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Hedvig Ördén
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Political scientist, Department of Communication, Lund University. Critical Security Studies & Intelligence Studies.

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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Great short thread on the National Security Strategy.
I am probably naive, but it reads like there is logic behind the NSD document. It might not be a coherent and well-thought-out one. Yet, it is simple and accessible: i) the US has the privilege to use force (of different sorts) to protect its interests,
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Very good thread.
Brief recap:

On Friday, the WaPo reported that SecDef Hegseth personally ordered the execution of helpless survivors of a military attack, literally the definition of a war crime.

Since then, no other outlet has been to able to replicate that reporting, even though they’d love to. (1/2)
December 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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fake journalists --> propagandists --> impunity --> uninformed public
North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.
December 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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This Friday I had the pleasure to present my article ”Assange & Honeytrap(s) for the special issue on the contextual turn in intelligence analysis in Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies edited by @hedvigorden.bsky.social at #show2025 @sochistorywar.bsky.social as always an amazing experience!
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.

🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture.

🔍 Zoom in…
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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New article with @draege.bsky.social out in Scandinavian Political Studies: “Asymmetric Influence: Politicians Can Fuel but Not Dampen Conflict.” We test whether politicians in one of the world’s least polarized democracies, Norway, can calm conflict as effectively as they can inflame it. #polisky
Asymmetric Influence: Politicians Can Fuel but Not Dampen Conflict
Research from the deeply polarized United States suggests that the impact of elite communication is asymmetrical: antagonistic messages often heighten divisions, while positive appeals fail to dampen...
dx.doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Reading headlines about the US massing forces to Venezuela and ”what is Trump’s aim with the troops ?” reminds me of a certain other country that massed troops at a neighbour’s border 4 years ago and headlines were wondering what Putin’s aim could possibly be
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Read the letter:
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Ny rapport om högskolornas budget: Det statliga "produktivitetsavdraget" innebär effektiviseringskrav på 1-2 % av budgeten/år. Idag har högskolorna 40 % mindre resurser per elev än för 30 år sedan, vilket minskat den lärarledda undervisningen drastiskt. tankesmedjanbalans.se/ny-rapport-o...
October 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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När 13-åringar slängs i fängelse har vi gett upp, skriver Karin Pettersson i en text som inleder artikelserien ”Våra drömmars barn”: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/Eyd...
När 13-åringar slängs i fängelse har vi gett upp
www.aftonbladet.se
November 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Danish Presidency backs away from 'chat control'

The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders
Danish Presidency backs away from 'chat control'
The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders
www.euractiv.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Well isn’t this a literal fucking nightmare…
October 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account.

A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Hur gör svenska regeringen och FRA? När debatten pågick 2008 påpekade jag (och andra) att lagstiftningen medger bred inhämtning och.lagring av data. Lagen saknar meningsfulla begränsningar vad gäller utbyte med andra länder, regeringen och FRA har fria händer.
October 20, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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The Dutch intelligence services are already sharing less intelligence with the US than they used to, their directors confirm:

"Though we do not take any political positions, we are very cognisant of the potential politicisation of how our intelligence gets used by others."
nos.nl/artikel/2586...
AIVD en MIVD delen minder info met VS en meer met Europa, zeggen directeurs
Per geval wordt samenwerking met de VS gewogen, zeggen directeur Erik Akerboom van de AIVD en MIVD-chef Peter Reesink tegen de Volkskrant.
nos.nl
October 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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You need to read this. A collision of the CIA, the Smithsonian, a famous sculptor, and two writers with a love of library sciences.
October 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM