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Lisa Rasmussen

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/03/2026
Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/02/2026
Andrew arrested: is this the end for the royal family? | The Latest
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Andrew arrested: is this the end for the royal family? | The Latest
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office by police investigating his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian journalist David Pegg
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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Lisa Rasmussen @lr50.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
World leaders are hardly thrilled to have their private correspondence with Trump made public in his rage tweeting in the middle of the night. Wake up Congress and NSC - he is a security risk. And he has obviously lost it completely.
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Lisa Rasmussen @lr50.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Dear America, Greenland Is Not on Zillow www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | Dear America, Greenland Is Not on Zillow
Trump wants Greenland? Its previous colonizer has some thoughts.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/01/2026
Exactly one year ago I went to Copenhagen. I wrote about the fallout from Trump's first phone call with the Danish prime minister. Danes have been preparing for this crisis for a year. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe
"Trump might forget about Greenland. But also, he might not. Nobody knows. He operates on whims," @anneapplebaum writes.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/01/2026
Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT: When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
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Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
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Lisa Rasmussen @lr50.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Merrim-Webster confirms 😉
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Lisa Rasmussen @lr50.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Rufus Gifford (@rufusgifford) on Threads
This morning I received the following message from a Danish Veteran, Company Sergeant Major Henrik Bager. I do not know him and I am sharing his message with his permission. I implore all American...
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Lisa Rasmussen @lr50.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Not NATO, not the UN - yet. But how does Congress react to Trump's deliberate isolation of the US in international contexts??? www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
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Trump withdraws US from dozens of international organizations, White House says
The White House did not list the organizations but said they promote "radical climate policies, global governance, and ideological programs that conflict with U.S. sovereignty and economic strength."
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/01/2026
Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.
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Lisa Rasmussen @lr50.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
GLÆDELIG JUL🎄 Denne artikel spreder optimisme på denne dejlige julemorgen. monocle.com/culture/soci...
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Contrary to what you might have heard, Europe is a 21st-century success story - Monocle
Listen to the critics and you would think Europe was finished. Too bureaucratic, they say. Cannot agree on migration. Moving...
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
On Now #MomSky
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LIVE: Kamala Harris delivers first major address since leaving office
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Our research have documented that dominance can lead to extreme destructive outcomes. When dominance-oriented individuals feel they are stuck in the status hierarchy, a "need for chaos" is elicited: A desire for destruction in the hope that you will prevail in the resulting chaos. (3/5)
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Dominance is the attempt to gain status through intimidation or fear. It is in contrast to prestige-based strategies where people pay you respect in return for help. Narcissistic individuals are drawn to dominance. When such individuals face status loss, they react with aggression. (2/5)
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
If you want to read more on the political psychology of dominance, you can start here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... The quote in the top post is from this CNN article: edition.cnn.com/2025/04/08/p... (5/5)
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The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors - Volume 117 Issue 4
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
When pundits argue that Trump will back down when he understands the destruction he is creating, they may be very wrong: Because it may be destruction and chaos that he seeks. In his mind, this is what may be needed to "make America great again." (4/5)
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Pundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior. But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this: The psychology of dominance. 🧵(1/5)
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If your response to yesterday’s millions of people marching is that they were all paid operatives…you’re desperate, deluded, and scared. And lying.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Dark Pence is back.
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Lisa Rasmussen @lr50.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
THE ORANGE GENIUS 🙄 "While Trump imposed tariffs on Australia’s remote Heard and McDonald Islands, which are uninhabited except by wildlife like seals and penguins, it did not put tariffs on Russia" (Heather Cox Richardson 3.4.2025)
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 14/03/2025
Liz Truss: "I managed to almost tank the British economy with a single speech" Donald Trump: "Hold my beer"
Graph showing just how badly Trump has tanked the S&P. It’s like a cliff. A very steep cliff.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
You probably saw yesterday that Ukraine agreed to the ceasefire arrangement proposed by the U.S. And you may have had a bit of the same reaction many did: Was Ukraine pressured into this by Trump’s coercive tactics? The answer is far more complex and interesting. My write-up in the replies.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/03/2025
If the US had continued to support Ukraine, we may have been months away from the end of the war. The Russians would not have been able to continue to fight for much longer. They were making almost no progress, taking huge casualties.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/03/2025
Europeans are mystified, disappointed and frightened by a country they thought they knew www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Trump and Vance Shattered Europe’s Illusions About America
This is how the bad guys act.
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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 05/03/2025
Eutelsat's shares surged amid fears that Ukraine's Starlink access could soon face disruption, though it's unclear if that will happen.
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A French competitor to Elon Musk's Starlink saw its shares triple in value as Trump halted aid to Ukraine
Eutelsat's shares surged amid fears that Ukraine's Starlink access could soon face disruption, though it's unclear if that will happen.
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Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science. I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science. 📍 Start: flex summer 2025 📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
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Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Give me what I want by @deAdder Substack open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
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Lisa Rasmussen @lr50.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Brinkmann anlægger en etisk vinkel på farerne med Trump som præsident - og det er samtidig en advarsel om at vælge lignende typer andre steder.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
You can read the letter for yourself 👉
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Denmark is the world's leading producer of Ozempic. It's also home to Legos. Those Danish tariffs are gonna be a big hit Mr. Trump!
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
'A phantom political force was born: oligarchical money + psychographic information about individuals + social media delivery system + demotivational message.' Absolutely spot on from @timothysnyder.bsky.social snyder.substack.com/p/the-phanto...
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The Phantom Campaign
Digital Oligarchy vs. the Democratic Future
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