Christy Quirk

Les proches du journaliste américain Alec Luhn, qui a disparu en Norvège, sont à la recherche d'un couple de touristes français avec un jeune fils qui l'aurait pris en stop dans la vallée de Buer (près du glacier de Buarbreen) jusqu'au restaurant Buer le 31 juillet.

Worshiping the sun, earth, a mountain, a tree or a large body of water is about the only worship that makes sense

🧵A president on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here in our little country of America, you might say every one of us is a president on the roof, trying to create an authoritarian state without breaking his neck. It isn't easy.

I just had exactly this conversation this morning. I’ve had this conversation thousands of times at this point. Some people get angry with me. They call me a Doomer. That’s fine. I just don’t know what people see.

Since wolves’ return, Yellowstone’s aspens are recovering, study finds The researchers found a 152-fold increase in sapling and young-tree density.

Aspen trees are growing taller in Yellowstone thanks to wolves that prey on elk, which graze on trees.

Lashing Out Over Russia and Jobs Data, Trump Displays His Volatile Side

Imagine what the wording would be for a woman.

Trump offered Putin victory in Ukraine. Why did Putin refuse? Trump thought he could get a peace deal in Ukraine by offering Putin generous terms that amounted to a Russian victory. But Putin rejected Trump's offer because he cannot accept anything less that Ukr...

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

Anyone here disagree with this assessment? If so please explain why

In wartime, demonstrations in Ukraine can never be more than a peaceful protest Zelenskyy forced to U-turn on anti-corruption bodies but protesters know unrest only plays into Russia’s hands

Wrote this on the past two weeks of politics and protests in Kyiv

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

So “winning elections before people vote” is not actually winning elections, it’s subverting them

Instant Expert On: The Economy BREAKING—HUGE BBQ DEBATE EXPERTISE BEAT

“Instant Expert” @rusty.todayintabs.com gets in the weeds w/a jobs numbers explainer that puts data to my own jobs vibe of “I’ve lost mine, and everyone I know has lost theirs, I wonder if there’s something to that?” Servicey! www.todayintabs.com/p/instant-ex...

"We're not gonna have a nuclear crisis, we're gonna have the appearance of a nuclear crisis."

putting a fucking Lada in the background means he's doing the soviet collapse without any of the fun bits

That’s a….Lada?? Please let this be real

US bureau of statistics next year:

fumbling in a cloud of vibes and misinformation is good enough for the president and it ought to be good enough for the economy as a whole!

Back in the day, I had a client that conducted standardized quarterly public opinion surveys in China, like the Fed's Beige Book, to try to get a grip on what was happening in the economy because no one trusted official economic statistics. That was fun.

at the risk of a hot take, I believe it is per se a good thing to gather quantitative data, as accurately as possible, to help the public better understand the contours of the world and society we live in

I think the fascism debate would be more easily resolved if the no-fascism team were more open to considering misogyny as a component of fascism

🇦🇿👀 Azerbaijan has shamelessly humiliated the Russians.

Baku reacted sharply to the use of Armenian names for Azerbaijani cities by Russian propagandists TASS.

Azerbaijani MFA demanded that toponym “Stepanakert” be corrected, otherwise Baku would call Russian cities by their historical names.

Revisit: Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey by Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles - The Architectural Review Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia Sophia is a mirror to political tumult

@jenhattam.bsky.social gets under the prickly old skin of the Hagia Sofia www.architectural-review.com/essays/revis...

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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

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Can State Department Spend $21 Billion in 10 Weeks? A stress test of the federal government's ability to execute at unprecedented scale under impossible conditions.

"We expect organizations to gear up for a 10-week sprint to spend billions of dollars." I have a team of consultants standing by who can be called back from whatever the hell they've been doing for the last 6 months (nothing). I bet we can rise to the challenge. mypivot.substack.com/p/can-state-...

We live in the stupidest timeline

Motherfucking wind farms…

Bad news: after an authoritarian takeover, democracies often fail to recover.

Read "The Myth of Democratic Resilience" by Matías Bianchi, Nic Cheeseman, and Jennifer Cyr.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

The framing that somehow this is up to Trump bothers me.

Russia is preparing unprecedented interference in September's general election, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said, local outlet NewsMaker reports.

I suspect there *may* be more to his story.

The problem wasn't that he was taking girls. The problem was that he was taking 𝘮𝘺 girls.