Russ. SSR 2,3 mln (25%). 👉 tinyurl.com/58krt9xd

When Starmer, Merz, Meloni and other European leaders claim the US is not using the bases in their countries to stage the Iran War, they are quite evidently not telling the truth. As this investigation by Declassified UK shows.

Meanwhile in Zaporizhia.

ICE Detained a 7-Year-Old Canadian Girl With Autism at the Infamous “Cage” Facility in McAllen, Texas. No Criminal Record. Valid Documents. No Reason. Her Stepfather Is American. Her Mom’s Papers Are Good. #ICE Doesn’t Care. open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Worth a read...

Since the liberation of Cuba in 1959 from US imperialism. The USA has bombed 25 countries, invaded 13 countries and killed at least 20m people. The 'evil' Cuba has bombed no one, invaded no one, and killed no one. ¡Viva Cuba!

Software! Gemaakt in Nederland! Op eigen computers!

299 Zetels voor de Fascisten versus Democratie in onze lokale democratie. Fuck dat!

Rep. Ralph Norman on ICE agents: "They were doxxed. Their homes were raided by the agitators." (This never happened -- Norman is just straight up making stuff up.)

Kemi Badenoch backed Trump's illegal war from day one. The Middle East is in chaos and your bills are going up.

“Lashing out” after being bombed out of nowhere

En de bestuurbaarheid gaat ook door de shredder. Dat heeft het vorige kabinet al laten zien. Samenwerken lukt niet en het gaat vooral om het tegenhouden van beleid ipv besturen.

Nee, we gaan niet zwijgen wanneer gevestigde partijen onder het mom van ‘constructieve samenwerking’ in zee gaan met ranzige, haatdragende clubs om, ik noem maar wat, migranten op te sluiten in detentiekampen ver weg, waar mensenrechten worden geschonden, of om ongedocumenteerden te criminaliseren.

De optimisme-dwang van D66 (“stop met het gezeur en ga samenwerken”) is niet alleen problematisch, maar ook ahistorisch. Juist in tijden van scherpe ideologische tegenstellingen, oprukkend fascisme en druk op de rechtsstaat is dit een poging om tegenmacht te disciplineren en kritiek te smoren.

Never go full north Korea

The DOW is so low, Bondi should be able to investigate Epstein’s friends AND Kristi Noem.

Remember when Markwayne Mullin lied about being in the military? Now he's pretending to be some secret agent. 😂😂 Here he is on Capitol Hill starring in... DR. NO...WAY DID THAT HAPPEN

Cat in the Hat Please can someone start joining the dots between the Meningitis outbreak & the findings of the Covid inquiry M3 report published earlier today: “In future, guidance should assume that ALL plausible routes of transmission are possible until sufficient evidence proves otherwise.”

an "openclaw-like" AI agent like they didn't learn from the last time they had this precise fuckup and I wish all of Meta a very lovely VIBE DISASTER

I heard about this the other day, but what I can't believe (or can, because we live in hell) is that the cops are STILL saying she's a suspect, that they didn't fuck up. She's never even been to North Dakota, there's evidence to her alibi when the fraud happened. To still keep her a suspect is dumb.

Ook onbegrijpelijk dat er hele lokale partijen opgericht zijn om te pleiten tegen een azc. Daar gaan gemeentebesturen helemaal niet over wat een belachelijke ontwikkeling weer, bijna lachwekkend: partijen oprichten over thema’s waar gemeentes niet over gaan.

Kenneth Windley, who spent 19 years in prison for a $550 robbery he didn't commit, was exonerated and freed

Two technologies that competed for the future of heating and transport. The race is over. In 2025, 19m heat pumps were sold globally. Hydrogen-ready boilers: 237 units. The picture in transport is identical. 21m electric vehicles were sold last year. Hydrogen fuel cell cars: roughly 10,000 units.

Purer Horror.

1. Britain has very much *NOT* always tolerated minority faiths. Just ask Jews and Catholics. 2. The idea that religious expression should be "in conformity with our values, our norms, our beliefs" should worry every faith group, starting with Christians.

BREAKING: California lawmakers say they'll change the name of César Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day following sexual abuse allegations.

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Omstreden #FvD’ers in de gemeenteraad. Deels al oude bekenden. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

I wonder if this question was ever settled

Dit dus 👇🏻

Schepen uit Russische schaduwvloot lijken met olie en diesel op weg naar Cuba

As for the silver lining, this will end fossil fuel hegemony. Renewables will come out on top and electrification will spike rapidly but will be difficult under stagflation, which will depress investment and capex into converting over but it will happen. It'll be at least a decade of pain.

We may be looking at a generation long period of global instability where global living standards substantially decline. We may look back to the pre-covid era as the halcyon days of a bygone era. The outlook is becoming increasingly bleak.

The US dollar will strengthen and will fuel and food costs rising so quickly, developing countries may run out of US currency to purchase fuel and basic food commodities. We could see uprisings across the global south, refugee crises, and a further surge in radical populism in Europe.

A large part of what drove the Arab spring were high commodities prices in the wake of the financial crisis that led to food shortages compounded by climate change in many areas. The food price instability coupled with fuel costs will lead to an outbreak of revolutions and civil conflict.

Even if the war stopped today, supplies will be disrupted for months. If it continues on a few more weeks, supplies will be disrupted for years. If it lasts for months, we can mark this as the end of fossil fuel hegemony in energy markets. In the meantime, millions will starve.

In 2022, I did a story about life in "the metaverse," spending 24 hours as an avatar with no legs meeting the people using Facebook's VR-based social network, Horizon Worlds. www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/t... Met interesting people who seemed enthused about it but this was my conclusion:

UN preparing for a nuclear catastrophe if the Middle East war escalates further. WHO director Hanan Balkhy said: 'The worst-case scenario is a #nuclear incident, and that's something that worries us the most.' www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Die Bundestagsverwaltung ermittelt dank unserer Recherchen gegen die Stiftung Familienunternehmen. Der Milliardärslobby droht ein Bußgeld, weil sie Themen mit Katherina Reiche besprach, die sie nicht im Lobbyregister angemeldet hatte. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...

eens en waarbij ik bij dit deel zou willen opmerken: FvD meent het. En gaan net zo ver tot ze kunnen. Met provoceren, aantal zetels in een raad, etc. etc. Ze zien het als spel. Een uiterst serieus spel, helaas.

Als 'Fellow' bij Mediahuis blogt oud-hoofdredacteur van o.a. NRC Peter Vandermeersch tegenwoordig over de journalistiek. Daarbij publiceerde hij tientallen fictieve citaten van echte deskundigen. Het onbedoelde gevolg van AI-gebruik, bevestigt Vandermeersch. Mediahuis heeft hem tijdelijk geschorst.

Ligt nogal voor de hand maar de wet wordt gemaakt door de wetgever en een opiniepeiling verandert daar niets aan.