Elise Bjørkan Viksaas
@elisevik.bsky.social
Arctic native. Norwegian liberal. Pro fact-based governance. I am 💯 Antifa(scist). I try to mother, wife, knit, write, organize, and not despair. Save the dolls: die on the hill of legal rights & social respect for our trans folks. #Glimtførrevig
A White House ballroom donor who organized meetings for Don Jr. and 1789 Capital in Europe has had a good year: he's been named as chair of a $201 million government-backed enterprise fund, received a waiver on sanctions, and more. Meet Konstantin Sokolov talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-ballr...
A Ballroom Donor, a Sanctions Waiver, $201 Million in Public Money: The Mystery of Konstantin Sokolov
Ever since he contributed to the White House ballroom project last year,...
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“All Vladimir Putin has to do is tell his soldiers to stop fighting, and then the war is over. The Ukrainians cannot stop fighting because, if they do, their country will be conquered.” If our major news organizations understand that, they don’t care. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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Nothing to see here — just the most severe El Niño in 1000 years. @zekehausfather.com has the goods. Or, you know, the bads. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
The strongest El Niño in a thousand years?
Tree rings and corals both put the biggest modern El Niños at or near the top of the past millennium, and this year’s event is on track to land well above them.
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Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.
Media literacy is tech literacy is civic literacy.
Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 21h agoNew York Times tech reporter Natasha Singer, author of Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools, makes the case for “tech civics”: teaching kids to ask who profits from technology and who is steered by it. “It’s about power,” she tells Tech Policy Press editor Justin Hendrix.
Here's evidence that the New York Times knows how to write sharp, direct, truthful headlines, and if they're going to start doing that, I'm all for it.
Trump Hands Victories to Putin, Who Offers More War in Return (Gift Article)
Russia has reaped a diesel deal and an increase in U.S. pressure on Ukraine as President Trump’s political needs align with his longstanding inclinations toward Russia.
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The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.
Remember when Republicans said DEI was hiring an unqualified person based on their looks? ANYWAY.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h agoOMG she is brutally bad at this
After Jan. 6, 2021, many Trump loyalists headed for the exits. But not Russell Vought. He told the president, I’m going to work night and day to get you back in the White House in four years. Then he and others began working on a plan: Project 2025. Listen to our latest "Paper Trail" episode 👇
Who’s the Shadow President?
Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · October 1 · 36m
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brilliant take down of Marco's fascist foreign policy vision www.contrariannews.org/p/marco-rubi...
Marco Rubio’s Descent into Darkness, and the True Meaning of the West
He would do well to listen to John McCain: ‘Indeed, the entire idea of the West is that it is open to any person or any nation that honors and upholds these values.’
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C’mon! How do you expect the man to pay for his overdue, 6-year-old cookie bill?
Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 3d agoI'm losing my mind, the Kansas City Star literally did a review of other litigious Kansas doctors and found that none of them charged Marshall's insane 18% interest
It would be nice if the news media would ask Republican candidates why they're welcoming big-bucks campaign help from a white supremacist who supports fascist movements both in the U.S. and abroad.
Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
nytimes.com
Speaking of live-streaming executions… There were white people in America, particularly from the 1880s through the 1930s, who enjoyed watching Black people being lynched. They brought their families, took photos & collected pieces of the victims’ clothing as souvenirs. [1935 — Fort Lauderdale]
I hope you share and this makes people seriously think about our society!
Zelenskyy: “Don’t attack us. Don’t kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. I think it’s a fair deal.”
bigotry aside: imagine having to design an enforcement policy for this. what are we doing y'all?
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 3d agoICYMI: The nation of Niger has become the first nation in the world to criminalise asexuality as part of a wider crackdown on the LGBTQIA+ community
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has fined the Microsoft subsidiary Xandr 8,5 million euros million after the Norwegian Consumer Council uncovered that Grindr processed personal data illegally! The landmark fine comes on the heels of a previous € 6 million fine imposed on Grindr in 2025.
Microsoft company fined 8,5 million euros following complaint by the Norwegian Consumer Council and noyb
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has fined the Microsoft subsidiary Xandr 8,5 million euros million (NOK 92 million) after the Norwegian Consumer Council uncovered that the dating app Grindr pr...
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There is, writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, an "implicit quid pro quo in these lucrative deals offered to Trump’s family and friends: If you compel Ukraine to surrender, we will enrich you beyond reckoning" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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EU Foreign Ministers just adopted nearly 1,600 new sanctions listings targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex. This is the single largest expansion of our sanctions list since Russia started its war. Europe is again showing a united front.
Nestleder i FORs ungdomsparti publiserer russisk propaganda på fb. Damen i bildet er gift med en ukrainsk tjenestemann. Men hun eier sitt eget klesmerke, og bildet er fra en fotoshoot i Cannes. Det er ingenting som tilsier at hun eier bilen eller at den er betalt med norske kr(Fra Russisk Røykteppe)
Klær er kommunikasjon. Det Russel Brand sier med dette antrekket er "du kan da umulig tro at JEG er en slesk fyr som ikke respekterer kvinners grenser?"
Ukraine just did more to clean up American elections than Congress has done in twenty years.
New in PN: Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait. "They genuinely don’t understand how whites could care for immigrant communities in their midst and they’re going to keep trying to drive a wedge. But Minnesotans will do what they do: take to the streets to protect our neighbors."
Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.
We love our Somali neighbors.
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Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
