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Arthur Kroon

@arthurkroon.bsky.social
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Ex Algae farmer, biosafety officer, love to read and write, I follow all biology with a focus on virology, immunology and molecular biology.

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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@vreij.bsky.social ? Is dit iets of fake ?
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #Plague #Misinformation
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #Plague #Russia #USA Notes from the Field: Fatal Pneumonic Plague — Coconino County, Arizona, July 2025 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes... Plague is also indigenous in parts of the USA. Last week, the US CDC published a report on a fatal case last year. While unrelated to the ...
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Fatal Pneumonic Plague
This report describes a case of fatal pneumonic plague reported in Arizona during 2025.
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
... they do suggest that accidental releases are already a serious vulnerability at a time when both AI-enabled biological research capabilities and high-containment research capacity are expanding. As AI becomes more integrated into biological research, preventing ...
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This summary provides some excellent information, including uncertainty this LAI involves plague. beaconbio.org/en/report/?r...
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BEACON
Track biological threats, share vital information, and collaborate on solutions for community protection and preparedness.
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Dénis van Vliet @denisvanvliet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Beelden uit Sjelechov, Siberië. Inwoners melden mannen in witte pakken, een gesloten ziekenhuis en apotheken zonder antibiotica. Aanleiding zou een pestuitbraak na een labongeluk zijn. Het 'Russische RIVM' ontkent; tv-zender REN TV verwijderde berichten erover. 👉🏼 vk.ru/wall-2890587...
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #Plague #Biosecurity #Outbreak #Russia According to one of the versions, the deceased from the plague in Shelekhov worked as a laboratory assistant and smashed the test tube with the causative agent of infection baikal-journal.ru/2026/10/02/p... Note: The victim was ...
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По одной из версий, погибшая от чумы в Шелехове работала лаборанткой и разбила пробирку с возбудителем инфекции
В Шелеховской больнице погибла девушка с подозрением на чуму
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
... involved modifying viruses (chikungunya, avian influenza, and some unspecified member of the orthopoxvirus family), but it’s hard to tell if the AI requests were directed at nefarious modifications or simply at the sorts of things you’d do normally in a research project. This uncertainty ...
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This good news for these patients and their families. Accelerating introduction of gene therapies. www.fda.gov/news-events/...
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FDA Approves First Gene Therapy for Pediatric Patients with Sanfilippo Syndrome Type A
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Fayuvi (rebisufligene etisparvovec-hopf), the first treatment for pediatric patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA (MPS IIIA), also known as...
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #Genetics #Russia #NationalSecurity They Came for the Geneticists? Why Scientists See the New Genetic Data Law as a Threat to Russian Science t-invariant.org/2026/07/they... On September 1, 2026, right after the summer vacation season, Federal Law No. 43-FZ and ...
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They Came for the Geneticists? Why Scientists See the New Genetic Data Law as a Threat to Russian Science - Т-инвариант / T-invariant
On September 1, 2026, right after the summer vacation season, Federal Law No. 43-FZ and Government Decree No. 750 take effect, regulating the transfer of human genetic data outside Russia. Authorities...
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #Russia #Armament Biologists in military uniform. Who studies viruses on a secret island www.svoboda.org/a/biologi-v-... Note: Last month, I posted an item based on Ukrainian intelligence reports alleging an illicit BW programme together with a warning that the allegation ...
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Биологи в военной форме. Кто изучает вирусы на секретном острове
Радио Свобода и расследовательский проект "Система" выяснили, что Центр экспериментальной физиологии, построенный в 2021-2025 годах на острове посреди Вышневолоцкого водохранилища и занимающийся, по д...
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #ArtificialIntelligence #Governance #Trump #USA #Regulation Trump aims to rebuild defenses against bioweapons as AI fears rise www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... [...] At the Pentagon, a former health official who led Operation Warp Speed — the effort during the first ...
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Trump races to prepare for new strains of deadly viruses after cutting biosecurity experts
The administration’s biodefense team has dwindled, and its new safeguards have been delayed — all amid growing concern over AI-enabled pathogens.
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #ArtificialIntelligence #Threat #USA AI-Made Bioweapons Are Washington’s Latest Security Obsession www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... [...] The marriage of those innovations—synthetic biology and artificial intelligence — is where it can become a nightmare for ...
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AI-Made Bioweapons Are Washington’s Latest Security Obsession
A stunt got White House officials to take technological advances in weaponizing disease seriously.
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #Terrorism #Threat #ArtificialIntelligence #UK Plans Safeguards to Stop Terrorists Using AI For Bioweapons www.bloomberg.com/news/article... The UK government is planning to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in gene synthesis as officials become increasingly ...
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UK Plans Safeguards to Stop Terrorists Using AI For Bioweapons
The UK government is planning to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in gene synthesis as officials become increasingly concerned that a lack of global guardrails could make it easier to use t...
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Jan Leune @janleune.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Zojuist was er weer een boer op tv (EenVandaag op NPO1) die onweersproken mocht zeggen dat "stikstof geen probleem is". Daarom hieronder elf glasheldere argumenten waarom het wel een probleem is, voor flora en fauna en daardoor voor alle mensen. 1/12
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Ohoh... hoofd groen stiekum is een 1e klas amateur... oei.
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Saving Private Ryan: Matt Damon's Intense Cry
ALT: Saving Private Ryan: Matt Damon's Intense Cry
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #GeneticEngineering #Threat The terrifying threat of a genetically engineered plague www.economist.com/culture/2026... [...] In this imagined scenario, there is an explosion at an infectious-disease research facility in Siberia, where scientists genetically alter bacteria ...
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The terrifying threat of a genetically engineered plague
Annie Jacobsen imagines the repercussions of a leak from a Russian laboratory
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#Biosecurity #PublicHealth #Europe #GlobalWarming Tropical Diseases Like #Dengue Fever and #Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe www.wired.com/story/tropic... [...] As climate change increases temperatures across Europe, invasive mosquitoes are spreading and introducing disease agents ...
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Tropical Diseases Like Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe
Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #Threat #Epidemic No One Makes Good Policy Based on Worst Case Scenarios almauroni.substack.com/p/no-one-mak... [...] Let’s look closer at her op-ed, which focuses on efforts to prepare the United States from a biological attack. One of the most significant problems with the ...
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No One Makes Good Policy Based on Worst Case Scenarios
It's way past time to stop admiring the advice of doom-sayers
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#Biosecurity #USA #Smuggling Smuggling charges against NIH virologists trigger political uproar www.nature.com/articles/d41... [...] The case is the latest in a string of prosecutions of researchers for smuggling biological samples. It has brought further scrutiny to Munster and Kwe’s workplace,...
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Smuggling charges against NIH virologists trigger political uproar
Other researchers say that non-infectious viral samples in luggage posed no risk, but might have violated import rules.
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#Science #ArtificialIntelligence #Governance AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... [...] The creation of robust human-curated scientific literature has never been more crucial. The propagation of AI slop in the scientific record and ...
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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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Joop.nl @joop.nl · 15/07/2026
Eric van Kaathoven: Samenwerking van SP met PVV in Pekela is overschrijding van een rode lijn, daarom leg ik mijn functie neer www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
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Samenwerking van SP met PVV in Pekela is overschrijding van een rode lijn, daarom leg ik mijn functie neer - Joop - BNNVARA
Met hun besluit brengt de afdeling Pekela de hele SP ernstige schade toe.
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Oops wtf happened here ? www.google.com/amp/s/meduza...
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Redirect Notice
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#Biosecurity #PublicHealth #Hantavirus #Ebola #WHO Hantavirus and Ebolavirus outbreaks: When Deadly Pathogens Challenge Global Health Governance idsa.in/wp-content/u... [ #OpenSource - PDF file available] In the context of the recent Hantavirus and Ebolavirus outbreaks, this commentary ...
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Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Genant.
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Yup, idiocracy in real...good luck with this one, hope the next elections bring changes...
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Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Is anyone really surprised that #Trump was outsmarted by a single-cell organism? #Algae #Resist
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Developing incident www.defconalerts.com/p/pentagon-e...
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Pentagon Enacts Precautionary Shelter-in-Place and Lock-down After Internal Systems Detect Air Quality Issue
The incident triggered standard protection protocols that include a shelter-in-place order for the affected area along with hazmat team deployment.
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Gerda 🍀 @bluemini.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Ruben L Oppenheimer, NRC 2 juni
Tekening in grotendeels sepiakleur van een vuurspuwende vulkaan met bergen eromheen en rechts een krokodilachtige en 2 grote kevers aan een water.
Eronder de titel: Den Oorspronklycken Nederlander in zijnen natuurlycken habitat.
Bij de kevers de tekst: Wij worden omgevolkt.
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#Ticks #ConspiracyTheory #Disinformation Climate change is driving a tick boom. MAHA is blaming Bill Gates. grist.org/health/as-ti... [...] While all these conspiracies involve different ticks, different diseases, and different alleged culprits, they are often treated as interchangeable ...
