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Odd-Inge Graven
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Political nerd, Helgeland, Norway. MA Student, Int'l Affairs, King's College London. Sic semper tyrannis. Cat owner/slave.
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Odd-Inge Graven @oddingeg.bsky.social · Sep 10
Anbefaler denne podcasten på det sterkeste, dersom du er interessert i hva som faktisk skjer i Trumps USA: radio.nrk.no/podkast/verd...
Sadisme i Trumps USA - Verdibørsen - NRK Radio
Å være slem er selve poenget. - Det vi ser er fascisme, sier historiker
radio.nrk.no
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
On the last day of 2025, I tried to sum up in this free piece the big stories of the year. Boil it down, however, and one story surpasses all others, be that for the Russo-Ukraine war or global geopolitics overall.
2025 was the year when the USA changed sides

open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
2025 In Review: The Year The US Changed Sides
Amongst many stories, one stands out
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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crazycanloon.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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thestudyofwar.bsky.social
NEW: Protests in Iran have expanded geographically and demographically since December 28, and many of the recent protests adopted an explicitly anti-regime tone. 🧵(1/5)

Iran Update, December 30, 2025: isw.pub/IranUpdate12...
December 31, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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snoen.bsky.social
Catoggio: "The modern right is boisterously Christian, but without Christ. It extols Christianity aggressively but has ditched most of the moral content, reducing the faith to a hollow, chauvinistic us-and-them tribal identity in the political space. " thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...
‘Garfield’ Minus Garfield
Christian politics without Christ.
thedispatch.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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ksteigen.bsky.social
Bortsett fra at tidligere leder i Oljefondet het Slyngstad og at oljefondet tjente penger som gress under hans ledelse, vet jeg ikke så mye om ham personlig. Ikke holdt han pinlige rope-foredrag, og ikke hadde han egen dokumentarserie på NRK. Alt var bedre før.
December 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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pererikschulze.bsky.social
Interessante funn fra Storbritannia om populisthøyres akilleshæl. De som vil ha lavere skatter og mindre statlig styring. Like aktuelt i Norge.
Fremskrittspartiet. "Partiet for folk flest i hele landet", my ass.

Partifinans sentralledd 2025:
December 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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filipecampante.bsky.social
Really perceptive piece, by two of my brilliant @jhu.edu colleagues, @himself.bsky.social and @radchenko.bsky.social.
December 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
This statement is a sick joke. US foreign policy is a sick joke, being implemented by enemies of truth, freedom & democracy - people driven by personal greed & the opportunity to exploit the suffering of others by trading US power and prestige for death & business opportunities.
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
My god.

From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
The missing files included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of Trump, alongside Epstein, Melania, and Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
December 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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What to make of the EU decision on funding for Ukraine? It is a good outcome in my opinion. Here is why:
December 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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demiurg.bsky.social
And this is why Russia is so desperate.
If we just stay in there Russia will collapse.
mariadrutska.bsky.social Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 16d
Russian economic collapse: military plants have also stopped paying workers.

The situation is so bad inside Russia now that even strategic military manufacturers are running out of money, and workers have been unpaid for over 3 months.

