Horrible story about a Russian man who fled the military, hoped for asylum in the United States, but has now been sent back to the gulag.

A very cool story about how Feeding America implemented an artificially designed "market" to help distribute donated food. Made for huge gains, effectively feeding an additional 60,000 people per day! Markets work, my fellow liberals. They're almost magic. www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...

A very cool story about how Feeding America implemented an artificially designed "market" to help distribute donated food. Made for huge gains, effectively feeding an additional 60,000 people per day! Markets work, my fellow liberals. They're almost magic. www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...

This is a really cool story about how revolutionary the Ford Model T manufacturing process really was, and how much human ingenuity and labor it took to invent and perfect techniques that went on to change the world. I found this really moving. www.construction-physics.com/p/ford-and-t...

We all agree social media creates huge negative externalities for our society, right? What do we normally do with negative externalities? Tax them, right? Is this anything?

But lets get to Weiss and The Free Press. Here is their key claim. Universities are the main culprits behind American political violence - no other potential sources mentioned - akin to radical madrassas training terrorist. This is truly insane rhetoric from an outfit about to take over CBS News.

I’m touching it! I’m touching it! Is it working??

Every day I'm more convinced that the most fundamental enemies are cynicism and despair (often intertwined). If people don't believe liberal democracy can work, it won't. For all its creativity and vitality in tough times, journalism is not delivering enough of the antidote.

Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.

The Bell reports that the Russian government is planning to raise taxes, potentially bringing the VAT from 20% to 22%. “There’s no final decision yet, but there’s no alternative to raising taxes, The Bell’s sources say—otherwise the budget gap can’t be closed.”

I’m a huge @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social fan and respecter, but I think today’s column was a miss. Kirk was a demagogue working explicitly in service of anti-democratic forces! That is not good doing democracy!

Normie liberalism is a great guide for how to behave in these situations! - Condemn murder unequivocally as a violation of human life & dignity - Condemn political murder in particular as an assault on the deliberative politics that makes peaceful, prosperous societies possible

🇳🇵What happens if a country bans 26 social media platforms in one day? #Nepal just showed us. We spoke with Rajneesh Bhandari, chief editor of the Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network, about the nuances and the corrosive corruption that enraged Gen Z: www.occrp.org/en/news/qa-c...

The leader of the farthest-left party in Dutch parliament, the environmentalist Party for Animals, calls Charlie Kirk’s murder “horrifying and unacceptable” and wishes his loved ones strength. Trying to remember whether leaders of the AfD said something similar when Melissa Hortman was assassinated

why tho

going back to the basics here

is this #abundance?

Americans will literally put a place called “Yard House,” which serves yards of beer, in the middle of a suburban mall parking lot, when there is no way to get there except driving, instead of going to therapy.

pov: you live in the Netherlands and you go visit Greater Boston, which is pretty progressive and they’ve been building out cycling infrastructure and how bad could it be…

Derk Sauer has died. www.parool.nl/kunst-media/...

Does anyone else stay subscribed to mailing lists from cities where they used to live, out of nostalgia?

At times, working on this made me feel sick. Proud of our Ukrainian partners for this reporting — they unmasked a sadistic Russian prison doctor who tormented Ukrainian war prisoners. Unfortunately, his name is Ilya 😩 www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

At times, working on this made me feel sick. Proud of our Ukrainian partners for this reporting — they unmasked a sadistic Russian prison doctor who tormented Ukrainian war prisoners. Unfortunately, his name is Ilya 😩 www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

This is the Nadezhda, a Russian cargo ship accused by Ukrainian military intelligence of exporting pillaged Ukrainian grain to Turkish ports. 🧵👇

Iran has expelled 800,000 people to Afghanistan, including more than half-a-million in the past month (!!!) As the NYT notes, "The returnees, from urban professionals to day laborers, include many who were born in Iran, have never set foot in Afghanistan... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/w...

An incredible 500+ Russian kamikaze drones — a new record for the entire war — struck Kyiv overnight. Just as the Trump administration suspends delivery of some weapons, including anti-air munitions. www.ft.com/content/293c...

