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Espen J

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 6h
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026
This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.
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Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
‚Fourteen Russian spy satellites moved over a US military base in Saudi Arabia two days before a devastating attack by Iran.‘ edition.cnn.com/2026/09/16/w...
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CNN Investigates: Iran has improved targeting of US assets. Here’s how Russian satellites likely have helped | CNN
Fourteen Russian spy satellites moved over a US military base in Saudi Arabia two days before a devastating attack by Iran. The timing and sequencing of the spacecraft gave them access to a large spec...
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@amnesty.org's International Secretariat have released a detailed report on Russia tricking and trafficking individuals from the Global South to feed the meatgrinder of its war on Ukraine. "Thousands... lured by false promises", it notes. Recommended reading. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Russia: Trafficking of Foreign Nationals to Fight in Ukraine - Amnesty International
Russia has recruited thousands of foreign nationals from low-income countries, as well as migrants and refugees already living in Russia, to fight in its war in Ukraine. Recruitment has frequently inv...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Veldig bra skrevet, og støttes 100%.
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Regjeringens knefall for Meta
Det virker som Karianne Tung har glemt hvem hun jobber for.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/08/2026
Trump, running late, is making these people uncomfortably fidget around while they stand around
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If I wanted US treaty allies to keep buying US military equipment, I wouldn't have repeatedly denigrated those allies, lied to them a lot, threatened to annex their territory, and sympathetically aped propaganda of their (and until recently our) adversaries.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I often think of the letter Eisenhower wrote in case D-Day went wrong in which he explicitly stated all blame would be his alone. Just an entirely different caliber of person
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right
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Sam Kunti @samindrakunti.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Carlos Cordeiro has resigned. Senior advisor to Infantino. Ex banker and Infantino's connection to the financial world. Said he had no involvement in the Kushner proposal.
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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In general everything that’s accomplished in a private capacity is enabled by the infrastructure, security, and stability of functional governance. You live in a society. There are no millionaires on a desert island.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/03/2026
NEW: RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Since Trump’s return, America has not supported a single resolution condemning Russian aggression. Not one.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Zelensky has done everything he possibly can to satisfy this admin while he fights a war of survival for his people. And the Trump admin has done nothing but repeatedly treat him with disrespect, scorn & ridicule. 2 days ago, Trump called him “PT Barnum.” This is how Z responds.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
You can also read the text in English here: www.bundesliga.com/en/bundeslig... - maybe the best thing about this is exactly how specfic he gets about both the nature of and the solution to the problem.
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Vincent Kompany's emotional statement regarding racism in football after Vinícius Jr. incident
At his press conference ahead of Saturday's game against Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany delivered an emotional statement about the allegations of racism towards Vinícius...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026
BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism? BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism? BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
There were already plenty of reasons to boycott FIFA and its sponsors. Now there may be yet another reason.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 31/01/2026
Great work from the FT's John Burn-Murdoch www.ft.com/content/b474...
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Bridget Brink @bridgetbrink.com · 28/01/2026
This undermines U.S. national security. Appeasing dictators never achieves long-term peace. It didn’t work in 1938. And it won't work now. We need to turn up the pressure on Russia. History will not be forgiving to those who enable Putin’s war crimes. Nor should it be. 3/3
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
(CNN) - The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/h...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/01/2026
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris. hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
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The Strong Will Suffer What They Must
Vaclav's Grocer and American Hubris
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The US is literally the only NATO country that's ever used Article 5. Everyone else showed up. Like... what are you even taking about???
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Very good piece by @mashagessen.bsky.social, the author of Surviving Autocracy, who left Russia in 2013 as the authoritarian hammer really started coming down, and moved to the United States. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We seem to have normalised the Premier League's inability to conclude the Manchester City case. The years this thing has taken is pathetic. The longer it has taken the more people have forgotten the magnitude of the alleged offences. Time passing has had a kind of watering down affect on allegations
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The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Senegal win the Africa Cup of Nations. Pape Gueye's stunning extra-time strike proved the difference. Does that tell the full story? Not even slightly. A questionable penalty decision in Morocco's favour, Senegal's walk-off and fury, Brahim Diaz's failed panenka. That just scratches the surface.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/01/2026
Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I don't think "oil" is a sufficient explanation for what's going on. Rubio being a neocon when it comes to Latin America feels more important.
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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Why the suburbs of Paris are the world's biggest hotbed of football talent. Beautiful short film by Copa 90, with brief appearance by me www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4wM...
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Inside The Banlieues | Paris' Hotbed Of Talent
YouTube video by COPA90
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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Seit 10 Jahren reagiert Europa auf jede neue Trump-Absurdität gleich: Empörung, Schockstarre. Statt weiter auf den US-Autounfall zu starren, müssen wir endlich lenken. Wir wissen längst: Trump denkt nur an sich. Zeit, dass Europa selbst handelt.👇 (Clip auf DE mit EN Untertiteln)
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/11/2025
"Vague assurances are not security; they are illusions, and illusions in great power politics are fatal." lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK
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A Letter from Clausewitz to Secretary Rubio
Channeling the author of ‘On War’ on the U.S. pursuit of peace in Ukraine.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/11/2025
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins. My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins
The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
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Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Great overview of a good idea. People often forget how critical terrain is in war amongst all the hype around tech and drones. Good luck trying to push a mechanised ground force through a large area of bogland.
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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The strangest David Lynch facts – ranked!
Ahead of a new biography of the late director (whose favourite number was seven), we rundown some of the most offbeat things about this most mysterious modern genius
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I'm very pleased to announce that my debut feature documentary, The Battle For Kyiv, will be released on Apple TV, Amazon Prime & Google Play on June 6th 2025 in association with BylineTV. Available in all territories and countries these platforms operate in except for Russia.
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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Don’t they realize that they sound like Holocaust deniers? When you go to this extent of denialism, you’ve totally gone off the deep end. There is no hope in your case.
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Slightly diminish a band Jane's Craving
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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Good time to re-up my essay from a few years ago on what Russia's slaughter of Indigenous Alaskans can tell us about Moscow's designs on Ukraine (and elsewhere): www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Russia’s Slaughter of Indigenous People in Alaska Tells Us Something Important About Ukraine
Russia once controlled 20 percent of U.S. territory. That legacy helps explain its aggression against Ukraine.
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I have signed this petition alongside more than 200 of my colleagues demanding Israel allow the foreign press into Gaza immediately with no restrictions. I urge my colleagues to join me in signing it below: freedomtoreport.org
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Freedom To Report : Gaza Mission
media enquiries: gazapressmission@pm.me Instagram The Issue What’s happening in Gaza today reveals a far broader crisis: the erosion of press freedom as a pillar of democracy. The people most directly...
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Gaza: ‘We have 6,000 trucks of aid we can’t bring in’ says UNRWA www.channel4.com/news/gaza-we...
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Gaza: ‘We have 6,000 trucks of aid we can’t bring in’ says UNRWA
We spoke to Sam Rose, who's acting director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza.
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This is so surprisingly pleasing to see. Hope it is as longlasting as it seems.
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JosimarFootball @josimarfootball.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A message from @philippeauclair.bsky.social The reality we at Josimar face is stark. Should we fail to raise 50 000 euro by 1 July, the world’s only investigative media dedicated solely to football will cease to exist. josimarfootball.com/2025/06/03/a...
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A letter from Philippe Auclair - josimarfootball.com
The reality we at Josimar face is stark. Should we fail to raise € 50k by 1 July, the world's only investigative media dedicated solely to football will cease to exist.
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