A thoughtful analysis of the cultural disease of white supremacy, its historical roots, and a treatment plan. open.substack.com/pub/williams...

Hay una máxima que ojalá se extendiera más: "las correcciones en privado, las felicitaciones en público".

Celebrate #WorldKidLitMonth with thirteen new children's and YA books in translation, from Colombia, the Netherlands, South Korea, and more. Read the list here:

Time to burn your Antifa card & delete your Antifa account. Oh wait, there is no such thing as an Antifa organization & there are no domestic terrorism laws. The King, wannabe dictator, is busy taking away free speech from everyone. It's been a very productive day for him & a bad day for the US.

Pay attention to the media organisations who will report on Trump declaring antifa - which does not exist - as a terrorist organisation without explicitly saying what antifa stands for every time. They’d have to report that Trump is effectively declaring anti-fascism as an enemy ideology.

At school, I told a friend why my were stained: from silver nitrate solution, used in babies' eyes as protection. So he put some crystals in a balloon & filled it with water, then hit someone with it. If that target had been wearing a mask, he would be identifiable. Good no one knows that, right?

Estoy de vuelta en Salamanca!

Kirk’s followers are demanding he be honored “properly”. Well, in my book honor is earned. Besides polluting the minds of many young conservatives with a hate filled ideology I don’t know of any good works he accomplished to the benefit of humanity. He deserves that in proportion to his good works.

I have had several friends who worked as neonatal intensive care nurses, and as the first physician to practice in Castro Verde, Portugal, my companheira delivered dozens of babies with limited support. So discovering this history was a special pleasure today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_...

It's steam juicing time for grapes in Portugal! Ever since I introduced my companheira to the steam extraction of wine grapes improvising with an Ikea pasta pot a decade ago, she has been hooked on juices made this way.

Good people to follow on days like this are @eliothiggins.bsky.social, @asharangappa.bsky.social, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Utterly charming wildlife photos of random magical moments. open.substack.com/pub/jamesluc...

The stories by and about author Barbara Hambly have inspired me for nearly 50 years. Speaking with her this year in Avilés, I was further inspired to learn that at age 74 her martial arts practice continues with aikido and iaido, so I'm returning to training myself.

Largely congruent with the Hell I just escaped from after six months. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You can order my court interpreting book online from Barnes and Noble. t.co/3iMGe0LGUa

Join me for a workshop on a popular type of interpreting rarely included in trainings. Come to Boston, and by doing some exercises, learn how to provide the service, how to avoid disaster, and how to contribute to the success of the assignment. www.atanet.org/ata-events/a...

Work in progress: the new goat stalls and feeding station! #goatlife

Flamingos coming soon to give Russia the bird! youtu.be/bUBOwcYknUM?...

Nothing sums up America under Republican rule like turning a place of history and strength into a strip mall food court.

Was die politische Mitte einfach nicht begreift: Man kann die #AfD nicht mehr dadurch bekämpfen, dass man die ursprünglichen Gründe für ihren Aufstieg beseitigt. Dafür ist es jetzt zu spät.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Learned a totally cool word this morning: "reify", where have you been all my life?!

Here's an approach for Blue states in the US to bring down the fascists: open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

Charles Blow is back! With an interesting read in progress. substack.com/@charlesmblo...

Today's find: a semi-autobiographical novel by a writer born in the US North to a white mother and a black father, showing the life of one such in the 19th century. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/584

I believe in slow, focused tourism, not "seeing it all" but spending time in one place, and returning to it to experience more cultural depth. I've been coming to a Benfica (Lisbon) neighborhood almost 10 years and just discovered this quiet community garden with café 200 m from our door!

Breathtaking. I'm on the opposite end of the political spectrum as retired Judge Luttig, but I've always respected and sought the opinions of true political conservatives, with whom a stable, productive and just society for all can be built. Here I must fall back on... substack.com/@terrymoran/...

African novels are being translated to English in a bold new trend. We review Ignatius Mabasa’s The Mad theconversation.com/african-nove... via @theconversation.com #Africa #xl8 #literature #langsky

Back indie media, y'all. This is the (Only) Way. New initiative running this month: projectc.biz/backindiemedia

A thoughtful discussion of public intellectuals of the past, and the elements of modern influence. open.substack.com/pub/thedigit...

So... mango IPA is a thing, in Porto at least. Whouda thunk? says the guy who used to be hooked on chili beer.

The evil men do lives after them. And the sooner the "after" part begins for Mr. Cavanagh, the better.

Delighted to have discovered this Vietnamese restaurant in the quarter of Porto where I'm staying. Haven't had pho in 12 years, since I left Berlin, and theirs is superb!

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

1/2 Es wird in Deutschland noch viel zu wenig thematisiert, dass Russland seit 2007 einen hybriden Krieg gegen den Westen und auch gegen Deutschland führt. Wir sollten mal langsam anfangen uns zu wehren!

Berserkers of the world, unite!

Zwei Drittel aller Schutzsuchenden von 2015 arbeiten heute. CDU-Generalsekretär Linnemann verbreitet aber falsche Zahlen zur Beschäftigungsquote. Faktencheck www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/...

Day 3 of AI detox, still on stopover at our place in Lisbon en route to the Porto book fair tomorrow. Time with my birds in the park, 4.5 hours of memoQ tutoring, a good book, plenty of vinho verde tinto, staring at the ceiling, and I slowly return to myself.

Up to Chapter 17 now, and the story has evolved in unexpected ways, but grips me no less. This is a powerful read.

The hilltop café in Lisbon's Parque Silva Porto now has a little book sharing library! I will contribute soon.

It's good to be back with my free-ranging bantam buddies in Lisbon's Parque Silva Porto!

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

"C'mon, baby, take a chance with us And meet me at the back of the blue bus"! First leg of my journey to the Feira do Livro in Porto....

KI vom Feinsten, echt! Nothing but the best from AI species detection....

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

So when we first showed up at the Union Station today, we ran ICE off as soon as we got here.

This is where my next weekend will be spent, taking a big bite of Portuguese book culture: www.feiradolivro.porto.pt

Our "pintinha posse" begins work at dawn, scouring the quinta for ticks, scorpions and other nasties. The current resident fox knows not to mess with the guinea hens....

Denn „Arbeit macht frei“.... www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/a...

Love and respect to all the hustlers out there. Also, it's not supposed to be this way. There's a war on workers and we're losing the fight.