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Jon Pierre
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Dad, husband, professor emeritus in political science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Joined Bluesky to hang out with the good guys, so don't let me down.
Nothing good starts in a getaway car.

Political science 67%
Business 12%
Doctoral scholarship for EU students to work with me at Oxford on democratic backsliding, democratic defence, or illiberalism: Renato Morelli Corpus Christi College Graduate Scholarship in Politics 2026-27. Deadline 9 Jan 2026. Please circulate!
Details at: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/Ad...
am I even awake right now?
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
www.nytimes.com

That is exactly what it means.

What about political science, public administration, public management? State formation, democracy and government are inherently political processes.
Blessed are the peacemakers

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Never forget that Trump claimed it as HIS plan, Vance personally promoted it, the White House said Rubio authored it - and they all gave Zelensky a week to agree to it or lose all support.

Presidencies have collapsed & people have been imprisoned for FAR less.

Treachery.

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CNN @cnn.com · 5d
Italians have very strict rules when it comes to making carbonara. The classic combination of Italian pasta, pork and cheese are mixed with egg yolks and pepper preferably just moments before serving to create the perfect dish.
‘Fake’ carbonara sauce causes outrage in Italy | CNN
Italy is pushing to ban “Italian-sounding” foods abroad amid a scandal over the appearance of a Belgian-made carbonara sauce found on the shelves of a store in the European Parliament.
www.cnn.com

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It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!

C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky

quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...

I did an interview with a senior WHO official yesterday. Trump's decision to leave the WHO and stop all funding has had a devastating impact. My interviewee said "my program is gone, my team is gone, I am gone". The loss of human lives cannot be estimated. All because of one man his followers.

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🤔Why problems that are identified as unintended & negative are not addressed❓

B. Guy Peters & Maximilian L. Nagel discuss whether they are ever addressed or rather become #ZombiePolicies & the difficulties in #coordination and #coherence in public policies 👇

doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Wag The Dog.

Looks interesting as ever although "flavour of gonorrhoea" might be off-putting to som potential readers.

Jag läste bil-drulle...
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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Trump springs into action as a man collapses in the Oval Office.

Not a Communist.
Not seizing control of production means (but bonus point for conceptual knowledge).
Not going after small businesses.
Taxes largely beyond his control.
End of United States claim is bizarre.
Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.

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I have a very bad feeling about this...
When someone tells you they aren’t into politics or that they aren’t affected by politics…

(h/t NATO Green)

#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

That is too bad. I kinda liked The Epstein Ballroom.

In the MAGA vernacular anyone and everyone who crticises Trumpism is a "terrorist".
The Affordable Care Act became law in 2010

Since then, Republicans tried to repeal, replace, defund and overturn it

NEVER did they offer a viable alternative to it

Now-as health insurance costs are exploding-they’re terrified

Because it threatens their hegemony over the American body politic
COLLINS: If you have a healthcare plan, why not have that out there to talk about in the public so people can hear it?

MIKE JOHNSON: We need to get back to regular session so we can. We will not negotiate with legislative terrorists
The Affordable Care Act became law in 2010

Since then, Republicans tried to repeal, replace, defund and overturn it

NEVER did they offer a viable alternative to it

Now-as health insurance costs are exploding-they’re terrified

Because it threatens their hegemony over the American body politic
COLLINS: If you have a healthcare plan, why not have that out there to talk about in the public so people can hear it?

MIKE JOHNSON: We need to get back to regular session so we can. We will not negotiate with legislative terrorists

Projection 101.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are in an all out assault on the truth"

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Mike Johnson: "Democrats are in an all out assault on the truth"

You ask that as if the Trump administration respects laws and regulations. That's cute.