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George van Houts urged support for farmers, fishermen, and gardeners. He believed that fishermen should get their boats back and that gardeners should have access to Dutch gas, as he thought the Netherlands needed to become self-sufficient in energy and food production. He described nitrogen and climate issues as trivial concerns of wealthy people compared to what he believed was yet to come. Van Houts stated that 80% of the Dutch wanted war against Russia. He used derogatory language about Russians and called people who he believed were misled idiots. He wrote that they also needed food and drink. #zelfvoorzienend #energie #voedselproductie (translated)

Gerrit Wermink wrote that the plan to use rabbits to free the Port of Rotterdam from the so-called nitrogen lock seemed to him like a particularly bad joke, even after a crate of beer. According to him, the minority cabinet lived in a bizarre bubble. #Rotterdam #politiek #stikstof (translated)

Marianne Zwagerman reported that a symposium on nitrogen policy was canceled. According to her, Sjoukje Heimovaara, director of Wageningen University and previously suggested by Zwagerman as a candidate for the position of Minister of Agriculture on behalf of D66, personally intervened. Heimovaara allegedly called the engineering association that organized the congress and said that she did not want it to take place. Zwagerman said that several people who were scheduled to speak confirmed this to her. https://t.co/NvlT061OiY #stikstofbeleid #WageningenUniversiteit #congres (translated)

A joint plan in the Port of Rotterdam, aimed at improving nature and the rabbit population, offers opportunities for permitting and economic development, despite the complications of the nitrogen problem in other parts of the Netherlands. #stikstofproblematiek #Rotterdamsehaven #natuurherstel (translated)

René Dercksen stated that the nitrogen problem would disappear with a few rabbits for D66 judges and 50 million. He described the problem in bureaucrats' models as non-existent and compared the situation to a Suske and Wiske story that unfolded in real time. https://t.co/2xcgOvUiZd #stikstofprobleem #D66 #politiek (translated)

Syp Wynia wrote that the nitrogen debate was unwanted and therefore was cancelled. He referred to an article from Wynia's Week which stated that the CEO of Wageningen University had helped to cancel a symposium on nitrogen. https://t.co/lYc9xEAPdw #stikstof #WageningenUniversiteit #symposium (translated)

"Where in recent years there were negatives for Rotterdam in international boardrooms, a positive is now appearing again." According to Jacco Vonhof, chairman of Deltalinqs, the importance is greater than just that of the projects that are currently stuck. #Rotterdam #stikstof #natuurherstel (translated)

René Kemp expressed strong criticism of Christianne van der Wal. He described her arrogance as unprecedentedly shocking and stated that she, as a minister, understood nothing about the nitrogen issue. #pauwendewit https://t.co/gAgG22EjLH #stikstof #politiek #Nederland (translated)

Forum for Democracy wrote that other parties that took a critical stance towards the nitrogen policy mainly wanted to shift the burdens, for example by sparing farmers at the expense of Schiphol or the industry. The party stated that it wanted to eliminate the entire nitrogen policy. https://t.co/daSsWuiUuY #stikstofbeleid #FVD #milieu (translated)

Bart Nijman wrote that Dutch media in 2015 portrayed participants in the Ukrainian referendum, including GeenPeil, as antidemocratic and pro-Putin. Nevertheless, he called the referendum a great success. In 2017, according to him, newspapers and parts of the NPO tried to boycott GeenStijl but were unsuccessful. He also accused the media of labeling critics of Greta Thunberg as climate deniers in 2019 and of presenting support for Black Lives Matter as a civic duty in 2020, while according to him, Zwarte Piet was pressured with unfounded accusations of racism. During the coronavirus pandemic, according to Nijman, the media shielded criticism of the measures and labeled those who deviated as irrational. He argued that this permanently damaged the credibility of the press and trust in its fairness and objectivity. From 2021, he stated that media opposed the farmers' movement with reporting on nitrogen that journalists did not understand sufficiently, and starting in 2022, labeled critics of Ukrainian accession to the EU or NATO's contribution to the escalation as pro-Putin. Nijman wrote that after October 7, 2023, many media condemned Israel and Jews in general and based reporting on genocide and starvation on lies. According to him, the media concealed the reasons for Hamas' attack and subordinated facts to information from NGOs, including Oxfam. He also claimed that journalists who disagreed were not offering enough public dissent, partly because they had to save for a mandatory heat pump in 2028. Furthermore, Nijman accused the media of shifting their own problems onto disinformation and Elon Musk and of leaving X for their own, small online environment. According to him, DPG, RTL, and the NPO imposed standards that many Dutch people did not conform to. He wrote that readers should hate the mainstream media even more and asserted that the free press had again chosen the wrong side on October 7. #Media #Nederland #VrijePers (translated)

"There needs to be movement, the cabinet has shown that it can move on social security. We need movement on nitrogen. And we are all in the same boat, as we discussed in the faction meeting." BBB faction member Gert Jan Oplaat says during the break of the debate that his party would dare: "There needs to be movement, the cabinet has shown that it can move on social security. We need movement on nitrogen. And we are all in the same boat, as we discussed in the faction meeting." #EersteKamer #politiek #cooperatie (translated)

Arnout Jaspers started a thread about how he believed science functioned in the Netherlands. He outlined a hypothetical scenario in which the head of a university in the east of the country heard that a symposium on nitrogen would be held in The Hague on October 13, while the university had nothing to do with it. #wetenschap #Nederland #symposium (translated)

Alice van Drie called it unjust that the cabinet had excluded FDF and Agractie from the nitrogen discussions after the farmers' protest in Amersfoort. She wrote that the organizations had not organized the protest and suspected that the cabinet was looking for a pretext to keep them off the table. According to Van Drie, all farmers would suffer as a result of this government. #fail66 #boerenprotest https://t.co/a97OIFIqKp #boerenprotest #stikstof #politiek (translated)