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Vladimir Putin tapte i Serbia. Donald Trump tapte i Brasil. Demokratiet seiret, og med ett var verden et lettere sted å puste. | Morten Strand i Dagbladet www.dagbladet.no/meninger/dem...

The Federal Communications Commission is ramping up Trump’s war on “fake polls” as it looks to be a bloodbath for Republicans this election. trib.al/fSsfZLu

Why Zelensky Took the Gloves Off This Time With Trump Staying quiet is riskier than speaking up, Ukrainian officials say, as President Trump goes farther than ever in prioritizing Russia’s interests.

Trump just claimed the United States had done “a lot” for Ukraine, but that Ukraine has done “nothing” for the United States. This is unjust in the highest degree. And not just untrue in the normal sense — it is a big lie, designed to bring about horror and chaos. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-big...

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

The BBC has subpoenaed Jack Smith as part of Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the media company. trib.al/rCJMvkw

⚡️️What Russia's doing to Ukraine is 'fine,' Trump says. "Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much," Trump said, hours after a Russian drone strike in a public park killed six people, including two children.

This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Ja, hvor lenge skal vi fortsette å legitimere Elon Musk med Oljefondet, da dere? #dax18

A federal judge blocked the Justice Department’s policy of gathering voter registration lists from states, running names through a federal database and telling states to remove suspected noncitizens.

Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

Russia is the enemy of humanity

“Under Donald Trump, the formula for American authoritarianism has been distressingly simple: Trump crosses one line after another—usurping congressional powers, mounting an insurrection, ordering prosecutions of his enemies—and Republicans go along.”

Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.

Ydstebø er bekymret for at Raymond Johansen er for ytterliggående i sin kritikk av Israel #dax18

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Har skrevet kronikk med de dyktige folka Inga Strümke og Ida Thorsrud, om regjeringens ugyldige argumenter mot å innføre forbud mot Metas smartbriller.

Jeg tenkte at alle sikkert lurer (veldig) på hva jeg mener om VM i fotball og Norge og Oslo. Derfor denne artikkelen, som er gratis:

Dette er mer enn én telefon fra Trump til Infantino. Det er Det hvite hus med Howard Lutnick og sønnen til Rudy Giuliani. Det er det amerikanske fotballforbundet med hjelp fra advokater i Det hvite hus. Og det er så motbydelig som bare Trump får til. #dax18 www.politico.com/live-updates...

Jeg merker meg to ting: 1) Aftenposten utmerker seg med å ha en stall av kommentatorer som inntar en trans-kritisk linje 2) Aftenpodden-gjengen var over seg av begeistring da grifteren Bari Weiss slapp sin dokumentar om JK Rowling, og anbefalte den helhjertet. www.m24.no/aftenposten-...

Vi sikret 100 millioner til Oslofjorden! 🐟 Pengene skal bidra til å få livet tilbake til fjorden, med naturrestaurering, fjerning av vrakbåter, nitrogenfjerning, sterkere oppfølging av fiskeforbud og støtte til fiskere som må omstille seg. Sånn motiverte til å kjempe videre for en ren Oslofjord! 💚

OTD in 1989 absolutely nothing happened at #Tiananmen Square. Anyone who says otherwise will disappear.

👀 The opening day of Putin's St. Petersburg International Economic Forum features a stark reality check with a vital oil terminal ablaze.

⚡NATO chief Mark Rutte issued a direct warning to Russian youth, stating they are being deceived and "sent to die" in Ukraine. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

«A special tribunal akin to Nuremberg will not only force Russia to explain its culpability, it will show how vital it is to uphold international law.» #ruleoflaw #StandWithUkraine www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I to og et halvt år har disse to messet om at Oslo står på kanten av det økonomiske stupet. Jeg har ikke tatt det med en klype salt, men en sekk grov havsalt. Les, lik og del (som vi sa i gamle dager).

The European Commission will adopt a decision this week that would privilege European satellite operators in a move designed to curb the European expansion of Elon Musk´s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Kristenkonservatismen har et påfallende selektivt forhold til frihet, skriver Lars Fr. H. Svendsen:

Den ukrainske ambassadøren er i Kirkenes og har svært mye interessant å si. Kanskje vi skal se mer på «fight» enn på flight-strategi i grenseområdene? Sterk tale uansett. Fra en venn med skoene på, for å si det mildt. «You can not outrun totalitarian evil».

The EU’s six largest economies want to break political deadlocks preventing the bloc from creating a U.S.-style financial market in a crunch meeting later this month.

Norge må finne tryggere alternativer som ikke er knyttet til Trump eller andre autoritære regimer.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

A decisive step for Europe’s digital future. The European Commission has awarded a €180 million, 6-year contract to European cloud providers, strengthening our capacity to manage sensitive data under EU rules. 1/2

Jeg skriver i @dagsavisen.bsky.social i dag om norske mediers manglende forståelse for botter, falske kontoer, astroturfing og alt annet som kan få engasjement til å fremstå større enn det virkelig er. Fint om dere liker og deler fra alle kontoene deres!

Just after Israel's attack on Hezbollah in 2024, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government offered issistance to Iran, the key sponsor of Hezbollah. And now Vance is in Budapest, supporting Orban. From Catherine Belton wapo.st/41RvEFd

"Among the president’s initial war goals—preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon; eliminating its ballistic-missile capabilities; ...overthrow of the regime; and eradicating Iranian proxies in the Persian Gulf—none have been met." from Nancy Yousseff www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

TV2 gjør det alle medier nå burde gjøre - trekke inn psykiatrisk ekspertise i et forsøk på å forstå Trump. Les intervjuet med Jon Gerhard Reichelt, tidligere sjef for Forsvarets sanitet og psykiater i Forsvarets spesialkommando - nå også kjent fra Kompani Lauritzen. www.tv2.no/nyheter/mili...

In Hungarian election, Trump and Putin are backing Viktor Orban www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

A joint journalistic investigation found out that Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó had acted on behalf of Russia to delist sanctioned Russians and try to repeal an EU sanctions package. This call is from August 30, 2024. Link to full story in first comment.

"All this time Putin had, and still has, a mole in all European and NATO official meetings. If the integrity of these meetings is to be maintained, it would be appropriate to ban Hungary from all of them. Every generation has a Kim Philby” theins.press/en/inv/29091...

The US tried to pressure Ukraine to surrender. Instead, this is what is still happening, every day

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

"To call ICE agents Trump’s Brownshirts would be an exaggeration, but not by much." ✍️ Ian Buruma https://bit.ly/4cej49A

"De siste 20 - 30 årene har vi importert praksiser som langsomt undergraver våre institusjoner." Les @bentsofus.bsky.social i Klassekampen om amerikaniseringen av det norske samfunnet, og hva følgene blir når vi lar USA sette standarden for våre egne valg. klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

World press is reacting to the U.S-Israel bombing of Iran. The Argentinean @pagina12ok.bsky.social says one is "knocking on the gates of hell". @politiken.dk warns that the "consequences are unpredictable". @elperiodico.com says "and now...Iran". @tagesspiegel.de writes "New war in the Middle East".

This is an excellent @propublica.org long read on one of the most dangerous men in the U.S.: Russell Vought.