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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1w ago

”Norlén har gjort ett habilt jobb som talman de senaste åtta åren. … Vad som utmärker honom är att han gillar att synas, visa upp sina hemodlade tomater och ta med sin fru på jobbresor. Det kan man mycket väl tycka är charmigt, men det gör honom inte unikt lämpad att leda riksdagens arbete.” (DN:s ledarredaktion 20260928) https://www.dn.se/ledare/vs-agerande-ar-viktig-information-till-de-rodgrona-valjarna/ #andreasnorlen #norlén

Ledare: V:s agerande är viktig information till de rödgröna väljarna

Ledare: V:s agerande är viktig information till de rödgröna väljarna

Det finns en tendens att överskatta talmannens betydelse för regeringsbildningen. Men det betyder inte att måndagens händelser saknar relevans.

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

“I then asked him, when it came to determining what kind of man [Thomas] Jefferson was, “of the two things, owning slaves, or having sex with a slave, which do you think is worse?” He said that he couldn’t answer that question. I told him that he had just answered it very clearly. … That has been the hidden dividing line in our discussion of slavery in this country, such as we have had any discussion at all.” —Lucian Truscott IV https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/when-human-beings-owned-other-human #thomasjefferson #slavery

luciantruscott.substack.com

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

”Going into schools, I meet thousands of children a year and every day I become more certain that, if justice for all is to be our organising principle, AI is not for children and not for young people. … It risks halting learning before it can take flight. Studies show, over and over, that when we engage in AI-assisted learning we give up sooner. … We undergo not just cognitive offloading, but cognitive surrender: we forget what was possible.” —K. Rundell https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom #ai #learning

theguardian.com

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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“He set the house on fire, and now he’s selling you a garden hose that doesn’t exist.” —Dean Blundell, BREAKING: Trump Tried to Punish Canada With Belarus Potash. Belarus Says It Doesn't Have Any #trump #potash

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 3w ago

”Tidöpartierna har problem med att locka kvinnliga väljare. Det blir förmodligen inte bättre av att fråga varför vi är så sura.”
—Isobel Hadley-Kamptz (DN 20260912)
https://www.dn.se/ledare/isobel-hadley-kamptz-skrattretande-dumt-nar-akesson-sager-att-magdalena-andersson-ar-for-sur/
#sverige #politik #jimmieåkesson #magdalenaandersson

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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“The ongoing wave of media consolidation poses an existential threat to an informed public. …critical investigative journalism is systematically replaced by corporate-friendly commentary. …voices that challenge the prevailing economic order are pushed to the margins.” —Danielle Moodie, The 29% Collapse Nobody in Power Cares About #usa #media

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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“…the plan, to the extent there is one, is to punish the ally that said no to annexation by handing cash to the guy helping Russia bomb Ukrainian apartment buildings. He is trying to fund the enemy to spite the friend, and he can’t even pull that off because the enemy is sold out.” —Dean Blundell, BREAKING: Trump Tried to Punish Canada With Belarus Potash. Belarus Says It Doesn't Have Any #trump #lukashenko

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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“You’ve seen this movie. The Greenland deal that was never a deal. The Canada deal that exists only in his posts. The war in Iran that he has declared finished more times than I can count while the Strait of Hormuz stays choked and oil sits above $100. Diesel crossed $6 a gallon in the US on September 11 for the first time ever…” —Dean Blundell #trump #greenland #canada #iran #oil #diesel

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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“The lies are getting bigger, sloppier and faster because the floor is gone…” —Dean Blundell #trump

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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“Democracy cannot survive as a spectator sport. Relying on political elites to voluntarily relinquish power or challenge their own funders is a proven dead end. The only force capable of disrupting this trajectory is an organized, informed populace…” —Danielle Moodie, The 29% Collapse Nobody in Power Cares About #democracy

