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Terwijl de linkse revolutie zichzelf en haar kinderen opvreet via BOOS-podcasts, essays en Instagram-posts over dat witte arbeiders eigenlijk vooral zwarte mensen willen lynchen, heeft de Socialistische Partij dé manier gevonden om de WERKENDE KLASSE te mobiliseren: met een festival. Niet zomaar een festival, een GRATIS festival dat ook nog eens voor GELIJKHEID is. Dapper, want het allerbeste politieke festival ooit (Elsfest) heeft al plaatsgevonden en de allerbeste SP-gezinde muzikant ooit (Bob Fosko) is dood. Toch belooft het iets te worden. Het festival biedt zowel een inhoudelijk programma met onder andere Jimmy Dijk en ene @allian.p (bekend van outfits van kabinetsleden reeten op TikTok) als een muziekprogramma met bandjes die het kapitalisme aanvallen met 'hypervrolijke meezingers, pompende beats en funky basslines waardoor je de dansvloer opgesleurd word'. Grutjes. Voor wie ervan houdt om op een heerlijke nazomerse middag te luisteren naar donderpreken over hoe kudt de wereld is en te swingen op deuntjes over hoe kudt de wereld is: ga 5 september naar het Nelson Mandelapark in Haarlem. KAARTEN HIER.

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Mykhailo Fedorov’s blistering critique comes at a time of growing pressure for democratic renewal in Ukraine

For more than a month, demonstrators have gathered in Ivan Franko Square outside Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office. The protesters have been chanting a name – not that of Ukraine’s embattled president but that of the man he recently sacked as defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov. On Sunday evening, 2,000 people marched along Khreshchatyk, Kyiv’s main boulevard, waving cardboard banners in support of their ousted hero.

Zelenskyy has refused to reinstate Fedorov, who during his six months in the job was widely seen as an effective and reforming figure. On Wednesday, Ukraine’s parliament, the Rada, voted to approve a successor as defence minister, Yevhen Khmara. The move shows that Fedorov has been shut out from government permanently, and confirms his transition from trusted insider and Zelenskyy loyalist to a potent political opponent.

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Scotland’s Thea Musgrave is still writing radical music with perambulatory soloists and a message of hopefulness. Her latest work, for bassoonist Amy Harman, comes to the Proms this weekend

Thea Musgrave is a phenomenon. Born in Scotland in 1928, the composer has lived in the US since the early 70s, but has lost none of her accent, her infectious optimism, and her drive to keep writing. As she told me from her home in California, with a joyfully rolling laugh, “I’ve got to this age, and from now on I’m going to do what the fuck I want to do”. That includes her latest opera, on Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando – Orlando: An Escapade – which will premiere at the Buxton festival next year, and a new bassoon concerto for Amy Harman, Out of the Darkness, which you can hear at the Proms this weekend, on 23 August.

The bassoon concerto develops one of the central innovations of Musgrave’s life and career, which she’s still intensifying and exploring in her 99th year: what she calls her “dramatic-abstract” approach to her orchestral compositions, in which the players aren’t a single collective told what to do by a conductor’s gestures, but instead are released as individual characters and identities.

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Republican James Comer writes to private equity investor demanding full cooperation with investigation

The Republican chairman of the House oversight committee has threatened to hold the private equity investor Leon Black in contempt if he does not fully cooperate with the panel’s ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, amid accusations that the billionaire is purposely delaying and disrupting the panel’s inquiry.

A letter released by Representative James Comer’s office on Tuesday, which was addressed to Black’s lawyer, revealed new details about the high-stakes clash between the powerful Kentucky congressman and Black, the co-founder of Apollo Asset Management who was Epstein’s friend and former client and paid Epstein tens of millions of dollars in fees.

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Senator Jon Ossoff, who is up for re-election, came up with arguably the standout line of the midterm elections so far

Hello there,

Jon Ossoff really struck a nerve. That much is clear.

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Arturo Béjar, former Meta safety engineer, tells jury tech company was aware of products’ potential harm to children

Meta has taken a “don’t ask, don’t tell” strategy when it comes to the safety of children on its social media platforms, according to a whistleblower who testified during a landmark trial against the company on Tuesday. He is slated to continue his testimony on Wednesday.

Arturo Béjar, a former Meta safety engineer, told the jury that the company was aware of the harm its products caused children, which included its recommendations pushing content from sexual predators and violent and graphic images. He said he repeatedly raised the issue to various Facebook and Instagram executives but that they did little to resolve it.

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• Midfielder has been a target for Italians since January

• Jones in the final year of his contract at Anfield

Inter are in talks with Liverpool over a deal for Curtis Jones, with the 25-year-old expected to leave his boyhood club should the Italian champions offer around £30m. Jones has been a target for Inter since January and was the subject of a failed €25m bid from them in June.

Liverpool valued their homegrown midfielder closer to €40m, but with Jones in the final year of his contract, and no sign of an agreement over an extension, that figure is unlikely to be reached.

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25-year-old band Demon Hunter says name of streamer’s hit movie creates ‘substantial confusion’ among consumers

Christian metal band Demon Hunter is suing Netflix, accusing the entertainment giant of trademark infringement and unfair competition tied to the blockbuster “KPop Demon Hunters” name.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday by Hyde Lane, the company behind Demon Hunter, and alleges that Netflix Studios and concert promoter AEG Presents have created “substantial confusion” among consumers.

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De politie rukt met groot materieel uit op de Coolsingel in Rotterdam op 1 februari 2026. Achter een brommobiel zit een man die met een lap stof gasflessen en jerrycans aan elkaar knoopt. In zijn hand een aansteker. “Ik ben even een bommetje aan het maken.”

ASSEN (ANP) - Geen van de twaalf Drentse gemeenten heeft woensdag een handtekening gezet onder een protestbrief van boeren. Dat laat de organisatie weten en op één gemeente na bevestigen de colleges dat aan het ANP. In de brief vroegen boeren de gemeenten om steun en politieke actie tegen de stikstofplannen van het kabinet.

Actievoerders trokken vanaf 09.00 uur in drie lange stoeten trekkers met omgekeerde vlaggen en protestborden door de provincie langs alle gemeentehuizen. Inmiddels zijn ze met honderden aangekomen bij het eindpunt, het provinciehuis in Assen.

Agnes Mulder, de Drentse commissaris van de Koning, ontving hen en sprak ze vanaf het podium toe. Ze verwees daarbij naar het programma Toekomstgericht Landelijk Gebied Drenthe dat onlangs door de Provinciale Staten is vastgesteld. Een dergelijk "democratisch besluit" kan volgens Mulder "niet zomaar van tafel", maar ze nodigt de boeren uit om binnen de kaders van dat plan mee te praten. Tijdens het spreken werd ze regelmatig overstemd door nog binnenrijdende, toeterende boeren.