John Grönvall

Open online peer support on dementia for family care partners in the Finland-Swedish minority context The aim of this study is twofold. On the one hand, it investigates what possibilities there are to find open online support discussions for Finland-Sw…

Published online today in Discourse, Context & Media 😊 @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

Framing Nordic public service media: Comparing policy discourses in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark - John Grönvall, Kari Karppinen, 2025 This article analyses how the role and remit of public service media (PSM) and its relationship to current media and societal developments are framed in recent ...

Our new work with @karika.bsky.social on framing Nordic Public Service media just published, open-access:

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When you send innocent people to a foreign gulag, you are not fighting terror. You are practicing it.

Trump’s Disgrace David Remnick on the temper of Trump’s Presidency—the threats and firings, the multiple DOGE fiascoes, the proposal to cleanse the Gaza Strip of two million Palestinians, and his showdown with Volodym...

Each day of Trump’s second term brings more “outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold,” David Remnick writes.

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.

I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person

I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

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Neopatrimonialism: the right to rule is ascribed to a person rather than to an office. The distinction between private and public interests is purposely blurred. The essence is the award by public officials of personal favours, both within the state and in society(Bratton & van de Walle, 1994)

Key points and statements from President Zelenskyy's interview to Fox News:

◾️Ukrainians want peace more than anyone.
◾️Ukrainians need peace through strength, with security guarantees, not just a ceasefire that Putin will violate like he already has done with numerous earlier ceasefires.

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

“Fact vs. Fiction”
Thought the US would recognise the real Heroes by now 🇺🇦

Zelenskyy says Trump is ‘surrounded by disinformation’ U.S. leader’s claim that Zelenskyy’s approval rating is 4 percent is Russian disinfo, Ukrainian president says.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said US President Donald Trump is “surrounded by disinformation” after Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia.

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing - Source Majorana 1, the first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture

DeCrypto vs Crypto 6-0

This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.

X blocks links to Signal, encrypted service used by whistle blowers
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White House bans AP journalists from Oval Office amid continued Gulf dispute News agency, which has declined to use ‘Gulf of America’ name in stories, also barred from Air Force One The White House has announced that it is indefinitely blocking Associated Press journalists from accessing the Oval Office and Air Force One amid a…

White House bans AP journalists from Oval Office amid continued Gulf dispute

Opinion | America Is Full of People Trump Doesn’t Like If, according to the president, so many people in the United States are the wrong kind, who makes up the right kind?

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“National unity is indeed returning — if only some of the people are really “the people.” This president prefers to lead a nation […] in which certain people are the wrong kind and others are the right kind, in which some are real Americans and others will never be.”

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YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show

”Don’t believe him!”

German authorities revealed that hundreds of cars in German were sabotaged by a group of three men who operated for the Russian state. After damaging the cars they left messages pointing at the Green Party.

Kuvakaappaus: Hänen mukaansa se [pervoilu] on esimerkiksi sitä, että alaikäisille annetaan tehtäviä, joissa heidän pitää kirjoittaa luokkatoveristaan seksuaalifantasia. Purra ei täsmentänyt, missä näin olisi tapahtunut.

Luen uutisia Yhdysvalloista.
Muistutan itseäni päivittäin:
He äänestivät tämän.
He äänestivät tämän.

Sitten Hesarin uutinen eilisestä IS-kuntavaalitentistä.
Me äänestimme myös.

Media voisi olla tässä tuikempi. Politiikkaa tehdään taas tällä näin ne asiat koetaan -tietämisen tasolla.

#politiikka

It is astonishing that folks in the #USA, whether politicians or ordinary folk, seem to have no idea what to do when the government is acting no just unethically but blatantly illegally. Compare to #SouthKorea where there was immediate mass protest and the President was arrested and charged. 1/n

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

Good analysis! by @timothysnyder.bsky.social

US Stalinism in a column

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%.

The actual number is less than 1%.

Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

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US Feb 2025

Former director of CIA and NSA, a retired 4-star general, reposting anti-fascist graffiti, aimed at present govt.

Recently purged of clearance by Trump. Wild.

Well put!
“Populists have only one product: fear. They not only sell it, they feed on it, and they will always try to enrage you, because this will propel their existence.”

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Visst fan finns det alternativ, Adlercreutz SFP:s ordförande Anders Adlercreutz tycker inte att vi ska vara surpuppor, utan skriver i ett debattinlägg i Hufvudstadsbladet 29.1 att vi ska se med tillförsikt på framtiden. Det är tuffa tider nu då...

Adlercreutz rubricerar sin debattartikel “Om att dra sitt strå till stacken”. Den här regeringen har uttryckligen sett till att samhällets rika inte behöver dra sitt strå till stacken. Det är det bara de sjuka, de arbetslösa, låginkomsttagarna och prekariatet som ska.

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Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.