Henrik Selin
@henrikselin.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. 🇸🇪🇺🇸 Howay The Lads!
https://blogs.bu.edu/selin/
https://blogs.bu.edu/selin/
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
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This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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With the American people clearly on their side, Senate Democrats allowing Republicans to double and, in some instances, triple health insurance premiums for tens of millions of Americans is a hell of a choice.
Senate Democrats asked for a year of ACA subsidies and were told to fuck off.
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
From what I have seen so far this does not seem like a good deal:
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
With the American people clearly on their side, Senate Democrats allowing Republicans to double and, in some instances, triple health insurance premiums for tens of millions of Americans is a hell of a choice.
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Senate Democrats asked for a year of ACA subsidies and were told to fuck off.
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
From what I have seen so far this does not seem like a good deal:
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Senate Democrats asked for a year of ACA subsidies and were told to fuck off.
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
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Donald Trump appeared to be wearing a red tie.
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Donald Trump appeared to be wearing a red tie.
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As #COP30 approaches, #policymakers must ensure that the integration of #climate and #biodiversity action by non-state and subnational actors is anchored in #spatial #data. #ActOnClimate #Governance
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
From pledges to places: action agendas need spatial data to integrate climate and biodiversity action - npj Climate Action
As COP30 approaches, policymakers must ensure that the integration of climate and biodiversity action by non-state and subnational actors is anchored in spatial data. Otherwise, we cannot see where ch...
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
As #COP30 approaches, #policymakers must ensure that the integration of #climate and #biodiversity action by non-state and subnational actors is anchored in #spatial #data. #ActOnClimate #Governance
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last." n.pr/3WOLsWT
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last."
n.pr
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last." n.pr/3WOLsWT
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That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
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#COP30 #ActOnClimate #Brazil #Global #Governance
Why even pro-climate action organisations may pull in different directions
theconversation.com/why-even-pro...
Why even pro-climate action organisations may pull in different directions
theconversation.com/why-even-pro...
Why even pro-climate action organisations may pull in different directions
Experts explain the tension between stability and politicisation in climate governance.
theconversation.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#COP30 #ActOnClimate #Brazil #Global #Governance
Why even pro-climate action organisations may pull in different directions
theconversation.com/why-even-pro...
Why even pro-climate action organisations may pull in different directions
theconversation.com/why-even-pro...
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Just naked bigotry, they don't even bother trying to hide anymore
Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Just naked bigotry, they don't even bother trying to hide anymore
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Incredibly destructive.
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Incredibly destructive.
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Agreement on the long-sought phaseout of dental amalgam drew a standing ovation at #MinamataCOP6
In total, delegates adopted two decisions on product phaseout exemption extensions, plus seven more on a range of issues
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/minamata-con...
#mercury @minamataconvention.bsky.social
In total, delegates adopted two decisions on product phaseout exemption extensions, plus seven more on a range of issues
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/minamata-con...
#mercury @minamataconvention.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Agreement on the long-sought phaseout of dental amalgam drew a standing ovation at #MinamataCOP6
In total, delegates adopted two decisions on product phaseout exemption extensions, plus seven more on a range of issues
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/minamata-con...
#mercury @minamataconvention.bsky.social
In total, delegates adopted two decisions on product phaseout exemption extensions, plus seven more on a range of issues
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/minamata-con...
#mercury @minamataconvention.bsky.social
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At #MinamataCOP6 delegates elect Marie-Claire Lhenry, #France, as President of #MinamataCOP7. #MakeMercuryHistory @minamataconvention.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
At #MinamataCOP6 delegates elect Marie-Claire Lhenry, #France, as President of #MinamataCOP7. #MakeMercuryHistory @minamataconvention.bsky.social
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Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah
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Um, do federal prosecutors *really* want to take the position that it's not okay to receive something of value from … Qatar?
I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔
I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Um, do federal prosecutors *really* want to take the position that it's not okay to receive something of value from … Qatar?
I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔
I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔
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Translation - she was incredibly influential and got lots of shit done and he’s feeling inadequate next to her.
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Translation - she was incredibly influential and got lots of shit done and he’s feeling inadequate next to her.
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Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani
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'Blunt Corruption': DOJ has given the tech behemoth Alphabet a green light to acquire the cybersecurity firm Wiz after it was revealed that the Google parent company donated to President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom project. The merger deal is valued at over $30 billion
'Blunt Corruption': Trump DOJ Hands Google an Antitrust Win After Tech Giant's Ballroom Donation | Common Dreams
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is contributing $22 million to the president's ballroom project.
www.commondreams.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
'Blunt Corruption': DOJ has given the tech behemoth Alphabet a green light to acquire the cybersecurity firm Wiz after it was revealed that the Google parent company donated to President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom project. The merger deal is valued at over $30 billion
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At #MinamataCOP6 delegates adopted six decisions on:
• trade in #mercury compounds
• biodiversity
• international cooperation
• follow-up to the Gender Action Plan
• supply sources and trade
• dates and venue of #MinamataCOP7
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/minamata-con...
• trade in #mercury compounds
• biodiversity
• international cooperation
• follow-up to the Gender Action Plan
• supply sources and trade
• dates and venue of #MinamataCOP7
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/minamata-con...
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
At #MinamataCOP6 delegates adopted six decisions on:
• trade in #mercury compounds
• biodiversity
• international cooperation
• follow-up to the Gender Action Plan
• supply sources and trade
• dates and venue of #MinamataCOP7
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/minamata-con...
• trade in #mercury compounds
• biodiversity
• international cooperation
• follow-up to the Gender Action Plan
• supply sources and trade
• dates and venue of #MinamataCOP7
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/minamata-con...
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The replies write themselves
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The replies write themselves