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If you like Norway, come back!

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I know. We automatically assumed that you hate NUPI (my employer), since you completely ignored us. (...) Had hoped to go to the event, but life intervened.

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This might be the peak of my Bluesky fame. Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to acknowledge that comment. Until then.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As a Norwegian, living in Norway and being just moderately (or even not-that-actually) online, I'm very confused by all this. Just in case you wondered.

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🧵Can't get numb to this: in the Iran War, we have a total vacuum of leadership in the Pentagon and State Dept amid a strategic disaster of America's own making. Two pieces show how: first, Hegseth blaming Trump's bad info on near-empty missile stockpiles on a deputy. wapo.st/4hQVTF0 1/

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Trump, Hegseth clashed at Camp David over Iran missile depletion concerns

At a Camp David summit this weekend, President Trump demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over extreme munitions shortages.

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Anders @andersskyrud.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Kanskje ikke den personen jeg ville gjetta at skulle skrive denne teksten, og kanskje heller ikke en perfekt tekst, men gud bedre så viktig og bra likevel. Nordmenn er rett og slett ikke klar over hvor ekstrem Musk har blitt, og det er DRITBRA at noen i mainstreamen sier det. e24.no/internasjona...

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Målbevisst og systematisk fremmer Musk ideer fra det ekstreme høyre

Verdens rikeste mann er også en høyreradikal aktivist som blir stadig mer ekstrem. Hvor langt kan det gå?

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Halvard Leira @halvardl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Husket at de er medlem, måtte sjekke årstallet.

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Halvard Leira @halvardl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sveits har vært fullt medlem siden 2002.

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Graduate students working on historical IR, there is a paper award for you! ISA Historical IR section has a best graduate paper award, deadline is August 1. You can nominate yourself! See the details here histsectionisa.weebly.com/awardrules.h...

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ISA HIST SECTION

Please scroll down for award criteria and nomination instructions for each prize.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the spanish national team.
Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock

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Halvard Leira @halvardl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You have twisted your last sister.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

On the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, let us check in on how it's going...

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Men her snakker vi om utvidelse - "tenkt til", heller enn "tenkt", "høres ut" heller enn "lyder", "føles ut" heller enn "kjennes". Er det dårlig ordforråd eller noe annet? 2/2

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Jeg håper egentlig at noen med ordentlig peiling kommenterer på dette. Blant de tingene jeg husker fra forprøven i fonetikk og lingvistikk, er ønsket om forenkling sentralt (det, samt den glottale stopplyden og de labio-labiale lydene). Synkopetiden FTW! 1/2

Tenkt fra, spør jeg ofte. Barna mine elsker den formen for korreks...

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Dette er smitte fra nærliggende former, tenker jeg. "ser ut" - ja, det gir mening. "høres ut" - egentlig burde vi sagt lyder, men jaja. "føles ut" - hva er galt med kjennes?

Matthew 🍔 @matthewburger.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The thing is - England is a country defined by class and with an extremely strong conservative bent. My argument before Brexit was in essence "the UK will manage, because the English upper class will throw the working class, Scotland and Wales under the bus, as they have always done". Now? Mayhem.

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I don’t get why no one bothers to point out that micromanaging renovations of the reflecting pool aren’t even remotely the job of the president. Everyone seems to be cool that this is is primary policy focus.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/06/2026

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

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It is yours to keep, and to wear however you want. I removed my wedding band the moment I got divorced, but I still keep glancing down on my finger, imagining that I have lost it. Love lost is not love erased. To have been loved is probably the greatest thing in life. Cherish it.

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I tried making this point in March. Apart from @professormusgrave.bsky.social, I don't know if anyone cared. Damn, so effing stupid!

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Ok, I couldn't care less about sports and the coming world cup but now I am rooting for #Belgium.

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Halvard Leira @halvardl.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Well, it is the longest day...

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I’m thinking very hard about this but it is difficult to see the US-Vietnam War involving higher stakes for the USA. I’m welcome to being corrected. The scale of loss is not an index of interest.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Not for nothing but freedom of navigation has been a core US foreign policy objective for 200+ years and preserving the Arabian Gulf from domination has been one for just a hair under 50. When I say things like “calamity” or “inexcusable defeat”, I am not being partisan or exaggerating.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

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Halvard Leira @halvardl.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If I ever saw a grad student in the vicinity of a Burger King, I would scream the obvious question: "Why are you eating? Why are you not writing? Tim Gill is watching you".

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

There is absolutely no reason for prediction markets to exist. None.

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Academia relies on good faith. It cannot be done otherwise. This is precisely why plagiarists, people who fake data, people who deliberately ignore counter-evidence, and fascists need to be driven out. Full cordon sanitaire against this crap.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We haven’t even begun to understand the Pandora’s Box that this war has opened. @cfr.org www.cfr.org/articles/aft...

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Halvard Leira @halvardl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

As per usual, because we have strong guardrails at EJIR, I did not know that this was in the pipeline until it was published. But really proud to have it! Well done, Pål!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

just to emphasize again, closing Malacca means 'taking a couple of extra days on a trip.' the economist had a great recent graph on various straits and their relative levels of direness.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Fascinating insight into the intersectionality of partisanship and gender…. #cucks

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Halvard Leira @halvardl.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It does not repeat. It does not even rhyme. But sometimes it might echo. And echoes are always partial and open to interpretation by the listener.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Thursday.

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Åpenbart riktig. Noe som fikk meg til å lure på om det var andre bakenforliggende motiver her, i tillegg til dem som ble nevnt i saken.

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Dette er en kjent utfordring for kunnskapsbedrifter med mer eller mindre obligatorisk oppmøte, som ofte ikke kan flytte på seg - ligger du kronglete til, må du betale mer eller akseptere lavere kompetanse.

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Det er jo alltid tradeoffs ved ansettelser. Kanskje har de kommet til at de må kompromisse for mye på kvalitet (eller betale for mye for den kvaliteten de ønsker seg) ved å bli værende?

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Argumentet om at det bare er 20 min med bil fra sentrum er så dumt at jeg knapt vet hvor jeg skal begynne.

Rar sak. Reisetid fra Oslo S er jo kun relevant som tilleggsreisetid for dem som evt. skal innom der på veien til jobb. Det er ikke veldig mange som bor på Oslo S. Det relevante målet må vel være hvor mange mennesker som bor innenfor X antall minutter fra arbeidsplassen med kollektivt/gange?