Wij kennen minister Boekholt-O'Sullivan (D66) van Volkshuisvesting hier inmiddels van het verzinnen van een raar verhaal over douchemuntjes, erover liegen dat ze het ooit gehad heeft over die douchemuntjes, en van op camera HELEMAAL NIKS zeggen als haar een normale vraag wordt gesteld. Maar klokkenluider Victor van Wulfen, die kent minister Boekholt-O'Sullivan al veeeeeel langer. Zij was namelijk de baas op vliegbasis Eindhoven toen Van Wulfen met nep-psychologische rapporten werd weggepest omdat hij te kritisch was. In bananenrepubliek Nederland werd Boekholt-O'Sullivan vervolgend opgevolgd door Harold Boekholt, wat niet haar broer is maar haar echtgenoot. Van Wulfen strijdt nog steeds voor eerherstel en wil onder meer inzicht in de 1700 (!) mails die Boekholt over hem verzameld zou hebben. Vandaag vraagt DNA-Kamerlid Tamara ten Hove aan minister Yesilgöz om antwoord op allemaal hele logische vragen (zie video hierboven), maar zij kan die allemaal niet geven, naar eigen zeggen omdat de zaak onder de rechter ligt (zie video hieronder). JA MAAR WIE ZIJN SCHULD IS DAT YESILGĂZ, VRAAG DAT EENS AAN JE COLLEGA OP VOLKSHUISVESTING.Â
PMâs demise after landslide victory two years ago points to an increasingly volatile and impatient electorate
Historians will puzzle over this one. Of the six prime ministers that have led Britain over the last decade, with a seventh now on the way, it will be the fall of Keir Starmer that will most perplex the political analysts of the future.
They will ponder a man who won a landslide victory in July 2024 only to be pushed out less than two years later, having started no illegal wars, having triggered no grave economic crises, having been accused of no scandalous act of corruption.
Miguel AlmirĂłnâs dismissal was unusual but thereâs nothing new about players losing their cool on the biggest stage
After a fairly pedestrian first half of the opening match of the 2026 World Cup, the game burst into life in the second period. South Africa midfielder Sphephelo Sithole, who had been at fault for Mexicoâs opening goal, compounded his error by being sent off in the 49th minute for denying a goalscoring opportunity. When Themba Zwane was dismissed, South Africa became the 15th team to have two players sent off in the same World Cup match.
How spells of hot weather put us in danger and what measures we can take to protect ourselves
Heatwaves have grown hotter and stronger as the planet has warmed, making what doctors call a âsilent killerâ even more dangerous. How worried should we be about heat â and how can we stay safe as the climate changes?
After my separationmy world became tiny and my dependence on the online world grew. The internet told me women were to blame, and I started to believe it
In 2024, after the breakdown of my marriage, I came dangerously close to falling down the manosphere pipeline. As someone who has become something of a public advocate for healthy masculinities and inclusion, this is not something I find easy to admit or write about. I struggle to reconcile that version of myself, as recent as two years ago, with the man I am today and the values I so strongly believe in. But I also believe itâs important we tell these stories, both to examine how men can find their way into these spaces and how they can find their way out.
The term âmanosphereâ might seem like a bit of a buzzword, a fringe ideology that exists in dark corners of the internet. We need to recognise that it is far more widespread than that. A 2022 survey by The Man Cave found that a quarter of young Australian men saw Andrew Tate as a role model, and 36% found him relatable. Subsequent studies have found the movement is on the rise, both here and overseas.
Board members of a small township in Michigan agreed to “fight to our very last breath” against an AI data center planned in their community. America’s nuclear scientists and the University of Michigan want to build a massive data center in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan. If built, the data center will, among other things, run simulations to help America build nuclear weapons.
The residents of Ypsilanti Township overwhelmingly oppose the construction of the data center and voiced their opposition to the computer warehouse during a public board meeting on June 16. In a show of support that’s often rare from local leaders in communities with data centers, Ypsilanti Township’s board vowed to fight UofM and Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is partnering with the university, with everything they had.
Throughout most of the three hour board meeting, a photograph from a data center groundbreaking in nearby Saline Township was projected onto a wall behind the board. The photo showed a grinning Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer standing in line with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk. It was taken at the June 1 groundbreaking of an Oracle and OpenAI data center in nearby Saline Township, one of several Stargate projects. Saline Township is a community of only 2,300 people and the fight against the data center was so contentious that the Township treasurer resigned in tears during a public meeting in May.
During the groundbreaking, a videographer caught Whitmer talking with Magouyrk. In the video Whitmer appeared to tell the billionaire, “We’re used to people saying no, and doing it anyway.” Whitmer’s office has officially denied she said that, but many of the residents of Michigan—including the people of Ypsilanti Township—believe she did.
