Siden Trump fortsetter å mase om disse syv fredsavtalene: Her har jeg gått gjennom dem, for nye lesere. snoen.substack.com/p/fredsfyrsten

“Republicans have filed for divorce with the free market, in favor of a threesome with authoritarianism and quackery.” –– @billscher.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/23/t...

Pope Leo is said to have accepted Cardinal Dolan's resignation and to have picked his successor as New York archbishop. Will Dolan serve in retirement as spiritual advisor to Turning Point USA? In any event, his adherence to the GOP is far stronger than his adherence to the Catholic Church.

Nexstar joins Sinclair in preempting Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show. The broadcasting group will effectively pull Kimmel’s show from more than 30 ABC affiliates as the program is set to resume airing Tuesday night.

Jeg er redd for en utvikling der autoritære legitimerer seg gjennom kristendom. Hvorfor støtter noen kristne ledere og grupperinger som utfordrer menneskerettigheter og demokrati? www.vl.no/meninger/kri...

In this post, I summarize why Trump's order imposing $100,000 fee on H-1B visas is harmful and illegal. I build in part on insightful piece by my @cato.org colleague @davidjbier.bsky.social one of America's leading immigration policy experts: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

I'm more interested in what causes fascism than what causes autism.

UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production. Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization. David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.

!!! *DISNEY SAYS JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE SHOW TO RETURN ON TUESDAY

Han har allerede skapt fred mellom Aberbaijan og Albania, og nå altså Kambodsja og Armenia. Hvis Trump nå kan skape varig fred mellom Narnia og Mordor, kan vel ingen nekte ham fredsprisen? www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3YP...

Jeg er aggressiv republikaner, men reagerer når TV 2 plager Harald Glucksburg med å rope spørsmål om hans plagsomme avkom mens han gjør sin plikt på Nesodden.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Many stewards of cultural institutions are aware that they have a problem,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes. “But they are still dealing with internal ideological pressures — so to be able to reform, they need pressure from the outside to do the right thing.”

Jeg skriver om hvordan Trumps handelskrig utvikler seg, og om Høyesterett kan komme ham til unnsetning ved å erklære sentrale tolltariffer ulovlige. snoen.substack.com/p/notater-fr...

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

1 killed in New Hampshire shooting; witness says gunman yelled ‘Free Palestine’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/1-killed-in-new-hampshire-shooting-witness-says-gunman-yelled-free-palestine/

VG-kronikk i dag: www.vg.no/i/pP7g9o

Earlier this week, Sinclair said it would replace "Jimmy Kimmel Live" with a documentary about Charlie Kirk during the Friday time slot that Kimmel occupies on its ABC affiliates. Friday evening, Sinclair pulled the documentary and aired "Celebrity Family Feud" instead.

Military lawyers within the Pentagon have taken issue with the legal justifications for the strikes, warning that the soldiers involved could be held personally liable for the killings.

Participants report life-changing effects years after psilocybin treatment.

Young people understand terms like “gender” differently from their parents. What is unknown is the extent to which these labels reflect deep-seated identities. As more evidence emerges, it will inevitably shape policies towards early gender transition

Jeg har ikke ord.

Almost certainly illegal and likely to be struck down in court. Congress has only authorized the government to set fees to recover the cost of adjudicating the application. There is no statutory authority to impose fees designed to limit the use of a visa.

Hva skjedde med å snuble ut av vinduet?

SV stiller ultimatum til Støre. Jeg siterer en highly respected statsmann: Dere har ingen kort! Ja, dere kan felle Støre, men hvem skal dere stemme for som statsminister da? Sylvi Listhaug? Trond Giske? De som representerer intelligent liv i dette partiet må ta seg en prat med Bergstø.

That's literally false. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that praising someone's death is protected speech, including in Snyder v Phelps (2011), where protesters at a soldier's funeral held signs that said "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" & "Thank God for 9/11" rollcall.com/2025/09/19/s...

En av høyresidens viktigste stemmer, folkens.

“The data is clear,” said J.D. Vance. “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence.” Our charts show that the data paint a more complex picture

"President Donald Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to sources."

Hva skal Høyre gjør etter valgnederlaget? Mange har meninger om dette. Her er noen av mine. snoen.substack.com/p/hva-skal-h...

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Text exchange between Tyler Robinson and his roommate / romantic partner as transcribed in charging documents filed in Utah County:

Det skjer noe med utslippene i Kina for tiden. Men er det for tidlig å juble? Cicero-forsker Glen Peters tror det.

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

Daughter: “Dad, can I stay on my phone until 11pm tonight.” Me: “No. How about 10pm? ” Daughter: “Sure. That's what I wanted anyway.” ... ... Daughter: “Also, we learned about anchoring in school today.”

I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.

För att förstå vem Charlie Kirks var och vad han stod för, behöver man förstå hans kristna tro: En kristendom inriktad på politisk dominans genom andlig krigföring. Rötterna finns i 7-Mountain rörelsen, som idag utövar ett stort inflytande på USAs politik vitrok.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

#Russia 1-8/2025 vs 1-8/2024 Federal expenditures 21.1% Federal revenues 3.0% Deficit keeps widening... Budget revision for 2025 coming soon.

“Ezra Klein (Almost) Gets It Right” — my thoughts on Democratic shutdown strategy for @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/09/e...

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Just because I saw someone mention it: There’s no reason to think that TPUSA/Kirk had a significant effect on the 2024 election. The turnout operation was non-existent and claims that they/he are the central (or even a major) cause of young voters moving right aren’t backed by any actual evidence.

Rather than climbing until 2084, as the UN currently foresees, to 10.3bn people, the world’s population may stop growing in the 2050s and never exceed 9bn. What might this mean for humanity?

Det amerikanske justisdepartementet har fjernet en studie som viser at høyreekstreme dominerer politisk vold. Jeg skriver om denne og fire andre gjennomganger på min substack. snoen.substack.com/p/trussel-fr...

Venstre har no 37.000 stemmer bak kvart mandat på Stortinget. Det nest dårlegast representerte partiet er MDG med 20.000 stemmer pr. mandat. Lurer på kva Venstre-veljarar synest om tidsbruken til han som i komande periode er éin av tre representantar. Bør ikkje stortingsvervet vere på heiltid?

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

“It's pretty indicative of general speech associated with the deep parts of internet culture, in particular the types that are very much into irony posting and edgelord humor," says extremism researcher @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social With @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/charli...

The messages engraved on several bullet casings recovered at the scene of Charlie Kirk's murder show an internet-specific brand of trollish nihilism adopted by many recent shooters, writes @cjciaramella.bsky.social

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

Nick Catoggio: “Charlie Kirk was a prominent face in a postliberal political faction. He wasn’t the most ardent authoritarian in the ranks…But the movement with which he aligned himself fundamentally doesn’t believe in doing politics ‘the right way.’” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Spencer Cox: "I want you look at how Utahns reacted the last two nights. There was no rioting. There was no looting. There were no cars set on fire. There was no violence. There were vigils and prayers and people coming together to share their humanity. And that I believe is the answer to this."