Bastiaan Brak

@bastiaanbrak.bsky.social

Documenting plants, mostly in urban environments.

Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?" Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

"Ukrainians are ‘collective transgenders’ – Dugin
The country has bartered away its Russian identity for an “abstract and absurd alternative,” the political scientist has said
Ukrainians are ‘collective transgenders’ – Dugin
Alexandr Dugin. ©  Sputnik
Ukrainians have become “collective transgenders” in their desire to get closer to the West and cut ties with Moscow, Russian philosopher and political scientist Aleksandr Dugin has said."

Wenn man den russischen Krieg gegen die Ukraine durch Aussprechen des Worts "Frieden" beenden könnte oder durch selbstgerechtes Aufwerten der eigenen Person mit "die anderen sind Kriegstreiber, aber ich bin ein guter Mensch, denn ich bin für Frieden", wäre das Leben leichter.

We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.

How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

nbcnews.com

So this means that in the coming months, Europeans will have to pay higher energy bills so that Americans can pay lower energy bills - in order to bail Trump out in his looming midterm election walloping. Could there be any more apt summary of the relationship between 🇪🇺🇬🇧 and 🇺🇸?

Duizenden zieke kinderen uit Gaza staan op de wachtlijst. De meeste worden in buurlanden geholpen. Maar er zijn kinderen die zeer specialistische hulp nodig hebben. Landen om ons heen nemen kinderen op, maar Nederland heeft net de deur dicht gedaan. Meloni en De Wever wél maar Jetten niet!?!

A big bang here in western Kyiv shook the house slightly - monitors on Telegram say it was a shoot-down of a jet drone. Constant air alerts in the capital are extremely tiresome (we had four from 0000 to 07000 alone last night), but there are signs the shootdown ratio is rising.

Do you know what reason did the Soviet Russia give to attack Poland in 1939? The same reason they gave to invade Ukraine in 2022: “To protect russian minorities.” It is also the same reason that the Nazis gave to invade Poland and other countries.

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Makers of the documentary NAZA and The Guardian pushed back against Israeli military attempts to discredit their film, revealing they interviewed over 100 sources including senior IDF commanders involved in strike authorisations, backed by leaked classified targeting documents.

NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in Gaza

Team behind documentary push back against IDF attempt to discredit its exposure of military systems

theguardian.com

Het lastige is dat de minister met samenwerken iets heel anders bedoelt dan je zou denken. Niet op basis van gelijkwaardigheid maar “gewoon” toegeven. Pro moet niet zo flauw doen. Dat grenst aan dictatoriaal gedrag.

Headline writers saying Putin "warned the West against escalation" should stop helping the russian dictator manipulate the narrative. He started the war. If he attacks more European countries, he'll be escalating. The West hasn't matched his escalation, let alone ever escalated.

Adults go to war only when they absolutely must. They treat it as a necessary tragedy that should be as rare and brief as possible. It is only a *fucking psychopath* who *celebrates* war.

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