Transpersoner trenger de vår fulle støtte og solidaritet, helt til den dagen «transdebatt» fremstår like upassende og meningløst som å ha en «homofilidebatt». Veldig bra, @eivindtraedal.bsky.social!!!

In 1961, my grandparents lived in West Berlin, on a street named after the British humanitarian and publisher Victor Gollancz. It was about 500 meters from where the Berlin Wall was built that year. Victor Gollancz said: "I am only one thing: I am pro-humanity."

when the Tories were polling at late 2010's levels, you had a lot of bright, normal centre-right people who wanted to join the party, and get selected, and run the think tanks, and generally be around - those people just......haven't existed in nearly a decade now

The Justice Department tried to erase the history of Jan 6. We restored if. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

In Editorial #52 Aurelio J. Corneo describes his positive experience of working with and around international lawyers. voelkerrechtsblog.org/editorial-52...

"Europeans may imagine that the EU is a mere bureaucratic inconvenience. But the Russians have never believed that. On the contrary, the Russian president has long understood that when unified, Europe can resist Russian influence and Russian corruption." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Europe Day

Minner om denne

Minner om at det ikke finnes en debatt om «trans», det finnes bare en debatt om mennesker. Og du kan velge å være på siden som vil at de menneskene skal ha rettigheter og få leve livene sine i fred, eller du kan være på den andre sida. www.dagsavisen.no/kommentar/me...

Wunderbar! Nå kommer det direktetog til Berlin! 🚆💚 Mindre flykaos. Mer frihet til å reise grønt. Nå kommer Europa litt nærmere og klimavennlige valg blir litt enklere. Dette er politikk MDG har presset på for lenge. Mehr Bahn, bitte!

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

Today is World Press Freedom Day, a reminder of how vital free and independent journalism is to democracy and open societies globally.

Anne Applebaum on the path back from authoritarianism.

12 years ago, Völkerrechtsblog intended to provide a different platform for international legal discourse in a form of a “slow blog” dedicated to expanding access and providing an alternative to traditional publishing. This book explores how the blog’s mission has persisted and changed over 10 years

Den første gangen jeg møtte Ingrid hjalp hun noen. Den siste gangen jeg så Ingrid gjemte vi oss sammen på Stoltenberget. Selv om hun var redd og lei seg, så hun at jeg frøs, og ga meg regnjakka si. Jakka måtte jeg slippe midtfjords. Ingrid ble skutt og drept på Stoltenberget. Følg 77 historier

🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.38 🗳️ The crushing defeat of #Orbán’s #Fidesz in Hungary’s elections gives the EU a rare opportunity to reform its enlargement policy, argues Iveri Gustafsson of @ecprsgeu.bsky.social. 📈 This moment could help accelerate candidates’ path to membership. 👉️ bit.ly/49jSJEB

Min gamle skolekamerat Numa snakker med #Lindmo om skoledagene våre på #Steinerskolen – og hovedrollen vi delte som Tamino i Tryllefløyten siste året på videregående, med vår fantastiske klassekamerat Jørgen Backer som Sarastro. (Meg på bildet under) tv.nrk.no/serie/lindmo...

Hungarian oligarchs begin fleeing the country, transferring assets, in anticipation of corruption investigations giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Jeg husker jeg var på pressekonferanse i Miljøverndepartementet en gang. Jeg skulle bare snakke med Erik Solheim etter konferansen, så jeg satte meg bakerst i lokalet. Da havnet jeg ved siden av Heidi Sørensen. Alle visste at det var hun som gjorde jobben i departementet, uten å være statsråd.

"No, we are not in a world without law, or in a post-rules world. We are, however, in a world in which some would like to strip back or do away with certain international rules, and that is the struggle which is underway" An important reminder by Philippe Sands www.biicl.org/documents/13...

A powerful new Iranian protest song “Man Zendeam Hanooz” (“I Am Still Alive”), composed by Adib Ghorbani has become a symbol of resilience for Iranians protesting repression and demanding freedom. See the full article and hear the song in the link below. ➡ shoutsmusic.blog/man-zendeam-...

Important remarks on legal advisers' duty to say no @ejiltalk.bsky.social: www.ejiltalk.org/when-governm... I'd also encourage everyone to read David Luban's article on Lösener and von Moltke: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2368/ & Lavinia Parsi's excellent article: doi.org/10.1093/jicj...

Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.

From Italy to France, Germany to Hungary, far-right governments and politicians are targeting media with the same playbook www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Last night’s Russian massive attack on #Ukraine injured & killed dozens of civilians, including children. CoE member states must stand united in ensuring accountability. We need broad support for the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression. See my Memorandum: www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

Left: Ashgabat, where Turkmenistan's president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow honored himself with a statue of himself on a golden horse ahead of his triumphant 97.7% reelection. Right: Trump's idea for Washington, D.C.

This is the book described on @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social: On the radicalization of a part of what used to be the center-right www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621076...

Goodbye, dictator!

it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth

Thrilled to share our new article "Banana Populism" published in Social Meedia + Society with @lanihart.bsky.social, @soschma.bsky.social and Mike Cole! We explore how populist leaders use mundane objects & whimsical imagery in political communication (1/7) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Today, Europe is Hungarian. We are stronger. More united. To the people of Hungary - you've done it again. You have spoken. You have chosen Europe. It's a victory for fundamental freedoms.

I'm very happy to welcome Farida Kurbangaleeva to our team of Russian-language journalists in exile. Journalism is no crime, so our plan is to provide more of it across the border up here in the North.

This is HUGE. Props to all those in Hungary and elsewhere who have kept up this fight for the last 16 yrs. Orban not only dismantled Hungarian liberal democracy, but undermined the EU at every turn and served as a beacon and support to parties/pols of the far right across Europe.

Les gjerne dette debattinnlegget. Men ut fra det jeg har sett her i den blå skyen, bør man styre unna kommentarfeltet. Jeg pleier ikke å lese kommentarfelt, og det har jeg ikke gjort her heller. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/q6...

ProPublica's @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy have won a George Polk award for international reporting for “The End of Aid,” a series that investigated the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and its consequences around the world. Read the full series here:

Let me correct this for you Reuters.

Anne Applebaum, so often read for her insightful work on authoritarianism and democratic decline, writing beautifully about Henry James's Venice instead. Delightful.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Fem år siden stormingen av Kongressen, og vi kan vel konkludere med at den største feilen som har blitt begått i USA i dette århundre var å ikke straffeforfølge Trump og slenge alle involverte i fengsel. Demokratier som ikke klarer å forsvare seg selv, dør.

I dag er det fem år siden det høyreekstreme angrepet på Kongressen i USA, som var kulminasjonen av trumpistenes kuppforsøk etter det tapte 2020-valget. En av Trumps første ordre da han ble president på nytt i fjor var å sette alle voldsmennene fri. Les om 15 av dem her (fra juli 2025):

EU-medlemskap gir Norge et bedre forsvar på flere måter. Den helt umiddelbare effekten er at som EU-medlem er vi en *høyere prioritert alliert* for land som Frankrike, Tyskland, Polen, Italia osv. Det gir bedre muligheter for at vi eksempelvis får *nok hjelp* til å håndtere aggresjon mot Svalbard.

It’s been a long and tough year. I hate NYE / NYD because of unrealistic expectations at times, that deflate us as the year rolls out. But this year, I want hope for everyone. An end to armed conflict for everyone. A commitment to community and not isolation. Building alongside one another. HNY!

2026 blir et prøvelsens år for EU og Europa. Også vi i Norge må henge med i svingene. Bra av Iver B. Neumann & Jozef Bátora.

The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.

Fin video å ha når AI-bobla sprekker. Da kan vi bruke den som eksempel på et par ting. Ikke fyll organisasjonen din med religiøse bullshitere. Og helt spesifikt, ansett en fagperson og ikke en milliardær som sjef for Oljefondet.

4/ They put this video on LinkedIn on purpose. And I can’t tell if they had a zoomer video editor trolling them (and they didn’t notice), or if this is an actual honest to god reenactment of the LinkedIn influencer who wakes up at 3 am to drink a green smoothie, hashtag hustle culture or whatever.