Simen Ekern
sekern.bsky.social
Simen Ekern
@sekern.bsky.social
Journalist & forfatter
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Trump pardoned more than 70 people who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election—the latest in a string of pardons to people who have benefited the president.
Trump’s Pardon List: Here Are The Big-Time Donors And Allies He’s Sprung Free
Trump pardoned more than 70 people who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election—the latest in a string of pardons to people who have benefited the president.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Leser ditt DN Europa med stor interesse @sekern.bsky.social. Mtp PVV sin tilbakegang i 🇳🇱, så har både JA21 og FVD gått frem (+12, PVV -11), føler det er underkommunisert at selv om PVV gikk tilbake har ytre høyre gått frem. Som sentrumsvelger er det gledelig å se at sentrum kan lykkes i dagens 🇪🇺.
November 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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‪Scoop: Bari Weiss plans to attract more working-class Middle Americans to CBS news by increasing critical coverage of postmodernism, Marxism, and Zohran Mamdani.
November 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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En kan si mye om norsk samferdsel, men de siste ti årene har en altså lykkes med å elektrifisere personbilparken og samtidig styrke alternativene til privatbil i de store byene. @sekern.bsky.social sine beretninger fra kontinentet minner om at dette ikke er noen selvfølge.
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Roma sykler inn i kulturkrigen (+)
Sykkelveiene i Roma blir ikke bygget på én dag.
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October 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Upåklagelig motstandsfaglig innsats
A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.

Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike.

(via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)
October 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Kind of amazing how so many geopolitical deepsea divers predicting Trump's next diplomatic triumph haven't processed what a US government shutdown in its third week and troops in US streets might say about America's long term prospects for shaping the new global order
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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er vel kanskje mest opptatt av de franske og italienske statsbudsjettene (som jeg leser på originalspråkene btw), men ja sikkert mye spennende i det norske også
October 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.”

Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p
September 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I cannot think of a democracy anywhere in the world where this sort of thing could happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Henry Mance: “on the face of it he (Trump) wrote more of Epstein’s birthday book than he did of his own bestseller The Art Of The Deal”

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Trump and Murdoch, kings of shamelessness
The US president has one thing in common with the media mogul
www.ft.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Moro med valg! Så lenge det varer

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Takk for valget (+)
Fint demokrati vi har her. Det ville være synd om noe skulle hende med det.
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September 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
0 is the loneliest number
September 9, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Noen som vet om de frivillige har stått på dag og natt?
September 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Da er det slutt for Bayrou som statsminister. Og på onsdag er det demonstrasjoner over hele landet. Det blåser friskt i Frankrike nå.

www.lemonde.fr/politique/li...
En direct, vote de confiance : François Bayrou perd la confiance qu’il a sollicitée à l’Assemblée nationale, entraînant la chute de son gouvernement
Les présidents de chaque groupe à l’Assemblée nationale se sont exprimés lundi à la suite du discours de politique générale du premier ministre. Critiqué par les oppositions pour son projet de budget,...
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September 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Det er -mye- i den saken, og "Ap er blitt marxister pga Utøya"-uttalelsen er behørlig og velfortjent mye delt. Men synes også at dette strukturelle poenget er sjukt interessant

Saken er verdt et abo
August 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Republic of the condo
August 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age
July 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM