Bill Lamp
@billlamp.bsky.social
Novelist & ex-foreign correspondent based in Italy 🇮🇹
Published in Kenyon Review and Confrontation
Published in Kenyon Review and Confrontation
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The first words published by Weiße Rose, a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany:
Nothing is more unworthy of a civilized people than to allow itself to be “governed” without resistance by a clique of leaders that has surrendered to reckless, wicked instinct.
Almost coined for #Trump et al
Nothing is more unworthy of a civilized people than to allow itself to be “governed” without resistance by a clique of leaders that has surrendered to reckless, wicked instinct.
Almost coined for #Trump et al
September 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The first words published by Weiße Rose, a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany:
Nothing is more unworthy of a civilized people than to allow itself to be “governed” without resistance by a clique of leaders that has surrendered to reckless, wicked instinct.
Almost coined for #Trump et al
Nothing is more unworthy of a civilized people than to allow itself to be “governed” without resistance by a clique of leaders that has surrendered to reckless, wicked instinct.
Almost coined for #Trump et al
H.R. 5300 = a license to crush dissent. It gives the State Dept power to strip passports from Americans for supporting the “wrong” causes. This is about silencing pro-Palestinian voices & criminalizing protest. Stand up. Fight back. #NoHR5300 #FreeSpeech
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
H.R. 5300 = a license to crush dissent. It gives the State Dept power to strip passports from Americans for supporting the “wrong” causes. This is about silencing pro-Palestinian voices & criminalizing protest. Stand up. Fight back. #NoHR5300 #FreeSpeech
The difference in life expectancy between the U.S. and Europe is three to four years. The biggest factors are: access to healthcare, lifestyle (obesity, diabetes, hypertension, nutrition, and inactivity), and drug overdoses. Fixing these three alone would nearly close the gap.
August 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The difference in life expectancy between the U.S. and Europe is three to four years. The biggest factors are: access to healthcare, lifestyle (obesity, diabetes, hypertension, nutrition, and inactivity), and drug overdoses. Fixing these three alone would nearly close the gap.
Trump is "famously mercurial"? I'd suggest "obviously erratic". The NYTimes still can't seem to muster the courage to stop covering for Trump.
Europe’s Leaders Say They’ve Agreed With Trump on a Strategy for Russia Talks
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Trump is "famously mercurial"? I'd suggest "obviously erratic". The NYTimes still can't seem to muster the courage to stop covering for Trump.
a mali estremi, estremi rimedi
August 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
a mali estremi, estremi rimedi
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I agree with the below.
1) I would not come to the US on a visit if I didn't already live here.
2) I have counseled many foreign friends with job offers here that, for now, it's not worth the risk.
1) I would not come to the US on a visit if I didn't already live here.
2) I have counseled many foreign friends with job offers here that, for now, it's not worth the risk.
These days a non-American taking *any* job in the USA on a company-sponsored work permit would be courting danger and detention.
America's not safe for anyone.
America's not safe for anyone.
If you say “I’m fine with immigration as long as it’s legal” or “I came the right way” but you’re not sounding the alarm over this, you’re lying.
A company says an employee was detained by federal agents during an immigration court hearing, despite being here legally with a valid work permit.
A company says an employee was detained by federal agents during an immigration court hearing, despite being here legally with a valid work permit.
July 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I agree with the below.
1) I would not come to the US on a visit if I didn't already live here.
2) I have counseled many foreign friends with job offers here that, for now, it's not worth the risk.
1) I would not come to the US on a visit if I didn't already live here.
2) I have counseled many foreign friends with job offers here that, for now, it's not worth the risk.
I have begun an investigation to support my claim that Donald J. Trump is incapacitated and his staff conspires to take presidential actions in his name using autopen.
July 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I have begun an investigation to support my claim that Donald J. Trump is incapacitated and his staff conspires to take presidential actions in his name using autopen.
Trump’s new tariffs mean a generational collapse of the U.S. (shrinking trade, broken supply chains, inflation, unemployment, personal and company bankruptcies, stock market collapse, complete loss of EU markets).
More worrying: masked weaponized thugs chasing dark-skinned little league coaches.
More worrying: masked weaponized thugs chasing dark-skinned little league coaches.
July 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Trump’s new tariffs mean a generational collapse of the U.S. (shrinking trade, broken supply chains, inflation, unemployment, personal and company bankruptcies, stock market collapse, complete loss of EU markets).
More worrying: masked weaponized thugs chasing dark-skinned little league coaches.
More worrying: masked weaponized thugs chasing dark-skinned little league coaches.
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My latest piece for Foreign Affairs argues that the global trading system was broken long before the Trump and Biden administrations set out to reform it. That's because while it is a system that benefits collectively from...
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/global...
My latest piece for Foreign Affairs argues that the global trading system was broken long before the Trump and Biden administrations set out to reform it. That's because while it is a system that benefits collectively from...
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/global...
The Global Trading System Was Already Broken
But there’s a better way to fix it than a reckless tariff regime.
www.foreignaffairs.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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My latest piece for Foreign Affairs argues that the global trading system was broken long before the Trump and Biden administrations set out to reform it. That's because while it is a system that benefits collectively from...
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/global...
