Michiel van Hulten
@michielvanhulten.eu
Democracy defender. Former EU/NL politician and official.
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My latest #cartoon for Encompass, 22/11/25.
I hope he won't touch it, but then what?
#zelensky #Putin #DonaldTrump #Ukraine #UkrainePeace
I hope he won't touch it, but then what?
#zelensky #Putin #DonaldTrump #Ukraine #UkrainePeace
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
My latest #cartoon for Encompass, 22/11/25.
I hope he won't touch it, but then what?
#zelensky #Putin #DonaldTrump #Ukraine #UkrainePeace
I hope he won't touch it, but then what?
#zelensky #Putin #DonaldTrump #Ukraine #UkrainePeace
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I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
Macron passionate on why we shouldn’t let US and Chinese Big Tech decide what our kids watch online every day. youtube.com/shorts/Unk_u...
#Macron: “This is a Wild West, not free speech”.
YouTube video by ONEST
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November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Macron passionate on why we shouldn’t let US and Chinese Big Tech decide what our kids watch online every day. youtube.com/shorts/Unk_u...
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🚨 Brussels, today 🚨 Ursula! Fight for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros.
Today, as the EU caves to pressure from Trump & Big Tech, campaigners in Brussels call on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stand up for Europe and enforce our digital laws ✊#StandUpUrusla
Today, as the EU caves to pressure from Trump & Big Tech, campaigners in Brussels call on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stand up for Europe and enforce our digital laws ✊#StandUpUrusla
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🚨 Brussels, today 🚨 Ursula! Fight for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros.
Today, as the EU caves to pressure from Trump & Big Tech, campaigners in Brussels call on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stand up for Europe and enforce our digital laws ✊#StandUpUrusla
Today, as the EU caves to pressure from Trump & Big Tech, campaigners in Brussels call on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stand up for Europe and enforce our digital laws ✊#StandUpUrusla
Such a desperately sad headline. I feel like every time politicians think of something like this, they should go through the mental exercise of replacing the words "asylum seekers" with "Jews fleeing the Nazis" and see how that resonates with their conscience.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Such a desperately sad headline. I feel like every time politicians think of something like this, they should go through the mental exercise of replacing the words "asylum seekers" with "Jews fleeing the Nazis" and see how that resonates with their conscience.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Another grim night in Kyiv. Six people were killed and dozens injured after Russian drones and ballistic missiles hit the Ukrainian capital. Our hotel shook. As ever, Vladimir Putin is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in a campaign of murder & terror www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Russian attacks on Kyiv ‘calculated and wicked’, says Zelenskyy
Pictures posted on social media showed different sites in flames and residents gathering in rubble-strewn streets outside apartment buildings
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Another grim night in Kyiv. Six people were killed and dozens injured after Russian drones and ballistic missiles hit the Ukrainian capital. Our hotel shook. As ever, Vladimir Putin is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in a campaign of murder & terror www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
This will become a major issue in Europe too - in some places it already is. Data centres drive up the price of elecricity and suck up scarce water resources. The profits that are generated by Big Tech flow out of Europe largely untaxed.
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This will become a major issue in Europe too - in some places it already is. Data centres drive up the price of elecricity and suck up scarce water resources. The profits that are generated by Big Tech flow out of Europe largely untaxed.
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
www.wired.com/story/the-da...
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🙌We are joining 127 organisations demanding the Commission to halt its highly damaging digital omnibus.
The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to:
❌Pause the AI Act
❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data
This would be a major Big Tech win
👉 edri.org/wp-content/u...
The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to:
❌Pause the AI Act
❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data
This would be a major Big Tech win
👉 edri.org/wp-content/u...
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🙌We are joining 127 organisations demanding the Commission to halt its highly damaging digital omnibus.
The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to:
❌Pause the AI Act
❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data
This would be a major Big Tech win
👉 edri.org/wp-content/u...
The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to:
❌Pause the AI Act
❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data
This would be a major Big Tech win
👉 edri.org/wp-content/u...
Mijn gesprek bij het Oog gisteravond over de leiderschapscrisis van Keir Starmer. Spoiler: het ziet er niet goed uit voor Starmer, maar voorlopig blijft hij zitten waar hij zit. www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/n...
Britse premier Keir Starmer in zwaar weer
Hij is pas een jaar Brits premier en toch gaan er binnen zijn eigen Labour-partij al stemmen op om Keir Starmer af te zetten.
www.nporadio1.nl
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Mijn gesprek bij het Oog gisteravond over de leiderschapscrisis van Keir Starmer. Spoiler: het ziet er niet goed uit voor Starmer, maar voorlopig blijft hij zitten waar hij zit. www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/n...
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If today’s vote on Omnibus I passes with EPP+ECR+Patriots support, it establishes the operational majority for the rest of von der Leyen's term
This will have major economic and societal consequences at the time these groups chose Trump over the EU
thegoodlobby.eu/the-eu-far-r...
This will have major economic and societal consequences at the time these groups chose Trump over the EU
thegoodlobby.eu/the-eu-far-r...