A lot is going wrong, all at once.🍿🍿🍿
December 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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lewisbaston.bsky.social
I read somewhere that the secret key to postwar British history is that in any incident, meeting, whatever, there’s a high chance that most participants are a bit tipsy and someone round the table is absolutely steaming drunk.
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15d
Happy 79th anniversary to this diary entry from Evelyn Waugh, in which he drinks enough to make you wonder how he lived for a further 19 years:
Thursday 19 December 1946 I went to London by the early train. I have now reached an age when any disturbance of routine is disagreeable, and I sat misanthropic, smoking cigars, while the train lost more and more time until it halted for three-quarters of an hour in a snowstorm just outside the Paddington station. I had time to try on a suit which has taken six months to make and then went to luncheon at the Beefsteak where I talked to Harold Nicolson and Clive Bell and drank enough wine to fuddle me slightly. In that condition I went to Duckworth and signed sixteen copies of When the Going was Good for Christmas presents. Also to the travel agency who are sending me to Hollywood. At 5 o’clock there was the Beefsteak committee meeting. My candidates Maurice Bowra, Ran Antrim and Randolph Churchill all got in the latter after long discussion in which 1 Hugh Sherwood made a spirited defence and overbore two men who had come with the firm purpose of blackballing him. During the meeting I drank a lot of whisky and went rather drunk to a cocktail party given by John Murray’ where I got very drunk. Rose Macaulay attempted a serious conversation in which I did not shine. I spent most of the time with Hermione Ranfurly jeering at people who were introduced to me and ended by bearing off a diminutive man called Gibbings to White’s for champagne cocktails. From then my memory is vague but I went to bed early I think at the Hyde Park Hotel.
December 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
You guys. No. It's named by statute. Do better.
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
oddingeg.bsky.social
Om noen fortsatt er i tvil om at Assange er hakkende gal, så har han altså anmeldt 30 stk. i den -svenske- Nobelkomiteen for tildeling av fredsprisen til Machado...
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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pwnallthethings.bsky.social
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
FIFA peace prize
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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djrothkopf.bsky.social
The new US National Security Strategy reads better in either the original Russian via which it was dictated or the 1930s vintage German in which it was based. It makes Putin and Stephen Miller the architects of US foreign policy. The big loser? Our allies. The big winner? China.
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
A presidential memo saying officers carrying out Caribbean boat strikes can’t be prosecuted is a confession the attacks are war crimes.

Virtually every lawyer across the political spectrum identifying them as blatant, unambiguous violations of the laws of armed combat is because they’re war crimes.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Nov 30
On the horrific news that Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of boat bombing survivors, remember: The Trump Murder Memo "authorizing" the strikes preemptively clears those carrying them out. That's unusual. And we still haven't heard from the commander who resigned:

newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:

• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).

• Sex criminals.

• War criminals.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
oddingeg.bsky.social
Recommended Sunday read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late | Timothy Garton Ash
From public service broadcasting to an independent judiciary, these are the things that we must fight to keep, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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leivm.bsky.social
I dag er statstviterens dag i Argentina (Día nacional del politólogo), til minne om den argentinske statsviteren Guillermo O’Donnell. Det er bare å gratulere hverandre med dagen! www.25digital.com.ar/index.php/20...
29 de Noviembre: hoy es el Día Nacional del Politólogo - 25 Digital
Hoy se celebra en Argentina el día del Politólogo, en memoria del Dr. Mariano Moreno...
www.25digital.com.ar
November 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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mollymckew.bsky.social
As I wrote about the “peace” deal, it was a plan for Russia & the US to divide up resources that should go to Ukraine in a sweeping attempt to comprise American security

Today’s WSJ has the goods on how people who only believe in money are the most dangerous people:

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Dmitriev was pushing a plan for U.S. companies to tap the roughly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, frozen in Europe, for U.S.-Russian investment projects and a U.S.-led reconstruction of Ukraine. U.S. and Russian companies could join to exploit the vast mineral wealth in the Arctic. There were no limits to what two longtime adversaries could achieve, Dmitriev had argued for months: Their rival space industries, which raced one another during the Cold War, could even pursue a joint mission to Mars with Elon Musk's SpaceX. For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump's inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity, according to Western security officials. By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe —while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies.
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Phillips P O'Brien: trump's 28-point plan put one thing in stark relief—and that was how much better the Biden Administration was for Ukraine than Trump's. There is no comparison. Biden was Ukraine's friend and Trump is not (he is Russia's).
The Change From Biden To Trump Has Been Devastating For Ukraine
And Why it is Important for the Direction of US Foreign Policy
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
mikeeckel.bsky.social Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · Nov 27
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
A homicidal Crown Prince Bone Saw and a seriously inebriated Pete Hegseth get starring roles in the Thanksgiving edition of South Park. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
South Park skewers Saudi Arabia and Pete Hegseth in Thanksgiving episode
The episode revolves around the town’s annual ‘Turkey Trot’ race
www.the-independent.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM