Company builder. Former journalist and editor at CNN, VG, Dagbladet. Brief London cameo in book about Russian spies.

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He promised to run the country like he ran his business. It ended with Rudy Giuliani outside Four Season Total Landscaping next to a dildo shop, after a staffer mistakenly thought the empty parking lot was a Four Seasons hotel.
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To all those who berated me on this platform for doubting that Trump cared about the human rights or democratic aspirations of the Iranian people, I accept your apology.
US President Donald Trump says he "never cared about regime change" in Iran. "This is third group we’ve dealt with… most rational group yet," he told the Wall Street Journal. iranintl.com/en/202606141396
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This is truly terrible. The Lavra is quite isolated from all official buildings, so the Russians can't claim anything but that they wanted to destroy one of Ukraine's finest cathedrals, following Stalin's tradition.
🔥🔥🔥 Russia just targeted the 950-year-old Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. 📌 Having lost control of this Orthodox holy site, Moscow is operating on the exact logic its proxies voiced last week: 👉 If Russia cannot own the world, the world should not exist.
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Guys this is absolutely a disaster
BREAKINGNEWS: Art of the deal. Iran says Trump agreed to 300 billion to rebuild Iran. 24 billion in frozen assets to be released. Iran claims some of that money has already been handed over. Jesus this is a mess. 🚨
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I just watched priests trying to save crucifixes from a burning monastery. This is what russia is destroying. The Kyiv Lavra is one of the holiest Orthodox sites on earth. A UNESCO World Heritage site. Moscow calls itself “Christian civilisation.” It’s literally barbarism.
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Trump said he demanded unconditional surrender, we just didn’t know he meant America’s.
Aged like milk in the Strait of Hormuz sun.
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It's like a science experiment for people who don't believe in science
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This is what happens when you give your pool boy a $14,000,000 no bid contract for stuff he’s clearly not qualified to do.
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JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Some of you were alive when that happened.
“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.
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It means you live in an aurhoritarian political climate with a mob boss style leader.
When people in Washington lower their voices and say, “Please don’t use my name. I’m afraid he’ll come after my family’s livelihood,” it means something has broken. People no longer trust the law to protect them.
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I remember the good old days when Putin was claiming to save his Slavic brothers and sisters from Nazis, and not actually trying to burn down some of the holiest sites in Orthodoxy
Russians have struck the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and are burning down one of Ukraine's oldest Orthodox churches‼️ The roof of the Dormition Cathedral is ablaze. The cathedral itself is a significant part of our history, it is older than Moscow. It was already there when russian neanderthals were building shacks made of sticks and shit. Fucking barbarians!
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This deal reopens a body of water that was open before the war and begins a nuclear negotiation far narrower than what Trump was seeking before the war. All at a staggering cost to the entire world while leaving an IRGC-led government that feels strengthened.
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I can’t ever tell if these people are comically evil or comically dumb
💥NEW: @chamath on LA Mayor Election: “I’m for mathematical and statistical literacy. And what happened here is mathematically and statistically IMPOSSIBLE … I can tell you the statistical odds that this would have happened — and it’s one in a trillion!”
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Political media figures wouldn’t have to handhold centimillionaires from the *information technology* field through minefields of idiotic political disinformation if their industry hadn’t been overtaken and rotted through by greedy crooks, actively hostile to truth.
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This is what Mehr put out on Friday, prompting Vance to suggest people not listen to Iranian leaks. They’re putting out the same today.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Mehr: This is the US-Iran MOU 1- Permanent and immediate cessation of war on all fronts, including Lebanon 2- The US commitment to non-interference in Iran's internal affairs and respect for the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 3- Complete lifting of the naval blockade within 30 days 4- The US commitment to withdraw its forces from around Iran 5- Reopening of the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days under Iranian arrangements 6- Suspension of sanctions on the sale of oil, petrochemical products, and derivatives, and full access of Iran to its financial resources. 7- The necessity for the US and its allies to present reconstruction plans for Iran amounting to at least 300 billion dollars 8- 60 days of negotiations to reach a final agreement based on nuclear issues and the complete lifting of primary, secondary, US sanctions, and UN Security Council and IAEA Board of Governors resolutions 9- Reiteration of Iran's commitment under the NPT treaty not to produce nuclear weapons 10- During the negotiation period, the US has committed not to add forces in the region and not to impose new sanctions. 11- Release of 24 billion dollars of Iran's blocked funds during the 60-day final negotiation period. Half of this amount must be made available to Iran before the start of negotiations. 12- Formation of a supervisory mechanism to implement the agreement. 13- The final agreement will be approved by a UN Security Council resolution. 14- Final negotiations will not begin before the release of half of Iran's blocked funds, suspension of Iran's oil sanctions, and lifting of the naval blockade, and the final agreement will only cover the fate of enriched materials and enrichment, lifting of sanctions, and Iran's economic reconstruction plan. Discussions about Iran's missile program and support for resistance groups are definitively removed from the agenda.
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A war that began with the U.S. president’s promise to help the Iranian people following the brutal suppression of the January 2026 protests may end with a handshake between his vice president and the man who commanded Iran’s internal security forces.
It appears that J.D. Vance and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf will sign the agreement in Geneva on Friday. Kazem Gharibabadi, #Iran's deputy foreign minister: "On Friday, we will have a formal signing ceremony, and the heads of the two delegations will hold talks to determine the framework for the next stage of negotiations." Who would have thought, just a few months ago, that we would see a Ghalibaf–Vance handshake photo? Also worth noting: both have significant domestic political ambitions in their respective countries.
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This is very distressing news. Russia has attacked the territory of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most significant spiritual and cultural landmarks of Ukraine and the world. Russian forces damaged Uspenskiy Cathedral. It’s on fire now.  The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is listed under Enhanced Protection pursuant to the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention. An attack on it constitutes one of the gravest crimes against the world’s cultural heritage.
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RT @ukr_arthistory: Another attack on Kyiv. Continuing. It is confirmed that russian missile hit Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, UNESCO heritage https…
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Right now, as Russians continue to strike #Kyiv with over a dozen of ballistic missiles, the Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning. A brutal assault on our people and our heritage. This is the true face of Russia’s Orthodox values.
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Byron Donalds speaks about the importance of education in front of a misspelled sign. You can’t make this shit up.

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This shit is so tiring, all of these narratives were debunked already back in 2022.
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/…
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The big problem with these UFC fights for Trump is that they reinforce the idea that he's is out of touch with Americans. Just 16% say these fights are appropriate. Even just 31% of the GOP do. This comes as 60% of voters & 80% of indies say the White House is out of touch.
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