Chris Van den Abeele RIP
Bij autoritten laat op de avond was het destijds altijd uitkijken of jij het radionieuws van middernacht bracht. Een unieke, zo prachtig verhalende eigen stijl. Met telkens die heerlijke alles relativerende slotzin: dit was (niet 'het' maar) 'wat' nieuws
169.380 studenten schreven zich in aan de 13 Vlaamse hogescholen voor het academiejaar 25/26. Een stijging van bijna 12.000 studenten. Waar? Wat? Hoe? Vragen waarop de 𝐎𝐤𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 2025 een antwoord wil geven. Meer weten? 👇
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Deze week zit voor de 26.000 #graduaatsstudenten het #academiejaar erop. Binnen het jaar zullen afgestudeerde graduaatstudenten bijna allemaal aan het werk zijn. Toch zijn de Vlaamse Hogescholenraad en de @S_E_R_V bezorgd over de toekomst ervan. https://t.co/AixHyXwQ79
Thirteen years ago, my administration acted to protect young people who were American in every single way but one: on paper.
DACA was an example of how we can be a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. And it’s an example worth remembering today, when families with similar backgrounds who just want to live, work, and support their communities, are being demonized and treated as enemies.
We can fix our broken immigration system while still recognizing our common humanity and treating each other with dignity and respect. In fact, it’s the only way we ever will.
BREAKING: At the Harvard Graduation Ceremony moments ago, Harvard President Alan M. Garber just got a standing ovation after taking a subtle shot at President Trump.
"To the class of 2025, from down the street, across the country and around the world. AROUND THE WORLD! JUST AS IT SHOULD BE!”
This is good 💯
Pope Francis wrote this in the Hospital.
“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches...
They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports...
It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being saved by a gay doctor.
A privileged doctor saving the life of a beggar...
In intensive care, you see a Jew taking care of a racist...
A police officer and a prisoner in the same room receiving the same care...
A wealthy patient waiting for a liver transplant, ready to receive the organ from a poor donor...
It is in these moments, when the hospital touches the wounds of people, that different worlds intersect according to a divine design. And in this communion of destinies, we realize that alone, we are nothing.
The absolute truth of people, most of the time, only reveals itself in moments of pain or in the real threat of an irreversible loss.
A hospital is a place where human beings remove their masks and show themselves as they truly are, in their purest essence.
This life will pass quickly, so do not waste it fighting with people.
Do not criticize your body too much.
Do not complain excessively.
Do not lose sleep over bills.
Make sure to hug your loved ones.
Do not worry too much about keeping the house spotless.
Material goods must be earned by each person—do not dedicate yourself to accumulating an inheritance.
You are waiting for too much: Christmas, Friday, next year, when you have money, when love arrives, when everything is perfect...
Listen, perfection does not exist.
A human being cannot attain it because we are simply not made to be fulfilled here.
Here, we are given an opportunity to learn.
So, make the most of this trial of life—and do it now.
Respect yourself, respect others. Walk your own path, and let go of the path others have chosen for you.
Respect: do not comment, do not judge, do not interfere.
Love more, forgive more, embrace more, live more intensely!
And leave the rest in the hands of the Creator.”
—Pope Francis
Harvard President Alan Garber: “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
Do you stand with President Garber?
Please raise ✋
‘Never, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense’. These famous words which Winston Churchill pronounced in 1941 were very well and with great dignity illustrated tonight by @ZelenskyyUa.
#touché
Touche van zondag 17/11 met Marc Herremans. Wat een indrukwekkend verhaal van wilskracht, mensen helpen, vriendschap, geloof in het goede. Bouwen aan het positieve. Wat een topmens en tegelijkertijd zo eenvoudig! Diepe buiging
Kamala Harris zet in haar eerste campaign speeches de enthousiaste toon waarop velen hoopten. Zonder vrees: een vrij maar zorgzaam land, waar iedereen een ernstige kans krijgt op een goede toekomst “we’re not going back”. Waardige opvolgster voor Biden en Obama. Fingers crossed.
@Koen_Geens1@radio1be Absoluut telkens een verademing. Een staatsman met een genuanceerde visie ook voor/over collega's uit andere partijen. Iemand die duidelijk weet en aangeeft dat de realiteit heel vaak niet wit of zwart is. Wat een verschil met toch zo vaak die holle social media slogans.