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Zit bij dat stuk van de VVD me af te vragen wat ze nu precies bedoelen met die middenklasse die moeite heeft met rondkomen. Iemand met een bijna afbetaalde koopwoning is met de huidige prijzen een halve miljonair. Dan ben je toch wel een beetje rijk, zeg ik als middenklasser zonder koopwoning?

submitted 86 days ago • 19 comments

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 292 comments

I think what Friedman is gesturing at here is the fact that Waymo is pretty much the only big tech play that taps into the dying positive vibes around big tech: it's really smart people solving a really hard, transformative problem in a generally responsible way. That's not a political platform.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

he’s right and he’s right to say it

submitted 1 day ago • 269 comments

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

submitted 2 days ago • 281 comments

My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 2 days ago • 431 comments

This is really good local reporting on what MAGA politics looks like. Racism and refusal to admit wrong.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Alarmists were largely right about Trump, anti-alarmists badly wrong, some sorta admit it, but @polphilpod.bsky.social is unimpressed. "None could hide their contempt for the alarmists, even in their big ‘my bad’ moments... All of them seemed unable to say what they got wrong." @liberalcurrents.com

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Looks like we finally found the censorship industrial complex. I'm sure the Twitter Files conspiracy theorists will be all over it any day now. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

My favourite stat on this sacred day. English or British? No one actually cares.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

submitted 3 days ago • 152 comments

deep tim and eric vibes here

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Luckily I’ve heard that we can simply do more pushups and this won’t be a problem because logistics are for sissies and nerds

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

a consistent problem dems of a certain age have (and i think there’s a meaningful difference between them and younger dems) is failing to understand that a certain kind of lib is still as angry and unforgiving about this as mcveigh was about ruby ridge, but just aren’t psychopathic child killers

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

you're living through a technological revolution, but it has nothing to do with web 3.0, cryptocurrency, the metaverse or even AI. Solar+storage are taking over the energy grids everywhere on the entire planet and will make fossil fuels extinct.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this incredible news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

submitted 4 days ago • 820 comments

Ga hier even goed voor zitten

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Short term, I shoot myself in the foot. Long term, it's good news. I learn to walk without the foot. I do a three-legged hop, a tarantulan creep. Babadook-like movements. People will ask "why do you do this?" and I will say "it's important I blow my foot off for no reason." They respect this.

submitted 6 days ago • 472 comments

What if we considered samples & interpolations as connections in sonic family trees? My project out today @puddingviz.bsky.social w/ @jaredwhalen.com @matthew-daniels.bsky.social lets you see and hear the genealogy of our popular music. pudding.cool/2025/04/musi...

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

For those unfamiliar with the trucking industry: 80 blank sailings means, give or take, about 1,000,000 cargo containers that had been scheduled and booked for delivery which just disappeared.

submitted 8 days ago • 85 comments

oh my god

submitted 7 days ago • 949 comments

Het frame van de 'bedrijfsopvolgingsregeling (BOR)'. De BOR wordt misbruikt door vermogende families om maar 1,1% belasting te betalen, ook als ze geen band hebben met het bedrijf. De belangen zijn groot. Veel (oud-) kamerleden van D66, CDA ,VVD lobbyen om de BOR te behouden🧵🧵👇

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

Part of the grinding daily terribleness is how everything RFK Jr. does is exactly what it was clear RFK Jr. would do if anyone were cynical enough to put him in charge of health, Pam Bondi is doing exactly what anyone knew Trump would require his A.G. to do—brutally obvious and obviously brutal

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

submitted 9 days ago • 2055 comments

Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...

submitted 9 days ago • 104 comments

The harper's letter crowd is pretending the real threat to free speech is the same as the fake one they spent years panicking about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 9 days ago • 127 comments

You read this thread and it's pretty clear Musk has dozens of kids. That may understate it. Not exaggerating. Read the article or browse these clips. Honestly one of the most mind-boggling pieces I've read in quite a while.

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

This is quite fun. “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1

submitted 12 days ago • 66 comments

A week before the election they dedicated front page space to a totally invented "scandal" where Joe Biden criticized racist trump supporters mocking Puerto Ricans as "garbage." That's the narrative the Times thought mattered

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Factory expectations for NY State (Empire Manufacturing) is at full blown crisis levels. Record low expectations for shipments and orders growth and inflation expectations are soaring.

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

Trump has just hung the "now open for business sign", saying he'll do specific (tariff) favors for specific companies. CEOs will see massive gains from lobbying, and huge costs from criticizing the White House. It's an effective way to suppress criticism. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/b...

submitted 11 days ago • 46 comments

Quite wonderful find by this FT team. A Chinese small business that makes MAGA merch on.ft.com/4cAH6tE

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

A reminder to all those who like to measure the global economy in market exchange rates The size of the US economy has fallen 9 per cent since Donald Trump's inauguration in Euro terms

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

I believe the swing in the polls for the center left in Canada is the largest ever swing in the polls — across every country with polling since 1935 — in a four-month period

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

they finally did it. they invented a machine that can't run doom.

submitted 15 days ago • 55 comments

so, stephanie turner—the fencer who took a knee & went on a media tour about it—cost a trans girl the chance to participate in society & did it for $5,000 cash, in addition to, i assume, paid speaking gigs with folks like riley gaines. this is grifting. turner is a grifter. also a garbage person.

submitted 16 days ago • 60 comments

Prominent aanwezig bij de protesten tegen de komst van een AZC in Uden waren de Freedom Fighters Netherlands. Een neonazi groep.

submitted 15 days ago • 47 comments

Uiteraard. Al deze rellen zijn het werk van extreemrechts. Het is geen wilde speculatie om te vermoeden dat de rellen gecoördineerd worden door leidende figuren van die beweging.

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

Podcast | In 2016 sloten de deuren van het AZC Crailo, het einde van een bijzondere periode. Nu, bijna tien jaar later, lijken we mijlenver verwijderd van waar we toen stonden. “Nee, hier geen AZC” is inmiddels een vertrouwde uitspraak in het Gooi. Luister via: buff.ly/oyUGzai

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments