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Born in the Netherlands. I was lucky. Earth has enough resources 4 all of us if we share. We're all passengers on this beautiful spaceship. Respect it!

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

THE US LOSES FRIENDS, MONEY, AND TRUST FOREVER

The shock across allied capitals is deep, cold, and irreversible. By refusing to rule out armed takeover of Greenland, Donald Trump did something no modern American president has ever done: he implicitly threatened NATO allies with war. Not rivals. Not adversaries. Allies. This was not bluster that can be smoothed over later. It was a direct rupture of the most sacred assumption in Western security, that disputes inside the alliance are settled through diplomacy, not coercion backed by force.

Denmark has been unmistakably clear that this crossed a red line, but the reaction has spread far beyond Copenhagen. In Sweden, senior figures now openly question whether the US should be treated as a long term security guarantor at all. Germany has shifted from frustration to strategic detachment, accelerating plans for defense independence and economic insulation from American risk. France has framed the episode as proof that Europe must assume US power can turn predatory even toward friends. Belgium, historically one of the most loyal institutional allies of Washington, has gone quiet in public and icy in private, which in diplomatic terms is a bad sign.

Canada’s reaction may be the most damaging of all. Ottawa has been explicit that threatening allies while invoking shared defense is a fundamental betrayal. The emotional core of the transatlantic relationship has always rested on shared sacrifice, soldiers who trained together, fought together, and trusted each other with their lives. That bond has now been poisoned. When military leaders start doubting political intent, cooperation erodes at every level, from intelligence sharing to joint procurement to operational planning.

This is the worst breach by the United States in the alliance’s history. Worse than Iraq. Worse than trade wars. Worse than diplomatic insults. Eighty years of relentless work, trust building, coordination, and friendship have been shredded in hours. Allies no longer ask how to cooperate more closely with Washington. They ask how to protect themselves from Washington. That mental shift is permanent.

The economic consequences will be staggering. For decades, Europe and Canada defaulted to buying American, investing American, and aligning with American standards even when cheaper or easier alternatives existed. That era is over.

Procurement officers, investors, and governments will now say no by default when the supplier is American. Capital will reroute. Contracts will move. Supply chains will harden against US dependency. Over the coming years, this loss of trust will cost the United States trillions of dollars in lost trade, lost investment, higher borrowing costs, and diminished global influence. Power built on intimidation burns fast, and this time, it burned bridges that will never be rebuilt.

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[Olof van der Gaag @olofvdgaag]

Volgens Trump heeft China geen windmolens ;-) @VisualCap

[A passenger like you @Rob_Gort]

What if the EU would shift back buying Russian oil and gas in return for peace in Ukrain in accordance with Zelenski's 10 points peace plan? #EuropeanPower

[Rami ben Ze'ev @ramibenzeev]

A vast, solar-powered AI satellite constellation capable of reducing global warming by controlling how much sunlight reaches Earth might sound visionary — but it’s an idea that dangerously overestimates human control and underestimates natural balance.

For such a system to work, satellites would need near-continuous coverage of the sunlit side of Earth — a global ring in geostationary orbit or a dense swarm of low Earth satellites adjusting reflectivity in perfect coordination. The engineering may be possible, but the consequences of error would be immeasurable.

Reducing sunlight doesn’t only lower temperatures; it directly impacts photosynthesis — the foundation of life on this planet. Even a 1–2% reduction in solar energy could devastate global agriculture, forests, and oxygen production. Regional imbalances could shift rainfall patterns, weaken ecosystems, and unleash weather anomalies no algorithm could predict or control.

Tesla hasn't been able to master FSD, yet.

Worse still, if the system failed or required removal, Earth would face what scientists call termination shock — a sudden and violent surge in global temperatures as trapped greenhouse gases took full effect. The resulting chaos would devastate crops, destabilise climate systems, and threaten every form of life dependent on gradual adaptation.

