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Lennart Zandbergen
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Business/economics correspondent in NYC for @FD.nl and @BNR.nl.
Zandbergen.94 on Signal. Also, bikes!

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zandbergen.bsky.social
Nou is groei sowieso een compleet irrelevant gegeven als je een coalitie wil smeden, maar zowel CDA als D66 hebben er meer zetels bijgekregen dan dat JA er überhaupt heeft?
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
zandbergen.bsky.social
"It was also the first time since May that New Yorkers inked more than 40 contracts for apartments with price tags above $4 million, more than half of which were signed between Nov. 5, the morning after election day, and Nov. 9." www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/luxury-residential-sales-streak-continues-after-zohran-mamdani-win"It
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
zandbergen.bsky.social
A US war cemetery in the Netherlands removed information on black soldiers that helped liberate Europe during the Second World War. The local government is asking the US ambassador to put the panels back. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/call...
Calls for permanent memorial in Limburg to black US liberators - DutchNews.nl
Provincial councillors in Limburg have called for a permanent memorial to black American servicemen to be erected next to the US war cemetery in Margraten after it emerged that panels commemorating th...
www.dutchnews.nl
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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ckubzansky.bsky.social
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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jeffhorwitz.bsky.social
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.

That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
zandbergen.bsky.social
Can't recommend this enough: docs.google.com/presentation...
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
docs.google.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.
November 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
zandbergen.bsky.social
Over Zohran Mamdani, de socialist die linkse Amerikanen energie geeft - én hoogstwaarschijnlijk de volgende New Yorkse burgemeester is. fd.nl/politiek/157...
Zohran Mamdani, de immigrant die socialisme salonfähig maakt in de VS
De 34-jarige kandidaat van de Democratische Partij wordt naar alle waarschijnlijkheid de volgende burgemeester van financiële wereldhoofdstad New York. Zijn opkomst zet de lokale politiek op zijn kop ...
fd.nl
October 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
zandbergen.bsky.social
".. which has been edited for length and clarity"
October 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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dlknowles.bsky.social
If the stuff happening in Chicago were happening in New York City it would be on every television on earth right now
October 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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molly.wiki
Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.
WSJ headline: Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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alphaville.ft.com
Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'

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Checking in on Trevor Milton
[FREE TO READ] Nikola? I hardly even…
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October 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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flglchicago.bsky.social
Here’s video of the incident
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
zandbergen.bsky.social
Ook een goede vraag om aan de Nederlandse overheidsorganen te stellen.
charlotte2153.bsky.social Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social · Sep 14
It melts my head that X is still used for official Government communications, and, catching up on today's news and the fact we have a foreign billionaire inciting violence on our streets, it's clearer than ever that this should end.

I raised this in Parliament last week 👇
Question from me: "I warmly welcome the Leader of the House to his new role and associate myself with the support across the House for my hon. Friend the Member for Washington and Gateshead South (Mrs Hodgson). Members have raised many times the unacceptable level of threats that we face. Increasingly, abuse and threats are being driven and whipped up by one platform in particular, X, previously known as Twitter, which has become a sewer of antisemitism, racism, misogyny and dangerous conspiracy theories. Its owner has specifically targeted Members of this House. With a new director of communications in No. 10 and a refreshed Front Bench, may we have a debate in Government time on whether it is appropriate for that platform to continue to be used for official Government communications?" Answer from Sir Alan Campbell, Leader of the House: "What my hon. Friend says about X is truly shocking. We are very much in favour of free speech, but we are also against incitement to violence. We have delivered the Online Safety Act 2025 to seek to strike the balance between user protection and freedom of speech. On the matter of the Government’s use of X, it is right that the public are kept up to date with information and a number of people still use X, although of course many are moving to other platforms. I am sure that the Government will take that into account in our deliberations in future, and we also keep our wider social media practices under review."
September 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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lorennacleary.bsky.social
A 5th grader explains that his schoolmate shielded him. That friend is now in the hospital after taking a bullet while shielding his classmate. They are only 10 years old.
August 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
zandbergen.bsky.social
Dit is een zin die helemaal niks betekent
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 26
Lutnick: "The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain, because you are the crypto president."
August 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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kashhill.bsky.social
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.

Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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mennovdbos.bsky.social
Word gezellig mijn collega:
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August 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
This man is being subjected to a real-life version of Kafka’s “The Trial” as punishment for being the embarrassing object of the regime’s own malicious and chaotic incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Detained By Immigration Authorities, Lawyer Says
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
zandbergen.bsky.social
Zelden zo hard gelachen tijdens het lezen van politiek nieuws
August 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Steve Moore shows Trump a chart of "medium income"
August 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
www.wthr.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM