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Megan Baxter
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megkbax.bsky.social
Ungefär 12 procent av landets trafik på vägar och 30 procent av den regionala kollektivtrafiken sker i Skåne, förklarar Per Tryding…. likvärdiga siffror som för huvudstadsregionen.
– Men i Stockholm satsas ungefär 25 procent av planen. I Skåne ungefär 3 procent www.sydsvenskan.se/skane/skane-...
Skåne dissar regeringens inbjudan: ”Alibimöte”
Kräver förklaring • Stockholm gynnas gång på gång • ”Ger sken av dialog.”
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December 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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olaspannar.bsky.social
Såhär i shoppingtider kan det vara värt att tänka på att oljekonsumtionen idag drivs minst lika mycket av Temu och Shein som GM och Toyota. Uppåt 85% av deras kläder görs av oljebaserat syntetmaterial

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Shein and Temu Are Driving Oil, Not GM and Toyota
Petroleum consumption in the world’s biggest emitter these days isn’t so much about vehicles as the shirt on your back.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable.

We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Democrats must remember this — and act on it.
December 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
megkbax.bsky.social
🥺 www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
Gävlebocken har blåst omkull – Trafik och väder – följ senaste nytt
Få koll på hur det ser ut i trafiken runt om i landet – och hur vädret blir. Följ senaste nytt i SVT:s liverapport.
www.svt.se
December 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech. When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
megkbax.bsky.social
Spännande! www.sydsvenskan.se/dygnet-runt/...
Då öppnar Malmös nya queerbar – med nattamat och sammetssoffor
Atemlos: ”Vi är bra på att skapa hemmafestkänsla”.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
there are good people in the world ~sniff~
December 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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kenanhabul.bsky.social
Västerländska värderingar, vi är alla lika inför lagen, rättvisan är blind, fyll på med valfri floskel.
December 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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srnyheter.bsky.social
Sveriges Radio: Greta Thunberg har gripits i London

https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9124384
Greta Thunberg har gripits i London - Ekot
Aktivisten Greta Thunberg har gripits vid en Palestinademonstration i centrala London i dag rapporterar flera medier.Londonpolisen uppger att Thunberg ...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
megkbax.bsky.social
www.dn.se/direkt/2025-...
Danmark: ”USA måste visa respekt”
Nu svarar den danska utrikesministern på USA:s president Donald Trumps val att utse ett amerikanskt särskilt sändebud till Grönland.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
megkbax.bsky.social
”But he says private donations are also not a substitute for public investment — and shouldn't determine whether essential services survive.

He describes his decision as a response to what he sees as a failure of public priorities, not a model to be relied upon.”
December 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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vitkor.bsky.social
Förstår att alla journalister gått på julledighet, men idag är nog dagen man behöver vara extra uppmärksam på vad som kommer från regeringen. Särskilt i eftermiddag, men redan detta är en stor nyhet som ingen verkar ha plockat upp än:
vitkor.bsky.social vitkor arnell @vitkor.bsky.social · 11d
För nån vecka sen kom lagförslaget om AI-ansiktsigenkänning i realtid för vissa brott. Nu kommer nästa förslag: Att polisen ska få använda tekniken på bl.a material som deras övervakningskameror samlar in, utan begränsning för typ av brott.
www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-do...
Polisens och Tullverkets användning av AI för biometrisk fjärridentifiering i efterhand (Ds 2025:32)
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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jael.bsky.social
so like, i’m aware that it’s not a done deal that all dems vote no on this bill

flooding folks’ offices with calls tomorrow is probably a good idea if you care about the trans folks in your life
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · 14d
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.

Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
megkbax.bsky.social
www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur/res-e...
KRÖNIKA: Res en staty över Hédi Fried framför statsministerns bostad!
Ulf Kristersson borde få se hennes utsträckta hand varje dag.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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olaspannar.bsky.social
Så länge samhällsdebatten domineras av allt är invandrarnas fel så kommer det mest invandringsfientliga partiet vara framgångsrika
Omni SD rusar i opinionen och tar väljare från S
December 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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qasimrashid.com
Brown University was the 389th mass shooting of 2025 and all the predictable unhinged NRA gun myths are floating around.

For your convenience, I bring the receipts to debunk 9 of the most common NRA gun myths. Please read & share widely.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...
Debunking the NRA's 9 Favorite Gun Myths
As Brown University marks the 389th mass shooting of 2025, we are way beyond the point of needing critical federal gun safety legislation
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December 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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richycraven.bsky.social
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.

Us: Across your entire career?

Reiner: In a 6 year period.

