Hulde voor dit commentaar en dit gebaar, broodnodig in deze duistere tijden.

Ze wil dus één front vormen tegen extremisme, samen met GL-PvdA, die ze herhaaldelijk heeft uitgemaakt voor extremisten? Ok.

Pijnlijk hoor, zelfs de AIVD corrigeert de VVD nog even, er niet omheen draaien... AIVD over rechtsextremisten bij rellen: politiek moet in spiegel kijken - nos.nl/l/2583908

Global leaders unveiled updated climate plans at the United Nations, with China’s president Xi Jinping pledging to cut net emissions by 10 percent from peak levels by 2035 — a undefined target critics have slammed as "very bad".

'Perverse as it may sound, the climate crisis has been a godsend for the mining industry. Long under fire for its ecological and social misdemeanours, it is now able to position itself as humanity’s saviour.'

Bij klimaatzaken vind de vvd dat de rechter niet op de stoel van de politiek moet gaan zitten. benoemen dat met NSB-vlaggen zwaaiende racisten ‘extreemrechts‘ zijn laten ze graag aan de rechter over.

New from @the-breakdown.bsky.social ISSUE 2 Photojournalist Garry Lotulung documents the exlosion of nickel mining, largely for batteries, in Halmahera, Indonesia—speaking with workers, locals & members of the island's Indigenous community Photographed: Daniel Totabo

In de nasleep van de moord op de Amerikaanse rechtsextremist Charlie Kirk, Trumps eigen Horst Wessel, bestempelt het Nederlandse parlement antifascisme nu als terrorisme. En daarmee fascisme dus als normaal: een naoorlogs dieptepunt. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

Prinsenvlag, VOC-logo's, nationalistische leuzen, hysterische opruiing, journalisten en politiemannen aangevallen, ruiten partijkantoor D66 ingegooid. VVD-er Heinen: 'Laten we niet alles politiek maken.' De VVD is een verachtelijke partij.

I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...

Precies de verkeerde persoon, ja.

PVV-hooligans vallen letterlijk hoofdkantoor D66 aan, maar van deze onnozele boekhouder moet je dat niet politiek maken.

Rechtstreeks uit het January 6-playbook. Goed dat de NOS het checkt bij de politie maar het komt erg naïef over om op zo'n overduidelijke poging tot 'deflect and attack' überhaupt in te gaan. Want ondertussen is het, zoals Michel al zegt, wel even genoemd.

Geen verder commentaar. Ik kan ook alleen nog maar schelden als ik dit zie.

ondertussen bij extreem-links... www.rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/39444...

Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets. nos.nl/artikel/2583...

Oh how they all admire Trump; the gaudy bling and his fascist troupe. Its always the most bland; the least charismatic, who fall for this shit.

A taxpayers’ group with close ties to the EPP teamed up with Austria’s far-right in a legal attack on green NGO ("the climate taliban") funding: “We are intellectual brothers…" Good work by @desmog.com digging this up even though its painfully predictable. www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/e...

He knows what people need if the empire falls.

Welcome to the Gildpunk-era

I liked the first one a lot and worried the second might never come because the question it grapples with is just so unreasonably ambitious. Here it is though: 'How might a modern economy work if it were driven by multiple social goals instead of the pursuit of private profit?'

Jokes aside, this is precisely why Reform and Silicon Valley are so deeply in cahoots. They intend to steamroll the public interest to give the billionaire techbros what they want - and what they want is everything.

ABC (fired Kimmel for criticizing Trump) & CBS (fired Colbert for criticizing Trump) are now state media. Trump controls them. We need to break up these corporate media conglomerates before they completely destroy our democracy.

Mask off moment for Draghi...

Everyday you learn something new: "Rodrik’s “industrial policy for good jobs” puts high skills and good jobs at the centre of industrial strategy, both as a means of enabling strong, inclusive growth (economically) and as an end in itself (socially)."

"Western policymakers expect innovation from research labs and universities, but in China 🇨🇳 "tech innovation emerges from the factory floor, when a product is scaled up into mass production," he writes, a consequence of "learning by doing."" very valuable analysis

Good coverage. Fun fact: the merger stuff was unscripted. UvL read her speech word-for-word with almost zero deviation, yet the part about the merger wasn’t in the text.

Big public debate on Draghi competitiveness report in BXL today. None of the speakers is scheduled to discuss workers/training, or how Europe’s smaller, fragmented workforce can realistically compete with China’s clean manufacturing behemoth. Interesting omission.

Resentment-driven assaults on civil society are not just the domain of extremist trolls in the US. They are happening in Brussels too, led by the so-called ‘sensible centrists’ of the EPP. Different words, same tactics. Piece from February, but nothing changed. euobserver.com/green-econom...

Je zou het niet zeggen maar...

Wilders heeft geen geen plan voor beperking van legale arbeidsmigratie fd.nl/politiek/156...

5/ So what is in our China Low Carbon Technologies FDI database? no biggie. Just every overseas green factory set up by a Chinese firm set up from 2011 to middle of 2025. Thats...461 manufacturing projects in 54 countries! What did we find? Check it out: netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

Coen Teulings breekt een lans voor het neoliberalisme in NRC. Valt w het een en ander op af te dingen. Hij heeft eenzelfde pleidooi al eens eerder gehouden in het FD. Dit was toen onze repliek: merijnoudenampsen.org/2024/01/08/t...

Hij had ook een ellenlang track record van desinformatie en radicaal-rechtse complottheorieën en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie.... Daar staat vrijwel niets over in dit profiel.

Chancellor Merz says 🇩🇪 has been living beyond its means. That doesn’t add up. For 20 years 🇩🇪has run huge current account surpluses - exporting far more than it imports. In other words, it produces much more than it consumes. If anything, Germany has been living below its means.

A dramatic climate-insurance breakdown that shocks the financial system of entire national economies .....is not going to happen. Why not? NEW: @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one. [email protected]

A few quick impressions from @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu's State of the Union address: ec.europa.eu/commission/p... /

This is how you know she won’t. As long as EU plans hinge on the myth of a giant dormant pot of money waiting to be channelled to citizens’ needs (how, by whom?), we’ll end up with more Porsche Taycans and costlier privatised public services instead. commission.europa.eu/document/dow...

"Merz called Tuesday for 'more flexibility' from the EU in the transition to electric cars as resistance grows over plans to phase out combustion-engine vehicle sales by 2035" So frustrating that this is Germany's solution to cut-throat Chinese EVs competition uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/merz-op...

If it were not so sad, it would be entertaining: Brussels and Berlin blame today’s car sector crisis on regulation that only bites in 2035—while Germany has already lost half its net car exports. Missing a forest of nine million by staring at a tree.

Klok's nieuwe 'pluriforme geluid' in de kolommen blijkt loeiend voorspelbaar.

Spoke to business prof Andreas Rasche on EU green deregulation. He says it’s “not a winning strategy” and that strong climate rules and corporate success aren’t at odds. “Sustainability is not a regulatory burden but a strategic advantage that strengthens Europe’s competitiveness.”

Whats going on with China's imports from the Netherlands?

Totally worth it for the EU to sign that trade deal with Trump hoping for his help in dealing with Russia. Real Talleyrand-level diplomacy there, well done to all. www.ft.com/content/0157...

"The decarbonization agenda is not simply about reordering markets or industrial policies, but in fact represents the crucible for a new geopolitical order." @nilsgilman.bsky.social in FP foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

Shitshow waiting to happen on.ft.com/41sHC8D

Europe’s social welfare crisis is driven by an unlikely culprit: our pension funds

Another historical norm torched by the Trump administration for short-term politicking. As host of the UN, America can't decide which leaders are and are not welcome at UN headquarters. US bars Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas from UN meeting to recognise state - on.ft.com/4lX8SDF