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reijer hendrikse
@reijer.bsky.social
geographies, histories, intersections of finance, politics, tech, world order

postdoc, vrije universiteit brussel; nonresident fellow, illiberalism studies program, george washington university

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*record scratch* *freeze frame* 'Yep, that's me - 2026. You're probably wondering how we got here'

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(PDF) The Rise of Neo-Illiberalism
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Don't want to brag but i once pushed my curling stone two times after release and no one noticed
February 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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This is hands-down the best thing I’ve read on Epstein‘s worldview and those of his fellow tech, finance, and academic elite. It’s a rough read, but at least every paragraph is a banger. 🔥🔥🔥😭
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Je wil de wc gebruiken en de persoon die net daarvoor de boel ondergescheten heeft vertelt je hoe je het schoon moet houden.
February 15, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.

She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.

They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.
February 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
"Van Trump wordt wel gezegd dat hij de woordenschat heeft van een 4-jarige. Zo erg is Yesilgöz niet, maar het scheelt niet veel"
February 15, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Zeldzaam kkkjong dit
February 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Interview with Evgeny Morozov (from 2023):

"I'm not sure we can speak so clearly about post-neoliberalism, I’ve instead used neo-illiberalism to suggest that neoliberalism is mutating. It's becoming more sovereignist, nationalist, authoritarian, illiberal"

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Reijer Hendrikse
The wave of illiberal politicking has just deepened what neoliberalism had started. But now, symptoms of the illiberal condition have spread to developments that some call post-neoliberal.
www.the-syllabus.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Van Houwelingen schreef in 2010 een Derde Rijk verheerlijkend boekje; mocht in 2015 het Oekraïnereferendum organiseren, en genoot daarbij een fijne terugkeergarantie van zijn werkgever: het Sociaal en Cultureel Planburaeu

Wir haben es gvd allemaal gewusst
Ik snap ook wel waarom FvD niet zo'n problemen heeft met (oud-)NVU'ers op de lijst.
February 15, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Make Clingendael een beetje wetenschappelijk Again
February 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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"A country approaching the fascist phase showed symptoms among which the existence of a fascist movement proper was not necessarily one." ...
February 13, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Wit privilege + daddy issues + gunstige wisselkoers =
February 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Dus in het Land van Wierd Duk zijn we anti-antifa (= pro-fascisme?) maar trekken we een grens bij openlijk nazisme (= anti-nazi?).

Heb ik het zo goed?
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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This week I launched my new book - The Global Casino - at the fabulous coffee shop in Saxmundham, The Social Bar. Copies are available from all good bookshops, and from the publisher’s site here: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
February 13, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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lol babes, it really didn’t. Modern science in particular came from Europe freaking the fuck out over how technologically backward they were compared to China and the Islamic Empire and frantically copying their homework.
February 13, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Tapping the sign
February 13, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Gehackt odido meldt incident bij de eveneens gehackte autoriteit persoonsgegevens
February 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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The threat of fascism is real. Economics has too often helped rather than hindered its rise. We need an anti-fascist economics to defend our democracies.

So, I’m writing a book to do my part. More soon.
February 13, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Het is slechts een paar maanden geleden dat deze krant deze partij als 'likeable' normaliseerde
February 11, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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February 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Wat ik enorm waardeer aan jutta leerdam is dat zij totale schijt heeft aan de publieke omroep e.a. die haar individuele prestatie als een ware stalker voor de gehele natie willen claimen

De rest vind ik minder
February 10, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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New definition of sovereignty dropped
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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On the new Anton Jaeger book👇
The U.S., with our political system and overheated attention economy, is fertile ground.

"Hyperpolitical mobilization detonates like a neutron bomb: a moment ago, thousands of people were protesting in a square—now they have vanished, with the assailed power infrastructure intact.” trib.al/RHLCYaY
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
The sad reality is that there's actually good money to be made in writing unrealities - IF you want to become a bad-faith actor, IF you don't mind being a grifter. It works because of a media ecosystem in the service of their owners, who need their minion grifters to maintain power
“The idea that a huge swath of the United States populace wants and needs the right wing’s unreality – their alternative reality – is a giant farce, a big, fake, neon, festering artifice constructed and maintained by people who need it to be real for financial and political and cultural purposes.”
I wrote about the right-wing Super Bowl halftime show as part of a larger project to create and maintain an unreality in which the American right is culturally and politically dominant.

The worst part: It works.

badfaithtimes.com/nothing-real...
February 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
"De meeste kenners wijzen echter al jaren op de onhaalbaarheid van die ambitie ... maar die kritiek wees de miljardair steevast van de hand. Tot maandag. Vanwaar die opmerkelijke draai?"

Omdat Musk met regelmaat draait en uiteindelijk een geldbeluste oplichter is.

www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/m...
Musk wil ineens niet meer naar Mars, maar naar de maan. Waarom zet hij die ambitie plots in de koelkast?
Elon Musk heeft op de korte termijn afscheid genomen van zijn Marsdroom, en richt zijn vizier nu op de maan. Waarom maakt de man die maanreizen een jaar geleden nog ‘een afleiding’ noemde, plots zo’n ...
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February 10, 2026 at 10:44 AM