Joan van der Lingen

@joanlingen.bsky.social

Rotterdamse in hart en nieren. Jurist met brede ervaring, ook in TK en EP. Interesses: Politiek, kunst, wandelen, theater. Passie: een prettig en tolerant land om in te leven. Democracy and tolerance are very important to me. NO DM PLEASE. I won’t react.

All this fury can't be very healthy for an overweight 80-year old man who is rage-tweeting a lot. If he goes, his legacy in Europe will be that of a sad, incompetent clown and we will never understand why more than half of the American people elected him (twice) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Once-Shameless President Is Deeply Embarrassed

As Donald Trump faces one humiliation after another, he is attacking those he blames.

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This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.

Trump AI slop post showing him on the battlefield in a general's uniform flanked by bad AI versions of Patton and MacArthur

Het eindoordeel? In grote lijnen staat de film nog als een huis. Decennia eerder, met veel publiciteit, verscheen al het rapport van de Club van Rome, "Grenzen aan de Groei" We wisten het al heel lang, maar gemakzuchtige burgers dachten dat het wel mee zou vallen. www.trouw.nl/verdieping/k...

Klimaatdocumentaire ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ 20 jaar later: wat kwam er uit van Al Gores voorspellingen?

In 2006 schudde Al Gore, voormalig vicepresident van de VS, de wereld wakker met zijn documentaire over klimaatverandering. Welke voorspellingen kwamen uit? Trouw kijkt An Inconvenient Truth terug met...

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Man, if Putin had told Trump exactly what he wanted the US to do to help Iran and Russia and hurt Ukraine, it would have been exactly what Trump did in his war. This is a Russian strategic dream we are watching.

⚡️Update: Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue. A massive Russian attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported Aug. 5.

Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue

A massive Russian ballistic missile and drone attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported overnight ...

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22 regeringsleiders hebben bewust onrust gestookt met een verhaal vol onwaarheden. Voor electoraal effect. Een soort “nareis-op-nareis” verhaal, zeg maar. Het zou ze sieren dit niet alleen aan Sanchez toe te geven, maar ook publiekelijk aan de burgers www.nu.nl/buitenland/6...

'Dubbel slot' Ceuta deed zijn werk, ongeacht chaos en paniek bij Europese leiders

Beelden van tienduizenden migranten die vanuit Marokko de Spaanse grens bij Ceuta overstaken, veroorzaakten paniek en chaos bij Europese regeringsleiders. Maar nog geen week later lijkt de geest alwee...

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Ik vind dit zelf wel leuke, inzichtgevende filmpjes om de Amerikaanse politiek wat beter te begrijpen

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell@lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 2d ago

WATCH: @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social explains why Republican Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn may be caving to Donald Trump in their final months of their Senate careers despite initially saying they opposed Todd Blanche's confirmation as Attorney General. #LastWord

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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