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Celine Cairo (Amsterdam, 1990) is een Nederlands singer-songwriter. Cairo werd in 1990 geboren in Amsterdam. Ze groeide op in een muzikaal gezin. Haar vader was drummer en van jongs af aan ging ze regelmatig naar zijn optredens. Op 11-jarige leeftijd begon ze zangles te nemen. Als tiener begon ze liedjes te schrijven en na de middelbare school reisde ze door Frankrijk waar ze inspiratie opdeed en meer muziek schreef. Ze studeerde zang aan het Conservatorium van Amsterdam. https://hvdommelen.nl/c/CairoC.html

Mick van Wely wrote that his Dutch grandfather worked as an optician for the resistance in Leiden and took photos for forged documents. According to him, his father grew up with a strong aversion to Germans. When, as a five-year-old, he received an apple from a German soldier, he thanked him with a curse word for Germans, Van Wely said. His Hungarian mother, he said, grew up under communism, which he described as just as bad as fascism. Van Wely wrote that he had been raised at home with love for and respect for freedom. This, he said, explained why he sometimes reacted angrily when he saw that the carefully built Western lead and achievements, which had long been taken for granted, were coming under heavy pressure and were slowly being rolled back. #vrijheid #geschiedenis #verzet (translated)

Christer Sfeir wrote about his visit to Pézenas in southern France and described the Hôtel de Flottes de Sébasan, a stone house from the 16th century. According to local tradition, Anna of Austria, the queen of France and mother of Louis XIV, had stayed there during a visit, he wrote. Sfeir recounted that Anna was a Spanish princess who married Louis XIII in 1615 when she was 14 years old. After 23 years without children, she gave birth to her son Louis in 1638. When the king died five years later, the then four-year-old son became king and Anna regent. Sfeir wrote that the royal family was forced to flee Paris during the Fronde and that the rebellion later contributed to Louis XIV's decision to centralize power around himself. He also mentioned Molière's stay in Pézenas during the 1650s with his theater company, which received patronage from the Prince of Conti. Sfeir wrote that Molière encountered people and environments there that later became subjects of his satire. According to Sfeir, Louis XIV visited the city in 1660 and took over the reins of power the following year. He concluded by stating that the house still stood, despite the monarchy and its power struggles being part of history. #Pézenas #historia #Molière (translated)

Ten Heerde compared three cases and wrote that Ali A., whom he described as Moroccan, had killed the pregnant Elizabeth while driving at 115 km/h and using laughing gas in his BMW, and then fled the scene. According to him, Ali A. received eight months in prison. Ten Heerde also wrote that the Turkish Emre A. had run a red light for 27 seconds at a speed of over 100 km/h and had killed the expecting father Bas; for this, Emre A. was said to have received six months in prison. According to Ten Heerde, Limburg resident John A. also received six months in prison for projecting a counterpart to Black Lives Matter on a bridge. Ten Heerde concluded that, in his opinion, the country was "very much broken." #justitie #veiligheid #maatschappij (translated)

Psychiatrist Stephan Claes said he understood why young people were pessimistic about the world. He pointed out that his father was 11 when World War II broke out and said that one should keep events in perspective. According to Claes, you did not have to be optimistic to have hope. #hoop #perspectief #jeugd #NL (translated)

Erik van Haren reported that De Telegraaf published an exclusive interview with Max Verstappen that day. In it, Verstappen spoke according to Van Haren about number 250, his father Jos, the deceased Dietrich Mateschitz, and his daughter Lily. He said he had seriously considered quitting and that the management of Red Bull was open to change according to him. https://t.co/MCMIPi2Zcs #MaxVerstappen #F1 #DeTelegraaf (translated)

Mariba criticized Dilan Yeşilgöz after she claimed that Russia had been declared an enemy of the Netherlands. According to Mariba, Yeşilgöz stated that the Netherlands was not at war, but that a carefree peace was also not in sight. Mariba wrote that the Russian consulate had asked the Dutch government to confirm or distance itself from the statements. She believed it should be made clear whether this was about official policy, a political warning, or political rhetoric. According to Mariba, designating an enemy was not a strategy and threatening language could escalate tensions. She argued that the consequences of such statements ultimately affected civilians and urged the government to explain what the policy and risks were and how it intended to ensure security. She criticized the VVD and argued that politicians should think first before declaring an entire country an enemy. #Nederland #politiek #veiligheid (translated)

Marcel Crok suspected that Tijs was referring to him with the term 'climate deniers' because he claimed to be about the only dissenting voice during an external expert day in March 2025. He called the term derogatory and pointed out that CDA leader Henri Bontenbal had also used it regularly, according to him. Crok invited Tijs to a lecture by Clintel given by Roger Pielke Jr. the following Sunday in Driebergen. He referred to an article by Pielke about a campaign against climate scientists with dissenting views. According to Crok, Australian activists, including a cartoonist, with the support of influential American climate scientists, created blacklists. Among those listed were Pielke, his father, and Judith Curry, according to him. Crok wrote that their academic careers were thereby hindered and called the issue concerning for Members of Parliament. Regarding his own participation in the Citizen's Assembly, Crok stated that the selection of citizens went well and that his discussions with KNMI director Maarten van Aalst were respectful. However, in hindsight, he claimed that the organization published an incorrect fact-check. He said he should have filed a forty-page complaint before he received any response. Crok argued that the debate about climate, just like the debate about corona which Tijs had previously struggled with as a journalist, was, in his view, being stifled. He spoke of a suffocating atmosphere in the academic world and wrote that no journalist had signed up to attend Pielke's lecture. #klimaat #wetenschap #discussie (translated)

The Edgy Veggie wrote that Emre A. (19) had received a six-month prison sentence after running a red light at 100 km/h and had run over Bas (32), who according to the author was an expectant father, when he crossed on his bicycle. https://t.co/W7o6kFaZHu #Verkeersveiligheid #Fietsveiligheid #Strafrecht (translated)

'The advertisements were very good. They were intended to promote the country, something that many presidents before me have also done.' Trump has repeatedly emphasized that the spots, in his view, have a 'purely patriotic' and no political character. #Trump #Demonstranten #VerenigdeStaten (translated)

Arno Wellens wrote that a father from a family was beaten to death by a repeat offender who received a year in prison. According to him, such cases made people angry and drove them to the right, not Russian disinformation, climate racism, a retreating government, or other politically correct ideas. #rechtvaardigheid #criminaliteit #maatschappij (translated)

The Council of State has confirmed that Jasper van den Hoek, born from incest, is entitled to recognition as a victim of the sexual violence that his (grand)father inflicted on his mother, and that this has direct consequences for his mental well-being and identity. #incest #slachtoffer #geweldsmisdrijven (translated)

The attack by Hamas, three years ago on October 7, 2023, remains a crucial and sensitive election issue in Israel, which was recently underscored by an incident during a memorial service where the father of a victim confronted Prime Minister Netanyahu with his failures. #Hamas #Israël #verkiezingen (translated)