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Rutger de Quay
@rutgerdequay.nl
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Redacteur voor Haagse Lobby van WNL op NPO Radio 1 en freelance journalist. Dertiger zonder podcast of Hyrox-award. Rotterdammer.
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janskudlarek.bsky.social
Denke viel an dieses Zitat in letzter Zeit 🫠
The Guardian article I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers - Rebecca Shaw
January 21, 2026 at 5:59 PM
rutgerdequay.nl
Same, liveblogger van NU.nl, same.
peterkwint.bsky.social Peter Kwint @peterkwint.bsky.social · 17h
De liveblogger van nu.nl had er even de kracht niet meer voor.
January 21, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Ik lette nooit zo goed op tijdens economie maar ik heb wel begrepen dat je pas van een 'koop' kan spreken als bede partijen daarmee instemmen, maar ja, wie ben ik?
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Dit is géén Belgenmop. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
January 21, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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explaintrade.com
He just called it "Iceland".

We've lost track of which Atlantic island we're extorting Europe for.
January 21, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Als homoseksueel vind ik er wel wat van dat die idioot-in-chief zich elementen uit de gay-cultuur toe-eigent. HOOR JE OOK NIEMAND OVER!
January 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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codendahl.bsky.social
To be fair, Swiss-German is very hard to recognise as German.
roberthutton.co.uk Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 18h
Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.
January 21, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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smtuffy.bsky.social
Never forget that America elected this guy twice. Non-consecutively too! Which means that hey had a four year think about reelecting him
January 21, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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mdbaccardax.bsky.social
Every factchecker rn:
January 21, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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schellevis.net
Trump vertelt in Davos hoe fantastisch het gaat met de economie. De regie van CNN: hold my beer
January 21, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Voor mijn bloeddruk en mental sanity ga ik niét naar de persconferentie van The Orange kijken.
January 21, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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mollyquell.bsky.social
Some influencer described Lemmer as "the Dubai of the Netherlands: and I need to sit in a dark room for a while.
January 21, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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mathijsbouman.nl
We moeten het voor lef en panache duidelijk weer van de Fransen hebben.
January 21, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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I just leave it here.
January 21, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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Ik woon vlakbij enkele scholen en al jaren erger ik mij groen en geel aan ouders die hun kids naar school brengen en hun auto's op de stoep of dwars over straat parkeren. Talloze keren geklaagd, geen respons. Tot mijn grote genoegen staan BOA's sinds maandag elke ochtend bonnetjes te schrijven.🥰
January 21, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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wednesday.bsky.social
Captain it's Wednesday
Captain it's Wednesday
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Left: writing the damn paper in the shadows of an archive nearby.

Right: presenting the said paper as a keynote at a fancy conference.

#academicchatter
Macron in a hoodie. Macron with sunglasses in Davos.
January 20, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Misschien kan oud-minister De Jonge releveren waarom de AIVD deze man als beoogd eerste vicepremier van Dick Schoof van een veto voorzag.
leen1955.bsky.social Leen van Dijke @leen1955.bsky.social · 1d
Bij Pauw&DeWit wordt Markuszower wit gewassen... een partij met kansen. Hij wilde zelf ook helemaal geen ledenpartij. Maar hij vreesde de wet die dit gaat verplichten. Inhoudelijk is het echt een opportunist van het zuiverste water.
January 21, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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rickderuiter.bsky.social
Charles Beyl
January 20, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Everything is so stupid
January 20, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Trump, who is not mad, has made 30 Truth Social posts in the last 30 minutes, topics including Muslims in the UK, Biden stealing the election, how right he is on Greenland, and other topics.
January 20, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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JA21 en FvD kijken wel uit. #PVV www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
January 20, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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De kersverse Groep Markuszower heeft zelfs al een eigen Wikipediapagina: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groep_M...
January 20, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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mickpersson.bsky.social
Bericht voor Mark Rutte
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d
At Davos, Governor Gavin Newsom said European leaders were “complicit” and “pathetic” in how they handle President Trump, adding that he should have “brought a bunch of knee pads for them.”
January 20, 2026 at 2:18 PM