Jørgen Valkner

[Sabrina Carpenter @SabrinaAnnLynn]

@WhiteHouse this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.

[Daniel Wickham @DanielWickham93]

The idea that Palestinian parents are 'fine with having their children starve' is Nazi-like dehumanisation and atrocity denial and the people promoting it should be treated no differently to neo-Nazis who deny the Holocaust.

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

Today the climate meeting #COP29 starts in Baku. During Cop, the picture of Azerbaijan reported by the media will be a whitewashed and greenwashed version that the regime is desperate to portray. But make no mistake – it is a repressive state accused of ethnic cleansing.

[Cody Johnston @drmistercody]

Just wanted to share that men are reachable and can be okay.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Don’t trust any Democrat who would throw our trans family under the bus. It is weak and cowardly to do so, when they should be standing with all people against MAGA fascism. Without exception.

To the trans community I say know this: I will always have your backs.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[Kat Abughazaleh @KatAbughazaleh]

White Christian nationalists want to shape America into an extreme, right-wing theocracy.

That's why I made this comprehensive explainer with @peoplefor: So you can not only prepare yourself + your community for a Project 2025 future, but also fight back. https://t.co/SVoVQ2WQbO

[VirusJ9 🍉 🔜 FanX 2026 @Virus_J9]

I was 16.
16.
16 fucking years old.
A child.
I had never even been kissed,
I was drugged,
I didn't even know what happened to me until I had a miscarriage 3 weeks later.
No person, adult or child, should be forced to carry the result of the evil they experienced.

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Every woman I talk to about Harris losing feels heartbroken that a woman who is smarter and more detailed than Trump lost to him; that it's reflective of dismissal they've experienced themselves. We need these women in our movement. Being glib about the misogynoir is alienating.

[james stout @jamesstout]

I am joining the lady Gaga battalion of cis allies in the jihad to attack and destroy gender . 🫡🏳️‍⚧️

[Pål Grønning Kraft @GjoekenesKonge]

Okei gutta, nå er det bare å brette opp erma og være en jævla motstemme

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

If you voted for Trump I don’t like you, but I care about you.

A lot of you are gloating in my DMs.

When Trump era policies destroy your access to healthcare, education and clean water I will not be there to gloat, I will be there to help you organize.

When Trump era policies deport your friends or legally deny you healthcare I’m not going to stand over you and say “seee”, I’m going to help you organize.

When Trump era policies defund public schools in your district and their vouchers aren’t enough for private school, we will not be there to gloat and point fingers, we will be there to help you organize.

When you’re eventually disenfranchised by Project 2025, we will all be there for you as community.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

White men and women showed up in record numbers for Trump.

I will not tolerate any post mortem hatred towards uncommitted or 3rd party voters.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[james stout @jamesstout]

The only way not to despair is to build structures to take care of one another that don’t depend on the state. You can do it, but you have to start now and not on the internet.

[🦕 Isaiah Cole Torre 🦖 @IsaiahCTorre]

Always and forever.

[Zack Denfeld @infoeco]

One of my students @kmdbergen is starting to geek out about #Datavisualization and #urbanplanning but #Bergen Norway which seems really behind the curve on #placemaking & #participatoryurbanism as compared to #aarhus and other 2nd cities in Europe. True or am I missing something? https://t.co/eUiRomQdGl

[Jørgen Valkner @CValkner]

I made this bar graph showing the number of #bus rides per capita in Norway's four largest cities annually between 2005 and 2016. Would love to hear what you think of it. #Transportation #Graph