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Researcher, lecturer in political science, global politics, and Human Rights. Columnist. Freelance writer. Lover of all things dog. Twitter is my abusive x. Yes, still working on that book. Following the green light.
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To paraphrase Maya Angelou: ”For *Korea* [Africa] to me…is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”

Den här utredningen gick längre än vad jag hade vågat hoppas på. Att få se svart på vitt det jag och så många med mig befarat är så mycket svårare än jag hade förberett mig på. Tack Anna Singer. www.dn.se/debatt/sveri...

This is the future they want us all to accept soon, but they’re going to soft launch it by hurting Black communities first, and you know why. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Hi @zoejardiniere.bsky.social. I greatly appreciate your work and voice speaking up for migrants and refugees. I thought you might be interested in this piece I wrote for Aeon on achieving an ethical response to refugees. It would be great to hear your thoughts. aeon.co/essays/a-phi...

På måndag släpps den svenska utredningen. www.dn.se/sverige/adop...

New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse. Elon Musk made your life worse.

The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

Thank you @willbunch.bsky.social for telling it like it is about masked ICE abductions of immigrants. "The immoral stain of an American government’s war on these good people, led by goon squads who hide behind ski masks, may never be fully erased." www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Over and above all, this regime is just so unbelievably stupid and anti-intellectual www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

ALDRIG MER EVIDENSIA. Jag avskyr riskkapitalister i vård och omsorg, AVSKYR. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/ny-g...

It’s natural selection at this point

JUST-RELEASED GEORGIA TEEN Ximena Arias-Cristobal: “Even having the right paperwork doesn’t mean anything anymore with the presidency we have now… just being Hispanic you’re a target.” More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ma...

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He was truly a visionary www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/a...

Lavrov ups Russia's demands on Ukraine to include a ban on democratic elections. Do we get it yet?

I simply LOVE this! I mean, LOOK at the courses!! THIS is how you fight autocracy and tyranny when you are a university. NOT the Columbia way. THANK YOU, Harvard! I imagine Judith Shklar is smiling and nodding in her realm. Liberalism of fear, when it is put to practice. pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free

Some photographers take your breath away in their way of seeing the world. Sebastaio Salgado was one of them. Thank you and rest in power and vision, Sebastaio.

And if you think it's bad now, the Billionaire Bailout Bill that passed the House this morning will be the biggest transfer of wealth in history if enacted.

”The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” James Baldwin

The DeVos family is back at it and about to write some big, big checks to try to turn *everything* in Michigan red. There's a lot more to this story – so I want to break it down 🧵

Romanians celebrates beating Russia today. Romania is, was and will always be Europe! 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴 Congratulations on defeating fascism Romania. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🇨🇦🇷🇴 #Canada #Romania #Democracy

Congrats Romania 🎉🍾🎈 Russia and Trumpism continue to be rejected around the globe 🙌🏼

Romania 👀

Well done Nicusor Dan! Congratulatins Romania! EU sends love and hugs! 👊🏽🔥🇹🇩

Den här var lite rolig att skriva! www.na.se/2025-05-18/n...

Ukrainian “mud” training to stop Russian tanks. youtu.be/VDIuzzeTFtw?...

The top economics journal in the world nearly published an article that, to all appearances, is 100% bullshit. It claimed that AI accelerates scientific discovery. An MIT PhD student appears to have used generative AI to fabricate the whole thing, data and all.

Q. Who'd have guessed these two asshats were compromised? A. Yes. kyivinsider.com/fbi-agent-go...?

A genuinely scary guy. A creepy sadistic villain from any comic book. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: by an apparent 7-2 margin, the Supreme Court stops the Trump administration from deporting a class of Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act

JOAKIM MEDIN ÄR PÅ VÄG HEM ❤️❤️❤️

Hade missat den här i flödet. Idel klokheter från yours truly, som vanligt 😅😮‍💨😱https://www.dn.se/varlden/har-ar-mannen-som-paverkar-vita-husets-politik/

Impeach, prosecute, jail

"Dagen innan Sverige slöt ett miljardavtal om Jas-plan med Ungern köpte statssekreterare Diana Janse (M) aktier i Saab. Affären var början på en stark börsuppgång för bolaget" www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/KM...

Hundreds protest ICE after agents arrest mother in front of her daughters, grandchild

People really tried to argue, for years, that this is about economic anxiety and not white supremacy.

Corruption in plane sight

Poland has proven the involvement of Russian intelligence services in the sabotage by arson of the “Marywilska 44” shopping center in Warsaw. Therefore, the Russian Consulate General in Kraków is being closed.

No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Incredible interview. Also Elon et al. are absolute assholes.

If I were JD Vance, I would consider whether God is perhaps sending me some fairly specific messages

Via @jricole.bsky.social, blistering look at all the damage the narcissistic and increasingly unhinged moron is doing. All normalized by #complicitmedia. www.juancole.com/2025/05/amer...

At which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.

”Because you yourself are a despicable racist…and shame on you”🔥

I have long been skeptical of Morgan precisely for what and who he platforms while pretending to be objective but ...man does he savage this sneering white nationalist for thinking she's cute.

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”Medical officials report rising cases of acute malnutrition, and community kitchens that served 1m meals a day are shutting down for lack of basic essentials. Aid agencies say they have distributed all remaining stocks of food.“