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Maurits Vande Reyde wrote that the podcast *Het Wassalon*, for which he claimed 800,000 euros had been allocated, was stopped after 342,619 euros had been spent. He stated that Minister Caro Gennez had initially called the podcast a success because it had reached 1.2 million views, translating that as one in five Flemish people having seen the podcast. According to Vande Reyde, the reach was partly due to 64,000 euros being spent on Meta ads. He argued that views alone said nothing about the impact of a campaign and questioned whether the podcast had actually contributed to the acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals or to the sense of societal acceptance among people with disabilities. He cited an ad that led to an inclusive vocabulary list from Cavaria, featuring terms like “allosexual,” “amatonormativity,” “androphilia,” and “gray asexual.” Vande Reyde criticized the way the government evaluated campaigns, subsidies, and structures like service vouchers, claiming that standards were always found to label such initiatives as successful without determining what had actually changed. Regarding the cessation, he wrote that Gennez attributed it to hate and polarization caused by disinformation, mainly from the parliament, and that she referenced him in that context. Vande Reyde found that reasoning incorrect and stated that Sammy Mahdi, Ben Weyts, Melissa Depraetere, and others in the Flemish podcast world had also criticized the project the previous summer. He argued that the fiasco would yield no lessons and predicted that another useless subsidy would follow. #politiek #socialeimpact #mediaevalutie (translated)

Arno Wellens wrote that mainly photos of ceremonial military displays were shared from royal circles and stated that those involved would not actually go into battle. At the same time, he accused them of actively undermining sovereignty through a mandatory American digital identity card. He warned readers not to fall for the marketing. https://t.co/G1mPuH1Szh #Soevereiniteit #Militair #DigitalID (translated)

Thierry Baudet stated that people who appealed to freedom, tolerance, the rule of law, and the open society, in his view undermined those principles. He wrote that the outcome of a won referendum was ignored and that the possibility of organizing new referendums was subsequently abolished. He also said that his political party was not involved in coalition formation, was not allowed to appear in the media, and was systematically demonized. According to Baudet, a draft law had also been prepared to ban the party. He added that the publishing house that released the critical book *The Coronabedrog* won the NS Publieksprijs, but that the prize was not awarded and the procedure was then adjusted. Furthermore, Baudet wrote that the license of a broadcasting organization he founded was revoked and that there were attempts to find ways to close a school he established or to make future similar schools impossible. He asked what the concepts of democracy, rule of law, tolerance, and open society were still worth according to him. #democratie #vrijheid #toleren (translated)

Klaas Wilting wrote that the woman, in his opinion, was completely disconnected from reality and wondered how she had become a minister. He stated that this was also true for other D66 members, who, according to him, did not know the ordinary world and mainly spread nonsense. #D66 #politiek #werkelijkheid (translated)

Pepijn van Houwelingen wrote that he found it incomprehensible that the Chamber had voted against the motion. According to him, it was about an information request that should have been granted. He stated that the minister refused this on the grounds that the contacts were informal, but that this was not a valid reason for refusal in his opinion. #Politiek #Transparantie #Kamer (translated)

Arno Wellens wrote that the ongoing insistence on this topic made him more conservative than he claimed to be at heart. He disputed the existence of a community that included diverse sexual and gender identities and stated that many of the letters used meant nothing to him. Because, according to him, advocates for gay rights should also accept those ideas, he said that he did not support that. #LHBT #homorechten #discours (translated)

Right-wing politics in the Netherlands wrote that he was gay and had objections to the way the left placed homosexuals under the rainbow flag. He argued that the left categorized them, while at the same time supporting countries where gay people were thrown off roofs. He also called a motion by Kati Piri nonsensical, given the major issues that, according to him, were at play. #Paarsevrijdag #Piri https://t.co/WDZnmeFhtQ #LHBTQ #Homo #Gelijkheid (translated)

Susanne wrote that public money for representatives, in her opinion, was not intended for the situation she referred to. She asked others not to say that members of parliament were paid for it and said that she was generally critical, but that evening she had to deal with them. #TweedeKamer #TweedeKamer #politiek #belasting (translated)

Syp Wynia wrote that the Jetten cabinet had resumed the obligation to purchase an expensive and, according to him, noisy heat pump. He called the obligation nonsensical and stated that Hugo's mandatory heat pump was particularly controversial. https://t.co/IFCYPtlvcB #warmtepomp #klimaat #energie (translated)

Jan Roos wrote that the Public Prosecution Service had convened a multiple chamber for his jokes for the second time. He asked if that had happened more often and noted, according to him, it was striking that in a country with capacity problems, three judges were assigned to such a case. #grappen #rechtspraak #Nederland (translated)

Ir. Wouter de Heij described Vincent Kar's story about the impact of more and heavier cars, discussed on WNL Today, as nonsense. According to De Heij, the cause lay more in a shortage of good engineers and an excess of managers at RWS, along with decades of insufficient funds for investments and maintenance. He wrote that this was the result of prolonged 'half-management', where political scientists and lawyers formed the bureaucratic top. De Heij also stated that Marcel Levie was right and that the minister was engaging in issue management. #autos #infrastructuur #belasting (translated)

Maurits Vande Reyde wrote that N-VA chairman Valerie Van Peel had made several statements about the Jinnih Beels decree in two minutes. According to him, she first said it had nothing to do with Beels and was necessary to prevent administrative ungovernability in the province, then denied that N-VA was involved, and later admitted that the approach "did not deserve a beauty prize." Vande Reyde called those statements contradictory and stated that N-VA's support in both the Flemish Parliament and the provincial council had been indispensable. He accused Vooruit, N-VA, and CD&V of getting rid of a female politician with a tailor-made law and wrote that this stirred anger among people because they feared becoming the next victims of political abuse of power. He also reminded that Van Peel had previously stepped away from politics because, according to her, she had had enough of political games. As a solution, Vande Reyde proposed to postpone the effective date of the decree until after the next provincial elections and to have the parties seek a solution among themselves. #Politiek #VlaamsePolitiek #Machtsmisbruik (translated)

Completely confused. Can we return to the basics with this now ideological and politicized subject? Boys cannot become girls and girls cannot become boys. Period. That we talk about accepting certain behavior is fine. But no biological nonsense in school. #Biologie #Gender #Onderwijs (translated)

Minister wil het vooruitsturen kind niet strafbaar stellen. Zou haaks staan op het recht van gezinshereniging. Zij waren al samen. Dus onzin. Ouders sturen ZELF het kind weg. Wij moeten deze afschuwelijke praktijken veroordelen ipv faciliteren. https://t.co/JnUCBik1Xf #gezinshereniging #kindbescherming #mensenrechten