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Academic economist in Stockholm.

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Europe’s impotence extends to energy The political momentum behind decarbonising the continent’s energy system has dissipated

Yet another must-read memo from purgatory by @martinsandbu.ft.com Europe’s impotence extends to energy giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

08.03.2026 21:43 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Europe’s impotence extends to energy The political momentum behind decarbonising the continent’s energy system has dissipated

"This is natural: creative destruction has few champions. But it is not wise. Europe is clearly capable of speeding up its transition to energy independence via renewables." Excellent piece by @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/content/a6be...

10.03.2026 07:27 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...

07.03.2026 18:32 👍 2188 🔁 1290 💬 111 📌 208

Your op-ed was wise and to the point.

06.03.2026 18:07 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here we go again. Men vi har iallafall en kulturkanon!

03.03.2026 19:16 👍 81 🔁 30 💬 6 📌 2
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.

After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis.

(Published Dec. 2025)

04.03.2026 02:00 👍 1322 🔁 669 💬 39 📌 31
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Donald Trump’s dangerous ‘war of whim’ [FREE TO READ] Anyone who claims to know where this conflict will go is bluffing

"Trump has seen George W. Bush’s record and raised it. There's nothing good to say about Iran’s regime. But it has shown a better instinct for reading Trump’s intentions than his voters." My column on Trump's reckless gamble. as.ft.com/r/66e49702-f...

03.03.2026 12:02 👍 636 🔁 171 💬 28 📌 9

Juuri näin. Valtiojohto selkiyttänee kolmeen pointtiin tiivistettynä.

03.03.2026 04:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ollaanko oikeustieteellisissä tiedekunnissa jo A) nimetty kv oikeus Stubbia mukaellen "perinteiseksi" kv oikeudeksi ja B) alettu opettaa "modernia" k oikeutta, mitä se sitten lieneekin?

02.03.2026 20:32 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Finlands Alexander Stubb använde samma i lördags. De ser ut i sin desperation ha koordinerat fram ett icke-existerande begrepp. Principlösa fegisar.

02.03.2026 20:30 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

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World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

02.03.2026 03:59 👍 1054 🔁 707 💬 6 📌 18
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Nya anklagelser om våldtäkter mot barn 38 000 omnämnanden i Epsteinfilerna – varför är det så tyst?

Skrev om Epsteinfilerna och Trump, och det kan inte hjälpas att jag undrar om det militära anfallet mot Iran hänger ihop med det. www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/5pB...

01.03.2026 12:34 👍 50 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 0
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

29.01.2026 15:29 👍 6268 🔁 2187 💬 166 📌 207

Det ska bli spännande att se Anderssons reaktion till dödandet av Kahmenei.

01.03.2026 03:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Imponerande att USA åter inleder ett krig i strid med såväl folkrätten som USAs konstitution och socialdemokraternas ledare betraktar Iran som ansvarigt.

28.02.2026 13:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Dr. Manhattan on Mars meme. "It is 1990. I am 29 years old. In two weeks, Iran will have nuclear weapons. It is 2008. I am 37 years old. In two weeks, Iran will have nuclear weapons. It is 2026. I am 54 years old. In two weeks, Iran will have nuclear weapons."

The Dr. Manhattan on Mars meme. "It is 1990. I am 29 years old. In two weeks, Iran will have nuclear weapons. It is 2008. I am 37 years old. In two weeks, Iran will have nuclear weapons. It is 2026. I am 54 years old. In two weeks, Iran will have nuclear weapons."

Second verse, same as the first

27.02.2026 16:39 👍 757 🔁 198 💬 20 📌 8
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THIS.

28.02.2026 12:21 👍 27769 🔁 11363 💬 1003 📌 605
article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court

article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court

continuation of article 8bis

continuation of article 8bis

posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC

28.02.2026 07:03 👍 1493 🔁 538 💬 10 📌 18

It is also illegal in terms of international law. As if that mattered to Republicans.

28.02.2026 13:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Erikoistutkija, 4–6 tehtävää Turun yliopiston yhteiskuntatieteellisen tiedekunnan tutkimuksen lippulaiva INVESTissä on haettavana 4–6 erikoistutkijan kahden vuoden määräaikaista tehtävää. Työsuhteet alkavat 1.4.2026 tai sopimukse...

