big day for the guys who run my neighborhood pizza place

vladimir putin banning telegram in russia:

it seems to me like most swedes have not internalized that a migration regime that orders the deportation of the children of legal residents doesn't do so by accident. the point is to make being an immigrant *of any kind* here so unpleasant that everyone leaves

Peter Thiels existens borde få Thielska Galleriet att överväga ”Bara Posten”-grejen

Statement from Britain, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands on Alexei Navalny's poisoning:

the tree of life better luck tomorrow (long dramatic pause) battlefield earth

one of my favorite characters on bluesky is the academic who keeps suggesting that anyone who writes for the public before they get tenure is a charlatan

Everyone involved who still has a conscience should follow my colleague Prof. Ludvig Beckman and just walk away from the machinery: www.dn.se/sverige/han-...

the swedish migration agency has ordered the deportation of an eight-month old born in sweden to two legal resident parents. the reason: the government (and oppo social democrats!) changed residency laws last year to make sure this exact thing would happen. gotta look tough!

as a result of a decade on twitter i read this as first as a failed attempt at a chapo-esque joke but she really is in iran doing a pretty vile state propaganda tour

screenshot to avoid piling on, but: what is the conversation you want me to have? if you have a good use case for someone who doesn't write code for a living just tell me! the insistence on meta-analysis before analysis is what makes people mad

Utvisningspolitiken är nu så omänsklig att den strider mot grundlagen, anser professor Ludvig Beckman som hoppar av Migrationsverkets etiska råd där han suttit sen 2019. ”Utvisningarna har löpt amok. Jag vill inte legitimera det”, säger han. www.dn.se/sverige/han-...

abandoning plans to ice skate to work this week as further research indicates i "would die"

the wsj does a lot of reporting on millennial home ownership and the ongoing massive intergenerational boomer-millennial wealth transfer and perhaps one day the other half of the newsroom will read about it

ukrinform citing a source in the pres admin this morning that elections could only be held with security guarantees in place first zn.ua/POLITICS/v-o...

Looks like Tashiev, Japarov’s closest ally and second-in-command, is being thrown under the bus.

Kyrgyzstan’s deputy prime minister Edil Baisalov comes out with a statement admitting that the Kyrgyz security services (GKNB) had in recent years created “an atmosphere of fear and repression” in the country.

very hard to believe z is serious here giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

honestly surprised that so many outlets assigned reporters who don't speak spanish to write about the halftime show (they did this in sweden too)

when you've proofread the press release before sending it

a lot of stories about ukrainian politics that go untold because no one checks the verkhovna rada's website to see which laws zelenskiy is unconstitutionally neglecting to either sign or veto. russian is still an official minority language in ukraine, for one itd.rada.gov.ua/billinfo/Bil...

ricky martin has always been ludicrously handsome but this is a bit much. he's 54. that's guayabera and dominoes age.

my brother in law set up a remote camera at the summer house and it is paying dividends

civil war among my neighborhood's 45+ men over whether the city introducing resident parking at $30 a month constitutes the biblical apocalypse

have had similar experiences and my usual reaction is 'this must be what it was like to talk to a medieval peasant.' but this is probably unkind to my medieval peasant ancestors, who probably had a more robust worldview

Wild stuff at Art Basel Qatar

imperial boomerang is a very useful concept, with the slight disadvantage that people online see it as a peg that can fit into any and every hole

one of those speeches that makes you remember the first time, whether it was in high school or college, when you're three acts into a play you're reading for class and suddenly realize that shakespeare is, in fact, as good as they say

back in dn (as subject not author). not for the happiest reason but of course glad to see someone is paying attention www.dn.se/ledare/det-h...

the ability of ilan shor to keep doing shit like this and NOT get blown up in a car bomb or accidentally fall out of a tenth-story window is truly remarkable www.ft.com/content/8ea9...

pluto to have planet status restored

every morning i wake up wondering if today is the day the writer finally stands up

fun molenasreddin account fact: my friend's dad was mayor of this town from 2010-2019

closing your national newspaper's sports desk 72 hours before the winter olympics kick off might be the most insane business decision i have ever heard of

glad to see the lancet piece get picked up in media as it somehow has not really penetrated western elite political/media/intellectual circles that seemingly *everyone*, not just the US, is gutting humanitarian and development aid now edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

tfw i am asked to sup

someone just earnestly suggested i send them a fax

att skapa två nivåer av medborgarskap - en permanent och en villkorad - är helt oförenligt med principen om att alla människor är lika mycket värde i feel like i am losing my mind!

Currently trying to reverse engineer why my 7 year old is singing judy blue eyes by crosby stills and nash relentlessly

For two years, I've been investigating claims that Texas A&M University has been overtaken by the forces of gay race communism. The truth is a little more complicated: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

fifteen percent might be record high turnout for a special election in tarrant county (this is not a joke)

false alarm: southlake texas remains deep red

same and not hyperbole! glenn beck lives in my hometown!

honestly thought i would die before my home district elected a democrat to any office

five classes from college: Vampires: blood and empire History of jazz Indo-European folktales Short masterpieces of Russian literature Science fiction: east and west

When being democratic becomes part of a country/citizen's identity it leads to weird reasoning where it is impossible to be undemocratic. "We are democratic, we elected Trump, therefore he isn't an autocrat"

one wonders whether dn's ledarredaktion understood what trita parsi was arguing here

i know its performative manosphere nonsense but its very funny that these guys don't know that "lifting heavy" and "running far" are quite literally mutually exclusive goals

after miami cubans the glendale armenians are probably the worst American Very Specific Diaspora Group you could pick a fight with

many people have been saying... www.idea.int/blog/line-go...