June 1, 2025 Even as government agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ramp up their arrests and confrontations, the lug nuts on the wheels of the White House bus continue to loosen.

June 1, 2025
Trump [..] is more committed to fantasy than reality.

Last night, he reposted a [..] conspiracy theory that former president Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and that “Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see
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Een vaste vrede en oprechte vriendschap? Vier eeuwen lang zijn mensen uit Nederland per boot of per vliegtuig naar Amerika gegaan, om het land te verkennen, te handelen, te koloniseren, zich te vestigen, zaken te doen, een nieuwe toekomst te...

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April 3, 2025 Trump’s announcement last night that he was placing high tariffs on countries around the world came after the stock market closed, but it drove stock futures dramatically downward.

Lawrence Summers: “This is to economics what creationism is to biology, astrology is to astronomy, or RFK thought is to vaccine science. The Trump tariff policy makes little sense EVEN if you believe in protectionist mercantilist economics.”

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aanmelden Fellowships 2025 Het Scheepvaartmuseum - Aanmelden Warnsinck en Crone Fellowship 2024

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The Week Ahead March 16, 2025

Every lawyer understands this one basic rule: If a court orders you to do something, you do it. If you don’t like the ruling, you can appeal it at the appropriate time, but unless and until that order is reversed, like it or not, you must obey it.
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March 5, 2025 In the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill rose to deliver a speech.

“We were at war with a dictator,” said French center-right politician Claude Malhuret of Europe’s stand against Putin. “[N]ow we are at war with a dictator backed by a traitor.”

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March 3, 2025 As seemed evident even at the time, the ambush of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday was a setup to provide justification for cutting off congressionally approved aid to...

March 3, 2025

Vertalingen, steeds weer anders - Mainzer Beobachter Er zijn allerlei redenen waardoor vertalingen van steeds weer anders zijn, zoals groeiend inzicht in de brontaal en wijzigende doelgroepen.

Jona Lendering over klassieke vertalingen. Geldt ook voor zeventiende-eeuws Nederlands uit Nieuw-Nederlandse documenten. Weer een mooi blog van Jona.

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In 1690 John Locke noted “[W]hosoever in authority exceeds the power given him by the law and makes use of the force he has under his command…ceases in that to be a magistrate; and, acting without authority, may be opposed, as any other man, who by force invades the right of another.”

Europeans on democracy’s frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up With the new Trump era likely to pose unprecedented challenges the message from Europe’s fragile democracies is: stay united and safeguard your institutions

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De verjaardag van het andere Amsterdam Op 2 februari 1653 krijgt een nederzetting aan de overkant van de oceaan stadsrechten. 372 jaar later is het een van de invloedrijkste steden ter wereld.

Always nice to read something about New Netherland of New Amsterdam, but this short piece has too many errors. I count four blatant factual errors and one point that is so incomplete as to be a distortion. Oh well.

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January 28, 2025 During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump distanced himself from Project 2025, a plan for a second Trump term prepared by a number of right-wing institutions led by the Heritage Foundation.

January 28. 2025

‘Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’: here is the sermon that enraged Donald Trump | Mariann Edgar Budde This week, the Bishop of Washington delivered a sermon in front of President Trump urging him to show mercy towards LGBTQ+ and migrant communities. The president condemned it as ‘nasty’. We reproduce ...

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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde confronts Trump in sermon At a sermon preached to President Trump at Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann Budde asked him to "have mercy" on people who are "scared," including LGBTQ+ children.

[NL+EN] Wow!
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January 21, 2025 “I JUST GOT THE NEWS FROM MY LAWYER… I GOT A PARDON BABY!

Just in case you were wondering whether the US is really sliding into a fascist dictatorship.

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January 20, 2025 The tone for the inauguration of Donald J.

January 20, 2025

A dark mist had descended over Scotscraig during the night and the morning looked very gloomy. During our walk the sun rose and gradually the gloom lifted. There will be light and it will be bright. Let us oppose the dark forces and stand up for right and justice for everyone.

January 14, 2025 Shortly after midnight last night, the Justice Department released special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on former president Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential...

January 14, 2025

January 12, 2025 Almost ten weeks after the 2024 election, North Carolina remains in turmoil from it.

January 12, 2025

Pff.