Has Bryon Noem "done" anything to warrant ridicule from the left or is his only crime who he is married to?

Det är inte som att vattnet försvinner, det förångas. Större delen av Sverige har gott om vatten.

🇺🇦🇸🇪 Syrskyi: Held a meaningful meeting with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Sweden.

We are sincerely grateful for the 21st aid package from Sweden, which is based on the latest air defense systems, Deep Strike systems and ammunition.

Två frågor kvarstår dock. För det första, är detta för sent? De har kort tid på sig att kommunicera och övertyga väljarna om den nya linjen. För det andra, orkar partiet detta, eller kommer man slitas sönder, nu när partiet slutgiltigt valt sida.

Tycker L-uppgörelsen med SD verkar rimlig ur ett L-perspektiv. Jag hade såklart hellre sett att de samarbetade vänsterut, men om partiet nu valt det borgerliga blocket var deras nuvarande linje ohållbar.

Has there been any modelling looking at even worse scenarios? What happens if the straight stays mostly closed for 3 months? 6?

Tidöpartierna pausar tonårsutvisningarna Tidöpartierna föreslår nya regler som ska få Migrationsverket att pausa de kritiserade tonårsutvisningarna. Dessutom kompletteras den kritiserade utredningen om att omvandla permanenta uppehållstillst...

En seger! Otillräcklig (långt ifrån alla tonårsutvisningar pausas) men ändå värd att uppmärksamma.

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Forskare: Därför borde riksdagsledamöternas löner fördubblas - Altinget Den totala kostnaden för riksdagens arvoden är liten i relation till statsbudgeten. Effekterna av politiska beslut kan vara tusenfalt deras arvodesräkning. Det skriver Jonas Grafström, doktor i nation...

Artiklar som med sakliga argument argumenterar emot konventionell visdom är alltid de mest intressanta.
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Seems like it's happening now. Don't think Türkiye will be happy that the US is trying to resurrect a Kurdish state just as they've defeated them i northern Syria.

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Should be added here that doing so risks a new Syria, but I don't see how regime change can be achieved otherwise. However weak, there still has to be some actor on the ground that can push the regime aside.

If I was the US government and I was serious about regime change, finding ways to arm the Iranian opposition would be pretty high on my list. Something to look for as the campaign moves on to the next stage.

Absolutely not an Iran expert, but is there any viable path to regime change here? Even if the top leadership is killed, the regime is robust enough to just elect new leaders, no?

Not a lot of companies have stood up to the Trump government when they actually had something to lose. Gotta respect Anthropic for sticking by their principles.

Why is every AI take either "it's all a grift" or "all jobs will be automated in 2027 and the robot overlords may end up murdering us". Surely the reasonable take is "AI will be useful and speed up growth but not more than other general purpose technologies."

Sjukt ändå att pulkaåkning är en olympisk sport

China bankrolling Putin’s war to gain advantage over West, MPs told Beijing’s huge support for Russian aggression against Ukraine part of larger threatening posture, air marshal tells Commons committee

China is now bankrolling Russia’s war in Ukraine by providing 60% of the funds needed by Moscow to continue fighting, MPs on the Commons Defence Committee were told today.

The aim is to gain an advantage over the West.

Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.

Stella Carlson said that before the shooting, the man was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather. "The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. The ICE agents approached us, told us to back up, back up. I'm not even sure why we were helping them, if anything. And I got on the snow bank, and next thing I knew, they shot him," Carlson said.

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...

"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Didn't grasp just how bad the Minneapolis murder was until I watched it with sound. Hearing how he empties his magazine into a guy already lying lifeless on the ground...

I see people now quoting Carney and saying "see, the rules based order was always fake, just a tool for US hegemony". Like I said, while the order was imperfect, I don't agree with that description.

This is fundamentally different from the analogy in Havel were the signs aren't bringing real socialism any closer. Carney is right though in that the order as we once knew it is gone. But like all values, it wasn't imaginary just because it was socially constructed. It existed and it was good.

Yes, Carney is right that the rules based order has alway been imperfect, but he goes too far in his cynicism. The order did constrain stronger actors and established norms to an extent. And evoking the rules based order helped keep that order alive.

This comparison does not ring true to me. In Havel's example, the worker of the world unite-signs were put up by people who had no interest in having the workers of the world unite. By contrast, many of us who talk about a rules based order would like it to be true.

Havel pointed out that no one believed in the sign, yet everyone kept putting them up. This is what he called living within a lie. Carney compared that to the rules based international order, who he claimed was also a lie that we needed to pretend to stop believing in.

Carney in his Davos speech reference communist dissident Václav Havel, who talked about the Greengrocer who lives within a lie. By putting up the "workers of the world unite"-sign in his window the greengrocer signaled not a belief in worker solidarity, but loyalty to the regime.

Okay, we need to talk about Carney's Havel reference. 🧵

Lots of people on their facebook page reminding them of their oath right now.

"It is very important for us that we continue our partnerships. I value the friendships of the three Army chiefs in Norway, Sweden, and Finland." Major General Brian Eifler of the 11th airborne division in 2024.

With the relations the 11th have with the Nordics, would they act if given the order?

Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson published a response on X to Trump's tariff threat.

"We will nåt be extorted. I will always stand up for my country and our allies. Currently there are intense discussions with other EU countries, the UK and Norway regarding a joint response."

The next chance for the Supreme Court to rule that these kind of tariffs are illegal and that the law Trump is using was never meant for this kind of thing will be on Tuesday, when the justices said new decisions will be announced.