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Retired Dutch civil servant, living in The Netherlands and Spain with his Spanish wife.
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Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

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Harvard just told Trump no. No to gutting DEI. No to ideological student screenings. No to $9 billion in federal blackmail. Garber said it best: “No government should dictate what universities can teach.”

!!!!!!! #1u dont fuck with miners

The U.S. attacked a ceramics factory near Sanaa on Sunday that killed at least seven people and injured 29 others, with at least five children killed or wounded.

I wanted to share a part of the speech Ukraine's ambassador to Germany Oleksii Makeiev gave during the 19th Berlin Freedom Speech If you can,please listen to the whole speech by @makeiev.bsky.social, it’s available online "So what is freedom? The answer depends on who gives it.But also where&when

🇺🇲 #theresistance Fiftyfifty.one Findaprotest.info Handsoff2025.com Answercoalition.org

Police have revealed that Trump’s actual height is 5’10” and his weight is 130kg (287lbs). Slightly more believable than his “health report”

Elizabeth I, portrayed in splendor before gold, with bonus A+ verdure tapestry (matching her own flowers!) in 1563. By Steven van der Meulen, whose day is today.

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At the White House, Vice President JD Vance tried to lift the CFP Championship Trophy, and it broke apart in his hands. A perfect metaphor for the Trump administration.

A double tap by mistake, as one occasionally does

Harvard joins Princeton in standing up to the tyrant www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Trump is refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to do so. This is a constitutional crisis. How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?

“In every relationship, there’s one person who loads the dishwasher like a Scandinavian architect, and one who loads it like a raccoon on meth.”

Trump dismisses the Russia Palm Sunday terrorist attack on Ukraine's Sumy as just "a mistake", despite Russia double tapping on civilians and visibly celebrating the massacre online.

Trump orders government to stop tracking cancers in U.S. firefighters. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.

🧵 “Voters are not sufficiently alarmed by American democracy crumbling. Instead of accepting that premise, Democrats should try to change it. […] There is no question that the economic argument is the best-testing message, but focusing exclusively… open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

New records reveal that Marjorie Taylor Greene bought thousands of dollars in stock right before Trump’s tariff pause announcement caused markets to surge.

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El Salvador is a contractor providing the United States with a paid service. The idea that we couldn’t get anyone they’re holding back with the snap of a finger just by asking is so ludicrous on its face, it seems less like a real excuse and more like a test of how much shit the courts will eat.

ALT: A protest sign, leaning against a tree, reads: IF YOU HAVE EVER WONDERED WHAT YOU'D DO DURING SLAVERY, THE HOLOCAUST OR CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT YOU'RE DOING IT RIGHT NOW

🚨 Clip of 47 meeting today at the WH with El Salvador's president, Nayib Burelé Turn the volume up… it’s pieced together for certain commentary so the sound isn’t great… but when 47 says: “ We’re going after “homegrown criminals” next” Who/What does that mean? #MomSky

Scotland wake the feck up because we never get the Union promised jam to go on the Union dividend bread at the same time. It just steals oor jam before we can spread it on the bread. Westminster came for the old. Now this Union is coming for the sick, poor and young 'unemployed'. What shite 🤦🏻‍♀️

VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝 🇩🇪 Merz: I would agree to supply Taurus missiles to Ukraine after agreement with European partners. 🇬🇧 UK sent Ukraine $990 million to buy air defences and artillery, backed by frozen Russian assets. 🚢 Three years ago, the cruiser "Moskva" sank!

Solid weasel wording from the Times

Harvard yells White House to take a hike, rejecting a $9 billion funding deal with strings attached. President Garber struck a defiant note, insisting that neither party should dictate what universities teach or whom to admit. Academic freedom over federal cash.

Trump has refused to even sell air defense missiles to Ukraine — not donate, sell. Now he's rejected Ukraine’s $50 billion offer to buy U.S. military equipment. What could possibly be the reason? Even profit isn’t worth helping a democracy defend itself? Unbelievable.

Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.

🚨🚨In slightly underreported news, #Hungary has passed a despicable constitutional amendment allowing authorities to ban LGBT+ public events such as Pride marches – clear move toward even more authoritarianism by Orban's government.🧵 www.independent.co.uk/lgbt/hungary...

Hands off Social Security. Hands off Medicaid. Hands off veteran care. Hands off our kids’ education. Hands off our rights. We’re going to fight like hell to defend our democracy from Donald Trump. #HandsOff

We're going to need a bunch of Hero's like her real soon....are you ready?

Stephen Miller is a liar and a propagandist and while there is clear value in understanding what he's saying as a means of understanding what the administration is doing, not a single fact out of his mouth can be trusted.