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.
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Wrote up today's ruling effectively telling Russ Vought that if he stops seeking funding for the CFPB while under an injunction to keep the agency open, he'll be in contempt.
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Judge Warns Vought of Contempt Order If He Back-Door Shuts Down CFPB - The American Prospect
Overview: Vought has claimed that the Federal Reserve has no "combined earnings" this year, therefore it cannot give CFPB money. Judge Amy Berman Jackson shot that down. In an order issued today, a fe...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Wrote up today's ruling effectively telling Russ Vought that if he stops seeking funding for the CFPB while under an injunction to keep the agency open, he'll be in contempt.
prospect.org/2025/12/30/j...
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It was a century ago in a town in northern Sweden.
“Young man, you have a serious heart problem,” the doctor said.
He forbade me from wearing a belt around my waist and advised me not to continue with school.“
It would simply be too much for you,” he said.
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“Young man, you have a serious heart problem,” the doctor said.
He forbade me from wearing a belt around my waist and advised me not to continue with school.“
It would simply be too much for you,” he said.
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“You Can’t Go to School Anymore”
Excerpt from "I'm Adding Sunshine to My Paint - Harald Sandberg's Path to the Arts"
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December 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It was a century ago in a town in northern Sweden.
“Young man, you have a serious heart problem,” the doctor said.
He forbade me from wearing a belt around my waist and advised me not to continue with school.“
It would simply be too much for you,” he said.
open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...
“Young man, you have a serious heart problem,” the doctor said.
He forbade me from wearing a belt around my waist and advised me not to continue with school.“
It would simply be too much for you,” he said.
open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...
"Tech elites ... Ironically, it is in their alliance with a compulsive liar that these compulsive liars appear to be at their most honest and authentic." prospect.org/2025/12/09/a...
Artifice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - The American Prospect
To understand the tech mindset is to see that the ultimate goal is domination. Silicon Valley elites apply a different standard to themselves because, quite simply, they believe that they deserve a di...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Tech elites ... Ironically, it is in their alliance with a compulsive liar that these compulsive liars appear to be at their most honest and authentic." prospect.org/2025/12/09/a...
My Dad was a boxing enthusiast as a kid. "And Jack Dempsey really was my great favorite. I admired him enormously, because I was crazy about boxing in that time, and there wasn’t a person who didn’t know who Jack Dempsey was." #boxing #painter #JackDempsey open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...
The Boxing Institute
Excerpt from "I'm Adding Sunshine to My Paint - Harald Sandberg's Path to the Arts"
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December 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
My Dad was a boxing enthusiast as a kid. "And Jack Dempsey really was my great favorite. I admired him enormously, because I was crazy about boxing in that time, and there wasn’t a person who didn’t know who Jack Dempsey was." #boxing #painter #JackDempsey open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...
This must be one of the wittiest fake news of all time.
From Canada Hates Trump x.com/AntiTrumpCan...
From Canada Hates Trump x.com/AntiTrumpCan...
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This must be one of the wittiest fake news of all time.
From Canada Hates Trump x.com/AntiTrumpCan...
From Canada Hates Trump x.com/AntiTrumpCan...
"Trump’s economic policies have put the nation on a long-term path of decline, in terms of gross domestic product, employment, capital investment and wage growth."
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Opinion | Why the ‘Affordability Hoax’ Is a Trap for Trump
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December 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
"Trump’s economic policies have put the nation on a long-term path of decline, in terms of gross domestic product, employment, capital investment and wage growth."
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Trump, five days apart. A pathological liar.
December 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Trump, five days apart. A pathological liar.
In the old days, you could go to the store where you bought it, or call an 800-number and talk to a live human being... But that was the good old days. #googlepixel #customersupport #customerservice #AI #AIsupport open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...
AI as a Shield Against Customer Complaints
Could This Be the Most Profitable AI Application?
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December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In the old days, you could go to the store where you bought it, or call an 800-number and talk to a live human being... But that was the good old days. #googlepixel #customersupport #customerservice #AI #AIsupport open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...
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I have a vivid memory of a beggar’s stomach. He came up to our table as we were having lunch at an outdoor café near Connaught Place. He was naked except for his loincloth, and he held out his thin hand to us.
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Beggars and Hippies That Beg
Excerpt from "A Swede on the Hippie Trail (1974)"
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November 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I have a vivid memory of a beggar’s stomach. He came up to our table as we were having lunch at an outdoor café near Connaught Place. He was naked except for his loincloth, and he held out his thin hand to us.
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Samantha Rose Hill, author of Hannah Arendt (Reaktion Books, 2021), also links loneliness to modernity and secularization in an essay for Aeon Magazine.