An incredible 500+ Russian kamikaze drones — a new record for the entire war — struck Kyiv overnight. Just as the Trump administration suspends delivery of some weapons, including anti-air munitions. www.ft.com/content/293c...

"...a discussion was held at Southern Command, where it emerged that troops had begun dispersing crowds using artillery shells. 'They talk about using artillery on a junction full of civilians as if it's normal,' said a military source who attended the meeting." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Elon Musk's X is such a cesspool of antisemitic Nazi propaganda, it's mindblowing. Here's a minute and thirty seconds of scrolling through the replies to a post by the Auschwitz Exhibition.

Trump has published a private message he received from Mark Rutte, the head of NATO. Really wild stuff. It won't surprise anyone that Trump's ego requires an extraordinary level of flattery — we've seen how his cabinet secretaries perform for him — but this is really beyond.

In case you missed it: Our latest investigation, reported by our Russian partner Important Stories, reveals the man who’s responsible for Telegram’s network infrastructure. As it turns out, his companies have Russian security services as their clients. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

The aesthetics of Trumpcard.gov are so fascinating. It's like if the 80s were a website.

So cute how Amsterdam runs these old trams on weekends. This is my aesthetic.

Berkeley has a registry that tracks rents in all apartments built before 1995. For years rents shot up but since the housing boom of 2017 new leases have flatlined at $2,200 (not inflation adjusted) even as inflation, population & incomes skyrocketted www.berkeleyside.org/2025/05/01/b...

Moscow would like a word.

The mass migration across America’s Southern border has ground almost to a halt. From a quarter of a million “encounters” in December 2024 to 7181 in March 2025.

Europe would "struggle" to field a force of 25,000 troops in Ukraine, @thetimes reports, citing sources from defense ministries. This is not serious. A sobering comparison: Ukraine has deployed up to 300k to the front, and Russia double that. ⏳... www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Europe would "struggle" to field a force of 25,000 troops in Ukraine, @thetimes reports, citing sources from defense ministries. This is not serious. A sobering comparison: Ukraine has deployed up to 300k to the front, and Russia double that. ⏳... www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Russia renames an airport after a man who slaughtered millions of its own people. You could hardly find a better illustration of the absurdity of nationalist authoritarianism. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Russian state TV is simply ignoring Trump's recent criticism of Putin. A sign that Trump's overtures are valuable to the Kremlin and they want to minimize the chance of a rift? meduza.io/en/feature/2...

This pencil portrait of a young German boy, imprisoned without his parents at Ravensbruck concentration camp, was drawn by a Dutch artist and Resistance fighter, Aat Breur-Hibma, who was also held there. The boy was transferred to Auschwitz and gassed.

“Estimated number of extra deaths (millions)” is never a label you want to see on a chart.

"In 1700, almost 1 in 25 inhabitants on Earth, and one in five in Europe, was French. Today, less than one percent of humanity is French. Why did France’s population decline in relative terms so dramatically?" www.worksinprogress.news/p/570-millio...

The Trump admin. hasn't resumed funding for Radio Free Europe, despite a court order. The Ukrainian service has just announced programming cuts. Meanwhile, RFE journalists continue their work, making important contributions to our understanding of what's going on in Russia. 👇

The Trump admin. hasn't resumed funding for Radio Free Europe, despite a court order. The Ukrainian service has just announced programming cuts. Meanwhile, RFE journalists continue their work, making important contributions to our understanding of what's going on in Russia. 👇

"Global container bookings made between April 1 and 8 dropped 49% from the seven-day period immediately before." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Frederik Obermaier @frederikobermaier.com, co-founder of @papertrailmedia.de, has spent years investigating financial crime. As a result he doesn’t travel to Switzerland anymore. What’s the connection here?

In Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut coined the term “wrang-wrang” — “a person who steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing that line, with the example of the wrang-wrang's own life, to an absurdity." Trump is the best wrang-wrang for protectionism you could imagine.