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Chuck DarwinIn February, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marc</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Andreessen</a> described the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chatham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chatham</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#House</a> group chats to the podcaster <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lex</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fridman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fridman</a> as “the equivalent of [Soviet era] <a href="https://c.im/tags/samizdat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#samizdat</a>” “The combination of encryption and disappearing messages really unleashed it,” he said. The chats, he wrote recently, helped produce our national “vibe shift.” They have rarely been discussed in public, though you can catch the occasional mention in, for instance, a podcast debate between <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mark</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cuban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cuban</a> and the Republican entrepreneur <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vivek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vivek</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a>, which started in a chat.But they are made visible through a group consensus on social media. Their effects have ranged from the mainstreaming of the monarchist pundit <a href="https://c.im/tags/Curtis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Curtis</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yarvin</a> to a particularly focused and developed dislike of the former Washington Post writer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Taylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taylor</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lorenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lorenz</a>.They succeeded at avoiding leaks (until, to a modest extent, this article) in part because of Signal’s and WhatsApp’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/disappearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disappearing</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/message" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#message</a> features, and in part because the groups had formed out of a mix of fear and disdain for journalists they believed were “out to get us,” as one member put it. “People during 2020 felt that there was a monoculture on social media, and if they didn’t agree with something, group chats became a safe space to debate that, share that, build consensus, feel that you’re not alone,” said <a href="https://c.im/tags/Erik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Erik</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Torenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Torenberg</a>, an entrepreneur who was the first employee of the tech community hub Product Hunt. As <a href="https://c.im/tags/Krishnan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Krishnan</a> was setting up a set of tech group WhatsApp chats at a16z, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Torenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Torenberg</a> independently founded a group of tech chats on WhatsApp and some more political Signal chats.“They’re having all the private conversations because they weren’t allowed to have the public conversations,” Andreessen told Torenberg on a recent podcast, after claiming in the name of secrecy that he’d never heard of such groups. “If it wasn’t for the censorship all of these conversations would have happened in public, which would have been much better.” Their creations took off: “It might not seem like it, because of all the sh*t that people still post on X, but the internet has fragmented,” the Substack author <a href="https://c.im/tags/Noah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Noah</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Smith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smith</a> wrote after my inquiries for this story spilled into public Saturday. “Group chats are now where everything important and interesting happens.”<a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america</a>

Bytes EuropeMenendez brothers’ attorneys say politics is getting in the way of their release <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/884550/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.byteseu.com/884550/</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/attorney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#attorney</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Crime</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/decade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decade</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DefenseTeam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DefenseTeam</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/erik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#erik</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GeorgeGasc%C3%B3n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeorgeGascón</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/hochman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hochman</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LyleMenendez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LyleMenendez</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MenendezBrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MenendezBrother</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Motion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Motion</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewTrial</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prison</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/release" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#release</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ShotgunMurder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShotgunMurder</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/year" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#year</a>

RTL Nieuws𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗸 𝗣𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲Erik Per Sullivan is de enige acteur die niet terugkeert in de aanstaande reboot van de tv-serie Malcolm in the Middle. De 33-jarige Amerikaan, die in de originele serie Malcoms jongere broertje Dewey speelde, stopte volgens Variety na het einde van de serie in 2006 met acteren.<a href="https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5501194/erik-sullivan-als-enige-niet-reboot-malcolm-middle" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5501194/erik-sullivan-als-enige-niet-reboot-malcolm-middle</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Erik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Erik</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Malcolm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Malcolm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reboot</a>

Chuck DarwinLast year, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Erik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Erik</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Prince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prince</a> said, “it’s time for us to just put the imperial hat back on to say we’re gonna govern those countries if they are incapable of governing themselves *** You can say that about pretty much all of Africa.” He then agrees that he’s talking about being a “colonialist.” 1/ @jennycohn <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lgmikmbfuc2h" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3lgmikmbfuc2h</a>

RTL Nieuws𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗸 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗜𝗣𝗦 𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗷𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘄 𝘀𝗲𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹Het zevende seizoen van het populaire programma 'Dream School' staat op het punt van beginnen. Omroep NTR heeft de allereerste beelden gedeeld en daarin gaat het er meteen verhit aan toe. Erik Wegewijs, bekend van 'Special Forces VIPS', zet een...<a href="https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment/artikel/5489455/erik-special-forces-vips-brutale-leerling-standje-dream" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment/artikel/5489455/erik-special-forces-vips-brutale-leerling-standje-dream</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Erik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Erik</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpecialForces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpecialForces</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DreamSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DreamSchool</a>

Chuck DarwinSecrecy begets secrecy. In January, a very special two-day meeting was set up by officials of the United Arab Emirates between a Russian contact said to be close to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vladimir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vladimir</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Erik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Erik</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Prince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prince</a>, who was reportedly acting as “an unofficial envoy” for Trump, in the Seychelles Islands, another “secrecy jurisdiction” —and one in which the UAE wields a great deal of influence. (A spokesperson for Prince denied that he acted on Trump’s behalf, and White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that Prince had nothing to do with the Trump transition team.) The Washington Post reports that the meeting took place about ten days before Trump’s 2017 inauguration. Prince was a big donor to the Trump campaign, coughing up $250,000 for pro-Trump organizations during the election —among them a political action committee helmed by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rebekah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rebekah</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mercer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercer</a>.In keeping with its role as a hider of rich people’s money, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Barry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Faure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Faure</a>, the Seychelles secretary of state for foreign affairs, told the Post that it’s a great place to have a secret assignation away from the media’s prying eyes; in fact, it’s a selling point in the tourist board’s promotional materials, he said.

