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Please remember: when an officer stops somebody based on racial profiling to challenge their immigration status, the correct and proper term for that is a “Kavanaugh stop.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/brett-kavanaugh-stops-immigration-racial-profiling-ice.html

Brett Kavanaugh is trying to walk back “Kavanaugh stops.” Too late.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/brett-kavanaugh-stops-immigration-racial-profiling-ice.html

Der er endelig kommet ordentlige mŸbler til Storrumskontoret™️. Det er meget bedre end det var, og jeg giver det nu en chance (men går også allerede kl 10 til en forelæsning og derfra hjem igen til online mŸder).

Pretty sure the power supply in this switch is fried. Possibly a short in the coil/transformer next to the hot power regulator.
$8 to replace the entire unit, delivered.

More musicians cancel Kennedy Center concerts after board votes to add Trump's name to the building (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/musicians-cancel-kennedy-center-concerts-trump-name-added-building-rcna251450
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p89#a251229p89

Holy shit

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/12/21/documents-reveal-harvard-salient-complaint/

Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that later became central to the board’s decision to suspend the magazine.

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Great work, 'DOGE.' Very well done.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/cdc-2-infants-hospitalized-botulism-outbreak-byheart-expands/story?id=127417947

CDC says 2 more infants hospitalized in botulism outbreak as ByHeart expands voluntary formula recall
At least 15 babies have been hospitalized with infant botulism.

Huge birth rate problems here like most of Europe. Gov have now announced that families with >=2 kids will get roughly 1/4 million in tax cuts over 25 years.
Thats crazy, like small family house worth crazy.

De aanduiding "worst" mag, volgens de vlees lobby, alleen nog maar gebruikt worden voor tubes van dierlijk materiaal (darm) of plastic, gevuld met een volvette geëmulgeerde massa van orgaanvlees, reuzel, kruiden, en brood of andere graanproducten, waarbij de ingrediënten orgaanvlees en reuzel essentieel zijn.
Smakelijk eten.