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Morten Overbye

@morten.bsky.social
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Company builder. Former journalist and editor at Dagbladet, VG, and CNN. London cameo in book about Russian spies.

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Morten Overbye @morten.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Republicans are blocking the release of the Epstein files they insist don’t exist, while also maintaining they contain nothing about Donald Trump, yet were somehow authored by Hillary Clinton.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/07/2025
Republicans are blocking the release of the Epstein files. I wonder why.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2025
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Russia deliberately targeted rescuers in Kherson with a drone as they arrived to deal with a fire from a Russian strike. Thankfully, the rescuers reacted quickly, were able to hide and were not hurt by the Russian drone.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/06/2025
If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge. Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden. This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy. It’s not America. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
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Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Anyone who supports this war with Iran is officially one of the baddies. You can tune them out and if they are an elected official, it's time to primary them. Enough of hateful war hawks who sow chaos to feed the military industrial complex and their bellies.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Biggest dumbass ever is in charge when we are the closest ever to deciding if we go to war on Iran, and this isn’t the first time that has been true in the past decade somehow
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GingerSpice💙 @thedesertginger.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
He's so good at this 😆
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Weird how the “we’re broke” crowd goes quiet whenever war is on the table But we have to throw 11 million off health care, cut food stamps, etc right?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
If any Democratic president used a military audience as partisan prop, Republicans would melt down. The press would melt down. It was considered unthinkable until Trump showed R's and the media that oligarchic rule was within their reach.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
REMINDER! Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still imprisoned in El Salvador after the U.S. government illegally sent him there in March. The Trump administration is still resisting facilitating his return, despite having been ordered to do so by judges at every level of the court system!
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Very good job by Shaw with Hawley's usual sarcastic approach. (Familiar if you watch Judiciary hearings - reframe witness's position as crazy, goad them into disagreeing, then say hey check out this smart guy who can't defend the position.)
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/05/2025
MAKE NOISE ON THIS ONE‼️ They didn’t just deport him—they sent him to CECOT in El Salvador. Agelviz came here legally through the refugee resettlement program—fully vetted. But when he landed in Houston, CBP snatched him over a tattoo: a clock and a rose. No charges. No record. Just a suspicion.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This seems like a big deal
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Congrats to all Republicans and 16 Democrats for passing the Bribing The President Is Legal Now Act. A cool side effect of this bill is it makes it considerably easier for your kid to buy fentanyl-laced narcotics from a new class of predators on Minecraft, also likely created by this bill.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2025
Statement from the NJAG Matt Platkin
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/05/2025
he thinks American voters are really dumb
“The Boeing 747 is being given to the United States Air Force/Department of Defense, NOT TO ME! It is a gift from a Nation, Qatar, that we have successfully defended for many years. It will be used by our Government as a temporary Air Force One, until such time as our new Boeings, which are very late on delivery, arrive. Why should our military, and therefore our taxpayers, be forced to pay hundreds of millions of Dollars when they can get it for FREE from a country that wants to reward us for a job well done. This big savings will be spent, instead, to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Only a FOOL would not accept this gift on behalf of our Country. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Buttigieg: I’m not even an elected official or running for anything— I’m here. I can’t help but notice a lot of people who are elected officials aren’t. There’s a reason for that. They don’t want to have to explain this stuff
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
So many layers of corruption.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/05/2025
Let’s break this down—because the gaslighting is wild: 📌Oct 2022 – Biden signs EO to cut drug prices 📌Jan 2025 – Trump takes office and kills Biden’s EO to cut drug prices 📌May 2025 – Trump signs his own EO to lower drug prices Trump canceled Biden’s plan then brought it back w/his name on it.
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Morten Overbye @morten.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Welcome to Qatar Airways flight Air Force One. Now boarding: America First passengers.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12/05/2025
Happy tariff capitulation day to all who celebrate.
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Morten Overbye @morten.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
You’d have to be truly hooked on cocaine, disinformation, or both to see a tissue lying on the table between Macron, Merz, and Starmer and instantly assume it’s a bag of cocaine.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Within the Secret Service, the potential gifting of a plane by a foreign government for presidential use is being viewed as a “security nightmare,” a law enforcement source said. “The (US Air Force) would have to tear it apart looking for surveillance equipment & inspect the integrity of the plane."
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Trump says US government plans to accept luxury jet following reports of multimillion-dollar gift from Qatar | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Sunday night that the Defense Department plans to accept a Boeing 747-8 jet to replace Air Force One as a “GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE.”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Remember when people thought Presidents making cash on book deals and speaking fees after they left office was vaguely corrupt?
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Morten Overbye @morten.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Donald Trump’s deputy OMB director apparently believes over 3,000 people died in a parking lot outside a New Jersey detention center yesterday. This administration treats ignorance like it’s a superpower.
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 10/05/2025
This is a full scale war on our Democracy and Freedom. www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...
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Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident
"There will likely be more arrests coming," a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.
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Morten Overbye @morten.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
If they believed their actions were lawful, why was Mayor Baraka denied entry to the facility? If they were confident arresting the mayor was legal, why did they hide their identities? How much longer will the Supreme Court allow this open defiance of the rule of law?
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
First they arrested a judge. Now they’ve arrested the mayor of a major American city. This isn’t normal. This is an assault on democracy.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
We are in a five alarm 🔥 this administration keeps habitually line stepping. Arresting Mayor Barakas should shake every American to their core. Rep Menendez (D-NJ) doesn’t mince words on how ICE is abusing its powers. Democrats stay fucking loud!📢📢
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A true scandal. One of the biggest free speech violations of our lifetimes and yet the people who screamed about free speech on campus for the past decade were either responsible for the violation (Trump, GOP) or ran cover for it and enabled it (Bari Weiss, Fox, etc).
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Morten Overbye @morten.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Morons are governing America.
Trump on truth social Lutnik on X
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Warnock: Georgia officials said they were sorry but their hands were tied, you can’t vote the first weekend of the runoff after the holiday so I decided to untie them, I sued them. And I won… They appealed asking for emergency relief. Emergency relief from what? People voting?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/05/2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
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RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.
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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/05/2025
Breaking News: Kamala Harris warned of a constitutional crisis and praised outspoken Democrats in her first major speech since leaving Washington in January.
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Harris Returns to Political Life, Warning of a Constitutional Crisis
Kamala Harris has rarely spoken out after leaving Washington in January. In her first major address since then, she acknowledged Democratic fears and praised leaders who were speaking out.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Canada just delivered the first clear bellwether of what’s coming for Trump and the Republicans.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 29/04/2025
Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable #CanadaVotes #cdnpoli
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 29/04/2025
Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory. The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Carney: We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves and above all, we have to take care of each other.
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Morten Overbye @morten.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Can you point to even one way the CECOT prison in El Salvador — used by the Trump administration to detain people indefinitely without due process — fails to meet Encyclopedia Britannica’s definition of a concentration camp?
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