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Young Men - Where Do They All Belong?
Six Decades After Eleanor Rigby, Loneliness Explodes
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November 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Samantha Rose Hill, author of Hannah Arendt (Reaktion Books, 2021), also links loneliness to modernity and secularization in an essay for Aeon Magazine.
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Jill Lepore refers to the the British historian Fay Bound Alberti who sees loneliness as “the child of capitalism and secularism.”
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Young Men - Where Do They All Belong?
Six Decades After Eleanor Rigby, Loneliness Explodes
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November 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Jill Lepore refers to the the British historian Fay Bound Alberti who sees loneliness as “the child of capitalism and secularism.”
open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...
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Because nothing speaks louder than money.
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Because nothing speaks louder than money.
Men’s #loneliness is part of a broader loneliness crisis... open.substack.com/pub/nordicli... #youngmen #lonelinessepidemic
Young Men - Where Do They All Belong?
Six Decades After Eleanor Rigby, Loneliness Explodes
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Men’s #loneliness is part of a broader loneliness crisis... open.substack.com/pub/nordicli... #youngmen #lonelinessepidemic
Having read Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Everything I Don't Remember, I was hesitant since it could be confusing, but The Sisters painted a convincing picture of a Sweden that came into its own after I left for New York in 1987 and then again and permanently in 1989. @hassen-khemiri69.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Having read Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Everything I Don't Remember, I was hesitant since it could be confusing, but The Sisters painted a convincing picture of a Sweden that came into its own after I left for New York in 1987 and then again and permanently in 1989. @hassen-khemiri69.bsky.social
... one of the more harebrained ideas to come out of Silicon Valley. James Folta reported for the Literary Hub that “those crypto boys are at it again, this time proposing a giant, 450-foot-tall statue on San Francisco Bay’s Alcatraz Island.” open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...
A Silicon Valley Monument to Bitcoin Folly
Dreaming of Prometheus, Betting on Trump, Tech Bros May End Up Like Icarus
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November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
... one of the more harebrained ideas to come out of Silicon Valley. James Folta reported for the Literary Hub that “those crypto boys are at it again, this time proposing a giant, 450-foot-tall statue on San Francisco Bay’s Alcatraz Island.” open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...
An excellent review of three important books about the web, how it was captured by a new class of oligarchs who turned it into the opposite of Tim Berners-Lee's vision.
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How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick
The Internet was not meant to suck.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
An excellent review of three important books about the web, how it was captured by a new class of oligarchs who turned it into the opposite of Tim Berners-Lee's vision.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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$2 billion for a name change. DOGE is CRUSHING IT!
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
$2 billion for a name change. DOGE is CRUSHING IT!
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November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
... that I learned of one of the more harebrained ideas to come out of Silicon Valley. James Folta reported for the Literary Hub that “those crypto boys are at it again, this time proposing a giant, 450-foot-tall statue on of San Francisco Bay’s Alcatraz Island.” open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...
A Silicon Valley Monument to Bitcoin Folly
Dreaming of Prometheus, Betting on Trump, Tech Bros May End Up Like Icarus
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
... that I learned of one of the more harebrained ideas to come out of Silicon Valley. James Folta reported for the Literary Hub that “those crypto boys are at it again, this time proposing a giant, 450-foot-tall statue on of San Francisco Bay’s Alcatraz Island.” open.substack.com/pub/nordicli...
Dad remembers his childhood in Söderhamn, Sweden. His father "...was barely 40 years old when he died. So, his death came as a shock and Mom suddenly found herself alone with us seven siblings." open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...
Building Cars and Starting a Circus
Excerpt from "I'm Adding Sunshine to My Paint - Harald Sandberg's Path to the Arts"
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November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Dad remembers his childhood in Söderhamn, Sweden. His father "...was barely 40 years old when he died. So, his death came as a shock and Mom suddenly found herself alone with us seven siblings." open.substack.com/pub/sunshine...
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As the 2026 election approaches, the GOP’s Trump-driven gerrymander campaign isn’t just unfolding in state legislatures. It’s also playing out in federal courtrooms where challenges to new congressional maps will be decided. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump-Appointed Federal Judges Could Lock In GOP House Advantage
Read more here.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
As the 2026 election approaches, the GOP’s Trump-driven gerrymander campaign isn’t just unfolding in state legislatures. It’s also playing out in federal courtrooms where challenges to new congressional maps will be decided. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Scary shit! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Pushing Us Toward a Crash. It Could Be 1929 All Over Again.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Scary shit! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...