CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

And the Times found a sharp partisan skew: “For every dollar donated by billionaires and their immediate families to a candidate or committee associated with Democrats, five dollars went to Republicans.”

The Times study found that “300 billionaires and their immediate family members donated more than $3 billion — 19 percent of all contributions — in federal elections in 2024, either directly or through political action committees.”

The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran. Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

Tyrkia er i beste fall et autoritært demokrati, i værste fall et diktatur. Og listen over terrorangrep de siste tyve årene er lang. Men Tone ikke bare føler seg mindre trygg i Nord-Norge, hun konkludere med at hun "faktisk er mye mer utrygg". www.vg.no/nyheter/i/bO...

I dag vil advokaten til @naturvernforbundet.no klage på Fiskeridirektoratets siste vedtak i denne oppdrettsfarsen. Og hold på hatten: Klagen dokumenterer en rekke feil og avslører graverende, ganske skremmende oppdrettssaksbehandling. En fare for rettssikkerheten. Poster klagen her straks sendt.

WATCH — @warnock.senate.gov : “Trump has attacked 7 countries in the first year of his presidency, more than any president in the modern era.” #PeacePresident 😕

Four images of 10 years of transformation in Paris: 2016–2026. @annehidalgo.bsky.social will no longer be mayor in March 2026, but this vision of a Paris for life must live on. Cities are places of solidarity, kindness and well-being in an increasingly authoritarian and brutal world. We need it!

One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.

Vi trenger Heger-tote-bagger! En serie bagger med Hegers hyllest til tote-baggen skrevet på hver side.

Jeg er helt sikker på at noen på desken har tapt et veddemål. Og så bare 26 dager siden sist: bsky.app/profile/tpar...

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

The jokes write themselves.

Targeting desalination plants is an incredible double edged sword. Iran is extremely vulnerable, but so are the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. If pushed to the brink, Iran could easily depopulate much of the region. Iran already struck Israel’s largest desalination plant three days ago.

I expect we'll see a lot of this coming from the US administration

“…a great distraction…”

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant. If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination. timesofoman.com/article/1691...

Etter å ha lest saken i E24 er det opplysende å lese Advokatbladet. Arbeidsgiver kan endre arbeidsavtalen, men å garantere en lavere stillingsbrøk enn man faktisk har behov for kommer man ikke lenger unna med. e24.no/naeringsliv/... www.advokatbladet.no/arbeidsrett-...

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

Bare et lite forvarsel. Nitrogenutslippskilder i Oslofjordområdet og langs Skagerrakkysten skal fremover ikke føle seg for trygge. @naturvernforbundet.no lokallag og fylkeskontor får nå prøvetakingssett med pålitelige hurtiganalyser. Hundretalls. Vi avslører dermed forurensningskilder på stedet.

We also just murdered this guy’s parents, his wife, and his son so good luck getting a peace deal

Just a quick reminder that Pete Hegseth was also the Fox News host who said he never washes his hands, because he doesn't believe in micro organisms as he can't see them. Of course we're all fucked

im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

«Asle Toje er et symptom på en vedvarende markedssvikt på ideenes markedsplass. Etterspørselen etter renhårige, prinsippfaste konservative tenkere har i lang tid vært mye større enn tilbudet.» www.dagsavisen.no/kommentar/to...

Mens Aftenpotten bare...

Salut! In Paris, firefighters' response times have decreased [because of protected bike lanes]: "In an emergency, a minute makes a difference" - Le Parisien share.google/dC57eMTHDgeZ...

Jonas Bals tilsvar til Asle Toje er drepende godt. “Det dreier seg om hvordan han (Toje) forholder seg til kilder og fortidens hendelser, til hva han selv og andre faktisk har sagt eller gjort – kort sagt, til sannheten”. Anbefales!

Hva er det VG holder på med for tiden? Er det trolling? Jeg sjekket i to nettlesere (Safari og Vivaldi), med samme resultat. I går var de denne: bsky.app/profile/tpar...

BINGO!

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Ville en politiker fra Høyre blitt innkalt til avhør og blitt behandlet på samme måte? www.vg.no/nyheter/i/V6...

“about 350,000 Haitians will lose their status on Tuesday — ending their right to live and work in the United States legally and putting them at risk of immediate detention and deportation”

More images of this agent “NS-919,” one of two who shot Pretti and a main instigator of the Pretti incident— from January 21. NS-919 pushed the woman that started the Pretti violence on January 24.

Pissed-off immigration attorney details ICE abuses and lawlessness.

Yup, 95% of the unpaid dues owed to the UN are unpaid United States dues

An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.

The problem with this account, so far as Oxford itself is concerned, is that these restrictions never actually happened. There are no traffic filters on St Clements or Hollow Way or any of the other places on the map in the seventh post. There was not trial. It never happened. /1

Budstikka bør lese VVP 3.4 en gang til. Mannen bør beskyttes mot seg selv. Det er åpenbart at han skader egne interesser og er i en sårbar situasjon (selv om han selv har plassert seg der). www.budstikka.no/jeg-hadde-fo...

Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates: “Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

Det går nästan inte att ta in detta: Enligt Financial Times så går tillbakagången för demokratin just nu och under Trumps första år vid makten snabbare i USA än vad den gjorde i länder som Ungern, Ryssland och Turkiet efter det att Orbán, Putin och Erdoğan valde att slå in på den illiberala vägen