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aizeharkes.bsky.social
Retired ocular immunologist. Birdwatcher.
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Pieter Omtzigt verlaat de landelijke politiek. Nog wel bedankt dat je de PVV in een coalitie hielp, hè. Wat een legacy.

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

De zoveelste flater van Caroline van der Plas. Dat krijg je als prutsers 25 uur achtereen in achterkamertjes vergaderen. #N50

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 7 days ago • 1872 comments

I just got a notice that an academic conference for 2026 was being moved from the US to Canada because of concerns people have with entering the US. The cell phone searches and random detentions at the border are going to have long-term negative effects on the US.

submitted 15 days ago • 123 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 22 days ago • 10915 comments

Timmermans: 'Faber is de grootste prutser die ooit in vak K heeft gezeten'

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic on Mike Waltz: "This isn't The Matrix...My phone number was in his phone because my phone number was in his phone. He's telling everyone that he's never met me or spoken to me. That's simply not true." 🍿

submitted 24 days ago • 138 comments

If I were a foreign citizen, I sure as hell would not be coming to America for a vacation with the way things are under Trump. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/h...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Peter Marks’s resignation letter. Everyone should read this.

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

Whahahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂 Welkom op het Binnenhof, de Flodder editie Leuk gedaan! (Blijf kijken tot het einde 😉)

submitted 29 days ago • 32 comments

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submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This is what we’ve come to, and so quickly.

submitted 31 days ago • 827 comments

At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.

submitted 58 days ago • 76 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/t...

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submitted 34 days ago • 561 comments

Germany updated travel advisory warning that visa or entry waiver no longer guarantees entry for its citizens -several Germans were detained at border “The final decision on whether a person can enter the US lies with the US border authorities," said spokesperson. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

submitted 34 days ago • 53 comments

Het wordt echt tijd voor een negatief reisadvies voor de VS. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 34 days ago • 13 comments

Inmiddels komen de verhalen van tegengehouden, opgesloten, tijdelijk ‘verdwenen’ buitenlanders naar boven. Maar volgens @minbz.bsky.social is er nog steeds geen vuiltje aan de lucht en kan iedereen veilig naar de VS reizen. Een voetnoot lijkt mij op z’n plek. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

submitted 36 days ago • 96 comments

Stop buying Teslas, stop Tweeting, and stop using Starlink.

submitted 38 days ago • 63 comments

Tesla dead in Germany. #TeslaTakedown

submitted 38 days ago • 261 comments

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Aangifte tegen PVV-Statenlid Van Tiggelen na aanrijden klimaatactivist

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

Ronald van Tiggelen bedoel je?

submitted 44 days ago • 15 comments

Toen ik Auschwitz bezocht was door een aantal zaken geschokt. Een daarvan was Stehzelle. PVV-er van Dijk van de partij van Geert Wilders wil 8 mensen in een cel opsluiten en rechtop laten slapen. De Nazi's zitten in ons parlement. Donder ze er uit.

submitted 42 days ago • 23 comments

En dit is z’n hoofd. Emiel van Dijk. Onthoud die naam.

submitted 42 days ago • 40 comments

Canadians are seriously savage

submitted 42 days ago • 113 comments

Wij staan voor een veilig Nederland in een veilig Europa. Onverantwoord dat PVV, BBB en NSC 'nee' zeggen tegen het Europese plan om ons te verdedigen tegen Poetin. Opnieuw verdeeldheid in deze stuurloze coalitie.

submitted 43 days ago • 125 comments

Hearing from the NIH clinical center: "NIH has a freeze on all purchasing cards [as of yesterday]. No exceptions for most hospital supplies. Clinical center ran out of cups and now is having patients wash down their pills with water from tiny medicine cups."

submitted 50 days ago • 40 comments

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

submitted 51 days ago • 67 comments

Keer op keer hebben wij premier Schoof aangespoord net als andere landen extra steun aan Oekraïne toe te zeggen. Een grote meerderheid van de Kamer wil dat. Maar het gebeurt niet, omdat de coalitie verdeeld is en dus het kabinet stuurloos. Ons land onwaardig.

submitted 52 days ago • 72 comments

De Kamer heeft het kabinet ruim mandaat gegeven om de noodzakelijke hulp, defensie-investeringen en veiligheidsgaranties aan Oekraïne te geven. Teleurstellend en onbegrijpelijk dat het Nederlandse kabinet in Londen geen concrete toezeggingen heeft gedaan. www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binne...

submitted 52 days ago • 183 comments

Strong words from Republican Senator Murkowski

submitted 53 days ago • 205 comments

Mind blowing.

submitted 53 days ago • 707 comments

Zo schrijf je een nieuwsverhaal:

submitted 54 days ago • 11 comments

Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.

submitted 54 days ago • 1010 comments

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 54 days ago • 2230 comments

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

submitted 54 days ago • 3136 comments

Good God, this is so embarrassing. If you weren’t worried enough about flying,apparently, Elon Musk is in charge of air traffic controllers now, but he doesn’t even know the mandatory retirement age is 56.

submitted 55 days ago • 233 comments

Trump continues to lie… Even to his own administration. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/26/p...

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

BREAKING—RFK Jr’s FDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next year’s vaccine supply chain. God help us all.

submitted 56 days ago • 485 comments

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

submitted 58 days ago • 3732 comments

Love this from Denmark

submitted 58 days ago • 49 comments