Sven-Eric Liedman skriver med passion och vrede. Han liknar Donald Trump vid en buse på skolgården och kallar vår egen migrationsminister Johan Forssell avskyvärd. Och vi är fegisar som tiger och böjer oss för hänsynslösheten och råheten. Läs!

Perfection.

"Jag tänker att det viktigaste man kan göra är att fortsätta göra mentalt motstånd mot både Millers människo- och historiesyn."

Kianderilta kiinnostavaa pohdiskelua. Kokonaisveroasteen nosto prosenttiyksiköllä ei varmasti ole kaikkien mieleen, mutta se ei myöskään kuulosta kohtuuttomalta valtiontalouden suunnan kääntämiseksi.

Even when attempting to write critically about one European country, this piece manages to be both supportive of Trump and insulting to Europeans. (Trumpians have "valid concerns", says Kirchick.)

@martinsandbu.ft.com on the state of RUS economy "The picture is clear. The RU economy is under enormous strain, & is running out of resources. ... The message for the west — what remains of it — is that the medicine (sanctions) is working, but the dose should be increased." 100% #UkrainianView

The UK and EU need to get much more serious about military planning to repel a US invasion of Greenland, says the FT. www.ft.com/content/53ac...

Trump's and his lackeys' territorial demands and threats are reminiscent 1930s Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet. This needs to be widely recognised and their implications acted upon. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration. doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵 Thread—>

Kyllä! Open source = ohjelma, jota voi käyttää ilmaiseksi ja kehittää edelleen; tosin kehitetynkin ohjelman käytön on oltava ilmaista. Esimerkkejä: Windows -> Mint jne.; Word -> Libre Office; Doodle -> Rallly ym. Saksa rahoitti Libre Officen kehitystyötä, Suomi panosti Wordin käyttöön. Miksi näin?

Inget att se här. Bara europeiska regeringar som är på väg att ge USA tillgång till medborgarnas mest känsliga personuppgifter 🤷

It should already be on the table.

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Sanctions!

Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid | Nathalie Tocci

A year ago, I went to Copenhagen to write about the political crisis sparked by Trump over Greenland. Danes told me that the US can already do whatever it wants on the island. Their conclusion: Trump just wants the U.S. to look larger on a map www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The answer appears to be yes he has, no he has not.

I'd like to write this defies belief but unfortunately, it does not.

How Germany’s historical high mobility fell short of its reputation: Our data reveals that intergenerational income persistence sharply increased for recent cohorts, reaching levels comparable to the US and coinciding with increasingly class-dependent educational attainment.

A reminder, as Trump is illegally attacking other countries & musing about occupying & taking territory from them, of how mind-blowingly unserious the Paper of Record’s coverage of this has been in the last twelve months:

Anyone for sanctions on Trump, his family, their companies as well as Trump's cabinet for flagrant violations of international law? If not (as everyone expects), good luck with support next time Northern interests are violated.

These people are out of their minds. They are endangering the whole world. This has to stop. This is the wife of the man who is currently running foreign policy for the United States:

Very hard to believe that Roberts actually thinks this. The crisis is apparent to anyone. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The popular view of Adam Smith is that he celebrated self-interest. But if you read his work more closely, the caricature melts away

This makes sense in this by now pretty senseless world.

Swedish New Year Resolution: Kalmar Union by 2028 Another feature article investigating the merits of a Nordic Union, potential forms of governance, and challenges. And yes, in the presented scenario of unifying to deter a looming Russian invasion, Jens Stoltenberg is the Federal Chancellor.

When will EU realise that MAGA-US is now one of its main adversaries? And not only in trade wars (in which it is the main one)?

Tidöregeringen har vid flera tillfällen valt att gå emot utredares rekommendationer. – SD har ingen lojalitet med svensk förvaltningstradition, och den synen spiller över på regeringspartierna. Det är farligt, säger Göran Sundström, professor vid Stockholms universitet.

Bra av @karinp.bsky.social om regeringens inhumana och rasistiska utvisningspolitik. Eftersom de stora partierna, inklusive S, inte har några spärrar kvar mot denna kortdiktiga och dumms politik måste motståndet komma från annat håll. Från oss vanliga människor. Vi måste höja rösten.

Sharp column, as usual, on the contradictions in EU policies on migration. One hopes for the brave politician to take the lead on stopping the pandering to the anti-immigrant right.

Riippumattomaan akateemiseen tutkimukseen kohdistuu yhä voimakkaampaa painetta ja monessa länsimaassa tiedevastaiset puolueet istuvat jo hallituksessa. Yliopistojen ja kansalaisten on aika alkaa entistä määrätietoisemmin puolustaa tutkimusta demokratian tukipilarina. www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/d...

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Stephen Miller’s sadistic designs go? trib.al/qOmUC8i

153 countries voted to protect international aid workers from violence. The US was the only country to vote 'no.' The stated reason by the State Department is that it is a ploy to advance 'radical gender ideology.' You cannot make this shit up.

Europe is paying Libya to torture migrants on its behalf

It seems my travel plans will never again involve the US.

The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.

Erinomainen ketju!

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

Skriver om Epstein, Larry Summers, Sverigekopplingarna, Handelshögskolan och en människosyn som byggde den värld vi lever i. www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/j09...

This!

Sorgligt att en ung (liberal?) generation tror att Ezra Klein har de politiska svaren för framtiden. Om något är han mindre radikal när det gäller "reformer, investeringar och stärkande av samhällsinstitutionerna" än vänstertänkare som Piketty & Naomi Klein. www.expressen.se/kultur/kultu...

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

Apparently, even in Norway money trumps ethics.

This is not great. Many thanks, US voters.

This FT account of pure thuggishness of Trump representatives posing as diplomats has not appeared in US media anywhere, but is being widely circulated and reported in media in Europe, the UK and the Asia Pacific area. Be sure to read it all.

What he said Part 2: 💯 🎯

This should first-page news everywhere and prompt all EU countries to invite US ambassadors to explain these actions. US aggression should not go unmet. But our mouse-like leaders are almost certainly going to let also this pass.