Tor Opsvik
torops.bsky.social
Tor Opsvik
@torops.bsky.social
Historiker. Oslo
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When Bari Weiss and CBS decided to censor the report on El Salvador’s brutal prison, they didn’t realize that bootlegged copies would surface. Please share it with everyone you know and drive these fascists crazy.
From the Trumpvirus community on Reddit: 60 Minutes - Inside CECOT - Bootlegged episode not aired in USA
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December 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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“It was violent. There’s blood all over the house. It’s insane,” the homeowner, who is a U.S. citizen, told me. “It’s complete lawlessness. How does the government have impunity to jump into my home without a warrant?”
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-w...
Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet.
Raids on work sites. Roofers under siege. But builders keep mum.
www.thebulwark.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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It’s not just that Trump lied constantly during his speech tonight; I’m not sure he said a single thing that was factually correct.
December 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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It really cannot be overemphasized enough that JD Vance follows a host of open Nazis on Twitter.
Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism
December 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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texas literally has assigned armed state troopers to guard the ladies room.

www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...
Enforcement of Texas’ bathroom bill draws challenges
In its first week, one group’s test of the new restrictions was met with ID checks at women’s restrooms at the Capitol while the Austin City Council moved to circumvent the law's intent.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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To the point. We are so dependent on this tech that unravelling it seems almost inconceivable. And yet, when you consider the ideological aggression of the US today, it seems almost inconceivable not to.
December 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I have no idea how sincere MTG is here, but the idea that Trump would be bothered by his comments generating death threats misses the point that he has used terror as as a tool.

Terror is not a byproduct of Trumpism; it is a central feature of how he governs.
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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The Kremlin had to exhibit self-control to praise this only after it was published.
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I dag er polariseringen rundt skatt mye større. Skattedebatten sto sentralt i valgkampen, og høyresida tapte. Så skal de tydeligvis få vinne allikevel, fordi ingen tør å motsi Stoltenberg, som har utvist elendig fingerspissfølelse helt siden han kom tilbake som finansminister.
December 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Jo mer jeg tenker på dette, jo dummere blir det. FrP står utenfor. Hvilken gevinst skal H og AP ha i å binde seg til masta og sementere inntrykket av at de utgjør en grå, uformelig masse i midten av norsk politikk, under slagordet "en annen kurs for landet er ikke mulig"?
Mannen som avslørte formuesskatt-bløffene kommer med en viktig advarsel mot «bredt skatteforlik» her. «Et slikt forlik vil ikke bare binde partiene. Det binder også velgerne. I en tid med økende politikerforakt er dette det siste vi trenger.» www.dagsavisen.no/debatt/et-br...
Et bredt skatteforlik er ikke samlende, tvert imot
Venstresiden kan ikke bære ansvaret for Arbeiderpartiets høyredreining, og samtidig bindes til et skatteforlik de ikke tror på.
www.dagsavisen.no
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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The true scandal here is that the @ec.europa.eu has an advertising account on X. Why are our taxes used to finance Nazi propaganda?
www.politico.eu/article/x-ax...
X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”…
www.politico.eu
December 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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I would love a still photo with the names of all of every single pathetic, sycophantic jackasses standing behind Trump and going along with this
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Ultimately there are just a lot of people who are looking for a politics that allows them to engage in this kind of sadism, but we shouldn’t allow them to turn around and pretend that they have actual morals without pointing out the obvious, that they just want blood bsky.app/profile/acco...
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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It was seventy years ago today that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, triggering one of the world's great experiments in nonviolent action
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Media need to report on this as they report on other baseless claims of the antivax movement, bc the lunatics are running the asylum at the FDA.

The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Sånn skal det gjøres! Herregud så flaut.
November 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM