Interesting and entertaining interview with the authors of a new book on Trump’s second administration in terms of “weaponized access” for journalists. youtu.be/xdmdGTrJ2nI?...

Must-read story by @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @propublica.org. Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study @themadstone.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social @katieworth.bsky.social

Interessant: over de innerlijke overcorrectie van journalisten en gebruik van X voor de onder(buik)stroom ipv commentaar op straat. Dat laatste lijkt me ook goedkoper bij onder druk staande journalistiek. De volgende stap: ophefmedia als verdienmodel (talkshows) die tegen de publieke opinie ingaan

‘Samuel Alito, found a way to rule that none of those statements were “overtly racial” and that the decision to end TPS “could” be motivated by “race-neutral justifications.” Intriguingly, their ruling didn’t bother to print any of Trump’s supposedly non-overtly-racial statements’. See article.

After noting that the majority seemed oddly reluctant to include any examples of Trump's "repellent and racially inflected" statements about Haiti in its TPS ruling that soft-pedaled them, Justice Kagan provided some receipts:

Just here to say ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good as she was driving away. Sue me.

2024.

Ik vraag me dan weer af hoe de lijntjes lopen met zo'n Hacsi Horváth (co-auteur) die ook leuk bij panels van de Heritage Foundation gaat zitten www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

‘Ook als je in het uiterste westen bent, aan de zee, en je kijkt naar het oosten, zie je de kranen en wachttorens. Je voelt dat je 24 uur per dag wordt bekeken’, zegt Marwan. ‘Scherpschutters gebruiken ze om mensen in de gaten te houden en te schieten en doden wanneer ze maar willen’.

There could be legal challenges by landlords, but: “Data released by the board contained statistics each side can use in their favor. Landlord costs, for example, rose 5.3 percent over the last year. But another board report found landlord incomes up 6.2 percent”

In 1976, when some of the previous European records were set, the 2026 temperatures would have been virtually impossible to occur in June... In 2003, the first major heatwave of this century, daytime heat like this would still have been very rare, about 10 times less likely than today”

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

Watergate remained a huge scandal for the Presidency until the Trump administrations. At least, Nixon resigned in the end. Historical revisionism that the impeachment was all the fault of the Deep State rather than Nixon (?) is again a way to deflect about all the impeachable acts by Trump.

“MECCO’s head Max Boykoff told Climate Home News that climate coverage in the first five months of 2025 was 35% down on the same period of 2025 and 41% less than in 2021. New analysis by the Yale Programme on Climate Change Communication found a similar fall in climate coverage in 2026”.

Samen met collega’s @catherinedevries.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social geef ik duiding bij het karakter van uiterst rechtse partijen in Nederland www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

For your entertainment.

The Midterms are an unprecedented opportunity for a Tea Party-like transformation of the Democratic Party: new and radicalized voters electing new and radical politicians, but then democratic and on left-wing. Except: there is no Tea Party of the left. There is momentum but little infrastructure.

Today we launch the new version of The PopuList! The PopuList provides an overview of far-left, far-right and populist parties in 31 European countries from 1989 until 1 May 2026. Explore the new website here: popu-list.org

Hoe ik het lees hebben deze uiterst rechts partijen betere “reputational shields” gekregen, waarbij eventueel fascistische achtergronden meer onderbelicht blijven (Zie ook Copsey, 2013). Sterker nog, Italiaans fascisme uit het verleden was zelf ook vrij eclectisch.

“Volgens de politicoloog hebben veel uiterst rechtse partijen betere communicatiestrategieën geleerd, waarmee ze zich ontdoen van associaties met extreemrechts…Ook speelt mee dat rechtse middenpartijen vaak niet konden doen wat ze beloofden over migratie” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Situatie Ter Apel: 'Zes mensen buiten bij aanmeldcentrum tijdens noodweer'

Politici willen “krachtenbundeling” Nederlandstalige mediabedrijven, maar DPG Media is al jaren “een techreus” die big data verkoopt aan commerciële partijen. En twee mediawetenschappers “hebben zes jaar geleden al aangetoond dat DPG die machtspositie misbruikt” tegenover Vlaamse publieke omroep.

