the state of things is such that the headline story on swedish radio news is "the conflict between the usa and spain escalates" and i do not have the slightest idea what conflict they're talking about

ah the most recent twitter exodus means the guy who thinks its edgy and cool to have a podcast called "struggle session" is over here now. the good news is its very easy to block him

good to hear the communist party (of denmark) and the danish communist party have been able to find common ground

christ!

ok!

the rather straightforward reason the aztecs weren't in close contact with the incans is that mexico city is farther from cuzco than london is from tehran. there is also the world's second highest mountain range in between.

the aftonbladet interview has now been published in english www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

interesting contrast between sweden's two largest dailies aftonbladet interviewed greta thunberg about her torture by israeli soldiers and the failure of the swedish state to assist her expressen combed through every public photo of greta to find her with people who (they allege) support hamas

my kids like dinosaurs and talked me into watching the lost world (1997). remember it being painful when i saw it in the 1990s, by today's standards its (very, very) dumb fun. one thing that really really sticks out is how *normal* everyone's bodies are by today's action movie standards

i think about this awful pro-yanukovych rap video a very odd ukrainian teenager made in 2013 a few times a month. wonder what she's up to these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3HZ...

update: sweden is now down a goal to kosovo in gothenburg

det vore utmärkt om det här blev det normaliserade svaret varje gång begreppet 'tvångsblandning' används

the mood is that if sweden loses to kosovo in world cup qualifying again tonight we're going to invade denmark

when and where did the online american leftist idea that this describes anywhere in latin america begin

honestly did not think it was possible for a team starting alexander isak and viktor gyökeres to look this terrible. major accomplishment by jon dahl tomasson here

on the one hand it is not great watching bergvall and isak fumble ball after ball and miss three open goals. on the other hand gyökeres hasn't even had a decent chance to blow

great to see the replay of an unmarked lucas bergvall whiffing on a slow moving ball in front of an open goal a few more times. feels good, love to watch sports, go Sweden

i've never been inconvenienced before and i hope i never will be. it sounds terrible

to be clear to non-swedes why this sucks so much: stockholm is the largest city and the economic capital of scandinavia. this is THE ONLY TRAIN CONNECTION THE CITY HAS WITH EUROPE

we're killing the stockholm-berlin overnight train because although every seat sells out months in advance, the route itself doesn't turn a profit for the state-owned railway and therefore must go

a day later its still very funny to me that dsa national committee people - who had nothing to do with zohran's campaign and has not even endorsed him - are doing a european junket to explain to members of infinitely more successful left parties how they got zohran elected

Good news: Yankees lose, Blue Jays win www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

skulle bli spännande att åka till vänsterdagarna för att höra hur två medlemmar av dsas nationalkommitte, som inte hade någonting alls med Mamdanis kampanj att göra och som har aktivt motverkat new york dsa i flera år, tar åt sig äran för Mamdanis succe!

a friend at HUD spent most of 2014 jumping through bureaucratic hurdles and campaigning internally just to get permission to *have* a twitter account for her program

the swedish government continues to go from strength to strength ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

this is my periodic PSA that if you have young kids an electric cargo bike is worth its weight in gold. i cannot recommend getting one strongly enough

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Jag har lite svårt att förstå varför det inte är en nationell storm över detta. En av våra mest kända svenskar har enligt uppgift förödmjukats, tvingas krypa & kyssa en främmande makts flagga, fängslad utan tillräckligt rent vatten. Expressen begravde nyheten längst ner. DN rapporterar inte alls.

drove to work today for the first time in stockholm. first impression is that everyone who does not voluntarily should be incarcerated

asking as someone who used to work on the business side of news media: has anyone dug into the free press' very odd looking public financials/claimed subscriber numbers?

today in huge, if true: bob dylan would have shared his nobel prize with leonard cohen, but the older members of the academy didn't know who leonard cohen was

they are called 'stockholmers'

if they give the nobel lit prize to pynchon i will offer my services to any international news outlet for a round the clock watch on rinkeby library to see if he turns up

the liberals are a fascinating case study of center-right parties destroying themselves with a right-wing turn that no one supports. L has lost half its members since 2018, 17% who remain haven't paid dues this year, and in some counties they have *zero members* www.expressen.se/nyheter/poli...

Peter Beinarts bok Att vara jude efter Gazas förstörelse har gett mig mycket tröst. Han lyfter Israel från judars axlar och drivs av människokärlek www.dn.se/varlden/pete...

we at the IDEA democracy assessment team have written an explainer on 'democratic resilience': what it means, where it came from, and what it needs to mean if we're to have a democratic future. hope you give it a read! www.idea.int/blog/democra...

i love how forgetting to uninstall the interrail app after this summer means i now have a european rail strike notification app

(teeth gritted) always good to see the hometown in the news

låter roligt i F nuförtiden! www.flamman.se/kaos-och-avh...

kanske är det mina år av arbete inom bistånd som talar, men: ja, absolut, 100%

just served a swedish child who is a guest at my house - this is far harder than it sounds - and after he said "that was better than i thought it was going to be"

I spent the whole summer traveling across Georgia with families of jailed protesters, delivering newspapers with prisoners’ letters to bazaars and stations. We visited over 20 locations. I've put together a photo story from those trips. oc-media.org/letters-to-t...

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Coming this spring. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I'm donating. If you have the means I encourage you to do so as well. It's important.

just in terms of aesthetics: why is he up and walking around like he's doing a ted talk or an apple product launch

could probably have dedicated fewer inches to everyone talking about how awesome she is, how it was just an honest mistake, etc., and a bit more on how this case is actually the *third* time she was subject to legal action for fraud before turning 30