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Norbert Schotte #GIDEON @nschotte.bsky.social · 2h

Het is oprecht niet meer bij te houden met die Wiersma haar tegenvallers.

Jorg Leijten @jorgleijten.bsky.social · 3h

Femke Wiersma en tegenvallers worden al bijna net zo'n iconisch duo als Bassie en Adriaan

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Tegenvaller voor minister Wiersma: versoepeling van stikstofregels valt fors lager uit, door nieuw wetenschappelijk inzicht

Stikstof: Door nieuw wetenschappelijk inzicht valt het versoepelen van de stikstofregels lager uit dan gehoopt. Het is een tegenvaller voor demissionair minister Femke Wiersma (Landbouw, BBB), die Ned...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 2h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 2h

The Russian economy continues to slide into the abyss.

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The Perfect Storm Hits The Russian Economy

YouTube video by Jay in Kyiv

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Roland Kroes @roland1976.bsky.social · 2h

Wauw. Wat is ‘Een buitengewoon gesprek’ met Mirjam Bikker, Frans Timmermans en Rob Jetten een geweldig mooi programma. Met prachtige vragen en mooie antwoorden.

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Erik Jonker @erikjonker.bsky.social · 2h

"raising questions" , it's clearly illegal and criminal but the Washington Post doesn't dare to say it.... I hope military officers realize they can be prosecuted for following these clearly illegal orders

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2h

Breaking news: The U.S. military killed six alleged drug smugglers off the coast of Venezuela, President Trump said, raising further questions about his legal authority to use lethal force against vessels suspected of transporting illicit narcotics.

U.S. kills 6 alleged drug smugglers in new strike off Venezuela, Trump says

The operation follows Senate Republicans’ narrow defeat of a measure that aimed to prevent the administration’s actions on legal grounds.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

Federal officials telling social media companies to take down posts was supposedly a free speech crisis. It’s not even really hypocrisy, since the right was lying about much of it.
And this isn’t misinformation, foreign influence ops, or public health, just 1A-protected speech the govt doesn’t like.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 9h

You could probably identify the specific missile type if you have the right sensors in the right places. But it's a ridiculous claim anyway. It has been many years since a nuclear armed Tomahawk existed, and the chances that the US would give Ukraine a nuclear weapon are zero.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 3h

Wut?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump to Milei: "Do you need any Tomahawks in Argentina? You need them for your opposition, I guess, because in this country they use Tomahawks on the opposition. I don't do that. I'm much nicer. The Democrats would use them if they had the chance. They're sick people."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Will you consider removing new restriction on Pentagon press?

TRUMP: I think he finds the press to be very disruptive in terms of world peace and maybe security for our nation. The press is very dishonest

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 3h

This is scary shit: A woman born in Chicago was detained by federal agents who told her she didn’t “look like” her own last name. She even showed them her passport, and they still didn’t believe her. She carries that passport everywhere because she's worried about being snatched by ICE.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 4h

Even after we deal with Trump, we'll be cleaning up the mess he created for decades. Once you mainstream bigotry, it takes a long time and a lot of work to make it shameful again.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3h

I really just once a reporter would reply “oh are you gonna cry about it”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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Erik Jonker @erikjonker.bsky.social · 3h

Dan luister je te weinig naar de podcast, ze verafschuwen Trump beiden...

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Erik Jonker @erikjonker.bsky.social · 3h

Onze overzeese gebiedsdelen liggen bij Venezuela maar toch hoor je in Nederland niemand van de regering zijn/haar afschuw uitspreken over dat Trump mensen daar in de internationale wateren zonder enige vorm van proces of juridische legitimiteit afschiet/vermoordt...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

Unprecedentedly illegal & unconstitutional crimes - things that make Nixon's presidency-ending crimes look like harmless high school pranks - now happening daily:

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Erik Jonker @erikjonker.bsky.social · 4h

Trump keeps killing/murdering people illegally, without clear evidence, trial or anything like that. Also even if they are drugstraders (not certain) , just killing them this way is illegal according to any law in all civilized countries in the world.
#trump #criminal #killings #venezuela

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 4h

Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean.

Making at least five such US strikes.

Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics.

POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4h

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 4h

"joking"

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Erik Jonker @erikjonker.bsky.social · 6h

We can't trust Trump with regard to BigTech, we can't trust BigTech itself and the USA is breaking down it's cybersecurity capabilities, plenty of reasons to start walking away from hyperscalers....
www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-la...

Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA

Some CISA staffers have been pushed out, while others are being told to move across the country for jobs outside their skill sets.

www.cybersecuritydive.com

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Erik Jonker @erikjonker.bsky.social · 6h

Dat kan helemaal niet getalsmatig als je een regering wilt vormen zonder PVV , dan moeten genoemde partijen gewoon in een coalitie...ook al beweren ze nu wat anders misschien

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 6h

If your God needs to be saved by Eric Trump, ...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Erik Jonker @erikjonker.bsky.social · 6h

...maakt niets uit, uiteindelijk maakt het CDA toch onderdeel uit van de te vormen coalitie met oa GL PvDA, een coalitie zonder die partij is getalsmatig best wel ondenkbaar als je niet met PVV wil regeren. Iedereen moet gewoon stemmen op de partij die het beste bij hem/haar past.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 6h

Militants of the russian terrorist state attacked a UN humanitarian convoy near Bilozerka, Kherson region, this morning.

The United Nations condemns the attack but refuses to say who did it. The russian terrorist state is a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council.

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