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Self-employed
ADHD.
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I read books & know things. It's what I do.
Self-employed
ADHD.
💉💉💉💉💉💉💉
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One of the reasons why we need prevention of airborne diseases:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#CallForPublicHealthAction
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#CallForPublicHealthAction
July 31, 2025 at 9:44 AM
One of the reasons why we need prevention of airborne diseases:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#CallForPublicHealthAction
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#CallForPublicHealthAction
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The Pope on jailed journalists, at his first press conference:
"The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...
"The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...
Pope Leo XIV Calls for News Media to Shun Divisive Language
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The Pope on jailed journalists, at his first press conference:
"The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...
"The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...
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I’m in.
The first season - ten episodes - of Podyssey is a gift from me to you. But given the intense time commitment involved, if you want a 20-episode Season 2, it is up to you to commission it by supporting it. You can do so from as little as a fiver. I love you all, anyway. A x
ko-fi.com/podyssey
ko-fi.com/podyssey
May 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I’m in.
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Someone sent me this photo of my book at @waterstones.bsky.social and I am:
a) Losing my mind;
b) Never going to be able to convince my friends and family I didn't sneak it in there myself.
a) Losing my mind;
b) Never going to be able to convince my friends and family I didn't sneak it in there myself.
May 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Someone sent me this photo of my book at @waterstones.bsky.social and I am:
a) Losing my mind;
b) Never going to be able to convince my friends and family I didn't sneak it in there myself.
a) Losing my mind;
b) Never going to be able to convince my friends and family I didn't sneak it in there myself.
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Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you…
…seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are.
Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
…seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are.
Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you…
…seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are.
Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
…seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are.
Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
April 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
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They don’t do it because it’s not about crime or justice or even following the law.
It is about terrorizing brown immigrants.
It is about keeping America as white as possible. They’ve admitted it.
It is about terrorizing brown immigrants.
It is about keeping America as white as possible. They’ve admitted it.
One of the striking things about the Abrego Garcia case is that would be trivially easy for the government to demand his return and give apologists an easy talking point: "Yes, sure, mistakes happen but see, they care about getting it right & doing it legally after all." But nope.
April 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
They don’t do it because it’s not about crime or justice or even following the law.
It is about terrorizing brown immigrants.
It is about keeping America as white as possible. They’ve admitted it.
It is about terrorizing brown immigrants.
It is about keeping America as white as possible. They’ve admitted it.
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Prayers please. Having my second AFib attack. If you haven’t got long Covid yet do what you can to avoid it.
April 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Prayers please. Having my second AFib attack. If you haven’t got long Covid yet do what you can to avoid it.
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This is why Vance, Musk & the rest of them talk about our ‘free speech’ being under threat while they fast track actual fascism in the USA. It’s a long con & their accomplices are far-right blue ticks with the brains of blancmange.
European Union prepares major penalties against Elon Musk’s social media platform X for breaking a landmark law to combat illicit content and disinformation. The penalties are set to include a fine and demands for product changes.
#DigitalServicesAct
#DigitalServicesAct
E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is why Vance, Musk & the rest of them talk about our ‘free speech’ being under threat while they fast track actual fascism in the USA. It’s a long con & their accomplices are far-right blue ticks with the brains of blancmange.
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It was extraordinary. There is, for example, no earthly reason why a little-known radio presenter on a commercial station should have become a national rallying point for Brexit reality simply by telling the obvious truth. (He did have to step down from occasionally presenting Newsnight, though.)
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"I was actually here in 2017 when the then Prince of Wales visited... the year after we'd had the Brexit referendum. We weren't really allowed to mention the B-word. "Don't talk about Brexit."
Remember how we were gaslighted at the time for pointing out that journalists were avoiding the issue? ~AA
Remember how we were gaslighted at the time for pointing out that journalists were avoiding the issue? ~AA
April 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It was extraordinary. There is, for example, no earthly reason why a little-known radio presenter on a commercial station should have become a national rallying point for Brexit reality simply by telling the obvious truth. (He did have to step down from occasionally presenting Newsnight, though.)
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It's funny how the stupidest people of this year - the "Don't worry about what Trump says, he doesn't mean it" brigade - were also the stupidest people of all the Brexit/Truss/Johnson years.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.
April 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It's funny how the stupidest people of this year - the "Don't worry about what Trump says, he doesn't mean it" brigade - were also the stupidest people of all the Brexit/Truss/Johnson years.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.
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Trump administration officials have fired workers for the main American aid agency who were sent to Myanmar to assess how the U.S. could help with earthquake relief efforts, people with knowledge of the actions said.
Trump Administration Fires U.S. Aid Workers in Quake Zone in Myanmar
The move comes despite Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying the U.S. would still do some humanitarian work while shrinking foreign aid. Democratic lawmakers have denounced the cuts.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Trump administration officials have fired workers for the main American aid agency who were sent to Myanmar to assess how the U.S. could help with earthquake relief efforts, people with knowledge of the actions said.
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Raise your hand if you think a vote for Donald Trump last November was like the British people voting for Brexit AGAIN.
March 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Figures.
U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one
U.S. officials can’t find any Greenlanders who want to talk to Usha Vance
A local travel company in Greenland’s capital also cancelled a planned visit by Usha Vance
www.the-independent.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Figures.
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JUST IN: My old firm WilmerHale sues to challenge Trump’s order against them, represented by the best conservative lawyer in the country, former Solicitor General Paul Clement.
THE TIDE IS STARTING TO TURN
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assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
THE TIDE IS STARTING TO TURN
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assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
![Case 1:25-cv-00917 Document 1 Filed 03/28/25 Page 7 of 63
INTRODUCTION
1. "[The right to counsel is the foundation for our adversary system," Martinez v.