Governor Whitmer had a hot mic moment at the Saline Data Center groundbreaking, where she tells Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, “We’re used to people saying f*ck no, and doing it anyway.” I’m old enough to remember when she doxxed Marshall constituents who opposed her BlueOval project. pic.twitter.com/PRFnjGY5l9
Cilla Cresswell shot the video of Whitmer and was present at the Ypsilanti Township board meeting on Tuesday. “On June 1 I was standing just to the left, right there,” Creswell said, referring to the photo that loomed behind the board during the meeting. “I was there. I recorded that clip [… ] I was right there. And they want to say it’s fake, but I just want to let you guys know it’s real. You can play it on my camera.”
Members of the board and the community referenced the photograph often during the meeting. “You have people in that photograph worth billions of dollars. Not just millions, we’re talking trillions. Soon to be trillionaires. Yet this state, in its zeal to become the data capital of the country, has extended unprecedented tax credits to the richest corporations in the world,” Douglas Winters, a lawyer representing Ypsilanti Township, said in the meeting.
“Having to stare at this picture during this meeting has my blood boiling,” said Ypsi resident Laura Witowski. “I did not realize how emotional I would be. The waste of space. The complete lack of regard for humans and animals and for what?”
During the hours of community comments, residents stepped forward to voice complaints that have now become common about data centers in America. The people of Ypsilanti Township worried about the rising cost of electricity, how much water the building will use, and how noisy the data center would be once finished.
They also called on the Township board to do everything in their power to stop it from even being built. “Put yourselves on the line. Those people will listen to you better than they will listen to us. Please put yourselves, your jobs, and your comfort on the line to stop this for us,” Ypsi resident Jane Wolf said. “Get creative. Tear up the road. Block the road. Break the law. Do whatever you need to do for us. You will be remembered better in history for the job that you did if you can get creative and really put yourselves out there.”
Jill Warren, the wife of a Methodist pastor, suggested residents brush up on the OSS’ Simple Sabotage Field Manual. “Simply slow things down bureaucratically," she said. “Make sure we block where we can. Use very slow agendas and response times and do, within your power, the work that you are entitled to do. For those who aren’t familiar with it, please look up the Simple Sabotage Field Manual and use it in your own lives of action as well [...] they may not care about us, but we care about us and we’re here and we’ll continue to be here and support the work that you’re doing on our behalf.”
Alyssa, an Ypsilanti resident, cited long passages from John Hershey’s Hiroshima—a 1946 book that focused on the victims of the first atomic bombing. “We don’t need simulations to know what a nuclear strike looks like,” she said. “We have pictures, videos, and audio of what happens. We know what it does to bodies. We know what it does to children and what it does to life.”
Board supervisor Brend Stumbo vowed to fight. “This is going to harm our community in our future. We will fight to our very last breath, but we need help. And we need it from the people who have the power to stop things,” she said.
Stumbo explained that, early on, she and other members of the board were ignorant about data centers and that she was grateful to the Township’s residents for informing her. “Now we know and we’re thankful for the residents and non-residents that came to our meetings early and told us, ‘don’t trust UofM,’” she said. “We do not love nor do we appreciate what the board or regents is doing to our community. It needs to stop. And everyone that showed up here today, we greatly appreciate it and we will keep going, like everyone has said, by doing it together […] I will stand with you. I will fight with you. And I know this entire board and our Township attorney will as well. So let’s keep doing it together.”
The Township has, so far, made good on its word and it’s been creative in its opposition. In April, the board voted to institute a 365 day moratorium on supplying water to data centers so it could conduct a scientific study into how hyper scale data centers might affect the community water supply. In response, UofM threatened to sue and claimed that withholding water from an AI data center meant to power nuclear weapons research was unlawful discrimination.
Ook bij hoge temperaturen gaan de werkzaamheden van Rijkswaterstaat onverminderd door. Niet alleen op de A27 wordt in de nachtelijke uren gewerkt, ook op de A16, A24 en A29. Het verkeer moet rekening houden met afsluitingen en omleidingen.
Are You in the Weights? “LLMs encode their knowledge and reasoning through billions of numbers called ‘the weights.’ ‘In the weights’ means that a model is able to recall someone without using tools like web search.”
For Willie Cole, the convergence of material and concept are as important as emotional and even spiritual links to history. Whether repurposing salvaged musical instruments, creating enigmatic visages from stacked stilettos, or arranging hundreds of single-use plastic bottles across a surface, his imaginative sculptural assemblages tap into a range of global traditions, eras, and social and environmental issues.
