De ene BBB’er, in de Eerste Kamer lijkt niets te moeten hebben van aandacht. De andere BBB’er, in de Tweede Kamer, weet precies hoe je dat doet: op tv komen, op dinsdag.

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鹿児島県鹿屋市、ダマスクの風 / Kanoya City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Damask Wind

De hockeyers van Rotterdam zijn voor het eerst sinds 2013 landskampioen. Dankzij een doelpunt met nog iets meer dan één minuut te spelen versloegen de Rotterdammers titelverdediger Amsterdam over twee duels met 5-4.

A well-handled story can galvanize people into righting wrongs and fighting for justice. But a lot of true crime content is just a cheap bid for clicks that retraumatizes people who are already reeling. From My Life as a True Crime Spectacle [Toronto Life; ungated] [CW: abuse, murder]

Mr Mikage (ミスター御影） posted a photo:

Strongly anti-Turkish party doubles its seats although mainstream parties did not see vote crumble as predicted

An anti-immigrant far-right party, inspired by Greece’s defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, made the biggest gains in Sunday’s parliamentary election in Cyprus.

Elam, the Greek National People’s Front, which has pushed for the closure of checkpoints on the ethnically split island and is vociferously anti-Turkish, doubled its seats in the 56-member legislature after securing 10.9 % of the vote.

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Deciding who can come along to your big day is always a sensitive issue. But Tay-Tay may have known what she was doing when she banned a singleton from bringing a friend

Name: Plus-ones.

Age: Bringing a partner along has been going on a while, possibly since Noah invited a pair of every animal on board the ark …

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We saw it when Russia jailed members of Pussy Riot, and again when the US overturned Roe v Wade: misogyny is a powerful political weapon. Let’s focus on fighting it, not ‘understanding’ it

In preparation for interviewing Pussy Riot’s Maria “Masha” Alyokhina at the Charleston festival, I was reading her new memoir, Political Girl. I thought I remembered the group’s origin story pretty well – in 2012, they performed their anthem, Punk Prayer (Virgin Mary Banish Putin), and two band members were imprisoned for two years in a penal colony, then released slightly early in order to sanitise the country’s reputation before the Sochi Olympics in 2014. Upon release, they immediately went on to protest at those Olympics, the courage of which is jaw-dropping.

That was missing a few key details: Alyokhina had never even been detained for an act of protest when she was arrested, strip-searched and jailed for this. We weren’t looking at a thin-skinned but otherwise democratic government, overreacting in the way that young democracies sometimes do. The detention of Pussy Riot signalled a significant shift towards the aggressive authoritarianism that is now self-evident, and, in those early days, was expressed and mobilised through misogynistic, patriarchal values-setting built on Christian nationalist foundations. At their trial, one lawyer argued that “feminism is a mortal sin”. Alyokhina was pilloried for being a bad mother (her son was four when she was imprisoned). If Pussy Riot weren’t on trial for being women per se, certainly their cultural act of defiance was immeasurably worsened by the fact that they weren’t men.

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Russia said at least 21 people were killed in the overnight strike on a college dormitory, while Ukraine denied targeting civilians.

Isack Hadjar recorded his best Grand Prix finish of the season in Canada, coming home fifth for Red Bull just behind Charles Leclerc. But the result does not tell the full story of a chaotic race that included two penalties that cost the Frenchman a huge chunk of time.