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Pontus Odmalm

@podmalm.bsky.social
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SL in Politics. University of Edinburgh, PIR #PoliticsOfMigration. #MS #Leither 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Own account/(re)posts=interesting www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/pontus-odmalm

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 9h
Important read (3) 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 10h
#FitsTheProfile 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 11h
Thread 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 11h
Important read (2) 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 13h
Important read 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 13h
Important listen/watch 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 15h
The latter, definitely!
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 15h
”The US State Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they are monitoring the situation closely.” That doesn’t make me feel any safer tbh. edition.cnn.com/health/pneum...
edition.cnn.com
What is pneumonic plague and how dangerous is it? | CNN
A 28-year-old lab researcher at a Russian institute dedicated to studying plague and dangerous pathogens died of pneumonia of an “unknown” origin.
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 15h
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Yay Yay Yippie Yippee
ALT: Yay Yay Yippie Yippee
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 21h
Flashback to interviewing Tory MPs back in 2010-11. In the proverbial, free movement is unfair to the rest of the world.
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 21h
”The Zionism motion won just over 1,000 votes, approximately 0.4% of the total membership//…//the existing model could produce a lack of coherence and strategic direction, while giving a disproportionate influence to members with the most time to participate in policymaking.”
theguardian.com
Green party of England and Wales facing international ostracism over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
European Green party says motion goes against its policy, with German Green co-leader calling it ‘intolerable and unacceptable’
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That’s enough now, 2026!
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Important read (2) 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jack Nicholson's 'Hey Now Yeah' in The Shining
ALT: Jack Nicholson's 'Hey Now Yeah' in The Shining
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
”West River is facing issues familiar to many rural hospitals across the country, with worker shortages exacerbated by young people moving away.” edition.cnn.com/2026/10/03/u...
edition.cnn.com
Inside a tiny prairie town relying on immigrants for hospital work | CNN
CNN spent 30 days chronicling life in Hettinger, North Dakota, where long-established residents and foreign workers come together.
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Important read 👇 (ping @aaronwinter.bsky.social)
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I want to hear more from those 5% Labour Keministas!
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pitch: What if “Change my mind”-bro went for lunch instead?
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Important event 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Space chauvinism? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
‘We are in a kind of war’: row over viral Amsterdam chip shop lands in court
Neighbours say crowds drawn to Fabel Friet are clogging the picturesque canal street and attracting litter, gulls and rats
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
PSA 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ffs.
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Point 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thread 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Important read (2) 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finally! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
What are the new rules in Scotland's supermarkets?
Restrictions are being put on products with high sugar, fat and salt content, but the meal deal lives on.
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Important read 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Sunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a *former far-right president convicted of staging a coup*.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Brazil’s neck-and-neck election offers test for growing pro-Trump Latin American bloc
Sunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a former far-right president convicted of staging a coup
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s enough now, 2026!
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Point 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Student organisers are calling for #Cornell to expel and revoke the degrees of the alleged perpetrators of the rape, rewrite policies around sexual assault punishments, initiate an external investigation of the university and mandate prevention training for campus police.”
bbc.co.uk
A 'dark cloud' and 'dismal' mood: What it's like at Cornell amid frat rape allegation
Students tell the BBC that the tension on campus has become palpable since allegations from 2024 resurfaced.
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Migrants have reacted to [Trump] ending legal pathways to asylum, expanding enforcement, accelerating deportations, and *making clear that they are not welcome*.” 🎁 article 👇 economist.com/the-americas...
economist.com
The world’s busiest migration route has gone quiet
Donald Trump’s immigration curbs have changed the movement of people throughout a hemisphere
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More job ops 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This/thread 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More job ops 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lesson here, folks 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
““What have we become?” asks Don//…//“ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
It was the most welcoming town in Britain. Why has Crowborough become so divided?
In 2022, they opened their arms to Ukrainian refugees. But this year, the arrival of more than 300 asylum seekers has split the community. Can the rift be healed?
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This (2) (esp. “”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before.”)
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The most common type of incident recorded by CST over both years was abusive behaviour, including verbal abuse, comments made in person or online and antisemitic graffiti. Its report said that, for the first time, there were two occurrences of extreme violence in 2024-25.”
bbc.co.uk
Antisemitism on the rise at universities, charity warns
The Community Security Trust says reported incidents are "substantially higher" than before the war in Gaza began.
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Ouch / Point 👇
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Burnham says "#Brexit hasn't given us control", and that the country has "lost some of our control over immigration". He adds control over immigration was weakened "when we lost collaboration with our European partners".” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
bbc.co.uk
Burnham giving first Labour conference speech as prime minister - watch live
Under the plan, the state pension will continue to rise each year in line with inflation or by 2.5% - but the annual earnings link will be dropped.
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Important read/thread 👇 (esp. “Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland have become more restrictive.”)
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Yet [Starmer’s] choice of language was a reminder of how the idea of the stranger – representing #immigration, but also wider, more inchoate anxieties about otherness and difference – holds such a potent place in #Britain today.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
theguardian.com
No island of strangers: why I’m using art to unite a fractured nation
Fear of outsiders is the defining issue of our times. But is it actually our own selves we’re scared of? And could art hold the answers? Here, the British Art Show’s curator reveals why he’s exploring...
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Excited Woman Popping Champagne
ALT: Excited Woman Popping Champagne
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Eh, “production”. #TypingWhileOverexcited
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wonderful message from @edinburghup.bsky.social just now - “We have now heard back from the reviewer and they are very happy with your reply and revisions. We are now able to move forward with preparing your book for profuction.”
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Soul Train: Dynamic Head Spin Breakdance
ALT: Soul Train: Dynamic Head Spin Breakdance
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
”Have you tried our mindfulness exercises?” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Awful story likely to fuel “enemy within” narratives 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Carer at home investigated by BBC struck off for threatening elderly man
Amina Sani, who is Nigerian, was found to have threatened the 81-year-old with police and threatened to hit him.
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