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Director of Knowledge the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Norad. Former peace researcher at PRIO. Science for a better, sustainable, and more just world.

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 14h
Brazilian federal police are warning of a possible US coup as Trump closes US embassy in Brasil
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Brazil’s Federal Police and ABIN warn of possible US Coup
The closure of US embassies in Brasil may be first step towards a coup
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20h
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 15h
I am so glad I purchased a Kurt Vonnegut book when I was 16 years old.
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Eivind Trædal @eivindtraedal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Familien Bygds utgifter til renter og drivstoff har økt med 4 900 kroner, mens deres gode venner i storbyen har fått en økt renteutgift på 7 100. Det koster nå 2 200 kroner mer i måneden å være familien By. Deres utgifter har økt med 45 % mer enn bygdefamiliens." agendamagasin.no/kommentarer/...
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Byfolk bør slå tilbake
Dyrere bensin på bygda koster en femtedel av det økt boligrente koster i byen.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump has closed the US Embassy in Brasil & all its consulate while issuing a security warning for US citizens in Brasil. This is a political stunt. We are seeing no uptick in violence, but Trump claiming Brasil is unsafe will generate negative press for Lula ahead of Sunday’s election!
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EUA fecham todos seus consulados no Brasil por ‘questão de segurança’ - ICL Notícias
No comunicado, o governo norte-americano afirma que “os serviços consulares na Embaixada e nos Consulados dos EUA no Brasil serão suspensos a partir de
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Visit the Sick Visit the Imprisoned Feed the Hungry Give Drink to the Thirsty Shelter the Homeless Bury the Dead Clothe the Naked. Saw this today as a checklist for Christians, and, as always, wondered how the Christian Right in the USA is matching up.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're a day away from the end of the US Government fiscal year, and here's the latest reported outlays (spending), obligations (commitments) and unobligated balance for the US Global Health account covering (i.a.) the HIV program PEPFAR.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My team at the NVA Lab has produced a new dashboard for exploring our data on US protests from Jan 2025-May 2026. This snapshot shows the 61k+ protest events (>14.6M+ recorded participants) active in the US since Trump's second inauguration. Link to dashboard in thread.
A platform displaying the data on US protests from the Crowd Counting Consortium. It includes a map of the US with counts of protest events in circular form overlaying the protests' locations. It also includes weekly tallies of protest events and participations, top protest issues, and various filters allowing users to explore events by location, issue, date, political valence, etc. The top of the image shows a total of 61,782 protests with 14,684,201 participants across 55 US states and territories from January 20, 2025 to May 31, 2026.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People really want the story of Trump's second term to include a lack of grass-roots protests (outside of the handful of No Kings events) and it's just not true. Listen to @chenoweth.bsky.social, folks.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're at commanding the clouds to be happy stage.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19/09/2026
To the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly: Welcome to the world’s city.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The funniest joke ever. 😂
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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is not a bad infographic.
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Mentalt handikappat boskap @toebias.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Man kan skratta, men det måste vara exakt så här högern resonerar
Högerman står i valbåset och säger till sitt barn att han vet att hen oroar sig för klimatet men nu handlar det om priset vid pump
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
More Gloria Steinem wisdom www.ft.com/content/0134...
In a 2017 interview with Time magazine, she complained about being asked, in her later years, to whom she would pass her feminist torch. "I'm keeping my torch, thank you very much,
," she replied. "And I'm using it to light
the torches of others... together, we create so much more light."
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CNN @cnn.com · 05/09/2026
The United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.
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UN votes to adopt new map that makes our world look very different | CNN
The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to adopt a new world map that reflects countries' true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The vertical one may be my favorite.
A vertical map of the world centered on China.A horizontal map of the world, centered on China.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Of course the US would be the only country to vote against it.
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UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"'We are linked,' she once said, 'not ranked.'" Sophie Gilbert on Gloria Steinem: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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Gloria Steinem’s Feminism for All
The activist and writer, who died yesterday at the age of 92, steadfastly fought for her belief that women could change the world together.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/09/2026
NEWS: New York City just recorded the safest summer in its history. From June through August, NYC saw its fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders on record. Major crime fell 6.2% year-to-date, murders plunged 24.1%, and the subway had zero murders, shootings, or rapes in August.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Strong, persuasive analysis.
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/
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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Development Assistance Committee Sinks to the Occasion? A blog for CGD. Last time ODA fell by 25%, the DAC responded with a set of development goals to motivate and target aid where it could do the most good. The goals were overly ambitious but still useful: they ended up as the MDGs...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026
Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
(Alanis Morissette intensifies)
This is not the first time Ariely has faced allegations of potential research fraud. In 2021, Data Colada found evidence of fraud in a separate paper Ariely co-authored about methods to discourage dishonesty. That article, originally published in 2012, was subsequently retracted.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/09/2026
Time is running out for the leap second ft.trib.al/SQCVmG8 | opinion
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Time is running out for the leap second
Losing it would sever contemporary clocks from their ancient astronomical roots
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/08/2026
“International humanitarian funding has contracted by almost a third since 2023, with a single-year drop of 20% in 2025 placing total assistance at its lowest level in a decade. The United States and Germany together account for nearly nine in ten dollars lost last year.”
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Tilman Brück @tilmanbrueck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Political violence (the use of force by groups for political motives) adversely affects #children and #youth, but there is limited rigorous evidence on if exposure to #politicalviolence is associated with a higher risk of subsequent interpersonal violence against adolescents and young adults. 1/4
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Young people from Peru to Madagascar to Nepal—furious with political elites reaping the spoils of privilege and corruption—are rising up to demand change. But what happens when their movements succeed?
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Why Gen-Z Is Rising | Journal of Democracy
Young people from Peru to Madagascar to Nepal—furious with political elites reaping the spoils of privilege and corruption—are rising up to demand change. But what happens when their movements succeed?
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J-PAL @j-pal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Enrollment for our free #EvaluatingSocialPrograms online course is now open! Sign up to learn how randomized evaluations can be used to measure the impact of social policies and programs. bit.ly/4y9wGKN
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Doug Walter (he/his) @dougwalter5.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“The city was close to bankruptcy in 1993, but it still wanted to promote development, so it had to go with cheapest option available, which was cycling infrastructure.”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026
a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
OTD in 1939 Adolf Hitler began his special military operation to protect ethnic Germans from persecution by Poland. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/08/2026
King Harald V of Norway obituary
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King Harald V of Norway obituary
Monarch who opened up the Norwegian royal family and its palaces to the public, and married a commoner despite his father’s opposition
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Ali Naqvi @alianaqvipro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Considering the news, I wrote about Srebrenica..rather than its perpetrator..
Ramo Osmanovich

I think about Ramo Osmanovich.
I will never meet him,
but I will think about him often
usually alone, usually at night,
not always, but often.

I think about Ramo Osmanovich,
filling up, slunk against my car,
watching eyes gather and place,
feeling the tilt away, the nervous scratch,
the suppression, the turning of face.

I think about Ramo Osmanovich,
and wonder if they think I’m nice
despite the whole, you know
“Just a kind person, gentle
Even if they are…him, though..”

I think about Ramo Osmanovich,
and wonder if he heard the radio,
if the rotting rasps of hate hung on
in his ear even if his mind spurned them
because to listen would be oblivion.

I think about Ramo Osmanovich,
because polite society no longer
thinks I am polite, and the Zahir
emerges from the Batin
as hatred makes lambent the fear.

I think about Ramo Osmanovich,
because it was never really enough;
the fitting in, the cavitation,
the acquiescence, the sigh,
then the justification.

I think about Ramo Osmanovich,
maybe he trusted in years
spent weaving threads of comity,
of blending, of sublimating
unrequited visions of parity.

I think about Ramo Osmanovich,
because, maybe, at some point
we both realise, nothing is to be done
and we should turn to our son
and just scream – run

By Ali.A.Naqvi 2026

Note: Ramo Osmanovic was captured in Srebrenica , Bosnia, by Serb forces. Ramo Osmanovic was filmed on VHS by
Serbian forces calling for his son, Nermin, to come down from the forest because it was safe. They were both found,
executed, together in a mass grave.
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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We normally think of inventions as merely technological or scientific. When and how does invention in organizations take place? Looking forward to this conversation where we celebrate the Prof. John Padgett's new book on Renaissance Italy that takes on exactly this question. Join us Sept. 1
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Reading about the Kantian example of 'crawling servility' as a failure of moral duties to oneself, and a way of dishonouring one's own person. A lot of it about at the moment.
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney, in a speech the morning after U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed:
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
'mere' authoritarians seek to capture the state & a few key sectors for fascists, every institution must brought low & made complicit in the new social order
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J-PAL @j-pal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
People affected by conflict deserve support that works. On #WorldHumanitarianDay, learn how the Humanitarian Protection Initiative (HPI) uses research to find proven ways to keep communities safe, protect mental health, and prevent violence. Read more: bit.ly/3Ua5T2m
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Eivind HM. @eivind1984.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Relatert til dette har jeg deaktivert sosiale medier en stund, og det har igrunn vært litt deilig. Har en ambisjon om å skrive mer blogg, og det har jeg ikke fått til så veldig mye, men om noen vil følge med når jeg deaktiverer igjen så er det vel antakelig her ting havner. Vi sees på RSS!
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Hva skal til for at vi forstår det? Hva skal til for at vi gjør noe?
Det har vært så mange år nå, så mange drypp, så mange små og store historier, bilder, biter og brikker. Det er vanskelig å forstå at noen ikke forstår. Hetebølgene, tørken, skogbrannene. Nedbørreko…
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
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A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
One of the worst things about right now is that individual acts immediately becomes a stand-in for some bigger thing You aren't attacking a person who believes X or did X, you are attacking X itself. Which means you can be especially cruel, because X isn't a person, it's a concept that should die
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026
First I was banned from X/Twitter. Then Facebook banned my newsletter. Then X/Twitter banned me permanently. Now YouTube disables my channel the week of my book launch. Was it something I said? 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Stack of books. The nerd Reich, Gil Duran.
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Anders @andersskyrud.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Syns fpu godt kan få kjørt seg skikkelig etter den sommerleiren de har hatt, som virker å ha vært direkte utrygg for mindreårige fordi sentrale folk i slutten av 20-åra på trassaktig vis ikke vil være woke www.vg.no/nyheter/i/zO...
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15-åring varslet ledelsen om festing på FpUs sommerleir – endte med å reise hjem
Den 15 år gamle gutten gledet seg til å dra på sin første FpU-leir. Han opplevde å bli møtt med omfattende tilgang på alkohol, og dro hjem tidlig fordi han ble skremt av festingen.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
worth saying this isn't just a British press problem, for some reason Arday was also written about extensively in mainstream national publications in the US and in France, among others, we really do have an entirely fucked up global media ecosystem
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