If I could, I would scream it into the world — but instead, I write it with shaking hands: RUSSIA STRUCK KHARKIV with 53 DRONES, 4 BOMBS & a MISSILE. It was the LARGEST & MOST RUTHLESS attack on the city since the war began. Three people were killed, 21 injured. THIS IS TERROR.

@KimPerales It's time to sue the living shit out of ICE.

I am so glad to hear that the far-right PVV have finally fallen in the polls, and the left-wing GroenLinks/PvdA are now the highest-polling party in the Netherlands.

I really hope this trend can continue into the next election.

If there's one thing far-right parties are good at, it's screwing thing up when they're actually in power.

Hopefully the majority of Dutch voters can realise this before the PVV can do too much damage.

https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewseu-whats-gone-wrong-for-the-dutch-government

The New York Times has done a really nice analysis on the outcomes of the new congestion pricing fees in Manhattan. There are some surprising (actually rather unsurprising) findings of what happens when we remove cars from the places we want to be as @notjustbikes says

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.html

I’m back baby!

@KissAnne It’s also a symbol regularly seen in Hindu and Buddhist cultures symbolizing divinity and spirituality

For a concise explanation, read this clear thread on Bluesky by Senator Chris Murphy:
https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3lluxkmx7wc2m

dammit. another one.

Politico: Masked agents arrested Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral fellow, outside his home in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, on Monday night, his lawyer said in a lawsuit fighting for his immediate release. The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and told him the government had revoked his visa, the lawsuit says.

According to Suri’s petition for release, he was put in deportation proceedings under the same rarely used provision of immigration law that the government has invoked to try to deport Mahmoud Khalil

Suri has no criminal record and has not been charged with a crime, his petition says. His detention and petition have not been previously reported.

Suri’s lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, argued in his petition that Suri is being punished because of the Palestinian heritage of his wife — who is a U.S. citizen — and because the government suspects that he and his wife oppose U.S. foreign policy toward Israel.

🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?

From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian @brewsterkahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.

🎧 Listen now: https://www.kqed.org/news/12031980/what-happens-if-the-internet-archive-goes-dark

@GottaLaff The work of the @internetarchive is more important now than ever.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-cyber-chief-talks-decentralization-and-the-need-for-tens-of-thousands-more-computer-whizzes-to-combat-russian-hackers/

OK, so I knew that the bicycle tunnel in Bergen, Norway, was going to be good, but this was WAY better than I expected it to be!

My video about it is now available on Patreon and Nebula:

https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-how-is-a-bike-tunnel-this-freakn-great

Goddamnit they even translated it to Dutch.

At least it's the secondary name in (brackets) but 🤦‍♂️

More from Bret Stephens -

"If there’s one silver lining to this fiasco, it’s that Zelensky did not sign the agreement on Ukrainian minerals that was forced on him this month by Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary who’s the Tom Hagen character in this protection-racket administration.

But if it’s a financial payback that the Trump administration seeks, the best place to get it is to seize, in collaboration with our European partners, Russia’s frozen assets ..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/opinion/a-day-of-american-infamy.html
2/n

Bret Stephens concludes with -
"Still, there’s no getting around the fact that Friday was a dreadful day — dreadful for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

Roosevelt and Reagan must be spinning in their graves, as are Churchill and Thatcher. It’s up to the rest of us to reclaim America’s honor from the gangsters who besmirched it in the White House."
😲

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/opinion/a-day-of-american-infamy.html
#Politics
3/n

Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest mountain in the Solar System, towering at 25 km high—nearly three times the height of Mount Everest, which stands at 8.8 km. This massive shield volcano is so wide that if you stood on its summit, you wouldn’t even see its base due to the planet’s curvature!

#space #science

#misinformation

On January 28, Elon Musk was the source of the false information that the USAID had transferred 50 million dollars to fund condoms for Gaza, something which Musk suspected was funding HAMAS.

This claim was used by the Trump administration to justify their freeze on foreign aid.

But it was not true. The USAID had spent 50 million dollars on delivering condoms for Mozambique to combat the spread of AIDS.

Mozambique is a southern African country, some 6,000 kilometers from Gaza.

#Capitalism #EatTheRich

The view from Europe: still Gulf of Mexico.

Though Google also tries to please its neo-colonial Overlord... who took lessons from Master Putin.

"Don't obey in advance." Timothy Snyder

@DefendDemocracy

A closer look at the extent of sea ice globally that just set a new all-time record minimum, which is due to unusually low sea ice conditions in both the #Arctic & #Antarctic right now.

Data from https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index