My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Nedskärningar av det enda icke-kommersiella alternativet till vinstdrivande medier i en era av desinformation på sociala medier och teknikmiljardärmakt är demokratiskt självmord. www.dn.se/kultur/svt-s...

"The Washington Post could have been the moral center of the news industry in this era, as it was during the 1970s. It had the reporters, editors, editorial writers, columnists, researchers, lawyers and legacy. But it didn’t have the owner." newrepublic.com/article/2061...

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This one gets even better when you read the "Note: The New York Times has sued Perplexity for copyright infringement" on the bottom of the article

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

Good piece by @seva.bsky.social. The cyclical nature of US betrayal of Kurds does seem to suggest a structural explanation of how/why. “And the lesson is not just for the Kurds or Iranians to be skeptical, but for the American public to stop being duped by their own presidential moralizing.”

Han är även en av de fem som bestämmer vilken/vilka som ska få Nobels fredspris.

1) handlande l. görande o. låtande (i umgänge med andra); särsk. (o. numera bl.) i det mer l. mindre pleonastiska uttr. (1) handel och vandel (se HANDEL, sbst2 6 a; jfr 2 slutet), numera bl. med anslutning till 5, förr äv. till 4; jfr 4.

🇺🇳 Opinion: ‘Europe has greater responsibility in the World Health Organization without the United States’ - Writes Professor Ilona Kickbusch in @bmj.com ‘Europe must become a proactive system stabiliser as the principal guarantor of @who.int ’s operational continuity’ www.bmj.com/content/392/...

I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out! You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/... The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old

I went to the vigil for Alex Pretti at the VA HQ in DC. I will not soon forget the crowd's death wail that echoed against the federal buildings - I heard in it remembrance, rage, determination. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#NoWords demo in Copenhagen against Trump’s disrespectful comments about Danish veterans NATOs article 5 has been invoked once - by the United States. Relative to population Denmark lost more lives of all NATO countries in the following mindless war in Afghanistan

AI-supported mammography screening results in fewer aggressive and advanced breast cancers, finds full results from first randomised controlled trial. Explore the research 👉 tinyurl.com/2cez8ykw

Det var faktiskt något Jimmie Åkesson gjorde den här veckan som var ännu märkligare än hans drömmar om onda islamister. Det är som om han tror att folk inte minns vad han leder för parti. Skrev om det. www.dn.se/kultur/johan...

Påven (!!) har formulerat något av den bästa kritiken mot AI jag läst: ”turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Värt att upprepa med anledning av DN:s förstasida idag. När man lyfter fram osanna talepunkter, misinformation och propaganda i förstasidans största rubrik så bidrar man till att den falska informationen befästs och efter hand upplevs som sannare. Det är genuint farligt, vilket DN borde veta.

Målet med desinformation... 1. Desinformation: "Sverige är ett kollapsande helvete" 2. Offentlig person: "Yes. Sverige är ett kollapsande helvete" 3. Journalistik: "Är Sverige ett kollapsande helvete?" 4. Medborgare: "Jag antar att media inte skulle bevaka detta om det inte fanns något i det."

I imagine Earth 2 is not perfect by any means and has problems but Peggy Flanagan is MN governor having a normal Sunday while VP Tim Walz is doing something like fixing a intake valve, and a VA nurse is getting ready for a shift and not dead, while a mom takes a stuffie out of her glove compartment

I think you’re getting tripped up on the sophisticated and complicated part. It’ll be hamfisted, messy and obvious, but they will just do it anyway. Them NOT doing it relies on people in power actually doing something and well… I’m not convinced.

This country is in crisis because of its reckless and deranged leadership, something a majority of Americans are coming to understand. That is worth stating plainly and clearly in an editorial. It does not require both-sides-ism, false equivalence, blame-shifting, or rhetorical ass-covering. x

En hel intervju i Agenda med statsministern om USA, Nato och säkerhet utan att ta upp DCA-avtalet är rent beklämmande.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Our analysis at @bellingcat.com on the killing of Alex Pretti breaks down the video evidence. He never reached for his gun. Agents sprayed/tackled him while his hands were up. He was disarmed before he was shot. The first shot came from an agent firing at him. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

> @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

This smug piece of shit has never ‘brought a billboard’ to a protest. Also the defund protests were filled with armed right-wing ‘observers’ so gtfo with this shit

Exactly this. @mirandayaver.bsky.social wrote a brilliant piece after a Stanford professor scolded her & said she must be more “civil” towards the MAGA/MAHA physicians who are collaborating with Trump & RFK Jr to dismantle the US public health system (mirandayaver.substack.com/p/bless-thei...).

The children’s face painter: “I feel afraid. “Only hours have passed since they shot a man in front of me, and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. “I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. “I do know that they're not telling the truth.”

Det är lite fascinerande hur den liberala nyhetsmedians självbild är att vara den sista bastionen mot fascismen när precis all historia pekar på motsatsen. shatterzone.substack.com/p/the-libera...

We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them. This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u

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Mycket läsvärt om varför man inte kan lita på Demoskop. Och att nyheten om förtroendet för Åkesson inte är riktig. novus.se/think-with-n...

Moderna curbing investments in vaccine trials due to US backlash, CEO tells Bloomberg TV reut.rs/3NBzBtS

Seeing Swedish thought leaders and journalist posting about how this could never happen in Sweden because we have a truly unbiased and representative media and government makes me feel genuinely helpless and alone. How do you convince people to unlearn their delusional optimism?

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Våra ledande politiker och politiska kommunikatörer fortsätter även att använda ’X’, en sociala medier-plattform dränkt i rasistisk propaganda, pro-ryska bots och fascism – ägd av den man som offentligt gjort upprepade Hitlerhälsningar och sprider vit makt-lögner. Den eko-kammaren ger också avtryck.

Sverige har dock ett utbrett alternativt medieekosystem som drivs av etablerandet av falska fakta för att främja vissa ideologiskt drivna narrativ, som i sin tur påverkat svensk politik på högsta nivån. Det finns väl kartlagt, bland annat i Vowles avhandling. Falsk fakta slår rot brett även här.

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

This is how not to write a headline. The story is that *the videos show agents killing an unarmed man.*

Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account

On one side is a nurse and a poet dying while saying “Are you okay?” and “I'm not even mad at you dude" And on the other side are armed officers of the state saying “Boo hoo” and “Fucking bitch.” And they want you to believe the first side are the domestic terrorists.