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Heine Paus
@heinepaus.bsky.social
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He/him. Laws of war, human rights ++. Former journalist (NRK). Feminist.
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse"
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
The Grift Bubble
A Political Theory of American Collapse
snyder.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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philipleventhal.bsky.social
"[A]uthoritarian regimes are reinventing 'news' as a weapon to oppress opposition...This book is the ultimate guide to this brave *news* world."--Peter Pomerantsev

DICTATING REALITY, by Martin Moore and ThomasColley. bit.ly/3Xbzab9 @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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nhcno.bsky.social
Yesterday, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and SergeyTikhanovsky received the #MagnitskyAward for ‘outstanding political opposition’. They are marathon runners for democracy, at significant personal cost. The NHC congratulates both of them. (Norw.)
@gmjcampaign.bsky.social
Magnitskij-prisen til Sviatlana Tikhanovskaja og Sergej Tikhanovskij
- Vi må aldri gi opp å arbeide for et fritt og demokratisk Belarus, sa Sviatlana Tsikanouskaja da hun mottok Magnitskij-prisen for 2025.
nhc.no
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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norvezhets.bsky.social
Jeg har en kronikk på trykk i dag. Alvorlig tema.

Nord-Koreas bidrag til Russlands invasjonskrig har fått mye oppmerksomhet. Mindre kjent er det at mange kontraktsoldater fra de sentral-asiatiske republikkene mister livet på slagmarken i Ukraina.

www.panoramanyheter.no/asia-russlan...
Mange veier fører til Kyiv – en av dem går gjennom Sentral-Asia
Ukrainerne kjemper mot sentral-asiatiske fremmedkrigere. Norge kan bidra til å stanse tilstrømmingen.
www.panoramanyheter.no
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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shoutingmusic.bsky.social
Three young Russian musicians from the band Stoptime were arrested in St. Petersburg for performing songs by artists labeled as "foreign agents." Lead singer Diana Loginova now faces charges related to discrediting the Russian armed forces.

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#freestoptime #freeNaoko #artistsatrisk
Singing these banned songs can land you in jail in Russia
Discover the story of Stoptime, the brave Russian band arrested for playing banned music in St. Petersburg and igniting a wave of protest.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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tophepahle.bsky.social
Og hvis du tenker det jeg sier på bildene er abstrakte festtalefloskler: I dag skriver VGs Ole Kristian Strøm om "Russlands modigste kvinne", 18 år gamle Diana Loginova, som har hisset på seg Putins regime ved å fremføre forbudte protestsanger på nett.

www.vg.no/nyheter/i/al...
November 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
November 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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nhcno.bsky.social
On November 6, US President #Trump will host #CentralAsia leaders. They need to discuss human rights. US should return to international human rights mechanisms and respect press freedoms, while Central Asian leaders should stop repressive laws, the crackdown on media, and release political prisoners
Central Asian leaders and the US must urge each other to respect human rights
While the summit presents a vital opportunity to strengthen economic ties and enhance regional security, the meeting should not overlook persistent human rights violations across Central Asia and a recent backsliding in rights in the region. The U.S. administration should seize the opportunity to establish closer ties and deeper integration with the Central Asian countries, […]
nhc.no
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
heinepaus.bsky.social
Glimrende av @jilltxt.bsky.social
Teknologien truer kunnskapssystemet vårt. Men den norske staten har slukt tekgigantenes PR rått.
Les kronikken.
www.aftenposten.no
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
heinepaus.bsky.social
My grandparents lived 500 meters from the Berlin Wall when it was built.

I never visited Russia or the US in the early 2000s, when the world was relatively open. Now I feel like I missed out on both countries.
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
heinepaus.bsky.social
I only discovered @teenvogue.com's excellent political coverage and unparalleled journalistic integrity this year.

Alas, management learned the opposite lesson.
heinepaus.bsky.social Heine Paus @heinepaus.bsky.social · Jun 14
We can all learn something from the consistently compassionate spirit of @teenvogue.com
teenvogue.com Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Jun 14
Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.
November 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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kellylynnedang.bsky.social
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.

we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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energiogklima.no
Et massivt flertall i EU-parlamentets utenrikskomité ber EU-institusjonene om å arbeide aktivt for norsk, islandsk og grønlandsk medlemskap.
Går mot klart flertall i EU-parlamentet for å fremme norsk og islandsk EU-medlemskap 
Et massivt flertall i EU-parlamentets utenrikskomité ber EU-institusjonene om å arbeide aktivt for norsk, islandsk og grønlandsk medlemskap.  
energiogklima.no
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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arnfinnp.bsky.social
Humanistprisen 2025 tildeles @bjornjberger.bsky.social, for "hans arbeid med å avdekke og korrigere feilaktige påstander om den russiske invasjonen i Ukraina".
Humanistprisen til Bjørn Johan Berger for kamp mot russisk propaganda
Human-Etisk Forbund deler ut Humanistprisen 2025 til Bjørn Johan Berger (64) for hans innsats mot misinformasjon i norske medier. Prisen hedrer hans…
www.human.no
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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nhcno.bsky.social
Pressure and attacks on democracy are increasing in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and Europe. #Norway should increase its support for democracy and human rights, and support #civilsociety as the first line of defence for democracy in our region! Read our proposals for the national budget (Norw)
Styrk motstandskraften, støtt sivilsamfunnet
Økt press mot sivilsamfunnet i Russland, Sør-Kaukasus, Sentral-Asia og andre europeiske land bør medføre økt støtte til demokrati og menneskerettigheter i disse områdene som er svært utsatt for russis...
nhc.no
October 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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articlesofwar.bsky.social
The #ICRC Customary #IHL Study is a reference point for IHL rules that have attained the status of customary law. Mina Radončić explores the possibility that the Study could equally explicitly signal issues where State practice is not consistent enough. lieber.westpoint.edu/non-finito-s...
Revisiting Customary IHL Series - Non finito: Should the Study also Identify Norms that Are not Custom? - Lieber Institute West Point
The Study could explicitly signal issues where State practice is not (yet) consistent enough to demonstrate the existence of a custom.
lieber.westpoint.edu
September 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
heinepaus.bsky.social
Dette var veldig bra fra Åpne Høyre.
Tid for å stå opp for våre verdier
Vi kan være uenige om politikk, men aldri om folks rett til å være seg selv. Dette skiller oss fra ytterliggående og populistiske krefter.
www.minerva.no
November 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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flsjournal.bsky.social
📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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tomatomoro.bsky.social
why do the US House Judiciary Committee hearings sound like podcast titles for some loony alt-right website?

'Entering the Golden Age: Ending the Weaponization of the Justice Department'

'How Leftist Nonprofit Networks Exploit Federal Tax Dollars to Advance a Radical Agenda'

judiciary.house.gov
House Judiciary Committee Republicans
judiciary.house.gov
September 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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commissionerhr.coe.int
The situation is nothing short of dire. In my #IEVilnius2025 speech today, I addressed the ‘perfect storm’ facing #LGBTI people, including rising populism and a weakening political centre ground. Now is the time for fierce determination.
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www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
Hope as a duty: standing up against the storm - Commissioner O’Flaherty at ILGA Europe 2025 - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int
Vilnius, Lithuania 23/10/2025
www.coe.int
October 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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protectdemocracy.org
When nonviolent social and pro-democracy movements reach a certain critical mass, they overwhelmingly tend to succeed. Read our democracy-by-the numbers analysis of how protests can break an autocrat’s illusion of invincibility: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/whats-so-special-about-35-percent
What’s so special about 3.5 percent?
5 million people protesting for democracy is a very big deal
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
October 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
heinepaus.bsky.social
Jeg ble kjent med Fredrik S. da vi begge jobbet som reportere i Dagsnytt på 2000-tallet (min første betalte jobb). Vi var begge unge, men han var et par år eldre. Jeg var aller yngst i nyhetene på Marienlyst på den tiden, tror jeg, hvertfall i Dagsnytt/Dagsrevyen.
October 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that
October 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
heinepaus.bsky.social
David Lowe might just be the most-heard composer in world history, but he's nowhere near as well known as he deserves.

Except among broadcast journalists, who've been big fans for well over two decades.
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM