RE: https://mastodon.social/@erikwesselius/115941389713375023 Dat lijkt de enige waarde van de huidige tijd, te leren waarom in de jaren 30 gebeurde wat er gebeurde en hoe ook toen zo velen het mogelijk moeten hebben gemaakt. In Duitsland, en in de rest van Europa.

RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/115934910133481985 That and his strategy of absurd initial demands, widenening the window of possibilities so far that the counterpart is happy with any sort of quasi-normal, but disadvantageous outcomes they would otherwise never have accepted. He does […]

Must keep posting this. ICE has contracted with the successor to the mercenary firm Blackwater. As one keen follower pointed out: We have private military mercenaries operating on US soil.

Republicans somehow managed to sprint from “we’re trying to protect women in sports” straight to defending a woman being shot in the head three times at point blank range for trying to drive away from a masked thug.

One of my eternal frustrations will always be how often politicians claim to do 'realpolitik' when they are in fact just being cowards. They are not being 'realists' in appeasing the man who said he wants to annex Greenland. They're just hoping he won't do it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@chu/115776223214060423 Indeed, because similarly to a forest for a capitalist, billionaires have no value for society until they're cut down.

Hans Goslinga in Trouw: »Hoe zeker kunnen Jetten en Bontenbal zijn van samenwerking met een partij, die zich zo in de klauwen van radicaal-rechts heeft vastgedraaid dat zij een fatsoenlijke partij als GroenLinks-PvdA als extreemlinks wegzet? Die vraag is van politieke betekenis, omdat een […]

I think that schools should take on this role. You could have a server for a school with mastodon, but not connected to the rest of the fedi, you could network with similar schools. Just like at the school dance the teachers are around so there are limits to how it's used. Teens could post […]

Cruelty is the point. Example 2685… #trump DoJ ‘immediately’ stops enforcing prison rape protections for #trans and intersex people, according to leaked memo https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/prison-rape-trans-doj-b2879253.html

It is so scary that even a democratically elected government (Labour!!!) thinks that a “tech-led approach to justice” creating a "prison outside of prison" is the way to go to solve problems of overcrowding or the 'crisis' in the justice system ".. ministers told the companies they wanted ideas […]

Given the amount of infiltration by Israel in Iran, it seems extremely unlikely they did not have assets in Gaza, knowing what Hamas was up to. Or did they? One option is that they (ab)used the same tactics as Western intelligence have with peace and climate activists: infiltrate and then […]