Kees van der Leun

Russia's favourite party in the UK, now polling #1

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”

Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

Still working from the assumption that he means what he says, are you?

Polls looking good for those of us that would like to see Orbán (Fidesz) voted out in April.

Surprise.

We're now making the climate problem worse three times faster than at the start of the measurements, around when I was born: between 1959 and 1962, the increase was 2.47 ppm.
These years, we achieve that within one year.

Overall, we're still speeding in the wrong direction!

Mooie reconstructie, maar wat een potsierlijke opening: "Eindelijk zou er schot komen in het vastgeroeste stikstofdossier, toen BBB in 2024 de landbouwminister mocht leveren."
Er was het jaar daarvoor eindelijk schot in gekomen, en het was volstrekt duidelijk dat BBB dit van de rails wilde helpen.

Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.

This is immoral. "3-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court. More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to serve as their own attorneys in front of an immigration judge as the Trump admin. ramps up removal proceedings." coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...

Another friend of Russia in the EU.

Mooie reconstructie, maar wat een potsierlijke opening: "Eindelijk zou er schot komen in het vastgeroeste stikstofdossier, toen BBB in 2024 de landbouwminister mocht leveren."
Er was het jaar daarvoor eindelijk schot in gekomen, en het was volstrekt duidelijk dat BBB dit van de rails wilde helpen.

Czech President Pavel warns: “If Putin wins in Ukraine, we all lose.” He compared secret U.S.-Russia talks on territorial concessions to the 1938 Munich Agreement, calling them dangerously familiar. Letting Russia emerge victorious from this war, he stressed, would be a defeat for all of Europe.

We're now making the climate problem worse three times faster than at the start of the measurements, around when I was born: between 1959 and 1962, the increase was 2.47 ppm.
These years, we achieve that within one year.

Overall, we're still speeding in the wrong direction!

November 2025: 426.46 ppm November 2024: 423.85 ppm Plus graph showing increase of 15 ppm within 6 years.

Confirmed: Another big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's 2.6 ppm higher than last year!

Forecast: Today through Wednesday +13, then 10, 9, and 10 degrees.

It's December, when it used to be winter here at 52 degrees North. We have four straight days of +13°C (55F) ahead. 24-hour average temperature above normal for April.

Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.

They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.

After Elon Musk lashed out at the EU, calling for its dissolution and accusing the Commission of strangling Europe with bureaucracy, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski fired back: “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship on Nazi salutes there.”

Elon Musk has tweeted nonstop about white babies, white genocide, population decline, and fertility rates for the past week.

This is what it's all about, folks. The supervillain plot is tweeted in real time.

White supremacy. Fear. Anxiety. Hatred. A loathing of diversity.

Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the DSA.

We're holding X accountable for:
🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’
🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository
🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers

link.europa.eu/bcmC87

November 2025: 426.46 ppm November 2024: 423.85 ppm Plus graph showing increase of 15 ppm within 6 years.

Confirmed: Another big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's 2.6 ppm higher than last year!

"This is the last chance for Western countries to convince the rest of the world that they are capable of dialogue rather than monologue, consistency rather than double standards, and cooperation rather than domination."
Finland's Alexander Stubb in:
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Not by our Daddy?

The temperature in central the Netherlands over the past 320 years. Clearly shows that we're already well over 2 degrees of warming here. This year is heading for 11.5°C again.
This coming Monday and Tuesday, we'll even have that average, in December...

Maybe Rutte should talk to his daddy.

"And here a particular responsibility falls on the global West, as the architect of the passing order and still, economically and militarily, the most powerful global coalition. The way we carry that mantle matters. This is our last chance."

"The new order will be determined by decisions taken by political leaders in both big and small states, whether democrats, autocrats, or something in between."

"Third, if a permanent or rotating member of the Security Council violates the UN Charter, its membership in the UN should be suspended. This would mean that the body would have suspended Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Such a decision could be taken in the General Assembly."

"Second, no single state should have veto power in the Security Council. The veto was necessary in the aftermath of World War II, but in today’s world it has incapacitated the Security Council. The UN agencies in Geneva work well precisely because no single member can prevent them from doing so."

"First, all major continents need to be represented in the UN Security Council, at all times. It is simply unacceptable that there is no permanent representation from Africa and Latin America in the Security Council and that China alone represents Asia."