Diederik Brink

If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no.

Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.

REPORTER: President Trump, your message to Israel on the second anniversary of the October 7 attack?

TRUMP: Thank you very much everybody

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/02/grocery-prices-rise-trump-poll

'High food prices disproportionately impact working-class voters, the very people #Trump promised lower grocery prices on the campaign trail a year ago.' @axios.com onderzocht de prijs van de boodschappen en hoe Amerikanen deze beleven (t.o.v. een jaar geleden). Een waarschuwing voor de regering.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

‘Hooliganisme’? Leuzen en uiterlijk vertoon vertellen iets anders Anti-immigratiedemonstratie: Het geweld in Den Haag had een duidelijk politiek karakter. De voedingsbodem voor politiek geweld is er al jaren, het wachten is op een aanleiding. Inlichtingdiensten…

Het geweld in Den Haag had een duidelijk politiek karakter. De voedingsbodem voor politiek geweld is er al jaren, het wachten is op een aanleiding. Inlichtingdiensten zagen de voedingsbodem al eerder groeien.
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Beste @nrc.nl jullie hebben een fout gemaakt in het artikel over de Chinese vliegtuigbouwer Comec. Niet Congreslid Krishnamoorthi is voorzitter van de speciale China-commissie van het Huis van Afgevaardigden (in de minderheid leiden Democraten geen commissies); Congreslid Moolenaar is voorzitter.

Moord op Charlie Kirk laat zien: 'Amerika is kunst verleerd om het met elkaar oneens te zijn'

Moord op Charlie Kirk laat zien: 'Amerika is kunst verleerd om het met elkaar oneens te zijn' #WNL

Schrappen talkshow Jimmy Kimmel is 'héél ernstig', waarschuwt mediacriticus: 'Bedreiging voor vrijheid van meningsuiting'

Schrappen talkshow Jimmy Kimmel is 'héél ernstig', waarschuwt mediacriticus: 'Bedreiging voor vrijheid van meningsuiting' #WNL
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thebaseddad 16h If a democrat was assassinated could you imagine what would be going on right now? michaelandwicket 12h Yes. I can. Because it happened literally 3 months ago. And guess what? Democrats called for gun reform and right wingers made jokes about it. Trump said calling anybody to give his condolences would be a waste of time and then skipped the funeral. So we don't have to imagine. It literally just happened. And not a single person on the left called for a war, or called for the Republican party to be labeled a domestic terrorist organization. You cared so little that you don't even remember it.

I don’t know who these people are, but it’s well said.

The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.

You're taking a class, not buying a product.

En ze verlagen de ingangseisen. Voorheen was een college degree nodig; nu niet meer.

Why can’t a single American journalist do this?

Trump has repeatedly claimed he’s ended numerous wars — he’s now increased the number to ten! — and he’ll surely do it again.

Ask him to name the wars he says he’s won.

Ask Leavitt. Ask Hegseth. Ask Rubio.

Just fucking ask them & don’t let go.

Justice Dept. Sent Congress Epstein Files That Were Already Public, Democrats Say The ‘overwhelming majority’ of the material provided to a key investigative committee in response to a subpoena had already been released, according to Democratic members.

The “overwhelming majority” of documents the Justice Department gave Congress in response to a subpoena for all information from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein had already been publicly released, according to Democratic members.

It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.

Notice how he does his best throughout to hide the back of his right hand from the pool camera.

MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It Gavin Newsom’s parodies are riling people up—and they don’t quite seem to understand why.

Een treffende column van @radiofreetom.bsky.social over effect sociale media posts Gov. Newsom (CA). Hij doet Trump feilloos na en dat raakt een gevoelige snaar bij de MAGA-achterban. Hij laat zien hoezeer bizar gedrag is genormaliseerd. Zouden ze het doorhebben? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

(AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iran nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision.

@apnews.com

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U.S. officially takes 10% stake in Intel Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the U.S. government has taken a 10% stake in chipmaker Intel.

So weird how the folks freaking about "socialism" are just totally okay with government market controls and state ownership of corporations when Republicans are the ones doing it

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/i...

En intussen zijn we ook benieuwd hoe het gaat met Ewout.

Judges Keep Restrictions on Los Angeles Immigration Arrests An appellate panel upheld a finding that federal agents appeared to rely exclusively on race and other factors, such as speaking Spanish, in making arrests.

An appeals court upheld a decision late Friday night that temporarily halts federal agents from making immigration-related arrests in the Los Angeles area without probable cause.

How the Epstein Scandal Fractured Trump’s Relationship With MAGA A Wall Street Journal analysis of thousands of podcast transcripts shows the conservative conversation on Epstein has swelled in recent weeks.

'Right-wing podcasters discussed the Jeffrey #Epstein scandal in over 3,000 episodes of 125 podcasts this year and that these discussions “grew more than eightfold in the last three weeks despite Trump’s admonishment that MAGA drop the issue.”' www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Veteran C.I.A. Official to Retire After Losing Out on London Job

Veteran C.I.A. Official to Retire After Losing Out on London Job

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In de VS wachten op dit moment 26 genomineerde ambassadeurs op bevestiging door de Senaat, waaronder de beoogd ambassadeur voor Nederland Joseph Popolo en VN-ambassadeur Mike Waltz. GOP-leider Thune dreigt nu het reces op te schorten als er niet snel gestemd kan worden over de kandidaten.

REPORTER: Can I ask why you're in a bad mood? Was it a bad morning of golf?

TRUMP: No, the golf was beautiful

REPORTER: Can you do better than a 15% tariff rate for the EU?

TRUMP: Better meaning lower? No

What he denied at Helsinki was that Russia interfered in the election. But Republicans and Democrats who looked at the intelligence concluded it did, including Trump's own appointees. No intelligence official I've ever interviewed believes otherwise.

How do we know that Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to win the 2016 election? Because Vladimir Putin told us so. "Yes, I did," he said at Trump's side in Helsinki in 2018. "Yes, I did."

MULLIN: There was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009 under Obama

TAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of labor

M: Who was in office at the time?

T: Bush

M: No. Obama was in office

TAPPER: Not true

A Clash Over a Promotion Puts Hegseth at Odds With His Generals

'The standoff over promotions reflects an ongoing clash between Mr. Hegseth’s highly partisan worldview (...) and the longstanding tradition of an apolitical military that pledges an oath to the Constitution.' www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...