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.

If events are making Europeans feel helpless and depressed, Finns might say, what is needed is more sisu—a personality trait or philosophy combining inner strength, perseverance and a can-do attitude towards adversity

”I Sverige är det regeringen som bestämmer vilka värderingar medborgarna ska ha. Det är annat än i diktaturen du kommer ifrån!”

Kommunalrådet Boman om regeringens samordnare för arbetet med frivillig återvandring som vill "initiera ett samtal" om hur det arbetet kan stärkas. - Jokkmokk är VI, inte vi & dom. Jokkmokk är VI oavsett bakgrund, födelseland el hudfärg. Där skiljer sig Jokkmokk […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]

Tärningen är kastad 🎲 #växjö inspireras av #jokkmokk #tackmennejtack

"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

Lukemisen arvoinen kirjoitus, jossa Vihriälä käsittelee mm tutkimuslaitoksen ja etujärjestön eroja Björn Wahlroosin äskettäisten ETLAa koskevien lausuntojen innoittamana. www.vesavihriala.fi/2025/10/kene...

Stark text av @karinp.bsky.social !

Velkajarruasiaa koskeva sopu on vähän yllättävä. Yllättävämpää on, että sen yhteydessä ei keskustella lainkaan puoliväliriihessä päätetyistä veronalennuksista, esim n miljardi ansiotuloveroista. Eli aloitetaan kauaskantoinen julkisen talouden kiristys isoilla veronalennuksilla.

Tärkeä informatiivinen ketju @timostewart.bsky.social lta.

”Så kallat svenska…” Jag kan inte ens föreställa mig hur det kommer att låta ju närmare valet vi kommer.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America. newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

Äntligen någon som säger detta offentligt: vi är i "Finland sering 2.0" i relation till Trump. www.hbl.fi/2025-10-09/s...

Lokakuun Talous & Yhteiskunta -lehden teemana on Yhdysvallat. Kansijuttua varten toimittaja Juha Merimaa haastatteli MIT-yliopiston professoria, talousnobelisti Daron Acemoglua Yhdysvaltojen ja Euroopan talouksien eroista ja yhtäläisyyksistä. Lue koko haastattelu! ▶️ labore.fi/t&y/eurooppa...

Tämä @mjantti.bsky.social:n artikkeli T&Y-lehdessä kannattaa kaikkien harmaita hiuksia VM:n 90 000 laskennallisesta työllisestä saaneiden lukea. En odota, että hallituksessa tai VM:ssä kukaan tätä lukisi – ja varsinkaan toimintaansa artikkelin pohjalta muuttaisi. #talous #tiede #politiikka

Miten hallituksen päätökset vaikuttavat julkiseen talouteen – ja millä aikavälillä? Nykyistä parempia vaikutusarvioita tarvittaisiin etenkin päätösten lyhyen aikavälin vaikutuksista, professori Markus Jäntti Tukholman yliopistosta kirjoittaa. Lue ▶️ labore.fi/t&y/talouspo...

A British newspaper (The Mirror) reacts to Trump’s speech.

Detta är den perfekta illustrationen för min gamla kolumn om varför ”liberalkonservatismen” är en skvader: www.expressen.se/kultur/darfo...