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Can Europe get kids off social media? [FREE TO READ] Move follows Australia’s decision to introduce age restrictions over child safety concerns

Ban addictive designs, ban illegal content, regulate companies.

Don't ban teenagers from digital platforms

www.ft.com/content/cf46...

Opinion | Now We Know What All Those People Got From Epstein

"Being a convicted sex offender did not make Mr. Epstein an outcast, not when he seemed to have something to offer. His transactional amorality actually seemed to add to his appeal to people who were convinced that the rules didn’t apply to them." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

Opinion | ICE and Minnesota Have Pushed the U.S. Closer to Autocracy Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.

The 12-axis graph is the best I’ve seen for tracking our descent from democracy to autocracy

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...htt

Van Gmail tot YouTube, dit zijn alternatieven voor Big Tech: "We zijn slaven geworden van technologie die we niet controleren" | VRT NWS: nieuws Europa staat op een digitaal kantelpunt: de afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse technologie wringt steeds meer. Maar zelfs wanneer er andere keuzes zijn voor bedrijven als Meta, Microsoft of Google, blijv...

Europa staat op een digitaal kantelpunt: de afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse technologie wringt steeds meer. Maar zelfs wanneer er andere keuzes zijn voor bedrijven als Meta, Microsoft of Google, blijven mensen vasthouden aan wat ze kennen, omdat iedereen daar zit.
vrtnws.be/p.939E8oGwv

Live with Phillips P. OBrien and John Sipher A recording from Phillips P. OBrien's live video

Just had a fabulous talk with John Sipher, one of the most experienced CIA officers of his generation. We went into the Epstein files, what they say about Epstein and Russian intelligence, how Epstein kompromat might work to influence Trump… substack.com/@phillipspob...

GOP's new fear: Losing the Senate in November A Democratic takeover of the Senate would be a political earthquake — and neuter Trump's last two years in office.

Rs are “worried about private polling that paints a dire picture of the midterms—& it's not just the House they're afraid of losing, it's also the Senate.” (Rs are thus DESPERATE to (a) pass their voter suppression bill & (b) create a pretext to “federalize” the election by ginning up BS re 2020) 1/

Is Jackson shit posting?

I used to love to work with Zotero. Miss those days

Done

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Is ICE Leading Us Into a Constitutional Crisis? A conversation with the law professor Ryan Goodman, who has been cataloguing the Trump Administration’s defiance of court orders since the start of the President’s second term.

Is ICE Leading Us Into a Constitutional Crisis?

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

So no longer the Biden economy then?

It's happening !

Het klopt niet. Kan enkel als je blijkt geef van "je voertuig niet onder controle te hebben" (slingeren, vaart minderen, andere bruuske toestanden)

Ridicuul als dit klopt

The central lesson of the current crises—both the Epstein case and the broader one facing the United States—is that a certain group operates beyond all boundaries: the law for thee, but not for me.

🇧🇪🇺🇸 Belgian PM Bart De Wever:

Trump is hostile to the idea of the EU. When he says he loves Europe, he actually means he loves 27 separate countries that would live in vassalage or drift toward slavery.

The only economy large enough to stand up to him is the economy of EU — he doesn’t like that.

This one is more "Garfield" than the original! 😂😺

Veel te vroeg. 😞

FUCK OFF GIANNI

Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

It took the Islamic State two days, but as expected - the terrorists needed this time to prepare propaganda of Niamey airport assault and deal a blow to the Nigerien junta as I was warning. ISGS was able to locate drone storage facilities and destroy some of them. #Niger

America Is Now a Family Business Trump is transforming the constitutional republic into a patrimonial regime before our eyes.

Some key points from this excellent short piece by @jeffkopstein.bsky.social & Hanson:

1. This is a patrimonial regime that is undoing modern statehood.
2. Gaffes, dementia, inconsistencies, and the courts won't stop it. Some of these actually bolster it.

1/2

An important lesson for the U.S. here. To compete with China effectively, we absolutely must get serious about undermining their education system

Musk killed more people with DOGE than the US in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, but we are not ready for this discussion, especially with everyone self-censoring themselves.

US-Regierung: Wie der Widerstand gegen Maga eine Chance hat Der Minneapolis-Moment offenbart die Schwächen der Trumpisten. Und er zeigt, wo der Widerstand gegen den US-Präsidenten in Zukunft erfolgreich ansetzen kann.

The Trumpists will continue to escalate. But in Minneapolis, we can see the limits of MAGA’s assault.

Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.

My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):

Revealed: Elon Musk’s anger algorithm that polarises our politics Elon Musk lifts the lid on the code fuelling aggressive public discourse on X or TikTok. If not rewritten it will continue to stoke division and extremism

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

משה 'בּוֹגִי' יעלון on X: "ביום שלישי האחרון בערב השתתפתי בארוע לציון יום השואה הבינלאומי. כאשר הגעתי הביתה, קבלתי הודעה על פוגרומיסטים יהודים שתוקפים פלסטינים בדרום הר חברון, גונבים את צאנם ושורפים את רכושם. ״אי אפשר להשוות!״… לאחר שאמבולנסים, שניסו להגיע למקום, עוכבו על-ידי הטרוריסטים היהודים, שלושה" / X ביום שלישי האחרון בערב השתתפתי בארוע לציון יום השואה הבינלאומי. כאשר הגעתי הביתה, קבלתי הודעה על פוגרומיסטים יהודים שתוקפים פלסטינים בדרום הר חברון, גונבים את צאנם ושורפים את רכושם. ״אי אפשר להשוות!״… לאחר שאמבולנסים, שניסו להגיע למקום, עוכבו על-ידי הטרוריסטים היהודים, שלושה

In this long post in Hebrew, Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's Defense Minister from 2013 to 2016, compares the ideology of the Israeli right to Nazi racial ideology. His words, not mine.

Under the IHRA definition of antisemitism, this makes Israel's former Defense Minister antisemitic. x.com/bogie_yaalon...

Risk, Order, and Power: The Saudi-Emirati Divergence In late December 2025, forces backed by the United Arab Emirates swept across six governorates in southern Yemen and seized oil-rich provinces along Saudi

This wasn’t just a Yemen story, it was a Gulf power story. And it may be the start of something bigger.