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Elise Bjørkan Viksaas

@elisevik.bsky.social
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Arctic native. Norwegian liberal. Pro fact-based governance. I am 💯 Antifa(scist). I try to mother, wife, knit, write, organize, and not despair. Save the dolls: die on the hill of legal rights & social respect for our trans folks. #Glimtførrevig

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 18h
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 9h
"Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business."
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Anders H. Eide @anderseide.bsky.social · 8h
It’s deeply concerning that the US has announced plans to expand sanctions against the International Criminal Court. In times of geopolitical tensions, we need, more than ever, an #ICC that can carry out its mandate free from political pressure. Full statement👇 www.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new...
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Statement from Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide on the plans to expand sanctions against the International Criminal Court
It is deeply concerning that the United States has announced plans to expand sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC). This puts pressure on an important, independent court that must b...
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Bjørn Johan Berger @bjornjberger.bsky.social · 14h
En flott begrunnet fredspris, hvor det bl.a. står: «I det samme rettsoppgjøret var Pillay også instrumentell for et annet viktig gjennombrudd: for første gang sto noen på tiltalebenken for å ha medvirket til folkemord ene og alene gjennom å utøve propaganda» www.nobelpeaceprize.org/artikler-1/a...
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Kunngjøring av Nobels fredspris 2026 - Nobel Peace Prize
Den Norske Nobelkomite har bestemt at Nobels fredspris for 2026 skal tildeles Navanethem "Navi" Pillay for hennes innsats for fred og internasjonale rettsprinsipper.
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Elise Bjørkan Viksaas @elisevik.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"A couple quick follow ups, Mr. Secretary -- what the ever-loving fuck are you babbling about? When was the Pentagon recruiting soldiers with 'My Two Mommies'? And how fucking drunk are you right now?"
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Elise Bjørkan Viksaas @elisevik.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hinsides groteskt. Hegseth/Trump's USA burde ekskluderes fra NATO. newrepublic.com/post/216430/...
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Hegseth Wants Public to Watch First Firing Squad Execution Since WWII
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hasan’s execution should be watched by everyone.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...
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The Speech That Gets You Banned From America
Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.
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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 08/10/2026
Atte hva?
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
are you fucking kidding me
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What if OpenAl solves the Jewish problem
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unified field theory / quantum gravity
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tonight we read the heartrending words of those who lost Israeli loved ones on Oct 7th — and Palestinian loved ones in the three years since. We said kaddish for all of them. We refused to compromise on anyone’s humanity. No amount of shouting stopped us. May their memory be for a blessing.
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Karen Pinholt @karenpinholt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oslo Universitetssykehus nekter behandling til pasient som har klaget behandlerne inn for uetisk bruk av pasientjournaler og vundet. Sykehus lar samme behandler fortsatt ha myndighet over pasientens helsetilbud og overser videre snoking i sensitive journaler.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026
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"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Love this
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Elise Bjørkan Viksaas @elisevik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Forskning har lenge bekreftet at de eneste som oppfører seg som rasjonelle økonomiske aktører (e.g., kun med øye til egne interesser), er økonomer. Makten de nå besitter til å gjøre det er skremmende.
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Nils Henrik @nilshenrik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ig Nobel-prisen i økonomi gjekk i år til ei gruppe nord-amerikanske forskarar som har påvist at overklassen er meir disponert for å stele snop frå barn enn andre sosiale grupper i samfunnet er. Som kanskje er det mest 2026 forskingsfunnet det går an å tenkje seg.
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Guess what I learned yesterday! Starting last year, all approvals of subsidized HRT prescriptions (blå resept) from NBTK have been given a two year time limit. They used to be lifelong. So anyone who started HRT there after 2024 needs to go back and beg for a renewal every two years 😳
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Elise Bjørkan Viksaas @elisevik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Helt uakseptabelt. Noe som kan og burde umiddelbart bli tatt tak i.
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Mathias Kilsti Hals @kilstihals.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
kjempestart på forhandlingene ap. dritbra.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.
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Elise Bjørkan Viksaas @elisevik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Turns out San Diego is Navy headquarters where 115,000 souls are stationed. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Walking back treasonous comments about California
On February 28, 2026, in the middle of the night, Trump released an 8 minute video telling the world that the U.S. had initiated ‘major combat operations’ in Iran. He didn’t pre-sell, pre-plan…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Russia’s sham Duma elections were an insult to Ukraine, to the Russian people, and to democracy itself. Putin hates democracy because he is threatened by it. That is why – along with destroying civil society and repressing political opposition – Russia meddles in the democratic space of others.
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Christopher Pahle @tophepahle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Signaleffekt
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Norway plans temporary ban on smart glasses in some public places
Camera-enabled Meta spectacles are already restricted in UK and US because of fears about unauthorised covert recording
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"
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Marjie Tennyson @cranberryhorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"it’s become clear that Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other people connected with the administration view AI as an essentially masculine tool: “dominant,” a word they keep using over and over, powerful, and able to be kept in check only by a strong ruler." What if AI is "Woke."
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
989 billionaires are now worth 22% of our GDP. We have more wealth concentration than the gilded age.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026
INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out
Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
For years, Project 2025 architect Russell Vought has set out to erode our system of checks and balances of power and to concentrate power in the hands of one person: President Trump. Now he’s quietly making it all happen. 🔊 Listen to this episode: propub.li/3TzIyaA
“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” - Russell Vought, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Polarization Is Not the Problem." The paragraph below says more about "both sides" journalism than just about anything I have read. By @lilymasonphd.bsky.social It's starting to get attaction. So read the rest, and let me know what you think. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 04/10/2026
Men wanted her to play by their rules. She built her own law firm instead. 🩷 Kathleen Martinez, founder of Martinez Immigration in Texas. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Group of women dressed in bright pink suits. Text says a lawyer who was told by male bosses to dress conservatively and make coffee got fired, then built an all-women pink law firm.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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Fredrick Mortvedt @feskehau.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Det er populistene som bruker kyniske herketeknikker mot økonomene, som her og i Debatten. De har funnet noen billige knep for å komme seg unna fakta og statistikk de ikke liker. Snakk om å projisere!
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Listhaug fyrer løs mot økonomer: – Hersketeknikk (+)
Frp-leder Sylvi Listhaug avviser at hun drar den økonomiske debatten inn i amerikansk retning. – Hvis det er noen som misliker noe av det du sier, da er du trumpsk.
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Det kan se ut som at PFU-fellelsen av RA Stavanger for en uke siden og republiseringen hos Document har fått et samlet norsk redaktørkorps til å bestemme seg for at tiden for feilkjønning i media er ute. Det er i så fall en stor seier. Spesielt om redaksjonene følger det opp i kommentarfeltene.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well Done Germany! =============== The Cornell University case has highlighted the need to better protect women from rapists. This is a great idea for remote/hidden areas. ----------------------
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just a Friendly Reminder…..
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"I'd rather get free money from the government than have socialism, which just teaches lazy, stupid folks they don't have to work for money they get, y'all!!!"
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Ine Harsten 📎 @iharsten.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Les denne. Og sørg over hva transfobi og Labour har gjort med Storbritannia. Ikke tro det IKKE kan skje her. Det er populært å vise til Cass-report og til britisk måte å gjøre ting på, når transmedisin utredes i Norge. Vi lever i skremmende tider. Også hva gjelder dette.
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