Rogier van Reekum
@rvanreekum.bsky.social
"Close your eyes now and your heart will take you there, just let it take you there."
- Sheryl Lee Ralph, In The Evening
- Sheryl Lee Ralph, In The Evening
Henk Kamp. Nederland's Dick Cheney. Heeft, als je even verder zoekt, in een enorme hoeveelheid ellende zijn vingerafdrukken. Een van de meest gevestigde proponenten van raciale patriachie. Kamp...what's in a name.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Henk Kamp. Nederland's Dick Cheney. Heeft, als je even verder zoekt, in een enorme hoeveelheid ellende zijn vingerafdrukken. Een van de meest gevestigde proponenten van raciale patriachie. Kamp...what's in a name.
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Scientists operate on principles of good faith. But this is just ridiculous. If you, dear reader, take nothing else away from The Drain paper, it is that publishers cannot be invited to the table any longer.
They can participate and carve a space, but they can't be part of shaping policy.
3/n
They can participate and carve a space, but they can't be part of shaping policy.
3/n
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Het is allemaal een beetje brusk en reductief maar zou toch wel graag zien dat we ons meer met de structurele situatie zouden bezig houden:
"they made him the pilot because they know the city is already in a tailspin."
youtu.be/opC05jKWZvI?...
"they made him the pilot because they know the city is already in a tailspin."
youtu.be/opC05jKWZvI?...
Shahid Bolsen on the Election of Zohran Mamdani
YouTube video by Middle Nation
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November 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Het is allemaal een beetje brusk en reductief maar zou toch wel graag zien dat we ons meer met de structurele situatie zouden bezig houden:
"they made him the pilot because they know the city is already in a tailspin."
youtu.be/opC05jKWZvI?...
"they made him the pilot because they know the city is already in a tailspin."
youtu.be/opC05jKWZvI?...
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Men are awarded their PhD ‘cum laude’ (with distinction) more often than women, even when there is no scientific reason for it. That is why the University of Twente will no longer make this distinction.
Twente stops with ‘cum laude’ for PhD degrees - Erasmus Magazine
www.erasmusmagazine.nl
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Men are awarded their PhD ‘cum laude’ (with distinction) more often than women, even when there is no scientific reason for it. That is why the University of Twente will no longer make this distinction.
He @fgeerdink.bsky.social , ik denk dat jij dit kan waarderen.
“More than once, the name ‘Frantz Fanon’ was broached—which had the virtue of certain hand-showing clarity.” …
“‘People read Foucault,’” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column…” …
“‘Critics say’ is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.” and it keeps going…
“‘People read Foucault,’” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column…” …
“‘Critics say’ is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.” and it keeps going…
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
He @fgeerdink.bsky.social , ik denk dat jij dit kan waarderen.
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“More than once, the name ‘Frantz Fanon’ was broached—which had the virtue of certain hand-showing clarity.” …
“‘People read Foucault,’” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column…” …
“‘Critics say’ is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.” and it keeps going…
“‘People read Foucault,’” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column…” …
“‘Critics say’ is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.” and it keeps going…
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“More than once, the name ‘Frantz Fanon’ was broached—which had the virtue of certain hand-showing clarity.” …
“‘People read Foucault,’” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column…” …
“‘Critics say’ is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.” and it keeps going…
“‘People read Foucault,’” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column…” …
“‘Critics say’ is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.” and it keeps going…
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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
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I just keep thinking “Elon Musk just got a trillion dollars”
New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I just keep thinking “Elon Musk just got a trillion dollars”
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Deze strategie is absoluut niet nieuw. Het meest sprekende voorbeeld komt uit de laatste jaren van de Weimarrepubliek, tijdens de zogenaamde “presidentiële kabinetten”. Die kabinetten hadden geen meerderheid in het parlement, en regeerden per decreet.
De (oeroude) staatsgreepstrategie van de VVD | Doorbraak.eu
“Dilan Yeşilgöz blijft middenkabinet blokkeren, wil alleen met radicaal-rechts regeren”, aldus Joop dinsdag. Waarom zou ze ook iets anders doen? Voor de VVD ligt er een hele heldere strategie open. Ee...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Deze strategie is absoluut niet nieuw. Het meest sprekende voorbeeld komt uit de laatste jaren van de Weimarrepubliek, tijdens de zogenaamde “presidentiële kabinetten”. Die kabinetten hadden geen meerderheid in het parlement, en regeerden per decreet.
