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nordic-link.bsky.social
Author, editor, & a retired foreign correspondent. Born in Sweden. Traveled in Europe, North & South America, overland to India in 1974, to China 1985, 86, 89, & 2001 (reporting on its emerging IT-sector and reforms.) Moved to the U.S. in 1989.
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Their Bodies Are Seemingly Still There... open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...

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I was not even a year old and my older brother two when our parents took us on a long road trip through Europe to the French Riviera. #overland #citroen #caravan #caravanlife #artist #biography #mentonfrance open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...

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Have y'all seen this?

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Chamberlain thought (stupidly) that he was avoiding a war. Trump is just licking Putin's ass, dreaming of opening a hotel in Moscow. We are seeing the formation of a new axis of evil: Trump, Putin & Xi. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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#Herat, #Afghanistan #Hippietrail #Travelphotography open.substack.com/pub/indiatri...

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“When Donald Trump takes the stage to deliver his address Tuesday night, the truth will be this: The state of our Union is…compromised.” joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

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"In the autumn of 1952, they moved to a studio apartment on Kaj Munks väg No. 3, which like other similar apartments were designed for artists." #artist #biography #Blackeberg #Stockholm #painter open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...

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Reflections on the 1970s Hippie Trail open.substack.com/pub/nordicli... #hippietrail #overland #travelphotography #ricksteves #geneopenshaw #india #sweden

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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

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If you are wondering what you can do to help our country, check out this Democracy Playbook 2025

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East of Istanbul open.substack.com/pub/indiatri...

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Here is a 2018 conversation between Jeff Bezos and German publisher Matthias Döpfner at a Business Insider event. Presumably, he is as crimson as a Washington State cherry today:

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The Swedish painter Harald Sandberg did these two frescoes in 1950. I don’t know where he learned the technique, whether it was at the Academy or when he studied in Paris. These are as far as I know the only frescoes he did. #artist #biography #alfrescopainting #sweden

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“No amount of diplomatic palaver can paper over Russia’s record of kidnapping Ukrainian children, executing POWs, and targeting civilians.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-neg...

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“A video shared by Tarrio on social media on Saturday showed him following the officers, Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell, through … a Washington hotel that was hosting the Principles First summit, a conference where one of the officers received a ‘profile in courage’ award.”

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This is indeed brilliant

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Old but gold.

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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

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"On November 24 , 1949 my father had a solo exhibit at Konstsalong Rålambshof ... The art critics would still complain about his realism and coloristic restraint, but they saw openings." #artist #biography #painter #Sweden #Stockholm #Söderhamn open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...

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Is this the beginning of the end for Evil Elon?

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What ?!?

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Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social! "Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

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Amen to that.

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At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.

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“The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled “Elon.” (Fintan O'Tool, NYRB, my italics, H.S.) @nybooks.com @fotoole.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...

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“For those looking to join dots, there is fodder from Musk’s early life with a neo-Nazi grandfather who moved from Canada to South Africa because he liked the idea of apartheid through his high school education in a system infused with white supremacy ideology.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

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Last September, I published my book A Swede on the Hippie Trail (1974). Six months later, Rick Steves released On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer (2025). #hippietrail #overland #travelwriting #travelphotography #India open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...

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The Year Was #1974 and I Was Taking the #Bus to #India open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...

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“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”

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The year is 1948 and the Swedish artist Harald Sandberg and his wife Constance continue their trip after a hospital stay in Beaune. Their goal is now Italy... #artist #painter #biography #Italy #Venice #lagodigarda #lagodicomo #verona open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...

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I tested the new Chinese AI search engine DeepSeek by asking it about my new book “A Swede on the Hippie Trail (1974)”. The result was pretty good! #hippietrail #overland #travelphotography #Sweden #India #India1974 open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...

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My book is on sale today. Sweden to India by bus 1974. #hippietrail #overland #travelphotography

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Dad got sick during the visit and her host family saw to that he was admitted to the hospital in Beaune in France. Here he produced drawings that would end up in the National Museum of Arts in Sweden. #artist #biography #Sweden #France open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...

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Ah, there's the rub!

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Price Drop On My Hippie Trail Ebook #hippietrail #travelphotography #Sweden #India #1974 open.substack.com/pub/indiatri...

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Swindled in Stockholm, Lauded in Hälsingland #artist #biography #Söderhamn #Stockholm #exhibit #painter open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...

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open.substack.com/pub/sunshine... “My plans for the future? I am working tooth and nail to get out. To Paris, Rome, Naples, and other alluring places. If everything goes well, I will set out on a first escape attempt in March or April." (Interview 1947) #artist #biography #Paris1948 #travel #Sweden

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“NPR has identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking.” www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

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