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Are you not entertained?

There is no human on earth more easily or predictably baited than this man.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

DOGE Light aangekondigd, modder in de transparantie... Plannen hoor, dit kabinet. Het kan wél.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

AI Act zegt hoi

Tesla, Audi. Merken die je links / extreemrechts mag laten liggen.

Amerikaanse politiek(e discourse) is fubar youtu.be/zVwhVOB3ulU?...

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People in Belgrade celebrated following Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic speech conceding defeat to a student-led protest movement in a historic election that ends his long grip on power and heralds a new political era in the Balkan country. reut.rs/4zkXvww

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

1/24 410 years ago #otd, a Dutch ship ran into a coast that was on no European map. Her crew climbed a cliff, flattened a pewter dinner plate, scratched a message into it, and nailed it to a post. That plate is the oldest known European object from Australia. #maritimehistory

What “poor Russian conscripts” is he talking about? The Russian soldiers fighting against Ukraine serve under official contracts and are paid for it.

Reclusive Deity Hasn’t Written A New Book In 2,000 Years https://theonion.com/reclusive-deity-hasn-t-written-a-new-book-in-2-000-year-1819576927/

Visuele valeriaan

He and Trump are so much alike.

Leefde Drs. P. nog maar slashdot.org/story/458456

Melania taking credit for something the Pope did? I’m shocked.

ASMR meets teardown-upgrade youtu.be/AwVfVjbcjJk

This chart probably mirrors your felt experience since 2016 pretty well…

The BBC is doing something important, refusing to be intimidated by a powerful person trying to use the legal system to punish criticism and discourage scrutiny. They’re schooling the American press on what the 1st Amendment means. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-bbc-st...

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

Voorheen een democratie

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Has a pool reporter ever stood up on behalf of their colleagues when this happens?

I guess AP thinks if it puts “White House says” at the end of the sentence instead of the start, the claim will come across as more believable.

Skerritt zit in zo veel van mijn favoriete films. Diepe dank. nos.nl/artikel/2636...

Parkietspiegel

A lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! ❤️ Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

"The Dutch solution [allowed the agency], when Kushner used the phone, [to] see his screen. Almost as soon as they got inside, the… service began capturing every image of Kushner’s screen." I don't endorse peer NATO intel agencies surveilling Trump's coterie, but they're w/in their rights to do so.

Trump asks Musk to lift Ukraine Starlink restrictions, WSJ reports reut.rs/4yxCLkh

"I know a guy"

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🚨 TW: Animal Abuse IDF soldier was recorded throwing a cat to the sky and laughing about it. This is what’s happening when you normalise harm to children and babies.

Elon Musk fully believes that the entire US Government is fully under his control. And he may be right.

Social media platforms are a "silent ally" of Russia in a "digital war" and are doing nothing to curb disinformation, Polish Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski ​said on Wednesday, threatening fines for firms that ignore state requests. www.reuters.com/technology/p...

Day 1702. We go again. Hours after Steve Witless, trump's financial envoy, called Putin "a humanitarian", predictably the indicted war criminal inhumanely ordered one of the biggest ever missile strikes on Ukraine. All the details, like every day, in my daily thread:

Meteorologists say they've never seen a tropical storm so incredibly off-putting and lacking in charisma.

Huishoudens in NL gebruiken slechts ~13% van alle energie De bulk van die overige 87% energie & CO₂ komt van .. multinationals en zware industrie. Die niets doen Omdat onze politiek vooral .. wegkijkt van zulke feiten (Maar bezig is met jullie onbenullige 13%: huizen verwarmen, elektrisch rijden)