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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“In the All-In Podcast this week… J.D. Vance asked voters to “Give us another chance. … They’re consumed by people who want to steal everything…” Host Joe Scarborough…apparently couldn’t stand it. “Who want to steal everything? … And make things better? JD,...it was you…promising us: ‘He won’t take us to war with Iran…’ Right? … No more wars, no more stupidity, no more inflation. The Ukraine war would end on the first day.”” —Heather Cox Richardson, Sept 18, 2026 #jdvance #trump #iran #ukraine

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 3w ago

Kent Ekeroth skyllde SD:s klena valresultat på ”importerad röstboskap”. När programledaren ifrågasatte varför det skulle vara dåligt att folk röstar sa Ekeroth att han spelade in intervjun och skulle lägga ut den i sociala medier. ”Du är ju i direktsändning, så det är helt lugnt”, svarade programledaren. https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/har-ar-hela-p4-dalarnas-intervju-med-kent-ekeroth-sd #kentekeroth

sverigesradio.se

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

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In a 2024 campaign meeting, Trump remarked that if it were left to Miller there would be only 100 million people in the United States and they would all look like Stephen Miller. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #stephenmiller #miller #trump #usa

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

“What we are facing near-term…is not extinction. And it’s not superintelligence… It’s wholesale deepfaked disinformation… We should expect that malicious actors will try use current AI to undermine financial systems and other vital infrastructure… What we actually need right now is increased reliability, better cybersecurity, and genuine enforcement… —Gary Marcus https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/big-news-at-the-un #ai #reliability #cybersecurity #enforcement

Big news at the UN

garymarcus.substack.com

Big news at the UN

Sometimes, maybe dreams come true?

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 3w ago

”In 2016, it was fun to watch Republicans recoil from Trump’s gaucherie right up to the moment his grip on the base began to take hold, and then like magic, they were Trumpers! The same thing happened after the January 6 assault on the Capitol… Some Republican members of Congress…denounced Trump’s attempted authoritarian takeover. Then suddenly, the magic kicked in, and they were in the cult again, swearing allegiance to Trump…
—Lucian K. Truscott IV
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/has-the-gop-turned-into-a-trump-cult
#trump

luciantruscott.substack.com

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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“…can [we] measure how much pain is created by disruption of trade. … What is the relative willingness to bear pain? With U.S. vs. Canada… …the Canadians kind of know why they’re doing what they’re doing. And certainly the great bulk of the U.S. public has no idea why we’re doing what we’re doing.” —Paul Krugman, Economic Size and Economic Power #usa #canada #tariffs #tradewar

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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“…world power is not simply a matter of the amount of damage you can do, but the amount of damage that you’re willing to accept. And we don’t have a real answer to that.” —Paul Krugman, Economic Size and Economic Power #economics #power

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

“…while they’re pulling down millions and millions in defense contracts to produce AI hallucinations for bombing runs, they’re paying hackers $6,500 to test their systems to see how vulnerable they are… It’s the oldest story in the capitalist handbook. The rich get richer while the rest of us run the risk of the consequences. … Or am I just hallucinating?” —Lucian K. Truscott IV https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/laziness-and-greed-the-deadly-fault #ai #google #openai

Laziness and greed: the deadly fault at the heart of Artificial Intelligence

luciantruscott.substack.com

Laziness and greed: the deadly fault at the heart of Artificial Intelligence

Two threads of the AI story came together today with the revelation of the amount of money OpenAI paid to the hackers who exposed the vulnerabilities of its system last July. It was $6,500.

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 3w ago

”Ser de inte vad som pågår? Inser de inte att de är på väg att förlora sig själva? Vinner Tidösidan på söndag kan det att gå fort: Den här gången lovar inte borgerligheten – som förra valet – att hålla Jimmie Åkesson kort. Den här gången lovar de att ge honom spelrum. Och om de förlorar? Då öppnar sig faktiskt helt nya möjligheter.”
—Amanda Sokolnicki (DN 20260912)
https://www.dn.se/ledare/amanda-sokolnicki-inget-gor-sa-ont-som-nar-en-van-far-en-ny-partner-och-forandras/
#tidö

