D66 en Pro willen dat partijen zonder leden niet meer aan verkiezingen mogen meedoen. De bedoeling? De PVV van het stembiljet duwen.
Ze willen de PVV niet verslaan met stemmen, maar met een regel. zodat partijen zonder leden niet meer mee mogen doen
Kijk ze nou staan, die wannabe-revoutionaire bleekneusbourgeoiskinderen.
Ze zouden nog geen bakfiets zonder slot de gracht in kunnen duwen. Maar goed, ik ben zionist, kom het gerust eens proberen, Sterre en Wolf 😂
Na 1 jaar in gebruik stopt de politie Amsterdam weer met de selectiepaal. Daarvoor is er 4 jaar gewerkt aan de ontwikkeling van die paal. Bijzonder dat in die tijd dus niemand in Mokum dacht 'waar zijn we nou in hemelsnaam mee bezig?' https://t.co/bf6KsBxIoY
Mamdani: I want to open up 5 test markets to lower food prices in New York.
Fox News: That's communism!!
Trump: I want to open 25 gas stations to lower gas prices for some people.
Fox News: That's genius!!🤦♂️
Muslim MPs pushed so hard to ban Israeli fans and were successful.
Then last night London (and other major European cities) saw exactly how Moroccan Muslim fans act and now those same Muslim MPs are completely silent.
Tells you everything you need to know.
In 2005, David Beckham opened his football academy in Greenwich, London.
Among the young footballers there that day was an 11 year old boy named Harry Kane.
Standing beside him was Katie Goodland, a girl he had known since their school days in East London.
They posed for a photograph with Beckham.
At the time, it was simply a picture of two children meeting one of England's biggest football stars.
Harry and Katie could never have known what the next two decades would bring.
The childhood friends grew closer, began dating as teenagers, and built a life together.
Harry kept chasing football.
He rose through Tottenham's academy, endured loan spells, fought for his place, and eventually became one of the greatest goalscorers England has ever produced.
In 2018, he captained England at the World Cup and won the Golden Boot.
In 2023, he broke Wayne Rooney's record to become England men's all time leading goalscorer.
And the girl standing beside him in that old photograph stayed beside him through the journey.
Harry proposed to Katie in 2017.
They married in June 2019 and went on to build a family together, becoming parents to four children.
Years after that photograph was taken, Harry even joked that Beckham was probably Katie's childhood crush.
But life had written a different story.
The boy who once stood beside his football hero became England captain.
And the girl standing next to him became his wife.
Sometimes, an ordinary photograph is only ordinary because we haven't seen the future yet
A man has been waiting in line to buy gas for 12 hours, when he gets out of his car and says to his wife, "I'm sick of waiting. I'm going to kill Putin."
He storms off, then returns 3 hours later.
"Did you kill Putin, husband?" she asks.
"No, the line for that was longer than this one."
Ter Apel: het beeld lijkt belangrijker dan de werkelijkheid
Opnieuw ontstaat het gevoel dat het publiek pas achteraf wordt geinformeerd. Jarenlang horen we verhalen van inwoners van Ter Apel over overlast, diefstal, intimidatie en geweld. Nu trekken het Rode Kruis en VluchtelingenWerk zich terug omdat zij de veiligheid van hun medewerkers niet langer kunnen garanderen. Dat is een uitzonderlijke stap.
Bij veel mensen ontstaat de indruk dat er te lang is gewacht met open communiceren en daadkrachtig optreden. Alsof men bang is dat het erkennen van veiligheidsproblemen eerdere zorgen van omwonenden zou bevestigen. Of dat beeld klopt, weten we niet, maar het gevoel leeft wel.
En juist dat is schadelijk. Burgers krijgen opnieuw het idee dat hun ervaringen en zorgen minder zwaar wegen dan het beeld dat naar buiten moet worden uitgedragen. Alsof de boodschap is: "Er is niets aan de hand, loopt u maar door", terwijl op de achtergrond de problemen zich opstapelen.
Als een kleine groep verantwoordelijk is voor de onveiligheid, zeg dat dan eerlijk. Bescherm de grote meerderheid die zich wel aan de regels houdt, maar grijp direct in tegen raddraaiers. Niet pas wanneer hulporganisaties besluiten hun werkzaamheden te staken.
Vertrouwen win je niet door problemen weg te poetsen of pas te erkennen wanneer ze niet langer te ontkennen zijn. Vertrouwen win je met openheid, eerlijkheid en zichtbaar optreden. Dat zijn inwoners van Ter Apel, hulpverleners en ook de vele asielzoekers die zich wel gedragen, meer dan waard.
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A German soldier stopped at the front of the line and stared. He knew that face.
It was Janusz Korczak — the beloved Polish-Jewish doctor and writer whose books he had grown up reading.
The soldier quietly offered him a way out: “Step aside. Disappear. Live.”
Korczak shook his head. He took the hands of the two smallest children beside him… and kept walking toward the train.
There had been many such offers. He refused them all.
Born Henryk Goldszmit, Korczak was a renowned pediatrician, author of children’s books, and radio voice beloved across Poland.
He could have lived a comfortable life. Instead, in 1912 he founded Dom Sierot — an extraordinary orphanage in Warsaw where children ran their own parliament, court, and newspaper.
His one sacred rule: A child is not someone who will matter one day. A child matters now.
He lived among them for thirty years as their father.
When the Nazis sealed the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, Korczak moved the orphanage inside. Friends begged him to escape — he looked Polish, he was famous, he could pass. He refused. “I will not leave my children.”
Inside the starving ghetto, he begged for food, carried heavy sacks on his failing back, and tracked every child’s heartbreaking weight loss by candlelight. He was starving too.
On August 5, 1942, the soldiers came. Korczak calmly told the 192 children they were going to the countryside for fresh air.
He had them dress in their best clothes. Each carried a small bag with a favorite book or doll.
Then the old doctor led them out — 192 children walking in calm rows behind him, holding his hands, the smallest in his arms. No crying. No panic. Just quiet dignity as they marched three miles through the ghetto to the Umschlagplatz.
At the platform, the final offer came.
Once more, Korczak refused. He climbed into the cattle car with his children and staff.
They were murdered upon arrival at Treblinka.
He could not save their lives. He knew it. So he saved the only thing left: their dignity and their sense of not being alone.
In the darkest place on earth, Janusz Korczak gave those children the one thing the Nazis could not take — a hand to hold until the very end.
Today at Treblinka, among 17,000 stones, one bears the name: Janusz Korczak and the Children.
He had none of his own. He died with 192 of them.
May their memory be a blessing.