Jelmer Evers
@jelmerevers.com
Director ETUCE - European Trade Union Committee for Education - representing teachers, academics & education personnel from 123 education unions in 51 European countries| History teacher #flipthesystem | #edusky 'If I am only for myself, what am I?'
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Jelmer Evers
@jelmerevers.com
· Aug 26
Defending Europe’s Digital Sovereignty and Democratic Values Against Deregulation Pressures
The European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) urges the European Union to take bold steps to oppose U.S. President Donald Trump’s calls to dismantle regulations on technology companies. Don...
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@etuce.bsky.social urges the @ec.europa.eu to take bold steps to oppose President Donald Trump’s calls to dismantle regulations on technology companies
'Defending Europe’s Digital Sovereignty and Democratic Values Against Deregulation Pressures'
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'Defending Europe’s Digital Sovereignty and Democratic Values Against Deregulation Pressures'
www.etuce.org/en/news/etuc...
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EU leaders’ retreat needs to hear less about ‘deregulation’ from Draghi
EU leaders’ retreat needs to hear less about ‘deregulation’ from Draghi
<div><img width="600" height="398" src="https://static.euobserver.com/2014/09/5a67105aabfcbe7ee784387a41e36053-600x398.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="EU leaders will hear a presentation by Mario Draghi in Alden Biesen. While the ex-Italian PM made many valid points in his influential 2024 competitiveness report, he was too receptive to complaints from industrial organisations and did not engage sufficiently with other parts of civil society" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://static.euobserver.com/2014/09/5a67105aabfcbe7ee784387a41e36053-600x398.jpg 600w, https://static.euobserver.com/2014/09/5a67105aabfcbe7ee784387a41e36053.jpg 1014w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></div>Big and small European companies are most concerned about the lack of skilled staff. So why is this not a key topic at the EU leaders' retreat on 12 February in the Alden Biesen castle, when 'simplification' of legislation is?
euobserver.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:15 PM
EU leaders’ retreat needs to hear less about ‘deregulation’ from Draghi
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Waarom @dianehoekstra.bsky.social @rennierijpma.bsky.social Waarom normaliseren.
February 9, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Waarom @dianehoekstra.bsky.social @rennierijpma.bsky.social Waarom normaliseren.
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Ongelooflijk. NS gaat een belangrijk deel van zijn automatisering uitbesteden aan een computerdienstverlener uit de VS. Daarmee komt het beheer van het spoor, cruciale Nederlandse infrastructuur, deels in Amerikaanse handen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
NS besteedt ict deels uit aan Amerikaanse leverancier
Strategische autonomie: Ondanks alle discussies over strategische autonomie kiest NS een Amerikaanse beheerder voor cruciale IT-diensten. „Als iedereen zo handelt als NS, bouwen we nooit eigen digital...
www.nrc.nl
February 10, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Ongelooflijk. NS gaat een belangrijk deel van zijn automatisering uitbesteden aan een computerdienstverlener uit de VS. Daarmee komt het beheer van het spoor, cruciale Nederlandse infrastructuur, deels in Amerikaanse handen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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The Super Bowl is a window into how much the U.S. economy has changed. I remember when it was mostly ads for cars, beer and stuff you’d find in the grocery store. Now it’s all AI, gambling, crypto (also gambling) and Ozempic.
February 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
The Super Bowl is a window into how much the U.S. economy has changed. I remember when it was mostly ads for cars, beer and stuff you’d find in the grocery store. Now it’s all AI, gambling, crypto (also gambling) and Ozempic.
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Kijk zo normaliseer je extreemrechts. #FvD doet huilie huilie en het AD gaat meteen erin mee. Wat een sukkels. www.ad.nl/utrecht/lijs...
