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Ole K. Tørresen

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Ole K. Tørresen @oletoerresen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
En viktig faktaopplysning fra NRK, men hører nok hjemme i en sak om Bergen. Fra: www.nrk.no/artikkel/ber...
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Solbakken et al. compared lanternfish genomes, finding great flexibility in their immune systems, challenging perceptions of vertebrate immunity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Loss of Major Histocompatibility Complex I and II Function in the Genome of Glacier Lanternfish Provides Insight Into Evolution of Vertebrate Immune Systems
Abstract. Lanternfishes (Myctophidae) are one of the most abundant and species diverse orders inhabiting the mesopelagic zone. Exploitation of marine resou
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Vertebrate Genomes Project @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨 MANUSCRIPT ALERT 🚨 The VGP Phase I manuscript pre-print is now live on bioRxiv! 🧬 doi.org/10.64898/202... Over 8 years, the VGP generated reference genomes for more than 800 vertebrate species, spanning ~95% of vertebrate orders and delivering some of the highest-quality genomes ever produced.
A graphic announcing the release of the Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase 1 manuscript on bioRxiv with drawings of various vertebrate creatures.The title and author list of the VGP manuscript, "The Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase I: A global reference genome resource"A QR code linking to the pre-print of the VGP manuscript
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bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A chromosome-level genome assembly of the Eurasian great grey owl, Strix nebulosa lapponica (Thunberg 1798) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Miljøpartiet De Grønne @mdg.no · 12/06/2026
Gratulerer med nytt slagord, Krf!
Vi fant tavla Krf brukte da de lagde sitt nye slagord:

Advarsel om satire

Tavle med følgende ord skrevet med tusj

Beelsebul befaler ??
Biff
Barmhjertighet
Beliggenhet, beliggenhet, beliggenhet
Bibel
Bistand
Bunad, brystmelk og bollefredag
Brus, bakst
og Bollestad
Brun, blid og binær

Blowjob ???
Béarnaise
Bønn, bønner og bønder

Baby, bolig og bil 

siste har rød ring rundt seg, de andre har kryss
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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Eddy received a letter from the [NIH], informing him that his work "had been determined to be of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer, and therefore it was being specifically terminated," he recalls. Eddy says he has given up on any dream that his funding would be restored”
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
#dna #captcha
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Jon Lien @jonlien.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
22. derfor er det så idiotisk når vi snakker om viktige og uviktige fag. Man kan ha personlig oppfatning, me skal du ta politiske beslutninger så må du bruke fakta. Og faktumet er at du har ingen anelse hva som har mest verdi for samfunnet vårt. Og derfor bør vi støtte et svært bredt felt. Fin
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Lee Hsiang Liow (廖珕庠) @lhliow.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The wonderful @baalsrud.bsky.social led work on a new #bryozoan genome (Flustra foliacea) adding to their macrosynteny story with @oletoerresen.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social & others @biovitenskap.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jhered/advan... @biovitenskap.bsky.social
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Chromosomal Fusions Shaped the Genome of the Greater Hornwrack Bryozoan (Flustra Foliacea) (Linnaeus, 1758)
Abstract. The phylum Bryozoa is an understudied, yet commonly-occurring, globally distributed bilaterian metazoan organismal group. They have a colonial li
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Didrik Spøkelind 👻 @didriksoderlind.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
En kjempemorsom men også alvorlig artikkel om hva "mannosfæren" prøver å gjøre med unge menn. Fra den kjempewoke publikasjonen (sjekker notater) Playboy
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The Manosphere Isn't Even Having Fun
The Manosphere is so busy performing masculinity and putting on hateful shows that it seems they've lost the plot.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We had endless articles and TV clips about Biden's mental capacity but silence about Trump's obvious unfitness when he says he's going to start a war with Denmark over Greenland because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.
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VeloNitram (Ludditt) 📎 @velonitram.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Da er tallene ute. 1300 skadde på elsparkesykkel i Oslo i fjor. En skade koster samfunnet fra 20.000 (legevakt) til 147.000 (sykehus døgn) så fjoråret kostet skattebetalerne minimum 97,5 millioner.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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Ole K. Tørresen @oletoerresen.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Denne var bra: www.nrk.no/ytring/seige...
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Seige myter om sterke jenter
Jentene må gripe vektstanga og løfte tungt. Det er på tide å knuse noen myter.
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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 23/12/2025
Her kommer den moralistiske venstresiden (meg) og påstår at det er dumt når Arbeiderpartiet sier én ting og gjør noe helt annet. Skriver i @dagsavisen.bsky.social i dag om små og store løftebrudd fra et stadig mer maktarrogant Arbeiderparti. Lik og del og god jul!
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Løgner, forbannede løgner og rammen rundt all politikk
Ikke piss meg i øret og si at det regner.
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Jørgen Modalsli @modals.li · 18/12/2025
Fully funded Ph.D. position in economics open - please apply and/or inform your promising students! Application deadline 28 February. www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-... This is an open-topic fellowship, with research proposals aligned with the economics group's research interests being given priority.
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PhD Fellowship position in Economics at Oslo Business School, OsloMet
Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with 23,000 students and over 2,600 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students and conduct...
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Check out this new #AJB On the Nature of Things essay! #Pangenomes as a framework for adaptive radiation, speciation & adaptation By @nicolo-tellini.bsky.social , Ole Tørresen, David Edwards, Loren Rieseberg, Kjetill Jakobsen & José Cerca doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #evolution
Scalesia gordilloi, part of a large adaptive radiation of Asteraceae in the Galápagos.
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Ole K. Tørresen @oletoerresen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Sist jeg sjekka var ikke 8 færre enn halvparten av 15.
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Kjetill S Jakobsen @kjetillsj.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Article alert: Maurstad, Hoff; Cerca et al. Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations. Now out in Genome Biol. Congrats to Sissel and the team😀 doi.org/10.1186/s130...
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Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations - Genome Biology
Background Whole-genome sequencing efforts, have during the past decade, unveiled the central role of genomic rearrangements—such as chromosomal inversions—in evolutionary processes, including local a...
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The T2T zebra finch genome has hatched! 🐣 🧬 @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social
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dave @davembmd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social
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Ole K. Tørresen @oletoerresen.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Kan ikke Jabob, Filip og Henrik la Gjert får patent på "Ingebrigtsen metoden", så kan de heller få patent på "Ingebrigtsen-metoden" sjøl? Litt rart å ta patent på noe som er skrevet feil... Hegerlenke: www.tv2.no/underholdnin...
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Ole K. Tørresen @oletoerresen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Jeg tror jeg ville beholdt de 30 kiloene og sixpacken for å være ærlig.
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Cool preprint! 🚨 Lanternfish lack MHC I and functional MHC II — yet still produce antibodies! 🧬🐟 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The genome of the Glacier lanternfish shows loss of MHC I and II function and provides insight into evolution of lanternfish immune systems
Lanternfishes (Myctophidae) are one of the most abundant and species diverse orders inhabiting the mesopelagic zone. Exploitation of marine resources has recently attracted increased interest. It is t...
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Ole K. Tørresen @oletoerresen.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Denne var fin og rørende: www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/ro... Vi skulle hatt mer konkurranse, men virker som det er vanskelig å få til.
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Robin versus matgigantene
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
@robinaraya.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social et al. investigate TEs in four large inversions in Atlantic cod - TEs accumulate in breakpoints, suggesting they drive inversions through ectopic recombination. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf131 #genome #evolution #TEsky
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Chromosomal Inversions Mediated by Tandem Insertions of Transposable Elements
Abstract. Chromosomal inversions play a crucial role in evolution by influencing phenotypes through the linkage of coadapted alleles. While inversions have
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Kjetill S Jakobsen @kjetillsj.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Short tandem repeats driving adaptation in a changing environment - population genomics of Atlantic puffin - finally out 😀https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evaf162/8237912
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms, structural variants and short tandem repeats capture distinct signals of adaptive divergence in the Atlantic puffin
Abstract. The Arctic has been the scene for (re)colonization, diversification and adaptation of boreal and Arctic fauna. As anthropogenic warming of the Ar
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Kjetill S Jakobsen @kjetillsj.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Presence of DNA transposons in the breakpoints of the inverted genotype in Atlantic cod - perhaps also the case for many other species? Great to see this finally out academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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Chromosomal Inversions Mediated by Tandem Insertions of Transposable Elements
Abstract. Chromosomal inversions play a crucial role in evolution by influencing phenotypes through the linkage of coadapted alleles. While inversions have
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Kjetill S Jakobsen @kjetillsj.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Are they the same species with different life history strategies or clearly different species? Comparison of whole-genome assemblies of European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis) and brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri) url: academic.oup.com/jhered/artic...
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Comparison of whole-genome assemblies of European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis) and brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri)
Abstract. We present haplotype-resolved whole-genome assemblies from one individual European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis) and one individual brook
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🆕 ✨ New publication out: Chromosomal Inversions Mediated by Tandem Insertions of Transposable Elements We find that transposable elements are the likely mechanism of (some) inversions in cod fishes! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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Chromosomal Inversions Mediated by Tandem Insertions of Transposable Elements
Abstract. Chromosomal inversions play a crucial role in evolution by influencing phenotypes through the linkage of coadapted alleles. While inversions have
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Tomas @tomasbv.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Høyre ønsker å innføre moms på bøker. Ikke bare det, men de vil ha høyeste sats. Vet folk det? www.nrk.no/buskerud/hoy...
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Høyre vil ha dyrere bøker – vil øke prisen med 25 prosent
Leseferdigheten synker og det norske språket trues av engelsk. Høyre vil likevel innføre moms på bøker.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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Kjetill S Jakobsen @kjetillsj.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
A century of anthropogenic perturbations impact genomic signatures of the iconic migratory Atlantic cod | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A century of anthropogenic perturbations impact genomic signatures of the iconic migratory Atlantic cod
Retrospective assessment of the iconic migratory Atlantic cod uncovers human-induced genome-wide changes during the last century.
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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🖥🧬🦠🧪🔬Major OrthoFinder update!
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Steve Magness @stevemagness.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It's here! My Training History Manifesto. A very DEEP dive into the history of training to show you how we got here, why we know what works & more. It traces training from the 1860s to present day. I wrote it because it's much needed for coaches AND scientists. open.substack.com/pub/stevemag...
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My Training History Manifesto
How Training's Natural Evolution Tells Us What Works
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bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Chromosome-level assembly of the octoploid cloudberry(Rubus chamaemorus) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Aarhus University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics, or bioinformatics for biodiversity research. More info: www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/tenure-… #job
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Research Using Genetics - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Center for Kvantitativ Genetik og Genomforskning, Aarhus, Aarhus Universitet
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Hasse Hope @hassehope.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Wolfgang møter Musk
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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Join us in beautiful Oslo! Associate Professor @ocbe.bsky.social @uio.no Deadline May 18th www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo
Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025
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Runa Sandvik @runasand.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A team of journalists in Norway spent a year secretly monitoring a credit card fraud gang to uncover who's behind it and how they operate. Here's the story -- in English -- of how they unmasked Darcula and the crime-as-a-service software Magic Cat. www.nrk.no/dokumentar/x...
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The scammers have tricked millions through text messages:
Who are they and how do they scam us?
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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
[Please share] 📢‼️ I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
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Ole K. Tørresen @oletoerresen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Det finnes jo veldig mye annet, og bedre, øl enn Ringnes, så dette er ikke så ille. En god anledning til å teste noe annet: e24.no/naeringsliv/... Og så får vi tro de kommer til enighet som begge partner kan leve med relativt raskt.
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Streikevarsel: Utepilsen kan ryke
Dersom LO og NHO ikke blir enige, tas snaut 700 Ringnes-ansatte ut i streik fra onsdag. Samtidig varsler meteorologene sydenvarme på Østlandet.
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
[Please share widely] Come work at the U. of Oslo. We are advertising a 3-year postdoc in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics. If working with plant evolution in the Galápagos, pangenome and structural variants sounds exciting for you - this may be your chance! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics (277333) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics (277333), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, April 9, 2025
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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant
Egan et al. report the discovery of a new trophic interaction in nature whereby a parasitic plant attacks multiple species of insects that manipulate plant tissue when the two co-occur on a shared pri...
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Arild Hermstad @arildher.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Dette er så nedrig fra Tesla-sjefen at jeg blir kvalm. Tiden for å selge aksjer i selskapet er nå, og jeg håper finansminister Jens tar en telefon til Tangen asap og ber han selge aksjene og avslutte vennskapet med Musk.
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Olsen2610 @olsen2610.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Eivind Trædal @eivindtraedal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Donald Trump and Norway’s worst terrorist shared the same nefarious quote. A coincidence? I hope so. www.youtube.com/shorts/jkwmv...
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Donald Trump and Norway’s worst terrorist shared the same nefarious quote. A coincidence? I hope so.
YouTube video by Eivind Trædal
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