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Majoor b.d., dwarsdenker, cynisch en satirisch, doch liefdevol en open voor andere invalshoeken.

[Dr. Eric Berg DC @dr_ericberg]

Think drinking more water is always better? Not so fast.

Too much water can actually dehydrate you by flushing out key minerals. From timing to temperature, these common mistakes could be sabotaging your hydration.

Watch the full video to find out why.

https://t.co/TDyrqIdrSR

Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only

[De Telegraaf @telegraaf]

Ophef om buitenlandse straatnamen in Bleiswijk: 'Wat heb ik met Midden-Oosten te maken?!' https://t.co/EzFOqjhVE5

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

Do with this information what you will. Tucker Carlson is telling people in his circle that he is running for President.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Delta Airlines refers to mothers and fathers in their career benefits policy as "Birthing parents" & "Non-birthing parents"

Wtf is this @Delta ???

[Johannes Vervloed @Diplo_JV]

De merkwaardige liefdesaffaire tussen progressief links en de politieke islam.
Door Martin de Jong voor @OpiniezMagazine

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

BREAKING: $12 TRILLION CHARLES SCHWAB JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THEY ARE "GETTING READY" TO OFFER #BITCOIN TO ALL CUSTOMERS

THEY HAVE NEARLY 40 MILLION USERS.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY HUGE 🔥

[De Telegraaf @telegraaf]

Afgang dreigt voor minister Sjoerdsma, kabinet zoekt steun voor begroting in senaat https://t.co/lJZ3kxCcMI

[Aralez 🐕 @0xAralez]

🚨 S&P 500 IS ENTERING EUPHORIA ZONE...

The index just printed a fresh ATH near 7,600

50+ days of straight uptrend

No meaningful pullbacks. No rebalancing. Just relentless grinding higher

This is what the late stage of a cycle looks like

And most people won't recognize it until it's already too late

Here's what I actually think happens next

First, the melt-up continues

A push toward 7,700-7,800 is still on the table

That's when distribution begins

Smart money starts quietly exiting while retail is still buying the narrative

Then comes the first sell-off

Not big one - just enough to shake weak hands and breed complacency

"See? It bounced. Everything's fine"

That's the trap

Because after the complacency phase ends, the real move starts

And the real move goes toward 4,000-3,500

That's not a typo

That's a 50%+ drawdown from current levels

Now here's what makes this cycle different

Three of the most hyped companies in the world - SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic - are all expected to go public in 2026

History is clear on what happens when the biggest IPOs in a generation arrive at same time

1999-2000: dot-com peak

2021: SPAC and tech euphoria peak

Every time IPO pipeline floods at cycle highs, it's because insiders need liquidity

They know something retail doesn't

Add historically stretched valuations on top of that

Add slowing buybacks - single biggest source of equity demand for past decade

And you have a market that's priced for perfection in a world that stopped being perfect a long time ago

Euphoria doesn't feel like risk

That's exactly what makes it dangerous

I've mapped this cycle for months

When I see the distribution phase begin, I'll post the signal here - same as always

Turn on notifs. You'll want to be early on this one

[QUANTUM GUARD ™️ @QuantumGuard17]

🔥 AWESOME! El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he DESTROYED Soros influence in his country — USA needs to do the same

"Who elected Soros to dictate policy and laws? Why does he feel entitled to impose his agenda? Soros and his cronies hit a BRICK WALL in El Salvador. Thank God...Salvadorans are now IMMUNE to his influence. No one believes his lies anymore over there!"

@NayibBukele is a pure masterclass for Latin America. 👏🏻

Impeach the judges, rule crime with an iron fist, and BLOCK SOROS' ASSETS AND INFLUENCE! 🇺🇸🇸🇻

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨OH. MY. GOSH!!!

It has been revealed that the woman who was st*bbed 18-20 TIMES on the Atlanta train, 66-yr-old Margaret Swan...

...DID NOT RECEIVE ANY HELP AT ALL FROM FELLOW TRAIN PASSENGERS WHILE SHE BLED OUT ON THE FLOOR OF THE TRAIN

“She was screaming for help and nobody was helping her...”

Margaret was a mother of 3, grandmother of 5 and great-grandmother of 4.

According to CCTV footage reviewed by police, John Elijah Matthews, a homeless Black man, walked up to the Margaret and slit her throat within seconds.

Margaret screamed and tried to escape, but the suspect held her down and st*bbed her another 18 times before leaving her dead on the ground in a large pool of her own blood.

Fellow passengers on the train did nothing to try and help her as she screamed.

Absolutely horrifying.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Trump to Netanyahu after Iran threatened to pull out of negotiations: “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass.”

After Iran threatened to pull out of negotiations, President Trump quickly called Israeli PM Netanyahu to postpone the planned attack against Beirut, according to Axios

In the call, President Trump became openly furious at Netanyahu, saying:

“You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this. What the fuck are you doing?”

One U.S. official says it was the worst call ever between the two leaders, as Trump perceived Netanyahu as trying to sabotage diplomacy with Iran.

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully controlled internet.

The age verification rush must be slowed down, and politicians need to recognize the consequences of different types of legislation and systems.

Age verification is the wrong approach to fix “the social media problem”
The big tech social media companies are bad. Their business model is bad; it is based on mass surveillance and manipulation, and they cooperate with governments in mapping entire populations. But age verification is fundamentally the wrong approach to preventing children from using big tech social media platforms. Introducing age verification is based on coercion; the state forces social media companies to verify their users’ identities. But the big tech social media platforms already know which of their users are children. Their business model depends on knowing this. They know how old users are, and they know exactly what type of person they are. As age verification is based on coercion, politicians could instead force platforms to stop doing the things politicians consider harmful to children, or force them to block children (again, they know who they are) from using their services. But instead, politicians seek to massively invade everyone’s privacy and undermine democratic rights on a global scale. In other words, the latter is the real objective – they do not want to protect children; they want to impose control.

