Tony Van de Calseyde

husband, father, employment lawyer, president B-PLUS, advocating for federalism both in Belgium and in the European Union

[Geneviève Toye, sorry "s" key is not alway willing @actandevolve]

Voilà. On y est. Il ne s'agit pas de ne pas aimer les mutuelles. Il s'agit de briser la force des silos politiques, silo inexistant chez la N-VA. Nous sommes gouvernés par l'idéologie. Rien de pire dans une situation de crise budgétaire comme nous vivons.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

82 years ago today, some of the bravest people in human history stormed the beaches of Normandy to confront absolute evil and back those who had been battling it street by street for nearly a decade.

Thanks to the Soviet Union, who's Russia originally shook hands with Hitler helping trigger the devastating world war, and to the 14 other soviet republics that fought bravely to undo that asinine mistake, those being Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Moldova, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, and Estonia, whose 27 million dead and Operation Bagration sixteen days later made Normandy possible by tying down two-thirds of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. Belarus lost roughly a quarter of its population. Ukraine lost an estimated 7 million.

Thanks to the UK, which supplied most of the naval force, most of the air force, the planning, the airfields, and around 61,000 troops on Gold and Sword.

Thanks to Canada, whose 14,000 troops on Juno achieved nearly a total victory and the deepest penetration of any beach on the first day.

Thanks to Free France, whose 177 commandos of Philippe Kieffer's unit at Sword (the only French force to land on French soil on 6 June), the cruisers Georges Leygues and Montcalm shelling Omaha, and the destroyer La Combattante in the screen.

Thanks to Poland, whose navy (Błyskawica, Piorun, Dragon, Ślązak) covered the landings, whose pilots flew air cover (303 Squadron had the highest kill rate of any RAF unit in the Battle of Britain), and whose 1st Armoured Division under General Maczek closed the Falaise Pocket weeks later at Hill 262.

Thanks to Norway, the Netherlands, and Greece, whose navies sailed with the Royal Navy as government-in-exile forces in Operation Neptune.
Thanks to Czechoslovakia, whose 310, 312, and 313 Squadrons flew with the RAF.

Thanks to Belgium, whose pilots flew with the RAF and whose Piron Brigade landed in Normandy in early August.

Thanks to Newfoundland, then a separate dominion, whose artillery served in the Normandy campaign and whose sailors served across the Royal Navy.
Thanks to Australian, New Zealand, South African, and Indian airmen in RAF squadrons, and to the Royal Australian Navy ship that sailed with the bombardment force.

Thanks to Australian, New Zealand, South African, and Indian airmen in RAF squadrons.

And thanks to the United States, whose 73,000 troops landed at Utah and Omaha, and fought bravely despite a decade of isolationism (the Neutrality Acts of 1935 to 1939), an 'America First' movement whose figurehead Charles Lindbergh accepted a medal from Göring in 1938 and made openly antisemitic speeches, a Henry Ford who took the Grand Cross of the German Eagle the same year and whose antisemitic writings Hitler quoted in Mein Kampf, and US corporations (Ford, GM/Opel, IBM, Standard Oil, ITT, Chase) doing business with Nazi Germany, some of which kept operating well into the war and continue to do business with the tyrants of today.

[Dany Neudt @danyneudt]

Azelio Bucchioni. San Giuliano Terme (Italië). Metselaar. Anarchist. Bestrijdt het Italiaanse fascisme. Internationale Brigadist in Spanje. Migreert naar Brussel. Arrestatie okt '43. Deportatie concentratiekamp Neuengamme. Sterft er op 18 feb '45. 42 jaar.
#heldenvanhetverzet

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

This may well be the last time Europe extends an invitation to clowns to mark D-Day. Not a single person in the Trump administration comes close to having the character those landings demanded. The Americans who stormed those beaches on June 6, 1944 were fighting against exactly the kind of people Hegseth represents

[Tony Van de Calseyde @TCalseyde]

Et la solution n’est pas non plus de régionaliser encore plus

[hollebeke michel @hollebekemichel]

Des impôts supplémentaires ne sont pas la solution à notre problème budgétaire (carte blanche) https://t.co/LrrO2Y0fgH

[hollebeke michel @hollebekemichel]

L' Etat doit urgemment recentrer son action sur ses fonctions régaliennes: sécurité, justice,défense, santé,éducation. Il est temps d' arrêter de dilapider l' argent public dans des dépenses inutiles,des structures redondantes, des gadgets idéologiques.

