Driven by fear of the far right, the EU is losing its compass, whether on migration, climate or Gaza. By undermining its own principles, Europe weakens its global position and risks losing not just dignity but political agency. With @jannikjansen.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Let's not forget that some of RFK Jr's closest associates, like Bhattacharya and Kulldorff, rose to their positions through pandemic contrarianism, supported by a not insignificant number of people in British and Scandinavian medicine, even public health officials.

The Enchanted Owl Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 1960

A competent vaccine adviser, according to Norwegian top public-health official Aavitsland. US-UK-Scandinavian necropolitics, boosted by right-wing money.

Hvorfor savne Audun-SV, når du kan ha dype Lysbakken-Mason samtaler i Bergstø-SV.

There is that, but it's often missed that Sweden imposed far stricter restrictions in winter 2020/21 than during the first wave that made us infamous. Many saw this as the govt stepping in more directly, rather than leaving decisions to the public health agency. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Listened to these, + the recent at unherd (wont link to that site). Central point re Sweden and the scandi-infused RFK-entourage that should be refuted in Swedish public discourse is their persistent deception that Sweden's pandemic response somehow validates Kulldorff and GBD. For all its faults,..

Hvis FHI ønsker å framstå troverdig i sine argumenter om pandemi og overdødelighet, kunne det være en idé å ikke stille med Kulldorff og Bhattacharya-forsvarer Aavitsland.

Bear, Fish & Bird Norval Morrisseau ~ Anishinaabe n.d.

The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

Eugenics and the elimination of “weakness” is very literally at the core of every fascist regime that has ever existed. The Nazis were famous anti-science and the very first people they imprisoned were the disabled and chronically ill. This is absolutely classic fascism.

Eugenics is a common feature of post-enlightenment scientific beliefs, among professionals No need to blame poor people from the past

That raises the question: is deep convection already declining? Data on that are very noisy. They do show a decline in the past ten years. But that time span is too short to tell for sure whether it’s a beginning collapse, or just variability. It’s a matter of risk, or danger.

Guess Charlotte Haug (NEJM), GBD signatory and former editor of 'Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association' was partially right when she wrote that Jay Bhattacharya is a rock-solid professional and miles away from Trump politically. He was always more of an RFK guy.

Google in 2015: Our goal is to power 100% of our operations with clean energy Google's President in 2025: I agree that Silicon Valley has been overtaken by a 'climate extremist agenda' and that powering data centers with coal plants is a "fantastic" idea

"Europe’s political and moral paralysis over Gaza is intimately linked to the structural racism and violence which so many black, brown and Muslim Europeans face every day..."

Det trenger ikke være noen motsetning i å hverken like eller støtte Hamas, og samtidig forstå at bombing og utsulting ikke reduserer sivilbefolkning og motstand til fremtidige terrorister, så vel som at Hamas også er en politisk organisasjon.

When the billionaire technofascists in charge believe their own bullshit re "AI autonomously being able to do science" and replacing researchers, this mess is what you get. They've always been anti-intellectual ignoramuses, but 2025 has really underscored that. futurism.com/trump-anti-s...

This will hit milquetoast liberals like a freight train from the 30's when climate breakdown really sets in.

Denne teksten gjengir ukritisk Eric Schmidts/Silicon Valleys dystopiske framstilling av et amerikansk-kinesisk kappløp mot AGI som et eksistensielt være eller ikke være, og misser vesentlige forskjeller i kinesisk og amerikansk AI-politikk.

GPT-5 has been hyped for years as the next step towards AGI. Sam Altman promised a "PhD-level intelligence on any topic." It's not even close. On the terms OpenAI itself laid out for its own product, any fair assessment must conclude that GPT-5 is a failure. Now the question is: Will it matter?

Dette minner meg om norsk klima-debatt anno 2010. Til venstre Secretary Chris Wright, til høyre Aslak Sira Myhre.

"This implicit contest over the dominant energy mix, and the political economy built around it, will decide not just geopolitical power arrangements across the BRICS nations in the decades ahead, but the fate of most of the world’s peoples."

The Norwegian government fully acknowledges the threat of climate change: "The Barents Sea is the key. We want to have a long-term plan for the development of the Norwegian continental shelf. We believe that it is incredibly important to have a long-term perspective" www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnm...

So basically, China excels at narrow AI as an industrial policy, while the US AI bubble chases Silicon Valley's fantastical ideas of AGI?

Taqaiqsiqtu Tuttu (Resting Caribou) Kananginak Pootoogook ~ Inuk 2010

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth. So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

"Failure of a State to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from GHG emissions — including through fossil fuel production, fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies — may constitute an internationally

They were way too slow on this and also the fact that even people who were avoiding the issue are now here is a sign of just how bad things have gotten

Miljøpartier/politikere som gir seg når tidsånden er imot og ytre høyre har vind i seilene har grunnleggende misforstått hva vi står overfor. Stadig rom for/i et radikalt miljøparti i Norge. www.nettavisen.no/okonomi/mdg-...

Cheered on by powerful people in Scandinavian public health.

The reason Trump’s NIH director, Bhattacharya, keeps taking about “dissent” is that he wants to paint people who are wrong like Pesta as “dissenters.” MAGA and fascists know that institutions like NIH mediate truth and can stop merchants of doubt.

"Mens klimakrisen og behovet for indgreb accelererer, vokser en ny klimaskepsis, der vil forhale handling. En uhellig alliance af fossile selskaber, højrepopulistiske partier og konspiratoriske bevægelser står bag, viser ny rapport." #dkpol www.information.dk/udland/2025/...

1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - "lighten up, he's just having a laugh". But they deliver a closer representation of its truths than any sober editorial.

"We’ve created this large data platform, which doesn’t exist now, so that you can deploy datasets that include genetic information, longitudinal health care data—including electronic-health-record data—environmental-exposure data, information about parents, tracking that allows scientists,...

Ive written about @ecb.europa.eu and @ec.europa.eu push for a Savings and Investment Union: SIU, the new answer to 'how do we pay for' , is a Trojan horse for the American welfare model, increasingly in the hands of (private equity) financiers www.ft.com/content/052e...

reminder that the implicit goal for what the Republicans are doing with the budget and by giving mass giveaways to the wealthiest people in America while taxing the poorest is to kill the poor. This is one part of a much broader effort by Republicans to Institute a social Darwinian eugenics platform

“The organisation’s true agenda is, I believe, best described as ‘eliminationist’: seeking [to]… make transitioning so difficult, dangerous or pointless as to functionally eliminate trans people from public life and society.” Very powerful and well-written piece. Please do read. 👇

spectrejournal.com/hands-off/ Hey y'all! We've got a special Friday post. @nhold.bsky.social takes on the law-and-order consensus uniting Trump and his official "opposition."

Given we're on track to cross 2C in 15-25 years (possibly even earlier, I guess), it's pretty clear that considerable sea level rise is practically locked in.

En observasjon som stort sett er forbeholdt såkalte aktivister og marginaliserte, utsatte grupper. Den liberale/middelklassen/whatevs offentligheten, ikke minst her, vil eller evner i liten grad å se slike sammenhenger, noe som ikke minst blir tydelig når i det store og hele forbigås i stillhet...

I find it extraordinary that this @financialtimes.com long read on systemic climate shocks says nothing about central banks' experiments with decarbonising monetary policy, the single most important monetary climate action ever www.ft.com/content/9e5d...

Really enjoyed reading @ingarade.bsky.social on far right policies for the financial sector. One key take-away: Asset managers are a domestic 'industry' in financial center countries but foreign investors elsewhere -> Far-right ideas for finance vary considerably. And much else, including 1920s/30s.

Key point. Singling out RFK Jr as a crazy outlier, while simultaneously showing steadfast support of Bhattacharya and his cronies, is a tactic seen by some influential people in Scandinavian public health.

Frog Robert Davidson ~ Haida 1989

Okay, we did a deep dive. Important Context and the Center for Media and Democracy have everything you need to know about what’s happening with the CDC’s critical vaccine panel that Robert Kennedy Jr. is reshaping. www.importantcontext.news/p/kennedy-st...

Fascists always come for a small minority first as a way of consolidating power. The government now has the power to override personal health care decisions made in consultation with medical experts for all of us.

The "dissenters," who now run American healthcare, were in fact "insiders" during the pandemic, advising the Trump government, Florida governor, etc. Trump's Covid czar, Dr Atlas, says he phoned Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, & Ioannidis "every day, every other day" for 9 months for policy advice... 1/3

NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese SCOTUS used to justify Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care: on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid... & Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...