Turning the climate into a programmable system may appeal to technologists, but it’s an illusion of mastery. The biosphere is not a machine to be managed; it is a living system sustained by Divine design. Handing control of sunlight — the very source of life — to an artificial network of satellites would be to gamble with creation itself. And if it failed, there would be no reboot — only catastrophe.

RAM

[Jesse Klaver @jesseklaver]

We staan op het punt om de PVV te verslaan. Winst is binnen handbereik. Het is ontzettend spannend.

En één ding is zeker: een stem op GroenLinks-PvdA is de enige garantie op een links en progressief kabinet.

[Progressief Nederland @progressiefned]

Een sociaal en progressief kabinet is nu echt vlakbij.

We staan in alle peilingen VLAK achter Wilders. Maar zijn tijdperk is voorbij. Wij kunnen hem samen verslaan.

Stem morgen GroenLinks-PvdA.

[Luc Stultiens @LucStultiens]

Yeşilgöz (VVD) & van der Plas (BBB) zeggen in het slotdebat dat ze net zoveel extra huizen gaan bouwen als GroenLinks-PvdA.

Factcheck: Dit klopt niet, laat het Centraal Planbureau duidelijk zien in de doorrekening.

GroenLinks-PvdA is de bouwkampioen!

#Slotdebat

[Luc Stultiens @LucStultiens]

Yeşilgöz pleit bij het verkiezingsdebat voor een factcheck, dus hierbij:

Bij GroenLinks-PvdA gaan de belastingen voor mensen thuis omlaag met €4,3 miljard.

Bij de VVD gaan ze omhoog met €3,0 miljard.

#EenVandaag

[Frans Timmermans @F__Timmermans]

CDA en D66 zeggen iedere keer dat ze best ook met JA21 kunnen regeren.

De beste keuze voor progressieve kiezers is GroenLinks-PvdA de grootste maken. Wij zijn de enige garantie op een links en progressief kabinet.

[A passenger like you @Rob_Gort]

@VVD Eindelijk krijgt de VVD een flinke draai om de oren. Eindelijk is Nederland klaar met het enkel opkomen voor de rijkeren en de open deur voor het grootkapitaal èn racisme. YES!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump is throwing 15 million Americans off health care.

He's doubling premiums for 20 million Americans.

Now, he's refusing to use a $5 billion emergency SNAP fund to keep 16 million kids from going hungry.

But the 1% keep $1 trillion in tax breaks.

Oligarchy in action.

[Jesse Klaver @jesseklaver]

We gaan nek-aan-nek, maar hebben de PVV bijna ingehaald. Het is mogelijk: voor het eerst in 25 jaar een linkse premier en een progressief kabinet. Maak GroenLinks-PvdA morgen de grootste!

[A passenger like you @Rob_Gort]

@npo #verkiezingsdag wat een enorme verdraaiing van de werkelijkheid! Alsof die 44000 asielzoekers -die in AZC's zitten met < 10 m2 per persoon- woningen bezetten. Bah. Shame on you

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Sales of Teslas are dropping by as much as 50% across Europe, in a mysterious and totally inexplicable trend

[Martien Visser @BM_Visser]

NL stevent deze maand af op een record export elektriciteit. Met name naar BE/DE. Een flinke klus om dit allemaal met het NL netwerk te verwerken.
#grafiekvandedag
Ter vergelijking: de maximale NL elektriciteitsvraag is 20 GW; daar komt dus regelmatig >30% bij !

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Let's make Europe stronger by buying European!

Here's a very Nordic-centric list of alternatives, but I also want to hear your favorite substitutes for American products.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

In the U.S., approximately 37.6 million children are on Medicaid. That's how many children are going to lose their health care insurance so Trump, Elon Musk and their fellow billionaire oligarchs can give themselves a tax cut. The sadistic level of cruelty is incomprehensible.

[Flo🏅🇮🇹Mala tempora currunt @Florian98168458]

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[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

EU policy chief Kaja Kallas, explaining to America's authoritarian ignoramus who the dictator is. 😳👇