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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 8h

De Nederlandse media is echt volledig van het padje af. Wat begon als overcompensatie na Fortuyn is verworden tot een moreel moeras waarin uiterst-rechtse ideeen zo genormaliseerd zijn dat veel journalisten ze niet als zodanig herkennen of ze zonder scrupulus monitariseren.

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Jamal Ouariachi 🍉 @jamalouariachi.bsky.social · 11h

Sorry, lieve eigen krant, maar Hitler-groet-brengende, kankerjood en hoer roepende, prinsenvlag dragende en Timmermans belagende fascisten die door de stad marcheren — dat is niet rustig maar diep verontrustend.

Trouw @trouw.nl · 11h

Anti-immigratieprotest in Amsterdam verloopt vrij rustig

In Amsterdam was zondag een grote politiemacht op de been bij een anti-immigratieprotest. Van een herhaling van de rellen in Den Haag kwam het niet.

www.trouw.nl

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 7h

“… seeking to magnify the moral rot and decadence of a declining American global empire. In late 2025, though, it’s just how the country does business.”

Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 7h

“The idea that world events and life-or-death political decisions should turn on what one elderly US citizen sees on a tv set sounds like it should be the premise for a dystopian satire written in the 1970s by the most hysterical, screeching Marxist novelist …” /2
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Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 10h

As a Dutch national, I will not need to go through this. Question: Will my British wife also be exempt (when we are traveling together)? There are lots of couples in our position - please clarify! @simoncalder.bsky.social

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What is the EU's new border system EES - and how does it work?

The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Gaza journalist Saleh Al-Jafarawi missing, feared killed by Israel-aligned group

Well-known Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been abducted and, according to reports, shot dead by an Israel-aligned Gaza clan
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BREAKING: Gaza journalist Saleh Al-Jafarawi missing, feared killed by Israel-aligned group

Well-known Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been abducted and, according to reports, shot dead by an Israel-aligned Gaza clan

www.thecanary.co

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 14h

"We've not had any progress to move supplies into Gaza ... and this is absolutely critical in controlling the spread of famine," our Juliette Touma tells @reuters.com

UNRWA is still waiting for the green light from the Israeli authorities to bring aid into #Gaza.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 19h

An EU attempt to scan private messages for online child abuse content stalled last week — and all it took was a public outcry by privacy groups, messaging apps from Signal to Elon Musk's X, and a crafty email campaign to lawmakers.

Why Europe is freaking out about ‘Chat Control’

A European Union law aiming to fight child sexual abuse online has privacy activists and tech firms up in arms.

www.politico.eu

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17h

Just to say, societal embrace of AI is essentially societal embrace of dishonesty and deception.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17h

People freaking out over the Chat-fishing dating-app article seem to miss that this is the *whole point* of ChatGPT and similar generative AI: writing as though you’re something other than you are. The whole idea is deception. Writing like a pro, like a lawyer etc, when you’re too lazy to be one.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12h

Release the Epstein files. All of them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 12h

“In the first ceasefire, UNRWA brought in enough food in the first four days to feed a million people," our Sam Rose tells DW News.

With 75 years of uninterrupted experience in #Gaza, UNRWA has the knowledge and plans in place to distribute aid effectively across the Strip.

#UNRWAworks

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: UNRWA tells the Canary Israel is still mounting a 'strangling siege' on Gaza

Despite the ceasefire, aid is still not fully getting in - with UNRWA telling the Canary that 6,000 of its trucks are held by Israel at Gaza's borders
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EXCLUSIVE: UNRWA tells the Canary Israel is still mounting a 'strangling siege' on Gaza

Despite the ceasefire aid is still not getting in, with UNRWA telling the Canary that 6,000 of its trucks are held by Israel at the border

www.thecanary.co

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𝗗𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗞𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗺𝗮𝗻 🌍 🌹 🍀 @dickkalkman.bsky.social · 1d

Zo herkenbaar van de nazi's. Dit is van ±100 jaar geleden en/wat hebben we geleerd?

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 12h

Puur rassisme.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 13h

Are Labour really going to try and tie current economic damage (and hence the need for further tax rises) to Farage and to Brexit, whilst at the same time insisting that persevering with Brexit is the right thing to do?

That feels like gaslighting of the very highest order.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America. newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 12h

“The current deadlock calls for an unusual Royal Commission to cut through parliamentary paralysis, provide an evidence-based assessment of post-Brexit realities, and prepare the ground for strategic decisions about the UK’s position in Europe.”

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The Case for a Royal Commission on Britain and Europe

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 19h

www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 12h

“The scope of the arson in Gaza City on the night of Oct 9th and early morning of Oct 10—Thu night into Friday, just after the ceasefire was agreed to but before Israel’s cabinet approved it—was broader than at any other tracked during the assault on the strip.”

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Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement

Soldiers called the mass arson of Gaza City their “final touches.”

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 17h

“We’ve got enough food to feed everyone in #Gaza for between two and three months, and the population is starving.

We’ve got shelter items for hundreds of thousands of people, blankets for over a million people,” our Sam Rose tells Middle East Eye.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/more-50...

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of thousands of people are at the pro-Palestine rally, yet there is nothing anywhere on the BBC news homepage.

When half the people marched against Muslims and foreigners you were still covering it a week later @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 13h

“The purpose is to control political dissent; instigate an excuse for violent reprisals; create the props of an ‘insurrection’ that [Trump & Miller are] desperate to act upon; to label pushback as ‘terrorism.’The more protests they see, the more troops will arrive.

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Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 14h

F**king war mongerers: “NATO will need to make a decision at some point when it’s going to accept that it is at war with Russia.”