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Door de populariteit van de warmtepomp komt in verschillende Nederlandse steden de aanleg van een warmtenet in gevaar. De Algemene Rekenkamer roept het kabinet daarom op om kritischer te kijken naar subsidies voor huiseigenaren die een warmtepomp willen installeren.

(Bra2ha) (2025)

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This is a narrative I've been seeing crop up in some radlib places. Is it at all true? I thought the US backed SA pretty extensively mostly. Anyone have any good sources on this claim?

The narrative is that Musk has some long term grudge with USAID over this.

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The 50501 Movement, organizing protests against the Trump administration in all 50 state capitols, has partnered with Political Revolution, a group initially supporting Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign.

This collaboration is expected to expand outreach and coordination. Protests follow recent demonstrations against Trump's deportation policies.

Organizers report threats from MAGA groups but emphasize the importance of constitutional rights. Analysts see Wednesday’s demonstrations as a key test of the movement's reach.

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A study found that TikTok’s recommendation algorithm favored Republican-leaning content during the 2024 U.S. presidential race.

TikTok, with over a billion active users worldwide, has become a key source of news, particularly for younger audiences.

Using 323 simulated accounts, researchers discovered that Republican-leaning users received 11.8% more aligned content than Democratic-leaning users, who were exposed to more opposing viewpoints.

The bias was largely driven by negative partisanship, with more anti-Democratic content recommended.

My Experience Using Prolog in 2024 to Solve Advent of Code

https://camsaul.com/prolog/advent-of-code/2025/02/04/advent-of-code-prolog.html

This was my first year doing Advent of Code. Previous years I had other stuff I wanted to do with my free time besides sit at a computer even more than I already do… after seeing some of my coworkers post epic solutions I got FOMO and joined the...

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Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that media self-censorship and legal intimidation from Trump pose a major threat to press freedom.

He criticized CBS for reportedly considering a settlement in Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over a "60 Minutes" interview and ABC for paying $15 million to settle Trump-related defamation claims.

Sanders also condemned Trump’s lawsuit against a pollster for unfavorable election polling.

Media owners have faced scrutiny for restricting anti-Trump coverage, fueling concerns that press freedoms are eroding even before any government crackdown.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-gsa-terminate-office-leases-f8faac5e2038722f705587c8dd21ab26

Last week, regional managers for the General Services Administration, or GSA, received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, according to an email shared with The Associated Press by a GSA employee.

The order seems to contradict Trump’s own return-to-office mandate for federal employees, adding confusion to what was already a scramble by the GSA to find workspace, internet connections and office building security credentials for employees who had been working remotely for years.

But it may reflect the Trump administration’s belief that it won’t need as many offices due to its efforts to fire employees or encourage them to resign.

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The United States has frozen its financial contributions to a multinational security support mission in Haiti, a United Nations spokesperson said on Tuesday, a move that would stop $13.3 million in pending aid.

"We received an official notification from the US asking for an immediate stop work order on their contribution to the multinational security support force," said Stephane Dujarric, the UN secretary-general's spokesperson, referring to the already underfunded Kenya-led force.

The UN Security Council gave the green light in October 2023 to the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission designed to support Haiti's authorities in their fight against criminal gangs, which control swaths of the country.

Washington's funding freeze comes as part of newly elected President Donald Trump's push to slash US overseas aid, a drive that has included an effort to shutter the operations of the government's main aid agency, USAID.

In late January, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that Haiti's capital could become overrun by gangs if the international community does not step up aid to the security mission.

More money, equipment and personnel are needed for the international force, Guterres said, adding that any further delays risk the "catastrophic" collapse of Haiti's security institutions and "could allow gangs to overrun the entire metropolitan area" of the capital Port-au-Prince.

Haiti's Foreign Minister Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste, speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council, has said that the country faced "major difficulties" that threaten not just the population but also "the very survival of the state."

The MSS is not a UN force, but the UN has set up a voluntary fund to finance it, which has raised $110 million to date, an amount that has been deemed largely insufficient.

Just under 800 of the 2,500 security personnel hoped for have been deployed.

The United States had committed $15 million to the fund -- the second-largest contribution, after Canada's $63 million -- with $1.7 million already disbursed.

Haiti currently has no president or parliament and is ruled by a transitional body, which is struggling to manage extreme violence linked to criminal gangs, poverty and other challenges.