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Mick van Wely wrote that his Dutch grandfather worked as an optician for the resistance in Leiden and took photos for forged documents. According to him, his father grew up with a strong aversion to Germans. When, as a five-year-old, he received an apple from a German soldier, he thanked him with a curse word for Germans, Van Wely said. His Hungarian mother, he said, grew up under communism, which he described as just as bad as fascism. Van Wely wrote that he had been raised at home with love for and respect for freedom. This, he said, explained why he sometimes reacted angrily when he saw that the carefully built Western lead and achievements, which had long been taken for granted, were coming under heavy pressure and were slowly being rolled back. #vrijheid #geschiedenis #verzet (translated)

I was a daughter who had just lost her mother. Cavallar continues: “I was a daughter who had just lost her mother. It was incredibly painful to have to undergo a doping test under those circumstances; it felt completely out of place and disrespectful to my family.” #Wielrennen #Dopingcontrole #Menselijkheid (translated)

Rein Bijlsma urged readers to remember the images. He wrote that people could now experience for themselves what it was like to witness the rise of Nazism and the growing hatred of Jews in the 1930s, and stated that this was now happening on the streets, in squares, at stations, and in the media. According to him, it seemed that no one in power was willing to do anything about it, and society had once again capitulated. #geschiedenis #antisemitisme #maatschappij (translated)

Weird Duk urged the prime minister, Dilan Yeşilgöz, and the minister of Justice and Security to intervene. He suggested calling Halsema or placing her under guardianship and asked how long they would tolerate the “wildness and moral anarchy.” #politiek #Nederland #zorg (translated)

Kolja Barghoorn ironically referred to the energy transition as a "masterpiece" and stated that instead of the promised cheap electricity, electricity prices are 16.4 percent higher than in 2021. He also pointed to billions in costs for grid bottlenecks and reserve power plants, battery storage that only lasts two hours at full capacity, and hydrogen, which has been considered a future technology for years. Barghoorn also criticized a new market created by the state, in which power plant operators would be paid for 15 years to provide electricity in case of outages from wind and solar power. He cited Blackout News as the source for the mentioned data. #Energiewende #Strompreise #Energiepolitik (translated)

Who knows, we will take a look at it. Trump said in response to the attack that he is still considering it. To all Houthis, your time is up and your attacks must stop from today. President Trump then wrote: "To all Houthis, your time is up and your attacks must stop from today." #SaudiArabie #Houthi #Oorlog (translated)

Alice van Drie wrote that the Dutch poultry farming sector was burdened with significant cost-increasing measures, while eggs were subsequently brought in from Turkey and Ukraine. She expressed anger about that. https://t.co/RTe7XK5nCl #pluimveehouderij #economie #voedselzekerheid (translated)

Madelon Vos wrote that entrepreneurs, according to the CEO of DSM, needed a reliable government, but did not get one. She stated that Dutch politics trivialized the effects of the income tax in box 2 and the high rates in box 3, and that this policy severely affected entire sectors, including the Dutch crypto and precious metals sector with more than two million investors. Vos wrote that investors had to keep track of their real returns themselves, while some banks and brokers could not provide that data and the Tax Authority had not yet verified the calculations. According to her, investors would want to deduct inflation, transaction costs, currency costs, and subscription costs from that calculation. She also reported that the man who had been at the basis of the law had since advocated for the withdrawal of the amendment and the law and for a new piece of legislation. Furthermore, Vos pointed to the rising interest rates in France and the possible consequences of that for the Netherlands. She wondered if war was looming and wrote that the Netherlands was increasing pressure on Russia. https://t.co/X4T4ze43tV #ondernemen #beleggen #politiek (translated)

MargaBult2025 expressed pride in her daughter Jill, who ran the 42-kilometer marathon in Twente in memory of her best friend Sophie. Jill had planned to go running and cycling that day with Sophie; in the end, Sophie's husband ran alongside her. MargaBult2025 concluded with a message of love for them. https://t.co/ycumNFAuk0 #marathon #hardlopen #liefde (translated)

NATO struggles with an appropriate response to the increasing Russian provocations, while member states push for a better-coordinated defensive strategy that goes beyond the existing protocols of Article 4 and 5 of the NATO treaty. #Navo #RussischeProvocaties #EuropeseVeiligheid (translated)

Michael van der Galien wrote that a pension couple with 80,000 euros in savings currently pays no box 3 tax. If the cabinet's plan goes ahead, the couple would, according to him, exceed the exemption threshold by 18,308 euros starting in 2027. He stated that the tax-free allowance decreases from 59,357 to 30,846 euros per person and that 1.2 million people will thus pay extra box 3 tax. Van der Galien said that even people who have saved their whole lives for the future are affected by this and argued that saving is being punished again. https://t.co/wpItZ2jle0 #Sparen #Belasting #AOW (translated)