Jesper Lindau

”Folk pratar om semester. Min semester, det är när jag får sätta mig bakom mitt bord och jobba med mitt broderi.”
Britta Marakatt-Labba i Godmorgon Världen, om sin utställning på Moderna Museet i Stockholm.
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Putin won

From bromance to breakup: How Elon Musk and Donald Trump blew up The blow up marks the end of an alliance between the president and the billionaire that lasted far longer than many observers expected.

From @shannonbond.bsky.social
The blow up marks the end of an alliance between the president and the billionaire that lasted far longer than many observers expected.

Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers How global companies have fared since the US president’s inauguration

Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers

https://www.ft.com/content/368586a4-80e6-4715-b56e-dd63f8c7df59

Canadians have cooled on US travel Mexico is looking like a much better option.

Canadians make up the largest proportion—nearly 28 percent—of international travelers visiting Florida. They also comprise the largest number of international visitors for the entire United States.

But that comfortable relationship may be taking a turn.

UPS to cut 20,000 jobs as it prepares to halve Amazon shipments Delivery group also expects to close 73 leased and owned buildings this year in effort to cut costs

UPS to cut 20,000 jobs as it prepares to halve Amazon shipments

https://www.ft.com/content/48e9837e-7898-48db-b1c0-e09edfd6382e

Wittgenstein’s birthday yesterday. The one philosopher I wish everyone in the humanities would try to understand. Philosophical Investigations changed my intellectual world.

Liam Shaw · Who needs smoothies? Hold on to your teeth During the 18th century dentures became increasingly popular. George Washington consulted eight dentists over his...

‘Unlike some other anatomical features, nobody argues about what teeth are for, though the narwhal’s horn – in fact a bizarrely modified upper canine – is an obvious exception.’

Liam Shaw on the history of teeth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

U.S. restores legal status for many students, but the threat may still drive away top talent NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Laura Mukherjee of Columbia Law about the impact of the U.S. visa policy reversal on international students and what's at stake beyond elite universities.

NPR's @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social speaks with Laura Mukherjee of Columbia Law about the impact of the U.S. visa policy reversal on international students and what's at stake beyond elite universities.

Trump promised peace but brings rapid increase in civilian casualties to Yemen | Dan Sabbagh Escalation from US military suggests previous restraints on causing civilian casualties have been relaxed

Trump promised peace but brings rapid increase in civilian casualties to Yemen | Dan Sabbagh

En kort film från Gaza, ett fruktansvärt ögonblick. Efter ett israeliskt flyganfall, den skadade pojken Ali, på taket intill en död flicka i delar, hans syster. Ali överlevde. Hör Ali och samtalet mellan SR:s Cecilia Uddén och Jesper Lindau i God morgon Världen.
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

"That was a huge red flag," said Berulis. "That's something that you just don't do. It violates every core concept of security and best practice."

read this incredibly disturbing account of DOGE data theft

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Expecting a breakthrough was “naive,” Karasin said, and it will first require a breakthrough “on the ground” — meaning Russian military victories or a collapse of the Zelensky government in Kyiv.

A midwife says of the aid cuts in Afghanistan: 'No one prioritizes women's lives.' With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.

With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.

Global uppvärmning slår hårdast mot vintern i norra Sverige. ”Vintern har varit Horriful”, säger hundspannsföraren Martin Saravin som tvingats avboka nära 40 procent av säsongens turistturer på grund av vädret med regn, värme och is.
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'Twain hated bullies.' Conan O'Brien receives Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center Comedian Conan O'Brien received the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night, which David Letterman called "the most entertaining gathering of the resistance ever."

Comedian Conan O'Brien received the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center on Sunday night, which David Letterman called "the most entertaining gathering of the resistance ever."

The inside story of how a journalist was sent White House war plans Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, said he was mistakenly added to a group chat with U.S. national security leaders about imminent military strikes on Yemen.

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, said he was mistakenly added to a group chat with U.S. national security leaders about imminent military strikes on Yemen.

What does history teach us about the path forward for Ukraine? I take a look in today’s @wsj.com Review, from grim scenarios like Molotov-Ribbentrop and Vichy France, to Finlandization, Korea and Cyprus divisions, to a revanche like Croatia. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Ange Mlinko · Germans don’t get toothache: Krasznahorkai’s Antimatter Donne’s triumphant ‘Death, thou shalt die’ has nothing on the apophatic reversals of László Krasznahorkai’s...

‘Art is a portal through which one enters the uncanny. It can bring havoc, or it can bring bliss.’

Ange Mlinko on the novels of László Krasznahorkai:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

More than five years ago, I wrote about the American conservatives who admire Russia dictatorship. Now they run America www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Can you think of a single social media platform that ever got demonstrably better over a multi-year horizon rather than worse? And if not, what does that say about this technology and whether it's worth our time and attention? (I say this fully acknowledging the irony.)

Toril Moi · I must divorce! On Vigdis Hjorth Women who write ​about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less...

“Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less serious, less ‘universal’, than men who write about men drinking and writing and sleeping around.” from my essay on Vigdis Hjorth’s If Only in LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

BJPolS abstract for a scholarly article discussing how anti-Muslim biases in various countries, including the USA and the UK, affect foreign policy attitudes and perceptions of religious persecution.

NEW -

Anti-Muslim Bias in Foreign Policy Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Thirteen European Countries - cup.org/3DHssnl

- Andrej Findor, Roman Hlatky, @mtjhrsk.bsky.social & @kris-ki.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

Killing the Military’s Consumer Watchdog A unit inside the C.F.P.B. protects servicemembers and veterans from financial scams. The Trump Administration has tried to stop it.

The C.F.P.B has recovered more than $300 million in damages to military personnel and veterans. Now the Trump Administration is trying to shut it down. “The impact of shutting down the C.F.P.B. on our servicemembers—it’s huge,” a military spouse said.

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

As I may have said on here before, I've never met a clever person who talks about their IQ or values it as a measure of anything but the limitations of the person talking about it.

James Meek | An Enemy to Its Friends In a wiser and more competent – to say nothing of a better – world, the initial approach to Putin would have been...

‘The degree to which the US pushes back or endorses Putin’s demands could be the first test of how far Trump speaks for America.’

@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Trump’s Ukraine negotiations, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

Who is Dan Caine, Trump’s pick as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Caine, a three-star general whom Trump has praised since at least 2019, helped lead an operation in Iraq against the Islamic State during Trump’s first term.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would appoint retired Air Force Lt. Gen. John Dan “Razin” Caine as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a Biden appointee.

Here’s what to know about him.

Census Bureau stopped work on data for protecting trans rights, former director says Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR.

Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR. By @hansilowang.bsky.social

A military vet and a scientist were securing America's food system. Trump fired them More than 10,000 federal employees who had yet to complete their probationary periods have been fired by the Trump administration, including those who work to protect American agriculture.

More than 10,000 federal employees who had yet to complete their probationary periods have been fired by the Trump administration, including those who work to protect American agriculture.