My latest piece for Foreign Affairs argues that the global trading system was broken long before the Trump and Biden administrations set out to reform it. That's because while it is a system that benefits collectively from...
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/global...
The slope is not slippery. Return Kilmar now. We are next.
April 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The slope is not slippery. Return Kilmar now. We are next.
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"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
Nearly 200 years ago, Lincoln said danger to the United States would “spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”
A More Perfect Union (2021 Remaster)
YouTube video by Titus Andronicus - Topic
www.youtube.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Nearly 200 years ago, Lincoln said danger to the United States would “spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”
Loyalty oaths for students, professors? In the 50s, my mom found an LP with this song while babysitting, the anthem of fighters against fascists in Spain. She mentioned it to the couple, and they turned white as a sheet. They asked her never to come back. Terrified of being blacklisted for politics.
Jarama Valley by Holm
YouTube video by Holm Lamp
www.youtube.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Loyalty oaths for students, professors? In the 50s, my mom found an LP with this song while babysitting, the anthem of fighters against fascists in Spain. She mentioned it to the couple, and they turned white as a sheet. They asked her never to come back. Terrified of being blacklisted for politics.
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SunTzu had lots of things right —and he mastered the art of brevity:
“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes”
SunTzu
Art of War
SunTzu
Art of War
March 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
SunTzu had lots of things right —and he mastered the art of brevity:
So, help me understand. Congress approved laws, and it’s Trump’s job to carry them out, but he isn’t (pending freeze, TikTok, civil service protections, etc).
So why the fuck isn’t all this before the supreme court already?
So why the fuck isn’t all this before the supreme court already?
March 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So, help me understand. Congress approved laws, and it’s Trump’s job to carry them out, but he isn’t (pending freeze, TikTok, civil service protections, etc).
So why the fuck isn’t all this before the supreme court already?
So why the fuck isn’t all this before the supreme court already?
Filoputiniani Trump e Vance oggi sono stati irrispettossissimi nei confronti di Zelensky, che ha fatto bene di rifiutare il vergognoso ricatto americano. Abusare della vittima non porrà fine a la guerra di aggressione russa. Gli americani devono scusarsi. Slava ukraini!
Trump Berates Zelensky at White House Meeting: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Filoputiniani Trump e Vance oggi sono stati irrispettossissimi nei confronti di Zelensky, che ha fatto bene di rifiutare il vergognoso ricatto americano. Abusare della vittima non porrà fine a la guerra di aggressione russa. Gli americani devono scusarsi. Slava ukraini!
The post-WWII era is over.
How will U.S. flourish by itself despite the predatory autocracies it has enabled by trashing friends?
How will Europe flourish w/o US? Leverage: 1 give seized Russian assets to Ukraine now, 2 rearm (Denmark is leading the way), 3 build a European-only defense structure.
How will U.S. flourish by itself despite the predatory autocracies it has enabled by trashing friends?
How will Europe flourish w/o US? Leverage: 1 give seized Russian assets to Ukraine now, 2 rearm (Denmark is leading the way), 3 build a European-only defense structure.
February 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The post-WWII era is over.
How will U.S. flourish by itself despite the predatory autocracies it has enabled by trashing friends?
How will Europe flourish w/o US? Leverage: 1 give seized Russian assets to Ukraine now, 2 rearm (Denmark is leading the way), 3 build a European-only defense structure.
How will U.S. flourish by itself despite the predatory autocracies it has enabled by trashing friends?
How will Europe flourish w/o US? Leverage: 1 give seized Russian assets to Ukraine now, 2 rearm (Denmark is leading the way), 3 build a European-only defense structure.
Colombia beats Trump. Before: Trump had migrants shackled, paraded before cameras, escorted by soldiers, and sent in military planes with no notice to Colombia. After: no shackles, no photos, no soldiers, and notice before sending military planes. Status quo ante. Back to Biden's policy.
January 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Colombia beats Trump. Before: Trump had migrants shackled, paraded before cameras, escorted by soldiers, and sent in military planes with no notice to Colombia. After: no shackles, no photos, no soldiers, and notice before sending military planes. Status quo ante. Back to Biden's policy.
Exploring ChatGPT, I asked it to rewrite 2 sentences as Shakespeare, late Joyce, Babel, McCarthy, Pynchon etc. Hahaha.
The variants on one key noun are: sphinx, asshole, one, tyrant, ogre, gorgon, devil, dark star, That Guy, cross/Judas/Cain, cur, resident jackass, dark core/necessary rupture.
The variants on one key noun are: sphinx, asshole, one, tyrant, ogre, gorgon, devil, dark star, That Guy, cross/Judas/Cain, cur, resident jackass, dark core/necessary rupture.
January 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Exploring ChatGPT, I asked it to rewrite 2 sentences as Shakespeare, late Joyce, Babel, McCarthy, Pynchon etc. Hahaha.
The variants on one key noun are: sphinx, asshole, one, tyrant, ogre, gorgon, devil, dark star, That Guy, cross/Judas/Cain, cur, resident jackass, dark core/necessary rupture.
The variants on one key noun are: sphinx, asshole, one, tyrant, ogre, gorgon, devil, dark star, That Guy, cross/Judas/Cain, cur, resident jackass, dark core/necessary rupture.