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Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

What a time to be alive

Boise, Idaho

This is Boise, Idaho one of the most Republican states in the US joining millions of protestors. The people have had enough of the Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

Ali Solomon, The New Yorker

For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.

Another disaster in the making. Shameless and aloof from ordinary KMT voters. More of the same and possibly a lot worse.

Zelensky is a hero.
But he is also a saint.
For it takes sainthood to endure what he has just endured today, in Washington, facing Trump.

Inflatable cows and frog: Portland style protest.

Poster saying NO to tyrants, despots, dictators.

This inflatable frog says “You’re fired!” to the wannabe king.

In Shinjuku, Tokyo just now.

To our American friends - Have fun! Stay safe!

What mad kings through the ages deserve.

REBUTTED, not "refuted"

ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally | CNN Politics The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.

Yes. You read that headline correctly. ICE arrested a police officer claiming he's here illegally.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/p...

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law.

🚨NEW: After we revealed Russ Vought's "put them in trauma" video, I spent the next year reporting on him, his influence, and his vision for America.

Yes, I got *new* recordings & videos of Vought.

Here is the story.

A @propublica.org + @newyorker.com collab: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Eastern Taiwan's ill-fated Taroko Gorge is under evacuation orders due to a landslide barrier lake that formed today (8/17). The debris is 25 meters tall and as you can see in the attached photo of the Swallow's Grotto (via the national parl FB page), water levels were already high this afternoon.

ICE agents are the very worst of Americans outside violent criminals in the penal system. The very, very worst. Every one of these lowlifes has to go down.

Finally! A direct connection for Americans to go on vacation to Chukotka! 🥰

CAMBODIA: Ripple effects of UK/US actions targeting Prince & Huione. Video footage is emerging of dozens of people fleeing scam compounds in Chrey Thom and Poipet. 1/7

South Korea bans travel to parts of Cambodia amid deepening scam crisis that has left 80 missing An additional 60 South Koreans remain detained by Cambodian authorities after a crackdown on scam operations

CAMBODIA/KOREA: South Korea issues most serious travel warning for parts of Cambodia, issuing ‘code black’ ban ordering citizens to leave areas where gov. has identified surging employment scams & detention cases targeting its nationals. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Australian does a U-turn on controversial Pentagon press rules The newspaper had joined a small list of publications to agree to controversial new media rules, which led to major news outlets walking away from their press access.

The Australian seems to have changed their mind

How it was possible that there was any question is beyond me

www.smh.com.au/business/com...

Yes … er, no: The Australian backflips after signing on to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting rules | Weekly Beast News Corp’s broadsheet was one of very few publications to agree to restrict reporting to authorised material before it changed its mind. Plus: a super blooper * Want to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter here It was too restrictive for Murdoch’s Trump-friendly Fox News but The Australian newspaper broke ranks this week and signed on to the Pentagon’s prohibitive new press policy. But after we asked The Australian’s editor-in-chief, Michelle Gunn, why her masthead’s correspondent agreed to the rules imposed by the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, when they had been roundly rejected by Fox News, the publication backflipped. Sign up to get Guardian Australia’s weekly media diary as a free newsletter Continue reading...

Yes … er, no: The Australian backflips after signing on to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting rules | Weekly Beast

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

Wow. This should be widely shared.

Oh, what that? You wish to understand why XJP is doing the thing he's doing? That's cute, of course you do. And you will...

But first, let me tell you about a little something called Pangu. In the beginning, there was nothing but an egg, & in it was all Light & Darkness. For 18,000 years it is gest

Adrian Bott @Cavalorn 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. 9:18 16 Oct 15

Happy 10th birthday to the most resonant political tweet of all time.

One day, people will get wise to right-wing populism, but seemingly not yet.
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Aussies stick with US in new poll despite disliking Trump New polling shows most Australians want to stick with the US alliance, despite holding overwhelmingly negative views towards the Trump administration and harbouring deep worries about the erosion of A...

Wow. Opposition to AUKUS is polling even less than the Libs primary vote www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

As pain and unanswered questions linger, a plea to ‘remember the Balibo Five forever’ There are few living witnesses of the events surrounding the murder of the five young journalists, but one shares his story for the first time.

Interesting additions to this saga, one that continues to lump disgrace on the Australian government, regardless of the party in power.
www.smh.com.au/national/as-...

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.