Kreeg net berichtje van iemand van Vrienden van Ukraine, dat er de afgelopen uren opeens een heel aantal donaties was binnengekomen. Zo'n generator kost 200 euro per stuk, heb er zojuist zelf nog eentje voor ze gekocht (ANBI nog ook).

This point should be made again and again: after the Russians destroyed Chechnya they forced Chechens to help subdue Ukrainians. Do we in Europe really want to fight a Russian-Ukrainian army? The Ukrainians are formidable warriors.

Everyone should read this week’s WSJ story on Trump selling pardons. It’s some of the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen—you can literally corner him at one of his lame parties and walk away with a pardon. How is this not the biggest story in the country?

The combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many food pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry during this busy holiday season.

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The death of a former head of China’s one-child policy has been met not by tributes, but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week.

Gratis 7 dagen te lezen! www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

This Christmas Eve, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

From today’s Russian papers: “The US has de facto pulled out of the anti-Russia coalition.” On the Russian economy, one paper predicts VAT hike will spark “inflationary spiral.” Another warns: “Severe labour shortage. More than 800,000 blue-collar workers needed.” #ReadingRussia

Marianne Thieme beweert in Trouw dat de Russen Slavoetytsj vreedzaam verlieten, louter omdat burgers de straat opgingen. Haar stelling kort samengevat: als heel dit doet, pakken de Russen hun biezen. Pijnlijk dat Trouw dit plaatst, want de feiten liggen anders. 🧵 1/14 www.trouw.nl/verdieping/a...

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Ukrainian Defenders Denys "Bars" and Dmytro "K2" have returned from the positions near the city of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region, where they held the line for 130 days. According to the Warriors, the most difficult moment was their first direct firefight with Russians:

Trump Day 337: Trump halts wind farms for “national security” reasons, announces “Trump-class” warship, offers $3000 to illegals to leave voluntarily, Bill Clinton calls for full release of Epstein files, CECOT documentary accidentally broadcast in Canada: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-33...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Hello? [Cartoon by Rick McKee]

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

Day 390 of daily, uninterrupted protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪 Protests continue in 8+ cities.

Trump Day 336: Trump threatens to withhold funding from Smithsonian if they don’t remove ‘incorrect ideology’, confiscates 3rd oil tanker, Vance calls US a ‘Christian country’, CBS pulls item about CECOT hours before broadcast, Jim Beam factory temporarily closed: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-33...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

December 21, 2025

bit of an edgy tweet here for Dmitriev, given all the Trump bootlicking

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

In China, they are openly stating that Russia will collapse, and they need to seize at least a third of its territory. “China should prepare for the worst: if Russia collapses, this territory of 7 million km² cannot be lost”, - such an article was published on the popular Chinese resource NetEase

💥 “It’s not clear who attacked whom,” Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said today at a presser on the Russia–Ukraine war, after an EU summit where he opposed any financial help for Ukraine. Orbán is now clearly escalating his rhetoric, for the first time openly questioning that Russia started the war.

In this context, the fact that Belgium keeps making windfall revenue on immobilized Russian reserves (via taxation of Euroclear) must be re-examined. Belgium should transfer all that corporate tax income, with retroactive effect starting March 2022, to Ukraine in a transparent manner. Now. (2/2)

“Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.” - Thomas Paine

💥The West urged resistance to Moscow, then stood aside and did nothing when Russian tanks rolled in. This narrative of Western betrayal dates back to Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution. Back then the USSR was powerful — not a failing state like today’s Russia. Will history still repeat itself?

December 16, 2025

Today is the ONLY day the public can comment. Demand a PUBLIC HEARING.

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

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Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

December 12, 2025

The Trump gold card

Ontzettend indrukwekkende documentaire vanuit het front bij Andriivka in Oekraïne. 'Everything is destroyed: people, animals, memories.' Volledige docu is hier te zien: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADnL... Fuck Rusland. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors. The full requirements will end tourism in the United States. Below is the full, mind-blowing list. 🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨 1/

💥Bloomberg reports Orbán could stay in power after an election defeat by becoming president instead, using his outgoing supermajority — a scenario analysts and opposition figures now openly discuss. But such a move would come dangerously close to a self-coup. More: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Day 325: Trump wants 5 years of social media history for US entry, intercepts tanker near Venezuela and ‘keeps the oil’, launches $1 million Gold Card; application fee $15,000, threatens ICC with sanctions if they do not promise not to prosecute him: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-32...

Der neue SPIEGEL ist da: 📍 Wie Trump und Putin Europa angreifen 📍 Flugsicherheit: Wird die Lufthansa nachlässig? 📍 550 Millionen Pakete: Deutschland, die Retouren-Republik Morgen am Kiosk, jetzt online: https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/index-2025-51.html

December 10, 2025

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