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Joyce Brekelmans @joycebrekelmans.bsky.social · Nov 3
Samen met @mickpersson.bsky.social schreef ik een reconstructie van de verregaande waarheidserosie in de VS, hoe het zover heeft kunnen komen en de rol van het grote geld in de voortdurende informatieoorlog www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/h...
Hoe Amerika een land werd waarin leugens niet meer worden achterhaald door de waarheid
In het Amerika van Donald Trump is de extreemrechtse informatiebubbel aan de winnende hand. De relatie tussen politiek, media en hun schatrijke eigenaren wordt steeds inniger, maar gaat al decennia te...
www.volkskrant.nl
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Society is failing these children.
Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. She was the one expelled
A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her
abcnews.go.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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vicster.net
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'thecoreyrichardson The fact that Jake Paul thought he could go toe to toe with Anthony Joshua and got his ass whooped so thoroughly is an apt encapsulation of how a lot of people think DEI works vs. how it actually works. A white guy who has created a career out of exploiting his clear advantages over his opponents assumes that, based on his manufactured record, his accomplishments are "merit based" and feels like he's entitled to challenge an overqualified Black person for his status that he actually earned.'
December 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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invisiblelad7.bsky.social
I'm already grateful for this article. It sits with the people who read the room correctly, saw the dangers, and were treated like Cassandra for it. It's wild how rarely that has happened.
December 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d
“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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moostveen.bsky.social
Aangrijpend verhaal, heel precies vastgelegd door @marjoleinvdwater.bsky.social
Gevlucht uit Gaza, herenigd in Nederland, proberen zij weer een gezin te zijn
Drie jaar geleden vluchtte de Palestijnse Monaliza naar Nederland. Haar kinderen Ismail en Hala zijn hier pas sinds april, net als hun vader Anwar. Na anderhalf jaar oorlogsgeweld in Gaza, vechten ze ...
www.volkskrant.nl
December 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
joycebrekelmans.bsky.social
Rutger Bregman palate cleanser voor wie het vandaag nodig heeft
proximitydeclined.bsky.social Anita Naidu @proximitydeclined.bsky.social · May 22
BREAKING: My exposé on Rutger Bregman’s billionaire-backed School for Moral Ambition is now free to read

It’s not justice. It’s moral laundering.

Crypto money. Trump ties. Celebrity endorsements.

I was inside. What I saw shook me

If you care about justice reshare

#rutgerbregman#SMAexposed
How Elites Rebrand Power as Virtue
When billionaires fund the revolution, the outcome is already fixed Rutger Bregman, once hailed as the Dutch progressive mascot, rose to global attention
www.counterpunch.org
December 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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cityofangelle.bsky.social
Tag yourself, I'm gone to the cheeses.
adamcsharp.bsky.social Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 4d
Daydreaming phrases from five other languages…

5. Gone to the cheeses (Chilean Spanish)
4. Thinking about blue almonds (Polish)
3. Dreaming of green horses on walls (Romanian)
2. Cooking pulao in your mind (Urdu)
1. Swimming in watermelon juice (Egyptian Arabic)
December 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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ninazeelen.bsky.social
Mathieu Segers: "De groeiende kloof tussen arm en rijk bleek een voedingsbodem voor het fascisme. De les is de laatste 30 jaar structureel vergeten. Bestaanszekerheid moet bovenaan de agenda worden geplaatst. Het staat ook in de verdragen, het is niet moeilijk. Het vraagt om politieke wil." (2022)
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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kashana.blacksky.app
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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cyriak.bsky.social
This is the good shit ⤵️
December 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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astridoverthere.bsky.social
I showed these to my husband last night and he made me laugh with this one: "He looks like he's in a lover's spat with the lamp and the lamp is winning."

