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Patrick Svensson
@agrarsvennis.bsky.social
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Professor of agrarian history, SLU, Sweden
Traveling in space and time analyzing inequality, material wealth, mills(!), and the effect of enclosures.
Uppsala and Lund, born and raised in Norrköping
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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 19h
Vad kul att någon lyssnade!

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 23h
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chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 THE HONORABLE TIM WALZ Governor of Minesota 130 State Capitol 75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bivd. St. Paul, MN 55155 THE HONORABLE JACOB FREY Mayor of the City of Minneapolis City Hail 350S. Fifth St., Room 330 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, It is my responsibility as Secretary of Agriculture to ensure sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars by climinating fraud, waste and abuse in all programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place. During your tenures as Governor of Minnesota and Mayor of Minneapolis, numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called "a staggering, industrial-scale fraud".! Most notably, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit— Feeding Our Future defrauded U.S. taxpayers of nearly $250 million in federal funds given to them by the Minnesota Department of Education.? This fraud scheme involved USDA funding provided to the State of Minnesota to feed hungry children under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). As of late November, 78 defendants had been charged in what the Department of Justice characterized as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country? Other recent examples of'alleged fraud in Minnesota include exploitation of the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program", a scheme to defraud the Housing Stabilization 1-Whut te know about Minnesoca' "industrial-scale fraad" scandal, as more charges are fled and Trump weighs in, "CES Nows (Dic. 19, 3025) available at ht:/www.cbsnews.com/news/atas-do-know-alonesota-frawf-candal were-changes-fled- tump-water. /Federal Jury Finds Feeding Our Future Masternind and Co-D… Services Program", and alleged fraud in daycare centers*, Your Administrations have refused additional accountability and oversight, claiming that criticism of rampant fraud and abuse is "racist." While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership- or lack thereof fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established. Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your Administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense mcasures to stop fraud. In fact, rather than conlin your SNAP rolls are accurate to prevent continuing fraud, you asked the courts to block USDA's directive to recertify the State's SNAP recipients. Recent news reports also emerged that the Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about SNAP to the federal government.? The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continuc. Therefore, because of your failed Icadership and abysmal financial management oversight, 1 am notifying you that, effective immediately, I am suspending payments on all active awards and any future awards from USDA to the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis, currently totaling over $129.18 million. Within 30 days, you shall provide USDA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from January 20, 2025, to the present. Going forward, all transactions on awards to the State of Minnesota or the City of Minneapolis will require such payment justification. If those payment justifications are not received, awards will remain suspended. While your Administrations have turned a blind eye to documented fraud, the Trump Administration has made clear that fraud, waste, and abuse are unacceptable. The American people deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are helping those in need-not criminals. …

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 1d
Jag med nu. Jag kollade Everton-Sunderland tidigare men skulle ju ha valt Macclesfield!

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 1d
En bra lördag! Jag köpte en bok om Lund som jag hittade på Lexis papper och så var jag med i P1 morgon och bladdrade lite om oxveckor och bondedagböcker.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 THE HONORABLE TIM WALZ Governor of Minesota 130 State Capitol 75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bivd. St. Paul, MN 55155 THE HONORABLE JACOB FREY Mayor of the City of Minneapolis City Hail 350S. Fifth St., Room 330 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, It is my responsibility as Secretary of Agriculture to ensure sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars by climinating fraud, waste and abuse in all programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place. During your tenures as Governor of Minnesota and Mayor of Minneapolis, numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called "a staggering, industrial-scale fraud".! Most notably, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit— Feeding Our Future defrauded U.S. taxpayers of nearly $250 million in federal funds given to them by the Minnesota Department of Education.? This fraud scheme involved USDA funding provided to the State of Minnesota to feed hungry children under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). As of late November, 78 defendants had been charged in what the Department of Justice characterized as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country? Other recent examples of'alleged fraud in Minnesota include exploitation of the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program", a scheme to defraud the Housing Stabilization 1-Whut te know about Minnesoca' "industrial-scale fraad" scandal, as more charges are fled and Trump weighs in, "CES Nows (Dic. 19, 3025) available at ht:/www.cbsnews.com/news/atas-do-know-alonesota-frawf-candal were-changes-fled- tump-water. /Federal Jury Finds Feeding Our Future Masternind and Co-D… Services Program", and alleged fraud in daycare centers*, Your Administrations have refused additional accountability and oversight, claiming that criticism of rampant fraud and abuse is "racist." While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership- or lack thereof fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established. Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your Administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense mcasures to stop fraud. In fact, rather than conlin your SNAP rolls are accurate to prevent continuing fraud, you asked the courts to block USDA's directive to recertify the State's SNAP recipients. Recent news reports also emerged that the Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about SNAP to the federal government.? The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continuc. Therefore, because of your failed Icadership and abysmal financial management oversight, 1 am notifying you that, effective immediately, I am suspending payments on all active awards and any future awards from USDA to the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis, currently totaling over $129.18 million. Within 30 days, you shall provide USDA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from January 20, 2025, to the present. Going forward, all transactions on awards to the State of Minnesota or the City of Minneapolis will require such payment justification. If those payment justifications are not received, awards will remain suspended. While your Administrations have turned a blind eye to documented fraud, the Trump Administration has made clear that fraud, waste, and abuse are unacceptable. The American people deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are helping those in need-not criminals. …

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 2d
Ah. Får kolla!

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 2d
Ja, vad skönt!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 2d
In a move to suppress the growing wave of anti-regime protests, the Iranian government has shut down the country’s internet infrastructure entirely. Both mobile and fixed-line networks have gone dark, cutting off tens of millions from communication. Even state-run websites are offline.

Reposted by Patrick Svensson

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dshags @dshags.bsky.social · 2d
“She behaved horribly,” Mr. Trump said. “And then she ran him over. She didn’t try to run him over. She ran him over.”

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Anna Andersson @annabosdotter.bsky.social · 3d
”Det är alltså progressiva idéer allena som har förstört Sverige. Allra värst anser Trägårdh det vara att nitiska historiker och postkoloniala kommissarier har plockat isär den stora äventyrskryddade svenska berättelsen…” Läs @perssonlahusen.bsky.social i dag! www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/bO5...
Reaktionär revisionist i Tidöregeringens tjänst
Svaren på Lars Trägårdhs kulturkanon idkar civil olydnad
www.aftonbladet.se

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 3d
"Fler döda, fler rättfärdiganden,
tills allt snöar igen
i den natt som slutgiltigt
ändrar sitt ljus utanför fönstren."

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 5d
Här uppe i nordöstra Lund är det nog en decimeter ungefär. Det viktigaste är ju att den ligger kvar och inte slaskar direkt tycker jag!

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 5d
Det är vitare, med lite gråblått, i östra Lund.

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 5d
Vi i Lund instämmer i detta!

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 5d
BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli regime forces have stormed Birzeit University campus in the Occupied West Bank, injuring 41 students, including 9 with live bullets.

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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 5d
2025 blev året då billig förnybar el besegrade Putin och Trump. Sol och vind tog ledningen och de politiska bromsklossarna i USA och Sverige blir allt mer desperata. Denna krönika av professor Tomas Kåberger är så viktig att den behöver återges i en tråd. 🧵

www.etc.se/kommentar/aa...
Året då billig förnybar el besegrade Putin och Trump
När billig förnybar energi urholkar Rysslands krigskassa och fossilindustrin blir de politiska bromsklossarna – i Ryssland, USA och Sverige – allt mer desperata.
www.etc.se

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eshistdemo.bsky.social @eshistdemo.bsky.social · 6d
📢If you missed some of the #ESHD Webinar series
Seminars of the European Society of Historical #Demography

#Population and Family History 2025

You have them all open here 👉
www.eshd.eu/eshd-webinar...

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Seb Falk @sebfalk.com · 6d
JOB ALERT!

3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.

PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January

www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 7d
Luke Littler, snäppet bättre än jag på dart. 🎯

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 8d
Es verdad, those Washington bullets again...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=NVnd...
The Clash ''Washington Bullets''
YouTube video by SoulStylistJukeBox
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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 8d
Grattis Staffan!

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Staffan Landin @staffanlandin.bsky.social · 8d
Fångat in? Tillfångatagits?

Det är en statskupp, en kidnappning, ett illegalt anfall i strid mot internationell rätt.

Det är igen jävla kanin på rymmen vi pratar om. Vad är det för fel på er?

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Karin Zackari @kzackari.bsky.social · 9d
A book I've contributed to with a chapter on the Thai state's transnational repression is now out, open access. Read about the long reach of strongmen regimes to silence exiled critics and to control the political narratives at home and abroad.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism
This open access book investigates how authoritarian states seek to repress opposition at home and also silence dissidents living abroad and in exile
link.springer.com

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Erik de la Reguera @erikdelareguera.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 10d
Några ord om Gaza och Israels blockad mot utländska journalister. Låt oss hoppas att 2026 börjar med att internationella medier släpps in i #gaza. https://erikdelareguera.com/2026/01/01/gaza-och-blockaden-mot-utlandska-journalister/
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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 10d
Gott nytt år!

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 10d
Gott nytt år Fredrik! 🥂

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 10d
Gott nytt år!

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 10d
Gott nytt år!

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 10d
Spännande. Du får berätta mer när du är där!