@hofferdal
Adviser for international affairs at the University of Bergen (UiB). Latin America, México & liberation theology aficionado. Strong supporter of free speech, academic freedom and a humane world! Opinions are my own. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements
NEW: An NBC poll finds Pope Leo XIV and Stephen Colbert are the most popular figures in American public life.
Donald Trump, JD Vance, both parties, ICE, and AI are underwater.
A Catholic pope from Chicago is the most trusted man in the country.
Govern accordingly.
🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Paloma Valencia competirá en la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales. La senadora del Centro Democrático ha ganado la Gran Consulta, el mecanismo interpartidista en el que compitieron nueve aspirantes
#EleccionesColombia2026 dozz.es/q0brsb
Sí, pero al mismo tiempo, en el mundo ocurren más cosas buenas que malas. Fíjense, por ejemplo, en las actividades de #PimNeill.
Los Netanyahu, los Putin y los Trump no son la gente buena de este mundo (¡creo que son de otra galaxia!).
Hay más Pim Neills de este mundo, y más fuertes, que Trump.
President Trump and President Putin posing for a photo during the 2025 Russia–United States Summit, 15 August 2025 https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1956446335261175865/photo/1 The White House
Pues, hoy en día nunca se sabe. El mundo se ha vuelto loco.😭
No, they did not! The clip is authentic but the context is fake.
It dates back to 3 October 2019 when "Laughter erupted inside the chamber after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was unable to hold back her giggles as she explained why the Danish state had decided to purchase a camel."
No, they did not! The clip is authentic but the context is fake.
It dates back to 3 October 2019 when "Laughter erupted inside the chamber after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was unable to hold back her giggles as she explained why the Danish state had decided to purchase a camel."
Subscribing to the particular logic of retribution & reward, maybe these 'evangelicals' will get a surprise when they are trying to (with bribes?) get past the gate of St. Peter?
Perhaps they will not get the reward they were craving for.
Let's quote the OT, just for the argument😇, Mic 6:8; Isa. 1
Facsimiles de las primeras planas de Reforma, La Nacion, Pagina12 La Hora, Expresio, La Jornada, La Estrella de Panama, El Mercurio, El Universo y La Prensa Grafica, 8 de marzo de 2026.
Como era de esperar, el nuevo "Escudo de las Américas" domina muchas de las portadas de la #prensa #latinoamericana hoy.
Cabe destacar que #Brasil, #Colombia, #Cuba, #México y #Venezuela no fueron invitados a la cumbre.
¿Será porque #EE.UU planea una #intervenciónmilitar en algunos de esos países?
Facsimiles of: - front page of Jerusalem Post, 8 March 2026 - graphic from Al Jazeera on deaths in US-Israel attacks on Iran https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/1/us-israel-attacks-on-iran-death-toll-and-injuries-live-tracker
@thejerusalempost.bsky.social says that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has dropped ~6500 bombs on #Iran, and that Israel "has #killed thousands of Iranian regime forces".
Is IDF being hyperbolic, or has @aljazeera.com not a complete count of casualties?
(Forget here about innocent #civilians!)..
Several (world) #newspapers put this image on the front page in their Sunday edition. Almost absent from U.S. front pages, though.
A U.S. #president in a baseball cap - from his own store ! - at a ceremony for fallen U.S. #soldiers?
@leahmcelrath.bsky.social @shashj.bsky.social @numb.comfortab.ly
I don't know. I don't think so, but you need to ask Biblical scholar about this😇
To me, this whole 'capitalist' interpretation with 'rewards' seem somewhat theologically twisted.
I think we should treat people good, just because it is the correct thing to do. Not because of a reward. Luk.6:31.
30 years ago, the movie "Wag the Dog" told the story of a US President that started a fake war to distract the country from the fact that he SA'd a child.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=steA...
We are lucky to have @johnbuss.bsky.social to comment on politics.
Thanks for your great work, John!
WH "has billed the summit as the founding of the "Americas Counter Cartel Coalition" which they described as a new #military partnership with leaders in the region...
the " #ShieldOfTheAmericas" will have Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as its special envoy", says @news.dw.com
#LatinAmerica
Surprised??
