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Monika DP

@monikadjerfpierre.bsky.social
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Professor emerita of journalism, media and communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Interested in journalism, media, video games, politics, science, nature, history, public health. Plays computer games - a lot.

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Monika DP @monikadjerfpierre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.expressen.se/ledare/patri...
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PATRIK KRONQVIST: Svenska bilister blir blåsta av SD
Högern måste överge Jimmie Åkessons radikala politik. Den gör bara Sverige fattigare.
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Jenny Maria Nilsson @jennymarianilsson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Det anses ofint att hävda att man kan tolka vad de dåliga prestationerna i Pisa beror på men jag gör ett försök. open.substack.com/pub/jennymar...
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Quo vadis, svenska medborgare?
Angående PISA 2025: fördumningen är ett val och ingen naturlag
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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz @isobelhk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Skrev lite om vad PM Nilsson hävdar är spännande fritänkande www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...
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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz: Enligt Timbrochefen är motstånd mot demokrati och kvinnors rättigheter bara en frisk fläkt
Timbrochefen PM Nilsson gillar tjänsterna från övervakningsföretaget Palantir.
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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz @isobelhk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Moa är också bra idag!
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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Inslaget är bara en minut så ni orkar lyssna. Notera det som sägs om landsbygdsskolorna. Koncernexpansionen är ett hot mot alla kommunala skolor.
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Emma Leijnse @emmaleijnse.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Bra text! ”Det här en historia som för sällan blir berättad: all den uppskattning en journalist får när hon gör sitt jobb. Vi journalister faller i det avseendet i vår egen fälla när den egna yrkeskårens situation ska skildras: storys om hat är oftast bättre nyheter än storys om kärlek.”
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KRÖNIKA: Tusen hatare på X betyder ingenting
Strategin att svartmåla och bekämpa granskande journalister har börjat vända sig mot politikerna själva. Den politiska…
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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Anna Ekström @annaekstrom.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
SD: Offsideregeln är orimlig, och därför ska vårt mål godkännas. M: Jag har förståelse för att SD räknar målet. Att oppositionen inte vill att målet godkänns är bara för att de tycker illa om fotboll. Nu måste S ta ansvar för fotbollens framtid!
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Days - 1500 Casualties - 1,380,000🌻 Economy - ⬇️💩🚽 ☢️threats - 🥱 War crimes - ♾ NATO - +🇫🇮&🇸🇪 Arrest Warrants- ↗️ Warships- ⛴️⏬ Aircraft - 🚀💥 Submarine - Sub marine Oil refineries - 🔥 Oil exports - ⬇️40% Dead generals - 20+ Army - Stuck Trolls - Coping Red lines - Crossed I remain a master strategist.
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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Vi är på väg att få en ”känslokrati”, där politik baseras på vilka åtgärder som känns bra, medan fakta avfärdas som tyckande och expertmyndigheter likställs med ”vilken politisk debattör som helst” www.dn.se/ledare/max-h...
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Max Hjelm: Det finns en anledning till att Tidösfären inte lyssnar på kritiken
Nu börjar fler till höger, från ministrar till opinionsbildare, misstänkliggöra expertisen.
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Susan Kegeles, PhD @motherkegs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This absolutely sucks
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
BREAKING: “The leader of the oppositions approach is to out source our foreign policy and let the U.S decide when we go to war, to out source our energy policy to Russia and Iran and let them set the price of energy. I will never do that because it’s not in the British national interest” #PMQs
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Jon Pierre @jonpierre.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Whatever happened to "Dutch brutal honesty"?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2026
Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” - Hannah Arendt My choice for Quote of the Day in @stinej.bsky.social series.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.
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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 19/02/2026
This is soviet union shit.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Not sure why Reform announcing they’ll scrap the Equality Act 2010 hasn’t provoked widespread alarm. They want to torch our human rights framework AND repeal our right to protection from discrimination. A smile and a shrug on BBC News. What the hell? FFS, media. Tell people what this really means.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Victoria Derbyshire allowing Zia Yusuf to tie himself in absolute knots by asking him simple questions about Reform policy. A masterclass in quality journalism.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Look at this gear. It's not a uniform anymore — it's a frozen shell. A rescuer's gear frozen solid at -25℃, still working to fix damage from Russian strikes on energy facilities earlier this week. 📷Olha Serafymovych, State Emergency Service of Ukraine
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Tulsi Gabbard and the White House killed a whistleblower report that someone close to Trump was talking to foreign intelligence. Trump and his allies are in the Epstein files, and likely controlled through blackmail by foreign intelligence. The Trump administration is a national security threat.
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it
Left: Aug 20 2025 Wapo editorial
The Texas gerrymander freakout
What’s happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy.

