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Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Goed - en eigenlijk volstrekt vanzelfsprekend - idee, dit. Asielzoekers en statushouders figureren in de journalistiek te vaak als naamloos lijdend voorwerp in plaats van als de belanghebbenden die ze zijn.

This

“What better way then to conjure up antifa than to try to bait Portland into the mother of all antifascist confrontations” Read @joelowndes.bsky.social on the history and significance of #Portland to Trump-MAGA-GOP.

Even in his most fevered, drunken dreams, Richard Milhous Nixon couldn't possibly have even imagined doing a tenth of this shit.

Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.

Artists are rethinking the U.S. altogether. Bad Bunny, Danny Ocean, Anitta, Bells Larsen, Grupo Firme, and many more have all pulled back due to Trump-era policies, visa chaos, or fear of ICE. America’s music scene, and economy, are losing out. americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/bad-bunny-...

Als liberaal heb je bij de VVD niets te zoeken. Vrijheid is verworden tot het Dikke Ik, de partij is steevast tien jaar te laat, en belooft al decennia dat werken meer moet lonen — terwijl precies het omgekeerde is gebeurd. In @nrc.nl: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Many have shared this excellent piece by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social that speaks to this essential moment. Among many thoughts, it occurs to me that in our desire to do away with internalized shame, self-shame, we gave up shame as a tool of community standards. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Plus ça change

Ik kan niet meer.

Nooit verwacht dat ik een uitgebreide juridische analyse zou schrijven over een bepaling van de Nederlandse Grondwet (wegens het toetsingsverbod is de Grondwet doorgaans van beperkte betekenis voor advocaten), maar omdat Mona Keijzer het advies van de Raad van State zo flagrant negeerde, here we are

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

For those who can read Dutch (or can use a translator): an excellent interview in the Dutch newspaper NRC with @nhannahjones.bsky.social (gift link) : “Americans think that our democracy is the oldest and strongest in the world and don’t see its fragility”

Great to see @onethuthree.bsky.social and @jannikjansen.bsky.social in the Guardian making the important point that Europe giving in to the far right on immigration, climate and Gaza weakens its position in the world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Outrageous plan to unblock EU funds for Orbán to prevent his veto. Tomorrow, while presenting my rule of law report on Hungary, I will demand from the Commission to keep funding frozen. And to the Member States to take away Orban’s vetoright. Now! www.ft.com/content/0965...

It's like they made a clone of Goebbels but somehow the volume got stuck on "screeching banshee"

Should really say "Farage plans to tear up the Brexit deal he supported" since it would requiring reneging on the Withdrawal Agreement (most "foreign nationals" claiming benefits are EU citizens with settled status) ://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2111398/nigel-farage-welfare-foreign-nationals

Een stuk dat, meen ik, het historisch-politiek moment waar we in zitten totaal verkeerd duidt, maar even los daarvan: onder meer het antisemitisme van Hugo de Groot aanhalen als voorbeeld dat vroeger wel gestuurd werd op“culturele aanpassing”, is wel echt duizelingwekkend

Extreemrechtse knokploegen wegzetten als ‘hooligans’ of ‘tuig’, zoals politiek en media doen, betekent de depolitisering van een ideologisch en gevaarlijk fenomeen. Die depolitisering dient één doel: het beschermen van macht, terwijl het gevaar van extreemrechts bewust wordt gebagatelliseerd.

you live in a place with an ABC network affiliate owed by Nextstar or Sinclair, the Republican megaconglomerates that put the regime up to this decision, watch it for a few hours and write down the advertisers. (In Chicago, that means ABC-7, WGN.) 2/x

Unless you absolutely have to, don't come to the US. Just don't. We're led by assholes who seek to harm you. We're pariahs, and we deserve your scorn, not your talents. Maybe one day we'll be normal again, but we're being run by thugs who are shaking down everyone they can.

Just days after a far-right majority in the Dutch parliament asked the government to designate “Antifa” as a “terrorist organization”, far-right “protesters” shows yet again that they are the real threat to public order in the Netherlands.

Dutch late night TV has its take

In Alabama, a trans civil rights lawyer is facing criminal charges; three civil rights lawyers are fighting sanctions. I spoke to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social about how federal judges came after a team of civil rights lawyers who challenged a transgender care ban www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Sruti Bala, universitair hoofddocent aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam: “Juist omdat de Israëlische cultuur als nauw verbonden met de Europese wordt waargenomen, heeft een boycot effect, omdat ermee duidelijk wordt gemaakt dat die verbondenheid niet vanzelfsprekend is.” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Why is South Park not airing this week? 🤔

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

“Drivers leaned on their horns as union members — many of whom were wearing blue WGAW T-shirts– marched back and forth in front of the main entrance.” deadline.com/2025/09/disn...

Feels like UK Govt breaching Article 10 ECHR, which protects freedom to receive & impart information without unjustified state interference.

Even posting this makes me a wee bit nervous

“Trump is dreaming a delusional fantasy…what’s worse,treating allied workers who are trying their best to assist in realizing this pipe dream as if they are slaves of a vassal state will jeopardize even those projects that had some potential.We’re watching the US foolishly shoot itself in the foot.”

“A ruthless deal-maker is only worth engaging with when they observe one fundamental rule: once the deal is made, even if it is a bad one, it is abided by. Trump has violated that tenet.” — @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

"He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct. There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

“The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder. Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or die.” (Elon Musk)

“They are demanding the sacrifice of our children on the altar of mass migration. Let’s not beat about the bush — this is the rape, replacement, and murder of our people… Remigration is possible, and it’s up to us to make it happen. We are Generation Remigration.” (Eva Vlaardingenbroek)

But sure let's talk about a dead Nazi for a fourth day thecradle.co/articles-id/...

This is really it for me. I despise debate-me culture, bc it actually does nothing to cultivate genuine conversation, listening, or understanding! It’s all just a dominance game, which explains why white cis guys love it so much.

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

Timmermans schuift aan in een talkshow:

Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

Er is geen betere illustratie van het droevige niveau van het Nederlandse ‘racismedebat’: niet het racisme zelf, maar degene die het ervaart of aankaart, wordt als het probleem gezien. Ik vind dit allemaal heel zorgwekkend en ziekmakend.

Spent five minutes staring at this trying to work out what it had reminded me of. Realised it was this horrifying passage from George Orwell’s 1984.

CJEU Advocate-General's opinion now released in this case - EU citizenship includes the right *not* to move to another Member State - curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

Jamin Raskin is an USA attorney, law professor, and politician serving as a congressman for 8th District of Maryland. His words should be heard....

Advocate General Richard de la Tour: the Member State of origin of a transgender person is obliged to issue identity documents consistent with the person’s lived gender identity curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...