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Pepijn van Houwelingen wrote that a motion against the increase of the deductible in healthcare was narrowly rejected on Tuesday. According to him, besides the coalition parties, others like JA21 also voted against it. https://t.co/3jvDMXbdsb #zorg #politiek #gezondheid (translated)

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Aro10 wrote that no football was played in the first half of the game between Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen, which ended 2-2. He liked the second half better, but Dortmund was too naive and switched off too early. According to Aro10, anyone who gives away a lead should not complain that Bayern is too good. #BVB #BVBSVW #Bundesliga #Fussball #BVB (translated)

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Premier Rob Jetten regrets that there has been a discussion within the House of Representatives about raising the rainbow flag, which will wave on International Coming Out Day as support for the LGBTQIA+ community. (translated)

Premier Jetten vindt discussie in Kamer over regenboogvlag ‘jammer’

The author criticized what he sees as the dishonest handling of the plagiarism scandal #Voigt once again. He wrote that the AfD needs an absolute majority in Germany and the FPÖ in Austria. Only in this way, he added, can anything be achieved. https://t.co/Vm5apIMtSV #Politik #Deutschland #Österreich #DE #AT (translated)

It's a pity that it has become such a mess. The House of Representatives is the place where the people are represented. So it's not strange that a rainbow flag is hanging there on Coming Out Day. State Secretary Judith Tielen (Emancipation, VVD) calls the discussion about raising the rainbow flag next Sunday at the House of Representatives 'a mess'. #regenboogvlag #emancipatie #TweedeKamer (translated)

Staatssecretaris Judith Tielen over regenboogvlagdebat: ‘Jammer van het gedoetje’
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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)

Martin Rothweiler, member of the state parliament, criticized that the established parties have completely isolated the AfD in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. According to him, the party is not represented in the broadcasting council, the parliamentary control committee, or the advisory board of the state center for political education. As the faction leader, Rothweiler asked whether this is how the strongest opposition faction is treated. He also demanded that Mr. Klingbeil should comment on this when he complains again that the SPD candidate in Saxony-Anhalt failed in the election for the vice president of the state parliament. #BadenWürttemberg #Politik #AfD (translated)

"I think it is a beautiful discipline and you have to invest a lot of time in it, and then it is of course a pity that you can't show that much in a competition." Daan Hoole said this in the lead-up to the world championship, where he finished ninth. #Tijdrijden #Wielrennen #NederlandsToptalent (translated)

Nederland heeft tijdrittalent, maar hoe word je een wereldtopper in die schaarse en technische discipline?
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Bart Nijman wrote that Dutch media in 2015 portrayed participants in the Ukrainian referendum, including GeenPeil, as antidemocratic and pro-Putin. Nevertheless, he called the referendum a great success. In 2017, according to him, newspapers and parts of the NPO tried to boycott GeenStijl but were unsuccessful. He also accused the media of labeling critics of Greta Thunberg as climate deniers in 2019 and of presenting support for Black Lives Matter as a civic duty in 2020, while according to him, Zwarte Piet was pressured with unfounded accusations of racism. During the coronavirus pandemic, according to Nijman, the media shielded criticism of the measures and labeled those who deviated as irrational. He argued that this permanently damaged the credibility of the press and trust in its fairness and objectivity. From 2021, he stated that media opposed the farmers' movement with reporting on nitrogen that journalists did not understand sufficiently, and starting in 2022, labeled critics of Ukrainian accession to the EU or NATO's contribution to the escalation as pro-Putin. Nijman wrote that after October 7, 2023, many media condemned Israel and Jews in general and based reporting on genocide and starvation on lies. According to him, the media concealed the reasons for Hamas' attack and subordinated facts to information from NGOs, including Oxfam. He also claimed that journalists who disagreed were not offering enough public dissent, partly because they had to save for a mandatory heat pump in 2028. Furthermore, Nijman accused the media of shifting their own problems onto disinformation and Elon Musk and of leaving X for their own, small online environment. According to him, DPG, RTL, and the NPO imposed standards that many Dutch people did not conform to. He wrote that readers should hate the mainstream media even more and asserted that the free press had again chosen the wrong side on October 7. #Media #Nederland #VrijePers (translated)

Barbes wrote that he regretted that the prime minister did not stick to the first paragraph. According to him, the message of remembrance and sympathy for the victims was undermined by also commemorating the perpetrators. #herdenken #sympathie #slachtoffers (translated)

Matthias wrote that he stands firmly with the Jewish people on October 7. He stated that he had seen the images of the massacre and said that anyone who had seen them could not support Hamas or those people in Gaza who had celebrated the vehicles with the abductees. He referred to a mother who, according to his account, had cheered next to a young Jewish girl drenched in blood in the back of a truck. Matthias described this behavior as heartless and indoctrinated. He called it grotesque when people lamented their own victims after a massacre of Jewish civilians had enraged the strongest military power in the Middle East. He also criticized people worldwide who, in his opinion, took the side of the aggressor and accused Israel. Furthermore, Matthias condemned what he described as a newly emerging left-wing driven anti-Semitism in Germany. He accused the government of doing nothing to counter it and wrote that he had never thought he would have to witness this again. #Israel #Antisemitismus #Nahostkonflikt (translated)

