Patrik Johansson
@pi1crow.bsky.social
Aningen vresig forskare och kälktwittrare i exil. Tidigare dömd för ”tveksam” placering av citationstecken
Lead generation, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology
Lead generation, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology
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Patrik Johansson
@pi1crow.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Trump might have been onto this already in 2017, but I wonder what happens when he finally sees the shocking footage of Marco Rubio partying with Hillary at Pippi’s place? #lastnightinsweden
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Some thoughts:
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
www.nobelprize.org
January 22, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Some thoughts:
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1.
2. History professors are qualified nominators.
3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence.
4. He would be so mad.
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My generation grew up on stories about how state TV would deliver clumsy propaganda for dictatorships, we’re just not ready for the way private capital in a market system can do exactly the same job much more effectively
#TikTok has begun censoring anti-Trump and anti-Ice content
January 26, 2026 at 9:10 AM
My generation grew up on stories about how state TV would deliver clumsy propaganda for dictatorships, we’re just not ready for the way private capital in a market system can do exactly the same job much more effectively
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Holy crap.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
January 24, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Holy crap.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
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New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
January 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
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It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
January 6, 2026 at 10:27 PM
It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
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ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast.
@drewharwell.com
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
@drewharwell.com
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
January 9, 2026 at 11:53 PM
ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast.
@drewharwell.com
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
@drewharwell.com
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Life Under a Clicktatorship
What happens to government when everything is content?
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:40 PM
New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
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My sense is that Trump and Republicans will cave in this shutdown fight (he won’t admit he’s caving, of course, but he will cave).
Why? Air traffic controllers.
Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-shutdown-ends
Why? Air traffic controllers.
Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-shutdown-ends
October 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My sense is that Trump and Republicans will cave in this shutdown fight (he won’t admit he’s caving, of course, but he will cave).
Why? Air traffic controllers.
Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-shutdown-ends
Why? Air traffic controllers.
Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-shutdown-ends
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Once confined to the fringes of kookery, the ani-vax movement now controls the levers of government, and it is already spreading like a vast oil slick of communicable stupidity.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
September 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Once confined to the fringes of kookery, the ani-vax movement now controls the levers of government, and it is already spreading like a vast oil slick of communicable stupidity.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
Budget agreements won’t matter, funding obligations won’t matter, expended funds on the basis of promised reimbursement won’t matter.
You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.
You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.
“We don’t have an appropriations process. It’s broken. It’s been broken for a while,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
He predicted that there will be CRs and rescission packages for the next four years.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
He predicted that there will be CRs and rescission packages for the next four years.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
July 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
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Very good work. Read it and act.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...
The Secret Police Are Here
While the Professional Moderates Clutch Their Pearls
www.notesfromthecircus.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Very good work. Read it and act.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...
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A 4th of July like no other in our lifetimes, unfortunately. But despair is not an option:
The Fourth Of July, 2025
www.science.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A 4th of July like no other in our lifetimes, unfortunately. But despair is not an option:
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
Ljuvlig tråd om dagens ekonomiska situation, hela vägen från Bretton Woods till the Short-Fingered Vulgarian..
Det kommer ett inlägg på min substack "Blandekonomin" senare, men nu när det är mycket rabalder i världen skadar det inte med en tråd också. Vill ni läsa om Nixon-chocken, Plaza Accord, Reagans militära keynesianism, Washington consensus och vad allt detta har att göra med Trumps tullar? Häng med!
April 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ljuvlig tråd om dagens ekonomiska situation, hela vägen från Bretton Woods till the Short-Fingered Vulgarian..
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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
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What you have to understand about Pete Hegseth copying and pasting war plans into Signal is that it almost certainly means he’s got classified documents on his personal UNSECURE devices. Signal isn't on a secure device...are our war plans on his personal devices? @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What you have to understand about Pete Hegseth copying and pasting war plans into Signal is that it almost certainly means he’s got classified documents on his personal UNSECURE devices. Signal isn't on a secure device...are our war plans on his personal devices? @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
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This CDC "survey" getting sent to grantees is wild yall.
This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.
This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.
March 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This CDC "survey" getting sent to grantees is wild yall.
This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.
This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.
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Had some... well... thoughts on Donald Trump claiming that he's brought free speech back to the US government just hours after promising to imprison and deport protestors.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/t...
Trump Brings Back Free Speech By [Checks Notes] Threatening To Imprison Protestors And Expose Journalist Sources
It is almost difficult to believe this is a real thing that happened with the President of the United States, but here’s what actually happened on Tuesday. In the morning, Donald Trump threat…
www.techdirt.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Had some... well... thoughts on Donald Trump claiming that he's brought free speech back to the US government just hours after promising to imprison and deport protestors.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/t...
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It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall.
If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
🧵👇
If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
🧵👇
February 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall.
If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
🧵👇
If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
🧵👇
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President Zelenskyy is a true leader and worthy of profound respect.
This is not something that the insecure, emotionally damaged Traitor Tot in the Oval Office would ever say…
This is not something that the insecure, emotionally damaged Traitor Tot in the Oval Office would ever say…
February 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
President Zelenskyy is a true leader and worthy of profound respect.
This is not something that the insecure, emotionally damaged Traitor Tot in the Oval Office would ever say…
This is not something that the insecure, emotionally damaged Traitor Tot in the Oval Office would ever say…
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🚨🚨 Another chilling executive order by President Trump undermining significantly the scope and nature of the exercise of independent regulatory powers by agencies. Section 7 is particularly striking and worth reading in full 🧵
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ex...
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ex...
Executive Order—Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies | The American Presidency Project
www.presidency.ucsb.edu
February 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🚨🚨 Another chilling executive order by President Trump undermining significantly the scope and nature of the exercise of independent regulatory powers by agencies. Section 7 is particularly striking and worth reading in full 🧵
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ex...
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ex...