Deze week is Ontbijt met De @tijd.be eerder 𰻞𰻞面 met De @tijd.be. @roelverrycken.bsky.social en ik spraken onder andere over de open relatie van Xi en Poetin. P.S.: La Taverne de Zhao is absoluut een aanrader! www.tijd.be/dossier/ontb...

Holy moly! This isn’t wink-wink nudge nudge flirting with trutherism, it’s the whole thing. It was probably inevitable we ended up here.

Belgische proffen in de VS over Trumps oorlog tegen de universiteiten: 'We voelen ons soms zoals het orkest op de Titanic'

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...

Tesla ziet verkoop in België met twee derde terugvallen

Trump is in full banana republic mode and still not one Republican senator will stand up and be counted. Not one.

Salute to the Canadians for putting these ads up in downtown DC, they’re right and they should say it more 🫡

If only they had money. And power. And influence.

OSSOFF: Director Ratcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct? RATLIFFE: No OSSOFF: This is an embarrassment

A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Pete Hegseth, in his Fox commentator days, about Hillary Clinton's emails: "Everyone knows what top secret means. … If you’re hiding that on a private server, that’s a very real problem and likely criminal charges [should] follow" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

> @newyorker.com 🇺🇸

If it’s fake, why would you be worried about it leaking?

JD Vance is now officially the most disliked new Vice President in American history, according to data.

"when a reporter asked what Hegseth and Musk discussed, the billionaire responded: 'Why should I tell you?'" www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

To be clear, Fox News is telling its audience that all of the unprovoked tariffs imposed on Canada by Trump are totally legal and fine, but that Canadian retaliatory tariffs are “the first official shot of the American-Canadian war”. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...

I believe this is a world first: An intra-day tariff chart.

A lot of people who got the measles as children died or suffered lifelong disabilities as a result. The measles vaccine was a godsend to worldwide public health, and it’s an absolute scandal that this lethally ignorant dolt has any power over public health.

holy shit -- Trump was reading from a literal Tesla sales pitch, complete with pricing, during his White House event with Elon Musk. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

Coming soon to the Social Security payment system.

De 'duistere verlichting' van Musk, Vance en co. : Hoe radicale ideeën uit Silicon Valley rond Trump cirkelen

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

We kunnen op BlueSky helaas nog geen video's langer dan 30 seconden posten. Vergeef me deze link naar Instagram, maar kijk even mee naar hoe de Russische talkshows naar de uitspraken van Trump kijken... 😱 www.instagram.com/reel/DG3F3dw...

a look at the s&p following the election of recent us presidents:

JD Vance in Munich: ‘If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.’

I knew this would happen, but it's still surreal to hear another nation's leader talk to us in a televised address the way US presidents have historically spoken to the citizens of countries led by dictators and despots.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Waitsfield on Saturday morning to protest Vice President JD Vance, who is visiting Vermont with his family for a ski trip this weekend.

‘He has the unwavering support of his maga base, the cowed compliance of his congressional caucus, and the backing of multibillionaires such as Jeff Bezos, who would rather diminish the vitality of his newspaper than risk the dinner invitations of the sovereign.’ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

Who won the Trump/Vance/Zelensky Oval Office shouting match? We asked three Russian bots in an X comment thread.

The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.

"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:

Undocumented immigrants paid about $26 billion per year into Social Security, even though they will get nothing out of it. They subsidize citizens to an extraordinary degree. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

Trump zet alles onder water en doet iedereen naar adem happen

Your regular reminder McConnell could have taken care of this in January 2021

Called it... "The AI system will determine whether someone’s work is mission-critical or not." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

The Fort Knox conspiracy theory seems to have begun with this exchange on X. 2 days later Fox ran a segment about it. A few days after that Trump began bringing it up w reporters. Hard to overstate how much influence posters on a far-right forum have over the national conversation right now

Anybody that listened to any of my talks and presentations over the last three and a half years knows that I felt I had failed in my job if I did not leave the audience aware and alarmed at what was coming. Here @roelverrycken.bsky.social is helping me continue the good work by upsetting Belgium.

Sprak met @keirgiles.bsky.social over de nieuwe wereldorde en de dreiging van Rusland. Sorry, uw dag wordt hier niet beter van.

Rusland-expert Keir Giles: 'Ten westen van Warschau is de urgentie van de Russische dreiging nog niet doorgedrongen'

Bannon has a bit of a "I can't afford to sue all of you if you call it a Nazi salute" half heartedness to it that Musk's didn't.

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

George Packer helpt om door de bomen het bos te zien

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

Trump could start wearing a crown and carrying a sceptre, and people would still be in denial about what's happening.

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