msogelee.bsky.social
@msogelee.bsky.social
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The US army is turned on pro-democracy protesters. Israel wrecks Gaza unchecked. In NL a far-right politician just crashed the government over a big lie.

Time to call it what it is: this is fascism.
This is fascism
Fascism starts with talk, not tanks. With democratic elections, not a coup. And it takes hold thanks to people who think things won’t move quickly—until they do just that.
decorrespondent.nl
June 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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@robdewijk.bsky.social in @trouw.nl met een vlijmscherpe analyse: “Buitenlandse waarnemers zien dat ons politieke systeem kapot is, Nederland steeds slechter wordt bestuurd en dat het investeringsklimaat terugloopt.”
Met dank aan #PVV, #VVD, #NSC #BBB: een mokkend en visieloos landje.
June 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Sharp and precise short essay on why Moscow’s myth on NATO expansion as pretext for Ukraine war is just that - a myth. Share with Everyone who still taps into this thought trap (set up by Moscow, again, to interfere with our mind, the authors argue convincingly) 👇🏼

cepa.org/article/symp...
Sympathy With the Devil: The Lie of NATO Expansion
The Kremlin has accomplished something that it might have considered impossible: Western figures now echo its untruths about NATO.
cepa.org
March 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Gift link.

A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone.

And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration.

If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
February 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Cartoon by Tom Janssen, the Netherlands.
February 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM