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Independent identity, Bitcoin, blockchain consultant, Amsterdam. Co-founder http://WarrenBrandeis.io. Posts do not represent views of clients. Posts I share do not necessarily mean endorsement of their views.
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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

i think this is exactly right

“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...

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

Food for thought voor @vvdonline.bsky.social …

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...

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

Joehoe!! Water. Iedereen begrijpt dat de mens totally f*ck*d 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.

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.

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/...

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

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

‘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

#bitcoin

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...

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.

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

It was always performative outrage.

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_…)

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

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].

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