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Climate change is driving a tick boom. MAHA is blaming Bill Gates.
Where experts see climate change, others see the designs of a global cabal.
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Just found out that pigs are are susceptible for ebola virus. Getting more worried now. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #Threat #USA #Biosecurity Smuggling and Biolabs: The Growing Threat to America’s Biodefense From Within Our Borders www.hstoday.us/subject-matt... Throughout American history, the overwhelming majority of bioterrorism threats have been local, domestic threats from non-state ...
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Smuggling and Biolabs: The Growing Threat to America’s Biodefense From Within Our Borders - HSToday
Throughout American history, the overwhelming majority of bioterrorism threats have been local, domestic threats from non-state actors.
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
... Companies, professionals, experts, academics and citizens are invited to share the main challenges and bottlenecks they encounter and suggestions to address them. The feedback will support the preparation of the Commission’s proposal for Biotech Act II, an important element of the Commission ...
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Fred Sengers @blogaap.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In zo'n beetje iedere Europese hoofdstad is het besef ingedaald dat de transatlantische band kapot is, behalve in Den Haag. #droomland www.trouw.nl/politiek/kab...
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Kabinet blijft erbij: relatie met ‘bondgenoot’ VS blijft goed, alleen de toon is veranderd
Kamerleden zijn verbaasd over de houding van het kabinet, namelijk dat de trans-Atlantische band ook in deze Trump-tijden fier overeind blijft. ‘Dit is een capitulatie in slow motion.’
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Interesting clustering. Could the last 3 cases have caught their infection from a different case, not Case 1?
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
#BiologicalWeapons #USA #Biosecurity #Ukraine #Laboratories #CIA DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad nypost.com/2026/05/11/u... Note: If correct, this would be a major #Disinformation coup for Russia in the #UkraineRussiaWar. Director of National Intelligence ...
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Exclusive | DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad
WASHINGTON — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is investigating more than 120 biological laboratories abroad that were funded by US taxpayer dollars for decades, as part of an effort …
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Any tracing of the 30 passengers ofboardied on 24 april on st Helena? The suspected case on Tristan da cunha makes it now likely one or more where infected and traveled to their residencies unaware of their exposure...
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Not sure how many of these are belonging to the Andes Clade... At least this spectacular airdrop of a med team on Tristan da cunha to support a (possible) hanta virus patient is a new one. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Spectacular is the least, concerning that this passenger off boarded on tristan da Cunha on 20 april before 30 passengers offboarded on st Helena on 24 april.
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I agree with no evidence of deliberate intend but some root cause investigation is crucial to support evidence of zoonotic contacts as most likely infection event and a single patient zero casw.
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Transmission human to human now clearly observed for this Andes strain. And worrieying delay of track and trace. 30 passengers offboarded 24 april on st Helena and flew back to their home countries. Despite the low R naught this virus benefits from the global mobility rates. Developing outbreak...
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Cannot resist this image of airdropped medical team to support a hantavirus infexted patient on Tristan da cunha...
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#Biosecurity #Outbreak #Hantavirus #Disinformation #USA #Trump Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare www.theguardian.com/science/2026... [...] In the absence of trusted information, misinformation about the outbreak is ...
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Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare
But the US’s withdrawal from the WHO – and cuts to the country’s health system – stymie officials’ response
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
@ban-cbw.bsky.social Interesting outbreak? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on Atlantic cruise ship
The World Health Organization said one case of hantavirus infection had been confirmed, with five more suspected cases under investigation.
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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
... pandemic, have been linked to traded wildlife, the long-term impact of the wildlife trade in shaping pathogen exchange between humans and wild animals remains unclear.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 11/04/2026
AI can now autonomously design and run thousands of biological experiments, but the regulatory systems meant to oversee this capability have fallen dangerously behind. The gap between what’s possible (like making a dangerous virus spread more easily) and what’s regulated is growing, and that’s a
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AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks this brings to biology
Researchers have found that even people with limited experience in biology can use AI to help them create a dangerous pathogen.
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hmm interessant om te zien dat de bemanning die witte balakava's draagt, ziet eruit als dezelfde hoofdbescherming die formule 1 rijders gebruiken. Klaar voor impact? Of dragen ze ook nog een helm tijeen een vijandelijke aanval ?
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Arthur Kroon @arthurkroon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Inkomens politiek is core business van de VVD. Met een voorkeur voor hervedeling van lasten, inkomen en vermogen. Ben het alleen niet eens met de balans die de regering kiest met de kamer.
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