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Elon Musk's pinned tweet right now.

Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

"The term DEI, frequently invoked by the Trump administration, functions as a smoke screen" read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the real goals of the 'anti-DEI' rhetoric www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump og Musk fortsetter raseringen av statsapparatet med full styrke. wapo.st/4hJCL94

Desken hos VG vet bedre enn dette. Trump forsøker seg med utpressing av Zelensky og Ukraine, men VG velger å bruke forsiden til å kringkaste Trump sin løgnaktige propaganda.

Jeg hadde ikke trodd at jeg kom til å se den dagen hvor en Breivik-sympatisør får støtte i et norsk tidsskrift, men den dagen har kommet.

This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:

Musk, Vance and their support for the anti-American, pro-Russian German far-right From Jamie Kirchik www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong "Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."

Macron and Starmer's trip to DC next week takes us back to analogies from the 1930s.

Trump sparker USAs øverste general

"The End of the Postwar World" @anneapplebaum.bsky.social #dax18

Your regular reminder of how incredibly dependent we are on @archive.org

«Trump-regimet står nå i ledtog med våre fiender og må håndteres deretter. Norge må gå ut fra at vi har mistet sikkerhetsgarantiene fra USA», skriver Filter-redaktør Harald S. Klungtveit.

VP Vance continues to show his patriarchal hubris at CPAC, talking about women only in the role of baby-makers and bemoaning that men aren't allowed to have a beer and tell jokes. (cartoon from the archives)

The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

He said he wanted to be a dictator...

Lynkurs i fascismen - en kort 🧵 Ideologi: Historiker Roger Griffin definerer fascismen som en politisk ideologi der den mytiske kjernen er en palingenetisk form for populistisk ultranasjonalisme. Den baserer seg på en myte om forfall og dekadanse, og en gjenfødelsesmyte («palingenesis»). Eks:

Frem mot sommeren skal jeg skrive litt for @altinget.bsky.social! På en uke har selvfølgeligheter i europeisk sikkerhet blitt snudd på hodet av Trump. Dette gjør land som Russland alt de kan for å kapitalisere på. Les om Putins drømmeuke og russisk tenkning her 👇 www.altinget.no/forsvar/arti...

Let’s be honest. Does anyone think that this president would honour Article Five? Presence of US military & nuclear sharing still has value to Europe, but its deterrent value is significantly reduced & falling. This is reckless, dangerous behaviour by the Trump administration.

Ubehagelig bakteppe for Debatten; synd at en interessant debatt om sikkerhetspolitikk ble redusert til et PR-stunt for å snakke om alt annet enn Putin, Trump og ytre høyre Mitt poeng var: de voksnes naivitet må ta slutt. Verden blir farlig, det må vi snakke sant om. Nå trengs felleskap og mot.

My thoughts on the Russian-American talks on Ukraine, without Ukraine. The simplest interpretation of the available facts is that the Americans are using Russian violence to try to exploit Ukraine. snyder.substack.com/p/peace-or-p...

Velkommen til #debatten. Siden verden kanskje står i fare for en total systemkollaps har vi invitert på den ene siden de som vil diskutere hva som skjer, og på den annen side de som helst vil brøle. Dette fordi vi som en seriøs kanal vil opprettholde balansen mellom brølere og debattanter #nrkdebatt

Molotov desperately seeking Ribbentrop

Vi fikk 100 nye medlemmer i løpet av helgen. Det ser ut til å bli like mange i dag. Vi tar imot alle og har plass til mange flere. europabevegelsen.no/bli-medlem

«Et lite land som Norge må ha allierte. Jeg må si at jeg er forbauset over at lederne av begge de to partiene som liksom skal være statsbærende i landet, Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet, sier at vi ikke skal diskutere EU-medlemskap» www.nrk.no/norge/forske...

‘Cybertruck Man’ a cartoon in defiance of Musk #political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen

What a united Europe does next will determine future of not only Ukraine but the whole of the continent, and then the whole world. 2025 is going to be about what actions democracies (don’t) take, not what some others say. Actions speak louder than words. Europe it’s your move. Make it a good one.

Godt at Vebjørn Selbekk sier tydelig ifra. Norske kristenkonservative er åpenbart en gruppe der mange er mottagelige for Trumps budskap. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/lw...

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

One way in which the Europeans can fairly easily and cheaply both *profit* from the current US self-coup AND *help* some good people: try to hire the many world-leading experts fired or at risk at NIH, CDC, HHS and so forth.

«Europa står nå nesten alene om å forsøke å opprettholde en liberal verdensorden.» God kronikk fra Iver B. Neumann. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...

📺 When expertise becomes power politics – US perspectives on Russia and China. Hosted by @nupinytt.bsky.social and the Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics, where FNI is partner. 🎙 FNI Director Iver B. Neumann, David M. McCourt and more. 👉 Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/54td2it...

Hi #Bluesky community! The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) conducts research on international environmental, energy, and resource politics. Would love to be added to relevant starter packs. #ClimateResearch #EnergyPolicy #ArcticResearch #RussiaStudies #ChinaStudies #BlueskyStarterPacks 👉 www.fni.no

Republicans are going big on Medicaid cuts, pretending they’ll be harmless by claiming they only target “waste.” That’s a lie. Under Biden, Medicaid’s improper payments fell to 5%—the same as private insurance. This is an attack on 80M Americans. #HandsOffMyMedicaid www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The Associated Press Isn't Bending The Knee To Trump's Censorship The Associated Press is defending the First Amendment and refusing to give in even as Trump escalates his campaign against the centuries old news organization www.politicususa.com/p/the-associ...

I Norge har vi ikke mange moralposører. Vi har mange umoral-posører som er opptatt av å vise fram hvor rå de er som tør å spise kjøtt, kjøre bil og fly, og noen posører uten moral, som fremmer total nihilisme, selv i møte med fascisme.