Paul Foxton
@paulfoxton.bsky.social
Paint stuff. Also other stuff and maybe tunes.
It's a coup. This is the most powerful - and admittedly, frightening - piece I've read yet on what's happening to the US. And very likely to the rest of us soon if we don't do something*.
*"Something" starts with being informed.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
*"Something" starts with being informed.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
broligarchy.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It's a coup. This is the most powerful - and admittedly, frightening - piece I've read yet on what's happening to the US. And very likely to the rest of us soon if we don't do something*.
*"Something" starts with being informed.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
*"Something" starts with being informed.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery.
January 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery.
I had a feeling this was coming. It's why the celebrations of the ceasefire made me sick with worry. It was far too good to be true.
January 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I had a feeling this was coming. It's why the celebrations of the ceasefire made me sick with worry. It was far too good to be true.
Sunday so some fiddle practice. Plus the weather's awful so staying in by the fire and playing tunes. Today I'm practising Ashokan Farewell. Yes, I know my playing is baggy 😬 I'll get better, honest.
January 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Sunday so some fiddle practice. Plus the weather's awful so staying in by the fire and playing tunes. Today I'm practising Ashokan Farewell. Yes, I know my playing is baggy 😬 I'll get better, honest.
@lowqualitycats.bsky.social Haven't laughed so much at something on social media for a very long time.
Thank you for alerting me to this profound source of hilarity @chromamagic.com
Thank you for alerting me to this profound source of hilarity @chromamagic.com
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January 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
@lowqualitycats.bsky.social Haven't laughed so much at something on social media for a very long time.
Thank you for alerting me to this profound source of hilarity @chromamagic.com
Thank you for alerting me to this profound source of hilarity @chromamagic.com
Important.
📄 NEW: "Now, we rebuild: Why 'defending democracy' hasn't worked" Defending democracy failed because it also required defending the status quo. Now we are called to create a future worth fighting for. My latest.
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Now, we rebuild: Why 'defending democracy' hasn't worked
Defending democracy failed because it also required defending the status quo. Now we are called to create a future worth fighting for.
america2.news
January 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Important.
Final stage on the quince painting. This is 10 x 8, oils and cold wax medium. I mention the medium just because. It made a lot of the texture and it sounds cool to say it.
January 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Final stage on the quince painting. This is 10 x 8, oils and cold wax medium. I mention the medium just because. It made a lot of the texture and it sounds cool to say it.
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I think a lot about an interview I heard with Ben Ferencz, who was the last living Nuremberg prosecutor and a lifelong human rights activist. He lived to be 103 and was working
to the end. He talked about progress as the work of lifetimes. Of knowing you won’t reach your goal in your life.
to the end. He talked about progress as the work of lifetimes. Of knowing you won’t reach your goal in your life.
the thing most people, and most notably white people but this applies across the board, is that resistance to oppression is neither a marathon nor a sprint but a diverse and multi-faceted effort, much of which will result in no victories whatsoever
but you do it anyway, the little things
but you do it anyway, the little things
January 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I think a lot about an interview I heard with Ben Ferencz, who was the last living Nuremberg prosecutor and a lifelong human rights activist. He lived to be 103 and was working
to the end. He talked about progress as the work of lifetimes. Of knowing you won’t reach your goal in your life.
to the end. He talked about progress as the work of lifetimes. Of knowing you won’t reach your goal in your life.
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Yes it’s a set back . A major one . But we cannot give up . Not now , not ever . In the UK I’m campaigning for a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship , because for too long these companies have had largely unlimited £££ to greenwash their filthy reputations . No more .
Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
petition.parliament.uk
January 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Yes it’s a set back . A major one . But we cannot give up . Not now , not ever . In the UK I’m campaigning for a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship , because for too long these companies have had largely unlimited £££ to greenwash their filthy reputations . No more .
Given that the world appears to be ending I feel strangely proud that I managed to paint today. Session three, no plan, but there will definitely be at least one more session. A quince.
#oilpainting #'stilllife #realistpainting
#oilpainting #'stilllife #realistpainting
January 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Given that the world appears to be ending I feel strangely proud that I managed to paint today. Session three, no plan, but there will definitely be at least one more session. A quince.
#oilpainting #'stilllife #realistpainting
#oilpainting #'stilllife #realistpainting
I keep thinking today about how Trump said that people won't have to vote gain, as if it was a imposition to do so. I think he meant it.
Ask Tymothy Snyder what he thinks about this. @timothysnyder.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I keep thinking today about how Trump said that people won't have to vote gain, as if it was a imposition to do so. I think he meant it.
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It’s impossible to overstate just how crazy it is that the incoming president launched his own fake money right before taking office.
January 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
It’s impossible to overstate just how crazy it is that the incoming president launched his own fake money right before taking office.
Apparently, he's getting an early start in.
Appalling doesn't come close.
Appalling doesn't come close.
So Trump launched a meme coin on Friday night, just days before becoming President, and entities he controls retain 80% of the coin. And the coin passed a $9 billion market cap in just hours.
I just can't...
I just can't...
January 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Apparently, he's getting an early start in.
Appalling doesn't come close.
Appalling doesn't come close.
"Feel the pain. Cry the tears. Witness the suffering. Experience the beauty...No matter what happens, nobody can take these things from you. No matter what else the bastards might take, they can never take away your innate exuberance at living a human life on this terrestrial wonderball."
Beautiful
Beautiful
How To Be Happy In A Genocidal Dystopia On A Dying World
We are living in dystopia, but we don't need to be living in hell.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-to-be-...
We are living in dystopia, but we don't need to be living in hell.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-to-be-...
How To Be Happy In A Genocidal Dystopia On A Dying World
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
January 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Feel the pain. Cry the tears. Witness the suffering. Experience the beauty...No matter what happens, nobody can take these things from you. No matter what else the bastards might take, they can never take away your innate exuberance at living a human life on this terrestrial wonderball."
Beautiful
Beautiful
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With his final days in office, President Joe Biden is authorizing an $8 billion arms transfer to Israel in direct violation of the Leahy Law:
"Israeli soldiers say they have been ordered to target and kill innocents arbitrarily, including children."
youtu.be/RI7lK1lyD20?...
"Israeli soldiers say they have been ordered to target and kill innocents arbitrarily, including children."
youtu.be/RI7lK1lyD20?...
Chris Hayes: Biden is leaving a ‘disgraceful legacy’ on Gaza
YouTube video by MSNBC
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January 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
With his final days in office, President Joe Biden is authorizing an $8 billion arms transfer to Israel in direct violation of the Leahy Law:
"Israeli soldiers say they have been ordered to target and kill innocents arbitrarily, including children."
youtu.be/RI7lK1lyD20?...
"Israeli soldiers say they have been ordered to target and kill innocents arbitrarily, including children."
youtu.be/RI7lK1lyD20?...
I've subscribed, and am supporting. I've been reading Dave Troy for a good while, wasn't convinced about all his analysis at first. He's been proved right time and again. We need poeple like this to unravel the obfuscation and they need to eat so they can do it, that's how I look at it.
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January 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I've subscribed, and am supporting. I've been reading Dave Troy for a good while, wasn't convinced about all his analysis at first. He's been proved right time and again. We need poeple like this to unravel the obfuscation and they need to eat so they can do it, that's how I look at it.
I resolved to post more of myself here than I did at that other place. This is my favourite Sunday morning thing to do. Most mornings actually. And this is a bit embarrassing for me to post so good for accountability 🙄 it's a Scottish tune I'm learning called Da Stocklit Light.
January 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I resolved to post more of myself here than I did at that other place. This is my favourite Sunday morning thing to do. Most mornings actually. And this is a bit embarrassing for me to post so good for accountability 🙄 it's a Scottish tune I'm learning called Da Stocklit Light.
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I fear there is deep truth here.
January 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I fear there is deep truth here.
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📄 EXCLUSIVE: The Kremlin's "Project Russia" poses a potent framework for mobilizing illiberal forces against the United States and its allies — and it's all but unknown to Western analysts. We must act to counter it.
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america2.news/project-russ...
Project Russia: The Kremlin's Playbook for Undermining Democracies
The Kremlin's "Project Russia" poses a potent framework for mobilizing illiberal forces against the United States and its allies — and it's all but unknown to Western analysts.
america2.news
December 13, 2024 at 5:50 PM
📄 EXCLUSIVE: The Kremlin's "Project Russia" poses a potent framework for mobilizing illiberal forces against the United States and its allies — and it's all but unknown to Western analysts. We must act to counter it.
america2.news/project-russ...
america2.news/project-russ...
Woah it's actually safe to look at the "Discover" tab here.
January 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Woah it's actually safe to look at the "Discover" tab here.
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My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.
January 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.
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This is important.
A British Muslim was fired by his workplace after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
If we do nothing while people are fired, we will all end up silenced.
Please support and share this crowdfunder 👇
A British Muslim was fired by his workplace after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
If we do nothing while people are fired, we will all end up silenced.
Please support and share this crowdfunder 👇
Fired for standing in solidarity with Palestine, CEO's son in the IDF!
I am Hisham, a family man. I am originally from Egypt with friends in Palestine (not that I needed to have any to advocate for Humanity). I am also a Muslim.
www.crowdjustice.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is important.
A British Muslim was fired by his workplace after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
If we do nothing while people are fired, we will all end up silenced.
Please support and share this crowdfunder 👇
A British Muslim was fired by his workplace after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
If we do nothing while people are fired, we will all end up silenced.
Please support and share this crowdfunder 👇
A painting, and another one.
January 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A painting, and another one.
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📄 NEW: "What To Expect When You're Expecting Fascism"
National Emergency, Insurrection Act, PEADs, DOGE, and Debt Default got you down? Here's how to deal with the cognitive overload of the second Trump administration.
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National Emergency, Insurrection Act, PEADs, DOGE, and Debt Default got you down? Here's how to deal with the cognitive overload of the second Trump administration.
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What to Expect When You're Expecting Fascism
The second Trump administration is likely to begin with a series of shock events designed to overwhelm our capacity for sense-making.
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January 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
📄 NEW: "What To Expect When You're Expecting Fascism"
National Emergency, Insurrection Act, PEADs, DOGE, and Debt Default got you down? Here's how to deal with the cognitive overload of the second Trump administration.
america2.news/what-to-expe...
National Emergency, Insurrection Act, PEADs, DOGE, and Debt Default got you down? Here's how to deal with the cognitive overload of the second Trump administration.
america2.news/what-to-expe...