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That would at least keep Wilders out. It's not everything but it's something.

That's my effort to work out what the exit polls mean. Let's see how it looks in the morning.

It's a good result in that Wilders has suffered, and his chances of being in the next coalition are down. But it's a bad result for the left.
Left votes moving to the centre looks like the main change going on here, which after two years of a failing right/far-right coalition is really not good.

So. The right has fractured, but not really lost seats overall. PVV losses more or less equal JA21 and FvD gains.

In the centre D66 and CDA soaked up all the losses from the NSC's total collapse, and gained a bunch more, it seems from the left.

Here's what 74 European banks considered "material" in their CSRD reporting. Bad news for "affected communities" (among other categories).

This woudl seem to point to a flaw in allowing companies to pick their own material issues.

Source: insights.efrag.org/dashboard

#BizHumanRights

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TotalEnergies financiers beware: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline is eating up money, nature and livelihoods.

Our #EACOP Finance Risk Briefing is out now. #StopEACOP

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Minister urges Radboud to press charges over assistant professor’s anti-Israel tweets Caretaker Education Minister Gouke Moes has urged Radboud University to press charges against their assistant professor of geography, Dr Harry G. Pettit, saying that his tweets “seem to constitute an ...

“I have never advocated violence in the Netherlands” is an unintentionally hilarious line from this pro-Hamas edgelord.

#FreePalestine #humanrightsforall

nltimes.nl/2025/10/10/m...

Fossil Fuel Firms Oversee Just 1% of Global Renewable Energy Projects, A recent comprehensive study conducted by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) delivers a sobering assessment of the fossil fuel

A new study shows how much the global oil and gas industry is contributing to renewable energy. And it is ... 1.42%.

scienmag.com/fossil-fuel-...

This kind of melts away a lot of arguments from the finance sector about why they should keep propping up these companies so they can "transition".

It's almost as if we can't rely on the global banking sector to solve climate change

🖍️ Wij trekken de Rode Lijn. We eisen met 250.000 mensen actie van onze regering tegen de genocide in Gaza! #WijZijnMetMeer #RodeLijn

Rockefeller Brothers Fund provides funding to a huge number of good campaigning organisations, including ones working directly and fearlessly against Israel's genocide. So I don't agree with your analysis here.

2025 Report - Production Gap

"The increases in fossil fuel production [in governments' current plans] would lead to global production levels in 2030 that are 500%, 31%, and 92% higher for coal, oil, and gas, respectively, than the median 1.5ºC-con­sistent pathway."
productiongap.org/2025report
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The watchdog living beyond its rules Advertising regulator in Britain asked to investigate its own adverts...

We asked the UK advertising watchdog, the ASA, to investigate its own ads for being misleading. Then, to use the universal language of clickbait, this happened (they said their own rules didn't apply to them)
@badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social

theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...

Minor spoiler alert...

They have money. There is childcare in the US for people who can afford it, I assume.

The whole reason for the break up seems to be that one of them has to sacrifice their career on the altar of their marriage & kids.

But shit, just get a child minder. What am I missing.

We went to see The Roses.

I need someone to tell me, why didn't they just get childcare?

Fact Check: Netherlands Did NOT Officially Label Antifa A Terrorist Group On September 18, 2025 -- Parliament Made Request To Government Did the Dutch government officially label Antifa as a terrorist organization on September 18, 2025? No, that's not true: The Dutch parliament only passed a motion requesting that the government do tha...

A majority in the Dutch parliament wants "antifa" banned. Including the "grown-ups" of the VVD.

This despite there being no such organisation as "antifa", and a complete absence of debate about the proposal.

The slide to authoritarianism is happening here too.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

💡 Did you know the Customer Union has a formal recognition agreement with The Co-operative Bank?

🤝We met with the bank to represent our members and ask their questions.

📖Read our update on the meeting in our latest newsletter:
saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2...
#union #coops #ethical #banking

"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use

Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.

Charlie Kirk was no exception.

Bank Human Rights Complaints Channels: A Users' Guide About this Users’ Guide This Users’ Guide is designed to support rights-holders and their representatives, civil society organisations, and other stakeholders, in understanding how to raise…

🚨 Fighting harmful bank finance? We just launched a Users' Guide for communities & their allies on how to use bank human rights complaint channels: 👇
www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...

Proud and happy to launch our new Users' Guide to bank human rights complaints channels.
We hope it makes these channels more accessible and widely used, and that banks take action as a result!

Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post.

Start:

1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!

Thanks. I'm no climate scientist, but it's not so reassuring that the worst tipping points are only around 3C, since earlier tipping points may well push us there anyway. Being "directionally correct" is still terrifying.

Trump’s aid cuts in east Africa led to unwanted abortion and babies being born with HIV – report Doctors, nurses, patients and other experts describe the loss of decades of progress in beating the virus in 100 days after Pepfar was disrupted

Trump's aid cuts in Uganda and Tanzania are leading to babies being born with HIV because mothers could not get medication and a rise in life-threatening infections.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

All super interesting, but missing the wood for the trees? A provocation then - big picture, we're already at 1.5 degrees, and even with a rapid solar build-out the likelyhood of avoiding 2 looks slim. Past 2 degrees, tipping points lead to an unlivable climate within a few hundred years or less.

Medical Error Is Not the Third Leading Cause of Death In the first episode of the television show The Resident, a nurse tells the young protagonist that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States after cancer and heart disease...

That's a spurious statistic, as a quick bit of online research will show. Also, what's your point? This doesn't matter as other things kill more people?
healthjournalism.org/blog/2023/07...

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.

ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.

Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.

(c/o Caroline Codsi)

Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm

Air pollution from the oil and gas sector causes 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of illnesses in the US each year. Communities of colour face the greatest burden.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is wild, and topping the list is Raiffeisen Bank International. RBI currently earns nearly 50% of its profits from its Russian subsidiary, which has allegedly invested in Russian sovereign debt. But Austria’s Finance Ministry sees no problem here - and just announced it won't take action.

Of 33 minerals the UK calls 'critical':

⛔6 are not needed at all for a green transition;
🔽15 are only needed in small amounts;
⛏️Only 7 need significant production increases for a move to net zero.

Overall, a net zero transition "can be accommodated" with existing mineral production levels.