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Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
Nu is het wachten op excuses van mevrouw Keijzer voor deze haatdragende tweet, nu bekend is dat slechts één van de 38 opvarenden asiel heeft aangevraagd.
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
PANIC IN MOSCOW: Russian military bloggers are spiraling as Ukraine launches its most aggressive and precise refinery-destruction campaign yet!
⚡ 3 of Russia’s LARGEST oil refineries hit in just 72 hours.
With Russian air defense stripped bare to cover the frontlines, Kremlin assets are sitting ducks. The reality is sinking in: the previous strikes were just a warmup. Ukraine is systematically dismantling Russia’s energy backbone, and Moscow is completely powerless to stop it.
🔥 The fire is spreading. The war has come home.
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
Hi @andreajenkyns, why did you delete the video of yourself with Paolo Zampoli talking about how you had just had lunch together?
Is it because you realised the House Judiciary Committee investigation stated he was “an active participant” in Jeffery Epstein's alleged sex trafficking?
Or was it that the FBI said he arranged a model’s visa before she was recruited to give a massage at Epstein’s house, where Epstein allegedly raped her?
Or is it the civil lawsuit he’s facing over the alleged drugging and raping of Victoria Drake?
And you think he’s “amazing”.
That’s a lot of promises you’re making there, Mayor.
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
I’d like to mention Mrs Thatcher warning about man-made climate change being a threat as big as nuclear war, not because I’m a fan of Mrs Thatcher, I can’t stand her, but I think it’s important that people on the right understand that climate change is not a left-wing conspiracy even though the fossil fuel propaganda says exactly that
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
To everyone sharing posts that blame Ukrainian refugees for everything:
A Kyiv Independent investigation found the rising hate against Ukrainians in Central Europe is a coordinated campaign.
You're not angry. You're being used.
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
The greed and entitlement of billionaires is a main reason why they shouldn’t exist.
Sam Altman says its bad that everyone's personal computers are using the world's limited supply of memory chips.
"It’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAMs sitting in their own computer, and being used 5% of the time. Like, you want maximum utilization."
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
cc: @jaredkushner you soulless fucking ghoul.
This is on you, motherfucker, and that goon monkey Witkoff, and your soon-to-be-wormmeat FIL.
I hope some Ukrainian dad finds you one day, you Putin whore.
A father screams in anguish beside the body of his dead daughter. Two 15-year-old girls were killed in a russian attack on the center of Chernihiv, Ukraine.
Dozens are injured, including four children aged 10, 16, and 17, and a 10-month-old baby girl.
Meanwhile, Trump has ordered Ukriane not to hit russian oil refineries, so that russia could make billions and build more rockets and drones to kill more Ukrainians.
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
In totaal kwamen er 66.000 inwoners bij door migratie. Dat zijn er 15.000 minder dan in dezelfde periode in 2025.
Op X krijg je de indruk dat migratie stijgt. Bron: CBS.
nu.nl/binnenland/6414828/bev…
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
Russia has finished using the civilians in Oleshky as human shields. They will now be relocated further into the occupied territories with this Administration’s blessing. Children will be vanished into Russia as gifts for oligarchs. Women who survive the rapes in the filtration camps will be sent to Siberia to work in military industries. Men will be shot if they have the slightest connection to the Ukrainian military, or if purely civilians, put into Russian prison camps to be tortured around the clock until they are eventually traded for well-fed, well-cared-for Russian POWs captured while committing war crimes in Ukraine.
Are you proud of your “humanitarian” work, @MELANIATRUMP @FLOTUS ? Will you sleep well in a soft bed knowing you looked serious and useful while the cameras were rolling?
If you do not personally learn the name and follow the path of every civilian removed from Oleshky by the Russian war criminals with whom your husband conspires — you will be just as guilty as he is.
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
THE MONEY TRAIL | RUSSIA → ALASKA
An American LNG project was marketed as strengthening U.S. energy security.
But behind the scenes, a sanctioned Russian energy giant was allegedly helping finance it.
Here's why that matters.
1. THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION
Polar LNG publicly planned to buy discounted equipment from Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project.
That wasn't the secret.
The revelation: According to reporting by the New York Times and Financial Times, Russian energy giant Novatek was also allegedly supplying financing through the venture's Abu Dhabi-based parent company.
Novatek acknowledged plans to become a minority shareholder.
2. THE MONEY AND THE INFLUENCE
Former CEO Joel Riddle says he discovered the money he believed came from the UAE actually originated with Novatek.
He alleges Russian influence over the venture's direction. Polar LNG disputes his account.
Messages reviewed by reporters discussed up to $15 million in financing.
How much was actually transferred, and what control it bought, remain unresolved.
3. THEN CAME THE SANCTIONS WAIVER
On October 16, Trump waived major provisions of the Graham Act imposing additional Russia-related sanctions.
The waiver did NOT automatically approve Polar LNG's transaction or eliminate existing sanctions.
But it removed additional statutory pressure that could have complicated Russian participation.
4. SO WHAT?
This is an American energy-security project potentially giving a sanctioned Russian company three advantages:
• A buyer for equipment from its sanctioned LNG project.
• A financing relationship with an American LNG developer.
• A prospective ownership stake in a U.S. export venture.
All while Washington claims to be using economic pressure against Russia.
The reporting does not establish that Trump intervened specifically to help this deal.
But the question is unavoidable:
Why is a sanctioned Russian energy giant positioned to gain from an American energy-security project while the White House is waiving additional Russia sanctions?
The equipment was public.
The alleged Russian financing wasn't.
That's the story.
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
Ik noemde ooit @Eerdmans een populistische plucheplakkende partijhopper vanwege het feit dat hij inmiddels aan zijn zevende club bezig is. Nu blijkt dat hij zelfs zijn zogenaamd principiële standpunt over abortus wil inwisselen voor het belastingplan. Tot zover vrouwenrechten.
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
These motherfuckers didn’t just screw over a Pope with cancer. The whole Oleshky story is a Putin information operation designed to save that old orange ass from electoral defeat.
Guys, this needs to become an atomic bomb for the bastards in the White House. If you haven’t written about it yet, share this post. As many people as possible need to know this story.
What I had previously only suspected on instinct has now been confirmed.
It turns out that the absurd “Melania Trump ceasefire” in Oleshky was literally Putin’s idea. He personally “very much wanted” Melania to act as mediator, her senior adviser Mark Beckman told the Kyiv Independent.
Well, you could have guessed that, and I did immediately. A person who can barely string two words together was hardly going to organize something like this better than the Pope.
More than that, Putin sent her a special letter saying that Russia officially recognized Melania as its “exclusive intermediary.”
Do you understand what that means?
Russia has occupied Oleshky for four and a half years, blocked the city, prevented humanitarian aid from getting in, and driven the remaining residents into an acute shortage of food and medicine.
And then Putin picks Trump’s wife as the person who will be allowed to “solve” the problem.
And he does it right before the elections, when Trump’s collapsing ratings desperately need saving. Trump, the politician who is now effectively helping Putin force Ukraine into capitulation.
The White House has already announced that it was Melania who “secured the ceasefire,” while four journalists from Newsmax, Trump’s pet TV network, have been sent to Oleshky as “neutral observers” to present the entire operation to an American audience in exactly the right light.
You can bet your ass they won’t just advertise the orange ape as the greatest humanitarian genius in human history. They’ll advertise Putin right alongside him.
John Foreman, the former British defense attaché in Moscow and Kyiv, is calling this exactly what it is: a deliberate Kremlin operation. “They know exactly what they’re doing.” According to him, allowing Melania to take credit for the ceasefire gives Russia a way to present the Trumps to the MAGA audience as peacemakers immediately before the midterms.
In other words, Moscow first creates a humanitarian catastrophe, then allows the family of the U.S. president to stage a spectacular “rescue” of that catastrophe in order to save themselves from political disaster.
Fuck, I genuinely don’t have enough words to express how unbelievably vile and disgusting this is. I’m choking on the hatred of it.
They have turned one of the largest man-made humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st century into a fucking medal pinned to an orange ass.
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
Talk to associations, contact the @EUCouncil , ask MEPs like @repasi , @AxelVossMdEP to get @EP_Legal @Europarl_EN to respect Europeans’will : a notary-free EU Inc.
We’d love to see @EU_Competition fight with the same energy it has against big tech the notary monopoly its own reports consider in complete breach EU treaties.
What antitrust doing?!!
Expose our politicians and ask them why they go against their citizens’ will on this. Europeans want to be free.
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
Google has specifically prevented its AI tool from telling users who won the 2020 presidential election, even though it happily tells us that Trump won in 2016 and 2024. This sort of political intervention into LLM responses is deeply problematic. (h/t to Charles Mann)
Bas Kousemaker (he/him) retweeted
Vraag dag 39
hoeveel mensen zijn er in beeld of opgepakt vanwege de staven op het spoor? @ministerjenv
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