Hans E. Offerdal

"The newspaper has been bleeding subscribers in part due to decisions made by him [Bezos] — pulling back from an endorsement of Kamala Harris, a Democrat, during the 2024 presidential election against Trump, a Republican, and directing a more conservative turn on liberal opinion pages."

#Defunct

No Food, No Water, No Orders—Intercepts Reveal Russian Troops Left to Rot Russian forces in Ukraine face severe shortages of food and water, as revealed by intercepted communications from military intelligence.

🤨 Russian troops in Ukraine are running out of basics.

Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate released intercepted audio in which a Russian soldier admits his unit faces severe shortages of food and water.
united24media.com/latest-news/...

"United States #President Donald #Trump’s second administration has been marked from the start by blatant disregard for #humanrights and egregious violations", says @hrw.org in the report. The organization see a "decided shift toward #authoritarianism in the US."

This is very strong stuff folks!

“You have to tell the truth within institutions. Institutions cannot function on lies", U.S. Ambassador, and #hero, Robert E. White told @commonweal.bsky.social in 2001. (Link in alt-txt).

Important words to remember today!

@crampell.bsky.social @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social @rbreich.bsky.social

"The message singles out by name #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti as fatal victims of “state-sanctioned violence” on #Minneapolis streets last month".

#ICE #Immigration

@migrationcaucus.bsky.social @episcopalpeace.bsky.social
@ncronline.bsky.social
@csmonitor.bsky.social @usccbofficial.bsky.social

"The incidents raise complex legal questions about who is #liable when federal immigration agents injure members of the public. The federal government and its employees are generally shielded by sovereign #immunity", writes @cameron-pugh.bsky.social for @csmonitor.bsky.social

#ICE #Justice

Simone Weil was born on February 3, 1909. Learn more about this #French #Philosopher through SIMONE WEIL. These late philosophical writings provide the context for understanding Weil's thought as a whole. #SimoneWeil #Value #Morality #Faith #Reason #OnThisDay

undpress.nd.edu/9780...

"And as I began to look even more closely to the Scriptures and other places, I recognized that Jesus himself was a migrant. Jesus himself was a refugee"
@hofferdal.bsky.social

La UNESCO convoca a postulaciones para el Premio Juan Bosch 2026 La UNESCO abre postulaciones para el Premio UNESCO Juan Bosch para la Promoción de la Investigación en Ciencias Sociales en América Latina y el Caribe 2026

@unesco.org invita a los Estados Miembros, en consulta con sus Comisiones Nacionales, así como a las organizaciones no gubernamentales que mantienen relaciones oficiales con la UNESCO y que están activas en los campos relevantes, a presentar candidaturas para el Premio.
@fundacioncarolina.es

4 Books When You Want To Dive Into Liberation Theology - Sarie Reads It’s good to go to God when the world gets loud. These books will give you inspiration on your journey to learn more about Liberation Theology and Jesus who stood with the oppressed.  The God Who Riot...

Interesting suggestions👇 on #LiberationTheology from #SarieReads.

YouTube video by Harvard Divinity School Three Things to Know About Liberation Theology | Harvard Divinity School📚📌

Professor Raúl Zegarra @harvarddivinity.bsky.social and Professor @leoguardado.bsky.social from @fordham.edu talk about #LiberationTheology and and Gustavo Gutiérrez.
#OptionForThePoor

The image features Simon Øverland from the University of Bergen standing outside next to a European University Association (EUA) banner displaying a quote about the importance of collaboration in global health research and education. The quote emphasizes the need to evolve ways of working and recognize effective strategies.

The link between education and research is indispensable to Africa-Europe cooperation on health, writes University of Bergen's Simon Øverland in his #EUAExpertVoices article:
https://bit.ly/4a6IUJR

@unibergen.bsky.social

Brave er også bra😎

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy  (294595) | University of Bergen Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy  (294595), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, February 27, 2026

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at our Philosophy Department, University of Bergen. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Time to reread Berrigan's "The Kings and Their Gods. The pathology of power".

Our leaders "create an economic divide of riches and rags, systems of stigma and exclusion, of racism and sexism. And endless wars, incursions, bombings, sanctions."

-Daniel Berrigan

www.eerdmans.com/978080286043...

Trump officials’ loss of credibility in ICE cases seen in court defeats The Department of Justice has lost five cases in Los Angeles against defendants accused of assaulting immigration agents, leading former government officials to warn that the Trump administration face...

"law enforcement experts believe the repeated falsehoods are harming federal authorities both in the public eye and in the courtroom", highlight @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social and @brittnymejia.bsky.social for @latimes.com

"Last year, a Chicago judge ruled [Greg] Bovino had “lied” in a deposition" #ICE

YouTube video by DW History and Culture Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution: How Liberation Became Tyranny

A new report from @deutschewelle.dw.com on Nicaragua.

DW says that the #dictatorship in #Nicaragua is "behind a campaign of #repression that's #weaponized the police, dismantled the #judicial system, purged the army".

Not only in Nicaragua. This 'playbook' sounds familiar, or?

#FightFascism

Reporters - Nicaragua, the forgotten dictatorship Since a deadly crackdown on protests in 2018, the regime in Nicaragua has sealed the country off from scrutiny. Opponents are driven into exile, local independent media are silenced and no foreign jou...

The latest episode of #Reporters from @en.france24.com looks at the #dictatorship in #Nicaragua.

