UPDATE: #Iran • Protests spread,~ 650 killed • Lufthansa cancels ✈️ till 01/28 • France pulls non essential staff • > 100 hrs of internet❌ • Araghchi 📞Witkoff, studying US proposal. Trump considers strikes • Trump: 25% tariff anyone trading w Iran www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬

"All the people talking about polarization are just fascism enablers" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

Israel has demolished more than 2,500 buildings in Gaza since the cease-fire began, according to a New York Times analysis, including in areas still under Hamas control.

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Ce régime tyrannique n'en finit pas de tuer : vivement que les mollahs soient en déroute !

The UK is in talks with Canada and Australia for a coordinated response to X, including a possible ban. #canpoli

This puff piece of Delcy Rodriguez has everything I have come to expect from NYT coverage of Latin American politics. At the snap of the US State Department’s fingers, Latin American politicians go from being irredeemable tyrants to getting their anti-hero redemption arcs.

Looking at this video on alpha males, shows how masculinity is a masquerade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xT...

Don’t engage with Zionists on social media. Don’t give air to the bots to breathe: www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-al...

That actually kind of sounds like your fantasy, Naomi.

The fight against fascism is also a fight for a shared sense of reality. We see demagogues twisting the facts and blatantly lying, while legacy media are keen to present every story as a matter of conflicting interpretations. With social media drowning in #AIslop, this is only going to get worse 1/

I didn't know the nazi's invented a distinction between graeco-judaic and graeco-germanic.

Since Plato is in the news: What was Plato's status at the Nazified university? This 1934 diagram from the journal "Völkische Kultur" shows one response. It puts Plato in a cosmopolitan lineage of degradation leading to Kant which was, in a common antisemitic trope, portrayed as suspiciously Jewish.

Ik zou zeggen dat het nét haar geloofwaardigheid is die zware averij oploopt. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Fostering good relations with the neighbours is a bit hard if one of them insists on bombing you and has installed base in your front garden.

25 jaar na 25 minuten, dat is nu eens een mooi toeval.

Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children - Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My new FP piece argues that the Saudi-UAE throwdown is about much more than Yemen - it’s about competing visions of regional order and a response not just to UAE policies but to Israel’s hegemonic pretensions. Where Trump stands is anyone’s guess. Read! abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/the-saudi-ua...

En zo krijgt Trump helaas gelijk met zijn opmerking dat Europese politici slappelingen zijn. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

I strongly suspect the Greenlanders would still say no bsky.app/profile/more...

Dymph zou volhard hebben.

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them. It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

That escalated quickly... www.folia.nl/nl/actueel/1...

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

Wtf heb ik net gelezen?! www.trouw.nl/binnenland/d...

Die column is een omstandige versie van "look what you made us do"

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

Trump's goons are already pepper spraying and roughing up people in the Twin Cities this morning

"Ik ben in de val gelopen van de AI" is wel echt een heel lame excuus. Net alsof het een aantrekkelijk maar verslavend goedje is, als tabak of alcohol. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Seneca's advice to Nero - "No matter how many you slay, you will never kill your successor."

Dit hou je toch niet voor mogelijk? En ondertussen mag de academische werkvloer zich wel uitsloven om studenten te overtuigen om integer met AI om te gaan, en/of fraude en plagiaat dossiers op te starten. #universiteit #hogeronderwijs apache.be/2026/01/08/r...

Heel af en toe heeft De Speld een goed beeld te pakken. Dat Dick Schoof ontvoerd wordt door een Amerikaans commando en niemand het opmerkt, is zo'n moment.

Trump's obsession with making Greenland part of the United States because it looks big on a map and is colored differently from the states is a classic case of Mercator Projection

Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

He is going to accept it.

The NYtimes reporting on Maduro is insufferable. "The arraignment has concluded. It was a routine legal proceeding, belying the extraordinary circumstances underlying it. It also offered a memorable snapshot of an ousted leader being shaken into a stark new reality."

Oprechte journalistieke verbazing dat Maduro niet desintegreerde zoals een vampier bij zonlicht.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Op die vermaledijde andere website wilde dit nog wel eens werken. Rijdt er iemand vanmiddag vanuit Amsterdam naar Bussum (of ergens daar in de buurt)? #dtv

They were against before they were for it.

The New York Times and Washington Post both knew of the Trump plan to kidnap Maduro and chose not to publish it to protect US troops. At least 40 Venezuelans were killed by US troops. www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

Om toch even mijn oude beroep van onderzoeker van de olie-industrie op te pakken. 🧵 Er wordt weer eens met weinig kennis van zaken over de oliereserves van Venezuela bericht. Niet alle aardolie is hetzelfde, olie uit Venezuela is extreem CO2 intensief en grotendeels te duur om te winnen.

Polls show that 70% of Americans oppose the war in Venezuela. But at this CBS News staff meeting, that number feels much smaller.

Technically flawless kidnapping. The pride of a nation.