Hans Sandberg
@nordic-link.bsky.social
Author, editor, & a retired foreign correspondent. Born in Sweden. Traveled in Europe, North & South America, overland to India in 1974, to China 1985, 86, 89, & 2001 (reporting on its emerging IT-sector and reforms.) Moved to the U.S. in 1989.
Paintings by Harald Sandberg done short after the 1948 journey to France and Italy. Galerie Constance. #artist #artistbiography #painter #Sweden #France # Italy #Paris nordiclink.substack.com/p/inspired-b...
Inspired by the Masters
Paintings done soon after the 1948 Journey to France and Italy
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ABC forced to fold its tent and not run the Kimmel interview w/ Talarico based on patently unlawful megaton threats from the FCC to Kimmel and everyone. It's a story that may fade fast, but it's a total abomination and proof of authoritarian inroads that this could happen in USA. Outfuckingrageous.
Trading in stocks and bonds are thriving on the revived Shanghai Stock Exchange which in 1989 had moved into a larger building where two securities are listed on an electronic bulletin board. #chinaeconomicreforms #shanghaistockexchange nordiclink.substack.com/p/to-buy-or-...
Flashback: “Our Stock Exchange Is But a Child” (1989)
First published in Sweden’s leading newspaper Dagens Nyheter on May 17, 1989.
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Repetition of Nazi imagery normalizes the regime’s horrors to make its views acceptable in political debate. These aren’t jokes. They are weapons.
Robert P. Jones@robertpjones.bsky.social · last wk.Trump's proposed new Space Force uniform. The Nazi vibes are not a joke. In my new book BACKSLIDE (publishes tomorrow), I write: "If we have any hope of finding our way, we must start by being explicit about the dangers of our current moment... This is our 1933." bookshop.org/a/56272/9781...
Remember when Kristen Welker would always ask every Republican guest to repudiate the statements of Nick Fuentes, Jack Posobiec, Benny Johnson, or other MAGA racists? Neither do I.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Raskin after Kristen Welker plays him clips of controversial Hasan Piker comments and asks him to react to them: "I think all of that is an irrelevant distraction"
World War II is over. Harald Sandberg and his wife Constance take a slow boat from Sweden to France... nordiclink.substack.com/p/heading-so... #Artist #Artistbiography #Sweden #France #Italy #Paris #Verona #Venice #AcademieJulien
"First Paris and Then Italy..."
In the spring of 1948, Harald and Constance took a boat to France
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🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday that ICE agents could enter polling places to make arrests this November, raising fresh concerns about the Trump administration contemplating actions that federal law has long prohibited. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DHS chief says ICE could make arrests at polling places — ignoring federal ban on armed agents at voting sites
Under federal law, an official who orders, brings or keeps “troops or armed men” at a location where a general or special election is taking place can face up to five years in prison and disqualificat...
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Republican officials in a major battleground Texas county voted Tuesday to slash Election Day polling locations by 30% for the November midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
‘A deliberate barrier’: Texas battleground county cuts 30% of midterm voting locations
Outraged Tarrant County voters showed up at Tuesday’s county commissioners meeting in force, more than filling two overflow rooms and holding signs with a clear message about the Republican local offi...
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I will definitely go see this. Anybody who stands against tRump is a friend.
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to create a national voter registry is an illegal attempt to influence who can vote just weeks before the midterms, a privacy advocacy nonprofit alleged in a new lawsuit Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New Lawsuit challenges Trump’s ‘flagrantly unlawful’ bid to create federal voter database for midterms
Trump is attempting to use the database to influence who can vote, the lawsuit alleges.
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We are met by a murmur from a dozen Chinese lining up to become owners of capital as we enter the Shanghai stock exchange, the first in a socialist country. #China #EconomicReforms #shanghai #stockexchange
Flashback: A Visit to Shanghai’s Stock Exchange (1986)
First published in Dagens Nyheter on October 27, 1986.
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🚨BREAKING: A newly disclosed U.S. Postal Service (USPS) whistleblower report is quickly becoming evidence in multiple lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s sweeping mail voting restrictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
USPS whistleblower report bolsters challenges to Trump’s anti-mail voting order
Voting rights groups are pointing judges to the allegations as fresh support for their warnings that the administration’s rushed new system could disrupt the delivery of thousands of ballots before No...
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NEW: A bombshell whistleblower report alleged that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) brazenly violated multiple court orders to secretly advance President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting ahead of the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
USPS repeatedly defied courts to advance Trump’s mail voting attack, whistleblower alleges
The whistleblower also said the Postal Service disregarded orders as the DOJ was seeking legal relief from the Supreme Court.
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Time to Make Sweden Swedish Again? substack.com/profile/1246...
Hans Sandberg (@h4sweden)
I got a letter from Sweden today with “Viktig information från Sverige” (Important information from Sweden). No little “röd stuga med vita knutar” (a traditional red cottage with white trims) on the p...
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Google Maps app, 10 pm ET. I stand corrected. Google is a disgrace.
Paintings from 1946-48 by Harald Sandberg (Sweden, 1912-83). These are included in the August 29 episode of Galerie Constance, a virtual museum dedicated to his work. nordiclink.substack.com/p/portraits-...
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security privately confessed that it lacked “high confidence” in its claim that more than 14,000 noncitizens were improperly registered to vote in Pennsylvania, according to a letter from the state’s top election official. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DHS lacks ‘high confidence’ in its Pennsylvania noncitizen voter roll claims
The disclosure is the latest indication that sweeping noncitizen-voting claims promoted publicly by the Trump administration were based entirely on preliminary or unverified federal data.
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This is the first of three articles about the rebirth of the Shanghai stock exchange which was shut down after the revolution 1949. The next articles report from Shanghai in 1986 and 1989. #China #economicreforms #Shanghai #finance #stockexchange #stockmarket nordiclink.substack.com/p/flashback-...
Flashback: China - State Bank Sells Shares (1984)
First published in the Swedish business newspaper Dagens Industri, August 17, 1984
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Even though I AM one.....my hatred of straight, white, elderly males grows by the day....
As a fan of Henrich and a skeptic of Harari, I found this essay enlightening. I would be interested to know what Heath thonks of David Sloan Wilson’s “This View of Life”. josephheath.substack.com/p/harari-vs-...
Harari vs. Henrich
What science actually says about human evolution
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