Sven Daniel Wolfe
@sdwolfe.bsky.social
Professor of Social & Cultural Geography.
Here to lament / rant in unprofessional capacity on mega-events, geopolitics, sustainability, Ukraine, Russia, the end of things and how it could be better.
New book, open access: https://tinyurl.com/SDWHESP.
Here to lament / rant in unprofessional capacity on mega-events, geopolitics, sustainability, Ukraine, Russia, the end of things and how it could be better.
New book, open access: https://tinyurl.com/SDWHESP.
Pinned
“What do we want?”
“A mutually beneficial and balanced resolution that takes into account the diversity of overlapping but sometimes conflicting societal needs!”
“When do we want it?”
“Within a reasonable time frame!”
“A mutually beneficial and balanced resolution that takes into account the diversity of overlapping but sometimes conflicting societal needs!”
“When do we want it?”
“Within a reasonable time frame!”
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😂🦜💿
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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New level of petty just dropped.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New level of petty just dropped.
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This is an enchanting performance.
Perhaps if all public figures & leaders took time to cultivate a unique skill to feed their soul and to share with others then they wouldn’t get so focused on holding on to power for power’s sake. We can dream, and celebrate those that do.
Perhaps if all public figures & leaders took time to cultivate a unique skill to feed their soul and to share with others then they wouldn’t get so focused on holding on to power for power’s sake. We can dream, and celebrate those that do.
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This is an enchanting performance.
Perhaps if all public figures & leaders took time to cultivate a unique skill to feed their soul and to share with others then they wouldn’t get so focused on holding on to power for power’s sake. We can dream, and celebrate those that do.
Perhaps if all public figures & leaders took time to cultivate a unique skill to feed their soul and to share with others then they wouldn’t get so focused on holding on to power for power’s sake. We can dream, and celebrate those that do.
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Czech president Petr Pavel: “for the peace plan to be just, it must not punish the victim or overlook the crimes committed.”
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This is not complicated or hard to understand. How can any just peace reward the aggressor? Answer: it's unjust.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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This is not complicated or hard to understand. How can any just peace reward the aggressor? Answer: it's unjust.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Ukraine facing choice between losing major partner or its dignity, says Zelenskyy as he considers US plan – Europe live
Ukrainian president warns that next week could be ‘very difficult’ for his country
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Czech president Petr Pavel: “for the peace plan to be just, it must not punish the victim or overlook the crimes committed.”
100%
This is not complicated or hard to understand. How can any just peace reward the aggressor? Answer: it's unjust.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
100%
This is not complicated or hard to understand. How can any just peace reward the aggressor? Answer: it's unjust.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Believe the autocrat, part 97,642,185
The President is calling for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged. This is deplorable, un-American, & an open invitation to political violence.
Servicemembers take their oath to the Constitution, not to any president. I stand with my colleagues who have honorably served this nation.
Servicemembers take their oath to the Constitution, not to any president. I stand with my colleagues who have honorably served this nation.
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Believe the autocrat, part 97,642,185
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Despicable
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
Despicable
The bully-in-chief is targeting women in the White House press corps
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Despicable
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
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Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office
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"Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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#peerreview = #pearreview
Me: here is a lovely apple which I harvested from a tree I planted, watered and cared for.
I cleaned it and cut it up for you.
Enjoy!🍎
Reviewer 1: Why didn’t you submit a pear? 🍐
Reviewer 2: I don’t like apples
Editor: R&R
ScholarOne: #OA apple: 4569£
#academia #publishing
Me: here is a lovely apple which I harvested from a tree I planted, watered and cared for.
I cleaned it and cut it up for you.
Enjoy!🍎
Reviewer 1: Why didn’t you submit a pear? 🍐
Reviewer 2: I don’t like apples
Editor: R&R
ScholarOne: #OA apple: 4569£
#academia #publishing
a poster for the wigglesworths 20 years shows a man in a yellow shirt and a ballerina in a white tutu
ALT: a poster for the wigglesworths 20 years shows a man in a yellow shirt and a ballerina in a white tutu
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#peerreview = #pearreview
Me: here is a lovely apple which I harvested from a tree I planted, watered and cared for.
I cleaned it and cut it up for you.
Enjoy!🍎
Reviewer 1: Why didn’t you submit a pear? 🍐
Reviewer 2: I don’t like apples
Editor: R&R
ScholarOne: #OA apple: 4569£
#academia #publishing
Me: here is a lovely apple which I harvested from a tree I planted, watered and cared for.
I cleaned it and cut it up for you.
