Jon Pierre
@jonpierre.bsky.social
Dad, husband, professor emeritus in political science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Joined Bluesky to hang out with the good guys, so don't let me down.
Nothing good starts in a getaway car.
Nothing good starts in a getaway car.
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Doctoral scholarship for EU students to work with me at Oxford on democratic backsliding, democratic defence, or illiberalism: Renato Morelli Corpus Christi College Graduate Scholarship in Politics 2026-27. Deadline 9 Jan 2026. Please circulate!
Details at: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/Ad...
Details at: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/Ad...
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Doctoral scholarship for EU students to work with me at Oxford on democratic backsliding, democratic defence, or illiberalism: Renato Morelli Corpus Christi College Graduate Scholarship in Politics 2026-27. Deadline 9 Jan 2026. Please circulate!
Details at: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/Ad...
Details at: users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/Ad...
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am I even awake right now?
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
am I even awake right now?
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
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Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
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Blessed are the peacemakers
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Blessed are the peacemakers
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Never forget that Trump claimed it as HIS plan, Vance personally promoted it, the White House said Rubio authored it - and they all gave Zelensky a week to agree to it or lose all support.
Presidencies have collapsed & people have been imprisoned for FAR less.
Treachery.
Presidencies have collapsed & people have been imprisoned for FAR less.
Treachery.
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Never forget that Trump claimed it as HIS plan, Vance personally promoted it, the White House said Rubio authored it - and they all gave Zelensky a week to agree to it or lose all support.
Presidencies have collapsed & people have been imprisoned for FAR less.
Treachery.
Presidencies have collapsed & people have been imprisoned for FAR less.
Treachery.
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Italians have very strict rules when it comes to making carbonara. The classic combination of Italian pasta, pork and cheese are mixed with egg yolks and pepper preferably just moments before serving to create the perfect dish.
‘Fake’ carbonara sauce causes outrage in Italy | CNN
Italy is pushing to ban “Italian-sounding” foods abroad amid a scandal over the appearance of a Belgian-made carbonara sauce found on the shelves of a store in the European Parliament.
www.cnn.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Italians have very strict rules when it comes to making carbonara. The classic combination of Italian pasta, pork and cheese are mixed with egg yolks and pepper preferably just moments before serving to create the perfect dish.
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#BMSSky
Happy World Antibiotic Awareness Week!
I’m penicillin this year.
The OG antibiotic!
Feeling considerably less effective than I once was (mostly due to Flu!)
Happy World Antibiotic Awareness Week!
I’m penicillin this year.
The OG antibiotic!
Feeling considerably less effective than I once was (mostly due to Flu!)
It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
#BMSSky
Happy World Antibiotic Awareness Week!
I’m penicillin this year.
The OG antibiotic!
Feeling considerably less effective than I once was (mostly due to Flu!)
Happy World Antibiotic Awareness Week!
I’m penicillin this year.
The OG antibiotic!
Feeling considerably less effective than I once was (mostly due to Flu!)
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It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
November 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It’s World AMR Awareness Week, and this year I had the honor to re-imagine and doodle the antibiotics in the antibiotic personality quiz 😇🖍️
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
Thank u @brxad.bsky.social for this amazing and fun opportunity!
C’mon, take the quiz, it’s a #WAAW tradition 😉💊
#IDSky
quiz.tryinteract.com#/59e68e3a8ec...
I did an interview with a senior WHO official yesterday. Trump's decision to leave the WHO and stop all funding has had a devastating impact. My interviewee said "my program is gone, my team is gone, I am gone". The loss of human lives cannot be estimated. All because of one man his followers.
November 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I did an interview with a senior WHO official yesterday. Trump's decision to leave the WHO and stop all funding has had a devastating impact. My interviewee said "my program is gone, my team is gone, I am gone". The loss of human lives cannot be estimated. All because of one man his followers.
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🤔Why problems that are identified as unintended & negative are not addressed❓
B. Guy Peters & Maximilian L. Nagel discuss whether they are ever addressed or rather become #ZombiePolicies & the difficulties in #coordination and #coherence in public policies 👇
doi.org/10.1093/pols...
B. Guy Peters & Maximilian L. Nagel discuss whether they are ever addressed or rather become #ZombiePolicies & the difficulties in #coordination and #coherence in public policies 👇
doi.org/10.1093/pols...
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🤔Why problems that are identified as unintended & negative are not addressed❓
B. Guy Peters & Maximilian L. Nagel discuss whether they are ever addressed or rather become #ZombiePolicies & the difficulties in #coordination and #coherence in public policies 👇
doi.org/10.1093/pols...
B. Guy Peters & Maximilian L. Nagel discuss whether they are ever addressed or rather become #ZombiePolicies & the difficulties in #coordination and #coherence in public policies 👇
doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Trump springs into action as a man collapses in the Oval Office.
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Trump springs into action as a man collapses in the Oval Office.
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Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.
Oh yay.
‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of Wight
‘White-knuckled wolf spider’ thought lost is rediscovered on Isle of Wight
Conservationists hail ‘remarkable’ rediscovery after 40 years, at nature reserve only accessible by boat
A tiny spider thought to have vanished for ever from the UK has been rediscovered on a remote area of a nature reserve accessible only by boat.
The Aulonia albimana, a member of the wolf spider family with orange legs, was found on the Isle of Wight in a spot grazed by a flock of Hebridean sheep. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Oh yay.
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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When someone tells you they aren’t into politics or that they aren’t affected by politics…
(h/t NATO Green)
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
(h/t NATO Green)
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
October 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
When someone tells you they aren’t into politics or that they aren’t affected by politics…
(h/t NATO Green)
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
(h/t NATO Green)
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
In the MAGA vernacular anyone and everyone who crticises Trumpism is a "terrorist".
The Affordable Care Act became law in 2010
Since then, Republicans tried to repeal, replace, defund and overturn it
NEVER did they offer a viable alternative to it
Now-as health insurance costs are exploding-they’re terrified
Because it threatens their hegemony over the American body politic
Since then, Republicans tried to repeal, replace, defund and overturn it
NEVER did they offer a viable alternative to it
Now-as health insurance costs are exploding-they’re terrified
Because it threatens their hegemony over the American body politic
COLLINS: If you have a healthcare plan, why not have that out there to talk about in the public so people can hear it?
MIKE JOHNSON: We need to get back to regular session so we can. We will not negotiate with legislative terrorists
MIKE JOHNSON: We need to get back to regular session so we can. We will not negotiate with legislative terrorists
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
In the MAGA vernacular anyone and everyone who crticises Trumpism is a "terrorist".
Projection 101.
October 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Projection 101.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt famously cancelled the plans for D-Day with the words:
"We think that what they should do is just to stop at the lines where they are. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Germany. You leave it the way it is."
"We think that what they should do is just to stop at the lines where they are. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Germany. You leave it the way it is."
Q: Did you tell Zelenskyy he needed to cede all of the Donbas region to Russia?
TRUMP: No. We think that what they should do is just stop at the lines where they are
Q: What do you think should happen w/ the Donbas?
T: I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia. You leave it the way it is
TRUMP: No. We think that what they should do is just stop at the lines where they are
Q: What do you think should happen w/ the Donbas?
T: I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia. You leave it the way it is
October 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Franklin D. Roosevelt famously cancelled the plans for D-Day with the words:
"We think that what they should do is just to stop at the lines where they are. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Germany. You leave it the way it is."
"We think that what they should do is just to stop at the lines where they are. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Germany. You leave it the way it is."
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🦠 One in six bacterial infections is now resistant to #antibiotics.
Without stronger real-time surveillance the next #pandemic could already be brewing.
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @unaids.org @gavi.org @helenclarknz.bsky.social
#AMR #OneHealth #PandemicPreparedness #WHS2025
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
Without stronger real-time surveillance the next #pandemic could already be brewing.
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @unaids.org @gavi.org @helenclarknz.bsky.social
#AMR #OneHealth #PandemicPreparedness #WHS2025
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
🦠 One in six bacterial infections is now resistant to #antibiotics.
Without stronger real-time surveillance the next #pandemic could already be brewing.🌍
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @unaids.org @gavi.org @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social @helenclarknz.bsky.social
#AMR #OneHealth #PandemicPreparedness
Without stronger real-time surveillance the next #pandemic could already be brewing.🌍
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @unaids.org @gavi.org @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social @helenclarknz.bsky.social
#AMR #OneHealth #PandemicPreparedness
One In Six Bacterial Infections Is Antibiotic Resistant; Calls For Stronger Real-Time Pandemic Risk Surveillance - Health Policy Watch
There is an urgent need for a more comprehensive pandemic risk monitoring system that tracks threats and preparedness in real time, according to the
healthpolicy-watch.news
October 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
🦠 One in six bacterial infections is now resistant to #antibiotics.
Without stronger real-time surveillance the next #pandemic could already be brewing.
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @unaids.org @gavi.org @helenclarknz.bsky.social
#AMR #OneHealth #PandemicPreparedness #WHS2025
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
Without stronger real-time surveillance the next #pandemic could already be brewing.
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @unaids.org @gavi.org @helenclarknz.bsky.social
#AMR #OneHealth #PandemicPreparedness #WHS2025
📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁
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Why does no one ever ask him what this means? How do you reduce a price by 500%?
Trump: "Drug prices went down for the year by 1/8 of 1 percent. Now I'm getting them down, Maria, 500, 600, 800 percent. In some cases even more than that. It's hard to believe."
October 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Why does no one ever ask him what this means? How do you reduce a price by 500%?
Played like a fiddle.
Q: What did you tell Putin about the Tomahawk missiles?
TRUMP: I will tell you we need Tomahawks for the United States of America too
TRUMP: I will tell you we need Tomahawks for the United States of America too
October 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Played like a fiddle.
The beauty contest no one won.
Latest party leader net favourability ratings, October 2025
Nigel Farage: -33
Kemi Badenoch: -33
Jeremy Corbyn: -38
Keir Starmer: -51
Ed Davey: -4 (38% DK)
Zack Polanski: -4 (62% DK)
Zarah Sultana: -17 (60% DK)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Nigel Farage: -33
Kemi Badenoch: -33
Jeremy Corbyn: -38
Keir Starmer: -51
Ed Davey: -4 (38% DK)
Zack Polanski: -4 (62% DK)
Zarah Sultana: -17 (60% DK)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The beauty contest no one won.