Arina Didriksen
@ayeitsarina.bsky.social
Ukrainian American 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Graduate Student - Security & Disaster Management studying Information Warfare/Cognitive Resilience at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Views are my own.
Graduate Student - Security & Disaster Management studying Information Warfare/Cognitive Resilience at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Views are my own.
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Today, we take the relationship with the Philippines to another level.
Our new Security and Defence Dialogue will deepen our cooperation in areas, such as maritime security, cyber security, foreign information manipulation and crisis response.
Press conference with Secretary Manalo ↓
Our new Security and Defence Dialogue will deepen our cooperation in areas, such as maritime security, cyber security, foreign information manipulation and crisis response.
Press conference with Secretary Manalo ↓
June 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Today, we take the relationship with the Philippines to another level.
Our new Security and Defence Dialogue will deepen our cooperation in areas, such as maritime security, cyber security, foreign information manipulation and crisis response.
Press conference with Secretary Manalo ↓
Our new Security and Defence Dialogue will deepen our cooperation in areas, such as maritime security, cyber security, foreign information manipulation and crisis response.
Press conference with Secretary Manalo ↓
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NEW: Ukraine conducted a large-scale and simultaneous series of drone strikes against multiple air bases in Russia. Ukraine continues to innovate its drone technology and tactics to achieve operational surprise and successfully target Russian military infrastructure in the rear. isw.pub/UkrWar060125
June 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
NEW: Ukraine conducted a large-scale and simultaneous series of drone strikes against multiple air bases in Russia. Ukraine continues to innovate its drone technology and tactics to achieve operational surprise and successfully target Russian military infrastructure in the rear. isw.pub/UkrWar060125
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The basic American political reality is that blue states subsidize red states. The Trump variation is to keep collecting ever more taxes from blue states while taking away ever more services from red states. This is a gamble that voters like to suffer, or no longer matter.
time.com/7286199/trum...
time.com/7286199/trum...
How the GOP Tax Bill Leaves Blue States Picking Up the Check
GOP tax bill debate spotlights SALT cap, as blue states subsidize national spending.
time.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The basic American political reality is that blue states subsidize red states. The Trump variation is to keep collecting ever more taxes from blue states while taking away ever more services from red states. This is a gamble that voters like to suffer, or no longer matter.
time.com/7286199/trum...
time.com/7286199/trum...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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Europe has already drastically reduced its reliance on Russian energy.
Today, we unveiled our plan to end all Russian energy imports by 2027.
This will mark a permanent break.
Russia will no longer be able to use energy as a weapon against us.
Today, we unveiled our plan to end all Russian energy imports by 2027.
This will mark a permanent break.
Russia will no longer be able to use energy as a weapon against us.
May 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Europe has already drastically reduced its reliance on Russian energy.
Today, we unveiled our plan to end all Russian energy imports by 2027.
This will mark a permanent break.
Russia will no longer be able to use energy as a weapon against us.
Today, we unveiled our plan to end all Russian energy imports by 2027.
This will mark a permanent break.
Russia will no longer be able to use energy as a weapon against us.
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Arresting judges. Disappearing people. Punishing law firms. The Supreme needs to come down on him like a ton of judicial bricks now, not later, when it could be too late. Authoritarians get more dangerous the longer they are accommodated.
April 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Arresting judges. Disappearing people. Punishing law firms. The Supreme needs to come down on him like a ton of judicial bricks now, not later, when it could be too late. Authoritarians get more dangerous the longer they are accommodated.
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"I am from the government, I am here to figure out if you are Jewish" is the most non-triggering thing to say ever. Applies to both Jews and non-Jews, by the way.
SCOOP: Trump's Equal Opportunity office is investigating Barnard's employment practices. Professors received texts to their personal phones on Monday, linking to a survey asking if they were Jewish and if they had been subjected "unwelcome discussions" theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...
Trump EEOC Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They Were Jewish
“Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote in an email to faculty.
theintercept.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"I am from the government, I am here to figure out if you are Jewish" is the most non-triggering thing to say ever. Applies to both Jews and non-Jews, by the way.
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"Trump behaves more like a mob boss than a commander in chief. Murkowski sounds sadly resigned to this fact, like someone fighting a terminal illness with no hope of a cure."
Lisa Murkowski reveals the ugly nature of Trump's rule
It's not about persuasion. It's about fear.
www.publicnotice.co
April 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Trump behaves more like a mob boss than a commander in chief. Murkowski sounds sadly resigned to this fact, like someone fighting a terminal illness with no hope of a cure."
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Super sad to post that the funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security funded Arctic Domain Awareness Center-Addressing Rapid Changes through Technology, Innovation & Collaboration, a partnership of more than 37 university, non-profit, industry, and national laboratories was cut today.
April 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Super sad to post that the funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security funded Arctic Domain Awareness Center-Addressing Rapid Changes through Technology, Innovation & Collaboration, a partnership of more than 37 university, non-profit, industry, and national laboratories was cut today.
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Another #Arctic initiative gone. @arctictroy.bsky.social
Super sad to post that the funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security funded Arctic Domain Awareness Center-Addressing Rapid Changes through Technology, Innovation & Collaboration, a partnership of more than 37 university, non-profit, industry, and national laboratories was cut today.
April 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Another #Arctic initiative gone. @arctictroy.bsky.social
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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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This is the 20th straight hour of Booker speaking. This is the energy and honesty we need in a Senate leader, not what we have been getting. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is the 20th straight hour of Booker speaking. This is the energy and honesty we need in a Senate leader, not what we have been getting. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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@aoc.bsky.social: "At the end of the day, who suffers? It's the librarian who had to quit his job to take care of his 16-year-old son with devastating medical disabilities. And now he might be on the street because they want to cut Medicaid to give even more tax cuts to folks like Bezos and Musk."
March 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
@aoc.bsky.social: "At the end of the day, who suffers? It's the librarian who had to quit his job to take care of his 16-year-old son with devastating medical disabilities. And now he might be on the street because they want to cut Medicaid to give even more tax cuts to folks like Bezos and Musk."
Car-ried U-na-nimously
March 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Car-ried U-na-nimously
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To my European friends: my country--the United States of America--is going under. Please don't let us take Europe down with us. Mobilize.
March 7, 2025 at 5:22 AM
To my European friends: my country--the United States of America--is going under. Please don't let us take Europe down with us. Mobilize.
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The Carolinas are on fire with unparalleled dry conditions on the same day Trump fires the NOAA
scientists who can predict the weather and research climate change. Its rightfully hot in republican town halls.hahttps://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfires-south-north-carolina-evacuations/story?id=119340730
scientists who can predict the weather and research climate change. Its rightfully hot in republican town halls.hahttps://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfires-south-north-carolina-evacuations/story?id=119340730
Evacuations ordered as 175 wildfires erupt across South and North Carolina
Firefighters were battling multiple wildfires that erupted across South and North Carolina overnight amid windy and dry conditions, authorities said.
abcnews.go.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The Carolinas are on fire with unparalleled dry conditions on the same day Trump fires the NOAA
scientists who can predict the weather and research climate change. Its rightfully hot in republican town halls.hahttps://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfires-south-north-carolina-evacuations/story?id=119340730
scientists who can predict the weather and research climate change. Its rightfully hot in republican town halls.hahttps://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfires-south-north-carolina-evacuations/story?id=119340730
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🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.
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As Donald Trump turns the United States into one of the closest allies Russia has worldwide, it's worth revisiting the news item below, which came out immediately after Trump won a surprising victory in November:
March 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
As Donald Trump turns the United States into one of the closest allies Russia has worldwide, it's worth revisiting the news item below, which came out immediately after Trump won a surprising victory in November:
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The bloodbath at NOAA apparently included meteorologists with the National Weather Service; scientists inside what’s simply known as NOAA Research, or the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) more formally; technicians that keep up the country’s weather instrumentation;
NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing
We Are All Less Safe Today, as NOAA Gets Hit With Mass Firings
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The bloodbath at NOAA apparently included meteorologists with the National Weather Service; scientists inside what’s simply known as NOAA Research, or the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) more formally; technicians that keep up the country’s weather instrumentation;
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Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed that Zelensky has not been sufficiently grateful for U.S. support throughout the war.
We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.
We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.
Zelensky thanks America for four minutes straight
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
www.youtube.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed that Zelensky has not been sufficiently grateful for U.S. support throughout the war.
We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.
We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.
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Donald Trump has betrayed America.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
February 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Donald Trump has betrayed America.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.
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This isn't about Zelenskyy, a patriot and hero. This is about an American administration penetrated and compromised by America's enemies.
March 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This isn't about Zelenskyy, a patriot and hero. This is about an American administration penetrated and compromised by America's enemies.
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We stand with Ukraine. Where are the Republican politicians who will stand up for democracy and against a Putin bro? Slava Ukrani.
March 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
We stand with Ukraine. Where are the Republican politicians who will stand up for democracy and against a Putin bro? Slava Ukrani.
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It's REALLY IMPORTANT to not let the OBVIOUS LIE that this disastrous resolution has anything to do with taxes on top, overtime or social security take hold. Call it out every time.
February 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It's REALLY IMPORTANT to not let the OBVIOUS LIE that this disastrous resolution has anything to do with taxes on top, overtime or social security take hold. Call it out every time.