"GroenLinks-PvdA had vijf pijlers in haar verkiezingsprogramma, waarvan we er drie uitlichten: een inkomen waarmee je vooruitkomt, leiderschap dat Nederland beschermt, en de uitsmijter: de basis op orde. Ze klinken als ChatGPT-antwoorden op het verzoek een partijprogramma te schrijven."

Was Islamisten halt so tun, wenn sie an die Macht kommen.

"Dutch police told West Midlands Police that over 200 Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans who wreaked havoc in Amsterdam in November 2024 were "linked to the Israel Defense Forces [IDF]", and that hundreds more were "experienced fighters", "highly organised" and "intent on causing serious violence""

Lees en huiver: een week na 7 oktober 2023 gaat de campus op slot, omdat de beveiliging, tegen het oordeel van de politie in, een Arabische man aanziet voor een Hamas-terrorist.

"Left-wing users saw almost the same amount of left-wing + right-wing content, even though they only followed left-wing accounts. But only 14% of the political content sent to our right-leaning users was left-wing. The neutral users saw twice as much right-wing content as left-wing content." #Xgate

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

A colleague was accused of raping a student and had to leave the uni. He then got a job in a different country and meanwhile is full professor there. At his uni a faculty member was recently accused of sexually harassing a student, but the complaint lead nowhere. A voice in my head: is it him?

I completely agree with @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social that the term "democratic fascism" wrongly insinuates that today's fascism has a "democratic" character. The fact that it operates - for now - within a democratic system does NOT make it democratic. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps: The right defends economic power. The left resists economic power.

Ein absolut bemerkenswertes Dokument. "Ich kann mit Sicherheit sagen, dass Antisemitismus zunimmt, aber ironischerweise wird der Antisemitismus, den ich am häufigsten beobachtet habe, von denjenigen ausgeübt, die behaupten, gegen Antisemitismus anzukämpfen."

"To be a good citizen of a bad state, one has to do scary things." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Statt Klimaschutz sollen Milliarden für neue Autobahnen fließen – das gefährdet unsere Zukunft. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

Dear @news.dw.com, could you please clarify why this article amp.dw.com/en/fact-chec... has disappeared from your website?

There's a yahoo link that still works uk.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-a...

Radical right wing parties have won 46 seats in the Dutch parliament (out of 150). That is five seats MORE than in the last election. That Wilder's party lost votes does not mean that the right-wing danger for democracy has diminished. www.groene.nl/artikel/een-...

Geert Wilders hoeft niet te regeren om zijn doel te behalen. Hij heeft het land precies waar hij het hebben wil. Mijn column in @groene.nl als tijdelijke vervanger van @tamardewaal.bsky.social. www.groene.nl/artikel/stra...

Posting this interview also in the silly yet heartfelt hope that some of those incredible vibes might fly over to the Netherlands and help with the national election today.

„Selbst wenn ich all das nicht wäre, darf sich die Achtung vor Menschen in diesem Land nicht an deren wirtschaftlichem Nutzen bemessen.“ www.freitag.de/autoren/der-... via @freitag.de

"A 2,000-household survey in Gaza... suggested that the official figures were likely to be undercounting the number of people killed in the war by roughly 39 percent... The majority of those killed — some 56 percent — were women, children and the elderly." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Die Kolonialphantasien des westdeutschen Wirtschaftswunders. Ein Vortrag, den ich nochmal gerne irgendwo halten möchte... 1/3

Update zum Endlos-Clusterfuck #Humboldtforum: der Bundesgerichtshof hat nun entschieden, dass Ehrhardt Bödeckers – ein Großspender der Berliner Schlossfassaden - tatsächlich Rechtsradikaler und Antisemit war und die Kritik daran u.a. durch Philipp Oswalt gerechtfertigt gewesen ist. 1/

What a metaphor for tearing down the house of democracy.

"The goal of promoting peace among European powers (and the US) rested on racist understandings of 'civilized' warfare, which simultaneously underwrote constant 'small wars' against colonized peoples represented as collectively militant, devoid of civilians." (Priya Satia)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... jewsdemandaction.org

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

The brilliance of this campaign...

Analyse van de partijprogramma's van de verschillende politieke partijen aangaande hun plannen met het wetenschappelijk onderwijs. Maakt het wat makkelijker te besluiten wat te stemmen, wat mij betreft. #WOinActie

Nach den Studentenprotesten im Mai 2024, heftigem Polizeieinsatz dagegen und dann einer langen Phase von Gesprächen (und Protesten) hat die Universität von Amsterdam nun entschieden, bis auf Weiteres nicht mehr mit israelischen Institutionen zusammenzuarbeiten. www.uva.nl/en/content/n...

"There can be no real path to peace until the dehumanization of Palestinians stops. Until Israelis, and their allies, see Palestinians as equal human beings rather than “barbarians” and “human animals”." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"This Labour government would have banned the labour movement." "Protest is allowed, as long as it’s invisible, transient and useless. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies."

Auf dem @historikertag.bsky.social haben wir in der Debatte "Quo vadis academia?" u.a. mit @juliahauser.bsky.social (@pdprekaer.bsky.social) über die universitäre Arbeitswelt diskutiert. Jetzt wendet sich die Initiative #PDprekär mit offenem Brief an Politik www.historikerverband.de/aktuelles/me...

@omerbartov.bsky.social findet klare Worte über die Spirale von Gewalt und Verleugnung in Israel. blnreview.de/ausgaben/202...

This will haunt us all forever.

How a supreme court justice – who was appointed in 2018 in spite of credible accusations of sexual assault against him – has now opened the door for a veritable race war against non-white people by ICE. #KavanaughRaids

"Interfering with (the academic) process by forcing knowledge through a political filter is a tactic adopted by the Soviet Union and other authoritarian states. Scholarship is part of democratic public discourse, and no administration or party has the right to silence it for its own convenience."

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

"Every single day you live, you make a difference in the world. And you get to choose the difference that you make. Don't lose hope."

Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel, after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted #GlobalSumudFlotilla She said: “I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.” #Athens airport

"the former mayor of Barcelona said the prison yard had been decorated with a photo of a bombed-out Gaza, with the caption in Arabic: “Welcome to the new Gaza." She said it showed that the jail was “the prison of a fascist state”. “We asked for a doctor, we were told that that was for humans”."

Yesterday, it was my great privilege to protest with 250.000 Dutch people in Amsterdam and demand drawing a red line against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Organised by many Dutch NGOs and organisations including Jewish ones. #RodeLijn nos.nl/video/258528...

These images are magic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On 1 July 1933, the Ullstein company, Germany's biggest liberal publishing house at the time, hired Eduard Stadtler, a member of the NSDAP parliamentary group, for the new position of ‘political director’ to negotiate with the new Hitler-led government.

Signs of autumn First cup of herbal tea. First hot water bottle. First woollen sweater, though still too warm at the middle of day. First time a beret on my head. First bike ride with gloves.

The power of a last sentence. Elad Lapidot in the Berlin review. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Trump may often not mean what he says. He 's an impulse machine. But the second row behind him means what it says. Fanatics are always clear. Poets aren't, but they have words for what we don't want to hear: "A hard rain's a-gonna fall."

Betere illustratie van mijn scenario (draadje hieronder👇) kon ik niet bedenken. Dit is precies wat opstellers anti-antifa-motie voor ogen hadden. Door plakken van etiket ‘antifa’ kan elk protest, elke vreedzame bijeenkomst, elk drukwerk als een activiteit met terroristisch doel worden aangepakt.

"The curator said, flatly, “I realized for the first time in my life what it must be like to work under an authoritarian regime.” “It’s a disciplinary regime in the Foucauldian sense.” Indeed, months later, almost everyone I contacted declined to discuss the subject, even off the record." 1/2

This means that it is now Labour’s official position that Israel is committing genocide. While at the same time, the Labour government continues to arm that genocide Absolutely extraordinary!

Elon musk dismantled much of the Environmental Protection Agency so he would not be bothered building his supercomputer and poison the citizens of Memphis, Tennessee with its air pollution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...