Slippery slope of age verification
It is undeniable that age verification threatens freedom of expression, risks increasing mass surveillance, and is likely to lead to censorship. It will not only shrink the online world and reduce young people’s right to privacy (for example, if VPN services were to be restricted); but also risks becoming a significant step toward a controlled internet for everyone.

Most age verification is identity verification
Most countries are now considering introducing age verification systems, meaning that everyone would have to identify themselves either to the service/website they want to use or to a third party capable of linking them to their activity on that service or website. This is not age verification but identity verification, and the consequence is therefore that freedom of information is restricted (you can no longer visit regulated websites anonymously) and that you can no longer post anonymously on social media. This is a major problem in countries like the UK and Germany where the police conduct raids on people’s homes for posting content on social media that the authorities dislike. Or in the United States, where authorities are trying to pressure tech companies into revealing the identities behind accounts protesting ICE. Social media identity verification removes important tools for activists in countries where criticizing those in power is dangerous.

Restrictions on app store or operating system level
Some countries are looking to impose identity verification at the app store level or even within the operating system itself. This is an exciting experiment, since this is possible to circumvent using open-source operating systems. Some countries are already looking to include open-source systems. Since open-source systems cannot be controlled, politicians would ultimately need to ban devices that are not controlled by the state. The end point: telescreens like those in Orwell’s 1984, devices that both monitor you and broadcast only the information approved by the state.

The Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) alternative and the EU
The EU has presented its own age verification app as “completely anonymous”. The idea is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography to break the link between the age credential issuer (EU governments) and the regulated services/sites. Currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality, contrasting Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that the app ”is technically ready to be used”. But more importantly, the app is currently designed to always function without ZKP technology; if ZKP is unavailable, the app falls back to a non-ZKP model. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional extra feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time.

Read more on our site.
https://t.co/wTVKHMS1zg

[Niemands Knegt @NiemandsKnegt]

Half mei kregen Finnen oproep om binnen te blijven wegens een drone-dreiging. Vliegveld Helsinki-Vantaa werd stilgelegd.
De Finse strijdkrachten meldden dat de drones Finland vanuit Rusland zouden benaderen.

Wat blijkt nu?

Het waren Oekraïense drones...

https://t.co/RdrV2sgW82

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Flashback: This is what happens when British police are trained in woke-jihadi madness.

In Manchester, Muslim men called the police, “offended” by a native British Christian man openly worshiping in public.

The police showed up and immediately forced the Christian to leave the “Muslim area.”
As he was kicked out, the Muslim crowd cheered and cursed him.
This is two-tier Britain in its purest and most shameful form.

[Susanne @suusonline]

Kabinet Jetten zit 100 dagen en wie mag meepraten aan tafel bij Pauw & De Wit? D66 fractieleider Jan Paternotte.
Weten jullie wie op 8 oktober 2024 aan tafel zaten toen 100 dagen kabinet Schoof werd 'geëvalueerd' bij BarLaat (de voorloper van Pauw & De Wit)?
Xander van der Wulp, Irene de Kruif, Elodie Verweij.... en Rob Jetten.
Wie kreeg bij Nieuwsuur, op 8 oktober 2024 in de uitzending over 100 dagen Schoof vanuit de oppositie het vaakst het woord? Rob Jetten.
En helemaal niemand in medialand die daar een zorgwekkend patroon in ziet. Want dit zijn allemaal 'journalistieke keuzes'. 🖕🏻
#Journalistiek #KabinetJetten

[George van Houts 💻📣 @georgevanhouts]

Deze contant geld limieten zijn én absurde dwingelandij én bureaucratische knevelarij en een aanval op én de vrijheid én de bescherming van de persoonlijke levenssfeer.

[Geerten Waling @GeertenWaling]

"Ze verbaast zich over de lankmoedigheid van sommige rechters. ‘Ik zal een concreet voorbeeld geven. Hier in Gent. Een migrant slaat zijn vrouw halfdood voor de ogen van zijn twee minderjarige kinderen.’

‘We trekken daarop zijn verblijfsrecht in en willen hem terugsturen naar zijn land van herkomst. En dan zegt de rechter: ah nee, dat mag je niet doen, omwille van zijn recht op gezinsleven.’

‘Dus jij mag je vrouw halfdood slaan voor de ogen van je kinderen… dan denk ik dat je gezinsleven je weinig kan schelen. En dan beroept de rechter zich op het recht op gezinsleven van deze man. Sorry, dat krijg ik aan de burger niet uitgelegd. Daarmee ondergraaf je het draagvlak voor asiel.’"

@Rijckevorsel in @ewmagazinenl
Minder asielzoekers: België kan het wél. Minister Van Bossuyt: ‘Ons beleid werkt’ https://t.co/RqYBf2aYk4

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

Many public schools are not safe places for white students.

[Orbán Viktor @PM_ViktorOrban]

For years, Brussels told Europeans not to worry about migration. Then they told us not to believe our own eyes. Now they’re telling us that opposing mass migration is racist and un-European.

Thanks to @EvaVlaar Europeans have a chance to say NO! The @SaveEuropeAct aims to remind Brussels that Europe is not a waiting room for the world. It is our home.

Courage is contagious. Make sure you sign it today!

[Michaël van de Poppe @CryptoMichNL]

The first looks of a potential downtrend for the #Bitcoin dominance have started.

It's making a lower high and a strong downwards move as $ETH starts to outperform Bitcoin.

That looks to be the case that we're going to be seeing a lot of momentum into the altcoins the coming period, which can be comparable to the 2020 Summer period.