Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:
Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.
I've told my family to stay away.
Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙
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People should read.
I'm tired of people not reading.
Please, if you can, PLEASE, read! Read everything, but especially fiction! Read comics!
It will help you with empathy AND make you smarter.
Please, read.
Schrödinger's strait
Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend money is so important to so many people
no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
What Israel is doing to Lebanon is obscene, carpet bombing civilians, massacring people in their hundreds, total disregard for human life. Truly plumbing the depths of evil. The single greatest source of violence and instability in the region and it's not even close.
From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists
Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right
Well worth a read
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
The bases should never have been opened to US use. They should now immediately be closed to them. This is patently the case. It is a military power with explicitly genocidal intent. Given how severe that danger is, the reassurances of its military officials about authorised use are insufficient.
This should always have been the end of it.
Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom in attempt to reverse declines in reading, math, and science.
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Israel is also targeting journalists and their families. This week, Israel bombed the home of Lebanese journalist Mohammed Sherri, killing him and his wife and injuring his children and grandchildren.
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good
“Danish citizens are organising a huge boycott that includes cancelling planned holidays in the US, cancelling subscriptions to on-demand services based in the US & more generally, recommending the use of EU services instead of those provided by American platforms.”
So, same as Canadians.
In my latest article, I wrote up a brief review of diplomacy and politics in 2025.
Click here to read it 👉 statetalk1.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/2...
#books are awesome.
Do you ever just get sad about how many people have fully embraced anti-intellectualism?
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of protesters have gathered in Edinburgh, Scotland to protest against Donald Trump
In my latest article, I discuss the current condition of NATO and whether it’s becoming more of a European alliance 👇🏼
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From a week and a half ago: “As of Monday, the model shows, about 96,000 adults and 200,000 children have died because of the administration’s cutbacks to funding for aid groups and support organizations. The overall death count grows by 103 people an hour.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Photo of Robert Schuman, standing in the centre, was taken on 20 June 1950, at the opening of the intergovernmental negotiations for the implementation of the Schuman Plan. It is generally used to illustrate the declaration of 9 May 1950 as no photographer was present at the original press conference.
Photo of Robert Schuman.
🇪🇺 75 Years of the Schuman Declaration 🇪🇺
On 9 May 1950, Robert Schuman put forward a bold idea: unite Europe by pooling coal and steel production to make war ‘not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible.’
In my latest article, I discuss the current condition of NATO and whether it’s becoming more of a European alliance 👇🏼
statetalk1.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/t...
ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.
In my latest article for State Talk One, I discuss whether justice via international law is in danger and why we should be concerned
Read here 👩⚖️👇
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My friend Lizzie is taking an in-depth look at disability in media, in her new series In Sickness.
Check out her article on A Different Man here 👇🏼
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