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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 11h

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 12h

Here is where the Dutch political parties stand on higher education. We better hope for a coalition involving D66 and GroenLinks/PvdA...

Table showing the positions of the different political parties on various aspects of higher education. Most negative are JA21, PVV, and NSC. VVD, BBB and CDA are also not strong supporters of higher education.

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Webinar Alert 🚨

Join us for the online launch of the new Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset, the most comprehensive global dataset on migrant suffrage to date 🌐

📅 Oct 15 | 17:00 CEST
📍 Online
🔗 Register www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 12h

Am I jumping the gun if I speculate these were far right sympathizers, based on a fairly established pattern? (Why, again, is there an unwillingness amongst European politicians to frame this as a key political and societal problem?)

Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d

German mayor Iris Stalzer 'fighting for her life' after being stabbed in Herdecke

The incoming mayor of a German town is said to be fighting for her life after being stabbed multiple times.

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Isabelle van der Vegt 🟥 @isabellevdv.bsky.social · 13h

PhD opportunity on online hate among youth (Dutch required). Come work with us! #DutchAcademia #AcademicJobs www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

PhD: Cyberhaat begrijpen en aanpakken

Wil jij een bijdrage leveren aan het beter begrijpen, in kaart brengen en aanpakken van cyberhaat? Dan is deze positie iets voor jou!

www.uu.nl

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Frans Timmermans @franstimmermans.groenlinkspvda.nl · 1d

De verkiezingen gaan over de oplossingen voor Nederland. Doorbreken we de stilstand of gaan we vooruit?

Als Geert Wilders kiest om 1 miljoen mensen uit te sluiten, mag dat nooit normaal worden. Daarom staan wij op. Samen bouwen we aan echte oplossingen en samen gaan we vooruit.

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NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 3d

Rode Lijn-protest tegen Israël, tienduizenden betogers verwacht in Amsterdam

De organisatoren eisen, samen met de demonstranten, een fundamentele koerswijziging van het demissionaire kabinet met stevige sanctie tegen Israël.

nos.nl

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 6d

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 8d

The occupation murdered Palestinian journalist Yahia Barzaq today. Before the genocide, he captured beautiful moments with newborns. He was then forced to document the death of Gaza’s children. The occupation murdered him today.

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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 8d

Latest Dutch polling, with one month to election day.
-Wilders way down on last election but still easily most popular
-Centre right CDA the big winners/kingmakers
-Green/left holding steady
-D66 doing pretty well too
-NSC collapse is embarrassingly total: from 20 seats to 0 in less than 2 years!

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Scotlady19🇨🇦 @scotlady19.bsky.social · 9d

OMG, this is good! 🤣

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 9d

This is a frequently stated chain of causality, and temporally it fits, although in practice it seems that states like Germany were looking to rein in migrant labour already in the late 1960s with the onset of economic recession. The oil shock provided a final reason.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 11d

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president, addressed the UN general assembly on Tuesday to call for felon Donald Trump to once again face “criminal proceedings” — this time over the US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean.

Colombia’s Petro urges ‘criminal trial’ against Trump for Venezuelan strikes

At UN, Gustavo Petro says ‘poor young people’ died in US strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats off Caribbean coast

www.theguardian.com

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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 11d

As UEFA moves towards suspending Israel as it did Russia, the US says it will try to stop Israel being banned from the World Cup. Meanwhile, Trump says he'll move WC games from host cities who don't comply with his policies. It's one of the most politically charged World Cups. Morning Star column.

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 12d

Netanyahu orders IDF to broadcast his UNGA speech over loud speakers in Gaza. I'm dead serious.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

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ORIENTATION
FACT SHEET
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WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM!
Note For This Week's Discussion:
Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis;
(2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 12d

I generally support boycotting (ie. FIFA, Eurovision) but totally agree with you here on this one.

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 12d

Is this what ordinary Dutch people really want? A society overrun by violent skinheads?

Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 12d

Far right extremism has become normalized in the Netherlands, warns the counter-terrorism agency NCTV.

We have Wilders' fellow travellers - the BBB, the NSC, and the VVD - to thank for that.

I am fearful of what is coming in the October 29 elections.

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Anti-immigration protest planned in Amsterdam's Dam Square on October 12

A protest “against mass immigration for a safe Netherlands, and against the housing shortage” on Dam Square in Amsterdam was announced on TikTok. The anti-immigration protest is planned for October 12...

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 12d

Check out this recording of yesterday's discussion on Western states' recognition of the State of Palestine with @shahdhm.bsky.social @somdeepsen.bsky.social Lana Tatour and yours truly: twailr.com/recording-of... TL;DR: we are not excited.

Panel: Interrogating the Politics of Palestinian State Recognition

Panel discussion on what a Palestinian national liberation movement might tactically salvage and repurpose from conditional recognition of a Palestinian state almost two years into a genocide.

twailr.com

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 12d

Interesting event and potential counterforce to the global populist right threat... hardly revolutionary but at least returning to global cooperation when the norm has been fragmentation and passivity. No coverage in the (unfortunately now captured) NYT or the BBC. Thoughts?

Reuters @reuters.com · 12d

LIVE: World leaders meet at the Global Progress Action Summit 2025 in London youtube.com/live/j3Lz2G_...

LIVE: World leaders meet at the Global Progress Action Summit 2025 in London

YouTube video by Reuters

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 13d

This is a very important empirical (!) study accounting for the mental health impact of genocide on health care workers in Gaza. Much respect to the researchers who conducted a survey under the hardest conditions, especially those in Gaza. These urgent testimonies warrant to be read and acted upon

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 13d

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Italy and Spain deploy ships to help Gaza aid flotilla targeted in drone attack | CNN

Italy and Spain have both said they will send vessels to come to the aid of an aid flotilla that was targeted by drones while trying to reach Gaza, with activists claiming that Israel was behind the s...

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 13d

"de universiteit is een plaats waar verschillende standpunten en opvattingen onderzocht en besproken kunnen en moeten worden. Maar dat is wat anders dan de plicht om iedere matig onderbouwde mening een podium te geven." This.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 14d

It's ridiculous that Benny Gantz managed to get an op-ed in the NYT. The guy is universally mocked in Israel as useless and worse. His party is now a statistical error in the polls. Unclear that it would clear electoral threshold to enter the next Knesset. The guy's political career is over.

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