Gaslighting gubernamental

It's not every day that I get involved in a train rescue

Bangladesh student leaders ousted a prime minister, negotiated with the military, successfully advocated for a Nobel Laureate to lead a new interim government, and then secured two slots in that interim government for themselves. Remarkable achievements for youth politics.

Reminds me of the time I went around the country by train

And he’ll also be supercommuting 1,000 miles 3 times a week on the company’s private jet. Not sure how the board of directors at $SBUX could have ever approved this. cnbc.com/amp/2024/08/20…

Esto de Ander Izagirre sobre las violencias. diariovasco.com/gipuzkoa/ander…

1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution when Mao’s Little Red Book was all the rage, Random House published this curious book, Quotations from Chairman LBJ! 一六八年当毛语录最盛行的时候，兰登书屋竟然推出这本奇书《约翰逊主席语录》！分享一下这本被时间遗忘的奇书。

No better way to start my morning in DC than by being yelled: “Stop, bitch!” by an angry driver who refused to yield to a pedestrian like me 🙃

Seems like more people should be talking about how a libertarian charter city startup funded by Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, and Peter Thiel is trying to bankrupt Honduras. Próspera is suing Honduras to the tune of $11B (GDP is $32B) and is expected to win, per the NYT 🧵

Spain’s El País ventures into the world’s fifth-largest Spanish-speaking country: the United States. As logical as this might sound, this new market was out of its reach for a long time, not least because El País had to wait for it to actually develop. nyer.cm/LyAh675

"FTC Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule Making It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships." If the US had sainthood, @linakhanFTC would be my pick, at least give her a🎖️ ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

If Foreign Affairs commercialized the artwork made by the illustrators they pick for their essays, I’d certainly buy it and use it for decorating my own space

Although I barely post on here and mostly use this app to read, I’m also migrating to Bluesky bsky.app/profile/migran…