rdjonsson
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rdjonsson
@rdjonsson.bsky.social
https://xkcd.com/386

Forskar om samhällsplanering. (Complexity, planning, urban ec., regional science, machine learning, econometrics)
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Vänstersvaret på postpolitikens död kan inte bli ”vi vill ha det som pre Trump”, nu är läge att visa upp vägen till en helt ny värld som alternativ
January 22, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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I'm all for not letting a good crisis go to waste, but I'm kinda running out of storage space for crises.
January 22, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Journalister här på bluppen: Kan ni ta reda på vad Rutte har förhandlat om och vad som står i det där avtalet 🇩🇰 redan har med 🇺🇸? Mitt killgissande behöver mer underlag!
Att inget har ändrats förutom att Trump backat från tullarna? Danmark har inte backat från territoriell suveränitet, resten har USA redan i avtal från 1951 vad jag förstår? Frågan är om Trump inser det och blev tvingad, eller om han blev lurad och börjar om nästa vecka.
January 22, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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Sv medier direktrapporterade – och vad fick vi? Stenografer som tvättade rent det värsta allteftersom och satte ihop lösryckta ord till fullständiga meningar som om alternativet, att låta Trump se precis så förvirrad ut som han gjorde, vore ett brott mot objektiviteten.

www.vf.se/2026/01/22/v...
Ledare: Varför låtsas svenska medier att Trump kan tala i fullständiga meningar?
Svenska medier sviker sitt uppdrag – och sina läsare – när de hjälper en förvirrad president att låta sammanhängande.
www.vf.se
January 22, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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something we’ve learned from Trump is that there are no cigar-smoking string-pulling masters of the universe directing things from backrooms somewhere

and if a serious administration wanted to go after their wealth they would fold exactly the same way
Wall Street executives always portray themselves as masters of the universe, great forward-thinking stewards of the economy, but they are all rudderless chumps with a fraction of the principles or courage of everyday people protesting ICE.
Wall Street Chiefs Lay Low to Avoid Trump’s Trolling
Financiers are doing a careful dance to help clients navigate the president’s second term without provoking his ire
www.bloomberg.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Påminnelse: Republikanerna i kongressen kan stoppa cirkusen närsomhelst.

Det omdömet kletar av sig på högerpartier världen över vare sig de vill eller inte.

Det är vänsterns ansvar att hålla rent mot chavistas, högerns mot högerpopulister och fascister. De som inte klarar det ska inte ha makt.
January 22, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
January 22, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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Kimmy Yaga told y'all so
www.gizmochina.com/2026/01/21/o...
January 22, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power
January 21, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Vad har ni för åsikter om Carneys tal?

Det finns något generellt där om normsystem under omförhandling som jag tror har mer generell giltighet just nu. Gemensamma illusioner som vi upprätthåller för att de fungerar i någon mening, trots att vi vet att de inte gäller hela vägen ner.
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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I grew up during the cold war when the right claimed to support liberty, democracy, western alliances, the rule of law and free markets. It turns out that was all bullshit. What they really support is inequality, monopoly and unlimited power for the rich.
January 21, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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Who’d have guessed that 250 years on from 1776, the US would be an empire run by a mad king from which the relatively small states on the other side of the Atlantic would have to gain military and economic independence? Join or die indeed.
January 20, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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Replacing one dependency with another is not a sustainable approach to energy in Europe.

The only way out of this is to move full speed ahead on electrification, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Trump has growing stranglehold over EU and UK energy supply, study shows
European countries now reliant on US liquified natural gas shipments, creating risk of higher bills amid recent tensions
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Annika Ström Melin behöver lyssna på Mark Carneys tal i Davos. De senaste decenniernas handelspolitik kommer inte tillbaka. För den delen, läs också om ’weaponized interdependence’. Vi måste börja bygga något nytt, där USA inte är nödvändigt.

www.dn.se/ledare/annik...
Annika Ström Melin: När Macron riktar handelsbazookan mot Trump blir jag nervös
Donald Trump måste få svar på tal, men glöm inte att EU:s handelspolitik har en lång och inte särskilt vacker historia. Dit ska vi inte tillbaka.
www.dn.se
January 21, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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What's remarkable is not just that Trump is so loathsome and narcissistic that he doesn't care when an innocent woman is killed in a protest unless and until he finds out that her dad was a fan of his ... it's that he's so disregulated he *can't help but say so out loud*.
Trump: "ICE is gonna be too rough with somebody. They're gonna make a mistake sometimes. I felt horribly when I was told the young woman had the tragedy. But when I learned her father is - I hope he still is, but I don't know - was a tremendous Trump fan. It's terrible. It's so sad. It just happens"
January 20, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Vi behöver ta till oss FN:s rapporter. Och visa att vi förstår dem. Globalt, regionalt och lokalt. 🇺🇳
www.dn.se/varlden/fn-r...
FN-rapport varnar för vattenkollaps – matförsörjningen hotas
Mänskligheten har orsakat permanenta skador på planetens vattensystem, enligt en ny FN-rapport. Nu äventyras matförsörjningen för miljarder människor.
www.dn.se
January 20, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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Dublin City Council is stopping posting on X pending review - will also apply to Dublin Fire Brigade.

Comes from @greenpartyie.bsky.social motion

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy
Country’s largest local authority undertakes review of social media platform use as others sign out for good
www.irishtimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Canadian Prime Minister Carney rejects that we have been living under a rules based world order, in a sense confirming the words of Stephen Miller on power. But Carney insists that it does not have to be that way. This is the most honest and fiery speech I have read by a contemporary world leader.
Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
globalnews.ca
January 20, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Ekot: ”att Trump skulle som han skriver ha stoppat åtta krig är mycket ifrågasatt”. Vi kan inte hantera verkligheten så här. Det är lögn, vare sig man vill uttala att Trumps kognitiva förmågor är dalande eller ej. Men ifrågasatt är inte ordet. I så fall är det också ifrågasatt att jorden är platt.
January 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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Forum for byutvikling og bytransport arrangerer tirsdag et digitalt seminar om rollen til indirekte arealeffekter og boligmarkedshensyn i utredninger av samferdselstiltak. Jeg skal presentere en ny kartlegging vi har gjort for KDD. Åpent for alle, påmeldingsfrist mandag.
www.toi.no/forskningsom...
Indirekte arealeffekter og boligmarkedshensyn i konsekvensanalyser av samferdselstiltak - Transportøkonomisk institutt
Forum for byutvikling og bytransport inviterer til digitalt seminar om hvordan indirekte arealeffekter og boligmarkedshensyn håndteres i dagens konsekvensanalyser av samferdselstiltak, og hvilke behov...
www.toi.no
January 15, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Varför styrs vi av människor som inte kan släppa 1900-talet? Låt oss bygga kärnkraft, säger de. Får jag någonsin någon makt, lokalt eller nationellt, så är det här en av de saker jag vill göra.
IMHO, you would enjoy listening to this pod about a guy who is trying to decentralize the electricity grid the same way telecom & internet infrastructure were decentralized.
Making the electricity grid work like the internet
Jonas Birgersson joins me to explain how "packet-switching" for electrons can lead to energy abundance and grid resilience.
www.volts.wtf
January 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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have we considered unplugging the constitution and plugging it back in again?
January 19, 2026 at 5:54 AM