#FromRevolutionaryToDictator #Ortega #Murillo

#FightFascism (in all its expressions and shapes)!

Fact check: No proof Goebbels said: ‘Let me control the media and I will turn any nation into a herd of pigs’ Posts recently flagged by Facebook in its efforts to combat misinformation attribute the quotation: “Let me control the media and I will turn any nation into a herd of pigs” to Joseph G...

Or perhaps he never said such a thing. Something that, indeed, points to how utterly extreme the current U.S. administration really is.

Arresting #journalists is attached to the idea of Trump, Bondi, Miller & Co., that the media and journalists are the "enemy of the people".

Context👇

Report "The Trump administration and the media" by @pressfreedom.bsky.social at cpj.org/reports/2020...

Book by journalist Marvin Kalb.

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is outraged and deeply alarmed by the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort by federal agents, and by the government’s escalating effort and actions to criminalize and threaten press freedom under the guise of law enforcement. Let us be perfectly clear: The First Amendment is not optional and journalism is NOT a crime. A government that responds to scrutiny by targeting the messenger is not protecting the public, it is attempting to intimidate it, and considering recent incidents regarding federal agents, it is attempting to distract it. These arrests follow Lemon’s and Fort’s coverage of an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis at Cities Church and appear intended to single out such messengers who were simply onsite to do their jobs. “As journalists, our first obligation is to bear witness and to inform,” said NABJ President Errin Haines. “When those obligations are met with detention or prosecution instead of protection, we must ask: what message are we sending about who gets to report and who gets silenced? A free press, not a penalized one, is essential to democracy; especially, when coverage intersects with contentious public issues.” This moment is bigger than two journalists. It is about whether the First Amendment has meaning when reporting is inconvenient to those in power. The selective targeting of journalists— especially, Black and LGBTQIA journalists— raises urgent concerns about unequal enforcement and retaliatory policing of the press. It also mirrors a broader pattern in which government actors appear quick to criminalize those documenting injustice, while accountability for official misconduct remains elusive. When will this stop? When will journalists be allowed to do their jobs without becoming targets? When will the constitutional rights of the press stop being tested, stretched, and ignored to make an example out of those who tell the truth?

A government that responds to scrutiny by targeting the messenger is not protecting the public, it is attempting to intimidate it, and considering recent incidents regarding federal agents, it is attempting to distract it.

Read the full statement we signed with 40 other organizations.

U.S. Authorities Must Immediately Release Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Make no mistake, the U.S. government's attempts to silence journalists are a critical risk to our human rights.

" #Journalism is not a crime. Reporting on protests is not a crime. Arresting #journalists for their #reporting is a clear example of an #authoritarian practice", says @amnesty.org

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Facsimile of page 3 in "The Parable of Peanuts", by Robert L. Short. Collins, Fontana Books, 1969.

Check out this👇from Robert L. Short, written in 1968!

Facsimiles of the covers of Short, Robert L. The Gospel According to Peanuts. Collins, 1975. Fontana Books. Short, Robert L. The Parables of Peanuts. Collins, 1973. Fontana Books. Short, Robert L. The Bible According to Peanuts. Collins Fount, 1990. Fount Paperbacks. Short, Robert L. Short Meditations on the Bible and Peanuts. Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990.

Thank you SO much for reminding me about Robert L. Short!!!
I had completely forgotten about him. Have two of the 'Peanuts' books somewhere in my library.

If I am not mistaken there were a total of 4 'Peanuts' books published by him (I have to get the other two).

@aljawf.bsky.social

📕 Informe anual 2025-2026:

🌎 “América Latina en el cruce de caminos: Apuestas ideológicas, cambios culturales y reconfiguraciones globales”

✍️ Coordinado por @emaropi.bsky.social , dir. FC y Pablo Stefanoni (ed) 

👉 https://bit.ly/anuario_fc_2025-2026

¿Sheinbaum terminará siendo una marioneta más como Delcy Rodríguez, sometida a la influencia estadounidense?
¿Quién decide lo que hace #México, #Trump o #Sheinbaum?🤔
#Ética al estilo de #4T #Cuba
www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/dar...

Norway’s FM Espen Barth Eide on Greenland, Iran, Trump’s Board of Peace and other crises | Hold Your Fire!

In interview with @crisisgroup.org on world affairs, #Norwegian FM Eide expressed surprise about #Venezuela because "suddenly there seemed to be a rather friendly tone between Delcy Rodríguez...and the US administration".

@amk79.bsky.social @vg.no @en.afp.com @elespectador.com @foreignaffairs.com

"We detest the inhumane, evil actions that are perpetuated by governmental authorities [in #Minnesota]".
-Methodist Bishops

That is a very strong statement, about the current situation, from a faith community!
#ICE

@umnews.bsky.social @unitedmethodist.bsky.social

www.unitedmethodistbishops.org

Informe de la sociedad civil mexicana al Comité de Derechos Humanos de la ONU - México Evalúa Recientemente se ha aprobado leyes y reformas que menoscaban los elementos fundamentales para una democracia sana.

"La falta de garantía de derechos, de rendición de cuentas y de contrapesos al poder reta a la soberanía popular y, con ello, a la democracia" [en México], dice, entre otros, @mexicoevalua.bsky.social, @article19mxca.bsky.social y @globalexchange.bsky.social.

@animalpoliticomx.bsky.social @efe.com

y 👇 la interpretación completa de Rosalía, del concierto #ActXPalestine.