Yesterday, Putin annexed four Ukrainian provinces after a sham referendum where people were forced to vote by armed soldiers. In a speech Putin held, he made all the usual homophobic remarks about a decadent West. Liberty and justice are vices in the minds of people like Putin.
In about half an hour, Yom Kippur begins. It’s the most holy day of the Hebrew calendar.
Sleep tourism has been growing in popularity for a number of years. I really understand this trend.
It’s the first thing I see when I leave Copenhagen Central Station my way to work. Makes me warm inside.
All I do nowadays is working. I used to have time for blogging and living—no longer. I can’s complain. Frankly, I find the break from news and updates soothing. Especially now, when fascists are raping our continent once more. Ignorance is bliss.
“They consider their war against Ukraine to be part of a larger crusade, a crusade against liberal democracy, a crusade against the rules-based international order, a crusade against freedom and progress, a crusade against our way of life,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says.
He’s right.
Read an article that claims only old people use these emojis:
👁 ♥️ ☕️ 🍺 🎧
Joe Bidens has pardoned Americans convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana. It’s too timid, The Economist writes.
I have read the document that makes the foundation for Sweden’s new centre-right government. Except for a few smaller things, it’s all authoritarian bullshit. It’s an enigma how the leader of the left-leaning Liberal Party can sleep at night after signing up to this.
Read a great column by Irena Pozar in Swedish newspaper Expressen. A common argument these days it that the Sweden Democrats can’t be racists because the 20% that supports them can’t all be racists. But they can! If you vote for a party rooted in Nazism, you’re most likely a racist.
Yesterday, Liz Truss resigned as prime minister after 45 days in office, making her the shortest-serving PM in British history. And Boris Johnson might soon make his comeback in Downing Street.
Another week has gone by and Sweden now has new right-wing government heavily reliant on the Sweden Democrats, a party founded by old and new Nazis in the 1980s. There’s very little liberalism in the government manifest. Long gone are ideas of lower taxes and open border. It all nationalism and conservatism for people terrified of foreigners and globalisation. One good thing though, three of the new government ministers are openly gay or bisexual. It’s gives me some hope that the far right are not yet able to turn back the clock on reforms that have given us near equality under the law.
