Het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap Nasa heeft donderdag beelden vrijgegeven die een sonde in de atmosfeer van de zon heeft gemaakt. Het zijn beelden van ‘dichter bij de zon dan we ooit zijn geweest’, aldus Nasa, dat van ‘verbluffende resultaten’ spreekt.

Neither side has released documentation of the tariff terms, raising questions about whether they did, in fact, reach an agreement.

Vietnam’s negotiators had not, in fact, agreed to the 20% rate; they believed the tariff rate would be around 11%, according to the four people.

Some on the U.S. side were surprised, too, including outside groups who’d been tracking the talks, according to one Washington-based lobbyist who works with Vietnam and other Asian governments.

“Trump sandbagged everybody,” said the lobbyist. They described the Vietnamese government’s reaction as “surprise, as well as disappointment and anger.”

De Nederlandse ambassade in Senegal heeft vrijdag een lhbtqia+-bijeenkomst afgeblazen. Reden daarvoor zijn de strenge anti-homowetten die in het West-Afrikaanse land gelden. De Senegalese regering dreigde met maatregelen.

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The site of the HTR campground after catastrophic flooding in Kerrville, Texas.

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Seit Jahren ist der Makerhafen ein Ort der Kreativität, des gemeinsamen Lernens und des handwerklichen Schaffens. Auf über 650 Quadratmetern bieten wir euch eine offene Werkstatt mit modernen Werkzeugen und Maschinen – von 3D-Druckern über Lasercutter bis hin zu Holz- und Metallbearbeitung. Hier können Kinder, Erwachsene und Senioren gleichermaßen tüfteln, bauen und Neues entdecken. Besonders unsere offenen Angebote wie der Familien-Freitag oder Workshops zu Elektronik, Handwerk und Programmierung haben viele von euch bereits begeistert.

Doch jetzt stehen wir vor einer großen Herausforderung: Finanzielle Schwierigkeiten bedrohen den Makerhafen. Die laufenden Kosten für Miete, Strom und den Erhalt unserer Maschinen sind gestiegen, während Einnahmen durch Mitgliedsbeiträge und Projektförderungen nicht ausreichen, um den Betrieb langfristig zu sichern. Wenn wir keine Unterstützung erhalten, könnte unser geliebter Makerhafen bald schließen. Das wäre nicht nur für uns ein herber Verlust, sondern auch für unsere Vision. Der Makerhafen ist ein Ort, an dem Menschen unabhängig von Alter oder Vorkenntnissen zusammenkommen, voneinander lernen und ihre Ideen verwirklichen. Hier haben Kinder ihren ersten Roboter gebaut, Großeltern mit ihren Enkeln gelötet, Studierende ihre Prototypen entwickelt und Nachbarinnen und Nachbarn gemeinsam an kreativen Projekten gearbeitet.

Hi, I identify as a gay man for now and I feel disconnected from womanhood, but my body is female. I want to know how normal it is for women not to be comfortable in their own bodies and wish they had bodily characteristics of a born male. I've felt that way ever since I was eight or seven, so it got me thinking that I could have known I was a boy even then.

I wanted to cut my hair short because it looked more boyish and I hated being called "girly". I wanted to be accepted among the guys and I considered myself just a "tomboy".

Bullets:

• Western sanctions against oil producers in Russia and Europe have simply re-routed global trade routes.
• Energy shipments from Russia to the European Union have instead been snapped up by India, Turkiye, and Africa.
• Iran, though under heavy sanctions, produces more oil today that at any time in over 40 years, with $78 billion in export sales, mostly to China.
• Russia and Iran are some of the world's lowest-cost oil producers in the world, and can book profits even as prices fall.
• In the United States, drilling companies are shutting down oil rigs and shelving plans for new exploration. Energy companies cannot profitably drill new wells in North America, unless oil prices maintain long-term pricing far above $60 per barrel.
• Demand destruction is also being felt across the world, as Chinese production of new energy vehicles is a hit to future gasoline sales.

We were supposed to get a Black Superman movie. During a 2021 interview with Polygon, author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, who was hired by Warner Bros. to write the film, opened up about his excitement over the opportunity. His greatest hope for what would ultimately a major twist on Superman’s cinematic legacy: that people could “have an experience of their own with the art” and allow his “Superman to have his chance.”

All signs point to Coates’ Superman not having his chance. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, the studio’s Superman reboot announced in 2021, which was to be produced by J.J. Abrams, was dismissed by WB CEO David Zaslav in 2022 for the movie’s racial themes. According to anonymous insiders, James Gunn, who now runs DC Studios for WB, still thinks the movie could happen, although Coates’ film wasn’t part of his initial DCU slate announcement.

Coates’ vision for the film reportedly revolved around a reimagined Kal-El and was set during America’s Civil Rights era, which would put him alongside real-life heroes like Dorothy Height, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Daisy Bates, and Malcolm X. However, to “fix” a derailed and misguided DC that was coming off the Zack Snyder era, Zaslav canceled the film, asserting that the project was “too woke” (WSJ’s words, paraphrasing insider sources).

I know the internet loves the new co-opted definition of the term “woke.” I know that the crusades against “wokeness” — a term given to seemingly anything with a message that isn’t straight, white, and male-centered — are all the rage these days. (Emphasis on rage.) And yes, I know that, in Zaslav’s case, things being “woke” is likely a euphemism for “no Black stories allowed if said stories challenge or simply state a historical fact opposed to the opinion of loud rich white people.” But we can all agree that pejoratively calling something like Superman, whether Black or white, “woke” is a little foolish?

The term “stay woke” originated as an African American Vernacular English (AAVE) phrase that urged people to stay aware of political issues that plagued Black Americans. These issues are typically associated with racial and social injustices that Black people faced at the hands of legalized racist ideologies like segregation during the 20th century. Protest songs like Lead Belly’s 1938 “Scottsboro Boys” — a track referencing the nine African American teens who were falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama and denied a fair trial — called for Black Americans to be aware of the social injustices around the country. In an interview about the trial and the song, Lead Belly doubled down on his mission to keep his brothers and sisters socially aware, calling for them to “stay woke and keep your eyes open.“

Since then, Black artists and activists have carried on the spirit of staying woke to the injustices around them. Activist Georgia Anne Muldrow, the woman who introduced new, modernized version of the “woke” term to neo-soul legend Erykah Badu and uttered the words on the 2008 track, “Master Teacher,” echoed Lead Belly’s sentiments and detailed the term as “definitely a black experience” and “understanding what your ancestors went through…just being in touch with the struggle that our people have gone through here and understanding we’ve been fighting since the very day we touched down [in America].”

As time and Black people have marched on, “stay woke” transformed into a rallying cry, becoming the backbone of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014. Black folks, along with allies in the fight, continued onward in the mission to stay socially conscious of America’s historically oppressive systems, which, as you know, impacts all Americans.

In the aftermath of the BLM protests, the term underwent a third transformation; right-wing media had co-opted the term, mutating the phrase’s essence into a contested, negative criticism often flung at people of color and other allied parties. In 2025, the term exists as a catch-all for anything that is socially seen as “other” or people fighting for the rights of the “other.” Which even includes a white Superman, apparently.

Superman is an alien from the planet Krypton. By definition, Kal-El, whether Black, white, or half-Japanese in Lois & Clark star Dean Cain’s case, is an immigrant, in both the literal and metaphorical sense. And Superman has always been conscious of its social efforts to thwart the villainous machinations of comically crafted evildoers, whether it’s punching Nazis in 1938’s Action Comics #1 or stomping on the tech bro oligarchy in Gunn’s 2025 Superman — being “woke” is a part of the gig, guys. Cape comics are built on the foundational principles of vigilantism and the act of fighting for what’s right, not fighting for the right.

If the WSJ report is accurate in David Zaslav describing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Superman project as “too woke” — and it’s conceivable considering how it’s the culture-war terminology of the day — he’s using a bastardized version of “stay woke.” Which bears repeating: Considering the true origin of being “woke” and how it has been co-opted to suppress, oppress, and repress marginalized communities, why it is socially taboo to give a voice to the voiceless and why stories different than your own experience make you uncomfortable?

To “stay woke” is to stay true to the fight that my ancestors fought before me, and while it’s upsetting that Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Superman and other projects are demonized for fighting for what’s right, it’s not surprising; this is precisely what Lead Belly wanted us to be aware of. So stay woke.

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