I just heard chief of police Janny Knol on Radio1. I was shocked that she denied institutional racism with the argument: it’s not that our officers think “this suspect is colored, I’m going to tackle him hard.” Total absence of insight into unconscious bias: it cannot be in this position. (translated)
Paul Rosenmöller in #Buitenhof makes it very clear that the cabinet, due to the role of the VVD, is engaged in kamikaze politics: blocking the PRO proposal while it concerns 0.3% of the budget, with a real risk that our country is yet again (or rather, still) not being governed in this world full of threats. (translated)
What Francesca Albanese says🎯. Standing up for Palestinians in Gaza is not anti-Semitic: it is precisely standing up for the oppressed. I absolutely believe that the very people who are doing that now would also have stood up to protect the Jews at that time. (translated)
The members of parliament who recently laughed at @laurensdassen.voltnederland.org for insisting on the importance of a ministry for digital affairs. They are now a bit at a loss after this alarm from the NCTV, right? (translated)
No, the coalition is not going to tax the wealth of millionaires, because "that is not in the coalition agreement," said Wendy van Eijck of the VVD to Jesse Klaver. Help 😱 someone forgot to explain to her that she is in a minority cabinet. (translated)
So sad that the judge has to intervene every time to reprimand our ministers. It has turned into a cowboy cabinet à la Schoof. Heinen seems to have lost his mind, so obsessed is he with box 3. He must and will, at all costs, even though it is absolutely unnecessary. (translated)
"Hahahahahahahaha 'We do not look at the polls,' says Karremans in Buitenhof. 🤣" (translated)
Research results: twice as many right-wing as left-wing political guests at "left clubhouse" Pauw and De Wit. Pauw and De Wit: hold my beer. (translated)
"We just have a constructive package that you can lick your fingers at," says Stoffer. He refers to breaking the law twice (spreading law, nitrogen) + turning back the clock for women and LGBTQ+. The fact that this idiocy is getting attention at all is thanks to the (once liberal) VVD: so anti-PRO that they take this seriously. (translated)
"Ja21 wants the coercive measures from the dispersion law to not be applied." Frits Wester RTLNieuws. Incomprehensible how journalists so easily adopt the language of radical right. Coercive measures. Just a shared responsibility of the entire country. Ja21 asks the cabinet to violate the law. (translated)
Ron Fresen made a good remark (not starting with an objective about "fewer civil servants" but with a vision of what kind of government you want to be) but in my opinion Erik vd Burg didn't hear it at all. Because he responds: without an objective about the number, you won't get there. #eva #eva (translated)
Phew. What a relief. Also for us and for the whole world (e.g. Amazon, relationship with the US). And what a powerful victory over the anti-democratic sabotage by Bolsonaro's supporters (including Meta interference, buses that skipped stops for Lula voters yesterday). 🙌 Lula!🎉🇧🇷 (translated)
Wouter de Winter says to Eva that the celebration of PRO's success has been interpreted by the cabinet as rubbing it in out of frustration that they were not allowed to participate. By the entire cabinet? Or maybe by himself? 🤨 What is then his explanation for how the VVD celebrated its success with billboards along the highway? (translated)
It is hardly bearable what the creators of the film Naza have seen and heard. Looking at those two people in #buitenhof, I realize that their lives are also not secure. What heroes. And what he is saying here illustrates that Netanyahu is just as much a totalitarian liar as Trump and Putin. (translated)
I get so angry about the absolutely unequal playing field for Ukraine, and how deeply bad and stupid the traitor Trump is. Putin is bad AND smart, and Trump is pudding in his hands. Europe should do much more and quickly. I'm not a fan of royalty, but bring in the royal families. That's what he is sensitive to. (translated)
In the poignant documentary by Yvon Jaspers, "scientifically substantiated warnings are set against the personal beliefs of farmers, as if both weigh equally. The truth would lie somewhere in the middle. Then you do not understand science. And journalism either." (translated)
On average, the Dutch think that 19% of our land area is used for agriculture and that 20% of the inhabitants are Muslims. In reality, those numbers are 60% and 5% respectively. (translated)
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