Petter Häggholm

In his talk at Princeton, @marcelias.bsky.social noted that the election suppression he worried about was less ICE at the polls and more ICE putting up traffic checkpoints and other things that made access to the polls much harder. And it looks like we’re seeing a version of that in Brazil.

here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

the internet is about watching cybersecurity disasters on your phone slowly get closer and closer until you're the one having the cybersecurity disaster

🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...

A scoop from me: CBS-owned local stations' election coverage will be sponsored by DraftKings, a deal that has stirred concern inside the company. www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Zuckerberg's own employees confirm that he directed an intentional effort to throw the Brazilian election in favor of Flávio Bolsonaro, apparently because he understood this is what Trump wanted. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history. No Kings. No Courtiers.

TikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)

🚨🚨🚨 Meta just took down the No Kings instagram page with 3000 events happening around the country today

There will be children growing up whose parents, fans whether present or erstwhile, named them “Elon”. They should perhaps be provided bodyguards from among the upperclassmen when they go into the playground or dodgeball arena.

The owner of X is almost single-handedly funding the Republican midterm election campaigns. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

One of the things I enjoy about ageing is the sense that I understand the concept of wisdom in a way I was not capable of when young, as an accumulation of perspectives that informs, enriches, and also complicates every judgement and cogitation. Reading probably helps.

Today Russia celebrated the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia. At least 15 people are killed, among them 3 children. The number may rise as rescuers check the rubble‼️

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

I'm excessively amused by this.

The “ICE” in “ICE agents”: Acrynomised noun phrase or emphatic imperative verb? Discuss.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

The same people who lambasted other nations as "shithole countries" seem to have made diarrhœa the central pillar of their health platform. Make America Gush Anally, I guess.

It occurs to me that Mar-a-Lago face (and the male equivalent) is kind of like a facial gang tattoo. It's not natural appearance or personal taste so much as a mark of fealty, only inscribed with a scalpel instead of an improvised prison needle.

hollywood releasing a bunch of movies about how an insane, radicalized cabal of billionaires are trying to gobble up the world economy approximately 3 weeks after said insane cabal gobbles up the entertainment industry is what historians call a "whoopsy doodle" moment

Canada drops sponsorship of conference that talks of U.S. as foreign interference actor www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

It's good to point out these sorts of lame intimidation efforts. But it's also important to put the ineffectiveness in context. If the goal is to promote voting, flagging the structural limitations of federal threats should be part of that process.

I'm not sure what the point of including cucumber in food is supposed to be when it isn’t serving as a vehicle for flavourful vinegar or brine solution. It’s a bite of soggy nothing with a nasty rind.

I bet life is easier for people capable of either hope or a sense of accomplishment. Or both, but even imagination has its limits.

Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is one of my favourite minor LotR characters. From Wodehousian auntagonist to redemption with her testamentary charity, she's a surprisingly rich portrait in such few words and a female LotR character with some depth.

I think I’m the only person I’m aware of who regularly footnotes¹ their messages in Slack and on social media. ¹ Thus.² ² Obviously, setting up a Compose Key to easily type ¹, ², ³, &c.—or for that matter ₄, ₅, ₆, or ⅓—makes it easier.

Once told this joke to some coworkers as we were heading back from lunch, though I may not have mentioned Discworld, just the joke itself. When I finished the bit about carefully torturing small kings, one of them asked me if it was true. Only time I can recall *actually* doubling up laughing.

It would be very funny if the toxic tech bro problem were solved by 2,400-year-old means from the classics/humanities: Lysistrata-method Palantir’s workforce out of existence. I’m not saying that’s a realistic hope, but it’s at least entertaining to imagine Aristophanes vs. Alex Karp.

Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...