Us: That sounds-

Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia Filmography 1986 - Stand By zme 1987 - The Princess Bride 1989 - When Harry Met Sally 1990 - Misery 1992 - A Few Good Men
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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fambergquist.se
Man måste ha ett systemperspektiv förutom individperspektivet för att förstå arbetsmarknaden. På systemnivå finns det för få jobb för vi har valt att ha det så. Regeringen kan närsomhelst skapa fler jobb med lånsiktigt stöd till regioner och kommuner.
December 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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kenanhabul.bsky.social
Jag skrev om Sverigekontrakt, vilka "värderingar" vi väljer att fokusera på och varför även jag, "skötsam invandrare", inte alls är säker på att behålla mitt pass.
Det är inte paranoia, politiker ändrar sig. Minns bara att Kristerssons sa nej till SD.
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KRÖNIKA: Hur säker kan jag vara på att behålla mitt svenska pass?
På ett hotellrum med utsikt över Budapests takåsar slår det mig hur Moderaternas krav på ett Sverigekontrakt för…
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December 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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kennytorrella.bsky.social
At the end of each year, FDA releases data on antibiotics sold for use in livestock.

It usually changes a few %. This year, it went up 15.8%.

I was shocked & emailed experts/industry groups. Likeliest explanation per a source: industry is not "being good stewards of antibiotics"
December 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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nberlat.bsky.social
so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.

like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
johnbisognano.com John Bisognano @johnbisognano.com · 18d
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.

I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
NEW: Swiss politicians are pushing to *revoke* UEFA's tax-exempt status.

UEFA got exemption for "promoting peace" — which officials argue isn't being met due to UEFA taking no action against the Israeli Football Association.

Am told *45* of 200 Swiss MPs are already signed on.
#GameOverIsrael: Switzerland Could Revoke UEFA Tax Exemption Over Israel Swiss MPs argue citizens should not be forced to be complicit in Israel’s illegal occupation through UEFA Today Swiss local and national parliamentarians called for a vote on the subject of revoking UEFA's tax exemption. The legislators leading the effort cite the 19 July 2024 ruling by the ICJ which confirmed that Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian land in the West Bank. They argue that since the Israeli Football Association (IFA), which fields football teams on that land, continues to enjoy membership in UEFA, UEFA’s legal standing and associated tax advantages in Switzerland where it is headquartered, are in question. Tax exoneration means that instead of receiving that money, Swiss citizens, specifically in Vaud, are funding the illegal activities of the Israeli football Association (IFA). The resolution states: “As an international federation, it [UEFA] has long benefited, despite its significant commercial activity, from a tax exemption granted specifically because international sports federations play an important role in promoting peace and combating racism and discrimination. UEFA has long placed these concerns at the heart of its decisions. Its commitment to peace, for example, was among the motivations cited in support of sanctions adopted by the organisation following Russia's aggression against Ukraine. However, it is clear that this objective is not being pursued today.” “UEFA enjoys preferential tax treatment in Switzerland. This comes with certain obligations, including promoting the values of peace. A double standard is unacceptable. While UEFA has rightly chosen to sanction Russian teams, it has taken no action or measures against Israel to date.” – Raphaël Mahaim, member of the National Council of Switzerland “Today, on 10 December (International Human Rights Day) Swiss and cantonal authorities will start the debate on the continuation of UEFA’s privileged tax sta… "UEFA has an opportunity during the days ahead to act in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for a just and sustainable peace by disallowing Israel's participation in UEFA events so long as the genocidal policies continue in Occupied Palestine. Such an alignment by UEFA with the forces of law, justice, and global conscience will be long positively remembered, as would the refusal to take such a stand be negatively etched in the collective memory of humanity." – Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus at Princeton University, US and former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (2008-2014). “UEFA is at the forefront of funding and normalizing the apartheid and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territories by continuing to provide a subsidy and allowing the Israeli Football Association (IFA) to be a member. This is money that could be going into the Swiss coffers, instead, the public is funding the illegal activities of the IFA. The simple solution for UEFA and their President if they truly believe in international law, national law and promoting peace - is to suspend Israel.” - Ashish Prashar, Former Advisor to the Middle East Peace Envoy and Campaign Director for Game Over Israel “UEFA cannot claim to promote peace through football while shielding a country that fields five teams in occupied Palestinian territory and is responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. For decades, Israel’s human rights abuses have been thoroughly documented, yet UEFA continues to carve out an exception that no other nation enjoys. The actions of a government always carry consequences for its citizens — that rule applies to every country except Israel. Enough is enough. UEFA must remove Israel from the league or accept the consequences of protecting impunity. In this dark moment in history, accountability is the only path forward.” - Abed…
December 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Welcome to America, land of xenophobia and chilled speech.
U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
U.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history
The proposal would affect travelers from countries on the visa waiver program, including Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and South Korea.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM