Rop Gonggrijp
@rop.gonggri.jp
Doomscroller avant la lettre. This account is in English, public replies in other languages will be hidden.
Occasional posts in Dutch on @rop.nl and in German on @deutsch.rop.nl
Occasional posts in Dutch on @rop.nl and in German on @deutsch.rop.nl
Turns out he wasn't trying to escape, he was just curious how the tech worked.
Hackers of the planet: defend Bolsonaro! He's one of us!
(Except nah, how lame to not have the proper tools for the job.)
Hackers of the planet: defend Bolsonaro! He's one of us!
(Except nah, how lame to not have the proper tools for the job.)
Jair Bolsonaro arrested after tampering with ankle tag ‘out of curiosity’
Brazilian ex-president says he used soldering iron on device and is now in custody over fears he was going to abscond
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Turns out he wasn't trying to escape, he was just curious how the tech worked.
Hackers of the planet: defend Bolsonaro! He's one of us!
(Except nah, how lame to not have the proper tools for the job.)
Hackers of the planet: defend Bolsonaro! He's one of us!
(Except nah, how lame to not have the proper tools for the job.)
The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of President Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.”
Justice Department quietly replaced 'identical' Trump signatures on recent pardons
President Donald Trump is facing new scrutiny over the use of a replicated signature on several recent pardons.
apnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of President Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.”
Hmmmm, tough problem, I get it. Lemme think...
Maybe you could give them badges and not have them wear full face-covering masks? Or have them behave more like law-enforcement and less like gangsters kidnapping regular people?
Just floating some ideas here.
Maybe you could give them badges and not have them wear full face-covering masks? Or have them behave more like law-enforcement and less like gangsters kidnapping regular people?
Just floating some ideas here.
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
wrd.cm
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Hmmmm, tough problem, I get it. Lemme think...
Maybe you could give them badges and not have them wear full face-covering masks? Or have them behave more like law-enforcement and less like gangsters kidnapping regular people?
Just floating some ideas here.
Maybe you could give them badges and not have them wear full face-covering masks? Or have them behave more like law-enforcement and less like gangsters kidnapping regular people?
Just floating some ideas here.
Worth a read. Or so I think, anyway.
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench – by Mark L. Wolf
l1nk.click
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Worth a read. Or so I think, anyway.
TIL: Mamdani's father was introduced to Marxism in America.
thewashingtonstandard.com/zohran-mamda...
thewashingtonstandard.com/zohran-mamda...
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
TIL: Mamdani's father was introduced to Marxism in America.
thewashingtonstandard.com/zohran-mamda...
thewashingtonstandard.com/zohran-mamda...
Reposted by Rop Gonggrijp
1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville:
“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
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“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
🧵
Opinion | James Carville: It’s Time for a Daring Political Maneuver, Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville:
“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
🧵
“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
🧵
Dutch elections yesterday. Far-right got ~48 of 150 seats.
Exit-polls put right-wing extremist PVV at 19 seats. The counted votes now indicate 26 seats.
So to summarize the Dutch in 2025: one third nazis, and of those a quarter of the closeted variety.
How's your day going?
Exit-polls put right-wing extremist PVV at 19 seats. The counted votes now indicate 26 seats.
So to summarize the Dutch in 2025: one third nazis, and of those a quarter of the closeted variety.
How's your day going?
October 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Dutch elections yesterday. Far-right got ~48 of 150 seats.
Exit-polls put right-wing extremist PVV at 19 seats. The counted votes now indicate 26 seats.
So to summarize the Dutch in 2025: one third nazis, and of those a quarter of the closeted variety.
How's your day going?
Exit-polls put right-wing extremist PVV at 19 seats. The counted votes now indicate 26 seats.
So to summarize the Dutch in 2025: one third nazis, and of those a quarter of the closeted variety.
How's your day going?
Funny how 10 dead white people in Kyiv are framed as proof of a brutal war of aggression, and 100 dead brown people in Gaza are merely an increasingly fragile ceasefire.
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile
Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Funny how 10 dead white people in Kyiv are framed as proof of a brutal war of aggression, and 100 dead brown people in Gaza are merely an increasingly fragile ceasefire.
I see no potential conflicts of interest here...
The Trump Media & Technology Group, which controls the social media platform, on Tuesday announced it would partner with Crypto.com to introduce “Truth Predict”, which would allow users “to react instantly to developments in major current events”.
The Trump Media & Technology Group, which controls the social media platform, on Tuesday announced it would partner with Crypto.com to introduce “Truth Predict”, which would allow users “to react instantly to developments in major current events”.
Donald Trump’s Truth Social to allow trading on election results
US president’s social media platform enters prediction market sector
l1nk.click
October 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I see no potential conflicts of interest here...
The Trump Media & Technology Group, which controls the social media platform, on Tuesday announced it would partner with Crypto.com to introduce “Truth Predict”, which would allow users “to react instantly to developments in major current events”.
The Trump Media & Technology Group, which controls the social media platform, on Tuesday announced it would partner with Crypto.com to introduce “Truth Predict”, which would allow users “to react instantly to developments in major current events”.
New ICE recruiting ad
DESTROY THE FLOOD
DHSGOV on Instagram
l1nk.click
October 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
New ICE recruiting ad
Major surprise development!
It turns out bad things happen when you allow people to wear random camo and masks instead of badges, and have them not show ID as they stuff people in unmarked cars.
It turns out bad things happen when you allow people to wear random camo and masks instead of badges, and have them not show ID as they stuff people in unmarked cars.
ICE impersonators on the rise: Arrests made as authorities issue national warning | CNN
Authorities in three states have made arrests in connection with individuals impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, as tensions rise amid a nationwide immigration crackdown.
edition.cnn.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Major surprise development!
It turns out bad things happen when you allow people to wear random camo and masks instead of badges, and have them not show ID as they stuff people in unmarked cars.
It turns out bad things happen when you allow people to wear random camo and masks instead of badges, and have them not show ID as they stuff people in unmarked cars.
I hope you believe Sam Altman means well.
In fact ... you better believe it, you might go insane otherwise.
In fact ... you better believe it, you might go insane otherwise.
Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.
futurism.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I hope you believe Sam Altman means well.
In fact ... you better believe it, you might go insane otherwise.
In fact ... you better believe it, you might go insane otherwise.
Hard to see how a war can be avoided at this point.
CNN - Donald Trump popularity 60 points below Canada in US polls
Also, 48% of Canadians sees the US as a potential threat, vs 7% in 2023.
l1nk.click
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Hard to see how a war can be avoided at this point.
Crap, Trump's gamble with taxpayer money worked. (Probably not for the taxpayers, but that was never a concern anyway.)
Javier Milei hails ‘tipping point’ as his far-right party wins Argentina’s midterm elections
Result falls short of giving Milei a congressional majority but surprises many analysts after series of scandals
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Crap, Trump's gamble with taxpayer money worked. (Probably not for the taxpayers, but that was never a concern anyway.)
Don't know the amount, but $130M is clearly just a drop in the bucket. Unless it goes to selected US Marines and special forces units that have special roles when the Insurrection Act is invoked, and whose loyalty to the king is too important to risk.
Not revealing the donor is ... interesting.
Not revealing the donor is ... interesting.
So a private donor paid $130 million to pay the troops.
Except, based on what I can find googling around, it costs over
$500 million
per day
JUST for the military's paychecks.
Except, based on what I can find googling around, it costs over
$500 million
per day
JUST for the military's paychecks.
October 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Don't know the amount, but $130M is clearly just a drop in the bucket. Unless it goes to selected US Marines and special forces units that have special roles when the Insurrection Act is invoked, and whose loyalty to the king is too important to risk.
Not revealing the donor is ... interesting.
Not revealing the donor is ... interesting.
An anonymous friend of the president is paying US military salaries, out of the goodness of his heart.
Yeah, that sounds legit.
Yeah, that sounds legit.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
An anonymous friend of the president is paying US military salaries, out of the goodness of his heart.
Yeah, that sounds legit.
Yeah, that sounds legit.
Decent Financial Times article on Trump's stranglehold on power through the threat of revenge.
The Trump Supremacy
Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
l1nk.click
October 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Decent Financial Times article on Trump's stranglehold on power through the threat of revenge.
"If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart."
- Betty Ford
- Betty Ford
East Wing - Wikipedia
The East Wing of the White House complex was built in 1902, significantly expanded in 1942, and demolished in 2025 ahead of a rebuild containing the White House State Ballroom.
l1nk.click
October 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart."
- Betty Ford
- Betty Ford
"The design is grotesque, but perfectly in keeping with the aesthetic Trump prefers — Liberace-meets-Albert Speer-meets-DJ Jazzy Jeff."
The ‘Billionaire Ballroom’ has to go
It won’t interfere with the current building. It won’t be. It’ll be near it, but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of. It’s my favorit…
thehobbledehoy.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"The design is grotesque, but perfectly in keeping with the aesthetic Trump prefers — Liberace-meets-Albert Speer-meets-DJ Jazzy Jeff."
So the federal gov is closed and a suspected Russian asset is working a plan nobody knew in advance, using workers he controls, plus trucks and heavy machinery, right on top of the Presidential Emergency Operation Center?
What would the US pay for a similar position vis-a-vis Putin?
What would the US pay for a similar position vis-a-vis Putin?
October 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
So the federal gov is closed and a suspected Russian asset is working a plan nobody knew in advance, using workers he controls, plus trucks and heavy machinery, right on top of the Presidential Emergency Operation Center?
What would the US pay for a similar position vis-a-vis Putin?
What would the US pay for a similar position vis-a-vis Putin?
Reposted by Rop Gonggrijp
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
So the US is buying Argentinian pesos in an apparent effort to keep the currency from devaluing. They're betting against the world's FX traders in a situation that reminds many of the Bank of England's position trying to defend the Pound Sterling against George Soros in 1992.
Trump sets head-scratching FX intervention precedence in Argentina
The Trump administration has engaged in what appears to be the U.S. government's first ever unilateral foreign exchange intervention to support an emerging market currency – and the country in questio...
l1nk.click
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So the US is buying Argentinian pesos in an apparent effort to keep the currency from devaluing. They're betting against the world's FX traders in a situation that reminds many of the Bank of England's position trying to defend the Pound Sterling against George Soros in 1992.
Nope, he's not just taking out one side of the facade. Nobody seems to really know what the plan is: all we know is the sketches were a lie.
You just know some Russian asset is working on him right now: "You'd REALLY be the greatest builder of all time if you remodel the entire place."
You just know some Russian asset is working on him right now: "You'd REALLY be the greatest builder of all time if you remodel the entire place."
White House expands East Wing demolition as critics decry Trump overreach
Much of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency.
l1nk.click
October 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Nope, he's not just taking out one side of the facade. Nobody seems to really know what the plan is: all we know is the sketches were a lie.
You just know some Russian asset is working on him right now: "You'd REALLY be the greatest builder of all time if you remodel the entire place."
You just know some Russian asset is working on him right now: "You'd REALLY be the greatest builder of all time if you remodel the entire place."
"guided missile warheads and explosive components"
for ICE.
for ICE.
ICE boosts weapons spending 700%
A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.
l1nk.click
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"guided missile warheads and explosive components"
for ICE.
for ICE.