Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.

Can Europe’s public service media survive attacks by the far right? From Italy to France, Germany to Hungary, nationalist governments and politicians are targeting media with the same playbook

From Italy to France, Germany to Hungary, far-right governments and politicians are targeting media with the same playbook

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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
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Hva betyr regimeskiftet i Ungarn for Ukraina?

Sjefen i @nhcno.bsky.social besøker @emilerstad.bsky.social hos @panoramanyheter.bsky.social for å snakke om to viktige land på U og det er ikke Uganda, Uruguay eller Usbekistan.

'Here comes the dictator' Juncker's cheeky welcome for Hungarian PM YouTube video by euronews

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)

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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.

Farida joins the Barents Observer news team 'Moscow’s repression only spurs me on to work even harder and speak out even more forcefully against the lawlessness in Russia,' says Farida Kurbangaleeva. The experienced journalist has been hired as...

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.

«A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fear-mongering demagogue runs for President of the United States – and wins. He promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path.»

This novel was written not in 2026, but 1935.

Nå må menneskeheten rett og slett ta seg sammen. Skjerpings! Det gjelder samtlige.

Jeg er 21 år og skal arve Trumps kaos Vi kan ikke sitte stille og se på at vår fremtid blir pantsatt av en mann som ikke ser lenger enn til sitt eget speilbilde.

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...

The End of Aid Archives The U.S. Agency for International Development saved lives and promoted American interests around the globe. As the Trump administration abandons the decades-long approach to soft power, ProPublica inv...

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.

De gikk til voldelig angrep på det amerikanske demokratiet. Trump satte dem fri - Filter Nyheter Flere 6. januar-opprørere var del av ytre høyre-militser, hadde rulleblad fra tidligere, eller var så voldelige at de ble nektet løslatelse fra varetekt.

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!

KRONIKK: 2026 blir et prøvelsens år for EU og Europa Oppgavene står i kø, skriver Jozef Bátora og Iver B. Neumann.

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.

Anna Gát and Anne Applebaum: The Autocratic Moment: Myth or Reality? YouTube video by Interintellect

A very interesting talk with Anne Applebaum

‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’

C-REX affiliate @drkondor.bsky.social tells The Guardian how extremist messaging is woven through cultural aspects of everyday life, both online and offline. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Kristina Gjerde, defender of the deep ocean, has died Half the planet lies outside any country’s border. In those waters, rules have long been thinner than the myths: freedom to fish meant freedom to take; “out of sight” became “out of mind.” The deep oc...

Kristina Gjerde was a mentor to me in high seas policy. I, and many others, owe our careers to her.

May her memory be a blessing.

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