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Hanne Østli Jakobsen @hannejakobsen.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Palantir har avtale med: 11 lands myndigheter i Europa totalt. 8 forsvar, pluss Nato, pluss Israel. 5 politistyrker. 4 e-tjenester. Samarbeid ledet av @ftm.nl , MBs artikkel her: www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/norg...
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(+) Norge har betalt mer enn en halv milliard kroner til Palantir
Teknologiselskapet Palantir har så langt tjent mer enn 1,4 milliarder euro på å selge programvare til europeiske myndigheter, viser en internasjonal kartlegging Morgenbladet er del av. Norge har bidra...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2026
Elites are pathetic, contemptible cowards, part batrillion.
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Dagens artikkel der overskrift/ingress kobler totalstraffen direkte til ett bestemt tiltalepunkt, du må lese langt ned i artikkelen for å overhodet få med deg at han ble dømt for mye annet også, og det overhodet ikke nevnes at straffen for overskrifts-punktet alene ville ha blitt radikalt kortere.
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Ropte «jævla muslimer»: Må i fengsel
Aktor ønsket 120 dagers fengsel, men domstolen falt ned på at 45 dager i fengsel er passende straff.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.
NYT headline: A provocative streamer creates headaches for El-Sayed in key Senate race
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 10/09/2026
På forsiden samtidig.
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Øivind Bergh @essensielt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Han har faktisk postet dette! Vil den som mener at fyren ikke er en syk narsissist rekke oppbhands, så skal vi ta en alvorsprat?
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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 27/08/2026
Les denne tråden. Det skumleste her er hvordan hun bruker stammespråket fra ytterste høyrekant. Tenk hvordan mediedietten hennes må være. Tenk hvilke facebook-grupper hun påvirkes av. Hvor mange i Høyre er sånn? Hvor mange har de samme nyhetsskildene, deltar i de samme chattene? Dritskummelt.
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Anders Møller-Stray @amstray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Jeg synes faktisk ikke Qobuz er så ille? 95% av brukervennligheten til Spotify, og tusen ganger så bra behandling av de som faktisk lager musikken. Funker fjell!
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: New docuseries exposes ICE's cruelty. Masuma Khan went to a routine immigration check-in and was imprisoned. Her story is told in Episode 1 of Fractured, a docuseries on the human toll of ICE enforcement. Watch the full episode at fractured-stories.com
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Fractured — The Stories of Those Left Behind
Fractured is a social media series documenting the emotional, financial and societal impacts of ICE/CBP actions. Capturing the stories of those left behind.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Whether it’s Pete Hegseth overseeing missile depletion, food shortages, and sailor suicide attempts or Lloyd Austin being Black, both secretaries of defense have angered portions of the electorate.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The muted reaction to Trump's vow to make the Strait of Hormuz "a territory of the United States" is based on the widespread belief by the media and politicians that the commander of the most powerful military on Earth doesn’t need to be taken seriously. We are living in a time of madness.
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Trump says he plans to declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday that he plans to declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory after “we finish defeating Iran.”
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Gaute B. Skjervø @gautebs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Det har ikke manglet på betydningsfulle stemmer både i politikk og media som i stillhet har takket meg, eller sagt seg enige. Ofte etter et par glass. Flere av dem gir uttrykk for at de ikke selv orker å ta kampen mot Document når jeg spør dem. Noen mener mediene ikke kan kritisere hverandre slik 6/
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Gaute B. Skjervø @gautebs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jeg har forståelse for at folk i mediebransjen mener ungdomspolitikere må holde avstand til pressens interne prosesser og vurderinger. Men som en av dem som har kjent det høyreradikale sinnet på kroppen i lang tid er det absurd hvilken berøringsangst mediene selv har overfor Document. 9.
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Gaute B. Skjervø @gautebs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Gikk en liten tur innom noen av delingene på sakene fra Document nå i kveld. Dette er ikke normalt.
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Gaute B. Skjervø @gautebs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Document får særbehandling. Hvordan hadde medie-Norge sett ut dersom følgende skjedde: - Lars Joakim Skarvøy raser på TikTok fordi lystløgneren Kirsti Bergstø ikke vil møte ham til debatt. - Sigrid Sollund skjeller ut Kristin Clemet for å være feig wokist i sin egen podcast utgitt av NRK. 1/
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Part of the reason DEI, in particular, has proven notably durable into the age of performative anti-wokeness is that a lot of private entities genuinely believe in the underlying principle! They know that having a more diverse workforce actually helps them function better in different ways.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/08/2026
I think everyone on this site, but especially the recent rash of reply-guys, would do well to remember that we're on a niche social media site mostly populated by liberal political obsessives & no one else is paying much attention & nothing much we say here matters at all. Loosen up, have some fun.
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The “get politics out of sports” crowd is sure having a normal one
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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 03/08/2026
Vil du lese en tekst om Elon Musk som _ikke_ har berøringsanganst for det faktum at han er en høyreekstremist? Da har du flaks, for jeg har skrevet den! Les, lik, del og bekjemp fascismen!
dagsavisen.no
Etter 22. juli
Anders Behring Breivik har sonet isolert i femten år. Likevel er ideene hans mer utbredt enn noen gang.
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Eivind Trædal @eivindtraedal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Meget bra fra @magnusforsberg.no www.dagsavisen.no/kommentar/et...
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Etter 22. juli
Anders Behring Breivik har sonet isolert i femten år. Likevel er ideene hans mer utbredt enn noen gang.
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Tor Opsvik @torops.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Erza Klein mener i hvert fall det. bsky.app/profile/beye...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For years, Telegraph columnists told us climate breakdown is a hoax. Now they say: it's real, but it's too late to do anything about it, so let the bodies pile high (again). Just one long list of excuses not to reduce fossil fuel use. Such newspapers bear as much responsibility as the oil firms.
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Didrik Spøkelind 👻 @didriksoderlind.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Jeg jobber litt på dette feltet. Så vidt jeg vet har det å inkludere muslimske trossamfunn i paraplyorganisasjoner som Samarbeidsrådet for Tros- og Livssynssamfunn, og sørge for at de kan finansieres med norske penger fungert modererende og integrerende. Slik kan det skapes et norsk islam.
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Anders @andersskyrud.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Skulle ønske norsk presse kunne skrive om hvor direkte EKSTREME tweetsa til Elon Musk har blitt de siste månedene, for folk ser på deg som om du er totalt sprø som et knekkebrød hvis du prøver å forklare det til ikke-terminalt-online folk. Han er ikke bare eieren av Tesla lenger.
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
He really may be about to cave in. That would explain the oil price decline and the odd lack of Pentagon reaction to Houthi escalation. Insiders are trading on knowledge of Trump giving up.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Say you're a bush pilot flying food, clean water, and medicine to a remote town. One day, you decide you just don't feel like doing it. People in the town die because they didn't get meds in time. Are you responsible for those deaths? Bremmer says "obviously" no. I say obviously, undoubtedly, yes.
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Eivind Trædal @eivindtraedal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Dette er toppen av kransekaka. For en gjeng med feiginger. SELVFØLGELIG ER DET RELEVANT! I stedet skal Aftenposten altså renvaske de høyreekstreme kreftene bak denne oppkonstruerte kampanjen.
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Eivind Trædal @eivindtraedal.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Denne posten mener altså Jon Helgheim er «politisk og feilaktig propaganda». Helt sprøtt hvordan enkelte går helt i svart hvis klima og global oppvarming blir nevnt.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/07/2026
Spain edited Trump out of its celebratory photo.
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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 10/07/2026
Klimatiltak er så dyrt.
nrk.no
Hetebølgene i Europa: – Kan plassere Norge i skuddlinjen for styrtregn
Når Europa koker, fungerer kontinentet som en gigantisk «værbryter», ifølge klimaforsker Hans Olav Hygen. For Norge kan det slå ut i to vidt forskjellige retninger: Enten skyhøye temperaturer og tørke...
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Jan Arild Snoen @snoen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE dreper igjen.
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-res...
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A Response to Matt Yglesias About ‘Fight’ in Democratic Candidates
This morning on Bluesky Politico’s Josh Gerstein flagged to me and others...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s death wasn’t a tragedy. It never needed happen. And as with the others like him, I suspect we’ll at some point see the evidence that it was a crime. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 08/07/2026
Good News: Bryan Johnson is dying. Just like the rest of us. His recent diagnosis is a brutal reality check for the sick billionaires who seek to rule the world...and live forever. www.thenerdreich.com/bryan-johnso...
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Bryan Johnson's Diagnosis Exposes Billionaire Death Panic
Pallid mascot of Silicon Valley’s death panic gets a brutal reality check
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative
The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.
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Harry Rasmussen 🇨🇦 @harryrasmussen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“Authorities from France to the Netherlands are quietly removing American tech from their systems, adopting European open-source software and urging civil servants to no longer use Microsoft Teams or Office.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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‘There Is No Going Back’: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America
Trump’s tariffs, threats against Greenland spurred a rebellion by top leaders; the limits of “flattery diplomacy.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/07/2026
Americans are now so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many of them seem genuinely not to understand why the world was rooting for Belgium.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
He's falling apart
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Kristin @kthftw.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Dette. Det ekstreme fokuset på topping og elite på et tidlig tidspunkt handler utelukkende om å degge med følelsene til foreldrene som av en eller annen grunn ønsker å ødelegge barndommen til ungene sine
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Man I hate this attitude so so much
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Christopher Pahle @tophepahle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Og da har jeg ikke engang nevnt algoritmene kontrollert av utenlandske, antidemokratiske rovkapitalkrefter som har som forretningsmodell å helle bensin på dette hatet, som myndighetene servilt bøyer kneet for og tenker det er null behov for å tøyle.
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Christopher Pahle @tophepahle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Hvis du ikke omfavner norsk kultur, er du ikke norsk nok. Hvis du viser noe som helst form for nasjonal stolthet, skal du holdes utenfor. Hvis du stenger kommentarfeltet er du mot ytringsfrihet. Du kan ikke vinne. Dette bør gjøre ALLE forbanna. Dette bør ALLE stå opp mot.
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Ro-videoen til innvandrerkvinnene fikk nettet til å koke av hat
Etter at innvandrerkvinnenes ro-video ble lagt ut på Instagram tok det fyr. Kommentarfeltet flommet over av rasisme og hat.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
With these malicious prosecutions of people who he felt embarrassed his absurd projects, Trump is effectively reinventing the old feudal crime of lèse-majesté - injuring the dignity of the sovereign
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