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Zez Vaz @zezvaz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Dress Code Drama at the Oval Office zezvaz.com/cartoons

Cartoon by Zez Vaz depicting Ukranian war time President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office surrounded by Trump, JD Vance, Marc Rubio and other goons all wearing a clown nose (except Zelenskyy). One journalist challanges Zelenskyy saying "Why aren't you wearing a clown nose?"

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Dr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Tim Snyder captures the White House travesty between Trump, Vance and Zelensky beautifully in this video: Five Failures in the Oval Office. America acted like a bully today and hurt our standing as a country committed to freedom and democracy. open.sub-stack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

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Vincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Vers van de pers! Mijn boek is vandaag gearriveerd bij de uitgever. Vanaf volgende week in de boekhandel te vinden!

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Michaël Merrigan @michaelmerrigan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Brussels cathedral of St Michael and St Gudula - Bright festival (15 February 2025)

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2025

And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America

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Lectrr @lectrr.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

#cartoon #trump #gaza (via www.lectrr.com)

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Endorsing the crime of ethnic cleansing.

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

In its simplest terms, the apparent demise of #USAID is the result of the world's richest man ending a program that helps millions of poor people. You don't need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus's parables on the rich and the poor.

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Kennedy no relation @lfklib.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

And for what?

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Canadians booing the U.S. national anthem isn’t something I ever thought I’d see, but this is what happens when you let a psychopath criminal with isolationist and protectionist policies back into the White House.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Our beloved Canada is under threat. The threat comes from the president of the US—a convicted felon and known predator. But the threat is also being driven by the hate algorithms of oligarchs like Elon Musk….

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Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Amerika in één foto.

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Michaël Merrigan @michaelmerrigan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Woke up to sunshine in Brussels today!

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Job Kaper @jkaper.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Donald Trump’s data purge has begun Health and climate information is already disappearing from federal websites. www.theverge.com/news/604484/...

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Donald Trump’s data purge has begun

Researchers have been archiving government websites for months.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Camps. He’s describing a concentration camp.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Nikolaas Sintobin sj @nikolaassintobin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Op de dag van de bevrijding van Auschwitz. Etty Hillesum over hoe zij overeind blijft in onmogelijke omstandigheden. nikolaassintobin.blogspot.com/2010/05/gelu...

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Over geluk dat niemand je kan afpakken - Het getuigenis van Etty Hillesum

Blog van Nikolaas Sintobin sj over ignatiaanse spiritualiteit

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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 22/01/2025

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Hero.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/01/2025

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

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Michaël Merrigan @michaelmerrigan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

"Een begrafenis bracht Michaël Merrigan onverwachts naar een klein pittoresk Frans dorpje. En daar vond hij op de valreep van het oude jaar iets wat hij bij andere afscheidsmomenten vaak mist." igniswebmagazine.nl/samenleven/t...

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Traag afscheid - Ignis webmagazine

Een begrafenis bracht Michaël Merrigan onverwachts naar een klein pittoresk Frans dorpje. En daar vond hij op de valreep van het oude jaar iets wat […]

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OverBoeken @overboeken.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

'Wie bedankt voor beledigingen is geen vijand van het vrije woord, maar iemand die hogere eisen stelt aan menselijke interactie.' @floorrusman.bsky.social @nrc.nl

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Mona Smitte @monalisazelf.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

"Duitse ambassadeur waarschuwt voor Trumps plan om constitutionele orde te herdefiniëren, blijkt uit document" www.reuters.com/world/us/ger...

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Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows

He said Trump would rob law enforcement and media of their independence.

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Michaël Merrigan @michaelmerrigan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Foggy morning, Cimetière d’Ixelles, Brussels

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Els Hertogen @elshertogen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

X is een gevaar voor democratie, mensenrechten en menselijkheid. Als middenveldorganisaties geven we een duideijk signaal en stoppen we met het platform te legitimeren. We roepen anderen op om dit ook te doen.

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Boudewijn Steur @boudewijnsteur.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Op deze dag in 27 v. Chr. verleende de senaat Octavianus de nieuw gecreëerde eretitel Augustus, 'de verhevene'. Dit plaatste hem op dezelfde hoogte als de stichters van Rome en verleende zijn politieke gezag een sacraal aura. Dit markeert het begin van het Romeinse keizerrijk

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Nikolaas Sintobin sj @nikolaassintobin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

De achtste druk van "Vertrouw op je gevoel" is net uitgekomen. Dit laagdrempelige handboek over de ignatiaanse onderscheiding kent intussen als twaalf vertalingen, Chinees en Arabisch incluis. Je kan het kopen via onze webshop: shop.platform-ignatiaanse-spiritualiteit.org/vertrouw-op-...

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Vertrouw op je gevoel

Dit boek leert je hoe je intuïtie je beste gids kan zijn, zodat je met meer vertrouwen en helderheid keuzes maakt in je dagelijks leven.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being." Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Walmart Effect

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

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Boudewijn Steur @boudewijnsteur.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Op deze dag in 1730 werd Zacharias Wilsma in Utrecht opgepakt voor homoseksualiteit. Hij werd gemarteld en gaf meer namen. Het bracht een golf van sodomievervolgingen teweeg in de Republiek. In 1730-31 werden 289 mannen vervolgd, waarvan er 70 veroordeeld en ter dood gebracht

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 10/01/2025

next week’s new yorker cover: “two’s a crowd”

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Michaël Merrigan @michaelmerrigan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Christmas time in Brussels! (Rue du Marché aux Herbes)

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Lotte Leicht @lotteleicht.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

In #Syria you can leave prison, but prison never leaves you, as Syrian author Jaber Baker knows. In sharing his story with @newlinesmag, Baker reports that for two years in a notorious prison, he endured #torture and humiliation on trumped-up charges. newlinesmag.com/essays/how-i...

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How I Survived a Syrian Gulag

A political inmate recounts his daily life during his two-plus years in one of the regime’s notorious prisons

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Michaël Merrigan @michaelmerrigan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Belgian sex workers now have a right to sick days, maternity pay and pension rights. The law is an attempt to clamp down on abuse and exploitation, but some feminist organisations have been highly critical. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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Belgium’s sex workers win maternity pay and pension rights in world first

Move by lawmakers hailed as ‘huge step forward’, ending legal discrimination against sex workers

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