"their hydronyms" 😂 Textbook bathos from @mark-carney.bsky.social

"“When we’re serious, we don’t say the opposite of what we said the day before every day, and maybe one shouldn’t speak every day” Macron on Trump

This country, man. 😵‍💫

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 5mo ago

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

Horen jullie het ook eens van iemand anders, van @mathijsbouman.nl in het @fd.nl namelijk: Juist de groene gekkies hadden gelijk. “We hadden veel sneller moeten elektrificeren, met zon, wind, waterstof en batterijen, precies zoals zij zeiden. Dan was Nederland nu minder kwetsbaar geweest.”

There’s no bottom.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7mo ago

President Trump posted a blatantly racist video clip of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes, the latest in a long pattern by Trump of promoting offensive stereotypes about Black Americans and others. The White House press secretary dismissed criticism as “fake outrage.”

Protests continued in Minneapolis after federal agents on Saturday fatally shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old man who was the second person to be killed in the city during demonstrations against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Follow live updates. trib.al/NIyNYZi

Why are our institutions still on a platform that creates nudes of women, produces child pornography? What’s next- broadcasting our plenary speeches on Pornhub?

I'm moved to see Mark Carney take his inspiration from Václav Havel in his superb speech at Davos. Well worth reading the entire speech: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Read Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world | CBC News

Read the full text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech about a shakeup of the global order and role of middle powers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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Dutch far-right firebrand Geert Wilders has suffered an unprecedented setback after seven of his parliamentarians rebelled against his one-man party rule.

‘Black day’ for Geert Wilders after historic mutiny within his own party

7 MPs quit Wilders’ party, meaning it is no longer the largest opposition force in the Netherlands.

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Incredible

Maarten Hopman@maartenhopman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ik word niet goed.

If ANYONE in any other job would send such text messages, EVERYONE would agree that this person is incompetent and insane. But when it is the president of the United States, the establishment sanewashes him... day in, day out.

Het is natuurlijk goed nieuws als 7 kamerleden de PVV de rug toe zwaaien en een kansloze splinter beginnen maar er moet een einde komen aan de eindeloze reeks van kamerleden die zetels roven. Geen van deze 7 is op eigen kracht gekozen. De kiezer heeft op de PVV gestemd. Geef je zetel op en vertrek.

NOS@nieuws.nos.nl · 7mo ago

Opstand in de PVV tegen Wilders' aanpak: deel fractie vertrekt

"What happens to an 80-year-old diplomatic alliance when its leading power threatens a military invasion of one member, wages economic war on the others and vows to cultivate political and cultural resistance to their governments?" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

Trump Is Pushing the U.S.-Europe Alliance Onto a Precipice

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As a European in the U.S., you don't even get those first hours...

Not SNL, a message from the PRESIDENT of the USA. The man is insane.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7mo ago

In a text message over the weekend, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Store, that since being denied the Nobel Peace Prize, he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace.” Read the full text messages between the two leaders here. nyti.ms/4r1eHTd

After Trump Reignites a Trade War Over Greenland, Europe Weighs Going All-Out www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/w...

After Trump Reignites a Trade War Over Greenland, Europe Weighs Going All-Out

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According to Alastair Campbell, what should European leaders say to Trump about his Greenland quest? “Do one, Donny.”

Worth reading. EU member states are preparing once again to meet Trump’s agressive provocations with unilateral concessions. I think the politicians involved underestimate how much ordinary European voters have had enough of this weakness dressed up as pragmatism: www.politico.eu/article/hit-...

Hit back at Trump? Europe mulls unthinkable options as Greenland threats ramp up tensions

Senior politicians want the EU to deploy its trade bazooka against the United States over Trump’s Greenland claims. Capitals aren’t so sure.

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Dieu merci pour Macron.

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Emmanuel Macron responds to Trump's tariffs: "France is committed to the sovereignty & independence of nations, in Europe and elsewhere... No intimidation or threat will influence us - neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world when we are confronted with such situations."

Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’

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Finally some strong words from EU leaders.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 8mo ago

European leaders rally behind Greenland as Miller ramps up Trump threats

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

@movinggallery.bsky.social artist @leoniebos.bsky.social in the New York Times.

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 9mo ago

There’s a new buzzword in fashion — but it’s not clear if it actually means anything, Isabel Cristo writes. “For the conscious shopper, ‘quality’ becomes a new permission structure to soothe our shopaholic souls.”

@robjetten.bsky.social zou Yesilgöz niet mogen belonen voor haar drammerige uitsluiten van @gl-pvda. @jesseklaver.groenlinkspvda.nl heeft alle recht een D66-CDA-VVD minderheidskabinet niet aan een meerderheid te helpen. Yesilgõz's strategie is self-defeating. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

Yesilgöz zou deemoedig het hoofd moeten buigen, maar doet alsof ze de koningin van Seba is

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Op de titelpagina van @trouw.nl staat wat hét verkiezingsthema zou moeten zijn: de desastreuze gevolgen van de doordenderende klimaatramp verergeren in steeds rapper tempo en de eerste kantelpunt lijkt bereikt: het afsterven van de koraalriffen lijkt nu onomkeerbaar.

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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“Links wordt niet radicaler, maar rechts wel.”, blijkt uit het Kieskompas. Via @trouw

"In deze omgekeerde wereld is Frans Timmermans steevast een linkse extremist en zijn siegheilende massa's alleen maar boze hooligans". Tommy Wieringa in de Volkskrant www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Wilders is handig genoeg om niet direct zelf met geweld te worden geassocieerd

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Zonder enige lering te trekken uit het rampzalige VVD-PVV kabinet zetten Yeşilgöz en Brekelmans de @VVD op ramkoers met GL-PvdA met de illusie dat dat stemmen trekt. Er moet een stabiel kabinet van middenpartijen komen. Niet met de PVV, niet met GL-PvdA: Waarom niet meteen voor de oppositie gekozen?

Joshua Livestro@joshualivestro.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Totaal ongeloofwaardig