Jonathan Looman

Multifaceted designer, critical citizen, webdeveloper, photographer, gardener, educator and creative partner at SinceToday.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ansari stepped out of Pam Bondi's Epstein files interview to tell the American people what's happening behind closed doors.

"The DOJ has been weaponized by Donald Trump to ensure that the most massive cover-up in American history is carried out."

She didn't stop there.

Ansari also accused James Comer, Mike Johnson, and Republican leadership of helping enable it.

They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. A total sham.

[Jonathan Looman @hellowman]

@JamesHeartfield @Nieuwsuur

[CS @deSunShineBand]

Lekker slim...

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

One of the most effective things you can do right now to fight Trump and ICE is to cancel your ChatGPT subscription.

[Jonathan Looman @hellowman]

@hnshah Escape Spotify https://t.co/w7yY9Xi2Zy

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Whilst entire media & political class meltdown over rapper at Glastonbury.

Worth reminding ourselves of what the IDF has been up to last 2 years:

[Jimmy Dijk @jimmydijk]

Partijen van links tot rechts zetten hun handtekening voor tientallen miljarden naar de NAVO.

Terwijl er nooit geld is voor het oplossen van problemen voor mensen.

Ook GL/PvdA gaat er gewoon in mee. Zij kiezen voor het militair industrieel complex.

[Jonathan Looman @hellowman]

@realDonaldTrump “You’r gambling with World War III”

[Nieuwsuur @Nieuwsuur]

Bij drie ministeries zijn ernstige problemen in de uitvoering: bij Justitie en Veiligheid, Defensie en Buitenlandse Zaken. Een stevige conclusie van de Algemene Rekenkamer. Te gast is president Pieter Duisenberg.

[Jonathan Looman @hellowman]

@RVeelo @quovadis_aldert Zijn zeker ook Hamas kindersoldaten die door snipers en drones worden vermoord?

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Michael Burry: The moment your interest payments exceed tax revenue, your country officially becomes a Ponzi scheme.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Lagarde confirms the Euro CBDC will launch in October 2025.

The ECB will have full digital control over every Euro wallet.

A financial system where every transaction can be monitored, restricted, or reversed.

Still think this is about convenience?

[Jonathan Looman @hellowman]

@Agnes_JosephNSC Dit zou op zijn minst een goed geïnformeerd keuze moeten zijn. Ik volg je al een tijdje maar heb nog steeds niet te pakken welke verantwoordelijkheid mij in de armen wordt schoven. Kan je mij vertellen wat het probleem is met de aanstaande default setting?

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

WTF happened to Europe? [My speech at DiEM25's event at the National Theatre, Brussels, on 7th March 2025]

We once had a dream. It was a dream of what Europe could have been. A Europe of shared prosperity, dignity, freedom – a Europe of Peace and Hope. That dream is now dead, lost, gone, kaput. Why? What the hell happened to Europe?

We know what happened to Europe!

We know why politicians from all over are descending on Brussels today like manic drones intent on bombarding to smithereens what is left of Europe as a Peace Project – determined to turn the flailing European Union into a War Union.

We know what happened to Europe because we foretold it. When DiEM25 was inaugurated nine years ago at the Volksbühne Theatre in Berlin, we had said it loud and clear: “Europe will be democratised. Or it will disintegrate!” Well, Europe did not democratise and so it is disintegrating – it is degenerating into a Totalitarian War Union.

Austerity for the many and money printing for the few begat stagnation mixed with mind-numbing inequality. Every time capitalism stagnates and inequality surges, while the official Left joins the centre in a futile attempt to prop up a Bankrupt Liberal establishment, fascism and war are never too far. Just like in the 1930s, two varieties of totalitarianism began to tussle for power.

· On the one side, the Radicalised Neofascist Right promises to make us great again not through ending austerity or exploitation but through a moral reckoning – a cultural cleansing that targets the impure foreign bodies within the pure body of the Nation or of an Ethno-White-Christian-Patriarchal Europe: foreigners, trans, lesbians, Muslims and Jews, especially those who oppose the cleansing benefits of genocide are the enemy within.
· On the other side, the Radicalised Totalitarian Centrists succeeded in retaining their relevance as the only bulwark against the fascists, deepening the crisis that fuels fascism and thus their claim to be our last defence against the fascism that they reinforce – a Perfect Vicious Cycle turbocharging totalitarianism.

Like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Radicalised Totalitarian Centrists clash with the Radicalised NeoFascist Right, sucking the air out of democratic politics, making totalitarianism great again. Lest we forget:

· We did not have to wait for the fascists to win government before our magnificent July 2015 referendum in Greece was overturned.
· We did not have to wait for the fascists to win government before they fired Melanie Schweizer from her civil service job in Germany for not supporting genocide.
· We did not have to wait for the fascists to win government before they banned me from entering Germany even via Zoom!
· We did not have to wait for the fascists to win government before the Romanian presidential elections were banned because the Radicalised Totalitarian Centrists did not like the result.

The only substantive difference of our times and the 1930s is that Tweedledum (the Radicalised Totalitarian Centrists) and Tweedledee (the Radicalised NeoFascist Right) have traded places when it comes to war: Today, somewhat confusingly, it is Tweedledum (the Radicalised Totalitarian Centrists) who are weaponising Military Keynesianism and demand more war and it is Tweedledee (the Radicalised NeoFascist Right) who proclaim Peace – a chilling, totalitarian Peace.

Yes, we had foretold all this back in 2015. But that did not stop us from failing to stop it, a cruel reminder that being right is not enough. Why did we fail? Why did we miss the popular wave that favoured our side in 2015, allowing the fascists to exploit the revived thirst for radicalism?

Yes, yes, it is true, we were ruthlessly squeezed between Tweedledum (the Radicalised Totalitarian Centrists) and Tweedledee (the Radicalised NeoFascist Right). BUT, we also made some unforced errors:

· We invested too much in Green Keynesianism, forgetting the timeless lesson that, even when it adopts Keynesianism as a last resort, the ruling class will always ditch it once theirbottom line recovers – well before the many taste its fruits. Our Green New Deal was never even adopted, except partially in name. Is it any wonder that, In the mind of the struggling many, ‘green’ became synonymous with even lower living standards?
· We also proved unable to liberate people from exploitation, giving them only the freedom to choose their pronouns on our web site – which of course would be fine had it not been so pathetically inadequate in the larger scheme of things. Instead of organising the precariat and auto-workers we ended up organising signifiers, appearing as a self-styled intellectual vanguard enjoying the subversive thrill of an imagined revolution with all the comforts and trappings of a ruling class soiree.
· And last but not least: We thought we could mobilise existing Left and Green parties across Europe, only to discover they were not interested.

And now? What must we now do? Let’s begin by acknowledging that we are at the endof a forty-year long vicious austerity-driven class war and at the beginningof a new cycle of military Keynesianism, weaponised xenophobia, totalitarianism within and technofeudalism all around.

So: It's time to be bold. Time to be clear on seven crucial issues:

On Peace with Security, and how to end the carnage on the killing fields of Ukraine were lives are devoured with a ruthless, mechanical precision, let us:

· Reject outright Trump’s predatory seizure of Ukraine’s natural resources.
· Campaign to get the whole of Europe out of NATO, immediately!
· Plot a course to a non-aligned, but never neutral, Europe.
· Offering to relax sanctions and return Russia’s $300 billion in frozen assets, commence negotiations with the Kremlin and Beijing on a comprehensive strategic arrangement within which Ukraine becomes what Austria was during the Cold War: sovereign, neutral, and as integrated with Europe as its citizens desire.

On Green Prosperity: Oppose fiercely Military Keynesianism, replacing it with a vast Green Investment Program that combines Development with Degrowth.

On Dignity, campaign for a new Monetary Commons that sidelines private banks, offers a trust fund to all, and guarantees a personal dividend - a basic income - to each.

On Migration, turn the accusation of us being soft on foreigners into a virtue. Shout it from the rooftops that Europe without mass migration will die – that we wantmigrants not out of solidarity but out of self-interest.

On Combating Technofeudalism, sanction immediately the Cloudalist Tech Lords, restrict Amazon, Uber, Google, Meta, Airbnb, tax them to extinction, impose interoperability, end the ban on European tech companies, like ASML, to export to China, and, above all, develop our own, socialised cloud capital - the stirrings of a magnificent Technosocialism.

On Freedom: Dismantle totalitarianism now. Fight for everyone’s freedom to vote, for the freedom of expression of our enemies too – unlike the hypocritical JD Vance who rightly spoke out against Europe’s descent into censoriousness but never defended Julian Assange’s right to journalism or the free speech of opponents to the Palestinians’ genocide.

Speaking of Palestine and free speech, it is clear now (is it not?) that what started in Gaza does notstay in Gaza! Such brutality couldn’t be contained. To keep it from our media, from our cultural institutions, from the streets, they had to dissolve basic liberties in the US, in Germany, in France, across the West. That’s why our final, our seventh, campaign must be: Stop the genocide. Get the whole of Europe to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the last Apartheid state – just as we did against South Africa.

Friends, fellow-travellers, comrades, we have much to do. The European dream is dead. Long live the new dream we are beginning to dream tonight. Together!

Carpe DiEM25

[Jonathan Looman @hellowman]

@GemeenteDenHaag Merci! Hopelijk komt er niet te veel pfas in de Weilanden

[Jonathan Looman @hellowman]

@GemeenteDenHaag enig idee wat er hier gaande is? https://t.co/t61LqRPQ8P

[Jonathan Looman @hellowman]

@GemeenteDenHaag Leidschestraatweg (52.0974202, 4.3454764) https://t.co/OQ7ruYineQ

[Jonathan Looman @hellowman]

@lientje1967 ReMarkAble

[Jonathan Looman @hellowman]

@georgevanhouts Vraag het aan Epstein