Hej Forssell! Unpredictable migration rules risk scaring off foreign talent. Changes to Sweden's migration policies risk affecting Sweden's ability to attract & retain high-skilled international talent, according to researchers at Stockholm School of Economics: www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/rese...

They are charging the journalist who discovered government espionage *with* espionage. This is the model of authoritarianism that Trumpists promote as the ideal.

Nazi being nazi

Interested in the nexus between algorithmic bias and right-wing extremism? Take a look this paper based on my most recent research project: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This and the insurrectionists in Germany is why we need intelligence services always keeping a watchful eye on these milieus

I am a proponent of gen ai (as in I see the use cases) but this is terrible. Not as bad as the nazi from the nazi site’s methane turbines but still awful, awful

”It could not happen here” is particularly dangerous exceptionalism as you don’t stay vigilant keeping institutions from capture

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

One of the musicians I adore most deeply. She was part of the female composers pushing into electronic music in the 70s. I often listen to her long droning pieces while writing and I got to once sit 2 rows behind her at a performance. Thank you for the music. pitchfork.com/news/eliane-...

Manufactured doubt on the safety of vaccines has led to trying to fast track a “study” in Guinea-Bissau “testing” their efficacy by depriving infants of access to the Hep B vaccine. the Tuskegee experiment is not just a historical monstrosity, it’s a warning.

"Women and the Wall: Gender Attitudes and Political Engagement in Unified Germany" by Catherine E. De Vries and Diana Z. O’Brien. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

En bra dag på jobbet när man får snacka lite om Johnny Bode-priset

Fear and loathing in America ’26

Also ”entertainment” 🙈

Oh dear, so predictable

Great chart from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com 👌

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening: -"forcibly entered homes without a judge’s warrant" -"interrogated people because of their ethnicity or accents" -"broke windows and dragged occupants from their cars" -"used force on people who were already restrained"

The democratic backsliding happens slowly then suddenly. Respect to these prosecutors for resisting.

This dirty org needs to be dismantled for many reasons archive.is/2025.07.03-0...

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

The implication is severe: careless responding on MTurk isn’t rare noise; it’s systematic enough to flip the sign of relationships and generate results that are the opposite of what they really are. Wow; this is pretty damning. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Update: As of January 7, The Trace has identified 28 incidents, including 14 shootings, in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint during an immigration enforcement action under Trump’s crackdown. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.

Jack Smith Deposition quotes

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

It is extremely troubling that the migration minister in Sweden has a son who is a white supremacist. It is even more so, when the minister in question has adopted the far right position of wanting to weaken the rule of law by revoking permanent residency status. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Amazing piece

Trump: "We have a fool at the Federal Reserve. I mean, Biden reappointed him. It's too bad. You would have thought he wouldn't have done that." (Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)

I wrote about this claim forever ago when he made it on Joe Rogan's show:

Well-written piece, important and horrifying

What I never understood, is what Tegnell hoped to achieve with the inadequacy of the pandemic response? Now we’re seeing his brownstone maffia buddies populate high ranking positions in the Trump/RFKjr health department, continuing to set the stage for even more death and suffering, but why??

This is what happens when you let malevolent or deeply incompetent people into power. I’m especially looking at you, honorary doctor at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social , Martin ”death cult” Kulldorff

More absurdities from the NYT headline writer. No, Tina Peter was charged, tried and convicted for election fraud—not for being a "denier." And there is no "legal controversy," the Constitution is clear. There is a president seeking to exercise totalitarian powers.

Trump's MAGA affiliated European resistance appears largely to be something strung together and funded by the Russian intelligence services. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

A little bit of history repeating… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua...

“How did American democracy backslide?” “Two ways: gradually, then suddenly” Trump is the culmination of GOP trends that have been accelerating since at least Ford’s pardon, then Reagan’s rogue pre-presidency foreign policy & Iran-Contra, through everything in the GWB admin. All of it unpunished.

The Great Barrington Declaration was a bloody disaster. One of the greatest human follies of the modern age. Sheer arrogance and cynicism.

And yet, he did, so

Just goes to show the extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean has nothing to do with drugs.

Very tragic and entirely expected. Now watch the fascists use this in their hate propaganda, regardless of circumstances, in three… two… one…

Calling them the “Seditious Six” & branding their statements “despicable” before review is textbook definition of prejudgment. No panel, judge, or reviewing authority can claim neutrality once the SECDEF declares the accused guilty. This looks like the procedures used in dictatorships, not the US.

The "peace president."

”public man-made death”

This!

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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

The Trump regime has fired an estimated 70 immigration judges since February. This is happening as immigration courts face a record backlog of cases. Remember: it was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.

Interesting and disturbing paper on gender inequality in economics 👀 aliciasassermodestino.com/wp-content/u...