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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%

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Journalism 101

If one person says she was weaponising her car and another person says she wasn't it's not your job to quote both. It's your job to look at the evidence and find out which is true.
Two starkly opposed Americas laid bare by deadly ICE shooting
The incident is threatening to inflame a deeply contentious debate over immigration enforcement.
www.bbc.co.uk
GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:

“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..

“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT:

When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com

This portrayal of the woman killed by ICE is Moscow journalism. Is having pronouns in your bio grounds for killing a person? Is being gay grounds for murder? She has a "child from a previous marriage" because she was a widow.
America today has lost its way.

You do realise that your note will be read not just nu your neighbors but also by followers in San Francisco, Johannesburg and Melbourne, right?
My colleague, the Swedish professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, Martin Peterson, has been banned by the university to teach Plato.

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.

Today's quiz:
At the presser yesterday Marco Rubio spoke about a country with a free-falling economy and governed by "senile old men". Which country was he referring to?
A. Russia
B. Cuba
C. USA
Last year, Trump promised American oil executives “a great deal” if they donated $1 billion to his campaign.

Today, he gave them Venezuela — home to the largest oil reserves in the world.

This new war is not only illegal and reckless; it is deeply corrupt.
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

"If these guys are the good guys
i don't want to know the bad
You wonder how it happened
They just picked it up from dad
While faded old glory is hanging like a rag
Defenders, defenders of the flag."

Bruce Hornsby, Defenders of the flag

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The fake “survey” questions:
I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Putin does not have to be present at the negotiations. Trump is doing all the bidding for him.

Oslagbar titel. God Jul!

That is how you do it:
1. Do not invest in wind turbines.
2. Argue that since wind turbines do not contribute to the grid, investment should be inn other technologies.
Burgum: "The wind energy only works when the wind is blowing. And at times when we've needed it the most along the east coast during the coldest days and hottest days, we've had 2% of the entire grid being powered by wind. You still need all the rest of the power."

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Community Note: Basic History Contradicts Trump on Greenland

Trump suggests Americans discovered Greenland 50 years before the United States existed

meidasnews.com/news/communi...
Community Note: Basic History Contradicts Trump on Greenland
Trump suggests Americans discovered Greenland 50 years before the United States existed
meidasnews.com

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Burgum: "The wind energy only works when the wind is blowing. And at times when we've needed it the most along the east coast during the coldest days and hottest days, we've had 2% of the entire grid being powered by wind. You still need all the rest of the power."

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“A breakthrough in talks,” they say.

For the third day in a row, Russia is striking the Port of Pivdennyi. Ukraine’s largest port is burning for the second day straight.

If this is a breakthrough, what does failure look like?
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

Bing Bing.
The Epstein Files, everybody!
The Epstein Files, everybody!

She has a long, looong Canossa walk ahead of her when Trump is gone and she wants to catch up with the rest of mankind.

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Submitting a grant you’re not eligible to get

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Highlights from 8⃣4⃣(4⃣) the #SpecialIssue on #StreetLevel #Organisations & #Bureaucrats (co-guest edited by @gabilotta.bsky.social & Mark Considine)

@lutfunlata.bsky.social & colleagues examine the barriers to equity by centralised & street-level public governance approaches👇

doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Sick and tired of these 25 cents, deethroat-speaking, self-proclaimed macho GOP sycophants telling ordinary people that they will have to pay more for less healthcare.
This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.

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Day 2142 of #Brexit: ‘The new threat is so dizzyingly bizarre that Europe, and especially Britain, is slow to believe it. The US declares itself our enemy. Europe emerges as its main adversary in the US national security strategy. Russia is its friend, not us.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump wants a Europe in chaos – a sure sign for Britain to shore up its democracy | Polly Toynbee
With the US threatening to support ‘patriotic’ parties here, we need better defences, starting with tough new rules about political donations, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com

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From a longer version of USA’s National Security Strategy:

«Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the [European Union].”»

USA is now an adversary, no longer an ally.

www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy
A fuller version reviewed by Defense One outlines the Trump administration’s plans for shedding old relationships and creating new ones.
www.defenseone.com