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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 2d

White House Disapproves of Machado’s Nobel, but Rubio Has Been a Big Supporter www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

White House Disapproves of Machado’s Nobel, but Rubio Is a Big Supporter

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 2d

By giving the prize to a prominent opponent of the Maduro regime, the Committee has also prevented any criticism from the Trump regime, which is currently bombing Venezuelan boats (against international law, by the way) and seemingly preparing for an attempted coup/regime change.

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 2d

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 2d

The Nobel Peace Prize this year went to a Venezuelan opposition politician, but it was clearly a signal to all pro-democracy, anti-authoritarian movements globally. Indeed, I read the speech given by the Nobel Committee today as a direct signal to Trump: www.nobelpeaceprize.org/articles/nob...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado - Nobel Peace Prize

for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 2d

Hamdulillah: «Israeli Military Says Cease-Fire Is in Effect in Gaza» www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...

Israeli Military Says Cease-Fire Is in Effect in Gaza

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 2d

Why Is Megyn Kelly Afraid to Take on Candace Owens?
www.thebulwark.com/p/why-is-meg...

Why Is Megyn Kelly Afraid to Take on Candace Owens?

Right-wing media’s old guard is scared of its younger, crazier rivals.

www.thebulwark.com

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 2d

«The other flaw is that the plan, like so many U.S. initiatives before it, is tailor-made to address Israeli needs and requirements.» plan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | Trump’s Peace Plan is Tailor-Made for Israel. It Still Might Work.

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is not an isolationist, not a realist, and not interested in "great power competition." Read @dhnexon.bsky.social: "The Mirage of Great-Power Competition" open.substack.com/pub/duckofmi...

The Mirage of Great-Power Competition

How an attempt to normalize Trump's first-term foreign policy launched a thousand articles

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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🎃 Boo-nas 🦇 Karlscream 👻 Ghåstrøm, 🕷️ PhD ☠️ @pigalopp.no · 3d

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has asked to review the Epstein files

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Berit Rekve @beritrekve.bsky.social · 4d

Skal ein få til noko langsiktig rett, må mykje av det som er omtala i denne artikkelen på plass for palestinarane. Dei har blitt lurt i alle år, berre sjå på Vestbreidda. Diskusjonen no går ikkje i djupna. #dax18
God lesnad.

Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 4d

"The world has never listened to Palestinian voices or taken seriously the existential threat Israel poses to Palestinian life, and this has not materially changed despite the increase in performative angst." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

www.theguardian.com

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 4d

"The world has never listened to Palestinian voices or taken seriously the existential threat Israel poses to Palestinian life, and this has not materially changed despite the increase in performative angst." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

www.theguardian.com

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 4d

"Trump’s efforts to deploy armed troops onto the streets of several cities run by Democrats are raising a question courts have been able to avoid since the Constitution was drafted: Can presidents unleash the armed forces on their own people without cause?" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 5d

Look at what they have to face

Person dressed in a silly looking frog costume at a protest.

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 5d

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301. TrumpTirsdag: En nekrolog for USA? - med Hilde Restad

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 5d

Det var utrolig hyggelig å få nekrologisere (?) over USA i dagens episode av Det store bildet:) pca.st/episode/1c2f...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 8d

“They’re asking us to sacrifice science. They’re asking us to sacrifice international students. They’re asking us to sacrifice our trans students. They’re asking us to sacrifice our whole idea of shared governance.No amount of money is worth that great long list"

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/04/b...

Trump makes MIT an offer, one many on campus hope the school can refuse - The Boston Globe

President Trump issued terms to MIT and other schools; many on campus urge them to push back.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 9d

Hassan lives in a cramped tent with his pregnant wife Sabah who is severely malnourished, and total 10 family members. They are all so hungry. Even a few kilos of flour would mean everything to them. Please donate and share.

chuffed.org/project/hass...

Help Hassan Feed His Pregnant Wife & Family in Gaza

My name is Hassan, I’m 26 and from Gaza.I live in a cramped tent with my pregnant wife Sabah (20), who is in her sixth month and severely malnourished.

chuffed.org

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Institut mezinárodních studií FSV UK @ims.fsv.cuni.cz · 9d

🚨 Exciting postdoc opportunity at the Institute of International Relations Prague! Join the INTERFER Project (Oct 2025–Dec 2028). Research focus: foreign interference, disinfo, cyber sec & digital politics. Apply by 12 Oct 2025 👉 www.iir.cz/postdoctoral...

#Postdoc #ResearchJobs

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague under the project INTERFER, starting October 2025 (until December 2028) | Ústav mezinárodních vztahů - Expertise to impact

We are looking for a new colleague for the position of a Postdoctoral Researcher under the project INTERFER which studies foreign interference by foreign powers in the context of current geopolitical ...

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Ine Harsten 📎 @iharsten.bsky.social · 9d

Dagsavisen, altså.

Norges eneste avis som skriver om den politiske virkelighet?

Kristiansen & Kristensen.

Cornelia bak betalingsmur, men omtale av norsk presses unnfallenhet er verdt én krone for et månedsabonnement?

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og

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