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Amerikadeskundige | Analyst American Politics | Docent/Lecturer @deHaagse | Tweets in NL & EN | @diederikbrink.bsky.social

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@Acyn
Acyn
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Jack Smith: That's why, frankly, you see, all these conflicts between the career apolitical prosecutors I worked with because they're being asked to do things that they think are wrong and because they're not political people, they're not going to do them. And I think that
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@madrid_mike
Mike Madrid
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Joe Biden was criticized for a Chinese balloon flying over our airspace. They’re giving Qatar an entire f’ing air base.
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
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Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
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@politico
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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
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politico.com
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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@JasonBeeferman
Jason Beeferman
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NEW: POLITICO obtained private group chat messages between leaders of Young Republican groups across the country. They talk about putting their opponents in gas chambers, raping their enemies and refer to Black people as “monkey” and “the watermelon people” https://t.co/Ba28MweLYa
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politico.com
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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@Diederik_Brink
Diederik Brink
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Vreemd dat President Trump boos is op de hoek van waaruit de foto van hem is genomen (en die vervolgens op de voorpagina van Time Magazine terecht is gekomen) en dat zijn eigen communicatieteam van het Witte Huis deze voorpagina/foto op sociale media deelt.
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@BenBradleyTV
Ben Bradley
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Michael J. Madigan - the nation's longest serving state house speaker and a man who dominated democratic politics in Illinois for decades - is set to report to prison Monday to begin serving a 7 year sentence for corruption.
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wgntv.com
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has been sentenced to 90 months in prison and a $2.5 million fine after being convicted on 10 of 23 corruption charges related to bribery and political…
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@MarkHertling
Mark Hertling
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An incredibly uninformed hypothetic plan for the use of US military by @JohnMillerCNN. This goes way outside the legal bounds of using soldiers in “support of civil authorities” & threatens confrontation between US citizens and its military.
@BulwarkOnline
The Bulwark
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"I would say, OK, so I'm getting the National Guard. This is what I need. I need you to take more of my violent crime cases. I need you to target my major gangs." @JohnMillerCNN talks how he would use the National Guard with @JohnAvlon in the latest episode of How To Fix It:
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@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
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WELKER: Are you seriously looking at invoking the Insurrection Act? VANCE: The president is looking at all of his options, right now he hasn't felt he needed to. But we have to remember we are talking about this because crime has gotten out of control in our cities WELKER:
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@Robert4787
Robert Morton
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It’s chilling how close we came without even knowing it. A few misread signals or nervous fingers, and history could’ve ended differently. The Cold War wasn’t just about strategy- it was about sheer luck. #ColdWar #History #NuclearNearMiss #GlobalSecurity
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daily.jstor.org
Most of the nuclear near-misses during the Cold War were kept under wraps, and they still make for unnerving reading in the twenty-first century.
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@Kurt_Steiner
Kurt Steiner
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West Virginians and a Bostonian trying to understand what each other are saying.
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@WNLVandaag
WNL Vandaag
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Kleine kans dat Trump de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede wint: 'Schaamteloos' #WNL
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@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
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Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
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@ewong
Edward Wong
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Marco Rubio co-signed a letter in support of the nomination of María Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize. Here’s the letter he and several other GOP lawmakers sent to the Nobel committee last year. Mike Waltz also co-signed the letter.
@StevenCheung47
Steven Cheung
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President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives. He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will. The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.
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@WNLVandaag
WNL Vandaag
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Gaat Donald Trump de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede krijgen? Niet als je het geheel neemt, denkt Amerikakenner @Diederik_Brink. ''Het is een huzarenstukje hoe hij de regio heeft meegekregen. Ondertussen zien we dat hij in het binnenland van Amerika militairen inzet tegen de eigen
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@SonnyBunch
Sonny Bunch
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This is just objectively, obviously true, and any Republican official or conservative pundit who disagrees is lying to you.
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@KFILE
Andrew Kaczynski
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Never a good thing when you have a canned I’m mean to my staff statement
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@NPORadio1
NPO Radio 1
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.@Diederik_Brink: 'Trump heeft zijn unieke stijl van druk op de regio -en Natanyahu- weten uit te oefenen.' @BartWallet: ‘Israël hoopt dat Trump zondag komt, daar zal dan een grote Trumpshow plaatsvinden.'
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@NBCNews
NBC News
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Alex Jones asks the Supreme Court to hit pause on an almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment that was imposed over his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
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Jones says the court must act immediately to prevent his site, InfoWars, where he has spread conspiracy theories, from being handed over to the satirical news site The Onion.
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@tigerbeat
Steve Rhodes
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“Trump, eager to boost his odds, phoned an influential Norwegian friend, former NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, to float the topic as Stoltenberg, now Norway’s finance minister, walked along an Oslo street this summer, according to two officials familiar with the call”
@ddiamond
Dan Diamond
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Donald Trump has craved a Nobel Prize — arguing his work to end wars is unprecedented — and his allies have stepped up their efforts to get him one. He’ll learn tomorrow if the campaign paid off. With the golden @michaelbirnbaum. https://t.co/maggV3bPbb
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@gtconway3d
George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸
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Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials. I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.
@samstein
Sam Stein
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The Journal reports that it was, indeed, an errant DM that Trump posted to Bondi, demanding the Comey indictment
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