"no more superficial individual expression"

Up and Down the Coast, a memoir in weekly chapters, on Substack, free, Chapter 1 at this link! frederickguy.substack.com/p/1-sarah-st...

Still talking about Epstein To recap:

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Predictable—and yet shameful and pathetic—capitulation of the G7, who agrees to let US multinationals escape the global minimum tax of 15% A clear illustration of why we need fundamentally new rules of the game www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...

Trump has made an immensely rich and successful life for himself taking everyone for suckers and marks, and he's done it again. His instinctive feel for a world full of people who want to deceive themselves is extraordinary. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

✋ Former US government War Power lawyer here. The War Powers Resolution does not/not provide any additional authority to use military force. The Article II arguments for using force against Iran are entirely bogus. As are any claims that either the 2001 or 2002 AUMFs authorize this attack.

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

We already went through the cycle of unprovoked-attack-and-understandable-counterattack with Trump and Iran in January 2020—it led to 200+ US troops having TBIs from Iranian missile strikes—and MAGAs still went on to vote for Trump later that year Maybe that very recent history is worth mentioning

This chart is absolutely essential. It explains why Trump removed America from the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018. Because it was *working*. Trump needed a cause for war, so he manufactured it. This has all been in the works for some time now. He was never "weighing options."

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

25% tax on Apple products while singling out the CEO by name for retribution, 50% tax on European goods, expulsion of foreign students, bill passed with most debt in history, while hosting a dinner for people who gave you $300+ million. All in the last 24 hours. The Golden Age.

IMPORTANT: NASA map shows temperatures of up to 160 degrees on Phoenix streets & sidewalks. All that unrelenting concrete and asphalt for cars. Not nearly enough trees. They start with ridiculous heat that’s only getting worse with the #ClimateCrisis, & then make it much worse with bad design.

Reflections on reading, writing, and their demise: new blog post, extracted from a book in progress. frederickguy.substack.com/p/watching-a...

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Lovely thread

This is how you do it, Labour. Much, much more of this kind of thing please.

Absolutely wild: UK lawyers who have worked in relation to ICC Gaza investigation warned they are at risk of US sanctions, not only restricting travel there but potentially freezing their financial assets worldwide observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Drawn 6 years go today. It was rejected and called unfair and alarmist.

Politically, what Starmer and Labour need is to become a target for Trump. Economically, what the UK needs is a better trade deal with the EU. If Morgan McSweeney and Blue Labour cannot join the dots, they may not be as clever as they think they are.

This is Truss-level stuff. The OBR does not incorporate the "lower skills profile" of migrant workers or the "displacement of British workers" precisely because they *are* paying attention to what the data and evidence say (unlike, it seems HO/No.10) archive.ph/qZfz3

It's like you can predict his entire online information ecosystem from this one image alone.

See the problem here?

Common law: Birthright citizenship is given by native birth, with very few exceptions for agents of foreign powers Supreme Court: Cool, but not Black people, no matter free or enslaved Republicans in 1866: Let's fix that Two law professors in 2025: Well, things are really very complicated. No.

As with New York’s congestion charge: a simple measure made controversial by car-centric hysterics; then when the numbers start to come in the benefits blow you away and the opposition is forgotten silliness.

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Thinking you'll achieve peace by rewarding invasions is like thinking you'll cure alcoholism with vodka.

In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

[email protected], of the center-left Labour Party, here speaking for the UK government, following a court ruling that for purposes of law, sex is biological. I am curious to know how this sounds to those back in my homeland, especially my fellow Democrats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=faBS...

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

1. I honestly have no idea what the fuck is going on over at twitter. The Lord moves in mysterious ways this Easter morn, I guess — and welcome to the cause, James. If any of the Trump appointees had the courage to admit the same we'd be in a much better place.

The US no longer seriously considers new weapons for Ukraine, citing pro-Ukraine lawmakers. No guarantees on intel sharing either. The Trump admin is focused on what the US gets from Ukraine, not what it can give. America’s interest in defending democracy? Gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

Never use any ‘AI’ for anything ever: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

I'm a combat vet & I own a gun but military style weapons high capacity mags should never be sold to civilians,,When 2A was inactive we had no National guard. It was basically our National guard, Creating national guard makes 2A obsolete, Ban military style weapons Protect our children not guns,

This is a very good point. About a very feeble excuse.

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

Almost certainly an anti-Semitic hate crime. And the President who is trying to tear up the American university system on the pretext of fighting anti-Semitism hasn't said a word.

"Chorus of Workingmen — But you told us when we voted the Republican ticket in 1888 that we would get high tariff and high wages with Harrison. Carnegie — Bah! Fools!"