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Hans E. Offerdal
@hofferdal.bsky.social
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Adviser for international affairs at the University of Bergen (UiB). Latin America, México & liberation theology aficionado. Strong supporter of free speech, academic freedom and a humane world! Opinions are my own. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 7h
"The other guards watched and laughed."

Testimony at the trial of Reinhold #Hanning: Irene Weiss, February 18, 2016.

Reinhold Hanning was an #SS guard at the #Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland.
Source: auschwitz-trial.org/2016/02/18/t...

#ICE #DefendHumanDignity
From testimony at the trial of Reinhold Hanning: Irene Weiss, February 18, 2016
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 15h
"According to SESAN, 50% of packaged products in #Guatemala contain excessive amounts of sugar, sodium, saturated fats, and trans fats."
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Worldcrunch.com @worldcrunch.com · 20h
Guatemala faces an obesity crisis affecting both kids and adults — made worse by food companies “fortifying” junk with vitamins to make it look healthy.
✍️Jaqueline Gálvez for @ocotegt.bsky.social in EN via @worldcrunch.com
In Guatemala, Tallying The Scourge Of Ultra-Processed Food
For both its children and adults, Guatemala is facing an obesity crisis. The problem is exacerbated by the food industry's use of “fortification” with vitamins as a marketing strategy to make harmful…
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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo @cperezbustillo.bsky.social · 18h
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Georg Picot @gpicot.bsky.social · 1d
On this day, 7th October, I honour those who keep hope alive, who continue to seek dialogue and peaceful coexistence in Israel and Palestine - the peace activists in Israel such as @standing-together.bsky.social and @peacenowisrael.bsky.social as well as the Gazans protesting against Hamas.
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 19h
"Every country has the right to defend itself against terrorism...such defence must be conducted in accordance with international law...and human rights...Israel’s response to the...attacks has gone far beyond the limits...the Palestinian population has been subjected to unimaginable suffering."
Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack against Israel
'Two years have passed since Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack against Israel and the Jewish people. On 7 October 2023, around 1,200 people – children, women and men, both young and elderly – were kille...
www.regjeringen.no
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 20h
@cbsnews.com: It is so sad that (corporate) media tag along with autocrats; in the U.S., in Russia and everywhere else.
Thus, it is really more important than ever to save, and support, public broadcasting, such as @pbsnews.org @npr.org @ebu.ch @corporate.dw.com @rtvenoticias.rtve.es @news.rte.ie
CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom
EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.
www.independent.co.uk
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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 20h
Article published in Spanish by La Opinion
Dos millones de inmigrantes han sido deportados por ICE o se han ido de Estados Unidos, ¿es realista esa cifra? - La Opinión
La Administración Trump presume que dos millones de inmigrantes están fuera de EE.UU., pero no ofrece detalles de los datos, ¿son creíbles?
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 1d
Chaplin's life "is detrimental to the moral fabric of America," Mr. Rankin asserted, urging that he be kept "off the American screen and his loath-some pictures be kept from the eyes of American youth."
- John E. Rankin, U.S. House of Representatives, 1921-1953.
(quoted in NYT, Dec.26, 1977, p.29.)
The Great Dictator still cropped (high quality version).jpg Wikimedia Commons
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10d
What do Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso and Gabriel García Márquez have in common? The US once denied all of them visas because of their beliefs.
How the Visa Became America’s Favorite Censorship Tool
Long after most political censorship was rolled back, the US preserved its power to bar outsiders for what they believe. A new court case could test that power.
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 1d
Muy buen reportaje de Liliana Flamenco, corresponsal de @es.france24.com en San Salvador, sobre el poder perpetuo del #Bukele en #ElSalvador.
¿Sabías que se ha eliminado el financiamiento público a partidos políticos en en el país? No estoy seguro de lo que eso significa para el partido en el poder.
Enlace - Reelección indefinida en El Salvador: ¿una reforma a la medida de Bukele?
Esta edición de Enlace desde El Salvador analiza la reforma exprés a la Constitución por parte de la Asamblea Legislativa, controlada por el oficialismo. La controvertida reforma dio vía libre a la re...
www.france24.com
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 1d
Very interesting on #nouvellethéologie
"Examining the archives left by these actors and situating them in their institutional and interpersonal context yields a quite different picture, revealing significant fault lines between the Dominican and Jesuit branches of the nouvelle théologie."

#Theology
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Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social · Feb 11
A good read from my Notre Dame (History) colleague, Sarah Shortall (based on her excellent book):

churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/nou...
Nouvelle Théologie: Soldiers of God in a Secular World
Sarah Shortall on Henri de Lubac and friends.
churchlifejournal.nd.edu
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 1d
Nuevo libro: 'Geopolítica de la #educación superior
La #Universidad como actor global'; editado por Rubén Garrido-Yserte, Héctor Casanueva.
"Este libro -de @cataratalibros.bsky.social - reúne una pluralidad de voces #académicas para repensar el papel de las universidades en un nuevo orden #mundial."
Geopolítica de la educación superior
En un mundo marcado por la transición ecológica, la revolución tecnológica, las tensiones geopolíticas y las crecientes desigualdades, la Universidad se encuentra en una encrucijada histórica. ¿Puede ...
www.catarata.org
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 2d
It is a good video for context.
However, it is not liberation theology as such, rather about bishops and priests sharing liberation theology's concern for the poor and oppressed.
Note: '(preferential) option for the #poor', is from the document from #Puebla (1979), not #Medellín (1968).
#PedroArrupe
Revista Estudios Sociales
Estudios Sociales es una revista de investigación social, publicada cuatrimestralmente por el Centro de Reflexión y Acción Social Padre Juan Montalvo, SJ, y por el Instituto Superior de Humanidades, C...
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 2d
Interesting piece by @rbreich.bsky.social.
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Chris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 2d
"Trump is showing growing signs of dementia. He’s increasingly unhinged. He’s 79 years old with a family history of dementia."
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...
Could it be that Donald Trump has actually lost his mind?
Given his behaviour, it could very well be that the President of the United States Donald Trump is "going nuts".
www.thenewdaily.com.au
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 2d
¿Y qué pasa con la #corrupción política, la corrupción en el gobierno y en las instituciones, por no hablar del partido #Morena (o deberíamos mejor llamarlo #PRIENA)?

¿Cuándo debemos tomar en serio las promesas del presidenta #Sheinbaum?

#Mexico #4T #circoYengaño
Facsimiles de El Universal (30 de septiembre y 2 de octubre), El Heraldo de Mexico (9 de septiembre), Basta (4 de octubre), 2025.
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Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 3d
Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies. For @reuters.com:
Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants
Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies.
www.reuters.com
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Gabriele J. ❤️‍🩹 @msniklaus.bsky.social · 4d
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism “the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction … no longer exists”.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
www.theguardian.com
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 4d
#STASI
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
www.wired.com
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 4d
"Atacar un centro cultural que nació como un Memorial del 68 es una afrenta a quienes lucharon en paz por una sociedad más justa, tolerante y democrática."
#UNAM #Mexico #Octubre1968
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 4d
Es triste que algunos intenten destruir la memoria de 2 de #octubre de 1968.

"El CCUT reitera su vocación, como ha sido desde su creación, de ser un espacio de memoria, derechos humanos, identidades y resistencia pacífica".

#Tlatelolco
La UNAM condena las acciones violentas contra el Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco
www.dgcs.unam.mx
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Sandra Weiss @latamreporter.bsky.social · 4d
#Mexico: a diario salen más pruebas a la luz que el gobierno de #AMLO sabía del megafraude del #huachicolfiscal y no hizo nada. Es co- responsabilidad por omisión. politico.mx/2025/10/02/a...
AMLO sabía del huachicol fiscal: La carta que demostraría el aviso al presidente
Aristegui Noticias reveló una carta que García Cabeza de Vaca, mandó al expresidente advirtiendo de la red de corrupción en Tamaulipas.
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 4d
Es triste que algunos intenten destruir la memoria de 2 de #octubre de 1968.

"El CCUT reitera su vocación, como ha sido desde su creación, de ser un espacio de memoria, derechos humanos, identidades y resistencia pacífica".

#Tlatelolco
La UNAM condena las acciones violentas contra el Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco
www.dgcs.unam.mx
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Scholars at Risk @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social · 6d
SAR’s #Free2Think2025 report is here! As violent threats to #highered in authoritarian contexts persist, recent years have seen increases in attacks on historically liberal contexts—incl. in the #UnitedStates. Read the report’s pressing findings now: www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...
Free to Think 2025 | Scholars at Risk
Free to Think 2025 is the eleventh installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 395 attacks on higher education communities around the world.
www.scholarsatrisk.org
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Daira Arana @dairaarana.bsky.social · 6d
La próxima semana presentaremos nuestro artículo sobre el desmantelamiento de la Policía Federal en el Centro de Estudios Estados Unidos-Mexico de @gpsucsd.bsky.social

Ojalá puedan acompañarnos
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 6d
“When people are able to be snatched off our street with no probable cause, then thrown into a detention center with no due process and no timetable for release, that’s a threat to all of us”, says Amy Fisher, an organizer at the DC-based Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network.
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Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social · 6d
Tyler Hicks on the militarization of Trump's America @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/lets-go-bash...
‘Let’s Go Bash Some Skulls’: Inside the Militarization of Trump’s America
As the Trump administration expands its push to militarize US cities, critics rail against the heavy-handed impact on marginalized groups.
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 6d
Hace 1 año, #Sheinbaum asumió el cargo de primera presidenta de #México. Algunas portadas de los periódicos mexicanos de hoy👇
"En mayo pasado, siete meses después de asumir el encargo, la presidenta se vio obligada a enviar una carta a #Morena", escribe Dalila Sarabia en @pajaropolitico.bsky.social.
Facsimiles de las primeras planas de El Heraldo de Mexico, Reporte Indigo, El Universal, Excelsior, Milenio, y Diario de Yucatan, 1 de octubre de 2025.
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