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Verhaal illustreert weer de bizarre situatie in de VS.
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/amerika-zet-gescheiden-nederlander-halsoverkop-uit-zonder-geld-en-papieren-terug-naar-almelo~ae90baaf/

Amerika zet gescheiden Nederlander halsoverkop uit: zonder geld en papieren terug naar Almelo
Een in Nederland geboren inwoner van de Amerikaanse staat Californië is vrijdag op last van de Amerikaanse overheid het land uitgezet. In de daaropvolgende nacht stond hij om 01.00 uur op de stoep van de nachtopvang in Almelo.

Deforestation climbs in Central America’s largest biosphere reserve https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/deforestation-climbs-in-central-americas-largest-biosphere-reserve/

Deforestation climbs in Central America’s largest biosphere reserve
Encompassing some 7,400 square kilometers, or 2,860 square miles, along the Honduran border, Nicaragua’s Bosawás Biosphere Reserve is the largest biosphere reserve in Central America. It’s home to the Miskito and Mayanga Indigenous groups as well as countless species; endangered Geoffrey’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) and Baird’s tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) inhabit Bosawas, as do critically […]

Forgotten Fighters: American Anarchist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
https://albavolunteer.org/2017/08/forgotten-fighters-american-anarchist-volunteers-in-the-spanish-civil-war/

😅 New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
#usa

New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and that growing divisions within the Republican Party deepen partisan divides over how the Constitution should guide presidential authority and the balance of power.

> This was one of the main things I realized about American tennis coaches and European tennis coaches. American tennis coaches do not want to get fired. They want you to continue to pay them. And they understand something essential about the American personality—it’s essential vanity. The sort of American who is most likely to be taking tennis lessons does not probably, in their outside life, take well to criticism. Americans are mean, but fragile. Bullies, but babies.

Opinion | The Rush to Justify Citizens’ Deaths Should Scare Americans https://www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-the-rush-to-justify-renee-goods-killing-should-scare-every-american/

Opinion | The Rush to Justify Renee Good’s Killing Should Scare Every American
Duvalier Malone warns that the federal government’s rush to justify ICE’s killing of Renee Good’s should concern all American citizens.

Venezuela Detains Americans Amid Growing U.S. Pressure (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/world/americas/venezuela-detained-americans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p48#a251231p48

Taking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.

Oftewel hoe de 'in' in in-formatie steeds meer dezelfde betekenis kreeg als de 'in' in in-sane, in-firm, in-ept, in-sincere, etc.
Hoe Amerika een land werd waarin leugens niet meer worden achterhaald door de waarheid https://www.

Hoe Amerika een land werd waarin leugens niet meer worden achterhaald door de waarheid
In het Amerika van Donald Trump is de extreemrechtse informatiebubbel aan de winnende hand. De relatie tussen politiek, media en hun schatrijke eigenaren wordt steeds inniger, maar gaat al decennia terug. Hoe raakte de voorstelling van waarheid en leugens zo verdraaid?

🛢️ Study links America's favorite cooking oil to obesity
#food

Study links America's favorite cooking oil to obesity
Soybean oil, the most widely consumed cooking oil in the United States and a staple of processed foods, contributes to obesity, at least in mice, through a mechanism scientists are now beginning to understand.