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% of Republicans without critical thinking skills up to 100 percent

Department Of Wanton Destruction www.wired.com/story/cdc-jo...

My latest —

Kijk kijk www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-...

When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez / And it’s Eastertime too www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jWB...

Scenes from a dictatorship

World Press Photo 2025 naar Palestijnse fotograaf Samar Abu Elouf www.villamedia.nl/artikel/worl...

Lezersbrief in de Volkskrant Hear hear!

Voor m'n serie Achter De Schermen (over hoe redacties AI praktisch inzetten) ging ik langs bij Roularta, die uiteenlopende toepassingen in het bedrijfsproces hebben geïntegreerd. Loooongread, met betaalmuurdoorpriklinkje: www.villamedia.nl/artikel/acht...

Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

Of course

We've reached the point where Republicans are flying to El Salvador to visit one of the most vicious prisons in the world to have photo ops so they can prove their loyalty to the President of the United States.

Ah, het is weer fietshelmdag. Benieuwd wanneer auto-snelheid-omlaag-dag is. Of betere-fietsinfrastructuur-dag. Of geen-auto's-in-schoolstraat-dag. Of leg-je-focking-telefoon-weg-als-je-in-de-auto-zit-dag.

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There’s just no plausible way you can describe the U.S. as a free country anymore.

De Israëlische 'vergissing' Autopsies of Gaza Medics Killed by Israeli Troops Show Some Were Shot in the Head www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/w...

16 April 1909 | A Polish man, Stefan Bratkowski, was born in Warsaw. In #Auschwitz from 22 September 1942. No. 64783 He escaped on 15 June 1944. He perished in the Warsaw Uprising.

Trumps gejojo met handelstarieven heeft niets te maken met beleid. Het is ‘het spektakel van de heroïsche leider die zijn capaciteit voor 'shock and awe' tentoonspreidt’.

Genuinely perfect encapsulation of Trumpism, if we do something bad, it's your fault for not stopping us. We should all take that to heart. bsky.app/profile/jwmu...

The people telling the world they want to "have Greenland" and make Canada the "51st state" are suddenly really into respecting national sovereignty when it comes to the nation they want to serve as their fascist blacksite penal colony

#pt Context. www.dw.com/en/jd-vance-... What an asshole

Vance casually saying Europe shouldn't have let the US start the Iraq War is quite someting. The US didn't fucking listen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_Febr...

It’s all a matter of angles. And from this angle, it makes total sense. 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇮🇸🇬🇧🇳🇴—-> 🇪🇺 🙌

Daar was het helemaal niet op gericht, dat weten ze zelf ook wel, ze bestoken het land lukraak en ze liegen dat ze barsten, dat doen ze vanaf dag één, en toch blijven we dit soort onzin op de voorpagina zetten…

Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.

Russia started the war. You have to keep saying it to overcome this lie.

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Siri, wat is vogelvrij?

The Dutch Archimedes: Christiaan Huygens, leading Dutch scientist, mathematician, horologist, pioneer of probability theory, born #OTD 1629. Portrait by Caspar Netscher, 1671 Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden

Ben gek op m'n tuintje maar nul illusies dat een visgraatparketzwartstalendeur-stel na me het niet volledig betegelt. Alles van waarde etc.

The Mother of Measles gets snubbed by the Fertilization President. It’s a tale as old as time. Sad.

This is organist Olena Kohut, killed today in Sumy by the Russian missile. Joseph Rheinberger, Visione, op. 156 no. 5 💔

The AP could do a great public service by actually publishing these memos (if it’s able to do so)

Verbaasd en tikje verontrust dat dit holle vat blijkbaar een Ziggo Dome vol krijgt.

Sumy 💔 A family mourns the loss of a loved one. 21 people killed and at least 20 more injured as of the current information. Today is an important church holiday in the Easter Orthodox tradition. Many people were headed to church in Sumy this morning...

⚡️A Russian missile strike killed at least 20 people in the city of Sumy on the morning of Palm Sunday, Sumy Mayor Artem Kobzar reported on April 13.

Had deze fotoserie van fotojournalist Philip Holsinger nog niet gezien. www.cbsnews.com/news/photojo...

Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

Number one takeaway from the insane turnout at fight the oligarchy rallies, while chuck schumer cancels his little book tour and gretchen whitmer hides her face, is that there is zero constituency for bipartisanship

“The reporter from MyPillow asked the White House press secretary why the president looks so healthy and robust” is a true sentence that exists in our current reality.

Why?

Black Mirror S07E01 een gitzwarte les in machteloosheid en corporate enshittification 🫡 @charliebrooker.bsky.social

Onderzoeksjournalistiek 2025.

Een Chinese exportheffing van 145 procent op Amerikaanse bestellingen zou geestig wezen