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“What Vladimir Putin did to Ukraine, that’s an invasion,” Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, explained. “On the other hand, illegal migration, or drug smuggling, or ordinary crime — that’s not an invasion.” By @mtredden.bsky.social‬

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

i think this is exactly right

submitted 8 days ago • 70 comments

“A nation where investors must pay bribes and possibly risk later being charged with crimes as a routine ‘cost of doing business’ cannot remain the thriving financial center of the world for long.” @davidrlurie.bsky.social on the coming cost of “making crime legal.” open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

submitted 10 days ago • 67 comments

Hey, I enjoyed the movie ‘Civil War’ as a work of fiction. It doesn’t need a real life reenactment 😬

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Overall impression of Dutch parliament debate is that yet again, everything is focused on asylum. Rather than income, industry, education, environment, defense. Apparently nobody, including the VVD, has learned the lesson that when you focus on immigration, the PVV wins. Nobody else.

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 12 days ago • 3070 comments

Trump ain’t exactly Making America Great Again… unless you’re into crime. Then I guess it’s the golden age. Read public notice. 👇

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

I often hear: "OH YEAH, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO FIGHT FASCISM!?" in response to my posts. So, to those people: This. This is what I'm doing. What are YOU doing?

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Yeşilgöz is zo blij dat ik weer terug ben in de Kamer dat ze er stil van is 😅

submitted 16 days ago • 210 comments

Food for thought voor @vvdonline.bsky.social …

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Interview in @trouw.nl Over Polen (maar een week voor de verkiezingen daar, en helaas correct voorspeld), Hongarije, Nederland (maar voor de val van het kabinet), de (rolverdeling in een) rechtsstaat — en voetbal. @van-oorschot.bsky.social @fessink.bsky.social www.trouw.nl/politiek/pop...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Wilders wil premier worden? Nou dat is natuurlijk nauwelijks serieus te nemen. chrisaalberts.nl/2025/06/03/w...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

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Joehoe!! Water. Iedereen begrijpt dat de mens totally fckd is als dat escaleert door korte-termijn-politiek, toch? Verder; liefde voor @groene.nl Wat verlichtend dat er toch ook zo veel zinvolle journalistiek bedreven wordt.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

submitted 31 days ago • 304 comments

Je mag vinden wat je vindt van Gaza, maar dit zegt de wetenschap. En nee, een individuele mening kan die niet doen verdwijnen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

NSC is weer eens door het ijs gezakt. Hef jezelf dan op. www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/opm...

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

submitted 43 days ago • 572 comments

‘Mensen die in stilte transgender zijn, krijgen 30 dagen om zichzelf te melden.’ ‘Het Ministerie van Defensie gaat de medische dossiers van zijn militairen onder de loep nemen, om te kijken wie tekenen van genderdysforie vertoont. Voor wie dat geldt, wordt ook ontslagen.’ nos.nl/l/2566528

submitted 43 days ago • 45 comments

#bitcoin

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submitted 44 days ago • 40 comments

Omtzigt beweerde namens NSC dat 'experts' ministers zouden worden. In plaats daarvan zitten vier fractieleiders de begroting te fabriceren en werd bewust afgezien van ondersteuning door de experts. Erkent NSC-bewindsman. Je zou om minder opstappen. #BetrouwbareBronnen art19.com/shows/betrou...

submitted 46 days ago • 12 comments

Amazing. Ann Telnaes just won a Pulitzer Prize for her work at The Washington Post --- which she resigned from after they refused to run this cartoon.

submitted 46 days ago • 13 comments

Every “invest-in-America” bit of hopium should be chased with a shot of this realism. 🇺🇸

submitted 46 days ago • 12 comments

It was always performative outrage.

submitted 46 days ago • 416 comments

Good advice that worked when banks still had customer service that you could call. I have at least one bank account that is chat-contact only (although that would be an obvious red flag if they actually called _me_…)

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraudulent payment. "Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right? The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank." 🧵 1/4

submitted 48 days ago • 18 comments

That so many of you carry on posting on X encapsulates the problem with authoritarianism. Many people hate it but aren't prepared to make even the tiniest personal sacrifice to oppose it [like foregoing the fun of shitposting on the authoritarian propaganda website].

submitted 60 days ago • 71 comments

In een land waar Jordan fúcking Peterson de Ziggo Dome vult, is overduidelijk iets grondig mis.

submitted 60 days ago • 26 comments