Lijsttrekker Forum voor Democratie Utrecht reageert op uitsluiting D66: ‘uiterst ondemocratisch’
De Utrechtse lijsttrekker van Forum voor Democratie (FvD) heeft fel gereageerd op het besluit van D66 om samenwerking met de partij bij voorbaat uit te sluiten. In een video op sociale media noemt zij...
www.ad.nl
February 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Kijk zo normaliseer je extreemrechts. #FvD doet huilie huilie en het AD gaat meteen erin mee. Wat een sukkels. www.ad.nl/utrecht/lijs...
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Of the top 10 most-removed classic books:
60% are by Black authors
60% are by women
60% center Black experiences
That's no accident.
Source: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
60% are by Black authors
60% are by women
60% center Black experiences
That's no accident.
Source: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
Are schools misreading Iowa's book ban law by banning classics like '1984' over sex?
A Des Moines Register survey finds Iowa schools have removed over 40 classic and modern classic novels, from '1984' and 'Brave New World' to 'Roots.'
www.desmoinesregister.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Of the top 10 most-removed classic books:
60% are by Black authors
60% are by women
60% center Black experiences
That's no accident.
Source: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
60% are by Black authors
60% are by women
60% center Black experiences
That's no accident.
Source: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
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Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.
February 8, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Good morning! Taxing the wealth of the richest 1% of Americans down to the median wealth of the next-richest 9% ($5.2 million per household) would free up $48 trillion. Redistributing that to the poorest 50% of Americans would give *68 million households* an average of *$700k per household*.
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“The timing is shocking. While the rest of Europe is re-considering its links with the U.S. after the Greenland affair, here we have quite a few European far-right parties rubbing shoulders with the core of Trump’s hinterland,” said Kenneth Haar, researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
🔴 NEW - MAGA Gathers in European Parliament to Attack EU Laws
The European far-right rubbed shoulders with pro-Trump groups in Brussels.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
The European far-right rubbed shoulders with pro-Trump groups in Brussels.
📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
MAGA Gathers in European Parliament to Attack EU Laws
BRUSSELS – Groups aligned with Donald Trump’s administration rallied against “online censorship” and “extreme environmentalism” as they took to the stage at an event held in the heart of the European ...
www.desmog.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:03 AM
“The timing is shocking. While the rest of Europe is re-considering its links with the U.S. after the Greenland affair, here we have quite a few European far-right parties rubbing shoulders with the core of Trump’s hinterland,” said Kenneth Haar, researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
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De allerrijksten betalen veel minder belasting (zo'n 17-21%) dan de rest van Nederland (40-50%) over hun inkomen.
Een minimum(vermogens)belasting zorgt dat ook zij tenminste even veel belasting gaan betalen.
Hierover ging ik op Radio 1 met Egbert Jongen en Natasja Gibbs in gesprek.
(1/6)
Een minimum(vermogens)belasting zorgt dat ook zij tenminste even veel belasting gaan betalen.
Hierover ging ik op Radio 1 met Egbert Jongen en Natasja Gibbs in gesprek.
(1/6)
February 9, 2026 at 8:44 AM
De allerrijksten betalen veel minder belasting (zo'n 17-21%) dan de rest van Nederland (40-50%) over hun inkomen.
Een minimum(vermogens)belasting zorgt dat ook zij tenminste even veel belasting gaan betalen.
Hierover ging ik op Radio 1 met Egbert Jongen en Natasja Gibbs in gesprek.
(1/6)
Een minimum(vermogens)belasting zorgt dat ook zij tenminste even veel belasting gaan betalen.
Hierover ging ik op Radio 1 met Egbert Jongen en Natasja Gibbs in gesprek.
(1/6)
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Dus is het eenzijdig neerleggen van de lasten bij arbeid, zoals nu gedaan wordt in het coalitieakkoord, niet een natuurwet, maar actieve keuze om de allerrijksten te ontzien, die we ook als zodanig moeten benoemen.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Dus is het eenzijdig neerleggen van de lasten bij arbeid, zoals nu gedaan wordt in het coalitieakkoord, niet een natuurwet, maar actieve keuze om de allerrijksten te ontzien, die we ook als zodanig moeten benoemen.
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It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
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these men—and let’s be clear, it’s basically men—are not interested in investing in public spaces for mass good. why would they, when they can create their own bunkers and network states, without having to consider the needs or wants of anyone but themselves?
they are fundamentally antidemocratic
they are fundamentally antidemocratic
Real-Estate Shopping for the Apocalypse
Thirty-nine per cent of Americans believe that we’re living in end times, and the market for underground hideouts is heating up.
www.newyorker.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM
these men—and let’s be clear, it’s basically men—are not interested in investing in public spaces for mass good. why would they, when they can create their own bunkers and network states, without having to consider the needs or wants of anyone but themselves?
they are fundamentally antidemocratic
they are fundamentally antidemocratic
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I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
February 8, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.
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2/ “What Bezos did for Melania while gutting his own newspaper,” wrote the historian Simon Schama, will come to be seen “as the most glaring symptom of cultural collapse in a democracy hanging on to truth by the barest of threads."
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump
Jeff Bezos’s axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America’s democracy to withstand Trump’s attacks
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:44 PM
2/ “What Bezos did for Melania while gutting his own newspaper,” wrote the historian Simon Schama, will come to be seen “as the most glaring symptom of cultural collapse in a democracy hanging on to truth by the barest of threads."
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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This is a look at how Jeff Bezos is helping destroy our democracy by destroying the Wash Post. The entire thing is nauseating but the firing of the paper's Ukraine reporter "in the middle of war zone" will ranks as one of the most diabolical things Bezos has done to date. Read @us.theguardian.com:
February 8, 2026 at 3:44 PM
This is a look at how Jeff Bezos is helping destroy our democracy by destroying the Wash Post. The entire thing is nauseating but the firing of the paper's Ukraine reporter "in the middle of war zone" will ranks as one of the most diabolical things Bezos has done to date. Read @us.theguardian.com:
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Wat kost zo’n Van de Beek eigenlijk? En wat draagt hij bij?
Ik vind er wel wat van dat je in een schatrijk land gaat rekenen hoeveel het je kost wanneer je iemand van oorlogsgeweld, vervolging of armoede redt.
February 8, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Wat kost zo’n Van de Beek eigenlijk? En wat draagt hij bij?
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And also, just like all fucking generative AI, this is just massive, scaled-up theft. This woman is functionally stealing money out of the KU pool from authors who are writing and publishing their own original works USING A TOOL that was itself built on stolen works.
February 8, 2026 at 1:54 PM
And also, just like all fucking generative AI, this is just massive, scaled-up theft. This woman is functionally stealing money out of the KU pool from authors who are writing and publishing their own original works USING A TOOL that was itself built on stolen works.
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FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
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crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
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this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth
February 7, 2026 at 2:20 PM
this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth
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amusing to compare this lady with self proclaimed political tough guys like Rahm Emanuel and Andrew Cuomo
February 8, 2026 at 2:05 PM
amusing to compare this lady with self proclaimed political tough guys like Rahm Emanuel and Andrew Cuomo
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One of the many ways the 1970s is a foreign country is how marginal this vision of space was. Common heritage of mankind, site for international cooperation, frontier of research. The fight to make it a “perfect playground for libertarian billionaires” was a long one.
February 8, 2026 at 1:07 PM
One of the many ways the 1970s is a foreign country is how marginal this vision of space was. Common heritage of mankind, site for international cooperation, frontier of research. The fight to make it a “perfect playground for libertarian billionaires” was a long one.
Ik kom er net achter dat het woord 'tab hoarder' bestaat... 🙈
Urban Dictionary: Tab-Hoarder
Tab-Hoarder: The Tab-Hoarder is one who is reluctant to close internet tabs, usually resulting in a buildup of chaotic tab clutter on the browser toolbar....
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February 8, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Ik kom er net achter dat het woord 'tab hoarder' bestaat... 🙈