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⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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this great article by @debtcollective.bsky.social lays out really clearly what's been on my mind all day: everybody better get real familiar with municipal finance real quick
www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...
www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...
Zohran Won Main Street—Now He Must Face Wall Street
Mamdani will face a looming threat to his progressive agenda: debt
www.inthered.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
this great article by @debtcollective.bsky.social lays out really clearly what's been on my mind all day: everybody better get real familiar with municipal finance real quick
www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...
www.inthered.org/p/zohran-won...
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Villains used to obfuscate. They looked normal on tv and said things like "Fiscal discipline." Now you have grotesque guys hissing "Empathy is weakness" like a cartoon
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Villains used to obfuscate. They looked normal on tv and said things like "Fiscal discipline." Now you have grotesque guys hissing "Empathy is weakness" like a cartoon
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This is absolute BULLSHIT!
Unapologetic support for multiculturalism is barely heard even among Green parties these days.
Freezing of rent? Where in Europe is this standard policy?
Which governments and mainstream parties are calling Israel’s destruction of Gaza “genocide”?
Unapologetic support for multiculturalism is barely heard even among Green parties these days.
Freezing of rent? Where in Europe is this standard policy?
Which governments and mainstream parties are calling Israel’s destruction of Gaza “genocide”?
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is absolute BULLSHIT!
Unapologetic support for multiculturalism is barely heard even among Green parties these days.
Freezing of rent? Where in Europe is this standard policy?
Which governments and mainstream parties are calling Israel’s destruction of Gaza “genocide”?
Unapologetic support for multiculturalism is barely heard even among Green parties these days.
Freezing of rent? Where in Europe is this standard policy?
Which governments and mainstream parties are calling Israel’s destruction of Gaza “genocide”?
De boekhoudkundige truc is als volgt: alle overheersing is - per definitie - betaalbaar.
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
De boekhoudkundige truc is als volgt: alle overheersing is - per definitie - betaalbaar.
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Join us tonight for the online lecture series: „Border Regimes on the Move" - I will share a panel with Hans Kundnani (Eurowhiteness) & discuss how thinking racialisation from its ambiguities helps us to dismantle key myths about race. Details and registration here: uni-goettingen.de/en/694576.html
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Join us tonight for the online lecture series: „Border Regimes on the Move" - I will share a panel with Hans Kundnani (Eurowhiteness) & discuss how thinking racialisation from its ambiguities helps us to dismantle key myths about race. Details and registration here: uni-goettingen.de/en/694576.html
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BREEK: Een verdwaalde, Arabisch sprekende man leidde tot forse beveiligingsmaatregelen in het Wijnhavengebouw, onthullen WOO-documenten
Hoe de beveiliging op tilt sloeg vanwege één Arabisch sprekende man: ‘Er broeit iets’
Waarom werd het Wijnhavengebouw twee jaar geleden gesloten en is sindsdien de universitaire beveiliging tot op heden flink opgeschroefd? Uit nieuwe WOO-stukken blijkt dat politie en universiteit tota...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
BREEK: Een verdwaalde, Arabisch sprekende man leidde tot forse beveiligingsmaatregelen in het Wijnhavengebouw, onthullen WOO-documenten
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November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
They Will Always Betray You - Here's Why
YouTube video by BadEmpanada Live
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November 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Biz Markie - Biz Is Goin' Off
YouTube video by Your Music
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November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Big news day today so you might have missed @npr.org quietly sliding a Doobie Brothers Tiny Desk under the front door. youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ
The Doobie Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Big news day today so you might have missed @npr.org quietly sliding a Doobie Brothers Tiny Desk under the front door. youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ
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mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.
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"In claiming the mantle of science, the data-centered approach to politics has drawn ever tighter boundaries around what it takes to speak knowledgeably about politics and so in turn who can be entrusted to direct it."
Lily Hu for @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
Lily Hu for @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How to Lie with (Political) Statistics - Boston Review
Inside the data wars over Democratic strategy.
www.bostonreview.net
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"In claiming the mantle of science, the data-centered approach to politics has drawn ever tighter boundaries around what it takes to speak knowledgeably about politics and so in turn who can be entrusted to direct it."
Lily Hu for @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
Lily Hu for @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...