Latest Dutch polling, with one month to election day. -Wilders way down on last election but still easily most popular -Centre right CDA the big winners/kingmakers -Green/left holding steady -D66 doing pretty well too -NSC collapse is embarrassingly total: from 20 seats to 0 in less than 2 years!

OMG, this is good! 🤣

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president, addressed the UN general assembly on Tuesday to call for felon Donald Trump to once again face “criminal proceedings” — this time over the US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean.

As UEFA moves towards suspending Israel as it did Russia, the US says it will try to stop Israel being banned from the World Cup. Meanwhile, Trump says he'll move WC games from host cities who don't comply with his policies. It's one of the most politically charged World Cups. Morning Star column.

Netanyahu orders IDF to broadcast his UNGA speech over loud speakers in Gaza. I'm dead serious.

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

Far right extremism has become normalized in the Netherlands, warns the counter-terrorism agency NCTV. We have Wilders' fellow travellers - the BBB, the NSC, and the VVD - to thank for that. I am fearful of what is coming in the October 29 elections. nltimes.nl/2025/09/25/a...

Check out this recording of yesterday's discussion on Western states' recognition of the State of Palestine with @shahdhm.bsky.social @somdeepsen.bsky.social Lana Tatour and yours truly: twailr.com/recording-of... TL;DR: we are not excited.

Interesting event and potential counterforce to the global populist right threat... hardly revolutionary but at least returning to global cooperation when the norm has been fragmentation and passivity. No coverage in the (unfortunately now captured) NYT or the BBC. Thoughts?

This is a very important empirical (!) study accounting for the mental health impact of genocide on health care workers in Gaza. Much respect to the researchers who conducted a survey under the hardest conditions, especially those in Gaza. These urgent testimonies warrant to be read and acted upon

"de universiteit is een plaats waar verschillende standpunten en opvattingen onderzocht en besproken kunnen en moeten worden. Maar dat is wat anders dan de plicht om iedere matig onderbouwde mening een podium te geven." This.

It's ridiculous that Benny Gantz managed to get an op-ed in the NYT. The guy is universally mocked in Israel as useless and worse. His party is now a statistical error in the polls. Unclear that it would clear electoral threshold to enter the next Knesset. The guy's political career is over.

United Nations experts call upon #FIFA and #UEFA to suspend #Israel for its continued genocidal violence No more “business as usual” nos.nl/l/2583776

Good chance of Israel being suspended from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) this week. This move would have devastating implications for Israeli football, and would be the most significant move of cultural sanction against Israel in decades.

Uiteraard komt de beste analyse over her geweld van zaterdag van collega @leoniedejonge.bsky.social

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

Masha Giessen is spot on. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, St. Mary's University (Alberta) Research or teaching track Field open but need to teach survey of Western intellectual tradition universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Testimonies of Israeli doctors from the torture camp of Sde Teyman. By my colleagues Hagar Kotef and Meirav Amir. theconversation.com/israeli-doct...

Ik kan er niet bij hoe onverantwoord het is om in deze tijden van uitdagingen, problemen en crises juist het onderwijs zo achter te laten. Kennis is de enige grondstof die Nederland in overvloed heeft, maar op deze manier niet lang meer. Met dank aan kabinet Schoof. www.aob.nl/actueel/arti...

BREAKING: Spain votes to boycott Eurovision if Israel competes Broadcaster RTVE is now the fifth to threaten withdrawal from Eurovision over Israel, following the Netherlands, Ireland, Slovenia and Iceland news.sky.com/story/spain-...

Dus je interviewt alleen mensen van buiten de universiteit, waarvan twee uiterst-rechts en gefrustreerd over gebrek aan universitaire carrière, en laat hen “de realiteit” bepalen? Maar vooral ook extra kudos voor het totaal verzwijgen van de daadwerkelijke repressie van “anti-Israel” posities.

The approach - govt land for nonmarket hsg, definition of affordability, designated funds to address homelessness thru supportive hsg, including acquisition of apts, supporting construction innovation - is right. Now we need targets, timelines, action. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda "to explain that there is no hunger and present the data.” www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...

En août 2025, le solaire a couvert ... 28% des besoins électriques de l'Allemagne, un pays de 84 millions d'habitants ! et tous les renouvelables 60%. Détails : 28,4% pour le solaire 17,7% pour l'éolien 7,9% pour la biomasse 4,4% pour l'hydro Soit 46,1% de renouvelables variables et prévisibles.

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The story here is increasingly about the right’s reaction — the incitement, the calls for war, the effort to use this terrible incident to neuter opposition. This should be seen in the context of authoritarian regimes worldwide and their efforts to exploit acts of political violence to consolidate.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Medio volgend jaar word ik 67. De advertentie voor een nieuwe directeur @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social staat vanaf vandaag online. Zegt het voort! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

Congratulations to Brazil, joining South Korea among the countries who successfully did what the United States could not 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Thanks to AVROTROS for doing the right thing.

If we start comparing, let's do it right: MAGA might turn Charlie Kirk into their Horst Wessel

The increase of political violence in the US is alarming and needs to be halted. But we shouldn't ignore Kirk's own role in contributing to political polarization, dehumanization of non-whites and women, and glorification of gun culture. You reap what you sow, I guess.

🇮🇪 out of Eurovision 2026 if 🇮🇱 participates. Even more unequivocal than 🇸🇮 statements so far. Broadcaster also ‘deeply concerned by the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza, and the denial of access to international journalists to the territory, and the plight of the remaining hostages’

EU divisions over Gaza hit Eurovision as Ireland pulls out

Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of Charlie Kirk, Variety reports

How Charlie Kirk practiced politics

The Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences calls to end collaboration with Israeli scholarly institutions, including Horizon programs.

WOinActie steunt de verklaring van de @knaw-nl.bsky.social . www.knaw.nl/nieuws/verkl...

It's about time...

The entire anti-protest policing architecture is built on US funded anti-terrorism machinery. The ICE kidnappings in the street are familiar because that’s how the Kenya (and Uganda) police have been kidnapping Somali citizens and then their own for 20 years. When a Kenyan protester gets tortured

The genocide escalates.

I thought his father was awful - but apparently the son is even worse...