Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

#a2Council, this Thursday, November 20, there's a Special Edition Holiday Gift Swap at City Hall from 4-7p. Let's get in the spirit of the season *and* the circular economy at this event. Attendees can bring up to 5 items they'd like to "swap" - just make sure they're gift-worthy!

I have written a lot about the perils of poorly maintained (and leaf-filled) bike lanes. That didn’t stop me from wiping out in one just now, falling on my face and scraping up my knee pretty badly. This is a truly hazardous situation, @pbotinfo.bsky.social. When are you going to do something?

Really feeling this in Ann Arbor. “The success in countries like Norway stems from prioritising safety in all aspects of transportation planning, not accepting traffic deaths as inevitable... We must be willing to prioritise human life over speed and convenience.“ #A2Council

Epstein is just the first domino to fall. Nuremberg Trials 2.0 is coming.

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Well, I didn't just learn that today, but yes, Jim Crow is not only recent but ongoing newjimcrow.com

In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning." I chose Larry Summers. Better late than never. Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below. naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...

This is definitely true, but the moment in which reporters can call out the president for calling a woman a "piggie" is not finite.

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Great idea, #A2Council

Good morning!

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

I’m always shocked when these people allow their picture to be used in these stories. I’d think they’d be worried about people spotting the idiot in their midst.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

At the moment, the official voice of the US government is a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating.

It's just... we're debating "for people to have housing you have to build housing" versus "no you don't?" Like, what are we doing here?

"housing is a human right and that's why it should be illegal to build more of it"

Very good thread. Highly recommend.

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.

Before anyone gets too carried away here.

We don’t have to choose — we can win the midterms *AND* build a Democratic Party that actually fights for us: indivisible2026.org/?utm_source=bluesky

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

I see no path forward between what people are saying they want and the Democratic party as currently constituted. No path.

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened

This thread, plucked from this week’s newsletter, will likely change your perspective on extreme wealth.

There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago. And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

The State Department is required to publish “a thorough, accurate, and reliable” history of U.S. foreign policy within 30 years of the events. But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://wapo.st/49TiRY4

Q: It’s starting to sound like underage women are children. What’s the difference between underage women and children? A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

“To preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a library.”

in five days i will meet with the book group at the town senior center to discuss Omar El Akkad’s _One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This_, and i wonder how, given the media environment people in the US have marinated in, they will have grappled with passages like this. 📚

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If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees, either - it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents or - it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is could well be a historic midterm for Democrats. Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives. You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Summers Lovin' Epstein emails reveal that Harvard prez Larry was hopelessly devoted to grease ball Jeff. Did some of Summers' nights involve a hand jive from a beauty school dropout? And did he lose interest after girls went through those magic changes? by Maureen Dowd