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Wat vindt NRC | Het kabinet-Schoof maakte zich schuldig aan spektakelpolitiek, en had al veel eerder moeten vallen Kabinetsval

Het kabinet-Schoof maakte zich schuldig aan spektakelpolitiek, en had al veel eerder moeten vallen www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The late Margot Friedländer and the hope for a better future – DW – 05/09/2025 In 2023, DW spoke with one of the then oldest living Holocaust survivors, Margot Friedländer, who moved back to Germany in 2010 and regained her German citizenship. Friedländer died on May 9, 2025.

The late Margot Friedländer and the hope for a better future amp.dw.com/en/the-late-...

Prevost is new pope, an American cardinal committed to the reforms Pope Francis began Augustinian Cardinal Robert Prevost was the least American among the American cardinals, having spent most of his ministry in Peru and Rome. The cardinals clearly wanted someone committed to Pope Fran...

Prevost is new pope, an American cardinal committed to the reforms Pope Francis began —
Delighted to see this #HabemusPapam www.ncronline.org/opinion/prev...

Sad to learn of the passings of Paul Hofheinz, a true transatlanticist, inspirational and one of the nicest guys in Brussels, co-founder @thelisboncouncil.bsky.social , and of Richard Vines, who elegantly edited my markets copy when I was at Bloomberg. Both were too young to leave this life.

Column | Nederland maakt zich zo klein dat het er niet meer toe doet In Europa: Caroline de Gruyter

Wow. Het echte verhaal van de stemming over eurobonds van deze week. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The ninetysomethings who revolutionized how we think about strength training One simple exercise proved older adults can build and retain muscle – and caused a paradigm shift in science

www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

In the gardens of one of the castles on the Isle of Skye, I found this old, mossy set of steps.
#pictureoftheday #isleofskye

@jay.bsky.team visual notes from her keynote today at @sxsw!

Community! Open source! Creativity! Connection!

Graphic recording by @heatherwillems.bsky.social of #twolinestudios

#sxsw #sxsw2025 #graphicrecording

WSJ publisher Almar Latour on preserving press freedom and the promise of AI The Dow Jones CEO discusses the future of the news business and what it will take to help it thrive.

Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news.

Hij begon ooit als stagiair bij het Limburgs Dagblad.

@theverge.com www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

HE'S LITERALLY READING A SALES PITCH

Onderzoek: Russisch netwerk injecteert westerse AI-tools met desinformatie De meest gebruikte en bekendste westerse chatbots verspreiden onbedoeld Russische propaganda door systematisch valse beweringen van een pro-Kremlin-netwerk te herhalen. Dit blijkt uit een analyse van ...

Onderzoek: Russisch netwerk injecteert westerse AI-tools met desinformatie. Meer daarover bij De Morgen.
www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/o...

Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.

Waarom in vredesnaam Orban en Fico weer de boel laten chanteren? Richt een nieuwe defensie-organisatie op zonder deze Poetin-lovers. Er is geen tijd voor gesteggel, er is geen ruimte voor slappe compromissen. Vol gas op defensie, en laat Hongarije en Slowakije over 20 jaar maar onder de voet lopen.

Marcel Dirsus on the rise and fall of tyrants "The tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."

“We are witnessing a frontal assault on America’s institutions and if it succeeds, the US will be in serious trouble. When it comes to courts and the military, everyone needs to pay attention. If judges and soldiers are neutralized or captured, democracy dies.”

They Crashed the Economy in 2008. Now They’re Back and Bigger Than Ever. Wall Street expects to sell more than $335 billion in asset-backed debt this year. Remember that conference in ‘The Big Short’? It just drew a record 10,000.

"Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity."

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Great news for money launderers!

Inside Soviet recruitment: Kazakhstan’s former security chief claims Trump was a KGB asset Former Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee (KNB) Alnur Mussayev claims that the Soviet KGB recruited Donald Trump before the collapse of the USSR, assigning him the alias Krasnov. He ...

Zou dit dan toch waar zijn?
kz.kursiv.media/en/2025-02-2...

NAVO-baas Rutte: Zelensky moet relatie met Trump herstellen Volgens Rutte is dankbaarheid op zijn plaats voor wat Amerika tot nu toe heeft betekend voor Europa.

Rutte denkt dat de wereld op Nederland lijkt, maar weet ook dat hij als sg NAVO per saldo lakei is van VS. Daarom kiest Rutte nu de facto partij tegen Oekraïne, het land dat hij ondanks MH17 tot 2022 niet wilde leren kennen. Bah.
nos.nl/collectie/13...

I think it's best to avoid all travel to the USA for a while.

Bansky.

Chris Murphy: "It is absolutely shameful what's happening right now. The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin."

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL

The SNL Cold Open was based on the Trump tantrum with Zelensky, with Mike Myers doing a brutal take on Elon Musk www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpO...

Zelensky flooded with messages of support from world leaders after Trump berates him ‘We stand with Ukraine. Always. Because it is right, not easy,’ posted Estonia’s prime minister

"Zelensky inundated with messages of support from World Leaders after Trump berates him in Oval Office meeting" 🙏

...Meanwhile, Trump HAS NOT BEEN inundated with messages of support from World Leaders 😜

Zelenskyy has a net +22 approval rating and would very likely to be elected to a second term, a Survation poll finds www.survation.com/is-zelenskyy...

‘Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack France, Germany and Poland all make prompt declarations of support as Europe fears Trump’s alignment with Putin.

‘Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack

www.politico.eu/article/volo...

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

February 28, 2025 Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russia in its war on Ukraine.

“But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day—when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Reading words from someone actually presidential that knows how he has to act even in the face of such disgusting individuals.... I wish we had that.