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Roy, who described himself as a politically right-leaning former member of the VVD, wrote that he no longer knew who to vote for. He excluded a populist party on the right and even mentioned considering PRO, although that didn't make economic sense and wasn't logical for him personally. According to him, the party members were at least honest and human. Roy wrote that he had previously found Jesse Klaver weak and unconvincing, but that he now made a different impression: Klaver was, in his opinion, substantively strong and seemed to be developing leadership qualities. Roy also stated that Mark Rutte had called for people to look out for one another upon his departure, while the VVD under Dilan Yesilgöz did the opposite according to him. Yesilgöz, according to Roy, had ruined much for her party, although he found her good on Defense and previously on Justice and Security. According to Roy, PRO was precisely a party that paid attention to others. As an example, he mentioned the Self-Podcast by Sander Schimmelpenninck and Jaap Reesema featuring Lisa Westerveld. He claimed Westerveld dedicated herself day and night to underprivileged Dutch citizens. In the podcast, he also heard how demotivating work in the House of Representatives could be: requested debates from Westerveld sometimes did not make it to the agenda, while the right-wing majority preferred to debate asylum again. When a topic made the news, politicians were, in his opinion, always at the front. Roy wrote that the world would be a better place with more people like Westerveld. #politiek #VVD #Nederland (translated)

Eva Selsing wrote that she did not see it as a problem that the left was critical of B.T.'s conservative profile. On the contrary, she believed that praise from left-leaning politicians and commentators would be a cause for concern, as it could indicate that the media had deviated from its conservative line. She argued that B.T.'s direct conservatism scared a left that had had a significant influence on media debate for decades. According to Selsing, the left only supported conservative viewpoints it could control, and the more subdued conservatism had followed the left's norms of shaming, censorship, and cancellation. She wrote that this type of conservatism had dominated the Danish media landscape until a few years ago, and that the situation still prevailed outside of B.T. Selsing believed that B.T.'s success was partly due to the media offering conservative perspectives and analyses that the readers and viewers, according to her, could not find elsewhere. She criticized other media for presenting uniform headlines and analyses and for expressing outrage over differing opinions. She wrote that actors with interests in conformity and censorship therefore reacted strongly to B.T., and that she would be more concerned if they did not. #Borgerlighed #MedieDebat #Ytringsfrihed (translated)

At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2026, Saba-Nur Cheema and Meron Mendel presented their new book "The Outrage Trap", in which they call for an open dialogue without speech bans and address the dangers of black-and-white thinking in social debates. #OpenBooks #FrankfurterBuchmesse #DieEmpörungsfalle (translated)

Paul Ronzheimer wrote that he does not know how Gerhard Schröder explains his visit to Vladimir Putin. In Ukraine, however, according to Ronzheimer, the images resonate with people who increasingly feel forgotten. They perceive that attention is waning and debates in Germany are becoming more heated. Moreover, there is renewed discussion about whether a different approach to Putin is possible. Ronzheimer referred to his essay for Bild. https://t.co/m1kz5zdH9M #Ukraine #Putin #Politik (translated)

In the investigative committee regarding the Pilnacek case, his smartwatch sparked new debates, while the director of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Andreas Holzer, made statements about the flow of information and police work at the site where the corpse was found. #Pilnacek #Smartwatch #Justiz (translated)

Nico Lange wrote that Vladimir Putin has not achieved any successes on the front for a long time and has only caused Russian casualties there. Instead, he relies on terror against the civilian population as well as a "normalization" of relations with the USA and on Europe's weakness, whose leadership Lange described as indecisive, self-absorbed, and paralyzed by internal debates. #Putin #Ukraine #Terrorismus (translated)

The Danish People's Party repeated Morten Messerschmidt's statement from the Debate, where he said that it was fundamentally unreasonable that individuals without Danish citizenship could receive money from the treasury without having contributed themselves. https://t.co/WppcPnw0BM #Danmark #Samfund #Politik (translated)

The case of the alleged gang rape at Cornell University, in which the statements of the affected student and the accused men diverge significantly, is causing turbulent debates in the USA as a special prosecutor launches an investigation. #CornellUniversity #Vergewaltigung #JaneDoe (translated)

Raphaël Glucksmann warns that the next president of the Republic may have to face a war on the territory of the European Union, as candidates for the social-democratic primary debate a few months before the presidential election. #Élections2027 #Politique #UnionEuropéenne (translated)