The Secretary of War! was interviewed on (a) @cbsnews.com, by (b) Major Garrett who (c) is a former Fox News figure, 2002-2010.
What is the surprise here?🤔
Any answer the Pentagon might have given to this question would have spoken volumes😞
Answer 1:
Yes, we used AI to select the school as a bombing target =
WE IRRESPONSIBLY USED AN IMMATURE TECHNOLOGY
Answer 2:
No, we did not use AI = WE MADE MISTAKES
Answer 3:
We don't know = WE ARE INCOMPETENT
"A la cumbre asistieron...Javier Milei, ...Daniel Noboa...Nayib Bukele...También acudieron los presidentes de Bolivia, Costa Rica, República Dominicana, Honduras, Panamá, Paraguay, Guyana y Trinidad y Tobago, así como al presidente electo de Chile, José Antonio Kast."
Facsimiles of the front pages of El Pais, The Daily Telegraph and The Times, 7 March 2026.
" #Iran is run by #lunatics – #religious #fanatic lunatics."
- Marco Rubio, 3 March 2026.
Strange that not more of MSM (also worldwide) has picked up on this issue - on their front pages.
Sadly, @dailystar.co.uk blew a huge opportunity here!
@julieroys.bsky.social @clittlefield.bsky.social
Now on @aljazeera.com: 'Chaos', 3rd and final ep of the 2025 French documentary series "Latin America: So Far From God, So Close To The United States".
Ep looks at "How the US reacted to the rise of Latin America’s left". Series is more relevant than ever.
@artefr.bsky.social
@artepro.bsky.social
🎓We’re excited to share that workshop "Academic Freedom in Context: Trends in Threats and Coping Practices" is the first that prelude a larger conference on the same topic at the IUC in Sep 2027.
Check out 🔽
iuc.hr/programme/2124
#iucdubrovnik #academicfreedom
@hofferdal.bsky.social
Facsimile of front page of FLED report "On the Current Situation of Exiled Media in Latin America".
I had missed this very interesting report (October 2025) "On the Current Situation of Exiled #Media in #LatinAmerica".
By #FLED, and English version co-funded by @ec.europa.eu.
capacity4dev.europa.eu/media/282477...
Facsimiles of front pages from Philadelphia Inquirer and Newsday (4 March), and I-Paper, Metro and Guardian (5 March).
Front pages, stressing grave risks, from the U.S. and UK press about the U.S-Israel war against #Iran.
(And, in case you missed it, Trump has launched a #militaryoperation in yet another country. Now #Ecuador) tinyurl.com/mpz97969
#SpecialMilitaryOperation! #CombatOperations
#AheadOfSchedule...
"In a statement responding to Blanche’s denial, @reuters.com said it stands by its reporting."
#Venezuela
Which experts? On the record? In which outlets?
#FactsMatter
"We call on all #Christians to join us in greater acts of courage to resist the #injustices and #anti-democratic danger sweeping across the nation. In moments like this, silence is not #neutrality—it is an active choice to permit harm."
@sigridrg.bsky.social
@kristeligt-dagblad.dk
@dagen.se
This is very cool indeed.
Thanks for posting this, Dean!
Perhaps a bit unexpected. The Adventists have historically not been very enthusiastic about #LiberationTheology, or am I wrong?
@spectrumadventist.bsky.social
@orbisbooks.bsky.social
@ncronline.bsky.social
@thomasreesesj.bsky.social
Since the start of 2025, Democrats have racked up wins in special elections for state legislative seats, giving the party hope for the midterm elections.
Making that which is invisible, visible
1988 photo of Juan Hernandez Pico together with (Rector of #UCA) Ignacio #Ellacuría. https://revistas.uca.edu.sv/index.php/realidad/issue/view/829
And you might like this (cropped) 1988 photo of Juan Hernandez Pico together with (Rector of #UCA) Ignacio #Ellacuría.😇
It was used on the cover of a special issue (link in alt-txt) of 'Realidad, Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades' dedicated to the work of "Padre Pico".