Ryan, 566 U.S. 1, 12 (2012), and the "courage" of attorneys who take on unpopular clients has
long "made lawyerdom proud," Sacher v. United States, 343 U.S. 1, 4 (1952). John Adams famously embodied these principles by defending eight British soldiers in the "Boston Massacre"
trial, an effort he described as "one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country."! And
British monarchs' practice of punishing attorneys "whose greatest crime was to dare to defend
unpopular causes"-which threatened to reduce lawyers to "parrots of the views of whatever group
wields governmental power at the moment"-helped inspire the Bill of Rights. Cohen v. Hurley,
366 U.S. 117, 138-40 (1961) (Black, J., dissenting). It is thus a core principle of our legal system
that "one should not be penalized for merely defending or prosecuting a lawsuit." F. D. Rich Co.
v. United States ex rel. Indus. Lumber Co., 417 U.S. 116, 129 (1974).
In an unprecedented assault on that bedrock principle, the President has issued
multiple executive orders in recent weeks targeting law firms and their employees as an
undisguised form of retaliation for representing clients and causes he disfavors or employing lawyers he dislikes? These "personal vendetta[s]" are so facially improper that the first court to address the merits of one of these orders concluded that it likely violates multiple foundational
' David McCullough, John Adams 68 (2001).
2 See Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block, The White House (Mar. 25, 2025) (*Jenner Order"), https://tinyurl.com/u7ts9x49; Addressing Risks from Paul Weiss, The White House (Mar. 14, 2025) ("Paul Weiss Order"), https://tinyurl.com/5w4j69fv; Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP, The White House (Mar. 6, 2025) ("Perkins Order"), https://tinyurl.com/547rwhna;
Suspension of Security Clearances and Evaluation of G…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wufsdxzvzx36d7wppganbvpw/bafkreifvecy4yboigm2vlcklgxyryju2kjcu3raw6nopxul6tcmjr3fy6m@jpeg)
March 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
JUST IN: My old firm WilmerHale sues to challenge Trump’s order against them, represented by the best conservative lawyer in the country, former Solicitor General Paul Clement.
THE TIDE IS STARTING TO TURN
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assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
THE TIDE IS STARTING TO TURN
👊🇺🇸🔥
assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
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This is mortifying. It's the kind of calculation you would normally make about a dictatorship.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is mortifying. It's the kind of calculation you would normally make about a dictatorship.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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What happened to all the ‘anti-woke’, ‘sovereignty’ fetishising, free speech defenders? Part 212.
www.ft.com/content/02ed...
www.ft.com/content/02ed...
US tells French companies to comply with Donald Trump’s anti-diversity order
Move signals push by the American president to widen his ideological campaign abroad
www.ft.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
What happened to all the ‘anti-woke’, ‘sovereignty’ fetishising, free speech defenders? Part 212.
www.ft.com/content/02ed...
www.ft.com/content/02ed...
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Brexit.
Trump.
Truss.
Boris Johnson.
Netanyahu…
It never ceases to amaze me just how much of our media & politicians waltz away unscathed after being so catastrophically & hideously wrong about all the major moments of our time.
Trump.
Truss.
Boris Johnson.
Netanyahu…
It never ceases to amaze me just how much of our media & politicians waltz away unscathed after being so catastrophically & hideously wrong about all the major moments of our time.
March 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Brexit.
Trump.
Truss.
Boris Johnson.
Netanyahu…
It never ceases to amaze me just how much of our media & politicians waltz away unscathed after being so catastrophically & hideously wrong about all the major moments of our time.
Trump.
Truss.
Boris Johnson.
Netanyahu…
It never ceases to amaze me just how much of our media & politicians waltz away unscathed after being so catastrophically & hideously wrong about all the major moments of our time.
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Left: Nigel Farage says medicine shortages after Brexit is, "Utter tosh.. It's complete and utter rubbish.. Project fear.. It should be utterly completely totally disregarded"
Right: "Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years"
Right: "Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years"
March 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Left: Nigel Farage says medicine shortages after Brexit is, "Utter tosh.. It's complete and utter rubbish.. Project fear.. It should be utterly completely totally disregarded"
Right: "Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years"
Right: "Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years"
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Whoa! We just got discovery into Trump DOJ’s illegal targeting of FBI agents who worked on the 1/6 cases.
Fasten seatbelts…
-TN
Fasten seatbelts…
-TN
March 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Whoa! We just got discovery into Trump DOJ’s illegal targeting of FBI agents who worked on the 1/6 cases.
Fasten seatbelts…
-TN
Fasten seatbelts…
-TN
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Listening to this is like eating your way through an enchanted and utterly delectable box of chocolates that also feeds your brain and your very being
S1E2: Orpheus - Epic Hero or Drama Queen?
The quintessential suffering artist? Love’s triumph over death?
Or maybe just a performative, entitled nepo-baby.
Let @sturdyalex.bsky.social take you on a journey.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0zUt...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
The quintessential suffering artist? Love’s triumph over death?
Or maybe just a performative, entitled nepo-baby.
Let @sturdyalex.bsky.social take you on a journey.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0zUt...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Orpheus - Epic Hero or Drama Queen?
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 22/03/2025 · 1h 16m
podcasts.apple.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Listening to this is like eating your way through an enchanted and utterly delectable box of chocolates that also feeds your brain and your very being
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BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime.
Keep sharing everywhere.
Keep sharing everywhere.
March 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime.
Keep sharing everywhere.
Keep sharing everywhere.