Shira S, MD, accused the SPD of collaborating with the SED successor party, Die Linke, while simultaneously using bans, surveillance, and exclusion against the opposition. She wrote that the party presents this as a democratic responsibility. Furthermore, she claimed that SPD representatives were colluding with people who shook hands with clan leaders. Boris Pistorius described the events as an unprecedented taboo violation of parliamentary democracy in the past 90 years and accused democrats of having served fascists as "stool pigeons," Shira S, MD stated. She countered the SPD by saying that they govern on the shoulders of the SED heir and label dissent as fascism. She also wrote that German politics needs an enemy image to distract from its own allies. #SPD #Pistorius #SED #DieLinke #Tabubruch #Clans #Heuchelei #AfD #Berlin #Korruption #Tabubruch #Korruption #Berlin (translated)

Dr. David Lütke criticized an SPD protest march, which he described as supposedly spontaneous. He wrote that a team from "tagesthemen" had been present by coincidence; afterward, there was a staging with the Basic Law in hand and a skewed rendition of the national anthem. He called the whole thing a pathetic staging. https://t.co/qmjv6yE7lB #Protest #SPD #Grundgesetz (translated)

Daphna Kuhr wrote that she was back after a suspension of a week. She referred to a phone call between a young Gazan citizen, whom she described as colonized, and their parents. According to Kuhr, the conversation would be exactly three years old in a few hours. She lamented that the film NAZAAT could not include the conversation in the editing and suggested that it might have been too real. #Gaza #Film #Gesprekken (translated)

Dr. David Lütke criticized that the Tagesschau is once again propagating vaccination five years after the "Corona show." He lamented a declining vaccination rate and could not explain the reasons for it, he wrote. Lütke asked whether the restriction of fundamental rights, discrimination, and the round-the-clock propaganda since 2020 could have anything to do with it. https://t.co/TLXMlFc7jl #Impfung #Grundrechte #Propaganda (translated)

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Dr. Gunter Link criticized the speech of Federal President Walter Steinmeier on the Day of German Unity. He described it as particularly pitiable, unbearable, and intellectually weak, and accused Steinmeier of causing division. https://t.co/nKNOOhcAE2 #Deutschland #Politik #Rede (translated)

Geert Noels regretted that De Tijd had again reported unilaterally on management companies during a crucial moment in the budget discussions. According to him, a management company was not a legal form, the number of them was unclear, and estimates were often exaggerated. He also wrote that people working through a company had less protection and accrued rights, such as no unemployment benefits or dismissal protection and a lower pension. Noels asserted that measures had already been taken to make this working method less attractive, including a higher minimum wage and an increase to 18% for VVPRbis and the liquidation reserve. According to him, some professions and responsibilities often made a company necessary. He further wrote that the tax burden was among the three highest in the EU, as were government expenditures, which he claimed amounted to 54% of GDP. The mentioned rate of 35% for management companies, according to Noels, applied as a marginal burden on profits above the minimum wage; with that wage included, the average burden according to him was rather around 37–39%. For employees, he stated that a tax burden of more than 50% applied for most only as a marginal rate. https://t.co/zDUhGzIC0w #BegripBegroting #Managementvennootschappen #Belastingen (translated)

Jonathan Krispijn wrote that he announced his departure from Ongehoord Nederland a year earlier and started Krispijnpunt for himself. He said that a fellow fighter and Robert Jensen encouraged him to take that step. According to Krispijn, his own channel gave him more space to delve into subjects. He mentioned documentaries about the events of October 7, Geert Wilders' relationship with the VVD, and his ties to Israel. He also said he investigated why Wilders voted against independent research into sadistic ritual abuse. Krispijn wrote that GeenStijl and Nieuwrechts openly criticized him after publications from Krispijnpunt. In November 2025, according to Krispijn, the weekly National Agenda show started, in which he discussed the media, particularly De Telegraaf. He said he confronted editor-in-chief Kamran Ullah about a Nazi cartoon concerning Lidewij de Vos and explained who the newspaper's shareholders were. He also mentioned a documentary about the influence of politics on the media, and reports on demonstrations in the Netherlands, a trip to Ceuta, and an interview with Jared Taylor about the white race. Krispijn wrote that Krispijnpunt now had almost 30,000 subscribers, about 1,300 regular donors, and a total of 3,000,000 YouTube views. He thanked his supporters and asked readers to contribute either once or monthly. According to him, the channel aimed to grow to 60,000 subscribers and 3,000 regular donors in the coming year. He also reported that the website was expanded with articles from editor Fabio Bellarmino. #journalistiek #onafhankelijkheid #Krispijnpunt (translated)

The contact debt is back! BSW politician Claudia Wittig is effectively banned from cafés in Halle for political reasons, just because she does not adhere to the firewall and also talks to the AfD! She received an email from café owner Hansen. In it, she was asked to avoid his 3 venues in the future! Reason: One does not support politics "from the right edge" and no one who supports it. Now the café owner is complaining that his email inbox is overflowing and that negative reviews are coming in on his Google profile by the minute! The relevant venues of the Hansen trading group are: Roter Horizont Bunūel Connoisseur... #Politik #Halle #Meinungsfreiheit (translated)

Merz and Rutte were miserably booed in Münster during the presentation of the "Peace Prize" for NATO... One presents oneself to the cheering crowd like feudal lords. What a shitshow. https://t.co/nu11K06Dsl #Friedenspreis #NATO #Politik (translated)