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"Mirroring the far right on immigration backfired for Germany’s political centre" Insightful analysis + the title for this @jhillje.bsky.social piece is 🎯 In fact, you can probably replace the country name with any other country to understand recent 🗳️ outcomes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Elon Musk’s team posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.

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“The freezing of US humanitarian assistance has forced the closure of almost 80% of the emergency food kitchens set up to help people left destitute by Sudan's civil war. It is estimated that nearly two million people struggling to survive have been affected.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Volkswagen is now selling 4x as many EVs in Europe as Tesla is. Tesla is fifth in a sector it used to dominate

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt

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Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 130 comments

New data on remarkable malaria vaccine impact. In Cameroon about about 60% of the malaria-vaccinating districts recorded a drop in all-cause under-5 deaths, and 57% recorded a drop in deaths linked to malaria in children aged under 5.

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VVD en NSC, stap zo snel mogelijk uit dit kabinet voordat je zelf onderdeel van het probleem wordt. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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Prachtige ondersteuning van het punt door migratie politiseren is goed voor de PVV @peterkanne2024.bsky.social en zijn team www.ipsos-publiek.nl/actueel/ipso...:

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

These approval ratings are still horrifyingly high but the trend is promisingly in the direction of sanity.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

submitted 8 days ago • 91 comments

“USAID is not a perfect agency,” writes @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social, the president of Refugees International. “No government institution is. But from the Green Revolution to humanitarian relief to the fight against HIV, it has built a more stable world while advancing U.S. interests.”

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Were any previous authoritarian takeovers this unbearably cringe?

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 8 days ago • 230 comments

It looks like Steve Bannon just did a Nazi salute at the end of his CPAC speech.

submitted 8 days ago • 385 comments

The U.S. transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, said the government would conduct a “compliance review” on a $3.1 billion grant for California’s high-speed rail, potentially threatening the viability of the project.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 8 days ago • 182 comments

This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

submitted 8 days ago • 653 comments

Klever: ‘Mali doet structureel te weinig voor Heerhugowaard’ speld.nl/2025/02/20/k...

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Hamas released the bodies of four hostages Thursday, including what it said was the remains of a mother and her two young children, members of the Bibas family, whose story came to symbolize the brutality of the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

Je zou het bijna vergeten zijn als je elke dag luistert naar Sven Kockelmann, maar volgens de huidige peiling zou de meerderheid van Nederland stemmen op partijen die de PVV uitsluiten (van 55 naar 78 zetels tov de verkiezingen). Kan er nog gesproken worden over "de Nederlander"?

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Breaking news: 57 percent of Americans say President Donald Trump has exceeded his authority since taking office for his second term, according to a new Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

submitted 8 days ago • 223 comments

REMINDER: Cutting IRS spending is not a “cost-cutting” move. Cutting the IRS lowers revenue. It’s a move to protect the wealthy, like Elon Musk. Auditing the rich returns $12 for every $1 spent. www.nber.org/papers/w31376

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 8 days ago • 71 comments

Trump’s dismantling of USAid raises risk of mpox global emergency, experts warn www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trouwens, we weten niet beter, en misschien zijn we het normaal gaan vinden, maar Geert Wilders is zelf natuurlijk pas echt een dictator binnen zijn partij, al héél lang.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

Here’s an idea: regeer niet met de PVV.

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

Het patroon is bekend, vooral de ondersteunende data-analyse van Nieuwsuur biedt interessant inkijkje in rolopvatting PVV nos.nl/l/2556510

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… nos.nl/l/2556579

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This is genuinely an important article. The two main lessons from Hungary appear to be: DO NOT WAIT DO NOT UNDERREACT Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window. www.vox.com/politics/398...

submitted 23 days ago • 48 comments

Kabinet wil af van het hulpaspect van ontwikkelingshulp: ‘Belang Nederland moet voorop’

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

This is like saying parents saved money by not feeding their kids as much and skipping doctors’ appointments. People were actually using the services he’s killed off, among them veterans.

submitted 9 days ago • 75 comments

Dilan 'woke is het grootste gevaar van deze tijd' Yesilgöz heeft ook wel wat uit te leggen nu.

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 9 days ago • 519 comments

The US State Department is forcing all of its employees to cancel subscriptions to any Trump-unfriendly media.

submitted 9 days ago • 236 comments

Trump must be removed from office as soon as possible. There's no scenario where this can go on for 4 years

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

The most shocking thing about this is that anyone took him at his word.

submitted 10 days ago • 1010 comments

It's worth caring about the actual practice of diversity initiatives and not just what the "real meaning" of criticisms are. www.slowboring.com/p/common-sen...

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

Alice Weidel, Germany's far-right leader, lives in Switzerland and is raising two sons with her Sri Lankan-born wife. Her party, the Alternative for Germany, campaigns on a platform that is anti-immigrant and defines family as a father and a mother raising children.

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The abduction of the Bibas family in the Hamas-led attack on Israel has been seared into the country's national psyche. Hopes dissipated on Tuesday that Shiri Bibas and her redheaded sons would be returned alive when Hamas announced that it would hand over their bodies this week. nyti.ms/41wDULL

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

Punishment has been conflated with revenge. It’s myopic and counter-productive: we need to look beyond vengefulness when holding people accountable for the harms they have done.

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Denk hier even aan als we het hebben over bezuinigingen op zorg, onderwijs, publieke voorzieningen, cultuur of over btw-verhogingen. Er is echt genoeg geld in Nederland om iedereen een waardig bestaan te bieden. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ri...

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The Oval Office meeting convened by President Trump sought to eliminate roadblocks to the planned merger of the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf. His participation was a brazen conflict of interest, former prosecutors and ethics lawyers say — one of a series in recent weeks. nyti.ms/4gQPXaS

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For context, $8 billion is nearly the size of the entire budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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“Vance may think it’s the responsibility of democracy to embrace any point of view; it’s worth wondering what he might have said if, instead of the AfD polling at 20%, an antisemitic and anti-democratic Muslim Brotherhood-style party was drawing a similar share” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

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