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Chris Colijn @chriscolijn.bsky.social · 6h

Odesa. Nasleep van Russische droneaanval. Haven-infrastructuur, energie en ook woongebouwen zouden zijn geraakt.

30.000 huishoudens zitten door de aanval zonder stroom.

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De Speld @speld.nl · 6h

Opnieuw tegenslag voor VVD: partij moet meedoen aan RTL-verkiezingsdebat

Het gaat de VVD al bepaald niet voor de wind in aanloop naar de verkiezingen.

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Marieke Doorman 🍋🍀🌹🌍🍉 @mariekedoorman.bsky.social · 6h

Met dank aan de #Agribusinesslobby #BoerenBedrogPartij #StopBBB

Sandra de Haan @sandradehaan.bsky.social · 7h

😟 Op de ene plek subsidie krijgen om te stoppen met een varkenshouderij en een stukje verderop uitbreiden met zes stallen tot een megabedrijf met negen stallen en 38.136 varkens.
Terwijl de gemeente Peel en Maas ook nog de bestemmingsplanwijziging betaalt. Het kan in ‘pig city’ Egchel.

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Wouter van Wijk @wouter.bsky.social · 20h

Try and read about the consequences of eating meat

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termagant @abductedcow.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe they should ban the use of 'burger for anything that doesn't come from Hamburg - that would make more sense.

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Dr Jo Swabe @joswabe.bsky.social · 1d

This outcome goes against @europarl.europa.eu's previous position on meat denominations from 2020.

It undermines EU goals on competitiveness, innovation, and sustainable food systems.

And will also introduce unnecessary legal uncertainty & potential rebranding costs for the plant-based sector.

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Dr Jo Swabe @joswabe.bsky.social · 1d

355 MEPs voted today to ban the use of meat denominations like burger & sausage for plant-based products.

This is a manufactured issue. Consumers are not confused.

If there was ever clearer evidence of political decision-making being heavily influenced by the animal agriculture lobby. This is it.

Voting results amendment on meat denominations
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-08-RCV_FR.pdf

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 1d

EU Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban
Unbelievable we are in a climate crisis where meat production is a huge driver of carbon emissions and deforestation
And instead of promoting meat alternatives - they are trying to ban them

www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban | Euractiv

Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives

www.euractiv.com

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Wouter van Wijk @wouter.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe you should read the law and write about the consequences instead of focussing on this. It will not stop CSA at all. It's an illusional law with big consequences

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Wouter van Wijk @wouter.bsky.social · 1d

Ukrai attacks affect 20%-40% of the Russian oil production

The Economist @economist.com · 1d

Unrelenting drone attacks on Russia’s oil refineries are affecting the narrative about the war. The campaign is even appearing to help change Donald Trump’s mind about Ukraine’s prospects econ.st/4o7CjUW

Photo: Reuters

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 1d

Hesitant to use "that" word when teaching antitrust? Not any more

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3d

This is an EU proposed policy with the benign-sounding name "Child Sexual Abuse Regulation" which proposes to screen private online communications using sketchy image-scanning algorithms. It is technically unworkable, and would be a privacy catastrophe, especially for those in authoritarian states

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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olgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a video explaining how Chat Control surveillance would work by the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy...

fair.tube/w/72DCPMByyS...

#speirgorm

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Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 1d

🇩🇪 Germany is AGAINST Chat Control:

Jens Spahn: "We as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group are against indiscriminate monitoring of chats. That would be like preemptively opening all letters to check whether there's something illegal in them. That's not acceptable, that won't happen under our watch."

Germany voices opposition to Chat Control, tilting the balance.

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Wouter van Wijk @wouter.bsky.social · 1d

Ook een Harvard-econoom zegt dat de economie van de VS zonder de investeringen in AI (datacenters) eigenlijk stagneert fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

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Wouter van Wijk @wouter.bsky.social · 2d

Nog blijven mensen zeggen dat het wel meevalt www.bnr.nl/nieuws/inter...

Trump beroept zich op 200 jaar oude wet om Nationale Garde in te zetten

De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump wil zich beroepen op de ruim tweehonderd jaar oude ‘Insurrection Act’ om de Nationale Garde in te kunnen zetten in ver...

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Wouter van Wijk @wouter.bsky.social · 2d

Hé, een VVD-er met normale ideeën waar mensen echt iets aan hebben. Verfrissend www.bnr.nl/nieuws/econo...

Versnipperde Europese interne markt kost jaarlijks honderden miljarden euro’s, VVD pleit voor één standaard

Als het aan de VVD ligt komt er op korte termijn één Europese standaard

www.bnr.nl

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Wouter van Wijk @wouter.bsky.social · 2d

You could just as well add armageddon and the antichrist. Oh, wait

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 2d

A lot of libertarians who have been screaming in my replies about "authoritarianism" and "tyranny" for the last four years are conspicuously quiet right now.

Curious.

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Wouter van Wijk @wouter.bsky.social · 2d

Dat zwart-wit denken is zo jammer. En een regeling in stand houden die rijken nog rijker maakt ook. Waarom niet bv vanaf 5 ton de aftrek langzaam laten dalen?

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Katysheridan @krshe.bsky.social · 2d

substack.com/home/post/p-...
Years before the first phishing email reached Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta, ... Western tech executives were actively cultivating strategic relationships with the Kremlin, opening channels that would prove significant in the years to come.

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Kremlin

Chapter 11 of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win.

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 2d

Dit is zo weerzinwekkend. Dat een racistische propagandist als Wierd Duk zo’n invloedrijke positie heeft in politiek en media, zegt alles over de erbarmelijke staat van ons publieke debat.

Misselijkmakende smeerlap.

Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman.bsky.social · 2d

“Lachen om de doden van 7 oktober”. De radicalisering van Duk begint nu wel echt een bizar tempo aan te nemen.

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 17d

New report says, if rich countries want, they have more than enough money to fund climate action: $6.6 trillion annually oilchange.org/publications...

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Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social · 3d

Alles om fossiele subsidies te blijven overmaken.

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