håvard mokleiv nygård
@havardmn.bsky.social
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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Musk: Reality is probably a simulation
Also Musk: Race is definitely real
Also Musk: Race is definitely real
December 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Musk: Reality is probably a simulation
Also Musk: Race is definitely real
Also Musk: Race is definitely real
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵
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I am ratcheting down my social media, but let me just say that all European leaders except on the far Right should note that the U.S. now seeks regime change in their country; basically seeks to depose them. US strategy is to support the political forces that threaten liberal democracy in Europe.
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I am ratcheting down my social media, but let me just say that all European leaders except on the far Right should note that the U.S. now seeks regime change in their country; basically seeks to depose them. US strategy is to support the political forces that threaten liberal democracy in Europe.
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The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular.
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular.
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Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
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This seems incredible to read, as it could come straight out of an Orbán 2015-16 speech, but this has actually been a dominant position within the broader U.S. Right for decades. 🧵
Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This seems incredible to read, as it could come straight out of an Orbán 2015-16 speech, but this has actually been a dominant position within the broader U.S. Right for decades. 🧵
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Jeg har ikke lest Bech Holtes nyeste bok, men jeg leste den forrige han skrev. Den virket mer som en slags meningsytring enn analyse når SSB gikk etter tallene hans i sømmene. @havardmn.bsky.social fotsetter der SSB slapp, og viser at det kan være tilfelle også denne gang.
www.dn.no/innlegg/bist...
www.dn.no/innlegg/bist...
Hva er Bech Holtes alternativ for dem som ikke ble født i et land som ble for rikt?
Vi har omfattende vitenskapelig belegg for at bistand virker. Ofte vet vi også hva som virker best.
www.dn.no
December 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Jeg har ikke lest Bech Holtes nyeste bok, men jeg leste den forrige han skrev. Den virket mer som en slags meningsytring enn analyse når SSB gikk etter tallene hans i sømmene. @havardmn.bsky.social fotsetter der SSB slapp, og viser at det kan være tilfelle også denne gang.
www.dn.no/innlegg/bist...
www.dn.no/innlegg/bist...
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Turns out they/them pronouns are useful when you want to distance yourself from responsibility for the war crimes.
Hegseth: "As President Trump always has our back, we always have the back of our commanders who are making decisions in difficult situations. All these strikes, they're making judgement calls ensuring they defend the American people. They've done the right things. We'll keep doing that."
December 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Turns out they/them pronouns are useful when you want to distance yourself from responsibility for the war crimes.
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«Også Ap lyt ta inn over seg nokre realitetar. Noreg har vedtatt at vi skal bli eit lågutslepp-samfunn i 2050. Det er ingen veg utanom ein gradvis, men ikkje dramatisk utfasing. Dette er altså ikkje eit ekstremt aktivistpåfunn, men vedtatt politikk i dette landet» www.abcnyheter.no/stemmer/buds...
Ap-forhandlerne har sviktet grovt
Ap trudde forhandlingane med MDG var eit vaksenopplæringsprosjekt. Det var å gjere opp rekning utan vert.
www.abcnyheter.no
December 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
«Også Ap lyt ta inn over seg nokre realitetar. Noreg har vedtatt at vi skal bli eit lågutslepp-samfunn i 2050. Det er ingen veg utanom ein gradvis, men ikkje dramatisk utfasing. Dette er altså ikkje eit ekstremt aktivistpåfunn, men vedtatt politikk i dette landet» www.abcnyheter.no/stemmer/buds...
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So pleased @theguardian.com's editorial board agrees with our expert committee that it makes a lot of sense to establish an International Panel on Inequality.
We are in an inequality emergency, and there are ways to lessen it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are in an inequality emergency, and there are ways to lessen it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the inequality emergency: why a Nobel prize winner’s warning must be heeded | Editorial
Editorial: Rising economic division is destabilising nations and eroding accountability. Joseph Stiglitz’s G20 blueprint offers a way toward global economic renewal
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
So pleased @theguardian.com's editorial board agrees with our expert committee that it makes a lot of sense to establish an International Panel on Inequality.
We are in an inequality emergency, and there are ways to lessen it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are in an inequality emergency, and there are ways to lessen it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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John McCain couldn’t have possibly gotten hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians into the streets for months, even as regime forces killed over 100 protestors, nor get Ukraine’s then-president to try banning free speech and assembly.
If you think about the conspiracy theory at all it is very stupid.
If you think about the conspiracy theory at all it is very stupid.
Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
John McCain couldn’t have possibly gotten hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians into the streets for months, even as regime forces killed over 100 protestors, nor get Ukraine’s then-president to try banning free speech and assembly.
If you think about the conspiracy theory at all it is very stupid.
If you think about the conspiracy theory at all it is very stupid.
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Indeed: Huntington was an early warning sign of how, amidst skyrocketing inequality, a small coterie of unpatriotic super elites would seek to tear down state structures while shouting racist narratives of blood and soil into the media that they control
Amid the liberal internationalist optimism of the late 1990s, Samuel Huntington foresaw a world marked by continued conflict.
Samuel Huntington Is Getting His Revenge
The idea of a global “clash of civilizations” wasn’t wrong—it was just premature.
foreignpolicy.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Indeed: Huntington was an early warning sign of how, amidst skyrocketing inequality, a small coterie of unpatriotic super elites would seek to tear down state structures while shouting racist narratives of blood and soil into the media that they control
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Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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Actually it was fucking wrong. It was egregiously wrong. It's still wrong.
Amid the liberal internationalist optimism of the late 1990s, Samuel Huntington foresaw a world marked by continued conflict.
Samuel Huntington Is Getting His Revenge
The idea of a global “clash of civilizations” wasn’t wrong—it was just premature.
foreignpolicy.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Actually it was fucking wrong. It was egregiously wrong. It's still wrong.
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Can’t decide who this is worse for, the EU or the UK. But the real looser, of course, is European defence. So all of us.
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UK talks to join EU defence fund break down
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UK talks to join EU defence fund break down
UK talks to join EU defence fund break down
Discussions fail after Britain refuses to pay billions of euros in fees
on.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Can’t decide who this is worse for, the EU or the UK. But the real looser, of course, is European defence. So all of us.
on.ft.com/4pb0xP6
UK talks to join EU defence fund break down
on.ft.com/4pb0xP6
UK talks to join EU defence fund break down
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"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong."
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong."
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788.
Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.
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It was not a plan but a capitulation document. It did not come together. It was a Russian document presented by some Americans as American. Be clear in your headlines. Help
people see the simple awfulness of things.
people see the simple awfulness of things.
President Trump's proposal to end the war in Ukraine heavily favored Russia in its initial form and included demand that Kyiv has consistently rejected. Here's how the plan came together.
Listen to "The Daily."
Listen to "The Daily."
The Ukrainian Peace Plan Written by … Russia?
President Trump’s proposal to end the war in Ukraine heavily favored Moscow in its initial form and included demands that Kyiv has consistently rejected.
nyti.ms
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It was not a plan but a capitulation document. It did not come together. It was a Russian document presented by some Americans as American. Be clear in your headlines. Help
people see the simple awfulness of things.
people see the simple awfulness of things.
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The Trump admin has introduced changes to the global flows of people, finance, & more—w/ major repercussions for women in LMICs.
Both directly & indirectly, the policies across aid, migration, & trade have harmed women. @charlesjkenny.bsky.social explains:
https://go.cgdev.org/4rmWZKS
Both directly & indirectly, the policies across aid, migration, & trade have harmed women. @charlesjkenny.bsky.social explains:
https://go.cgdev.org/4rmWZKS
Women Have Been Disproportionately Harmed by Trump Administration Aid, Migration, and Trade Policies
The first year of the second Trump administration has seen a broad assault on global flows of goods, services, finance, and people, with an outsize impact on low- and middle-income countries. As a sid...
www.cgdev.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Trump admin has introduced changes to the global flows of people, finance, & more—w/ major repercussions for women in LMICs.
Both directly & indirectly, the policies across aid, migration, & trade have harmed women. @charlesjkenny.bsky.social explains:
https://go.cgdev.org/4rmWZKS
Both directly & indirectly, the policies across aid, migration, & trade have harmed women. @charlesjkenny.bsky.social explains:
https://go.cgdev.org/4rmWZKS
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Anders Opedal (CEO of Equinor) said something wrong here.
He said that the IEA said no need for new oil and gas before, now they say more oil and gas needed. This is wrong.
The no new oil and gas is if demand drops in line with 1.5C, and always has been.
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He said that the IEA said no need for new oil and gas before, now they say more oil and gas needed. This is wrong.
The no new oil and gas is if demand drops in line with 1.5C, and always has been.
1/
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Anders Opedal (CEO of Equinor) said something wrong here.
He said that the IEA said no need for new oil and gas before, now they say more oil and gas needed. This is wrong.
The no new oil and gas is if demand drops in line with 1.5C, and always has been.
1/
He said that the IEA said no need for new oil and gas before, now they say more oil and gas needed. This is wrong.
The no new oil and gas is if demand drops in line with 1.5C, and always has been.
1/
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This is wild!
Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.
Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is wild!
Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.
Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.
The amount of resources my kids believe, or worse expect, that the police spend on the pettiest crimes is just ridiculous. It’s like they want to live in a police state!!
a police car is driving down a highway in the rear view mirror .
ALT: a police car is driving down a highway in the rear view mirror .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The amount of resources my kids believe, or worse expect, that the police spend on the pettiest crimes is just ridiculous. It’s like they want to live in a police state!!
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Det er noe… «faglig» som skurrer litt for meg i denne nyhetssaken og debatten som har fulgt siste uka, og skal prøve å forklare hva. www.vg.no/i/lngVKy?utm...
Internasjonale forskere vil ha tiltak mot ultraprosessert mat
Global forskning viser helseutfordringene ved ultraprosessert mat og etterlyser tiltak på nasjonalt nivå – også i Norge.
www.vg.no
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Det er noe… «faglig» som skurrer litt for meg i denne nyhetssaken og debatten som har fulgt siste uka, og skal prøve å forklare hva. www.vg.no/i/lngVKy?utm...
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Nå er kanskje min omgangskrets lite representativ, men to reint praktiske og økonomiske forhold ved det å skulle få tre barn istedenfor to som faktisk virker begrensende og får lite plass i debatten om den fallende fruktbarheten:
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Nå er kanskje min omgangskrets lite representativ, men to reint praktiske og økonomiske forhold ved det å skulle få tre barn istedenfor to som faktisk virker begrensende og får lite plass i debatten om den fallende fruktbarheten: