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Simen Ekern

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Journalist & forfatter

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God morgen from Oslo!

Norway is not only one of the EU's most like-minded partners but also an integral member of the European family and one of our closest friends.

19.02.2026 08:55 — 👍 62    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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Two senior Norwegian diplomats being investigated over Epstein links Financial crimes squad investigate husband and wife in connection to alleged relationship with late sex offender

Refreshing to see criminal and journalistic investigations go forward in Norway. The scandal is meaningful and there is a meaningful response. All of us should do so well.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

11.02.2026 02:10 — 👍 2611    🔁 790    💬 44    📌 38
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Epstein files shed more light on Steve Bannon’s efforts to influence European politics Donald Trump’s former adviser told Epstein in 2019 that he was ‘focused on raising money for Le Pen and Salvini’ before European elections

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

05.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Knekkebrød er så godt,
det kiler i hjernen

05.02.2026 06:41 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Prosecutors to request bans from office in Le Pen appeal trial Le Pen was sentenced to four years in jail and banned her from running for office for five years

Prosecutors to request bans from office in Le Pen appeal trial

03.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
The Inner Ring - CS Lewis Society of California

I do think CS Lewis was on to something when he wrote about the lure of being in the Inner Ring. (“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things”)

www.lewissociety.org/innerring/

02.02.2026 11:39 — 👍 194    🔁 55    💬 1    📌 6
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Europa løsriver seg sakte fra USA, drama på venstresiden i norsk politikk EU og India har inngått «alle handelsavtalers mor».

Splitter ny utgave av Den politiske situasjonen ute nå. T.o.

www.dn.no/den-politisk...

29.01.2026 11:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”

Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

25.01.2026 14:43 — 👍 6862    🔁 1864    💬 385    📌 309

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

10.01.2026 09:15 — 👍 40334    🔁 9978    💬 1402    📌 726

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

26.12.2025 20:04 — 👍 20715    🔁 7089    💬 1100    📌 371
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US bars former EU commissioner Thierry Breton and others over tech rules France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’

Well said @ec.europa.eu

“The EU is an open, rules-based single market, with the sovereign right to regulate economic activity in line with our democratic values and international commitments”

www.ft.com/content/c4e7...

24.12.2025 12:12 — 👍 157    🔁 48    💬 4    📌 3

Blir det en idrettsfredspris til Putin også, tro?

11.12.2025 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

06.12.2025 04:29 — 👍 38725    🔁 7487    💬 508    📌 301
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Så fin fredspris Trump fikk! Lurer bare på hvem sine hender som ble kuttet av for å lage den statuen?

05.12.2025 17:35 — 👍 23    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 2
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Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"

Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

29.11.2025 05:33 — 👍 1499    🔁 715    💬 92    📌 87
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Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias

Dette er hva vi jurister kaller et ekspertvitne

Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...

28.11.2025 05:57 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

27.11.2025 11:55 — 👍 5520    🔁 2719    💬 269    📌 208

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

25.11.2025 09:26 — 👍 10108    🔁 5119    💬 340    📌 692
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Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel WASHINGTON—Calling the national crisis “a complete justification” for additional airstrikes on boats purportedly trafficking narcotics, the Pentagon issued a statement Tuesday blaming Venezuela for th...

Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel

23.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 2664    🔁 355    💬 41    📌 13
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Hungary to vote against EU's proposed ferro-alloy tariffs, foreign minister says Peter Szijjarto argues it 'will trigger another wave of price increases' - Anadolu Ajansı

I det beste selskap når vi har Orban på laget.

www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/hu...

14.11.2025 11:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump’s Pardon List: Here Are The Big-Time Donors And Allies He’s Sprung Free Trump pardoned more than 70 people who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election—the latest in a string of pardons to people who have benefited the president.

Trump pardoned more than 70 people who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election—the latest in a string of pardons to people who have benefited the president.

10.11.2025 20:55 — 👍 906    🔁 523    💬 152    📌 49

Leser ditt DN Europa med stor interesse @sekern.bsky.social. Mtp PVV sin tilbakegang i 🇳🇱, så har både JA21 og FVD gått frem (+12, PVV -11), føler det er underkommunisert at selv om PVV gikk tilbake har ytre høyre gått frem. Som sentrumsvelger er det gledelig å se at sentrum kan lykkes i dagens 🇪🇺.

04.11.2025 08:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

‪Scoop: Bari Weiss plans to attract more working-class Middle Americans to CBS news by increasing critical coverage of postmodernism, Marxism, and Zohran Mamdani.

02.11.2025 18:09 — 👍 705    🔁 70    💬 27    📌 2
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

31.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 20645    🔁 6722    💬 1377    📌 683
Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake:

“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"

Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake: “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"

"go to TikTok. See for yourself."

31.10.2025 04:25 — 👍 13790    🔁 1582    💬 1967    📌 873
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‘Truth is not optional’: Italy’s Calenda describes viral moment he stuffed Ukraine critic in a locker American economist Jeffrey Sachs, a trenchant critic of Western policy toward Russia, met his match in a TV studio last week. Carlo Calenda told POLITICO about the clash heard round the world.

Interessant TV-debatt, muligens nyttig for norske Sachs-fans også.

www.politico.eu/article/carl...

28.10.2025 13:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Roma sykler inn i kulturkrigen (+) Sykkelveiene i Roma blir ikke bygget på én dag.

En kan si mye om norsk samferdsel, men de siste ti årene har en altså lykkes med å elektrifisere personbilparken og samtidig styrke alternativene til privatbil i de store byene. @sekern.bsky.social sine beretninger fra kontinentet minner om at dette ikke er noen selvfølge.
www.dn.no/kommentar/sy...

26.10.2025 09:25 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Upåklagelig motstandsfaglig innsats

23.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike.

(via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

18.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 23332    🔁 3858    💬 249    📌 210
The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken.  How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

17.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 50088    🔁 10274    💬 1785    📌 765