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Elisabeth Gehrke

@elisabethgehrke.bsky.social
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Former EU policy wonk and activist, turned graduate student in comparative literature. Endlessly curious about the world. Californian/Swede living in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Ukraine Support 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @blue24world.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇺🇦 Drones Hit 3rd Yandex Data Center in 4 Days 🇺🇦 drones struck a #Yandex data center, in 🇷🇺 Vladimir region, sparking a fire & disrupting the company’s services Yandex’s press service reported that the fire broke out at the facility overnight on Oct11 #Ukraine #Russia militarnyi.com/en/news/dron...
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nearly all #Yandex services went dark after a strike on its Vladimir data center. Alice, Taxi, Go, Pro, Food, Music, Telemost and Smart Home were hit, along with Yandex Cloud – disrupting hundreds of dependent businesses and municipal services across Russia.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"With #Yandex data centers under constant attack, I’m starting to worry that the White House will issue yet another demand to stop the strikes. After all, it would be a tragedy if Russia’s valuable bot traffic dried up just before the midterms." @tatarigami.bsky.social
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Ali Esbati @aliesbati.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
”Gör världen en tjänst”, enligt Sveriges vice statsminister
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Elisabeth Gehrke @elisabethgehrke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Why o why?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Why is Kemi Badenoch never asked about the hefty funding the Conservative party has taken from the oil industry and its lobby groups whenever she talks about her decision to scrap her commitment to Net Zero?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This piece is incredible. If you prefer audio, here’s an interview I did with the reporter walking through her reporting. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Guys, you know who wouldn't get caught taking a picture with rapist Andrew Tate? Count Binface. Count Binface wouldn't.
Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate looking like old friends
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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Good.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
ICE has thugs wearing “media” vests and masks filming protesters, something that is totally normal in a democracy...
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Dan Haar: Fake news? No, fake media may be the real danger at a Connecticut ICE raid
"This is a reality-TV-show president... And it sounds to me like they were making a reality TV show," Amanda Crawford said.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I recall a time when the FBI—and the Department of Defense and White House—weren’t run by ignorant men perpetually stuck in the 7th grade.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...
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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
50 år sedan en av de största industriolyckorna i Europa, i italienska Seveso.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is what I'm talking about when I say the bodies of Black Americans have been politicized against our will since the moment we hit these shores. We are deemed the "radical left" just for BREATHING. For having the audacity to not be white.
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Svenska Doomfrämjandet @doomlobbyn.se · 09/07/2026
SAMHÄLLSVIKTIG 👏 INFRASTRUTUR 👏 SKALL 👏 INTE 👏 ÄGAS 👏 ELLER 👏 FÖRVALTAS 👏 AV 👏 RISKKAPITAL
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In loving memory of Bonnie Tyler, please enjoy this video of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" from the early, let's-make-this-as-homoerotic-as-possible-simply-because-we-can era of MTV. I was 19 when this went into heavy rotation. It made an impression! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOx...
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Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around) (Official Video)
YouTube video by bonnietylerVEVO
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 09/07/2026
God I miss the days when every other news item wasn’t “this awful person with way too much money just made your life worse in unimaginable ways for no good reason.”
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/07/2026
I wrote about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo—who is now the tenth person federal immigration agents have shot and killed during Trump's second term.
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ICE Is Hoping You Won’t Notice the Man Agents Killed In Texas
The administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
New AP polling of Jewish Americans— Mamdani (+5): 44% Favorable; 39% Unfavorable Netanyahu (-27): 32% Favorable; 59% Unfavorable Trump (-42): 29% Favorable; 71% Unfavorable Where's all the breathless wall-to-wall coverage on Netanyahu & Trump making Jewish people feel unsafe?
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The beauty of sports is you can just decide at any point “I give a shit about this now. Against all reason.” Ten minutes later you hate one of the teams more than life and it’s all downhill from there.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb
Joe Gebbia
@jgebbia
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John Birch Society
@The_JBS • Jun 30
Your taxes are paying for an Illegal Alien with an Anchor
Baby to live in the starter home your American kids can't
afford.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/07/2026
The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.
 Supreme Court Bolsters President Trump’s Push to Eliminate Transgender Insanity
The White House
June 30, 2026
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J Keen @jkeen1213.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Ok, this is an elected representative. How can he be this stupid? It's been precedent for 150 years! 🤣🤣🤣😎
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Jesus, three dissenting votes on birthright just might be the most insane part of this court's entire awful term.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?
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Max Jerneck @maxjerneck.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Starta pressarna sänder hela sommaren. Missa inte avsnittet om hur mellanhänder blir rika på din pension open.spotify.com/episode/4Fny...
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Så blir mellanhänderna rika på din pension
Starta pressarna · Episode
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 26/06/2026
My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.
A post from @matzollerseitz.bsky.social reads:

“So what I'm getting from this is, incrementalism is bullshit and we should just do the stuff that we say would be good for society”

And the post is quoting a post from @owillis.bsky.social that reads:

“They call him WIN-dani 

Mamdani delivers promised rent freeze on 1 million rent-stabilized apartments https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/25/mamdani-delivers-promised-rent-freeze-00977449”
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Bold thing to say when your party is in control of literally everything.
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Rasmus Hansson @rasmushansson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Vill ni ha min årliga sommarpåminnelse om att ni såklart kan sjukanmäla er på semestern? Ni får den ändå. Blir ni sjuka har ni rätt att sjukanmäla er. Semester är till för vila, inte att kurera sig från eventuell sjukdom!
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 24/06/2026
The belief that Mamdani’s politics are limited to New York is giving the same energy as “there’s no way a Black man from Chicago, raised in ‘exotic’ Hawaii, with the middle name ‘Hussein’ can become a national figure, let alone win the presidency”
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...
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Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power.
A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists.
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 22/06/2026
Ready for your next steak? These ranchers are battling drought to bring your way.
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Ready for your next steak? These ranchers are battling drought to bring your way.
Ranchers in Colorado are facing drought following a record-low snowpack that melted a month earlier than usual after a heat wave in March.
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jacob 🍋 @nilsjacob.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
AfD är kraftigt proryska, liksom resten av deras samarbetsgrupp i EU.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 13/06/2026
🇬🇧 British artist David Hockney dies aged 88 David Hockney, whose paintings captured the world in brilliant colour, has died aged 88. Considered one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art, he was a pioneer in the pop art movement in the 1960s.
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Sara Stylbäck Vesa @saravesa.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Kvinnohatet finns som ett konstant bakgrundsbrus. Senaste veckorna har jag vågat mig på att markera mot rasister och klimatförnekare på Facebook - något jag annars undviker (ja, självcensur). Främmande män svarade i form av påpekanden om att jag var ful, fet, kvinna och medelålders. Slår aldrig fel.
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Målet är (nog) inte att ta ifrån kvinnorna rösträtt
Det är kusligt att läsa Expos rapport
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Ja, vi tänkte verkligen i dollartecken när vi skrev en handbok i klimatjournalistik.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
My great-uncle Herb Reichlin lost an eye fighting for this country in Europe and is buried in Arlington Cemetery. I am confident that he would have been furious to hear the plight of refugees crossing the Mediterranean described as an invasion in comparison to D-Day.
A photo of a tombstone at Arlington which is topped with a Star of David. It reads: “HERBERT REICHLIN.
PFC [private first class] US ARMY
WORLD WAR II
NOVEMBER 8 1925
APRIL 18 2024
PURPLE HEART”
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is great. "If you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" is spot on.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A Trump administration whistleblower says officials plotted to declare 2.7 million living individuals dead in a plot to push immigrants out of the country.
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Whistleblower Exposes Trump Goons’ Jaw-Dropping Social Security Plot
The plan involved exploiting a database known as the “Death Master File.”
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 01/06/2026
”Det handlar om Sveriges framtid som kunskapsnation, där Sverige riskerar att gå miste om internationell talang … I jämförelse förknippas Sverige i allt högre utsträckning med administrativ osäkerhet, vilket påverkar studenters vilja att etablera sig långsiktigt i Sverige.”
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DN Debatt. ”Universiteten tiger stilla medan Sveriges framtid skickas ut”
DN Debatt. 82 internationella studenter vid Karolinska institutet om nya migrationsregler för studenter från utlandet.
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Nicholas Major @nicconova.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Fan less jag är på utvisandet etidning.dn.se/shared/artic...
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”Universiteten tiger medan Sveriges framtid skickas ut”
Förra året kom 10 000 internationella studenter till Sverige. Vi är några av dem. Men Sverige har blivit kallt, och vår plats här osäker. Nya striktare regler gör att fler av oss riskerar att skickas ...
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womblingweka.bsky.social @womblingweka.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
“This is censorship...This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/05/2026
The 15 year old trans girl suing Idaho over their bathroom ban took her own life and they had to drop the case because of it. It's not a myth, you fucking ghouls!

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by the account LGB Alliance USA (@LGBAlliance_U...) that reads, "More doubt cast on the 'suicide myth' of trans-identified youth ⤵️".
This post quote-retweets a post from SEGM (@segm_ebm) that reads, "🚨A widely cited Trevor Project paper from 2 yrs ago concluded that state restrictions on youth gender transition increase youth suicide risk. But a new peer-reviewed reanalysis shows the signal came from a single state, Idaho—which ...".
Attached to the SEGM post is a screenshot of the top portion of an academic paper. The paper details are as follows:
 * **Article Type:** Matters Arising
 * **Published:** 28 May 2026
 * **Title:** Methodological considerations for evaluating policy impacts on transgender and non-binary youth suicidality
 * **Authors:** J. Cohn, Peter Sim & Kathleen F. Kerr
 * **Journal:** Nature Human Behaviour (2026)
 * **Notes:** Indicates the Original Article was published on 26 September 2024, and that this "Matters Arising" is in response to an article by W. Y. Lee et al. published in 2024.
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seifert 🐢 @seifert.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Vilken väg, western tant?
Nyhet med bild på tant Agnes Wold:
"Agnes Wold: Tar hellre fängelse än ett barnbarn som är trans"Nyhet med bild på tant Kerstin. Bildtext: "Kerstin Almgren, 90, har planterat om blåsipporna på en säker plats. 'Jag säger som Karl-Bertil Jonsson: jag tar mitt straff', säger hon."

Kerstin, 90, grävde upp fridlysta blåsippor: ”Tar mitt straff”

Kerstin Almgren, 90, grävde upp fridlysta blåsippor för att rädda dem från att förstöras av ett närliggande bygge, trots att det är förbjudet. Det var Mitt i först med att berätta.
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