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Dr. Carina van de Wetering

@carinavandew.bsky.social

Lecturer @Leiden; PhD @Bristoluni. International Relations, US foreign policy, discourse and power, trust and meaning, populism and marginalized voices.

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Rolf Oldejans@rolfoldejans.bsky.social · 3w ago

Deze drie hoopvolle boeken maken korte metten met de illusie van machteloosheid Rebecca Solnit - Het begin volgt op het einde Jan Rotmans - Kanteltijd Katrien Termeer - Kleine stapjes, grote veranderingen www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/deze-...

Deze drie hoopvolle boeken maken korte metten met de illusie van machteloosheid

Doemdenken ligt op de loer, met alle ellende die over de wereld wordt uitgestort. Maar dat is buiten vooruitgangsdenkers als Rebecca Solnit gerekend. Hup, de schouders eronder en in kleine stappen op ...

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Dr. Carina van de Wetering@carinavandew.bsky.social · 20h ago

With the link from a week ago www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Ukraine war briefing: North Korea sending 50,000 troops to Russia – Zelenskyy

Kim Jong-un’s regime has already provided thousands of soldiers, as well as missiles and artillery; Turkey readies arms package for Ukraine. What we know on day 1,629

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Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · yesterday

In case you were wondering why Donald Trump has ordered Pete Hegseth to scale back war exercises with our “ally” South Korea against North Korea: As usual, it comes down to Donald being Putin’s pet monkey.

Dr. Carina van de Wetering@carinavandew.bsky.social · 2d ago

President Trump wants to give the impression that he is all powerful through threats and raising doubts. But it’s partly impression management that others enable further. So, this should be taken seriously, but also put in context: loyal staff members are leaving and the Iran war remains unresolved.

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Time to make sure that everyone in the world you care about is paying attention because things are going to get really really bad very very soon

Dr. Carina van de Wetering@carinavandew.bsky.social · 2d ago

This thread raises all sorts of alarm bells. Important read into the possibility of extreme right entryism into academia.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3d ago

With respect to Cofnas, why is nobody talking about this in the MSM? > We find it [improbably] that [he] was the best out of 14 candidates for this job[. His boss] repeatedly stated in the press that [he] published in highly ranked journals and had been affiliated with leading institutions. 1/n

Dr. Carina van de Wetering@carinavandew.bsky.social · 3d ago

“A separate attempt to serve Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in New York also failed. Now, with Trump's own legal team also refusing to accept the subpoenas, the BBC is asking a Miami federal court…that serving Trump's attorneys directly counts as sufficient” www.rawstory.com/bbc-trump-la...

BBC forcibly turned away trying to serve papers to Ivanka and Kushner: report

The BBC's legal team got physically blocked by police while trying to hand court papers to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner at their own Miami home.The incident, reported by Politico, is part of an esca...

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Q: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln TRUMP: No they're not Q: Has the deployment gone on too long? TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.

Dr. Carina van de Wetering@carinavandew.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ik heb me even niet verdiept in de politieke discussie hier gaande over woke en marxisme (en alle discursieve en theoretische fijnmazigheid daaromtrent). Echter, dit stuk over die eeuwige discussie betreffende intersectionaliteit en marxisme van cultuurtheoreticus Stuart Hall is de moeite waard.

Merijn Oudenampsen@merijnoudenampsen.org · 5d ago

We hoeven het wiel ook niet opnieuw uit te vinden. Er is al zoveel over geschreven. Hier Stuart Hall over kapitalisme en racisme.

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 5d ago

There have been plenty of times in history when a president becomes incapacitated, and those closest to him quietly assume his powers and lie about his condition...and constitutional succession schemes are conveniently forgotten. We ought to think about that. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-fad...

Trump Is Fading Fast. Who’s Really Running the White House Now?

Donald Trump is not just a cash cow for his own corrupt enterprises. He is also the meal ticket for those closest to him.

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d ago

Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say

Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say

First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops Firefighters and residents of south Lebanon have accused the Israeli military of lighting wildfires in the region, as forested areas burned down in blazes sparked by Israeli bombing. Environmental groups said the fires in recent weeks were part of a longstanding Israeli practice of targeting Lebanon’s natural environment. Continue reading...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d ago

A couple key point made in this brief: - The new EO sweeps more broadly than the old EO and thus violates binding court orders barring that order from going into effect. - The new EO lacks any of the temporal limits of the old order and would seem to apply even to people who are currently citizens.

