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Kalkonen är kanske världens mest geografiskt förvirrade fågel.
I Sverige kallar vi den kalkon eftersom man trodde att den kom via Kalikut i Indien 🇮🇳.
På engelska heter den turkey eftersom britterna trodde att den kom från Turkiet 🇹🇷.
Turkarna kallar den hindi eftersom de trodde att den kom från Indien 🇮🇳.
I Indien heter den peru pakshi eftersom man trodde att den kom från Peru 🇵🇪.
Araberna säger dīk rūmī , ”romersk tupp”, i betydelsen den kom från utlandet.
På portugisiska heter den peru. På malajiska ayam belanda, ”holländsk kyckling”. På franska dinde, en förkortning av poule d’Inde, ”Indiens höna”.
Den enda som verkar ha koll på var kalkonen faktiskt kommer ifrån är kalkonen själv: Nordamerika.
Resten av världen har ägnat 500 år åt att peka åt olika håll på kartan och säga: ”Inte härifrån i alla fall.”
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"If it was good news, it would have been leaked. We'd all know about it. Donald Trump would stay around to sign and pass out pens. The fact that he is getting out of town does not bode well," @DavidJUrban says of the MOU.
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- Bridget Brink
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine about her resignation:
"I cannot stand by while a country is invaded, a democracy bombarded, and children killed with impunity.
The America I love, the one our grandparents served, would never stand by and let such horrors happen. Or give up helping our friends. Or appease the aggressor.
I resigned ... because the policy was to put pressure on the victim Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia"
Respect
🫡
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⚡️Lukashenko apologized to Zelensky for his harsh statements
“If Vladimir Alexandrovich was offended, I apologize to him for those words. Maybe I shouldn’t have said them, given that he is still at war. Moreover, he perfectly understands that from Belarus, and especially from me personally, no military actions should be expected.”
The Belarusian dictator also named the reasons why he does not want a war with Ukraine:
“Belarus (we understand this, which is why we do not want to fight) is very vulnerable militarily if Ukraine starts attacking Belarus the same way it attacks Russia. Because Belarus is like an open book to Ukrainian military forces. We fully understand that our main life-supporting facilities — industrial and logistical — will come under attack. As they stated, they already have 500 such targets planned on Belarusian territory.
The front for Russia, and therefore for us as well, if it were to attack Kyiv from Belarusian territory, would expand by 1,500 kilometers along the Belarus–Ukraine border. With the current course of the war, we and the Russians will not be able to secure this area.”
Lukashenko sees how effectively Ukrainian drones are “denazifying” Russia and wants to distance himself from that situation.
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Trump had another mental health episode today and posted over 50 times online:
11:15 AM - Trump attacks judge who said he couldn’t put his name on the Kennedy Center
12:03 PM - Says he may perform and give a speech at the America 250 event instead of artists who cancelled
12:08 PM - Says Obama filled the Reflecting Pool with Garbage
12:09 PM - Attacks Biden
12:09 PM - Posts edited photo of Columbus Circle in DC with the caption “CLEAN”
12:10 PM - Attacks Biden again
12:11 PM - Posts AI photo of him and George Washington riding horses in front of the White House with a space shuttle and race car in the background
12:11 PM - Attacks Rosie O’Donnell
12:11 PM - Posts photo of him in front of the American flag
12:11 PM - Brags about his endorsed candidates winning
12:12 PM - Attack Obama and Biden over the reflecting pool
12:12 PM - Posts photo of him pointing at the camera
12:13 PM - Posts photo of the UFC event cage he’s building at the White House
12:13 PM - Posts an AI image of a “golden dome” for the White House
12:15 PM - Defends Jaxson Dart, calling him a “winner” and his critics “losers”
12:45 PM - Posts an AI image of him as a NY Knicks basketball player dunking on Governor Kathy Hochul
12:56 PM - Posts an AI image of him with Tom Brady
1:03 PM - Posts a garbage can labeling it “The Obama Presidential Library”
1:16 PM - Says America is back
1:16 PM - Says America is back again
1:16 PM - Says America is back for the 3rd time
1:55 PM - Posts an AI image of him golfing
2:55 PM - Says he’s in “excellent health” lol
3:17 PM - Promotes his Fox News interview with Lara Trump
4:33 PM - Attacks the Pope again
4:54 PM - Posts a weird image of him staring at Greenland (which he has posted already)
4:57 PM - Posts an AI image of the “drone port” he wants to build on top of the ballroom
5:33 PM - Attacks Biden
5:33 PM - Attacks Biden x2
5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x3
5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x4
5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x5
5:35 PM - Posts cartoon image of Governors Newsom, Pritzker, and Hochul saying they like crime (Trump is a felon)
5:36 PM - Posts meme about Republicans who voted to release the Epstein files losing their primaries
5:36 PM - Posts an old tweet of his where he attacks “disloyal” Republicans
5:37 PM - Posts an old tweet where he said he wants to stop the world from “killing itself”
5:37 PM - Posts a mock up of a “Trump Peace Prize” which may be the most useless peace prize known to man
5:37 PM - Posts a photo of a B-2 bomber with the caption “Trump energy 2026”
5:37 PM - Posts a photo of his face on Mount Rushmore
5:38 PM - Posts an image of him kissing the American flag (he’s the least patriotic president we’ve ever had)
5:39 PM - Compares himself to George Washington
5:39 PM - Says you were convinced to think a photo of a family sitting on a car is “evil” and billions were spent to do that (???)
5:50 PM - Says we should “physically audit” Fort Knox
5:50 PM - Posts an image of him cosplaying as a navy commander
5:51 PM - Posts another image of his face on Mount Rushmore
5:51 PM - Posts another photo of him and George Washington
6:09 PM - Attacks Biden again
6:09 PM - Attacks Biden x2
6:09 PM - Attacks Biden x3
6:09 PM - Posts an old photo of himself and King Charles
6:12 PM - Posts an old photo of himself and President XI in China
6:12 PM - Posts another photo of himself and President Xi
6:22 PM - Posts a photo of himself walking in China
6:48 PM - Says the U.S. should have a ballroom because China has one
7:03 PM - Says he wants to cancel his America 250 celebration and replace it with a MAGA rally
7:56 PM - Promotes Mark Levin’s show on Fox News
7:59 PM - Promotes his Fox News interview with Lara Trump
All in one day. This man is not well. Impeachment and removal NOW.
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Keith Kellogg:
"I would like to ask the President of Russia to rein in Mr. Medvedev.
We have plenty of alcoholics in the White House too, but they are not threatening to start a nuclear war and drag the world into it."
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I am a US citizen, but I have never in my life been so disappointed with the US. The reasons are many:
1. The US people have elected a president who represent all the deadly sins. How could they do that? Are they so morally deprived?
2. Lying has been normalized. Trump made it the standard.
3. The US used to claim the non-partisan rule of law, but SCOTUS has been proven utterly corrupt & obedient to Trump.
4. The US used to boast about its checks and balances, but they don't exist. The republicans in Congress are obedient servants of one man.
5. The US used to oppose corruption, but the Trump crime family is probably the most corrupt ruling family in the world. How can SCOTUS & the republicans in Congress accept that?
6. The US used to be considered a democracy, but massive gerrymandering & voter discrimination make US elections not very democratic.
7. Reporters without Broders have rightly lowered the US to rank #64 in its sound World Press Freedom index. the US no longer has media freedom, because of extortion and oppression through defamation court cases.
8. The US used to be the security guarantee of the free world, but Trump only praises Xi Jingping, Putin, Lukashenko & Kim Jong Un.
Is the US able to extract itself from the Trump trap, in which it has fallen so deeply?
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India will keep working with the Nordic nations for:
More trade and investment.
Sustainable growth.
Greater innovation.
Climate action.
Cooperation in the Arctic.
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Greenland's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Múte B. Egede, has given a "clear message" about Greenland's red line to Jeff Landry.
- Together with Denmark, we have tried to increase cooperation with the United States and tried to open the door in a proper way. We have not been difficult. But you can't just take over the country, that's not how you treat your friends, he tells TV 2.
- I hope people will become wiser by being here. Whether it's Landry or others who are participating in the conference today. If you want to be here, you must respect international law and the people, says the Greenlandic leader, who will not report further from the meeting with the US special envoy.
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Vi har en enorm brist på speciallärare. Jag skulle själv väldigt gärna vidareutbilda mig men efter en granskning av kursinnehåll och litteratur insåg jag att de knappt innehåller någon konkret metodik alls. Utbildningarna är värdegrundsfluffiga.
Då känns det ju helt meningslöst.
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Hur tror man att elever ska lyckas bra i matematik och lära sig läsa och skriva när allt fokus ligger på det sociala?
HUR ska de lyckas bli riktigt duktiga i biologi, historia och samhällskunskap när lärare uppmuntras att "relationsskapa" snarare än planera bra lektioner?
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Om man vill ha bevis för att svensk skola till största delen handlar om omvårdnad och relationer kan man kika på den fortbildning som lärare erbjuds.
Kurser i relationsskapande, motivation, lärlust, attityder till elever med npf, samarbete, tillgängliga lärmiljöer osv osv, osv.
Vi får tacka Jimme Å som liksom vi andra vill hylla Astrid och dessutom be honom kopiera vidare till Vladimir i Kreml. @sdriks @JohanForssell @moderaterna @SMohamsson @liberalerna och till sist Skenheliga @BuschEbba @kdriks