The EU Far-Right Tracker: Exposing when the EPP sides with the Far Right | The Good Lobby
Despite repeated reassurances from Commission the EPP continues to rely on the far right to pass legislation or secure political wins.
thegoodlobby.eu
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
If today’s vote on Omnibus I passes with EPP+ECR+Patriots support, it establishes the operational majority for the rest of von der Leyen's term
This will have major economic and societal consequences at the time these groups chose Trump over the EU
thegoodlobby.eu/the-eu-far-r...
This will have major economic and societal consequences at the time these groups chose Trump over the EU
thegoodlobby.eu/the-eu-far-r...
When industry says “simplify” they mean “deregulate”. ‘Deregulation’ means less privacy, more consumer harms, less competition, and fewer safeguards. The tech bros will get even richer and Europeans will pay the price. Let’s not allow Big Tech and its authoritarian allies to tell the EU what to do.
In 1843, Ada Lovelace pioneered computer programming with her #algorithm. 🧠 Today, red tape could bug the system.
🧭 Be bold. Be ambitious. Simplify EU tech rules. #UnlockEUInnovation
🧭 Be bold. Be ambitious. Simplify EU tech rules. #UnlockEUInnovation
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
When industry says “simplify” they mean “deregulate”. ‘Deregulation’ means less privacy, more consumer harms, less competition, and fewer safeguards. The tech bros will get even richer and Europeans will pay the price. Let’s not allow Big Tech and its authoritarian allies to tell the EU what to do.
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"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
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A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI infringed copyright law by using song lyrics to feed its chat models in a case that could have wide implications for European artists ➡️ u.afp.com/Snp6
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI infringed copyright law by using song lyrics to feed its chat models in a case that could have wide implications for European artists ➡️ u.afp.com/Snp6
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Let’s take women security seriously, also online!
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Let’s take women security seriously, also online!
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Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
American capitalism is off the rails.
We are letting Big Tech steal our data, undermine our privacy, avoid our taxes, kill our companies, exhaust our natural resources, harm our kids, prop up the Kremlin, and enable scammers. And the EU responds by *deregulating*?
Can you think of a connection between these two FT headlines?
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We are letting Big Tech steal our data, undermine our privacy, avoid our taxes, kill our companies, exhaust our natural resources, harm our kids, prop up the Kremlin, and enable scammers. And the EU responds by *deregulating*?
Can you think of a connection between these two FT headlines?
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Can you think of a connection between these two FT headlines?
Stunning investigation by Reuters reveals income from ads for scams and banned goods on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp may have amounted to 10% of Meta global revenue in 2024, with 15 billion (!) scam ads being shown to users daily - based on company's own figures.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Stunning investigation by Reuters reveals income from ads for scams and banned goods on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp may have amounted to 10% of Meta global revenue in 2024, with 15 billion (!) scam ads being shown to users daily - based on company's own figures.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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I see your worthy "why are you still on X" posts and sorry but we've gone way beyond that, no such incendiary publication would be allowed in printed form so why are we still thinking this should be allowed online?
November 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I see your worthy "why are you still on X" posts and sorry but we've gone way beyond that, no such incendiary publication would be allowed in printed form so why are we still thinking this should be allowed online?
On my flight from NL to UK today there was a passenger wearing a big traffic cone on his head. Not sure if this was a stag do outfit or a Halloween costume.
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
On my flight from NL to UK today there was a passenger wearing a big traffic cone on his head. Not sure if this was a stag do outfit or a Halloween costume.
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Timmermans het grootste doelwit van online toxische reacties.
En Facebook speelt een opvallende rol.
Nieuwe analyse:
www.web-watch.org/news/timmerm...
#TK2025 #NLpol #verkiezingen #PvdA
@groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social
En Facebook speelt een opvallende rol.
Nieuwe analyse:
www.web-watch.org/news/timmerm...
#TK2025 #NLpol #verkiezingen #PvdA
@groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Timmermans het grootste doelwit van online toxische reacties.
En Facebook speelt een opvallende rol.
Nieuwe analyse:
www.web-watch.org/news/timmerm...
#TK2025 #NLpol #verkiezingen #PvdA
@groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social
En Facebook speelt een opvallende rol.
Nieuwe analyse:
www.web-watch.org/news/timmerm...
#TK2025 #NLpol #verkiezingen #PvdA
@groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social
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With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.
Latest tally sees D66 & PVV neck-and-neck. A centrist coalition has a big majority but faces hurdles. 4-party rightwing coalition is now just short of a majority. Talks will take time, but caretaker govt now only has 26 seats (out of 150), and parliamentary dynamics change immediately. (NOS image)
October 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Latest tally sees D66 & PVV neck-and-neck. A centrist coalition has a big majority but faces hurdles. 4-party rightwing coalition is now just short of a majority. Talks will take time, but caretaker govt now only has 26 seats (out of 150), and parliamentary dynamics change immediately. (NOS image)
Frans Timmermans has just resigned as leader of the Greens/Labour alliance, following a poor election performance.
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Frans Timmermans has just resigned as leader of the Greens/Labour alliance, following a poor election performance.