Chuck DarwinThe wealth of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Betsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Betsy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeVos</a>, by contrast, comes from a simpler operation: the marketing of what some have called a pyramid scheme that goes by the brand name <a href="https://c.im/tags/Amway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amway</a>. Founded by her father-in-law in 1959, Amway distributes home products like dish soap and cosmetics through a network of home-based sellers who are pressured to recruit more sellers in order to earn a bonus on the amount of product the distributor would then sell wholesale to the recruit. That recruit would also be a distributor, looking for recruits of his or her own, in order to sell more products wholesale in order to get that bonus. Note the emphasis on recruitment and bonuses rather than the direct-selling to retail customers, who, in the end, were the ones for whom Amway products were ostensibly intended.In the business press, Amway is often described as a “multilevel marketing company.” In the 1970s, the Federal Trade Commission described its business model as an “inherent fraud,” as historian Rick Perlstein reported in The Nation, and tried to shut the company down. The FTC failed in that effort, but did issue orders in 1979 slapping Amway for price-fixing and misrepresenting the kind of money distributors could expect to make. In fact, Amway was made to tell distributors that they could wind up losing money.Three decades later, in 2010, a class action lawsuit by former sellers (um, “distributors”) alleging Amway’s engagement in an “illegal scheme” was settled out of court. According to USA Today, Amway agreed to pay $55 million to former distributors, closely oversee high-level distributors who run training businesses, strengthen refund policies and make other changes estimated to cost an additional $100 million.In Forbes’ 2016 listing of “America’s Largest Private Companies,” Amway clocks in at number twenty-nine.The education secretary, née Elisabeth Prince, did not come into the DeVos family empty-handed. Her own family of origin, while not as wealthy as her husband’s, was quite well-to-do through her father’s enterprise, 💥Prince Corporation💥, itself a privately held company until Johnson Controls bought it for $1.3 billion in cash in 1996. Founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Edgar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Edgar</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Prince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prince</a>, seeking to change the political culture to more closely resemble his own heartless Calvinism, donated, according to Zack Stanton of Politico, “millions in seed funding to launch the 💥Family Research Council,” the right-wing organization that represents and organizes politically conservative evangelical Christians, and was famously designated an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Prince’s son, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Erik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Erik</a>, used his windfall to found <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blackwater</a>, the military contractor that went on to infamy when, in 2007, its mercenaries gunned down civilians in a Baghdad city square. Four Blackwater contractors were convicted in 2014 of killing fourteen unarmed Iraqis “in what prosecutors called a wartime atrocity,” according to the New York Times. Blackwater, since sold and renamed <a href="https://c.im/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academi</a>, was also privately held. It enjoyed more than $1 billion in government contracts. In 2010, according to the Washington Post, Prince moved to the United Arab Emirates “amid mounting legal problems for his American business.”Both the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mercers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercers</a> and the <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeVoses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeVoses</a> pour millions into the political system. You can bet they plan to run the country the same way they have run their companies: using shell games and pyramid schemes, fraud and shakedown.According to The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robert</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mercer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercer</a> “gave $22.5 million in disclosed donations to Republican candidates and to political-action committees” to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. And that doesn’t include possible donations to nonprofit advocacy groups, now allowed, since the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, to conduct advertising for and against political candidates. But unlike PACs, these nonprofits —classified as “social welfare” groups —are not required to disclose their donors.Politico’s Stanton reports that Betsy and Dick DeVos pretty much own Michigan politics, having spent “at least $100 million on political campaigns and causes over the past 20 years.” The DeVoses used political giving and influence to cut funding to public schools and pave the way for a large influx of charter schools, and to see Michigan, home to the once-mighty United Auto Workers, turned into a so-called right-to-work state, an anti-union designation that translates into greater workplace control for business bosses, but few rights for the bossed

RTL Nieuws𝗞𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗸 𝗴𝗮𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝘁 '𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗯𝘂𝘀' 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻: '𝗭𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗲𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝘂𝘅𝗲 𝘇𝗶𝗷𝗻'Een wazig schoolbord of vage gezichten van klasgenoten, dat is wat sommige kinderen dagelijks zien. Het verkleint hun leefwereld én belemmert ze op school. Dat moet voorkomen worden, dachten Khaled Tamimy (27) en Erik van Halewijn (26), en dus bedachten ze...<a href="https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5457877/zicht-ogen-brillen-kinderen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5457877/zicht-ogen-brillen-kinderen</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Khaled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Khaled</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Erik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Erik</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrillenbusLangsBasisscholen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrillenbusLangsBasisscholen</a>

RTL Nieuws𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝘁 '𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗸'Gerben zet zijn vraagtekens bij het huwelijk met Erik in 'Married at First Sight'. Tijdens het eindgesprek gaat hij de confrontatie aan met zijn huwelijkspartner en dat zorgt voor de nodige emoties.<a href="https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/entertainment/artikel/5439603/gerben-erik-married-first-sight-toneelstuk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/entertainment/artikel/5439603/gerben-erik-married-first-sight-toneelstuk</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gerben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gerben</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Erik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Erik</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toneelstukconfrontatie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toneelstukconfrontatie</a>

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