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🤔🇮🇱🇮🇷 Israel launched strikes on Iran last week, saying Iran was close to a nuclear "point of no return," - CNN ☢️❌ But US intelligence disagrees - officials estimate Iran was not actively building a bomb and was up to 3 (❗️) years away from building a nuclear weapon.

For fuck sake 300 casualties incl. 50 deaths “tanks attacked the people who were waiting for food and humanitarian aid” www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

If Iran and Russia want, air traffic between Europe and East Asia can come to a standstill. Treathen flights over Alaska+Georgia + straight of Holmuz.

ya know, it used to be weird to have giant holes in the map

Opinie: Laat ons staten beoordelen op hun daden, niet op hun geloof

If this was Putin threatening Paris, saying the city sold evacuate, what would our collective (NATO, EU) response be? Now, it’ll likely be brushed off as ‘Trump just being Trump’, but shouldn’t.

Also worth noting that the more Trump hints that the US is about to hit Iran, the more time he gives the Iranians to prepare, which lowers the chances of success and puts US servicemembers in greater danger.

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This wasn’t supposed to be a prediction!!

Why am I not surprised?

“No new wars.” Looks like while fanning the flames of one and ignoring the other, he is indeed choosing chaos over peace, just not in the headlines, but in the lives destroyed off-camera. Worst American President in my history, that’s for sure.

In the rise of authoritarianism, it's easy to look at the problem as one of executive aggrandizement: presidents have become too powerful, so it's time to cut down the power of the office. But, the real central issue is the collapse of Congress as a functional legislative body. Fixing it is key.

Trump thinks if Russia wouldn’t have been thrown out of the G8 there wouldn’t be a war. Russia was thrown out because they illegally invaded Ukraine in 2014. What humiliation for the United States to have this kremlin owned puppet representing her on the world stage

Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism

This is insane. Republicans have lost their damn minds.

"In Europa beseffen we soms te weinig dat de welvaartsstaat een buffer is tegen politiek extremisme. En dat we er daarom erg zuinig op moeten zijn."

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

Het frame van "zuinige overheid" en "begrotingsdiscipline" van VVD-minister van Financiën Eelco Heinen blijkt niks meer dan beeldvorming. Het 'zuinige kabinet' heeft niks gedaan aan de jaarlijks €30-€50 miljard fiscale regelingen waarvan het doel onduidelijk is.

There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?" 99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.

It’s hard to escape the dawning realization that part of the goal of Google’s AI Overview is to simply eradicate the concept of anyone else having any kind of website at all. Why click on a link & explore when Google told you the answer & you didn’t know it was wrong?

The god of Abraham is a war God #karenarmstrong

Vandaag liepen mensen weer massaal samen om hun solidariteit uit te spreken en een rode lijn te trekken. Gaza wordt blootgesteld aan onbeschrijfelijk geweld. Meer dan 50.000 slachtoffers, waaronder kinderen, vrouwen en journalisten. Dit kabinet doet niks. 1/2

In just one week: A GOP president deployed Marines in a U.S. city, called for a Democratic governor’s arrest, the GOP Speaker called for him to be tarred and feathered, a Democratic senator was handcuffed, and two Democratic legislators were shot in their homes.

Vandaag, 13u Malieveld Den Haag #RodeLijn (Tot zo!)

VVDers die een linkse partij elitair noemen is toch de grootste grap ooit? Degenen die dit in een achterkamer bedachten, hebben vast zitten bulderen van het lachen voor ze de laatste slok van hun glas Château namen en hun sigaren opstaken.

Mensen maken nog steeds de denkfout dat ze de VVD als fatsoenlijke partij zien. Dat is 't niet. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

WELKE PLANNEN??? de @vvdonline.bsky.social zit al decennia in het landsbestuur. ze had haar natte droom van een extreemrechts kabinet. maar nog steeds is alles de schuld van LiNKs. nul inhoud en visie, alleen maar jij-bakken.

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

Als je niet voor de democratische rechtsstaat bent, dan ben je tegen. bsky.app/profile/laur...

VVD’ers die met een snik in de stem en een aardappel in de keel jammeren over het ‘overgeleverd worden aan Timmermans’, zijn het levende bewijs van de waarheid achter de kreet: ‘When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.’

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.