🔥 Hae erikoistutkijaksemme 2 vuoden määräaikaiseen tehtävään!

@utu.fi / INVESTissä avoinna 4–6 tehtävää
@janierola.net:n #STRATEQ & #USFI,
@anttikouvo.bsky.social:n #CoROL ja
@mjantti.bsky.social:n #PublicPrivate -hankkeissa.

Hae 25.3. klo 16.00 mennessä.

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26.02.2026 14:01 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Senior researcher, 4-6 positions The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, 2-year fixed term senior researcher (4-6 positions). Employment s...

🔥 Apply for our 2-year fixed-term position as a Senior Researcher!

Open positions (4–6) at @utu.fi/INVEST in the
#STRATEQ & #USFI projects led by @janierola.net
#CoROL project led by @anttikouvo.bsky.social
#PublicPrivate project led by @mjantti.bsky.social

ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...

26.02.2026 14:08 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

I have a bunch of positions open with @mjantti.bsky.social and @anttikouvo.bsky.social in four different projects!

You need a PhD (or you should be about to defend your thesis), quant methods skills are necessary, but otherwise we are pretty flexible.

#sociology #demography #economics #statistics

26.02.2026 14:21 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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Palestinska journalister vittnar om tortyr - Journalisten Committee to Protect Journalists har intervjuat 59 palestinska journalister som har släppts efter att ha suttit frihetsberövade av Israel, någon gång under perioden...

”Pressfrihetsorganisationen CPJ har samlat in vittnesmål från palestinska journalister som suttit fängslade av Israel de senaste åren. 58 av 59 journalister uppger att de utsatts för tortyr, misshandel eller andra typer av våld i fängelset.”

www.journalisten.se/nyheter/pale...

26.02.2026 10:26 👍 7 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1

One is easily numbed by all the noise coming out of the US
But it may be worth to pause and note that a NYT columnist is advocating for an illegal (in international law and likely also US) war. However much one dislikes the Iranian regime.

23.02.2026 09:00 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I love the "if the people who the study feel I personally attacked them". That the authors were personally attacked is what is known as a fact. It is not a matter of personal feeling.

22.02.2026 11:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good news: Happy Kevin walks back his call for NY Fed economists to be disciplined.

Bad news: It's bullshit. He says the Fed should stay out of issues like... whether tariffs cause inflation.

But inflation is central to monetary policy!

He's still saying: The regime shall not be contradicted.

22.02.2026 01:01 👍 1485 🔁 302 💬 75 📌 16
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Trump’s policies dent international travel to US in blow to tourism sector Foreign visitors to the US declined 4.2% in 2025 while international travel worldwide grew 4%
06.02.2026 05:00 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Kristersson tror inte på Åkesson som statsminister Statsminister Ulf Kristersson (M) menar att det inte finns tillräckligt stöd för Jimmie Åkesson (SD) att bli statsminister efter höstens val. Det säger han i en intervju med TT.

Vad Kristersson tror eller inte tror spelar ingen roll. Han börjar redan framstå som en förlorare och det är åtta månader kvar till valet.

03.02.2026 07:15 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Varför avskaffades påföljden ungdomsfängelse 1980? - Tidskrift för KRIMINALVÅRD Huvudargumenten för att avskaffa ungdomsfängelse (UF) 1. Det förebyggde inte brott – återfallen var extremt höga 2. Institutionerna hade negativa sociala effekter Man såg att UF-institutionerna: Detta...

Sverige hade ungdomsfängelser fram till 1980. Vet ni varför de avskaffades?

- Skyhög återfallsrisk.
- Fungerade som skolor för värre kriminalitet.
- Gav de dömda en kriminell identitet.
- Bristfälligt vårdinnehåll.
- Ingen fungerande eftervård.

Blir nog bra…

www.tfkriminalvard.se/noterat/varf...

31.01.2026 08:43 👍 233 🔁 126 💬 7 📌 3
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"Jag har aldrig någonsin stött på en vanlig svensk som är antisemit". säger Jimmie Åkesson. Jaså. Han behöver inte gå över ån efter vatten. Ni kan gissa vilket parti där antisemitismen är mest utbredd i den mig veterligt senast genomförda undersökningen. www.levandehistoria.se/wp-content/u...

31.01.2026 09:30 👍 189 🔁 56 💬 13 📌 7