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Espen J

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 9h
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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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This would all be over a long time ago if the US soldiers weren't low-testosterone. If only they were manly men who could do a lot of push-ups and pull-ups they would have won. At least that is what I am told.
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"We are, how you zay, zeduzing their women."
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong?
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King's study finds AI chose nuclear signalling in 95% of simulated crises | King's College London
Artificial intelligence (AI) models used for a simulated war game escalated conflicts by threatening nuclear strikes in 95% of scenarios, according to new research from King’s College London.
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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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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Shaggy is the leaker, but he is just so damned good at lying.
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Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
ALT: Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
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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 · 03/09/2026
Smearing him by pointing out all the things he has in fact done?
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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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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Veratify is the Cliff Clavin of Bluesky. (Yes, I am that old)
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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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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
He is the modern-day Sisyphus. Except the boulder is rolling further and further away each day. "One must imagine Sisyphus grumpy"
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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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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Tell them they can't come to your birthday.
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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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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We did get money for Chamakh!
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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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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
King Midas in reverse
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Tokyo Berlin Rome Istanbul Kyoto
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Make every day Bin day.
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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.
 
Scott Pelley
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
47% growth according to this: www.arsenal.com/news/visit-r... Glad we are ditching it.
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Visit Rwanda update
Arsenal and Visit Rwanda will conclude their landmark eight-season partnership in June 2026
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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a little girl is making a funny face while sitting at a table with potted plants .
ALT: a little girl is making a funny face while sitting at a table with potted plants .
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Nederst på siden: www.energiogklima.no/om
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Well, he doesn't have the cards, as he himself is fond of saying.
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I want the headline: Russell Vought Thought.
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Arch De Epic Failure
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Rival Pope J.D I it is then.
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
No talc and no action.
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Did the alleged backpack also contain "The Sims 3"?
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
So, it's true: Nobody can eat 50 eggs.
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a man is eating an egg from another man 's finger .
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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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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Only if Marcus Aurelius had a podcast. So probably not.
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Does the Ayatollah even lift, bro?
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Fitzcarraldo, but with oil tankers.
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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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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Elbridge Colby Sadness sounds like the title of a song by Manic Street Preachers.
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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an older man in a red cardigan says i got a lot of problems
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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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Espen J @espenj.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The horror, the horror!
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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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