UNICEF describes the truce as a “cruel and deadly illusion”. “This week: a 2-year-old boy was shot and killed by Israeli forces; a 13-year-old boy was shot and killed inside his tent; a 5-year-old boy and his father were killed by an Israeli strike” www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...

Shameless! Embarrassing! Disgusting!

Es ist zum kotzen. Rechte und Rechtsradikale „feiern“ im Europaparlament das Abschiebegesetz mit Sprechchören: „Send them back“. E Mittendrin: Manfred Weber.

“Mensenrechtenorganisaties kanten zich juist tégen een strengere asielaanpak. Ze vrezen dat migranten worden vastgezet in gesloten centra zonder duidelijk perspectief en zonder toegang tot juridische bijstand. Ook het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens was kritisch” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

“If one tries to desecrate the Nobel Peace Prize, the Kennedy Center, the World Cup, the rose garden, national museums, the military heroes…we have one other historical monument for you, a gold plattered one, mind you” … you can hear the other politicians thinking.

i love that vance is like if you flipped the polarity on the most obnoxiously woke millennial imaginable

Scenes from a personalist regime: the leader can never fail, he can only be failed

Important piece and thread. To me this demonstrates again the role of semi-loyal democratic politicians, who only nominally support democracy or the Left, in this case, but in fact, enable anti-democratic actors. So, it’s not a right-left cleavage, but constititional democracy vs. authoritarianism.

Sorry to re-up this, but the media silence on the massive, country-changing shift towards arbitrary justice and authoritarianism is almost the most astonishing aspect of the case. The new dispensation is being normalised even as it's happening. Please spread it far and wide. We need to know. Thanks

Nog altijd - misschien zelfs meer dan ooit - ware woorden van Joop den Uyl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

This is a new interpretation of the security dilemma.

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/4veRIqA

What is Vance doing there? Leopards changing his spots (before the President falls away)?

The costly chainsaw politics over a long-term vision, as we see often today. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

The Obamas just unveiled their first-ever commissioned portrait together which is located in the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library. Beautiful.

“This is our documentary moment,” Fonda told Reuters in an interview. “History ​is going to write about this, and I don't want to be on the side of people who ⁠said, ‘Oh my God, things are so bad, what am I going to do?’ No. I want to be out in the front.” Jane Fonda is 88.

Een zware tijd. Code zwart was destijds de aanleiding voor ons artikel: “This leads to a critical reflection on the prevailing view of solidarity as secondary and derivative to corona policies, because solidarity is often subjugated to…efficiency” openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3...

Er was feitelijk wél code zwart tijdens corona, zeggen ic-artsen. Zij hebben destijds patiënten geweigerd die ze anders wel hadden opgenomen. Onder andere oud-premier Rutte stelt dat Nederland nét geen 'code zwart' bereikte. Artsen noemen dat een "papieren werkelijkheid". nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...

@mark-carney.bsky.social “Gaza is not just destroyed buildings. Gaza is destroyed childhoods, destroyed memories, destroyed futures. The most painful part is not only what Israel has done to Gaza. It is how quietly the world allowed it to happen.”

"Bread and circuses" except the bread has never been more expensive and the circus is lining the pockets of the oligarchy.

Niet mis te verstaan. Politieke klimaat VS geeft sommigen het gevoel zich zonder problemen te uiten. Net zo goed als er vandaag in Den Haag mensen rondliepen met nazi-insignia openlijk op hun jas. Dit wordt erger als politici & media extreemrechts niet benoemen en veroordelen maar de ruimte geven.

Why is VAR Shaun Evans (AUS) for Germany/Curaçao making an “okay hand gesture” at the start of the football match? www.npr.org/2019/09/26/7...

My statement on this week’s Kennedy Center board meeting.

That is because UK universities are regarded only for private advancement (public schools or not) rather than for the good of society as a whole. Universities should not cater to some neoliberal/populist understanding, but do exactly the opposite; remain their uniqueness in research and teaching.

Neoliberalisme aan de Universiteit Leiden. Bestuur luistert niet naar staf en schaft meeste individuele werkkamers af (gelukkig niet bij Geschiedenis). Vervolgens wordt geconstateerd dat kamers veel leeg staan en dus kan er nog meer bezuinigd worden op huisvesting. www.mareonline.nl/opinie/geach...

Pro-Palestine activists sentenced as terrorists over damage at Israeli arms factory in UK