[Dany Neudt @danyneudt]

6 juni 1944. D-Day. Terwijl geallieerde troepen landen in Normandië, voert het verzet sabotageacties uit, verzamelt inlichtingen, verstoort de Duitse oorlogsmachine. Vandaag een hulde aan de soldaten én verzetsmensen die vochten voor onze vrijheid.
#DDay #heldenvanhetverzet

[Baron Jacques Trekhacques🏴🐦‍⬛ @bluspoeier]

en de Oscar gaat naar

[Tony Van de Calseyde @TCalseyde]

Nóg meer regionaliseringen óók niet…

[21News NL @21newsNL]

Extra belastingen zijn niet de oplossing voor ons begrotingsprobleem https://t.co/i0NH8XMDJN

[Tony Van de Calseyde @TCalseyde]

Misschien beginnen met uw eigen president uit het Witte Huis te zetten dan…

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

Decline is a choice.

We will never stop fighting for America.

[Tony Van de Calseyde @TCalseyde]

@JanWostyn @DirkDeSmedt_ Allez, daar gaan we weer. Nóg eens een rondje splitsen. Want dat zal het overheidsbeslag doen dalen en het tekort oplossen, … NOT… !

[Ive Marx @IveMarx]

‘De centenindex is een misbaksel, een vreselijk ding’

Helemaal mee akkoord!

https://t.co/EK4Ei6XZpn

[Tony Van de Calseyde @TCalseyde]

De USA onder Trump is helaas nog maar een schim van de USA die ons mee WOII deed winnen. Het ergste is zelfs de twijfel die er vandaag is over de vraag of de huidige USA nog wel aan dezelfde zijde zou vechten als toen…

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

Eighty-two years ago today, freedom stood on the edge of extinction, and Allied forces stormed into hell to help save the world.

We will never forget the courage, the sacrifice, and the blood spilled on that fateful day.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

@realgerhardtvdm No. A MAGA minority supports Russia. The rest of normal America supports Ukraine and their many allies in Europe.

[Philip @PhRoose]

De Wallonisering van Vlaanderen:

[Tony Van de Calseyde @TCalseyde]

@LucVanderhaegen @de_NVA Dat is het ook. 100%

[Tony Van de Calseyde @TCalseyde]

Zo is dat. En als je confederalisme doorvoert, zoals @de_NVA wil, zal dat niet veranderen. Integendeel, je geeft nog meer de teugels uit handen

[21News NL @21newsNL]

"Het probleem blijft wel dat tekorten in Brussel of Wallonië uiteindelijk terechtkomen in het geconsolideerde Belgische tekort. Daardoor betaalt Vlaanderen vandaag nog altijd mee de rekening." @axel_ronse

[Dany Neudt @danyneudt]

Renée Lemaire. Verpleegster. Renée keert naar Bastogne terug in dec '44 om Kerstmis bij haar ouders te vieren. Het Ardennenoffensief breekt uit en ze sluit zich aan als vrijwilliger om Amerikaanse soldaten te helpen. Ze sterft op 24 dec '44. 30 jaar. #heldenvanhetverzet

[Vincenzo DM @DM_Vincenzo]

Hi @LEGO_Group: if you ever run out of ideas, a LEGO set featuring the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels would be very cool. Once the envy of European monarchs before the place burnt down in 1731.