Tore Klevenberg

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

The Republican Shutdown Argument is a Giant Lie No, Democrats aren’t trying to fund health care for “illegal aliens.”

You can say one thing about Democrats’ underlying claims that you definitely can’t say about the Republican counterpart: They are telling the truth. www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.

Norge: Naiv Super Nettavisen, Gjengangeren og NRK har avslørt at et av Forsvarets kommunikasjonssystem delvis er utviklet i St. Petersburg.

✨ Avsløringen om at Forsvarets kommunikasjonsutstyr har blitt utviklet av russere i Russland føyer seg inn i rekken av skandaler basert på ekstrem naivitet. Det er på tide å innse at vi er truet av en fiendtlig nabo. Har skrevet i @nettavisen.no:

www.nettavisen.no/norsk-debatt...

'Russian bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' aircraft in mass attack, source claims "Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.

If even a fraction of this is true, it’s a remarkable achievement & a mark of how far Ukr deep strike has come. ‘An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has hit ‘more than 40" Russian bombers at air bases “in the rear of the Russian Federation”…’ kyivindependent.com/enemy-bomber...

Learned about a new trend where people say "Snorway" to get people to shut up about Norway's annoyingly perfect state finances and sovereign wealth fund, and I think it's beautiful.

Experts react: At last, the US and Ukraine signed a minerals deal. Here’s what to expect next. After months of wrangling, Washington and Kyiv quietly finalized a much-anticipated agreement on April 30. Atlantic Council experts dig into the details.

After months of wrangling, the US and Ukraine signed a much-anticipated minerals and reconstruction deal on Wednesday.

Atlantic Council experts break down the details and reveal what this means for the Washington-Kyiv relationship—and the message to Moscow:

No attorney general should ever speak like this. She's Trump's advocate, not the people's lawyer, which is what the AG's job is. Whatever state she is barred in should start disciplinary proceedings immediately. This isn't subtle or arguable, it's wrong.

So many remarkable exchanges in the Time transcript. A less remarked upon bit is that Trump appears to learn information that has been driving markets *from the interviewer*. time.com/7280114/dona...

In case anyone had doubts abut the relationship Moscow thinks it’s building with Washington, this is from the website of Russia’s SVR (foreign intelligence service):

YouTube video by GZERO Media Can the US win by undoing globalization? | Ian Bremmer's Quick Take

the united states--the world's most powerful country--has become the most dysfunctional, kleptocratic and unfree political system of the advanced industrial democracies. by far.

let me explain why @gzeromedia.com

US stands alone

Trump’s tariff equation is nonsense, says @johnauthers.bsky.social. Here’s why 🎥

8 THOUGHT ON ONE OF THE CRAZIEST DAYS EVER

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Apropos of nothing: Kamala Harris predicted this exact moment happening:

“Understand that part of Trump’s plan is to put in place a national sales tax of at least 20% on everyday goods and necessities.”

She warned us over & over again & she was so right.

Elon’s Downfall

Dear American friends.

We agree that status quo in the Artcic is not an option.

So let’s talk about how we can fix it - together.

Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Danish Foreign Minister

WTF!!

We need to pay closer attention to Svalbard NATO members and other allies would do well to start thinking about how they’d respond if Russia took action against one of its most remote geographies.

Russia is now accusing Norway of militarising Svalbard (and thus violating the Svalbard Treaty).

It's complete bogus - but it could give Russia an excuse to retaliate against this Norwegian "infraction".

www.politico.eu/article/we-n... (Me @politico.eu. No paywall)

Hvis noen føler de har problemer med å finne motivasjon i hverdagen, så se på dette bildet og les teksten under.

Witkoff was a fool for joining that chat from Moscow. But the entire charlatan national security team also chose to put him on that chat when they knew (or should have known) that he was in Moscow. A spy novel based on this level of cretinous behavior would be unbelievable.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Law Firm Bends in Face of Trump Demands (Gift Article) Paul, Weiss — one of three law firms targeted by President Trump as part of his retribution campaign — said it resolved the conflict by agreeing to a range of commitments.

R.I.P US Checks and Balances ( 1787 - 2025 ) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.

Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Quite a few Uhmericans need a reality check

The Trump administration keeps saying that other countries pay for tariffs, but that’s not how they work.

Tariffs are effectively taxes on imported products, which the American people ultimately pay.

US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine Fresh blow to embattled government in Kyiv as Trump administration shifts on conflict

Bad, bad news. Unnecessary, punitive, vindictive. "The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/c58f...

Trudeau: "Now I want to speak directly to one specific American. Donald...it's not in my habit to agree with the WSJ, but Donald, they point out that even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do. We friends fighting is exactly what our opponents around the world want to see."

Tucker Carlson is now repeating unfounded allegations that weapons sent to Ukraine are ending up with groups that include Hamas. The Hamas claim originated from a fake BBC-Bellingcat video created by a Russian disinformation campaign mimicking news organisations and was debunked months ago.

Slava ukraini 🇺🇦