Enjoy!🍎
Reviewer 1: Why didn’t you submit a pear? 🍐
Reviewer 2: I don’t like apples
Editor: R&R
ScholarOne: #OA apple: 4569£
#academia #publishing
"Can he be stopped?" and "Should the West arm Ukraine?" as front page articles from February 2015.
Yes, 10+ years ago.
To keep in mind when talking about "making a deal". The Russian state and army will not stop, unless they are stopped.
"Deals" like these are the worst bad faith argument
Yes, 10+ years ago.
To keep in mind when talking about "making a deal". The Russian state and army will not stop, unless they are stopped.
"Deals" like these are the worst bad faith argument
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"Can he be stopped?" and "Should the West arm Ukraine?" as front page articles from February 2015.
Yes, 10+ years ago.
To keep in mind when talking about "making a deal". The Russian state and army will not stop, unless they are stopped.
"Deals" like these are the worst bad faith argument
Yes, 10+ years ago.
To keep in mind when talking about "making a deal". The Russian state and army will not stop, unless they are stopped.
"Deals" like these are the worst bad faith argument
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The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
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The temporary president says disgusting and hateful things for a living, so it’s quite something to see that he still has the ability to find new levels of indecency.
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The temporary president says disgusting and hateful things for a living, so it’s quite something to see that he still has the ability to find new levels of indecency.
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If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground.
At least three weeks
At least three weeks
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground.
At least three weeks
At least three weeks
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I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
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Who does this benefit other than the major airline CEOs?
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Who does this benefit other than the major airline CEOs?
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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It’s Sunday, November 16, 2025.
This is your reminder that:
1. We cannot make the United States a Constitutional Republic again unless we unpack the Supreme Court.
2. We cannot make the U.S. a representative democracy without expanding the House and banning partisan gerrymandering.
This is your reminder that:
1. We cannot make the United States a Constitutional Republic again unless we unpack the Supreme Court.
2. We cannot make the U.S. a representative democracy without expanding the House and banning partisan gerrymandering.
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It’s Sunday, November 16, 2025.
This is your reminder that:
1. We cannot make the United States a Constitutional Republic again unless we unpack the Supreme Court.
2. We cannot make the U.S. a representative democracy without expanding the House and banning partisan gerrymandering.
This is your reminder that:
1. We cannot make the United States a Constitutional Republic again unless we unpack the Supreme Court.
2. We cannot make the U.S. a representative democracy without expanding the House and banning partisan gerrymandering.
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Choose your own (research) adventure.
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Choose your own (research) adventure.
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
Finally, witness the end result of this terrible rot, using Russia as example.
Elite crony corruption, unpunished (Noem)
Repression of domestic opposition (Kat)
Senseless horrific war (currently Venezuela in crosshairs)
It is imperative to stop sooner rather than later. Will get much harder
Elite crony corruption, unpunished (Noem)
Repression of domestic opposition (Kat)
Senseless horrific war (currently Venezuela in crosshairs)
It is imperative to stop sooner rather than later. Will get much harder
Four people were killed in Kyiv last night after a russian attack.
Another night of terror for our city.
Another night of terror for our city.
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Finally, witness the end result of this terrible rot, using Russia as example.
Elite crony corruption, unpunished (Noem)
Repression of domestic opposition (Kat)
Senseless horrific war (currently Venezuela in crosshairs)
It is imperative to stop sooner rather than later. Will get much harder
Elite crony corruption, unpunished (Noem)
Repression of domestic opposition (Kat)
Senseless horrific war (currently Venezuela in crosshairs)
It is imperative to stop sooner rather than later. Will get much harder
Hero.
Watch these clips of her speech.
When watching, think of - say - Russia, where Alexei Navalny was arrested on trumped up charges and thereby officially barred from running for office.
When competitive authoritarian systems are consolidating, they use the law to enforce their advantage
Watch these clips of her speech.
When watching, think of - say - Russia, where Alexei Navalny was arrested on trumped up charges and thereby officially barred from running for office.
When competitive authoritarian systems are consolidating, they use the law to enforce their advantage
Yesterday, I pleaded not guilty to the charges that Trump’s DOJ has hit me with in federal court.
This administration is targeting me because they can see that I’ve spoken out against them and will continue to stand up to them.
This administration is targeting me because they can see that I’ve spoken out against them and will continue to stand up to them.
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Hero.
Watch these clips of her speech.
When watching, think of - say - Russia, where Alexei Navalny was arrested on trumped up charges and thereby officially barred from running for office.
When competitive authoritarian systems are consolidating, they use the law to enforce their advantage
Watch these clips of her speech.
When watching, think of - say - Russia, where Alexei Navalny was arrested on trumped up charges and thereby officially barred from running for office.
When competitive authoritarian systems are consolidating, they use the law to enforce their advantage