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 3w ago

“Vilka det nu än är som bestämmer så verkar taktiken vara att ”gasa oss ur kurvan”. Vi står dock vid ett viktigt vägval: brinna, drunkna eller explodera. Men det viktigaste är att allt växer så mycket det bara kan tills dess.”
—Marcus Berggren (DN 20260909)
https://www.dn.se/kultur/marcus-berggren-vi-star-infor-ett-viktigt-vagval-brinna-drunkna-eller-explodera/
#tillväxt #klimat #klimatförändring #klimatkris
#growth #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

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[Stephen] Miller warned that those incapable of meeting the President’s demands would soon find themselves without a job. … Miller’s eruptions became legendary across the government. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #stephenmiller #miller #ice

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 3w ago

“I samband med förra valet talades det om ”Magdamoderater”: Väljare med borgerliga värderingar som bekymrade sig över SD och därför stöttade Socialdemokraterna. … De vill inte ha…utvisningar av ungdomar som gör alla rätt. Och seriösa ministrar, inte sådana som…använder ministertiden till att polarisera i sociala medier. …de vet vad de gör när de röstar för att sänka Tidö och befria Moderaterna från SD:s grepp.”
—DN:s ledarredaktion (DN 20260912)
https://www.dn.se/ledare/vill-du-ha-borgerlig-politik-da-ska-du-inte-rosta-pa-tido/
#tidö #moderaterna

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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”De auktoritära ledartyperna utsöndrar liksom en gas som omgivningens receptorer genast känner av, och omgivningen börjar dansa efter utsöndrarens pipa.” —Lena Andersson, Auktoritära utsöndringar (DN 2011-10-22)

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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“…authoritarian regimes have no dissent but are more fragile… I think on balance, it turns out that democracies are frustrating and they debate and they sometimes are slow, but they are actually much more effective in conflict than people imagine.” —Paul Krugman, Economic Size and Economic Power #democracy #autocracy

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 4w ago

”Resultaten i Pisaundersökningen visar att det är särskilt svårt för elever att läsa texter som kräver koncentration under en längre period. … Svenskläraren tipsar föräldrar som vill hjälpa sina barn med läsningen… Kanske kan man läsa 20 minuter om dagen, fem dagar i veckan. Exakt vad man läser eller hur långt man hinner är mindre viktigt.”
—Lovisa Herold, Svenskläraren om Pisa: ”Handlar inte bara om skärmar” (DN 20260908)
https://www.dn.se/sverige/svensklararen-om-pisaresultaten-handlar-inte-bara-om-skarmar/
#pisa #läsförståelse #läsning

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 4w ago

“Philosophers are characteristically concerned with propositions and with getting their logical claims in order. I certainly have that itch. I feel compelled to articulate things clearly.
But alongside that philosophical drive I have an inchoate longing, an intuition of something more than can be captured by that form of articulation.”
—Matthew Segall
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/the-holiest-whole-you-can-imagine
#philosophy #philosophers

footnotes2plato.substack.com

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 3w ago

”Jimmie Åkesson visade var Sverigedemokraterna vill ställa skåpet när han hävdade att det är muslimska väljares fel om högern förlorar valet. De andra Tidöledarna såg inte helt entusiastiska ut…”
—Tomas Ramberg (DN 20260911)
Bakom betalvägg:
https://www.dn.se/sverige/tomas-ramberg-plotsligt-beror-valresultatet-pa-muslimerna/
#tidö #jimmieåkesson

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 3w ago

“Journalisten Lisa Röstlund lyckades ta sig förbi Säpo, hela vägen in i statsministerparets sovrum… Då försökte ministern för civilt försvar – en man vars uppdrag är att motverka desinformation – misstänkliggöra journalisten genom att påstå att hon var köpt av andra intressen.”
—Johannes Klenell (DN 20260911)
#tidö

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

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…from coast to coast, masked agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement seemed to be everywhere, and a new phenomenon emerged: Unsuspecting targets were being snatched from sidewalks and during traffic stops… It was a spectacle, captured on video, and that was key to the strategy. Viral videos made for viral fear… —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #trump #ice

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

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Trump would seize on the broadest definition of emergency powers… Along with this would go the President’s crackdown on American civil society. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #trump #emergency

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

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…as the President and vice president boasted that they were restoring free speech, the administration moved to stifle dissent. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #trump #jdvance #vance

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

”[De yngre åldersgrupperna]…var en av Moderaternas starkaste väljargrupper men man förlorade det stödet väldigt fort efter att Tidöavtalet hade presenterats. Det är bland de unga som de största förändringarna har skett, säger Nicklas Källebring, opinionsanalytiker på Ipsos.” (DN 20260809) https://www.dn.se/sverige/unga-valjare-har-rort-sig-vansterut/ #moderaterna #tidö #valet2026 #ipsos

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

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…the agency developed a fearsome persona—armed, masked, and menacing—and began to post daily arrest numbers. Stephen Miller was applying immense pressure on the agency to keep up the pace of mass deportation and hit a 3,000 daily-arrests target. …Miller made no apologies for the pressure, telling officials that the President had campaigned on the largest deportation operation ever… —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #trump #stephenmiller #ice

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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”I närvaro av en auktoritär person vågar man inte misslyckas och inte tänka. Man börjar betrakta sig med den auktoritäres kritiska blick och blir sladdrig. När man möter dessa personer ser man till att på olika sätt förmedla att man inte kan något, inte vet något och inte är något hot. Man blir inställsam och lismande fast man då avskyr sig själv.” —Lena Andersson, Auktoritära utsöndringar (DN 2011-10-22)

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

Now in his second term, Trump had a new leader at the Pentagon—Pete Hegseth—who was far less cautious about the use of American force than Trump’s first-term defense secretaries… As he reviewed maps of the lands near the United States, Trump was thinking more seriously about several countries he could annex. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #trump #petehegseth #hegseth #usa #greenland #canada

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 4w ago

Jättedåligt IKEA!
https://www.svt.se/kultur/ikea-plagiatanklagas-igen-solkar-ner-mitt-arbete
#ikea #plagiat

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 3w ago

“Liberalerna har tagit sig in i riksdagen, med en aldrig tidigare prövad strategi: att gå till val på att infria andra partiers politik. … Stora delar av Liberalernas tidigare medlemmar och högt uppsatta företrädare har lämnat partiet… Det Folkparti de en gång var…finns inte längre kvar.”
—Max Hjelm (DN 20260914)
https://www.dn.se/ledare/max-hjelm-mohamssons-valspurt-ar-dramatisk-men-liberalerna-ar-ett-nytt-parti/
#liberalerna #mohamsson

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

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[Stephen] Miller was…a true believer, more hard-line than the President he served, and he didn’t flinch. Trump would acknowledge that difference and joke about it in private. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #trump #stephenmiller #miller

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 2w ago

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“…it turns out that everything has a flaw and a [trade policy] system which was extremely effective in the past was almost custom designed to empower the current administration to do a lot of really destructive stuff.” —Paul Krugman, Economic Size and Economic Power #trump #usa #trade

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

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”…högern har ju inte klarat av att förhandla med Sverigedemokraterna om sakfrågor och samtidigt stå fast vid en ideologi och en syn på världen som radikalt skiljer sig från samarbetspartnerns. Och eftersom man hade bestämt sig för att samarbeta så justerades värderingarna i stället. Väljarna har inte direkt jublat.” —Isobel Hadley-Kamptz (DN 20260901) #sverige #politik #tidö

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

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”On the battlefield, the basics of the situation still favor the Ukrainian strategy of causing massive Russian casualties while saving their own lives… Russian casualties are now more than 40,000 a month. … So the Russian army is struggling, suffering massive losses and its logistic situation is getting worse, not better. …the Russian military is still failing badly this summer—and that will not change. Keep that in mind.” —Phillips P. OBrien, Weekend Update #197 #ukraine #russia

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janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu

· 1mo ago

Trump was always open to the idea that regulations or laws were unfair to private businesses. … Now Trump was the government. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #trump #usa

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