My brother needed to get a new 80L water heater for my niece's apartment. Loaned him my GSD, now he wants one too. #carryshitolympics

Never use Amsterdam as an example for better city design. IMO, it's Dutch Disney Land. Real urbanism and transportation design principles are to be learned almost anywhere else in the country. If you want to get a vision of what the US could achieve in a modest timeframe, visit Rotterdam.

straks bij Eva over ons kwakzalver-verhaal. samen met een oncoloog en Jegor, hij heeft kanker. tot zo!

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ICYMI yesterday, our latest poll shows we are up 19 points with independent voters. 🇺🇸 This is within reach, y’all.

500,000 children died in year one after Trump gutted USAID A betrayal of every principle we claim to hold We @democracydefendersfund.org & @democracydefendersaction.org were the 1st to sue over Musk's DOGE actions More in this week's publisher's note on @contrariannews.org -TN

Another tragic example of how Trump’s indiscriminate immigration raids are targeting the most vulnerable among us, including the family of a deaf child seeking asylum. The cruelty is astounding. Will do all I can to try to reverse this. www.latimes.com/california/s...

81 years ago, on the 13th of February, a joint British and American bombing of the city of Dresden began. In four raids between the 13th and 15th, up to 25.000 people were killed. It is one of the most controversial Allied acts of the second World War. #otd #history 🗃️

Op dit schilderij uit 1774 zien we de Herengracht bij de Leidsestraat in Amsterdam. Interessant (even inzoomen) zijn de details die op dit kunstwerk te zien zijn, zoals de verschillende kleine boten in de gracht en de mensen op de straat en de brug. De schilder is Hendrik Keun.

“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.” A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

The first crack in the wall: An ICE agent just quit.

Good - now worldwide please. And to all those still using X, leave now! #ElonMusk #LeaveX

It is beyond the unimaginable. Not from a low standard GOP-ish point of view, but from a mere ethical and humane point of view. And no one in their circles seems to care or mind.

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

BREAKING: Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election for Texas U.S. House seat, narrowing GOP's slim majority.

Elon Musk's net worth, as of January 31, 2026, is approximately $775 billion according to Forbes'. There have been ~3/4 million days since the birth of Christ. Elon created for himself over $1,000,000 a day of wealth, since 0 BCE. He plans to more than 10x that in the next decade. #JustSaying

Les femmes du Moyen Âge souffraient-elles déjà de la charge mentale ? Une balade anglaise de la fin du XVe siècle montre que... oui ! Un fil ⬇️ ! #medievalists #medievalsky

Following reports of ICE agents illegally barging into embassies in the US and harassing European journalists, members of the European Parliament are calling for Trump's paramilitary force to be blocked from entering Italy during the Winter Olympics.

Anna Paulowna (1795-1865) was de dochter van tsaar Paul I. Zij groeide op aan het Russische hof in een wereld van pracht en praal. Haar opvoeding was grondig en internationaal georiënteerd: Anna leerde meerdere talen en werd voorbereid op een leven waarin zij een dynastieke rol zou vervullen. 1/4

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

The left part is a mirror image of the right (Atlantic Ocean) part !!

Today, Rep. Castro and I visited precious Liam and his father, Adrian, at the Dilley Detention Center. My heart absolutely breaks for Liam, his family, and every person being wrongfully detained.

In Minneapolis and many other communities across the country, we're seeing people come together to peacefully protest and support their neighbors. If you're looking to get involved, here are some ways to help:

“LET US OUT!” women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc. In our name🇺🇸

Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time. This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

Temperature anomaly (left) and minimum temperature (right), January 25, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/01/extr...

We purposefully dismantled a robust national rail network and replaced it with forced car dependency. Seeing high-quality European sleeper cabins for €55 highlights the freedom we lost to decades of social engineering and auto industry subsidization.

For the first time in history, the state of Virginia has a female Governor and right after being sworn in today Governor Abigail Spanberger’s first official act was to end cooperation between ICE-Gestapo and Virginia State Police. More of this. 💙👊👏

Here's a Common Merganser I got two years ago today in #Tacoma! This one just got it's hair done for a punk concert and didn't want to mess it up in the water! #NationalBirdDay #Birds #Nature #Photography

The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!

Documentary about the Nov 2024 Israeli/Palestinian riots in Amsterdam, with English subtitles. Most Dutch people know the story, many non-Dutch speakers still believe it was an explosion of antisemitism. Please share.

Took a trip up to Northwest Missouri on Tuesday mostly for eagles but always a ton of migratory birds along the Missouri River. Working through 7500ish photos 📷 and here is my first drop. #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueSkyPhotographers #Birds 🪶 #Missouri #NatureLovers

The Netherlands: Regardless of the fault, the motorist bears the liability because they pose the danger. Vancouver:

This used to be Tulsi Gabbard.

open.substack.com/pub/wonkette... I like Governor Newsom's initiative: Don't get mad and gnash your teeth and pull out your hair, do something about their insane policies. Cal. has the right idea, hopefully more states will follow. #HHSBrainWorm #MAGAMorons #TraitorTrump #BlueCrew #Resisters

Mega heat pumps are coming. It’s great to see that so many projects are now underway around the world. There’s a real competition on who builds the biggest heat pump. Technology has come a long way and keeps getting better.

Cited after potentially killing someone when driving an oversized vehicle in a city without properly clearing their windshield. This cite and release policy is fucking insane.

Delft, december 1675. Schilder Johannes Vermeer, bijgenaamd ‘De Sfinx van Delft’ overleed. Vermeer is bekend om zijn intieme huiselijke taferelen met een fenomenale lichtweergave. Het oeuvre van de schilder is klein: slechts 36 werken van zijn hand zijn bekend. 1/3

Nadat Vermeer was gestorven, raakte zijn naam in de vergetelheid. Lange tijd werden zijn schilderijen aan andere, toen wél bekende kunstenaars toegeschreven. Totdat in de 19de eeuw Vermeer werd ‘herontdekt’ en hem voorgoed onder de internationale aandacht bracht. 3/3

Koekkoek is een Nederlandse familie die een groot aantal kunstschilders heeft voortgebracht. Met 16 schilders in vier generaties wordt de familie beschouwd als de grootste schildersfamilie ter wereld. Dit schilderij is van Willem Koekkoek (1839-1895) en geeft een winters Culemborg weer. 1/2

De Cellebroederspoort in Kampen is vernoemd naar het klooster van de Cellebroeders. Het is een van de drie overgebleven poorten die de stad nog rijk is. 1/2

Hell yes, another fantastic victory after Democratic candidate Eileen Higgins was elected Mayor of Miami flipping it from red to blue and becoming Miami’s first Democratic Mayor in 30 years. A hopeful sign for things to come.

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds

Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem

I'll never understand how so many people got conned into hating the idea of universal healthcare. Say you pay 20% more in taxes. Your employer pays you more because no insurance. You never see a doctor, lab or out of network specialist bill again. You have a low copay for drugs. Isn't that worth it?