Adam Cullen
@adamcullen.bsky.social
Poet and translator of Estonian literature into English.
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Finally, Lennart Meri’s «Silverwhite» is available in Adam Cullen’s English translation. I was honored to attend the launch party at the residence of UK Amb. Ross Allen, featuring a number of good speeches, including one by president Alar Karis. I look forward to the read. @adamcullen.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Finally, Lennart Meri’s «Silverwhite» is available in Adam Cullen’s English translation. I was honored to attend the launch party at the residence of UK Amb. Ross Allen, featuring a number of good speeches, including one by president Alar Karis. I look forward to the read. @adamcullen.bsky.social
I found it necessary to write.
Adam Cullen: Am I a danger to my community in Estonia as a US citizen?
Adam Cullen, who has lived in Estonia for nearly 20 years, writes about the feelings stirred in him by the removal of voting rights from third-country nationals.
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March 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I found it necessary to write.
Pidin kirjutama.
Adam Cullen: kas ma olen USA kodanikuna Eestis ohtlik oma kogukonnale?
Ligi 20 aastat Eestis elanud Adam Cullen kirjutab, mis tundeid tekitas temas kolmandate riikide kodanikelt valimisõiguse äravõtmine. Ma ei tohi enam otsustada, milliseid teid tehakse korda minu väikes...
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March 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Pidin kirjutama.
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Now that Trump has ousted Brown, and the heads of the Navy and Coast Guard, the remaining top military leaders are all white and male, particularly striking given that minorities make up nearly 40 percent of the military and women constitute fully a fifth.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...
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"King Donald I" Accelerates White Nationalist Purge of Military Leaders
A suggested guide to how the US media should be bravely—and clearly—covering our national crisis
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February 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Now that Trump has ousted Brown, and the heads of the Navy and Coast Guard, the remaining top military leaders are all white and male, particularly striking given that minorities make up nearly 40 percent of the military and women constitute fully a fifth.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...
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"After seizing the capital in a fast-moving coup+ w universal control of govt ministries now seemingly assured by a quiescent parliament, South African oligarch Musk spent his 3rd week in power dismantling legal constraints that would stop him from turning the US govt into his personal piggy bank."
American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
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February 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"After seizing the capital in a fast-moving coup+ w universal control of govt ministries now seemingly assured by a quiescent parliament, South African oligarch Musk spent his 3rd week in power dismantling legal constraints that would stop him from turning the US govt into his personal piggy bank."
To earn a chuck under the chin from his authoritarian boss, this POS Christian white nationalist spews ignorant patronization in allies' faces while fomenting the far right on the wrong continent. Cool.
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Vance süüdistas Euroopa poliitilist eliiti valijate huvide eiramises
USA asepresident J.D. Vance pidas reedel kõne Müncheni julgeolekukonverentsil ning ütles, et sõnavabadus on Euroopas taandumas. Ta leidis, et kohalikud peavoolu poliitikud eiravad valijate huve ning k...
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February 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
To earn a chuck under the chin from his authoritarian boss, this POS Christian white nationalist spews ignorant patronization in allies' faces while fomenting the far right on the wrong continent. Cool.
www.err.ee/1609605908/v...
www.err.ee/1609605908/v...
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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
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"White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta" -- this dispatch from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, written as a foreign correspondant in the U.S, is extraordinary. Makes clear the situation and how badly the legacy media is missing the picture
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White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta
A second update on Elon Musk's coup from our intrepid imaginary foreign correspondent
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February 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta" -- this dispatch from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, written as a foreign correspondant in the U.S, is extraordinary. Makes clear the situation and how badly the legacy media is missing the picture
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...
You cannot deport an American citizen whom I, for one, have voted into office multiple times, and especially not because of falsified AI horse shit. And let's not even get into the whiny voice with which he's proposing it. Another circle of 2025 hell.
Rep. Brandon Gill on Rep. Ilhan Omar: "American would be better off were she deported."
February 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
You cannot deport an American citizen whom I, for one, have voted into office multiple times, and especially not because of falsified AI horse shit. And let's not even get into the whiny voice with which he's proposing it. Another circle of 2025 hell.
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I'm very excited to learn that an English translation of Lennart Meri's 'Silverwhite: The Journey to the Fallen Sun', a legendary book about Estonia, is being published in May. And the front cover, featuring the Kali crater in winter, is just breathtaking www.hurstpublishers.com/book/silverw...
February 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I'm very excited to learn that an English translation of Lennart Meri's 'Silverwhite: The Journey to the Fallen Sun', a legendary book about Estonia, is being published in May. And the front cover, featuring the Kali crater in winter, is just breathtaking www.hurstpublishers.com/book/silverw...
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“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
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February 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Chalk up one more successful genocide for the US.
President Donald Trump said the US would take over war-ravaged Gaza and create a 'Riviera of the Middle East' after resettling Palestinians elsewhere, shattering decades of US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and drawing regional condemnation reut.rs/4jIg4U9
Trump vows to take over Gaza and create 'Riviera of the Middle East'
The move shatters decades of U.S. policy and drew regional condemnation.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Chalk up one more successful genocide for the US.
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February 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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US official policy is to weaken Canada economically, end Canadian sovereignty and annex Canada to the US
February 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
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February 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
As I've seen it said already, this is a coup.
Unelected oligarch bragging about destroying the government:
February 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
As I've seen it said already, this is a coup.
Humbled to say that my translation of JOHN THE SKELETON (Triinu Laan, illustrated by Marja-Liisa Plats, published by Restless Books) won the American Library Association's 2025 Batchelder Award! www.ala.org/news/2025/01...
January 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Humbled to say that my translation of JOHN THE SKELETON (Triinu Laan, illustrated by Marja-Liisa Plats, published by Restless Books) won the American Library Association's 2025 Batchelder Award! www.ala.org/news/2025/01...
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Charlamagne's advice to Dems: "Treat Republicans the way they treat you."
January 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Charlamagne's advice to Dems: "Treat Republicans the way they treat you."
Filling in last year's timeline a little more, my (long-ready) translation of Joonas Sildre's BETWEEN TWO SOUNDS, a great graphic novel about Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, was published and included on NPR's "Books We Love" list:
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Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
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January 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Filling in last year's timeline a little more, my (long-ready) translation of Joonas Sildre's BETWEEN TWO SOUNDS, a great graphic novel about Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, was published and included on NPR's "Books We Love" list:
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
Children's literature is always fun to translate, and the ego boost of being included on year-end lists isn't the worst thing, either. Triinu Laan's JOHN THE SKELETON found its way onto this one:
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31 Days, 31 Lists: Best Picture Books of 2024
Our final list! Enjoy what is inarguably a lovely list of books. And thank you for reading my lists this month!
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January 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Children's literature is always fun to translate, and the ego boost of being included on year-end lists isn't the worst thing, either. Triinu Laan's JOHN THE SKELETON found its way onto this one:
afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/31/3...
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My translation of former Estonian president Lennart Meri's epic SILVERWHITE will be out this May. The cover art is pretty damn fine, too.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/silverw...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/silverw...
Silverwhite | Hurst Publishers
Translated by Adam Cullen The first English translation of this central work of Estonian nonfiction, marking the profound importance in world history of this small nation and its people.
www.hurstpublishers.com
January 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
My translation of former Estonian president Lennart Meri's epic SILVERWHITE will be out this May. The cover art is pretty damn fine, too.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/silverw...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/silverw...