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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 1h

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!

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 3h

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

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

Once upon a time, the social media accounts of federal agencies weren't a stream of fascist, white nationalist garbage interlaced with whiny culture-war posts. Earlier this year, even!

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 5h

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

Commission decides to refer SWEDEN to the Court of Justice of the European Union in order to ensure accelerated permitting procedures for renewable energy installations\u202F\u202F

The Commission is taking legal steps to accelerate the development of renewable energy across the EU, in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, strengthen energy independence and lower energy price...

ec.europa.eu

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 5h

you do not have to worry about buying gas or finding parking. kids think its fun to ride in and don't get motion sick. you get moderate exercise and never have to sit in traffic. you can even take some of their friends along to the beach or the playground if you get a box bike.

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 5h

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

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 8h

skulle säga att det här inte är unikt, inte ens i konservativa kyrkor. katolska kyrkan, särskilt jesuiterna, har alltid varit aktiva i migranträttsfrågor i USA, på ett sätt som ligger långt till vänster om båda de politiska partierna (och mesta europeiska partier också)

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 8h

tror att det europeiska synen på kyrkor i usa är lite missvisande, amerikanska kyrkor är involverade i alla delar av det politiska spektrumet på ett sätt som saknar motsvarighet här i europa (obs menar inte att kritisera dig!)

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 8h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

did i eat this entire plate of ethiopian? yes, i did.

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 3d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 1d

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

mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 1d

have long been suspicious of how substack solved some rather niche political blogs' financing problems overnight by allegedly finding tens of thousands of willing subscribers who never before existed, in any form, on the internet, and also in the FP's case stuff like this
bsky.app/profile/abuj...

Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 4d

On eve of Bari Weiss's reported installation as editor-in-chief of CBS News, her Free Press continues to collaborate with Center for Peace Communications on information operation promoting Israeli-backed Gazan militias:

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 1d

its both that incredibly high ratio and the alleged rocket ship growth in subs over the last twelve months. especially odd given its a website where as far as i can tell most of the blogs are free

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 1d

this just seems to be an incredibly high percentage of total readers to be paid subscribers. for comparison the new republic has half as many subs, a far more robust paywall, and three times as many monthly readers

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 1d

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?

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

also being old is no excuse here: my mother in law is 80 and saw leonard cohen play stockholm in the 1970s. boo the swedish academy

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

yes same here, sweden is primarily trees, but as a general rule nature exists in the arctic and in parks near urban areas, everything else is monospecies tree farms

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

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

Owe Nilsson @owenil.bsky.social · 2d

En liten nyhet från den hemliga Akademien.

Kommentar: Oväntade avslöjandet: Cohen kunde delat Nobelpriset med Dylan

...men de äldre i Akademien visste inte vem Leonard Cohen var, skriver Owe Nilsson.

www.gp.se

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

they are called 'stockholmers'

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

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

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

whenever i mention the incredible struggle that is getting my european wife into the country the most common american response is to ask why i haven't just married her

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

haha did not realize at first this is the same journalist who more or less singlehandedly (and via ordinary reporting!) brought down a liberal party leader in 2022 bsky.app/profile/myrs...

Laila @myrstack.bsky.social · 2d

Max fäller snart sina andra liberala partiledare?

www.expressen.se/nyheter/poli...

Medlemsflykt från Liberalerna: ”Sjukt”

Liberalerna blöder medlemmar, visar Expressens kartläggning. Enligt uppgifter har siffrorna orsakat intern oro – och samarbetet med SD pekas ut som bidragande till medlemsflykten.

www.expressen.se

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

it would be genuinely fascinating to hear what in the world the party leadership thinks they're doing. from a swedish perspective it seems inconceivable that the liberals could be polling this badly. the country's paper of record is their party mouthpiece, and even they're dunking on them regularly

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

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...

Medlemsflykt från Liberalerna: ”Sjukt”

Liberalerna blöder medlemmar, visar Expressens kartläggning. Enligt uppgifter har siffrorna orsakat intern oro – och samarbetet med SD pekas ut som bidragande till medlemsflykten.

www.expressen.se

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mike runey @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 2d

real problem for texas is that when you try to accurately explain how the state's electoral and legislative systems work most people will simply not believe you

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Paulina Sokolow @paulinasokolow.bsky.social · 3d

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...

Peter Beinart: Efter 7 oktober är stämningen mellan judar hatisk

I USA minskar stödet för Israel bland unga. Peter Beinart vädjar till judar att inte försvara Israel.

www.dn.se

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