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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 […]

Optimism about US democracy, with sports metaphors and statics nerdery: https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/dont-discount-american-democracys?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Don't discount American democracy's resilience
The U.S. has a highly popular democratic tradition, even as it battles an authoritarian element.

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.

America's Founding Feminists: Rewriting America’s Origin Story - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2026/03/02/founding-feminists-introduction-america-250/

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

🛢️ 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.