Ludwig Bell

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Huge Democratic party win across the board, but a lot of European newspapers are just reporting on Mamdami

Fullständig lista som alltid från Bolts!

Många val inatt som inte fått lika stor uppmärksamhet som borgmästarvalet i NYC men som betyder mycket

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

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Wanted to talk about the fact that the ONLY form of communication/transparency the MAGA world seems to believe in is "trolling the libs." And why they're doing that. And why it's so stupid.

A month in the manosphere One of the most significant political developments in the last few years is the emergence of the “manosphere,” a loose network of longform podcasts that are especially popular with young men.

Take a little scroll through the universe of deranged shit that an average young man runs across in the "manosphere" in a typical month. It's so grim out there.

Snart har Mjällby lika många SM-guld i fotboll som Hammarby, Brynäs, och Fässbergs IF. Stort!

The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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Big Brother wasn't an actual person leading the Party and orchestrating the Two Minutes Hate. He was a symbol. A face.

Cults of personality usually die off when the personality does, or at least substantially reduce. But will they still when a facsimile of the central figure lives on as AI slop?

Yes. The appeal is never having to grow up or accommodate yourself to the needs or interests of others. It is enormously appealing, apparently. And not just to young people.

Apropå pest eller kolera. Bägge mycket behandlingsbara, förutsatt att man har tillgång till antibiotika respektive vätskeersättning.

Vilket mörker. Föraktet mot vetenskap är oändligt. Och, får man anta, ännu ett sätt för dessa grifters att berika sig på ”alternativa” behandlingar och tillskott av olika slag.

Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So. Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.

www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

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Riktigt nice! Lyssnade även på den andra knock down-låten, fin vers-blinkning till ”Runnin’ Down A Dream” med Tom Petty, gillas :)

The Death of US AID The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale

New, from me: Elon Musk talks about saving our species. But the greatest legacy of his time in government will be to condemn millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy.
How Musk and Trump killed USAID.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Last spring, when Dan Ziblatt and I taught a comparative course on democratic backsliding, our study of the Hungarian and German (1920s-30s) cases left me slightly reassured about the United States today. Hungary is highly centralized ., and in Germany the most important state transformation happened just before Hitler was appointed Chancellor, when the previous government nationalized the Prussian police and bureaucracy, removing it from Social Democratic control in federated Germany's largest state. Not long after, unexpectedly, Hitler could easily

Prussian police and bureaucracy, removing it from Social Democratic control in federated Germany's largest state. Not long after, unexpectedly, Hitler could easily turn the centralized agencies into his Gestapo core. I thought last year that the USA was somewhat protected against any similar coerceive authoritarian takeover by its federal structure, given state and local government rights to control most U.S. police powers (I presented this argument in my Madison lecture for the Sept 2024 American Political Science Association).

But now I see that the Miller- Trump ethno-authoritarians have figured out a devilishly clever workaround. Immigration is an area where a U.S. President can exercise virtually unchecked legal coercive power, especially if backed by a Supreme Court majority and corrupted Department of Justice. Now Congress has given ICE unprecedented resources - much of this windfall to be used for graft with private contractors Trump patronizes, but lots of to hire street agents willing to mask themselves and do whatever they are told against residents and fellow American citizens.

American citizens. The Miller- Trumpites are not interested only in rounding up undocumented immigrants. They will step up using ICE and DOJ enforcements use to harass Democrats, citizen critics, and subvert future elections if they can.

Coming from Theda Skocpol, this is absolutely bone-chilling analysis.

H/t @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

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Grattis, vad roligt!

ICE ligger väl nära till hands, militären kan åtminstone teoretiskt vara något svårare att mobilisera mot befolkningen. Särskilt snart när ICE har mångdubblat sin styrka.

Leo Gerdén: Mina politiska vänner på Harvard har tystnat och raderat sina texter från skoltidningen När människor tackar mig för att jag säger sådant de inte vågar om Trumpadministrationen vill jag bara skrika.

Det här är så bra - dagens givna lästips!

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

More proof, if proof were needed, that the underlying political beliefs here are based on personality and ego. In the mean time, Musk's smashing of USAID will, by itself, kill millions of the most vulnerable people in the world.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers Paloma Shemirani’s brothers say she refused chemotherapy because of their mother’s beliefs.

i think these professional antivaxxers are literally demonic www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ffs. Conor Lamb 2028.