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As one of (what feels like) only a handful of American Jews in Sweden, just @ me next time www.reuters.com/world/europe...

This is a horrifying ruling that shows a disdain for basic human rights principles — made all the more unconscionable by the fact that the Republican appointees did so with no reasoning and on the shadow docket.

fucking hell

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "We're trying to lower the temperature of global conflict while simultaneously kind of raising it here in order to lower it."

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

Five things to remember about war:

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i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.

TFW you learn that a progressive friend ranked Cuomo and you realize we're in for four more years of this in the feeds everyday. theonion.com/de-blasio-we...

Trump Organization Launches Trump Mobile Cell Phone Service theonion.com/trump-o...

hard to overstate how excited i am about this RFC — @dummdidumm.bsky.social is doing incredible work. this raises the bar for data fetching in frameworks, and unlocks some very cool new use cases for SvelteKit. we have a lot more ideas that will build on top of this work github.com/sveltejs/kit...

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

What should I do/see/eat in #Budapest with three young kids?

Good thread - one takeaway I hope we embrace is, know your neighbors. Use this moment to make yourself available to folks you see everyday, even just as someone they can nod to in passing. We'll need each other more and more before this starts to improve.

In light of Mamdani's performance, is astonishing there aren't more insurgent primary campaigns. Democratic establishment is discredited. Power is just sitting there like a mountain of gold but instead of being guarded by a fire-breathing dragon, it's fossils like Chuck Schumer

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

Pic and video of me in #aftonbladet for #NoKings 😯 www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/rP...

This is disgusting. If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?

TFW you hit enter but you meant shift+enter

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“We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience this has caused our customers. The prompt that was responsible has been placed on indefinite leave while we conduct a thorough investigation.”

One of these photos is how HBO's The Watchmen depicted a fascist police force back in 2018 The others are real photos of the ICE agents who are rounding people up and disappearing them in Boston, Denver, L.A., and elsewhere

The English muffin makes him not a New Yorker. The word order “bacon, cheese, and egg” makes him not of this Earth.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Cool

My new thing is scrolling the furniture listings on this mostly Swedish auction site instead of social feeds auctionet.com/en/search/16...

Today we are excited to announce Rolldown-Vite: a technical preview of the version of @vite.dev entirely powered by the Rust stack we built over the past year (Oxc + @rolldown.rs) voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

This is how Dems can and should talk about housing — also, These Two 2028!

So, small update on my @vivaldi.com adventure...after some pretty wild css I was able to get an auto hiding left tabbar that doesn't move the content of the page, doesn't close when you open a popup and it's pretty close to Arc...i might actually try the switch. CSS: gist.github.com/paoloricciut...

memes from before the Panic

Average number of days working from home every week, by country - Apollo's Slok

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

Oh good. I can't wait to watch my coworkers' Stories in Teams.

After similar reports from the US, Danish solar power importers have done a teardown on imported inverters and have also found puzzling communications devices. www.berlingske.dk/indland/efte...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

The new pope signed up for Twitter in 2011 with a Hotmail email address that he also used for a lot of other stuff, which is how I know that he's probably the first pope on Zynga and almost certainly the first pope on Tumblr

Perfect, chef's kiss, etc. www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pop...