Cole explores our associations with physical objects by removing them from the context within which we’re accustomed to encountering them. Time-honored African masking traditions and figurative sculptures made of high heels meet modern symbols of labor and culture, such as repeated ironing board motifs or a handful of saxophones that have been reimagined as a bird.
“Tiger Lilly” (2025), repurposed shoes and wire, 19 x 18 x 13 inches
Mind, Body, and Soul, Cole’s current solo exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters, combines new works with pieces made throughout the past couple of decades. The selection emphasizes the artist’s interest in reframing and enriching everyday objects into assemblages of cultural significance.
“His practice transcends specific media or subject matter, moving fluidly across genres and iconographies to explore history, consumerism, and environmentalism,” the gallery says. In the era of fast fashion, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and an accelerating climate crisis, consumable and disposable objects contrast how we value our history and customs.
Mind, Body, and Soul continues through July 10 in New York. See more on the artist’s Instagram.
“Fly Girl” (2016), repurposed shoes and wire, 18 x 12 x 14 inchesAlternate view of “Fly Girl”“Summer Shoes” (2025), silkscreen print, 21 x 27 inches“Shoonufu Female Figure” (2013), bronze, 25 x 9.5 x 13 inches“Survivors Series I (Wall Assemblages)” (2026) water bottles on board, 96 x 48 inchesDetail of “Survivors Series I (Wall Assemblages)”“Twin Spirits” (2026), repurposed shoes and wire, 27 x 12 x 11 inchea
WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - De Verenigde Staten hebben maandag aangekondigd bepaalde sancties tegen Iran tijdelijk op te schorten. Daardoor kan de Islamitische Republiek tot en met 21 augustus ruwe olie en aanverwante producten produceren, verkopen en leveren.
De Amerikaanse minister van Financiën Scott Bessent verwees daarbij naar de toezegging van Teheran in de lopende onderhandelingen om te zorgen voor "vrije en open doorvaart" door de Straat van Hormuz. Teheran heeft daarnaast toegezegd inspecteurs van het Internationaal Atoomenergieagentschap toegang te geven tot het land.
De Amerikaanse vicepresident JD Vance heeft eerder gezegd dat de Straat van Hormuz weer geopend wordt.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Voormalig minister Ingrid van Engelshoven van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap weet niet meer wat de reden was om het onderwijs wekenlang te sluiten in december 2020. Tegen de parlementaire enquĂȘtecommissie corona zei ze dat ze "de exacte pakketten niet meer helder voor de geest" heeft.
Het commissielid hield Van Engelshoven ook voor dat onder meer topambtenaren en toenmalig zorgminister Hugo de Jonge in het najaar van 2020 nog zeiden dat de scholen niet weer gesloten moesten worden. "Kennelijk kwamen we toen tot de slotsom dat dit dan nodig was", zei Van Engelshoven.
Maatregelen slecht nageleefd
Na doorvragen van Poortman begon de oud-minister over de afweging van het sluiten van de scholen in 2021. Ze had niet door dat het over een ander besluit ging, tot ze daar door Poortman op werd gewezen.
In een volgende poging om tot de reden te komen, wees commissielid Annelotte Lammers Van Engelshoven erop dat zij twee maanden terug een brief ontving waarin stond dat het tijdens haar verhoor over de schoolsluitingen zou gaan. Ondanks deze voorbereidingstijd bleef de oud-minister twijfelachtig over het waarom van de maatregel. "Volgens mij was het reduceren van bewegingen doorslaggevend", zei ze na aandringen van Lammers.
Later zei Van Engelshoven dat het ook niet meehielp dat andere maatregelen in het najaar slecht werden nageleefd. "Als je ziet tot wat voor maatregelen dat leidt, dan is zeer te betreuren dat mensen toch die vrijheid namen", zei Van Engelshoven nog.
Maandag klonk uit Zwitserland voorzichtig optimisme over de gesprekken tussen Iran en de VS. Volgens de Amerikaanse hoofdonderhandelaar JD Vance is ondanks âeen beetje dreigenâ grote vooruitgang geboekt.
Driehonderdduizend mensen in Nederland hebben dementie en in 2040 mogelijk zelfs een half miljoen. Steeds meer gemeenten streven naar âdementievriendelijkeâ wijken en buurthuizen. Met aandacht voor de kleur van het deurkozijn en het lichtknopje op het toilet.
The Botten + Bowser Mural: A striking diptych created by local street artist Lisa King on the wall of the Botten + Bowser development (near the corner of Jerningham and Melbourne Streets). This massive piece depicts the historical brother and sister, Phineas and Mary Botten, who shaped the early days of the area.
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