Ina Hallström

The Danish government quit Microsoft last year to protect their digital sovereignty. The rest of Europe should probably consider it. Where's the discussion in Sweden?

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."

Hopefully, we won't see that coat again – except maybe in court

"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her close adviser Corey Lewandowski, who were Bovino’s biggest backers at DHS, are also at risk of losing their jobs, two of the people told me."

Welcome to the American Winter In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

"behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest."

from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Statistik utmanar idén om misslyckad svensk integration (Bild på kvinna som serverar mat vid ett köksbord. Bildtext: Siham Diban minns när hon fick fast jobb i Laxå, hur tårarna rann nedför hennes kollegas kinder när hon berättade. ”Hon är som min syster”, säger hon.) Kurvorna pekar åt rätt håll. Sysselsättning, inkomst, studier. Flyktingar i Sverige är mer högutbildade och lär sig språket snabbare än i andra länder. Är det en myt att svensk integration är dålig?

Inte direkt bilden som ofta förmedlas!

"Sverige ligger i toppen i undersökningen Mipex som jämför hur väl 56 länders ramverk och policys bidrar till en god integration. Integrationen går dessutom allt snabbare."

www.svd.se/a/5pVGwK/den...

Om de nu inte ser sig som språkrör för eller vill legitimera "partiets samlade politik" hade de kunnat använda utrymmet till att kritisera partiets senaste utspel.

Stockholm today -2°C ❄️

Sorgligt och så onödigt med den risken för båda parter!

Så tonades kraven på munskydd ner KA kan berätta hur det gick till när Arbetsmiljöverket tonade ner kraven på munskydd i äldreomsorgen.

It was bizarre to see the discussions about masks in Sweden's highly trusted public service outlet.

The Public Health Agency and Work Environment Authority also downplayed the need for masks and respirators in elderly care.

But unions took the fight.

arbetet.se/2020/08/14/s...

Nice work! How Sweden’s national broadcaster (SVT) communicated mask scepticism during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Most Swedes will probably recognize these themes:

Other recs more important Evidence for masks is weak
False sense of security
Far right wants masks
Can spread infection
Complicated to use

California to join WHO health network in rebuke of Trump It’s Gavin Newsom’s latest counter to the Republican president.

Interesting development. I wonder if we'll see more of these state-specific initiatives

"California is the first American state to join the WHO's Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network."

Tips! Mini-symposium den 30/1 om tidig analytisk filosofi arrangerat av filosofiämnet vid Södertörns högskola och Bokförlaget Thales.

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Exakt.

Sverige & Europa har tvärtom gjort något stort: Vi har stått upp mot & avskräckt Trumps USA. Vi satte hårt mot hårt & synade hans bluff. Vi eskalerade för att de-eskalera. Detta är en viktig lärdom: Vi måste tuffa till oss. Fred säkras inte alltid genom att vi lägger oss.

Opinion | Americans Are Turning Against Gay People

Interesting theory here suggesting that anti-gay bias is related to wider anti-establishment sentiment.

"By 2020, support for gay and lesbian equality had become an establishment position."

Opinion | Americans Are Turning Against Gay People

And anti-gay bias.

"The decades-long rise in the acceptance of gay people in the United States peaked around 2020 and has sharply reversed since then."

Trump administration to block foreign aid from those promoting abortion, DEI and gender identity The Trump administration is expanding its ban on U.S. foreign aid for groups supporting abortion services to include assistance going to international and domestic organizations and agencies that prom...

Anti-gender, anti-trans, anti-DEI, and anti-reproductive rights forces are converging – and it shouldn’t surprise anyone

Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication From the invention of writing and the printing press, to television and social media, human history is punctuated by major innovations in communication technology, which fundamentally altered how idea...

I wonder what is going on with the publication process for this paper. It was last revised in July 2025, but it still hasn't been published, as far as I can tell.

Here is version 3 (instead of version 1 above):
arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

Old Europe. New Backbone. A lesson in standing up to bullies from across the pond.

"Europeans faced bullying with strength, and the bully at least temporarily backed down."
www.thebulwark.com/p/old-europe...

Few Voters Say Trump’s Second Term Has Made the Country Better, Poll Finds

It's remarkable that Trump still has strong support among Republicans.

But a majority of voters disapprove of how his handling of top issues including the economy, immigration, the war between Russia and Ukraine and his actions in Venezuela. 51% think his policies has made life less affordable.

The major demographic shifts of the last election have snapped back. In today’s poll, Mr. Trump’s approval rating by demographic group looks almost exactly as it did in Times/Siena polling in the run-up to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. If anything, young and nonwhite voters are even likelier to disapprove of Mr. Trump than they were then, while he retains most of his support among older and white voters. How Support for Trump Has Changed: President Trump made gains with most groups between 2020 and 2024. But in the latest Times/Siena poll, those shifts have vanished with young, nonwhite and infrequent voters.

Nice U-turn in new NYT poll

"Trump’s approval rating by demographic group looks almost exactly as it did in Times/Siena polling in the run-up to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

If anything, young and nonwhite voters are even likelier to disapprove of Mr. Trump than they were then."

I mean Putin posed like that for real

Agree and I think Trump might even enjoy being portrayed in this more youthful, hyper-masculine way.

‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove? Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings lit with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent ...

"'Her time has come': did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?"

Presumably inspired by this

It's funny how Bessent mocked the idea that Europe’s most powerful weapon is the "dreaded European working group" – and now that's all Trump has achieved regarding Greenland. It's a great weapon!

I'm not a fan of Rutte by the way. He was responsible for the Netherlands' COVID strategy, promoting herd immunity ideas.

Rutte is funny, the US can already build military bases on Greenland today