@monikadjerfpierre.bsky.social
Professor emerita of journalism, media and communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Interested in journalism, media, video games, politics, science, nature, history, public health. Plays computer games - a lot.
01.08.2025 21:37 — 👍 7621 🔁 2758 💬 359 📌 156
DN:s förstasida idag. Läs reportaget här:
www.dn.se/varlden/elch...
This is genuinely appalling.
Thinking of David Halberstam's 'Powers That Be,' with sections on mightiness of (a) CBS; (b) Wash Post; (c) Time mag; (d) LA Times.
The pillars of US journalism as civic forces (with huge flaws), and as businesses.
It is like Ozymandias now.
Shame on CBS.
A primer for the civically ill-informed.
20.07.2025 17:37 — 👍 19064 🔁 6698 💬 392 📌 256Holy shit -- Kevin Hassett completely bombs on ABC when pressed by Jon Karl to explain how Trump can possibly justify 50% tariffs on Brazil even though the country has a trade *deficit* with the US
13.07.2025 15:28 — 👍 10523 🔁 2707 💬 1096 📌 534They’re finally using the GOP playbook!!!
12.07.2025 22:29 — 👍 6369 🔁 1222 💬 168 📌 35
The Istanbul negotiations with Russia has exhausted itself, says Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Kyslytsia. According to him, there were no real talks—Russia came with ultimatums. They rejected any unconditional ceasefire and demanded Ukraine first accept their terms—essentially capitulation
12.07.2025 18:32 — 👍 422 🔁 88 💬 17 📌 3
I posted the message below to Twitter/X and to Bluesky. Pretty tame stuff, and the level of vitriol from Twitter users was utterly predictable. Completely flipped out, ranting about race, immigrants, Marxism. People swearing at me. Good times!
12.07.2025 21:45 — 👍 46 🔁 7 💬 8 📌 1
A Landscape of Death: What's Left Where Ukraine Invaded Russia Listen to this article • 11:56 min Learn more Photographs and Reporting by Nanna Heitmann Nanna Heitmann spent six days in frontline areas of Russia's Kursk region, escorted at times by members of the Akhmat special forces unit evacuating the area.
The New York Times now blatantly broadcasting Russian propaganda as some kind of “balance”. The Akhmat unit is infamous for war crimes including torture and execution of civilians.
12.07.2025 21:54 — 👍 290 🔁 103 💬 18 📌 12
The latest version of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok is echoing the views of its billionaire creator, so much so that it will sometimes search online for Musk’s stance on an issue before offering up an opinion.
Who saw that coming
www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...
Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.
10.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 4918 🔁 1352 💬 326 📌 134Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
05.07.2025 13:19 — 👍 2700 🔁 1230 💬 152 📌 150
The abandonment of our allies in Ukraine by an American President in order to please a murderous Russian dictator has to be among the most treasonous acts ever committed in this country.
#ResistTrump
Reagan promised tax cuts would pay for themselves. Blew out the deficit.
Bush promised tax cuts would pay for themselves. Blew out the deficit.
Trump promised tax cuts would pay for themselves. Blew out the deficit.
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me four times...?
Bilar kör i 120 för att fly ryska drönare, explosioner hörs konstant. Invånarna tillåts bara gå ut kl 11-15.
Färskt rep från frontstaden Kostiantynivka som hotas från tre håll av Putins styrkor. Men mitt i skräcken hittar vi en motståndsficka med gös, rosor och cappuccino
www.dn.se/varlden/puti...
🚨🚨After #Trump has halted deliveries of military supplies and "timely" call with #Putin Russia pounds Kyiv with ballistic missiles in massive deadly overnight attack with 23 people injured & 14 victims hospitalized. 🧵 kyivindependent.com/kyiv-under-a...
04.07.2025 05:50 — 👍 141 🔁 89 💬 10 📌 7"Unilateral authority" is NYT newspeak for "dictatorship."
04.07.2025 05:56 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Is the President on the cusp of making a calamitous mistake with the Fed? He has tried to appoint charlatans and cranks in the past. And I'm increasingly worried that it's a serious risk.
02.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 307 🔁 60 💬 10 📌 9What would we say if we saw this happening in any other country?
01.07.2025 18:11 — 👍 1035 🔁 241 💬 83 📌 9This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
In the end they will try to lock up every brown person in the country, whether they are a citizen or not. He will sign an executive order declaring himself president for life and the Supreme Court will uphold it 6-3. They will leave you no choice. They think so little of you.
30.06.2025 00:11 — 👍 11985 🔁 3107 💬 653 📌 203Chris Murphy: "The CBO, nonpartisan, says it's gonna kick between 10 and 15 million people off their healthcare. And for what? To be able to afford a new $270,000 tax cut for the richest families in the country ... it's a moral abomination."
29.06.2025 15:01 — 👍 13484 🔁 4548 💬 345 📌 189
www.svd.se/a/4B4wMR/rys...
“Sometimes I think that the meaning of my whole career so far, my whole experience as a doctor, was that I could save the bones of Ukrainian soldiers now. Maybe the other was just training for this – the most important thing in my life.”
Alex Voronov och Kalle Kniivilä svarar forskarna Frida Stranne och Peo Hansen i Dagens Arena:
www.dagensarena.se/opinion/varf...
"På samma sätt som Putin ser inte heller de det demokratiska Ukraina som en självständig aktör, utan bara som en spelpjäs i stormakternas kamp."
Bortsett ondskan är den bottenlösa dumheten också rätt fascinerande
27.06.2025 19:59 — 👍 59 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 0Crockett: The First Lady, a model— when I say model I’m not talking about Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, or Naomi Campbell level— applied for an Einstein visa. You’re supposed to have some sort of significant achievement… She had none of those. It doesn’t take an Einstein to see the math ain’t mathin
25.06.2025 20:12 — 👍 26569 🔁 6674 💬 958 📌 507
