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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO TYRANTS INDIVISIBLE LONDON UK” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Hey folks! Tomorrow on my live webcast, History Matters: On Lawlessness The rule of law is being trampled. What does that mean and what should we do? Join us tomorrow. Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

Imam Qari Asim has made this statement from the British Muslim Network about the Manchester synagogue attack. [He is also a British Future trustee].

If you live in: South Dakota Louisiana West Virginia Wyoming Tennessee Mississippi Alaska Call your right wing Senator and ask them why they're pushing to increase their constituents healthcare prices so much.

So thrilled that FINALLY, every state primary school will have a library (most people don't know this is currently not the case) by 2029. Thanks to #LibrariesforPrimaries campaign and @literacy-trust.bsky.social for making this happen. And thanks to #RachelReevesMP for the committment

Tomorrow on my live podcast History Matters: What the Heck is the World Thinking?? The UN meeting this week definitely raised this question. It’s been asked a LOT at key moments—and Americans are never prepared for the answer. Let’s talk. Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

Summary of Trump’s speech to the UN today: 1. Your countries all suck. 2. None of you know what you are doing. 3. The US is better at everything. 4. All because of me. 5. I’m right about everything. 6. You should listen to me & do what I say. 7. And give me lots of awards.

So under Reform’s plan to abolish the visa status Indefinite Leave to Remain (given when I married a UK citizen) I would have been deported.

So what happened to the $50K in cash Tom Homan got in the Cava bag? Was it deposited in his bank account and reported as income that he paid taxes on? Is it under his mattress?

I never watch ABC, so the only response was to cancel Disney/Hulu. Join me. Only money counts in this brutal country.

I wrote a piece in today’s @theguardian.com about how authors and readers can protect our culture and creative industries from threat of AI. #AI #publishing #authors www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I sound like Pollyanna and all I need are birds twittering around me, but this was a fun interview observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Kash Patel mistook Manufacturer’s Markings for trans and anti-fascist messages. Trump, Nancy Mace, and the MAGAt horde ran wild with it.

Tomorrow on my live podcast History Matters: Is This Violence Different? In some ways, yes—it is. Let’s look at what this week’s shooting says re: the long history of American political violence—& the nature of the here & now. Trust me, there’s a LOT to say. 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

We went from superpower to stupidpower a lot quicker than anticipated.

I just registered my 28 stolen books

When people say “I want my kids to have things I never had the opportunity to have,” I did not realize they meant measles.

If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.

Here is the growing list of countries choosing to pause mail deliveries to the U.S. because of Trump's tariff chaos. Did anyone vote in 2024 to become the new Hermit Kingdom? Austria Australia Denmark France Germany India Italy Japan New Zealand Singapore Spain South Korea Sweden Thailand

Today I went to the lovely #woodman pub in Highgate for breakfast and ordered Louis a sausage from the ‘dog menu.’ Apparently no items from that menu have ever been sent back to the kitchen…

In other news, I am now more than half way through War and Peace. We’re about to get bogged down in the battle of Borodino and I keep looking at a new Elizabeth Taylor novel…

Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.

Fun moment on the tube when the woman sitting opposite me and I noticed we were both reading Elizabeth Taylor novels and enjoyable bookish discussion ensued.

As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Americans would do well to remember ten principles of negotiation. snyder.substack.com/p/common-sen...

NEW: Gavin Newsom announces a "HISTORIC" event this Thursday

Will Alaska Senator Murkowski be concerned?

One perverse aspect of Trump calling up the D.C. National Guard while crime plummets to a 30-year-low: Trump REFUSED to call up the D.C. Guard on Jan. 6 to counter an insurrection that he himself incited. If Congress won't give D.C. statehood, at least give us control over our National Guard.

Sickness

Salka spotted in Dublin!

I’m reading War and Peace! At 1224 pages it weighs a ton. I’ve actually hurt my wrist holding it. Have to say, it’s totally engrossing

When I was a teenager I started War and Peace but gave up at the battle of Borodino. I’m thinking it’s probably time to rejoin the march…

If you're a legal immigrant with a court date, ICE is likely to pick you up after the hearing. If you don't go to the hearing, a judge can order ICE to pick you up. Here's @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social with some great reporting on the Catch-22 Trump has made of our legal immigration system:

This is the harm that Trump is doing right now

“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has pledged to ensure all primary schools have libraries by the end of this parliament 👇

something you know all too well, @annealiz1.bsky.social

A high bar, but Marina Hyde has excelled herself this week www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reading for pleasure is the right of every child. Proper funding for libraries and librarians essential

Fire experts and destroy agencies and there are deadly consequences

We need to throw the GOP out. They’ve just handed us the playbook.

Nothing says you’re trying to pass a great bill then to attempt exemptions for your own states…

To repeat the bigger story is not Trump shamelessly exaggerating the damage he has done to Iranian nuclear scientists it is the truly devastating damage he has done to all science in the US.

Because disease outbreaks that start in other countries never impact us here in the USA