Liselotte Willer
@liselottewiller.dk
I'm a theologian interested in philosophy, history of ideas and in political economics and history.
My life is complete with a camera in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other.
My life is complete with a camera in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other.
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The last couple of weeks feel like a breaking point for our foreign allies, where they have just given up on the US
ECB President Christine Lagarde walked out of a dinner at the World Economic Forum during a speech critical of Europe by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and the hosts called off the event before dessert, sources familiar with the matter said reut.rs/4pTlI7M
Lagarde walks out of Lutnick speech in Davos critical of Europe, sources say
ECB President Christine Lagarde walked out of a dinner at the World Economic Forum during a speech critical of Europe by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and the hosts called off the event befo...
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January 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The last couple of weeks feel like a breaking point for our foreign allies, where they have just given up on the US
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The #Danish pension fund AkademikerPension is planning to exit UST by the end of the month, amid concerns that the policies of President Trump have created credit risks too big to ignore, chart @markets
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 21, 2026 at 7:04 AM
The #Danish pension fund AkademikerPension is planning to exit UST by the end of the month, amid concerns that the policies of President Trump have created credit risks too big to ignore, chart @markets
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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We ran a progressive slate for the Akademikerpension board elections 10 years ago (and won), because we wanted fossil fuel divestment. I don’t think we ever imagined we might one day help trigger a margin call on U.S. Treasuries.
Well well well. The Danes are weaponising firesales.
January 20, 2026 at 8:29 PM
We ran a progressive slate for the Akademikerpension board elections 10 years ago (and won), because we wanted fossil fuel divestment. I don’t think we ever imagined we might one day help trigger a margin call on U.S. Treasuries.
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Take your time, no rush.
www.ft.com/content/2091... Republicans begin to push back against Donald Trump’s pursuit of Greenland
www.ft.com/content/2091... Republicans begin to push back against Donald Trump’s pursuit of Greenland
January 21, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Take your time, no rush.
www.ft.com/content/2091... Republicans begin to push back against Donald Trump’s pursuit of Greenland
www.ft.com/content/2091... Republicans begin to push back against Donald Trump’s pursuit of Greenland
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Sætter amerikanerne grænsen for Trump?
Trumps har sagt, at kun hans egen moral begrænser hans ekspansive udenrigspolitik. Men vil og kan amerikanerne sætte en stopper for deres præsident? Hvilken modstand kan Kongressen mobilisere, og kan midtvejsvalget stække præsidenten? #Deadline @diis.dk
Trumps har sagt, at kun hans egen moral begrænser hans ekspansive udenrigspolitik. Men vil og kan amerikanerne sætte en stopper for deres præsident? Hvilken modstand kan Kongressen mobilisere, og kan midtvejsvalget stække præsidenten? #Deadline @diis.dk
January 21, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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"This is the tragedy of the people of Greenland: when they finally get the leverage to assert their dignity and demand recognition from their old master, they are confronted with a new, much stronger and more ruthless colonial master."
Nuanced, from one of Denmark's leading journalists:
Nuanced, from one of Denmark's leading journalists:
Greenland’s tragedy: the dream of independence now looks like a trap laid by Donald Trump | Rune Lykkeberg
Denmark and its former colony have a complex relationship, but for now they must speak with one voice against US colonial ambitions, says Rune Lykkeberg, editor-in-chief of the Danish newspaper Inform...
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:51 AM
"This is the tragedy of the people of Greenland: when they finally get the leverage to assert their dignity and demand recognition from their old master, they are confronted with a new, much stronger and more ruthless colonial master."
Nuanced, from one of Denmark's leading journalists:
Nuanced, from one of Denmark's leading journalists:
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It pains me to inform you that the $100 million of U.S. Treasuries the Danish teachers and academics pension fund has announced it will sell are about all the U.S. bonds held by the country’s pension fund sector.
Turns out Denmark’s pension funds have been staying away from U.S. bonds all along.
Turns out Denmark’s pension funds have been staying away from U.S. bonds all along.
January 20, 2026 at 10:30 PM
It pains me to inform you that the $100 million of U.S. Treasuries the Danish teachers and academics pension fund has announced it will sell are about all the U.S. bonds held by the country’s pension fund sector.
Turns out Denmark’s pension funds have been staying away from U.S. bonds all along.
Turns out Denmark’s pension funds have been staying away from U.S. bonds all along.
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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...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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'It’s about submission,' the director of Rome’s Institute for International Affairs said. 'You make people submit through coercion and through mockery and belittling.' ft.trib.al/izdr1os
January 20, 2026 at 5:15 PM
'It’s about submission,' the director of Rome’s Institute for International Affairs said. 'You make people submit through coercion and through mockery and belittling.' ft.trib.al/izdr1os
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This is a very good thread
A great speech by Carney in Davos on the transformation of the international system, which is primarily if not exclusively driven by the radical remaking of America grand strategy. The United States over the post-War and post-Cold War period pursued an overarching grand strategy of liberal hegemony.
LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney addresses World Economic Forum in Davos youtube.com/live/WIEHAhf...
January 20, 2026 at 5:38 PM
This is a very good thread
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Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
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Trump has been encouraged to think everyone will roll over whenever he makes a threat, so not surprising he's freaking out over Europe's sudden discovery of a spine. Scary though it is pretty sure it's the right approach, and we should maybe have started much earlier
January 20, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Trump has been encouraged to think everyone will roll over whenever he makes a threat, so not surprising he's freaking out over Europe's sudden discovery of a spine. Scary though it is pretty sure it's the right approach, and we should maybe have started much earlier
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This is quite the step.
