Het aantal abortussen neemt níet toe, zegt deze expert. De definitie van een zwangerschap is juist opgerekt | Trouw
#abortus

When school counselors must decide which children get to eat,
it’s time to acknowledge we’re in a national affordability crisis.
The problem is the economy itself
— not just its current condition, but the underlying unfairness of how it is organized.
A friend's elderly parents live near an elementary school not far from the nation’s capital.
For several years, they had been quietly raising money to provide groceries and basic supplies for families whose child…

The Affordability Crisis Is Real. Only Worker Organizing Can Offer Solutions.
A nation that can feed its billionaires but not its children has an economic system built to protect cruelty.

‘Terrified’ Americans are faced with life-or-death choice after sky-high Affordable Care Act price hikes | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/health-insurance-premiums-affordable-care-act-obamacare-aca-b2909554.html

New York Judge Dismisses Texas Challenge to the State's Abortion Shield Law (Pam Belluck/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/health/new-york-texas-abortion-shield-lawsuit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p18#a251101p18

Michigan Sues Oil Giants, Saying They Collude to Make Energy Costlier https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/climate/michigan-oil-companies-lawsuit-antitrust-affordability.html

Michigan Sues Oil Giants, Saying They Collude to Make Energy Costlier
The lawsuit accuses the companies of raising prices by working against solar and wind power and by downplaying the risks of climate change.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MusicPlanet
AfrotroniX:
🎵 Untold Stories (feat. Djely Tapa)
#AfrotroniX
https://open.spotify.com/track/3m2YyBKthgOvGDB8rRjxLm

Had Fun

Bought a car/micro-camper

Bought a van to do up as a micro-camper, and did a temporary rush job of that conversion myself while waiting in the list for the pro to do it.
Then the pro gave himself a health criss the week it was booked so I took apart my temp job and only got another temp kit-job in it's place.
Went out in it like four times during that and then broke my wrist and couldn't really use it or improve it.
Then had to take it apart even more to try
and figure out where the ad-blue hole was.
I will do a proper permanent job of the
floor and walls and ceiling and adjustments to the kit-job to make it the nicest it's been so far during the spring next year.
My assumption that the prior conversion
into a van and for wheelchair-access meant the microcamper conversion was half-done already turned out to be false.
If I buy a new one, it'll be one that has never been wheelchair adapted.
But it's going okay. Only scraped it once so far.
Fewer than aimed for or booked, but I broke my wrist and had to cancel the second half of the summer.
Went to a conference about money and computers and fringe decentralized social media and it wasn't as boring as you might expect and felt pretty much like a festival.
Exactly the target number! It's lovely.
Took 3 times longer than I'd hoped and
50% more money than I'd planned for really.
Still improvements to make but they will
be incremental and gradual over the coming year or two now.
It's been interest-only for 20 years so a big old lump sum payment that I never really expected to be able to make. Expected to have to sell and move at the end of the mortgage term.
But surprisingly the stocks ISA got high enough to pay it off after all, so I did that.
Cash-flow ruined by that and the bedroom but should start to feel a bit richer next year.

French President Emmanuel Macron criticizes the EU for being too slow to act on probes into Big Tech companies, attributing the delay to US pressure against DSA (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-afraid-of-tackling-us-big-tech-em…

Macron says Brussels is ‘afraid’ of tackling US Big Tech
An “American offensive” has cowed the European Commission and some EU capitals, French president complains.

The ‘pleasant fiction’ of a rules-based order has been blown apart. It’s time for Australia to codify a bill of rights | Julianne Schultz | The Guardian
#Australia #BillOfRights #AusPol

The ‘pleasant fiction’ of a rules-based order has been blown apart. It’s time for Australia to codify a bill of rights
What’s happening on American streets makes clear that a charter of rights does not prevent state overreach. But human rights must be more than a debating point

#Jack #Smith, the former justice department special counsel who led the aborted federal prosecution of Donald Trump,
told a congressional committee that he never spoke to #Joe