Robert Weston
@hemissroad.bsky.social
U.S. East Coast. Not the slightest interest in the survival of the U.S. empire, so I wouldn't be sorry to see it gone, a process that's likely to take a generation at least. Of course, it's not clear that whatever follows would be any better.
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Robert Weston
@hemissroad.bsky.social
· Sep 28
Just a head’s up that I’ve continued making updates to this guide: most recently, to remove the caveat on Here WeGo for not having CarPlay, adding Citymapper, and a suggestion to try the DVD/Blu-ray section at your local library as a streaming alternative. More to come!
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
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To which I would add:
1. Create Black- and Latino-majority states;
2. Give First Nations Congressional Representation;
3. Give American expats Congressional representation.
1. Create Black- and Latino-majority states;
2. Give First Nations Congressional Representation;
3. Give American expats Congressional representation.
1. Universal healthcare
2. Multimember congressional districts with proportional representation (and add 100 seats to the House)
3. Tax the rich
4. Make DC and territories states
5. SCOTUS term limits
6. Gun control
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2. Multimember congressional districts with proportional representation (and add 100 seats to the House)
3. Tax the rich
4. Make DC and territories states
5. SCOTUS term limits
6. Gun control
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December 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
To which I would add:
1. Create Black- and Latino-majority states;
2. Give First Nations Congressional Representation;
3. Give American expats Congressional representation.
1. Create Black- and Latino-majority states;
2. Give First Nations Congressional Representation;
3. Give American expats Congressional representation.
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Thank you @ilhanmn.bsky.social for making it plain.
The Somali community is vibrant and will not be intimidated by these shameful, cowardly attacks.
The Somali community is vibrant and will not be intimidated by these shameful, cowardly attacks.
The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country.
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Thank you @ilhanmn.bsky.social for making it plain.
The Somali community is vibrant and will not be intimidated by these shameful, cowardly attacks.
The Somali community is vibrant and will not be intimidated by these shameful, cowardly attacks.
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My message to Trump: Your message of bigotry won’t work. Somali Americans are here to stay. 💅🏾
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My message to Trump: Your message of bigotry won’t work. Somali Americans are here to stay. 💅🏾
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I join people across the globe today in recognizing World AIDS Day. Tears for those lost, courage to those surviving the infection, and praise to scientists and doctors finding treatments and cures.
And shame on the Trump administration for attacking it all and despoiling this day.
And shame on the Trump administration for attacking it all and despoiling this day.
World AIDS Day 2025 — Message from Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS | UNAIDS
www.unaids.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I join people across the globe today in recognizing World AIDS Day. Tears for those lost, courage to those surviving the infection, and praise to scientists and doctors finding treatments and cures.
And shame on the Trump administration for attacking it all and despoiling this day.
And shame on the Trump administration for attacking it all and despoiling this day.
J’ai fait, dit et écrit plein de conneries dans ma vie, donc je ne puis que difficilement lancer la pierre à Enthoven. Mais bon, un Opinion Leader, normalien, philosophe, tout ce qu’il y a de plus élite parisienne, qui publie des propos pareils, même sur une poubelle comme Xitter ?
Rappel: l’instrumentalisation du combat contre l’antisémitisme est encore de l’antisémitisme.
December 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
J’ai fait, dit et écrit plein de conneries dans ma vie, donc je ne puis que difficilement lancer la pierre à Enthoven. Mais bon, un Opinion Leader, normalien, philosophe, tout ce qu’il y a de plus élite parisienne, qui publie des propos pareils, même sur une poubelle comme Xitter ?
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This is the face of an American child. Israel has jailed him for 9 months without a charge. Without a protest from the US gov. Without a scandal in Western media.
Of course, this would've been front-page news daily had another country done this to an American child.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Of course, this would've been front-page news daily had another country done this to an American child.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Palestinian-US teen held by Israel for nine months without charge due in court
Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, from Florida, was detained by Israeli soldiers while on holiday in the occupied West Bank.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is the face of an American child. Israel has jailed him for 9 months without a charge. Without a protest from the US gov. Without a scandal in Western media.
Of course, this would've been front-page news daily had another country done this to an American child.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Of course, this would've been front-page news daily had another country done this to an American child.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And that, incidentally, might herald the birth of a Transatlantic alliance of a new kind. But one question then becomes: Would the foreign policy elites that were trained to serve the "rules-based liberal" system be willing to transfer allegiance to this new regime?
But what the various illiberal far-right nationalist movements most share in common is the civilizational narrative of a decadent declining West, unable and unwilling to defend itself from the non-Western world, whether framed as an invading great replacement or a distant threat.
So again, global.
So again, global.
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
And that, incidentally, might herald the birth of a Transatlantic alliance of a new kind. But one question then becomes: Would the foreign policy elites that were trained to serve the "rules-based liberal" system be willing to transfer allegiance to this new regime?
I like this. A lot.
Democracy Is in Trouble. This Region Is Turning to Its People.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I like this. A lot.
Worth considering
The country deserves a better, more principled publication that has the place in our media industry that 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 does. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 could one day occupy that role, if our growth continues as it has. Help us take our first real steps down that long road: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Worth considering
No idea who this Trevor Philips bloke is, but Western media must be full of non-whites like him who make a career of attacking other marginalised people with drive, energy, and apparent sincerity. Maybe there's now a large enough sample for a serious psychological study?
I genuinely find it astonishing that someone of colour could advocate the random picking of potential migrants to create a climate of fear among minoritised people.
I mean... how do you think thatll work for other black British people Trevor?
I mean... how do you think thatll work for other black British people Trevor?
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
No idea who this Trevor Philips bloke is, but Western media must be full of non-whites like him who make a career of attacking other marginalised people with drive, energy, and apparent sincerity. Maybe there's now a large enough sample for a serious psychological study?
Canada is going to be one special place une fois les conservateurs revenus au pouvoir à Ottawa. Le nationalisme blanc version U.S. d’un côté comme source d’inspiration, l’antiwokisme importé de l’hexagone de l’autre.
La loi 94 étant passée sans protestations, la CAQ double la mise. Si vous demandez ce qui vient ensuite, regardez la France. C'est la source d'inspiration pour ce saccage de nos droits fondamentaux. C'est loin d'être terminé et c'est la voie vers le fascisme.
"La CAQ parie gros sur la question identitaire afin de regagner la confiance des Québécois" = ils deviennent full racistes!
Bien la peine de chialer sur l'identité du Québec pour copier/coller la (extrême)droite française et ses idées islamophobes...
www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/11/24/c...
Bien la peine de chialer sur l'identité du Québec pour copier/coller la (extrême)droite française et ses idées islamophobes...
www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/11/24/c...
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Canada is going to be one special place une fois les conservateurs revenus au pouvoir à Ottawa. Le nationalisme blanc version U.S. d’un côté comme source d’inspiration, l’antiwokisme importé de l’hexagone de l’autre.
Les gouvernants ont-ils jamais commandité une enquête sur le racisme antinoir ou sur l’islamophobie dans les universités?
«Trumpisation de l’université et fichage politique»: très importante mise au point du collectif @rogueesr.bsky.social sur l'ahurissante «enquête sur l'antisémitisme dans l'enseignement supérieur» demandée par Philippe Baptiste, à lire absolument.
rogueesr.fr/trumpisation...
rogueesr.fr/trumpisation...
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Les gouvernants ont-ils jamais commandité une enquête sur le racisme antinoir ou sur l’islamophobie dans les universités?
Agreed.
Addendum:
The reason I think Mamdani did well is that he achieved what he needed (a non-hostile Trump) without compromising on principle.
And I think that should be the model across the board: Pragmatic but principled.
The reason I think Mamdani did well is that he achieved what he needed (a non-hostile Trump) without compromising on principle.
And I think that should be the model across the board: Pragmatic but principled.
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Agreed.
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Hopefully the knowledge that advanced degrees ward off the most insecure men on the planet will encourage more women to pursue PhDs
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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A quick Google search tells me that assessment might be premature. It's true there seems to be no *coordinated national* student protest movement against the regime. But it appears questionable to conclude there are no student movements across the country.
Just why is it that there is not a student movement against autocracy in America? “No Kings”, ok. But that was weeks ago.
Where are all the people who stood up against the war in Gaza? Where are the permanent protest camps?
I find it baffling, but maybe I’m getting old.
Where are all the people who stood up against the war in Gaza? Where are the permanent protest camps?
I find it baffling, but maybe I’m getting old.
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A quick Google search tells me that assessment might be premature. It's true there seems to be no *coordinated national* student protest movement against the regime. But it appears questionable to conclude there are no student movements across the country.
Donc, le prétendu quotidien de référence a laissé passer une fausse information dans l'une de ses chroniques sans doute les plus lues.
1. Dans Le Devoir ce matin, Christian Rioux affirme « que les démographes prévoient que, d’ici 2063, la majorité de la population du Royaume-Uni sera issue de l’immigration ». Il y a un léger problème : il n’y a pas de démographes qui font une telle projection.
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Donc, le prétendu quotidien de référence a laissé passer une fausse information dans l'une de ses chroniques sans doute les plus lues.
Roman numerals under attack.
Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?
Arabic numerals are simply the digits 0 through 9—the standard number symbols used in every classroom in the United States.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Roman numerals under attack.
That's actionable speech, right?
Greg Abbot called CAIR, the largest Muslim civil rights organization, a “terrorist organization” and said Muslims are a “threat to our freedom.”
The normalization of anti-Muslim hate speech is vile.
This bigot should have no place in elected office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
The normalization of anti-Muslim hate speech is vile.
This bigot should have no place in elected office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Texas Governor Declares Muslim Civil Rights Group a ‘Terrorist Organization’
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
That's actionable speech, right?
It really does and I'm putting it on my XMas Wishlist. Thanks for the tip, @hofrench.bsky.social .
This sounds great. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/b...
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It really does and I'm putting it on my XMas Wishlist. Thanks for the tip, @hofrench.bsky.social .
This is so very, very good, folks.
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This is so very, very good, folks.
Brilliant movie, BTW, although it seems it got only mixed reviews when it came out ca. 1974.
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Brilliant movie, BTW, although it seems it got only mixed reviews when it came out ca. 1974.
Go Llamas.
Peru State has now joined Columbia on the AP's Americas feed.
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Go Llamas.
Quand on voit l’âge des gens que Musk et Trump installent aux manettes ces jours-ci, on se dit “pourquoi pas”, dans le fond….
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Quand on voit l’âge des gens que Musk et Trump installent aux manettes ces jours-ci, on se dit “pourquoi pas”, dans le fond….
Dass eine Minderheitsregierung überhaupt zum Gesprächsthema wird zeigt die beispiellose Schwäche der derzeitigen deutschen Führung.
„Minderheitsregierung“ der Union mit wechselnden Mehrheiten wird nicht funktionieren, und kann in zwei Szenarien führen: starke AfD UND ein entschlossener Linksblock (Rot-Rot-Grün), der vom „Verrat“ der Union an der SPD zusammengeschweißt wäre. Merz weg vom Fenster.
Daher zunächst unwahrscheinlich.
Daher zunächst unwahrscheinlich.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Dass eine Minderheitsregierung überhaupt zum Gesprächsthema wird zeigt die beispiellose Schwäche der derzeitigen deutschen Führung.