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Laurits Holdt
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København/Copenhagen, DK | Journalist på @globalnyt.dk | Bestyrer podcasten Højtryk | Medlem af bestyrelsen i @nyemedier.nu | Find mig andre steder: https://linktr.ee/lauritsholdt
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I @globalnyt.dks ugentlige podcast Højtryk taler vi med Thomas Mandrup fra Forsvarsakademiet om lejesoldater. globalnyt.dk/i-dag-diskut...
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”I dag diskuterer vi ikke, om det er i orden at bruge lejesoldater – men hvordan vi skal gøre det” | Globalnyt
Kan man tale om gode og onde lejesoldater? ”Det kommer an på, hvem du spørger. Her i Vesteuropa bryder vi os for tiden ikke særligt meget om Wagner eller Af ...
globalnyt.dk
September 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Any recommendations for a decent podcast app for Android? I have recently switched from iPhone to Android and it's ok - except for the podcast apps.
September 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Sergey Lavrov stjæler Uffe Elbæks @kaospilot.bsky.social stil: T-shirt med budskab i plakat-størrelse.
Lavrov has arrived for the meeting in a shirt that says СССР (USSR).
August 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
August 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
The two pictures are 11 years apart.

On 10 May 1933 the Nazi party staged ideological spectacle of burning of 'un-German’ books.

2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber V, 1944.

#Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead to.
May 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
On this day 80 years ago, the 11th Armoured Division of the British Army liberated the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. They found 60,000 prisoners and 13,000 unburied corpses.

Never again.
April 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
Landets skarpeste studerende må da være på Bluesky? :) Kom i praktik på den lille globale og Københavns hyggeligste redaktion på Pile Allé
Er du eller kender du Globalnyts næste praktikant? 🧑‍🎓

Vi leder efter en skarp studerende, der til efteråret har lyst til at være med til at dække verdens udvikling og Danmarks internationale engagement både konstruktivt og kritisk.

globalnyt.dk/stilling/uni...
Universitetspraktikant til Globalnyt i efteråret 2025 | Globalnyt
Har du drive og lyst til at være med til at dække verdens udvikling og Danmarks internationale engagement både konstruktivt og kritisk? Og vil du have chanc ...
globalnyt.dk
March 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
The largest Danish retailer, Salling Group, will mark all products from Europe with a star, helping customers select European rather than American products.

The continents are drifting apart at both the macro and micro level.

Danish news story here: www.dr.dk/nyheder/peng...
Vil du boykotte amerikanske varer? Nu sætter dagligvarekæmpe sort stjerne ved europæiske varer
Fremover får kunder i Netto, Føtex og Bilka nemmere ved at vælge europæiske varer.
www.dr.dk
February 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Interessant indblik i hvad russiske medier skriver: Trump og Putin er naturlige allierede
In one of today’s Russian papers: “Putin and Trump are close in ideology and values. Putin is his natural ally.”
Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (26 February 2025)
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
February 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
NEW | Russia's Weakness Offers Leverage: The US can use the enormous challenges RUS will face in 2025 as leverage to secure critical concessions in ongoing negotiations to end the war by continuing & even expanding military support to UKR. 1/8

Special Report: isw.pub/RussiaWeakness
February 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I’m sorry, but the U.S. taxpayers built Silicon Valley, bro you owe US responsiblestatecraft.org/silicon-vall...
How the Pentagon built Silicon Valley
The increasingly close-knit relationship the tech industry enjoys with the Defense Department is not a sudden development
responsiblestatecraft.org
February 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
Wired: US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time https://www.wired.com/story/us-government-websites-are-disappearing-in-real-time/ #coup
February 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🇩🇪 ambassade i 🇺🇸: “Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be largely undermined, the legislature, law enforcement and media will be robbed of their independence and misused as a political arm, Big Tech will be given co-governing power." www.reuters.com/world/us/ger...
Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows
He said Trump would rob law enforcement and media of their independence.
www.reuters.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at…
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
BBC Verify has examined 24 hours of Elon Musk's timeline and found a wave of misinformation amplified in the posts.

Watch the video by @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline
The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
@frederikappelolsen.bsky.social = barnet i Kejserens nye klæder: "Det virker nærmest som om det har været et succeskriterium, at Frederik ikke kom til at vælte ned fra stolen, gik komplet i sort eller spontant kom til at abdicere."https://atlasmag.dk/samfund/man-skal-%C3%A5benbart-bare-m%C3%B8de-op
January 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Tortur bruges stadig systematisk i mellem 80 og 100 lande i verden på trods af, at der ikke er beviser for, at man kan banke og tortuere sandheden ud af mennesker.

DIGNITY's overlæge, @jensmodvig.bsky.social, har talt med @globalnyt.dk's podcast Højtryk: globalnyt.dk/torturens-me...

#dkpol #dkaid
Torturens mestre – og deres ofre | Globalnyt
Der er en stigende erkendelse af, at tortur ikke fungerer som et effektivt middel til at få sandheden frem. Men det er effektivt som afstraffelse og til at ...
globalnyt.dk
January 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
If you don’t have a library card go get one. Even if you don’t plan on using it right away, go get one. Keep our libraries alive.
December 31, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Julehilsen fra Rusland.
Another piece of crap propaganda in Russia, where the Russians shoot down Santa Claus in the sky with a missile and their Russian Ded Moroz says: "That's right, we don't need anything foreign in the sky!".

#RussianPropaganda #RussiaIsANaziState #SantaClaus #Christmas
December 27, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
At the renowned Roman theater in Shahba, Sweida, women are singing and dancing to the chant, “Hold your head high, you are a free Syrian.”💚✌️
December 15, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Laurits Holdt
På grund af den seneste tids klimakatastrofer, har Spanien nu indført muligheden for fire dages betalt klimaorlov til arbejdere, når der er ekstreme vejrforhold. Det betyder at folk ikke behøver tage på arbejde, når det er farligt. Vilde tider.

news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Spain adopts paid ‘climate leave’ policy following deadly floods
Spain has introduced a paid four-day “climate leave” policy to protect workers during extreme weather events, one month after the deadliest storm in Spain’s recent history. The Valencia storm claimed ...
news.mongabay.com
December 15, 2024 at 11:45 AM
I'm looking for an english- (or danish-) speaking expert on #Armenia - #Azerbaijan relations for an interview. Any tips? #Nagorno-Karabakh etc.
December 11, 2024 at 10:18 AM
4/5 through @bellingcat.com Open Source Challenge
December 8, 2024 at 1:34 PM
I en tid, hvor kilderne til bekymring og potentiel depression står i kø (Sudan, Palæstina, USA, Ukraine, Georgien, naturkrisen for at nævne nogle få), er billeder som disse fra Damaskus opløftende: Tidligere fanger fra Syriske fængsler er nu fri og finder ud af, hvad der er sket
More prisoners were freed, and one of the detainees asked the photographer, “What is happening?” The photographer replied, “Assad has fallen. Look at how happy he is.”
December 8, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Nogle krige stopper fordi, en part vinder, og måske er der også nogle, som bare løber ud i sandet. Men det 'almindelige' er faktisk, at man taler sig frem til fredsaftaler. Bl.a det taler Kirsten Larsen og jeg med @isabelbramsen.bsky.social om i denne episode af @globalnyt.dk-podcasten Højtryk
Krige og konflikter skal snakkes ihjel – med Isabel Bramsen
USA’s kommende præsident Donald Trump har i sinde at stoppe en række krige, så snart han genindtager Det Hvide Hus. Og som nogle af de første, de to krige
www.spreaker.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:04 PM