Wat gedragen Rutte en Wilders (zijn bericht over Jetten) zich enorm raar tegenover Trump.

If NATO would like to be perceived as a purely defensive military alliance then maybe it’s Chief Secretary General shouldn’t go on TV cheerleading an illegal war of aggression which NATO member states apparently want nothing to do with, while praying for a different electorate like Brecht portrayed.

Moreover, there is a need for a passport when flying domestically since 2025. This passport happens to be one way to register to vote according to the SAVE act (voter suppression act). www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Trump needs to “win” somewhere now that the war with Iran is not going well. Putting ICE on airports is very debilitating for the average American who is dependent on airports rather than trains for work and family. My sense is that this personal army is going to be very controlling and punitary.

Infowars, The Daily Stormer, and VDARE are fading into memory—but the worldview they built didn’t disappear. It’s been absorbed into an increasingly extreme MAGA movement that now dominates the right. Me for MSNOW: www.ms.now/opinion/alex...

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

Come on. The UK allows itself to be dragged into a war, by permitting the US to make use of the US-UK base, while also boasting about international law for shipping. Hold a line. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Mockler: Every single day this war is waged, the world becomes an inherently more dangerous place. We're helping our enemies like Russia, get more money by lifting sanctions. We're helping Iran have more money by lifting sanctions.

Goed interview in fd.nl met Sigrid Kaag over de internationale chaos. Ze ziet een lichtpuntje in Europa: ‘Eindelijk durft men de lijn van Sánchez te volgen en te zeggen: dit is niet onze oorlog, hij vindt plaats buiten de kaders van het internationaal recht en wij doen niet mee.'

Very transactional.

“Mensen zijn ontsteld wat ICE doet in Amerika, maar ze zijn blind voor hoever we al in de EU zijn met vergelijkbare acties aan bijvoorbeeld onze eigen buitengrenzen”.

Normaliseren is een geschikte term, gegeven het normatieve kader waarin de meeste politicologen (en andere wetenschappers), politici, journalisten en democraten werken: dat van de democratische rechtsstaat.

Deze waarschuwing is belangrijk, maar à la Levitsky and Ziblatt ben ik nog bezorgder over semi-loyale politici. Deze “mainstream” politici vereffenen het pad voor extreem rechts door van alles te tolereren. De bal ligt daarnaast dan ook bij collega politici. De media kan niet iedereen onderscheiden.

De groei van de FvD, de normalisering van extreemrechts en een oproep aan de journalistiek 𝑇𝑒𝑛 𝑧𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑎𝑛𝑏𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛 www.villamedia.nl/artikel/de-g...

FVD is de grootste landelijke winnaar van de verkiezingen. Met @sldelange.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social & Andrej Zaslove betoog ik dat deze partij extreemrechts is en dat die groei dus zeer zorgwekkend is. stukroodvlees.nl/de-groei-van...

Recent onderzoek laat juist zien dat media een zelfstandige rol hebben bij normaliseren en succes van uiterst rechts

Was het maar zo simpel dat in debat gaan een probaat middel is. Veel onderzoek naar media en uiterst rechts laat zien dat dit juist tot normalisering en steun leidt

Knap hoe een partij met 4% van de stemmen in de beeldvorming de grote winnaar van de verkiezingen lijkt. FvD steeg weliswaar het meest, maar haalde duidelijk minder stemmen dan sommige andere landelijke partijen (D66 9,3%, CDA 11,2%, VVD 11,6%, GL-PvdA 14,6%). Goed om ook dat te benoemen.

So, we are now suddenly talking about international law? International law is not something to opt-in or opt-out and what about war and human rights rather than “principles of international prosperity and security”?

‘Antifa’ verboden, de Moslimbroederschap verboden - terwijl beide in Nederland niet bestaan - maar Defend-groepen winnen gewoon zetels.

Soms is nostalgie naar het verleden ook gewoon kloppend.

Helder stuk. “In het coalitieakkoord zit een aantal maatregelen die samen leiden tot de invoering van een minimumstelsel sociale zekerheid, waarbij de maximum uitkeringen (Werkloosheid en arbeidsongeschiktheid, maar ook ziektewet inclusief zwangerschap) net boven het minimumloon komen te liggen”.

Blog - Schokkend maar niet verrassend Expertonderzoek bevestigt: Trumps tweede periode is een keiharde aanval op democratie en rechtstaat in de VS. Nog nooit knalde een democratie zo hard omlaag in de ranking. Maar de betonrot gaat er dieper dan 1 jaar Trump. stukroodvlees.nl/schokkend-ma...

“We’ve seen a very fast concentration of power in the executive wing. The legislative branch has practically abdicated its powers to the president. It no longer functions as a check on executive power,” Lindberg says. Congress is not even undergoing it, but are active and willing participants.

Dizzying charts from the new V-Dem Report, confirming that the United States’ experience of democratic decline is even steeper than what we experienced in Hungary. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

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„The USA loses its long-term status as a liberal democracy – for the first time in over 50 years. […] The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history“ (V-Dem 2026)

“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.” One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.

Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power reut.rs/476i8AN

Once again, Trump uses the language of sexual assault. It's what he knows.

TRUMP IN ONE SINGLE EVENT - "They won't be there for us" - "We have some that are really enthusiastic. They're coming already" - "This isn't 'need'" - "If we need anything, they should be jumping to help us" - "We want them to come & help us w/the strait" - My attitude is we don't need anybody"

Not even awkward (re: CNN), but incredibly contemptuous. He does not like to be confronted by dead or injured soldiers as he envisions himself as a winner. edition.cnn.com/2026/03/04/p...

Goh. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Given there’s no invocation of Article V; even if there was this isn’t self defense, it’s self inflicted; & NATO’s remit is Europe not the Middle East, he can bluster all he wants. Especially, as everyone already knows if a NATO member invoked Article V he’d ignore it.

Het internationaal recht wordt niet alleen door landen als China, Rusland en de VS ten grave gedragen, maar ook door leiders die geen stelling durven te nemen in situaties waarin wel duidelijk sprake is van schending ervan. Aldus Jesse Klaver in #Buitenhof. Zo is het.

Precies wat Kaag zegt #buitenhof: voor Trump is deze oorlog een soort computerspel waarin doden weer op kunnen staan, en hij met Manosphere video’s indruk wil maken. In het nieuws overal menselijk leed. Trump: misschien bombardeer ik Kharg nog wel een keer, voor de lol.

Ondertussen in de 🇺🇸 Heeft de Nederlandse regering nog steeds ‘begrip’?’

10/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this. Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.

STOP THE WAR! STOP ISRAEL! STOP TRUMP!

Folks, I regret to inform you: This design was OK'd by the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee in...October 2024. Its design was set in place when Biden was in office. The designer left out the olive branch to symbolize the colonists' not yet achieving peace, but hoping for it. Trump didn't do this.

*Inside Israel, journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for Haaretz and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board says war fever has taken over the country. “As long as the American support is so massive, so blind and so automatic, this will go on”* youtu.be/JkYrfYKb5G8?...

“Since taking over the F.C.C. chairmanship…Mr. Carr has regularly raised the possibility of seizing station licenses over various programming decisions at the major television networks, whose owned and affiliated stations need F.C.C. licenses in order to operate” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

We are there: eugenics.

What is this with this eagle-eyed focus on details (and ruining a 250-year old design) but no plan for Iran.

oh, come on. fortune.com/2026/03/12/u...

Scott Bessent got called away to the Situation Room mid-interview. When he got back, he was asked what was happening. Bessent said Trump was in "great spirits." He then randomly volunteered that he had a teen "considering military service" and would trust his child's life with Trump and Hegseth.

Goed dat dit nativistische gedachtegoed zo duidelijk wordt blootgelegd en bevraagd. Het is om ontheemd van te raken.

Its small beans, but honestly hilarious how vain Trump is that he mistakenly said it was an "excursion" rather than "incursion" and now he's going to gaslight everyone as if that's a normal way of speaking. Just like the insane asylums with immigrants because he couldn't understand seeking asylum.