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astridoverthere.bsky.social I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 6d
Marco Rubio just straight up looks like a sad divorced man at a Motel 6.
Photograph of Marco Rubio in side profile. He is standing in front of a blank gray wall. The lighting is dim and yellow. He appears to be looking down at a wooden side table with a chunky brass lamp on it, and thinking of all his sins, or perhaps dinner. The left side of the photo is occupied with an open door, behind which we can see a sliver of what might be a white sideboard. The whole photo looks candid and even amateurish.
December 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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adamlichtenstein.bsky.social
"(M)any — mostly children — died because their malnourished bodies couldn’t fight off infections, ProPublica found while reporting in the camp. Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed. ... Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud."
 Anna Maria Barry-Jester @annamaria.bsky.social · 5d
Internal documents reveal how govt officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death in Kenya’s refugee camps. But for months nothing changed — despite Rubio’s public promises that food programs would be spared. www.propublica.org/article/keny...
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
joycebrekelmans.bsky.social
Dit is waar de strafbaarstelling van illegaliteit uiteindelijk toe leidt: terreur van iedereen die wordt gezien als de ander.
samanthamichaels.bsky.social Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 6d
I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
joycebrekelmans.bsky.social
Waarom willen mensen geen films of series in vreemde talen kijken? Zo lekker om geen zak Koreaans te verstaan en Culinary Class Wars te kijken met volle aandacht voor het eten, de gezichtsuitdrukkingen en de schaarse, boekdelen sprekende genotskreuntjes
December 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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ftm.nl
Sommige extreem rijke Russen deinzen nergens voor terug. Ze dagen Oekraïne voor honderden miljoenen dollars voor de rechter. Nederlandse verdragen spelen daarbij een sleutelrol. Russische investeerders kunnen zo vanuit Nederland claims indienen tegen een land dat in oorlog is.
Russische oligarchen eisen miljarden van Oekraïne, met dank aan Europese handels­verdragen
Gesanctioneerde Russische oligarchen gebruiken Europese investeringsverdragen om Oekraïne voor honderden miljoenen dollars te dagvaarden, zo blijkt uit onderzoek van Follow the Money. Nederland speelt...
www.ftm.nl
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
joycebrekelmans.bsky.social
Het gaat helemaal niet goed bij de BBC (part infinity)
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 10d
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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us.theguardian.com
Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
December 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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karolinschwarz.de
What in the dystopian surveillance state
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby’
Pregnant immigrants in ICE monitoring programs are avoiding care, fearing detention during labor and delivery
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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dubiouspip.bsky.social
It's weird how it's never the legitimate concerns of people who want publicly owned utilities and for the poor not to be punished for the mistakes of the wealthy, isn't it?

Always the racists getting pandered to.
“Listening to legitimate concerns and acting on them is what our politics is about. That’s not empty populism, it’s democracy. We are determined to show that our societies can act with compassion while upholding law and order, and fairness.”
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
They are not “skeptics,” they are extremist science deniers who think that some children deserve to die
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 13d
US health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would face fresh safety scrutiny following concerns raised by vaccine skeptics, multiple sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.
US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants | CNN
U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would face fresh safety scrutiny following concer...
www.cnn.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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investico.bsky.social
Nieuws | Gemeenten weigeren dakloze moeders bij de opvang en dreigen met afnemen van hun kinderen als ze niet zelf iets regelen en om hulp blijven vragen, onderzoek ism @groene.nl en @trouw.nl
Gemeenten dreigen dakloze moeders met afnemen kinderen | Investico Onderzoeksjournalisten
Meerdere gemeenten dreigen dakloze moeders met het afnemen van hun kinderen als ze om opvang vragen. Volgens experts is dit in strijd met mensenrechten.
buff.ly
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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akkusb.bsky.social
Full force backwards!
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 14d
More than 80 percent of Europe’s companies will be freed from environmental reporting obligations after EU institutions reached a deal on a proposal to cut green rules yesterday.
EU closes deal to slash green rules in major win for von der Leyen’s deregulation drive
Controversial “omnibus” bill saw center-right EU lawmakers side with the far right to water down environmental standards.
www.politico.eu
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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lotfielhamidi.bsky.social
Zonder rode lijnen geen beschaving. Gratis link naar mijn essay over de war on terror, Gaza en de grote deceptie. (Zag pas achteraf de rode lijn op papier — niet bewust, wel mooi).
www.groene.nl/artikel/besc...
December 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
It was never about deporting criminals. It was always about using deportation to criminalize people they want to control.
jennburrill.bsky.social Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 15d
They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens...

"Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report
Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the ceremony. The incident comes after USCIS told employees to halt all immigrat...
people.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM