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Helen Lindberg

@cloudbuster01.bsky.social
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Independent scholar of political science, global politics, and Human Rights. Columnist. Freelance writer. Lover of all things dog. Twitter is my abusive x. Yes, still working on that book. Following the green light.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is Ihor Malchevskyi, a 69-year-old scientist at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, escaping the flames after a Russian attack. I could also write, "the whole world watched this live," but we can see that news from Ukraine has long been out of focus. 📹: DW
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tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lol what a preening buffoon.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
His entire business model hinges on hoovering up public money and then turning around to use some of that money to promote white supremacy which somehow brings in more public money.
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bra av Agnes Arpi att inte släppa detta. Institutional betrayal är vad jag skulle beskriva det som. www.altinget.se/artikel/ett-...
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Ett år efter adoptionskommissionen – vad har hänt sedan dess? - Altinget
Adoptionskommissionen blottade allvarliga brister inom den internationella adoptionsverksamheten till Sverige och föreslog en rad åtgärder. Ett år senare har regeringen fortfarande inte gett besked om...
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Incredible that anyone can watch the spectacle of Russian government & media demanding Zelenskyy come to Moscow to talk & conclude that there’s anything but naked imperialism going on here
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur
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Daniel Swedin @danielswedin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Några rader i natten. arbetet.se/2026/09/14/d...
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Därför gick valet 2026 åt skogen för Magdalena Andersson
S hade reformerna men vågade inte göra valet till en strid om dem. Har det kostat Magdalena Andersson regeringsmakten? frågar sig Arbetets politiska redaktör.
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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L'Shanah Tovah: Have a Sweet New Year
ALT: L'Shanah Tovah: Have a Sweet New Year
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Den banala ondskan
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
De hobbyaktiviteter jag och tiotusentals andra med mig gjort bara de senaste två veckorna samt mitt vardagsliv med hundarna har samtliga krävt tillgång till skog och mark vilket Allemansrätten garanterar. Hade inte Allemansrätten funnits hade vi exempelvis
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
För på avstjälpningscentralen Råder tystnad och full kontroll På avstjälpningscentralen Spelar ingenting längre nån roll youtu.be/ePK-KfPnVws
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Ebba Grön - Mental Istid live
YouTube video by HasseKungen
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Alltså…jeezuz fucking christ. Örebropolisen har verkligen sjabblat här. I okunnighet men kanske också medvetet? Den misstanken borde inte de anhöriga till offren behöva leva med. Tillsätt en extern gärna internationell utredning  www.gadworld.se/p/rickard-an...
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Rickard Andersson utreds i gammal mordbrand
Pontus, 2, dog i lågorna. Mordbrännaren som tog hans liv är – 21 år senare – ännu inte gripen. Kanske är han död. Kanske var det Rickard Andersson. Nu ska nya polisförhör hållas.
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Allard och Crane är läskigt lika. Vad skiljer dem åt egentligen?? Har Allard och hans amerikanska och ryska finansiärer tittat för mycket på Batman och förläst sig på valda delar av Lenin/Stalin? youtu.be/i-dJPoSlPfU
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The Dark Knight Rises - Crane's Court Cases (HD) IMAX
YouTube video by The Don
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nej man köper inte Tesla eller kontrakterar Space X eller Neuralink eller vad det nu än är nassen Musk har sina miljarder i. Nej. Nej. Nej.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/09/2026
I'm deadly serious about this: every Republican should be shown this photo on TV and asked if they repudiate/reject/renounce Musk. And if not, why not.
Musk doing his Sieg Heil salute
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Den okända sekreteraren ”Elena”
Hon var 2017 anonymiserad som SD-sekreteraren ”Elena” på en statligt finansierad påverkansoperationsresa till Ryssland. I dag är hon politiskt sakkunnig i konstitutionsutskottet och sambo till en av T...
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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Father beaten to death in Sweden after confronting men harassing his daughter. Swedish & intl social media flooded w/people saying they were Muslim immigrants before any facts confirmed. Talk that incident could even impact election in 2 weeks. Emerged today that suspects both white, ethnic Swedes.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
in john roberts’ constitution, congress does not exist and the power of the purse belongs to the president, who is an elected dictator embodying the authentic Will of the People
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Hannah James @hannahajames.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New reporting from @theguardian.com highlights DHS’s continued misuse of administrative subpoenas. As @emileayoub.bsky.social and I explain in a recent piece, this sweeping authority is long overdue for reforms. www.justsecurity.org/153773/admin...
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No Warrant, No Problem: Administrative Subpoena Powers and an Outdated Fourth Amendment Doctrine
Numerous federal agencies possess statutory authority to obtain sensitive data without advance judicial approval or probable cause of illegal activity.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Driscoll has had enough of Hegseth.
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Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction With Hegseth — The Wall Street Journal
Driscoll had a close relationship with ousted Army chief of staff
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you voted Trump because you thought the problem with America was that there weren't enough FBI agents committing bestiality, congratulations: "Acts of bestiality are also 'no longer automatic deal breakers for applicants to the nation’s top law enforcement agency'...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Sexual encounters with prostitutes is no longer a deal-breaker for FBI applicants
The Trump presidency has been a grand experiment in what happens when an administration embraces amateurism and deprofessionalization.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"It’s not new that Americans are seen by others as an unserious people. But the willingness to twice elect a man so buffoonish, depraved and hateful to our highest office provokes the belief that Americans...cannot be trusted any longer to do the right thing." open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Will Future Generations Blame Us All?
Or will they recognize that most of us were mad as hell and refused to take it?
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 31/08/2026
He doesn't get enough attention, but Coinbase's Brian Armstrong is one of the most radicalized billionaires in the USA. He's part of the Network State cult that seeks to build new tech nations. Now he's leading the crypto cartel's takeover of our electoral system newrepublic.com/article/1857...
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The Most Powerful Crypto Bro in Washington Has Very Weird Beliefs
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. is in “decline” and embraces a cultish tech movement to build “network” societies beyond the reach of nation-states—and he’s got Congress eating out of his h...
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
youtu.be/e2qvHyFVm20 Oh…I imagine them singing and playing together tonight. What a truly terrible loss. Rest in powerful peace, Queen
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Dolly Parton - Southern Accents
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
För mig är det obegripligt att Allard får fortsätta hålla på och skrämmas och mobbas inne i rådhuset på möten och i korridorer. Säkerhetsvakterna borde ju bara bestämt leda ut honom. Nån jävla ordning måste det väl ändå vara i mitt Sverige. Så som det var förr? 🫪
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Begriper inte varför Markus Allard är så jävla arg hela tiden. Han tillhör den mest priviligerade och skyddade klassen i Sverige. Markus, who hurt you???
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Är säker på att skjutaren ropar ”ni ska ut ur Europa” på ljudupptagningen från skolskjutningen på Risbergska. Ingen tillfällighet att just en arg liten vit Örebroman vid namn Allard tapetserar Närke med budskapet att ”packet ska ut”. Varför pratar ingen om Örebropartiet i relation till Risbergska??
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This! Brilliant take! Thank you Christina Hor ath! wonkhe.com/blogs/what-j...
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What Jason Arday’s tragic death reveals about the spectacularisation of racism and crisis of UK higher education
Christina Horvath reflects on Jason Arday's death and asks the sector to confront some uncomfortable questions
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It’s time like these we remember this dude managed to bankrupt a casino.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What's missing in the story about Donald Trump's mistreatment of the USS Lincoln is that he lost the war against Iran. You can't win a war when you treat military personnel like animals.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 17/08/2026
The problem with demanding negotiations in Ukraine and Iran is simple: All the combatants still think they can win. Until that changes, diplomacy can't manufacture a compromise that doesn't exist. www.thebulwark.com/p/negotiatio...
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‘Negotiations’ Aren’t the Answer in Iran or Ukraine
“Gentlemen may cry, ‘Peace, peace!’ But there is no peace.”
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"There will be another Jason Arday. We know this. Because the media knows this. The press isn't free if it lacks impunity to do anything it likes. It is how power protects itself. By declaring it has none. There is no check to fetter power when unfettered power resides in the check." My Editorial:
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There Will Be Another Jason Arday
There is no check to fetter power when unfettered power resides in the check
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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
‼️ Russia: “Russia will not be able to win the competition in a "war of attrition" when Ukraine is supported by the Western world.” 👉 “This was stated by Andrei Klepach, chief economist at Vnesheconombank (VEB.RF) There’s an amazing quotes in this article… ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/14/v...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control
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Sofia Mirjamsdotter @mymlan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Sa jag att min semester är slut? www.vk.se/2026-08-12/m...
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Sofia Mirjamsdotter: En avhoppad nazist är bättre än en aktiv nazist
Den som har svårt att lyssna på skrivbordstyckare som varnar för det ena eller det andra kanske kan lyssna på Sanna Hill som berättar utifrån egna erfarenheter från toppskiktet i den nationella rörels...
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/08/2026
"Cleese, now 86, risks becoming exactly what he has spent most of his life parodying with such finesse. The man who, as one-sixth of Monty Python, took on the might of the Church of England itself with Life of Brian now sounds as fusty and as angry as any of his opponents in the 1970s ever did."
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What the hell has happened to John Cleese?
The genius comedian backs Rupert Lowe and shares racist memes – he’s turning into Basil Fawlty
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Nej nu får det faktiskt vara slut på underliga grytor och sånt😡Jag vill riktig svensk mat såsom foliebakad levergryta och invandrarens bröd😋
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👊 Ulrich Schimmack 👊💥 ❤️ 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 👎🇺🇲 @ulrichschimmack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Why did Trump start the Iran war? www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
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Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It really cannot be overstated the degree to which Trump has not only tanked the international standing and economy of the U.S., but given a huge boost to the regimes of the countries that he most views as competitors/enemies: China, Iran. Who knows who's next? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"Then tensions with the U.S. exploded. In 2018, Trump started a trade war, and his Department of Justice created the China Initiative, to root out espionage and trade theft, which targeted more than a hundred scientists and others of Chinese descent. In ways that outsiders did not fully appreciate, Trump tipped the balance of an internal Chinese political debate. The private sector was ascendant, and the influential billionaire Jack Ma was arguing that a university education was overrated. “He said, basically, intellectuals don’t produce anything,” Rao told me. “China’s economy has done well by copying from the West, so why should we put more funding into original research? But, once Trump came in, that side completely collapsed.” In 2020, the Party’s Central Committee established “scientific and technological self-reliance” as a paramount goal, and last year funding for exploratory basic research hit a record seven per cent of the nation’s R. & D. budget."
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Joe Vukovich @coolhandvuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is such a wonderful interview. I have given it the highest honor I can bestow. (I sent it to my mom because I know she'll love reading it.)
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
There's a good book to be written on the rise of the "political strategist" and the "political consultant" (and the extent to which the expertise they offer tends to lie in polling, rather than governing or political thought).
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This morning I discussed the regime's attack on history -- using the attacks against the Smithsonian Museum of American History -- and this week's hearings -- as a starting point. It's an authoritarian move, folks. I had a LOT to say. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKES...
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On History and Patriotism
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
After ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Araujo, the FBI leaked to Fox News a claim that he was found with possible meth in the van. His family said it was a total falsehood; it was a bag of salt to be used to make an electrolyte drink. And they were right. It was not drugs.
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@Harris CountyDAO
We can confirm the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's van tested negative for narcotics/ illicit drugs.
We are not commenting further on the test results, as the investigation is pending.

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We have notified Salgado Araujo's family because we felt they had the right to know.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:
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Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Om det är sant är det en makalös skandal. Har högerextrema accelerationister infiltrerat poliskåren? Tillsammans med Palantir är det djupt oroväckande och måste hanteras omgående. www.dn.se/sverige/poli...
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Polis var skjutinstruktör åt kriminella – riskerar avsked
Polismannen tjänade hundratusentals kronor på att utbilda grovt kriminella i skytte på en privat skjutbana. Efter DN:s avslöjande kan han förlora jobbet.
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/07/2026
Congrats to Spain on winning the World Cup! Trump cut off trade to Spain a few weeks ago. He also gave $20 billion to his fascist buddy Javier Millei who runs Argentina. Everything he touches turns to crap.
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NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 20/07/2026
World champs x2 🇪🇸🏆🏆 Spain is the first nation to simultaneously hold the men's and women's FIFA World Cup crowns!
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