This new Order violates the Court’s existing preliminary injunction, as it purports to strip birthright citizenship from members of the provisionally certified class despite the Supreme Court’s recent decision. To avoid any doubt in this regard, the Court should underscore that the government may not strip away class members’ citizenship through any executive orders or other similarly flawed assertions of Executive power over birthright citizenship. Accordingly, Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court now clarify that its preliminary injunction currently forbids any denial or infringement of class members’ constitutionally guaranteed citizenship or, in the alternative, modify its injunction or issue a new preliminary injunction to explicitly so provide. The new Order does not explain its relationship to the original birthright citizenship order. It does not, for example, rescind and replace that order, which appears to remain in effect (that is, enforceable but for the injunctions issued by this and other Courts). Notably, the new Order appears to lack several key limitations present in the original order. For example, the original order specified that it would “apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order.” EO1 § 2(b). The new Order contains no such language. Likewise, the original order expressly stated that it would not impair the citizenship of “children of lawful permanent residents.” EO1 § 2(c). Again, the new Order says nothing like that. Indeed, standing alone the new Order would appear to apply to people who have lived their entire lives as citizens, potentially going back generations; to children of permanent residents; and even to naturalized citizens (for example a naturalized citizen whose parent was employed by an embassy).
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d ago

BREAKING: The plaintiffs in two of the challenges to Trump's Jan 20, 2025 effort to end birthright citizenship (CASA and Barbara) went back to court today over Trump's new August executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship.

12. Based on these various aspects of the August 2026 Executive Order's text, it may be interpreted to immediately deny citizenship to members of the certified class, without regard to this Court's class-wide injunction. The Court should therefore lift the stay of proceedings and order an immediate status conference to seek clarity from Defendants on the meaning of the August 2026 Executive Order and its potential impact on the certified class. 13. In addition, it is unclear whether the August 2026 Executive Order rescinds the January 2025 Executive Order, or whether the latter would remain operative but for the preliminary injunctions barring its enforcement. 14. On August 7, 2026, Plaintiffs asked Defendants to provide clarity on the issues outlined above related to the scope of the August 2026 Executive Order. Plaintiffs advised Defendants that if they could not provide clarity, Plaintiffs would move the Court to lift the stay and to set a status conference to discuss these issues, and Plaintiffs asked Defendants' counsel for their position on such a motion. On August 10, 2026, counsel for Defendants replied and said that they could "confirm that the new EO operates only prospectively and is not effective until guidance is issued," and that they "therefore think it is premature to approach the court at this time." Counsel did not provide any statement directly from Defendants to substantiate this assurance, nor did Counsel respond to the other questions Plaintiffs posed.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

So Trump and the White House lied about which plane Trump was on flying out of Turkey, setting up journalists who thought they were on the same plane as the president to possibly be the target of an Iranian attack while he secretly departed on a different one. Words fail.

Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat

The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.

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Roos Vonk@roosvonk.bsky.social · last wk.

Australisch onderzoek: Meta betaalt neonazi’s en een antivaxxer om content te plaatsen via het monetization programma, terwijl de berichten strijdig zijn met het eigen beleid (dat ze voor de bühne en de EU hebben gemaakt). www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.

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Catherine E. de Vries@catherinedevries.bsky.social · last wk.

As Europe heats up, the question is: How to build durable political coalitions for climate action? In short term, transition will creates winners & losers. Pretending otherwise risks fuelling backlash that can derail climate action. The task is to make the transition fair. 10/11

Catherine E. de Vries@catherinedevries.bsky.social · last wk.

Europe is experiencing a summer of extreme heat, drought & wildfires. Yet, climate policy is facing considerable resistance. My co-authors & I reviewed evidence on why this tension exists & what tob do about it for Nature Climate Change. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

Green backlash and right-wing populism - Nature Climate Change

This Review considers research on the politics of climate policies. Climate policies, through their economic and cultural repercussions, impact public climate attitudes and voting behaviour, which in ...

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