Right: Feb. 7 2026 Wapo editorial
Brass-knuckled hypocrisy in Virginia
Voters will get a chance to reject anti-democratic gamesmanship in an April referendum.
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Daniel Swedin @danielswedin.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Tio viktiga pusselbitar i debatten om så kallat spårbyte för att få uppehållstillstånd www.tidningenrorelsen.se/p/sparbyte-h... @johanenfeldt.bsky.social
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Spårbyte har aldrig varit socialdemokratisk politik
DEBATT Dessa tio pusselbitar fattas i debatten, skriver Johan Enfeldt.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/02/2026
"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
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Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."
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Jon Pierre @jonpierre.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This is how it is done. youtu.be/HcOgwJ9uAMQ?...
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President Bush reacts to Obama's victory in 2008 election
YouTube video by AP Archive
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“The f*ck are we doing?”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
POLITICO: “As Europe’s political class moves to clean up its mess and address its shame concerning ties with Epstein , it’s inadvertently highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in 🇺🇸- No prominent politicians have taken a fall.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club
Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Has anyone asked Nigel Farage what he thinks of his "resilient and brave" friend Donald Trump posting racist memes on Truth Social?
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🇪🇺 Kaja Kallas: In the last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries. None of those countries has ever attacked Russia. We need to seek concessions on the Russian side on limitation on their military budget, their army, or nuclear weapons.
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
They're still hungry. #politics "In the nation’s 444 farming-dependent counties, Trump pulled in nearly 78% of the vote. Those same counties are now watching multi-generational family farms get fed into the woodchipper of MAGA-nomics. It’s the purest Leopards Eating People’s Faces moment yet"
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Jamie @roomtempp.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Johnson 64, Nixon 68 and 72, Reagan 80 and 84, Bush 88, Clinton 92* and 96*, Obama 2008 and 2012 were all more decisive victories than trump 24.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 31/01/2026
Great work from the FT's John Burn-Murdoch www.ft.com/content/b474...
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Jonas Vlachos @jonasvlachos.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Det är ett absurt argument, utan förankring i verkligheten. Så blir det ofta när lobbyn ligger bakom talepunkterna.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Awkward for Farage because a good number of Clarkson's many hardcore fans are natural Reform voters and will listen to him.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is one of the rare recent uses I’ve seen of the word “treason” that seems like it might be arguably appropriate. “Sedition” perhaps www.ft.com/content/7e8a...
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Albertan separatists accused of ‘treason’ over Trump administration meetings
Canadian politicians blasted the Alberta Prosperity Project for seeking assistance from the US
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Pelle Sunvisson @pellesunvisson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
För den som inte haft tid eller möjlighet att sätta sig in i hur lätt det i Sverige är att använda bolag för att mjölka välfärden, undkomma skatter eller exploatera arbetare, är den här texten en mycket bra introduktion. www.svd.se/a/rrgvg3/and...
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”Att betala skatt har blivit valfritt”
DEBATT. Vi förlorar kampen mot den bolagiserade kriminaliteten genom en ovilja att ta ett helhetsgrepp. Att betala skatt blir då helt och hållet upp till din egen etik och moral, skriver Anders Björke...
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Maths Nilsson @mattanurret.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Oj www.svd.se/a/rrgvg3/and...
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”Att betala skatt har blivit valfritt”
DEBATT. Vi förlorar kampen mot den bolagiserade kriminaliteten genom en ovilja att ta ett helhetsgrepp. Att betala skatt blir då helt och hållet upp till din egen etik och moral, skriver Anders Björkenheim.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Make Ros Atkins the Director General. And Eddie Mair the Head of News.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
CNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"
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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Both Badenoch and Farage have been shown to have flagged this item to Mike Johnson and seemingly Trump. This is most definitely crossing a line. Weird how patriots want to undermine their own country.
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Marie Demker @vanstrastranden.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Äntligen någon journalist som säger som det är - som inte försöker göra Trump normal, politisk och rationell. www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/Exp...
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Det som sker i Davos är en grotesk uppvisning
Sverige har levt kvar i drömmarna
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Tory MP Simon Hoare has given a very vivid quote about Donald Trump's comments on Nato allies, which could actually be used in many contexts about the US president: "Frankly Trump makes my flesh creep and my stomach turn. Where are his advisors? Where is his nurse? Where is his sense of shame?"
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Monika DP @monikadjerfpierre.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Ja svenska medier är alldeles för okritiska
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La Résistance @johannalinder.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Finska medier vs svenska medier
Skärmdump finska Huvudstadsbladet
”Trumps tal var batshit crazy enligt USA-expertSkärmdump DN: Island, brillor och vindkraft - här är snackisarna från Trumps tal
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