*DANISH PENSION FUND AKADEMIKERPENSION TO EXIT US TREASURIES
January 20, 2026 at 1:53 PM
This is quite the step.
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Does someone have access to old (1985) issues of the British Journal of Social Psychology and could send me a copy of this article?
My library only has access to issues from 1997 onward.
Sci-hub, Anna's Archive and Libgen did not yield results.
doi.org/10.1111/j.20...
My library only has access to issues from 1997 onward.
Sci-hub, Anna's Archive and Libgen did not yield results.
doi.org/10.1111/j.20...
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
The role of interpersonal attraction in psychological group formation is discussed. For the social cohesion model attraction and group formation are isomorphic, while the social identity approach ide...
doi.org
January 20, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Does someone have access to old (1985) issues of the British Journal of Social Psychology and could send me a copy of this article?
My library only has access to issues from 1997 onward.
Sci-hub, Anna's Archive and Libgen did not yield results.
doi.org/10.1111/j.20...
My library only has access to issues from 1997 onward.
Sci-hub, Anna's Archive and Libgen did not yield results.
doi.org/10.1111/j.20...
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Trump 'crossing red lines' and 80 years of atlanticism could be drawing to close if he doesn't change tack, Belgian PM says
He says that “Europe is at a crossroads” and it has to decide what it’s policy will be.
www.theguardian.com/...
He says that “Europe is at a crossroads” and it has to decide what it’s policy will be.
www.theguardian.com/...
January 20, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Trump 'crossing red lines' and 80 years of atlanticism could be drawing to close if he doesn't change tack, Belgian PM says
He says that “Europe is at a crossroads” and it has to decide what it’s policy will be.
www.theguardian.com/...
He says that “Europe is at a crossroads” and it has to decide what it’s policy will be.
www.theguardian.com/...
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On 24 June 2024, I wrote this as my prediction about Mark Rutte’s tenure as NATO Secretary General: wheeling and dealing, even when it comes at the expense of values, norms & institutions. That was his modus operandi in Dutch politics, now on the world stage.
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
January 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM
On 24 June 2024, I wrote this as my prediction about Mark Rutte’s tenure as NATO Secretary General: wheeling and dealing, even when it comes at the expense of values, norms & institutions. That was his modus operandi in Dutch politics, now on the world stage.
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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Also a sign of the times - the European Parliament's plenary debate today is officially called "Greenland: the need for a united EU response to _US blackmail_ attempts".
A language usually reserved for Russia or China.
A language usually reserved for Russia or China.
Today at 13.00
European Parliament will discuss territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark and the need for a united EU response to US
blackmail attempts 🇬🇱 🇩🇰🇪🇺
Follow live www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/h...
Agenda www.europarl.europa.eu/sedcms/docum...
European Parliament will discuss territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark and the need for a united EU response to US
blackmail attempts 🇬🇱 🇩🇰🇪🇺
Follow live www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/h...
Agenda www.europarl.europa.eu/sedcms/docum...
January 20, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Also a sign of the times - the European Parliament's plenary debate today is officially called "Greenland: the need for a united EU response to _US blackmail_ attempts".
A language usually reserved for Russia or China.
A language usually reserved for Russia or China.
I could really do without CNN just now while trying to read. It is distracting 👀
January 20, 2026 at 10:51 AM
I could really do without CNN just now while trying to read. It is distracting 👀
Gavelink, håber jeg
www.information.dk/moti/2026/01...
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Der er masser af krige i verden. Men uden en 100 år gammel pagt ville der nok være endnu flere
Før i tiden var brugen af militær magt en helt naturlig og legitim måde at føre udenrigspolitik på. Det ændrede sig i 1928, da krig for første gang blev forbudt
www.information.dk
January 20, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Gavelink, håber jeg
www.information.dk/moti/2026/01...
www.information.dk/moti/2026/01...
This morning from our shielded balcony. This will be my view today from inside with coffee and books 📚☕️
You might not guess it, but no one is playing tennis at the two courts next to the palms you see in this video 🌴
You might not guess it, but no one is playing tennis at the two courts next to the palms you see in this video 🌴
January 20, 2026 at 9:09 AM
This morning from our shielded balcony. This will be my view today from inside with coffee and books 📚☕️
You might not guess it, but no one is playing tennis at the two courts next to the palms you see in this video 🌴
You might not guess it, but no one is playing tennis at the two courts next to the palms you see in this video 🌴
We are having a ten year storm in Malta today and yesterday.
January 20, 2026 at 8:09 AM
We are having a ten year storm in Malta today and yesterday.
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this Italian newspaper headline is telling you “you know it is fascism when you see it”
January 20, 2026 at 7:48 AM
this Italian newspaper headline is telling you “you know it is fascism when you see it”
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One of the funniest ways of watching how the Trump administration is doing...
January 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM
One of the funniest ways of watching how the Trump administration is doing...
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The Woman in Gold: portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907, by Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter (1862-1918) founder of Vienna Secession. Inspired by Japanese art, he became known for his ‘Gold Phase’ large-scale female portraits, with flat, dense decoration and gold leaf.
Neue Galerie New York
Neue Galerie New York
January 20, 2026 at 7:49 AM
The Woman in Gold: portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907, by Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter (1862-1918) founder of Vienna Secession. Inspired by Japanese art, he became known for his ‘Gold Phase’ large-scale female portraits, with flat, dense decoration and gold leaf.
Neue Galerie New York
Neue Galerie New York