Helen Lindberg

Helen Lindberg

@cloudbuster01.bsky.social

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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Anjali Dayal
@anjalikdayal.bsky.social

Holding the Trump admin accountable for its crimes can seem distant, but there are meaningful steps both US domestic opposition & the international community can take, including supporting the ICC, enabling international investigations into disappearances & civilian deaths, & refunding foreign aid

foreignpolicy.comHere’s What to Do About Trump’s War CrimesDespite the obstacles, foreign governments and U.S. lawmakers can begin the process of holding the president accountable.

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Ryan Enos
@ryanenos.bsky.social

Should not be overlooked that this interview took place because a Harvard faculty member invited him to speak to his class. Despite criticisms (sometimes from within), universities are unrivaled radical free-speech institutions. Where else would invite in a person hell bent on destroying them?

Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social

Wild and revealing interview with Steve Bannon about Trump's attack on universities. ""Universities, Bannon said, are the only reason that Democrats are “able to compete with us.”" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/27/n...

bostonglobe.comSteve Bannon urges Trump to turn the heat up on universities - The Boston GlobeEven after funding cuts, visa restrictions, and other challenges to higher ed, the MAGA media influencer thinks the right has "missed a golden opportunity."

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Manisha Sinha
@profmsinha.bsky.social

Good Monday evening. Netanyahu is out!

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

What you need to know about Israeli election 👇 - Majority of Israelis voted for non-Netanyahu govt parties - Not knockout blow to Netanyahu but very hard to remain PM - Massive drop in Netanyahu block. Fall of 68 to 50-55 - Record Arab turnout Likely outcome Eisenkot govt backed by Arab parties

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Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Apparently the new objective of the Trump immigration doctrine is to make the United States into the global center for the criminal underworld. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

washingtonpost.comFlávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil for the U.S. Trump’s administration is taking him in.The defeated Brazilian presidential candidate was ordered to surrender his passport. Instead, he went north, following the path his father took.

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Professa Murray
@kalimurray.bsky.social

I have this said this from the beginning: when We the People get a whiff of this stuff: they are like, so, nope. Everyone hates that stupid ballroom. Handle the Assholes, Dems.

Micah@rincewind.run

we are very lucky that they are so bad at this

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Ben Jackson
@benjackson.bsky.social

This may be the best possible outcome if you care about ending the war. Neither party has a clear path to victory, except with Arab parties, which gained seats in the Knesset. Hopefully Netanyahu is done and a coalition including the Arab parties offers a path out. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

nytimes.comIsrael Election Live Updates: Opposition Parties Ahead of Netanyahu’s Coalition in Exit Polls (Gift Article)No clear winner emerged in an election that produced the highest voter turnout in decades. A bloc of parties led by the former military chief Gadi Eisenkot is trying to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin ...

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Michael Ian Black
@michaelianblack.bsky.social

Wait, so now we WANT Latin America to send us their criminals?

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

NEWS: The U.S. State Department says it will give U.S. visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family who have fled Brazil after Bolsonaro's loss

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elia ayoub
@ayoub.bsky.social

Replying to @ayoub.bsky.social

Palantir’s leaders are on record opposing democracy. They hate the EU because they view it as too democratic (which is saying something). The fact that the EU still decided to make deals with that evil company is damning in itself. The only way forward is away from Palantir and their ilk.

Helen Lindberg
@cloudbuster01.bsky.social

Och här i Sverige omvandlas det som skulle bli et resurscentrum för adopterade till en websida. En ynklig websida. Och INGEN journalist eller oppositionspolitiker ställer Kristerson till svars. Usch. Ynkedom. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comAdoptees from Korea say they were isolated and abused in the US. Were they also ‘stolen’ from their birth parents?Last year, South Korea took responsibility for enabling the ‘mass export’ of children for sale abroad. Now those uprooted are grappling with false promises of a better life

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

What do all these corporations have in common? Nvidia Apple Google Lockheed Martin Microsoft Palantir They all donated at least $10 million to Trump’s vanity ballroom — and they all stand to benefit from his policies. Is this Trump’s most corrupt grift yet?

Helen Lindberg
@cloudbuster01.bsky.social

Tillsammans med Frida Sundqvists bok finns det alltför många varför-frågor obesvarade. Djupt bekymmersamt. Och ja…spelar det roll att brodern arbetar på SÄPO? Öppna utredningen igen. Bara gör’t. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/k0...

aftonbladet.seHittade en ”virtuell maskin” – och fick se massmördaren ”öva”Vad var det som drev massmördaren Rickard Andersson? I jakten på svar har journalisten Mattias Beijmo hittat stora hål i utredningen – och mött frustrerade poliser. – Jag har blivit förvånad över att ...
Helen Lindberg
@cloudbuster01.bsky.social

Blir mycket illa berörd av Svt:s alltför okritiska dokumentär om pedofilen Staffan Hildebrand som numera bor i Kambodja och hans 70-talsfilmer bl.a. från Thailand Kambodja Laos. Han har levt ett pedofilliv. Han pratar som en pedofil. Han försvarar sig som en pedofil. Han lever som en pedofil idag.

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Anton Gerashchenko
@antongerashchenko.bsky.social

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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Semafor
@semafor.com

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...

Helen Lindberg
@cloudbuster01.bsky.social

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

Helen Lindberg
@cloudbuster01.bsky.social

inte haft så många och så bra tjänstehundar för försvar räddning och sök av försvunna personer. Om Tidö vinner och de gör allvar av att ta bort Allemansrätten då kommer revolutionen börja i ett kök någonstans på landsbygden i Närke.

Helen Lindberg
@cloudbuster01.bsky.social

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...

gadworld.seRickard Andersson utreds i gammal mordbrandPontus, 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.
Helen Lindberg
@cloudbuster01.bsky.social

(eftersom vi har en bror som arbetar på SÄPO och dåvarande utredare och dåvarande polisen Peter Springare är aktiv i invandringsfientliga Örebropartiet) som går in på djupet på Rickard Andersson och massakern på Risbergska.

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HELL Kennedy
@helenkennedy.com

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.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social

Democrats who have had absolutely nothing to do with Hasan Piker will be hounded about him, while Republicans who are directly benefitting from Musk funding will be asked about him in the most generic "money in politics" way, if at all.

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Christian Christensen
@chrchristensen.bsky.social

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

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

David Kurtz@davidkurtz.bsky.social

The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive.

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Hannah James
@hannahajames.bsky.social

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...

justsecurity.orgNo Warrant, No Problem: Administrative Subpoena Powers and an Outdated Fourth Amendment DoctrineNumerous federal agencies possess statutory authority to obtain sensitive data without advance judicial approval or probable cause of illegal activity.
Sam Levine@samrlevine.bsky.social

New: The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight, raising alarm over an obscure legal tool it is deploying www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comTrump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies

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Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

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...

ms.nowSexual encounters with prostitutes is no longer a deal-breaker for FBI applicantsThe Trump presidency has been a grand experiment in what happens when an administration embraces amateurism and deprofessionalization.

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: The Supreme Court said construction can continue on the White House ballroom. The justices found that the historic preservationists who challenged the project had not suffered the direct personal harm required to bring a lawsuit.

washingtonpost.comSupreme Court clears way for White House ballroom construction to continueThe decision hands President Donald Trump a major political victory in his controversial bid to oversee the largest addition to the executive mansion in decades.

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Steven Beschloss
@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

"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/...

open.substack.comWill 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

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...

newrepublic.comThe Most Powerful Crypto Bro in Washington Has Very Weird BeliefsCoinbase 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...
Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social

It's not until he says the magic words, that he fears losing control, that it fully clicks. It's not that he believes philanthropy is bad, it's that the risk of someone receiving his money who he doesn't approve of is a bigger problem than the risk that his money helps no one. That speaks volumes.

yahoo.comBillionaire CEO says charity is a ‘negative’ for the world: ‘I’m not going to do that’Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has a net worth of several billion dollars, but don’t expect him to donate to charity or do any kind of philanthropy anytime soon. During a recent interview, Armstrong exp...