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New!! Sociopragmatic pronouns in Limburgian: inferring speakers’ agency from self-reported automaticity, attitudes, and metalinguistic awareness degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

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NVWA: Esro Food Group moet per direct vleesproducten terugroepen na ernstige overtredingen Lees meer: transport-online.nl/125071/nvwa-es…

Nedersaksisch in de middeleeuwen: Het Middelsaksisch was een prestigetaal. Als je erbij wilde horen praatte je Nedersaksisch.

Putin just gave himself the legal right to invade any country on Earth. 413 votes. Zero against. In 1938, Hitler said he needed to protect the German-speaking minority in Czechoslovakia. Six months later he owned the whole country. This week the Russian Duma passed a law letting Putin deploy troops anywhere on Earth to “protect Russian citizens.” Estonia and Latvia both have large Russian-speaking minorities on Russia’s border. Trump has spent a month telling America that NATO abandoned him. The alliance didn’t show up when he needed it. Remember that. What Americans don’t understand: leaving Europe before a major war doesn’t mean sitting it out. It means handing China the role Japan held in World War Two. We are not saying this was planned. We are saying a plan between two men would look exactly like this. Full breakdown here: x.com/microinteracti…

Rechter tikt kabinet Jetten vandaag voor 2de keer op de vingers: kabinet kan niet zomaar stiekeme uitbreiding Lelystad Airport legaliseren. LA moet zich aan wet houden. Hoe vaak gaat het kabinet nog luchtvaartlobby boven wet, burgers en natuur plaatsen? rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-en…

This working paper uses the notion of “one-to-many participation frameworks” to examine how linguistic forms, places, and persons have been linked over the past 150 years to produce ethnic communities in #Indonesia. diggitmagazine.com/working-papers…

Russian parliament has just passed an internal bill to legalise Russian military incursions into Baltic countries in order to protect "Russian people." They are legalising future invasion attempts beyond Ukraine...

In 2025, a Banksy mural appeared on London’s Royal Courts of Justice, showing a judge raising a gavel over a protester. Authorities quickly removed it, citing heritage protection. Should '#heritage' safeguard buildings, or the values they represent? diggitmagazine.com/when-banksys-w…

BREAKING: BBC has compiled evidence of more than 160 Palestinian children deliberately shot in the head by IDF soldiers and snipers in Gaza. They concluded the worst thing ever: "Israeli jews are hunting children for fun."

‘Russen naar huis!’ De slogan van de 1956 Hongaarse opstand luidt door de metro en pleinen in Budapest. Historische dag. De Hongaren kiezen voor Europa. Voor vrijheid.

🚨 Budapest now: 17 years of Orbán's rule ended tonight — in the streets. The man who shielded Netanyahu, blocked every EU resolution against the genocide in Gaza, opened his skies to an ICC-wanted fugitive… was brought down by his own people at the ballot box. A lesson to every tyrant: the chair is temporary. The people remain.

APPLEBAUM: Russians aren't winning, despite the absence of United States. Maybe Trump imagined that if the U.S. disappeared, Ukraine would collapse. It didn't collapse. European part of NATO, Ukrainians, and other allies turned out to be very powerful. It's almost as if Trump is listening to Putin, getting information from Putin. He is not paying attention to what's actually happening on the ground. It's as if he has no information from Ukraine and from Europe at all.

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There is no pathway to climate stability or sustainable development without keeping nature intact. By 2030, we must halt the loss of remaining intact biomes while reversing extinction risks and scaling up restoration. New paper with @FrontScience. frontiersin.org/journals/scien…

"If russia stops, the war ends. If Ukraine stops, Ukraine ends. That's why we must help Ukraine win." -Kaja Kallas She is right..💯 So, Don't stop supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦🫡

Boeren dumpen overdosis illegaal landbouwgif in water volkskrant.nl/binnenland/nvw… Hierdoor sterven planten en dieren,☠️ en stijgt waterschapsbelasting.💰 NVWA noemt het ‘zorgwekkend’ en vraagt lief of ze willen veranderen Wij willen veel steviger ingrijpen: degroenen.nl/agv.html

The Hungarian people will pay little attention to what Vance says, but the visit may not be for them. Based on my experience living under Russian authoritarianism, speeches like Vance's can send a powerful message to the army and police, who might be given an explicit order by the government to administer force in the case of any confrontation. If Vance's full-throated endorsement of Orbán is read as giving the security services a green light to act harshly in the case of a disputed election, then America could tip the scales in favor of the regime, potentially outweighing any European sanctions. The willingness to use force is a hallmark of every authoritarian. zeit.de/politik/auslan…

Uit rapport in NRC: zo’n 350 Palestijnse kinderen in Israëlische gevangenissen gemarteld, seksueel misbruikt en uitgehongerd.

🚨 Netanyahu just expelled Spain’s diplomatic representatives from Israel. His stated reason: Spain criticized the IDF. His exact words: “I do not intend to allow any country to wage a diplomatic war against us without paying an immediate price.” Read that carefully. Not a military threat. Not a security concern. Spain called out the IDF — and Netanyahu responded by expelling their diplomats and calling it a price that must be paid immediately.

Professor Norman Finkelstein: “Israel is now a madman.” “It didn’t get its way with Iran, and so it is totally destroying Lebanon now.” “It is in a state of catatonic lunacy.” “I’ve said this for years. Now it’s the consensus.” “Israel is a lunatic state. A lunatic society.”

APPLEBAUM: Since Trump’s election, United States provided almost no weaponry and no financial assistance to Ukraine over past year. The war is now 100% supported by Europe, allies in Asia, Canada, and Ukrainians themselves, who now produce huge percentage of their own weaponry. Ukraine makes its own drones and has the world’s best drone industry. In fact, they're already selling drones and signing drone deals across the Middle East.