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Siem Eikelenboom
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Prize winning investigative reporter. Talk show hater. 'If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not the journalist's job to quote them both. It’s her/his job to look out the window and find out which is true.'
Mensen die talkshows kijken en er op dit medium over klagen, zijn wat mij betreft af. Talkshows ondergraven de democratie en bevorderen domheid en apathie. Over die klote shows wil ik nix horen, nix lezen en nix zien. Zo, pak nu mijn boek weer op en leg de nieuwe Alfa Mist op de draaitafel.
January 29, 2026 at 7:55 PM
No words:
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.

ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Israëlische definitie van een 'wapenstilstand': periode waarin je iets minder mensen mag doden dan tijdens een oorlog.
January 29, 2026 at 6:50 AM
"A recent report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate estimates that during an 11-day period starting on December 29, Grok’s account on X generated around 3 million photorealistic sexualized images, including around 23,000 sexualized images of children. "
The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun
At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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Some good news! Guan Heng has just been granted asylum in the US, although DHS reserve the right to appeal the decision in the next 30 days.
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:58 PM
All’s not well for Musk:
New: Tesla 4th quarter profit plunges 61% year-over-year; annual profit down 46%

the brand damage:
-1 million lost vehicle sales, per study
-Declining revenue, profits, deliveries in 1st half of '25
-Lower total production/deliveries than '24
-Lost crown as world's leading EV seller
wapo.st/3LYTef1
Tesla bet big on Elon Musk. His politics continue to haunt it.
Tesla struggles to regain its footing in the electric vehicle market, hindered by Elon Musk’s political activity, impacting its stock price and performance.
wapo.st
January 28, 2026 at 11:33 PM
'Israël voert een criminele oorlog':
January 28, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Vrees dat Nederland die stap pas over x jaar zet. Eerst zal er een commissie moeten benoemd. Dan een tweede die zich buigt over het rapport van de eerste. Het tweede rapport verdwijnt in een la. Ad infinitum.
January 27, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Wat nu zo preuts door de media ‘radicaal-rechts’ wordt genoemd, praat in dezelfde termen en met dezelfde argumenten als Hitler in de jaren 30 en wordt op dezelfde manier door de media vertroeteld als Hitler toen.
Rot op met je taalfascisme - Frontaal Naakt
Ik weiger te schrijven en te spreken in de leugenachtige taal van het nepfatsoen en de taalmisdadige tongbrekers van de wokies wijs ik ook af.
www.frontaalnaakt.nl
January 27, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Op naar de nul:
Het echte nieuws van EenVandaag: #BBB heeft nog maar een zetel over.
January 27, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Image by Luiso García 👏
January 27, 2026 at 2:25 PM
American Gestapo ‘helps’ the Winter Olympics:
www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/...

“ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is supporting the US Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service and host nation to vet and mitigate risks from transnational criminal organisations,” the agency said in a statement.'

The IOC's militarised spectacle
ICE agents from US set to help with security at Winter Olympics in Italy
The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics are set to begin on February 6, with shock at the late news of ICE involvement.
www.aljazeera.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Begrijp de vreugde over India niet goed. Als het over China gaat, wordt (terecht) geklaagd over de deplorabele staat van de mensenrechten. Op papier een democratie, regeert Modi met vrijwel dictatoriale bevoegdheden. Over mensenrechten, lees dit: www.hrw.org/world-report...
January 27, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Zie hier een lid van de bende van Pistolen Paultje:
Sorry maar hoe kun je deze lyrics nou verneuken man
January 26, 2026 at 8:24 PM
BBB=nepnieuws; BBB=nepwetenschap; BBB-nep politieke partij (want lobbyclub)
January 26, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Deze witte engnek is ooit gekozen tot voorzitter van de Tweede Kamer. En ‘journalisten’ roemden zijn voorzitterschap! #hoediepkaneenlandzinken
Martin Bosma: Elke linkse mode wordt gepromoot door de #NPO Blank is vervangen door wit, illegaal is vervangen door ongedocumenteerden. Sinterklaasfeest gemarginaliseerd, blinde haat tegen de VS. Het feit dat Syriërs hier zijn is rechtstreeks te wijten aan NPO programma's...
January 26, 2026 at 8:14 PM
De nieuwe nazi’s zijn onder ons en doen mee aan de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen:
Oud-NVU lijsttrekker (Overbetuwe, 2010) staat op plek 2 voor FvD in Nieuwegein.

Uit een interview op de NVU site: "Mijn vader stuurde mij zelf een belachelijk verjaardagscadeau. Dat boek ging over een jodin die de Holocaust had overleefd, dit boek heb ik weggegooid."

(www.nvu.nu/linksradicaa...)
January 25, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Party with nazi roots invited by Israel’s PM:
Seeing the Austrian FPÖ — a party with Nazi roots, founded by an ex-SS officer, and with figures in its orbit still flirting with neo-Nazi sympathies — being received by Israel’s Prime Minister says a lot about how insane the world has become.
January 25, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
January 25, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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January 25, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Journalisten die dit geen ‘moord’ of ‘executie’ durven te noemen, dienen het vak onverwijld te verlaten.
Dies ist eine verlangsamte und kommentierte Version des Videos von der Ermordung Alex Prettis. Wer das sieht und immer noch von einem "Schusswechsel" phantasiert, sollte umgehend den Presseausweis abgeben. I'm looking at you, Tagesschau!
January 25, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Trump doesn’t use the word "Volk" for his bigoted rhetoric. He uses the word "recognizable."

As in, "Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore. They're not recognizable."

But the parallels to Hitler's rhetoric are striking.

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-davo...
Trump Sounds a Lot Like You-Know-Who
He’s no Hitler. But his speech in Davos about Greenland eerily echoes 1938.
www.thebulwark.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM