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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 57m

RE: Dutch spooks deciding they're less willing to share w/the US: Remember that the docs from SVR that were the focus of the (now declassified) Durham annex and HPSCI reports were from the Dutch. Basically Tulsi burned all that to smithereens for partisan gain.

nltimes.nl/2025/10/18/d...

Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S
The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and "respect for human rights."

In a joint interview with de Volkskrant, AIVD Director-General Erik Akerboom and MIVD Director Peter Reesink confirmed that the agencies have become more selective in their cooperation with the CIA and NSA. “That we sometimes no longer tell certain things, that’s true,” Reesink said. Akerboom added, “Sometimes you have to think case by case: can I still share this information or not?” While both officials stressed that relations with U.S. intelligence agencies remain “excellent,” they emphasized that the Netherlands has become “more critical.”

According to the two directors, the Netherlands is increasingly focusing on European cooperation. “We have scaled up enormously,” Akerboom told De Volkskrant, referring to a leading group of Northern European services — including those from the United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, France, and Poland — that are exchanging intelligence more intensively. The war in Ukraine and the growing Russian threat to Europe have accelerated these multilateral intelligence partnerships. Reesink noted that a similar development is visible within military intelligence circles.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 50m

Trump pushes us one more step down the poorer, weaker, dumber continuum.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

Mike Johnson sputtering that it's no big deal that he hasn't sworn in Grivalja yet, it's such a small stupid thing, why are you people still asking about it, I can do it anytime, but no, I'm not going to do it now, or later, or anytime soon, there's no big deal here, shut up, stop asking about it

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

We could maybe use more celebrities on here but the ones we have give us blessed moments like Guillermo del Toro reposting Flavor Flav

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FLAVOR FLAV
No King but King Swiftie

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Sweet Jean Valjean (bread! bread! bread!) @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 8h

RFK Jr knows even less about how flexing works than he does health and human services

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9h

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 9h

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

I’m not saying they’re Nazis. I’m saying being a Nazi isn’t a deal-breaker for them. I’m saying at a minimum they’re Good Germans.

RIDGE @1av8ter.bsky.social · 22h

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Sweet Jean Valjean (bread! bread! bread!) @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 8h

Wimpy, every day all day

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Sweet Jean Valjean (bread! bread! bread!) @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 8h

On the one hand, sorry an all

but on the other hand

BWAHAHAHAHA

Sweet Jean Valjean (bread! bread! bread!) @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 9h

Ruh roh

Joyce Wycoff 💙 Save Democracy 💙 Join in! Take Action! @jwycoff.bsky.social · 14h

Apparently, defaults on car loans are considered an economic canary in the coal mine. If true, things don’t look good as they are reaching a 9 year high.
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Americans are drowning in auto loan delinquencies; report says Congress needs to fix it

A new report by the Consumer Federation of America to Congress calls on lawmakers and regulators to protect car buyers, saying a crisis is at hand.

www.usatoday.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 10h

But I was told that rule of law was going to save us ?

The social construction of democratic law and order is unable to fully withstand fascism and its wanton lying. The agreements that make up law only work if both sides agree to be honest. The fascists are liars and know they can lie openly.

60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 10h

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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Sweet Jean Valjean (bread! bread! bread!) @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 9h

Bwahahahaha

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

Giants just blew a 19 point fourth quarter lead and lost after their kicker missed an extra point.

This man is having a weekend!

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 23h

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

Giants just blew a 19 point fourth quarter lead and lost after their kicker missed an extra point.

This man is having a weekend!

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 23h

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Sweet Jean Valjean (bread! bread! bread!) @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 9h

Bwahahahaha

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20h

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.

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En Buen Ora - "Hell Çid" 😈 @enbuenora.bsky.social · 10h

the Tea Farters were blaming Jimmy Carter for the crash with bullshit about the CRA making banks give houses to undeserving blacks

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

The furious debate over whether Meghan McCain's seemingly willful stupidity is willful or just stupidity has now ended in a draw

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 12h

"Ceasefire survives fire no longer being ceased" what

Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 14h

What kind of fucking moron do you have to be to write this?

Headline: US brokered ceasefire appears to survive first major test”

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Sweet Jean Valjean (bread! bread! bread!) @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 12h

I'll go with Morton Downey, Jr.

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Sweet Jean Valjean (bread! bread! bread!) @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 12h

Stay classy, Li'l Marco

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

Yikes — WP reports Rubio turned over gang informants to El Salvador to get that deal to let Trump send immigrants to their hard labor prison without due process.

A lawless regime.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 13h

Since “Antifa” is the name the Trump administration uses for people who disagree with him, this is essentially a statement that Trump is going to start having Americans who oppose him summarily executed.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 15h

I've seen a couple people today express doubts that even huge protests like No Kings really matter. After all, we're dealing with a regime that has shown it is all too happy to subvert the will of the people. So what's the point?

Two thoughts in response:

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!

But media elites find that boring.

It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Sweet Jean Valjean (bread! bread! bread!) @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 14h

I say "well played, good sir!"

a man wearing a top hat and a vest is standing in front of a pile of rocks ..

Alt: Benedict Cumberbatch acknowledges a clean check in open ice

media.tenor.com

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Sweet Jean Valjean (bread! bread! bread!) @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 14h

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

a group of people are dancing in a club and they are asking if they want to dance

Alt: Thomas Crown, of course

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spooky Chris A. 🎃 @letseatnachos.bsky.social · 1d

it's really funny that we endured an entire summer of "Bluesky is DYING because nobody engages with me the one time a month I post here" thinkpieces all summer just for this bozo ass government to try to open up shop here because nobody they're trying to piss off uses Twitter anymore

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