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profdahl.bsky.social
@profdahl.bsky.social
Associate Professor
Historian, Criminologist, Author
European with US family in WA and IN.
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'In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail"

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption
The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.
www.theatlantic.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Maga’s strange rage against Europe on.ft.com/4iI8gSm | opinion
Maga’s strange rage against Europe
The cradle of western civilisation is wrongly accused of betraying it
on.ft.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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House Democrats released new emails from Jeffrey Epstein in which he discussed Donald Trump, pushing the issue of their relationship back into the spotlight.
Democrats Release New Epstein Emails Referring to Trump
Messages put president’s relationship with Epstein back into the spotlight.
on.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Elon Musk’s bizarre $1 trillion pay package and Zohran Mamdani’s unlikely win together suggest that the unique form of harsh capitalism now practiced in America may be coming to an end.

Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/musk-and-mamdani-the-end-of-harsh
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Wins tonite!
1. Abigail Spanberger (VA-Gov)
2. Ghazala Hashmi (VA Lt-Gov)
3. Jay Jones (VA AG)
4. Mikie Sherrill (NJ Gov)
5. Michelle Wu (Boston Mayor)
6. Zohran Mamdani (NYC Mayor)
7. Andre Dickens (Atlanta Mayor)
8. Aftab Pureval (Cincy Mayor)
9. PA Supreme Court Justices
10. Prop 50 passes in CA
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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In Washington Post polling, a double-digit percentage of Republicans shifted from strongly to only somewhat approving of his presidency since February — a kind of shift that could crack the door open for GOP criticism and defections.
www.pbump.net/o/the-number...
The number in new Trump polling that’s most worth watching
Even by the standards of Donald Trump's poorly reviewed second term in office, the poll numbers that have come out over the past week are miserable. An NBC poll found that two-thirds of Americans thin...
www.pbump.net
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline since. And this is not just the unwinding of a bump in screen time during pandemic lockdowns – what’s going on?

Read the full story here: on.ft.com/3IzaxBL
October 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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The costs of Trump's tariffs are starting to drive higher prices for US consumer goods from cans of soup to car parts. on.ft.com/3WpLeoO
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Trump blames Democrats for the shutdown. The public, for now, blames Trump.
Democrats’ Shutdown Strategy Might Actually Work Out
Trump blames Democrats for the shutdown. The public, for now, blames Trump.
slate.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Faktisk en god nyhet fra USA. Dem er det ikke mange av om dagen, så vi får sette pris på den. For Trump-regimets planer om full maktovertagelse kommer ikke til å fungere uten å ha militæret med på notene.
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...
'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech
Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what the...
www.rawstory.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Colon cancer is on the rise among young people – and research points to one major culprit | Devi Sridhar
Colon cancer is on the rise among young people – and research points to one major culprit | Devi Sridhar
If smoking was the cancer villain of the 20th century, eating ultra-processed food may be its 21st-century counterpart, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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PM brands Channel crossings ‘Farage boats’ because Brexit has hampered returns – UK politics live
PM brands Channel crossings ‘Farage boats’ because Brexit has hampered returns – UK politics live
PM also says he does not believe Nigel Farage or Reform voters are racist In a response to Keir Starmer’s conference speech, Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, claimed yesterday afternoon that the PM’s comments about his party would put his activists at risk of attack from the “radical left”. In his interviews, Starmer rejected that claim. No, not at all. There is a political fight that has to be had, and it’s about the future of our country. This is a different fight to the traditional Labour/Conservative fight. You can see versions of this going on in many other countries across Europe. I think that if Reform were to gain power, they would tear our country apart and fundamentally change us as a country. We have seen the most extraordinary 48 hours of demonisation, and I’m going to say it again, incitement to violence against the man who is the bookmakers’ favourite to be the next prime minister. I am about to announce something you have been calling for and campaigning on, which is to ban fracking for good. You called for it, I’m going to do it, thank you for your campaigning. What an amazing result for our environment, our local communities, and the thousands of committed people and groups right across the country who’ve spent years fighting for fracking to be banned for good – including the many who signed 38 Degrees supporter Geoff’s recent petition. Not long ago, it felt like fracking might make a comeback, with Reform UK pushing to put it back on the agenda. But thousands of us stood up, demanded a permanent ban, and made our voices impossible to ignore. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Jeg tror dette er godt kjent blant alle som jobber med planlegging i Norge: Vi er verst i Europa på å bygge ned natur.
NRK avslører europeisk naturtap: Norge topper verstingliste
www.nrk.no
October 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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“How Trump is killing the US tourism industry: $12.5B gone, visitors down 8.2% in 2025” 9/2/25 … 1/ m.economictimes.com/news/interna...
How Trump is killing the US tourism industry: $12.5B gone, visitors down 8.2% in 2025
US tourism is collapsing in 2025 as Trump-era tariffs, immigration crackdowns, and a new $250 ‘visa integrity fee drive international arrivals down 8.2%. The World Travel & Tourism Council warns Ameri...
m.economictimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Trump's U.N. speech was mortifying for America.

Given that the backdrop of his speech is his all-out assault on our democracy, his lecturing world leaders on how to run a great nation was shocking in its audacity.

He even falsely claimed to have ended 7 “unendable” wars in seven months this term.
Opinion | What Trump's U.N. address revealed about the dire state of American democracy
The president's address to the United Nations put the dire state of our democracy in a terrible new light.
www.msnbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.

Charlie Kirk was no exception.
Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
heated.world
September 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Det er kanskje ikke så interessant hva jeg og andre som meg syns om Charlie Kirk.

Men det bør være ganske interessant hva fansen hans syns.
September 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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"Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next fourteen?" My column. www.ft.com/content/a284...
America’s accelerating exit from itself
After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease
www.ft.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Basert på antall som stemte totalt og andel stemmer til KrF, betyr dette ca 34 000. Resten av oss er ikke enige. 🌈
KrF kan likegjerne bytte navn til homo- og transfobipartiet.
September 9, 2025 at 5:56 AM