My family finally became Swiss citizens after a 4-year application process. Photo shows information for our first referendum vote.

Since I cannot be refused citizenship now, it is time to say what I *really* think of this country. Thread.

A helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and FM Hossein Amirabdollahian has crashed in a remote area in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, with search and rescue efforts hampered by bad weather.

I've done live fact-checking during breaking news events for years.

But the sheer volume of viral misinformation today regarding Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter crash posted by fake osint accounts and blue tick grifters for engagement has been something to behold.

This is total nonsense, posted by yet another fake 'intel' account with a blue tick for engagement.

Ebrahim Raisi’s death would create a succession crisis in Iran. He and Mojtaba Khamenei are the only contenders to replace 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei (Mojtaba’s father). In Iran's conspiratorial political culture few will believe Raisi’s death was accidental.

This is a very useful Geopolitical list⬇️

What’s the election chatter in the Hindi heartland. Nakul Singh Sawhney and CCA team have so far been to 14 Lok Sabha constituencies. Nakul writes about the wave, caste combos and the local mood.

First, German police arrest Iris Hefetz, our Israeli-Jewish comrade, for opposing genocide in Berlin. Now, Ilan Pappe (Ilan Pappe), the renowned Israeli-Jewish historian, is detained in Detroit by the FBI for questioning over his campaigning against Israel's genocide. Dark times!

The handwriting of famous authors - thread 🧵

1. Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov

17. Carl Jung's 1938 letter about Abraham Lincoln

Brilliant, well done Rishi. You're sabotaging one of the most successful and important sectors of the British economy. And for what? International students and their families have no recourse to public funds and contribute tens of billions to the UK economy every year.

This is incredibly dangerous. It lays the path for centralized, device-level client side scanning.

From detecting 'scams' it's a short step to 'detecting patterns commonly associated w/ seeking reproductive care' or 'commonly associated w/ providing LGBTQ resources' or

Anthony Blinken is sponsoring a genocide and he brought a CNN production team to a bar in Kyiv to film him enact some callow fantasy from West Wing or something

“Ladke shaadi karne ke liye padhayi karte hain, ladkiyan shaadi se bachne ke liye padhayi karti hain.”

(Boys study to get married, girls study to avoid marriage.)

Brilliant via The Lallantop

Can someone explain to me how this agency erected a billboard NINE TIMES larger than regulations allow? Its collapse has killed 14 so far!

“Dip this story in your psyche, swirl it around and wait for the pink stripe of Literary Wonderment to appear.”

Terrific piece on where to start on reading Alice Munro. nytimes.com/article/best-a…

Gary Gibbon, 'The European Union entrenched in the Northern Ireland element of the Brexit deal, the rights that people in NI had the day before Brexit'

'Today it came back to bite the Conservative government on the Rwanda policy because the High Court in Belfast has said, under

Met Uddhav Thakre with a small group of editors.Most telling comment by him was in Maharashtra there is no opinion poll, only 'onion poll'. Onion farmers have decided to vote en masse against BJP alliance. Add to it the Maratha reservation revolt and we have a perfect storm!

No Indian business has blamed any BJP govt policy — not even demonetisation — for its poor performance in the past decade. But L&T loses no time to blame the new Telangana Congress govt policy of free bus rides for women for poor metro ridership: indiatoday.in/amp/business/s…