Polder PV

Zonnestroom analist & bioloog. Polder PV: onafhankelijk, gestart in 2004. Produceert unieke solar statistieken. Volgt sector kritisch. Hekelt DE azijnpissers

[Polder PV @Polder_PV]

Meer dan duizend #zonneparken in Nederland. De vijfde, grote update van de hand van Polder PV.

Persbericht
https://t.co/WGHmUecWrm
Introductie
https://t.co/Fzj3qic2Gl
Volledige analyse
https://t.co/8jcO2dx92s

Draadje 🧵

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

🇷🇺 In Russland eskaliert die Lage zwischen Putinismus und Pragmatismus.
Wer in Russland gerade aufs Fahrrad steigt, um zur Arbeit zu fahren, fällt für manche Putin in den Rücken – in Sankt Petersburg eskalierte das diese Woche offen auf der Straße.

Die Fahrradverkäufe stiegen im Juni um 131 Prozent gegenüber Mai obwohl Putin sagte, es wäre bald vorbei. Der Glaube an ihn ist endgültig gebrochen.

Mountainbikes machen über die Hälfte aller Bestellungen aus – gekauft als direkter Autoersatz, nicht als Hobby.

Das Fahrrad wird so zum sichtbarsten Symbol dessen, was der Kreml leugnet.
Jeder Radfahrer auf russischen Straßen ist ein rollendes Eingeständnis:
Die ukrainischen Schläge gegen die Raffinerien.

Man kann Fernsehen zensieren, aber keine leere Zapfsäule.

Quelle: The Moscow Times

[Polder PV @Polder_PV]

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[SvenX 🇪🇪 🇺🇦 △ @Sven7966]

@jurgen_nauditt

[Polder PV @Polder_PV]

@Tine_to_Earth @Reeshofwarmte Vermoedelijk diarrhee bij dikke vrindje van #tangerineturd

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

A retired lawyer in the U.S. was watching the news when he saw the story about the new Trump commemorative coin and something immediately didn't sit right with him.
So he did what lawyers do. He went digging...
And he found it. A federal law passed in 1866 that explicitly prohibits living people from appearing on U.S. currency. It's not a grey area. It's not open to interpretation. It's been sitting in the books for over 150 years.
The last time this actually happened was 1926 when a coin featuring Calvin Coolidge was minted while he was still alive and serving as president. The backlash was immediate. The coins were pulled. And the law was reaffirmed...
Now this retired lawyer has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Mint not because of who is on the coin, but because the law says it simply cannot be done. Full stop...
No political agenda. No protest. Just one guy, a dusty legal statute, and a federal case that nobody in Washington apparently saw coming

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Today is TAX DAY and this video of a voter calling out Trump for being a TAX CHEAT and an ELECTION CHEAT is going viral:

“He cheated on the golf course…
He cheated on his taxes…
He cheated on his wives…
He cheated on democracy…”

But then came the mic drop 👇

“…and now he’s asking every Republican in this room to be one of his prostitutes.

Not sexually - philosophically.
Do what he says, and you won’t be primaried.

Defy him - and you’ll be punished.

It’s that diabolical.

It’s that simple.”

Every American needs to hear this!!

#TrumpRiggedYourTaxReturn

[Polder PV @Polder_PV]

@Tine_to_Earth Polder PV kan wel tegen een stootje (de strooptochten gaan meestal per mountainbike - met schijfremmen) ...

[Polder PV @Polder_PV]

@Tine_to_Earth Nog niet > #bucketlist

[Polder PV @Polder_PV]

@Tine_to_Earth Heeft 1 van de betrokkenen destijds uitgebreid over getwitterd (en op pers-sites over geschreven), dus werd hier snel opgepikt ...

[Polder PV @Polder_PV]

@meeruuvoo @Pendragon200 Meest actuele stand van zaken aandeel (gemeten) oppervlak grondgebonden zonneparken in NL: 0,17% van totaal landoppervlak, en dik een vijfde van totale opgestelde capaciteit. De leugen wordt er niet minder om ...

https://t.co/VwotPA5cCW

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

I want there to be a day when I don’t have to share this speech anymore

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

The most powerful explanation of the Iran crisis:

Boykin breaks down how this war is a manufactured crisis by a scandal-plagued president & prime minister👏

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.

[Polder PV @Polder_PV]

@veroniek1955 @dennisdekker72 @KritischePatri Deze Dr. Ir. Raymond Klaassen ...

https://t.co/EXcV4PnY5v
https://t.co/VNCQdyyLjY
https://t.co/yG2i4ZRvRA

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Thank you Rep. Huffman for laying it plain.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Wow, this speech from Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani 👏💯

"They command us not to believe what we see"

"They compel us as George Orwell wrote nearly 80 years ago, to reject the evidence of our eyes and our ears"

"And they would succeed, were it not for the many among us who read the scripture, but who live the scripture"

"Those who refuse to abandon the stranger"

"I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her moments later were: I'm not mad at you"

"I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. Here was a man who held the hand of the afraid and the afflicted in their final moments"

"Here was a man who dedicated his life to healing those who he never met"

"ICE shot him 10 times because he did something they could never fathom doing, he extended his arm towards a stranger"

"Not to push her down, but help her up"

"Let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion"

[Polder PV @Polder_PV]

@Boenau "Everyday life in Netherlands". We find this ultra normal (long-life cyclist without a car living in that "small stamp at the North Sea with 18.1 million people") 😌

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation.

Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention.

In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust.

But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming.

American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time.

Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical.

Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself.

Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office?

This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest?

Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse.

This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price.

The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most.

So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television.

History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late.

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