Who you lookin’ at, mister
Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk.
Quote of the Day
”I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”
- Hunter S. Thompson
Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news
Bob Dylan | Ring Them Bells
Long Read of the Day
Personal reflections on a Trumpian 2025
Christina Pagelis a mathematician and a physicist and Professor of Operational Research at UCL. She is also the most diligent monitor we have of the Trump regime’s relentless assaults on American democracy. In this piece she looks back on a pretty grim year.
I started to track Trump’s actions to help me make sense of it, and then to help others make sense of it. I’m continuing because it’s become a contemporaneous record of what is happening – a bearing witness to the loss of American freedom, tolerance and democracy. It’s also there as a warning for us and the populist anti-democratic movements in our countries, that are also increasingly adopting the language and symbols of white supremacy.
As someone with German parents, who lived through the 2nd World War and grew up in a Germany grappling with the enormity of its crimes, I had believed that the imagery of the Nazi years was gone for good. Seeing it return via the US Department of Homeland Security social media feed has been horrifying. …
Do read it. Her TrumpActionTracker now stands at over 2100 recorded actions and informs thousands of visitors every week.
My commonplace booklet
The Fishburne Effect
Great cartoonist. You can follow him – and order some of his collected work — at The Marketoonist website.
Linkblog
Something I noticed, while drinking from the Internet firehose.
- Jesse Welles | Join ICE
Neat satirical recruitment song. Video here.
Here’s the first verse:
Well, if you’re lookin’ for purpose in the current circus
If you’re seekin’ respect and attention
If you’re in need of a gig that’ll make you feel big
Come with me and put some folks in detention
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