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Wilson Pickett (Prattville (Alabama), 18 maart 1941 – Reston, 19 januari 2006) was een Amerikaans soulzanger. Hij begon zijn carrière als lid van de groep The Falcons. Zijn grootste hit had hij in de Verenigde Staten in 1965 met In the midnight hour. Daarna had hij succes met nummers als Mustang Sally en Fire and Water, zijn laatste hit (in de Verenigde Staten) uit 1972. Na 1972 bleven Amerikaanse hits uit en raakte Pickett aan lager wal. In Europa scoorde hij minder hits. Pickett trad verschillende keren op in Nederland, onder andere in 1995, als onderdeel van het North Sea Jazz Festival in Den Haag. https://hvdommelen.nl/p/PickettW.html

Remco Yizhak Cooremans described Coming Out Day as a beautiful day, with men in leather clothing on rumbling motorcycles and colorful flags in Amsterdam, which he called the old gay capital of Europe. According to him, the rainbow flag also waved at the parliament in The Hague after a vote was taken on the matter. Cooremans wrote that people were in good hands and that it was a beautiful time. #ComingOutDag #PrideAmsterdam #Regenboog (translated)

Weird Duk wrote that open support for Hamas was expressed in Amsterdam. He urged the House of Representatives not to get lost in discussions about 0.002 percent and to better understand what was happening on the streets and how extensive the problems were. He also urged action. #Amsterdam #Hamas #politiek (translated)

Jesse Klaver, the chameleon-like party leader of GroenLinks, has remained politically upright in The Hague for 16 years by continually reinventing himself and adapting his strategies, despite previous setbacks and pressure from the electorate. #JesseKlaver #GroenLinks #Politiek (translated)

A former woke teacher wrote that MP Nicole Moinat described, according to them, an established order that had lost its moral compass. The teacher stated that criminal organizations were recruiting very young people for explosions, drug trafficking, and assassinations because, according to them, juvenile offenders were hardly punished. In The Hague, according to the teacher, young criminals were primarily seen as victims of their circumstances. The teacher criticized explanations of crime based on disadvantage, personal problems, and a difficult childhood, because those explanations, according to them, obscured the responsibility of the offenders. The teacher also stated that the compassion for offenders was greater than the concern for victims. Young people deserved a second chance, according to them, but it should not outweigh the safety of society. The teacher wrote that the government, out of fear of appearing inhumane, no longer dared to set limits and that the consequences of this were borne by people who obeyed the law. #rechtstaat #criminaliteit #veiligheid (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)

Martien Visser wrote about the progress regarding grid congestion that the website of Netbeheer Nederland did not show historical data and that readers therefore had to make do with his information. He added that PBL no longer saw hybrids as a structural solution and that The Hague wanted to make heat pumps mandatory. #grafiekvandedag https://t.co/XWQ2pdO3qt #energietransitie #warmtepompen #netcongestie (translated)

The cabinet wants to save billions on the civil service, but while some civil servants in The Hague advocate for fewer staff, experts point out that political mistakes and complex regulations actually call for more civil servants instead of fewer. #ambtenaren #bezuinigingen #politiek (translated)