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Circa '88 my HS drama teacher decided to adapt Slaughterhouse 5. Wrote Vonnegut for permission, as one did. Vonnegut writes back: "My lawyer tells me if I give you permission you become my collaborator. Can't do it. P.S. I've never sued anyone in my life and aint starting now. Good luck."
April 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Circa '88 my HS drama teacher decided to adapt Slaughterhouse 5. Wrote Vonnegut for permission, as one did. Vonnegut writes back: "My lawyer tells me if I give you permission you become my collaborator. Can't do it. P.S. I've never sued anyone in my life and aint starting now. Good luck."
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
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Come join with others to stand against Trump's political prosecutions, against ICE's attacks on our communities, and for freedom of speech and the right to protest.
See you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Come join with others to stand against Trump's political prosecutions, against ICE's attacks on our communities, and for freedom of speech and the right to protest.
See you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow.
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This Veterans Day, I’m thinking of the millions of Americans who have served in uniform — and how our government is failing them right now.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This Veterans Day, I’m thinking of the millions of Americans who have served in uniform — and how our government is failing them right now.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
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Climate change asylum appeal victory in UK
www.linkedin.com/posts/gamal-...
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#climatejustice #climateoutreach #climatechangedisplacedpeople #climatechangelitigation #unclimatechange | Gamal Basha | 27 comments
A milestone moment.
Today, I’m thrilled to share that we have won the first asylum appeal case in the UK based on climate change grounds. The appeal was allowed on Human Rights grounds (Article 8). A...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Climate change asylum appeal victory in UK
www.linkedin.com/posts/gamal-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/gamal-...
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Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
September 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
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White Christian Nationalists will destroy this already spiraling Country.
September 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
White Christian Nationalists will destroy this already spiraling Country.
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My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3)
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
The long-run fiscal impact of recent migrants
docs.google.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3)
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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The CPS' own website now admits they got the numbers wrong and should not be used.
Farage isn't just making up numbers - he/Reform are deliberately using numbers that they know to be wrong and have been withdrawn (2/3).
Farage isn't just making up numbers - he/Reform are deliberately using numbers that they know to be wrong and have been withdrawn (2/3).
September 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The CPS' own website now admits they got the numbers wrong and should not be used.
Farage isn't just making up numbers - he/Reform are deliberately using numbers that they know to be wrong and have been withdrawn (2/3).
Farage isn't just making up numbers - he/Reform are deliberately using numbers that they know to be wrong and have been withdrawn (2/3).
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Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)
September 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)
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Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
September 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
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The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.
September 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.
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Was he asleep when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister?
May 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Was he asleep when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister?
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Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay 🐝
Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive.
Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.
Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive.
Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.
May 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay 🐝
Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive.
Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.
Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive.
Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.
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Morning from Kyiv!
Yes, there was a drone attack again at night.
I had my warcoffee
with a simple thought:
Go ahead! Tell the story of your country! Tell the story of your war.
Somebody will hear.
Oleksa Novakivskyi, Harvest, 1925
Yes, there was a drone attack again at night.
I had my warcoffee
with a simple thought:
Go ahead! Tell the story of your country! Tell the story of your war.
Somebody will hear.
Oleksa Novakivskyi, Harvest, 1925
May 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Morning from Kyiv!
Yes, there was a drone attack again at night.
I had my warcoffee
with a simple thought:
Go ahead! Tell the story of your country! Tell the story of your war.
Somebody will hear.
Oleksa Novakivskyi, Harvest, 1925
Yes, there was a drone attack again at night.
I had my warcoffee
with a simple thought:
Go ahead! Tell the story of your country! Tell the story of your war.
Somebody will hear.
Oleksa Novakivskyi, Harvest, 1925
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Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.
Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as the President’s Right to Deport People
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, bungled answers on Tuesday about habeas corpus, incorrectly saying that the legal right of people to challenge their detention by the government was actually the president’s “constitutional right” to deport people.
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DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
May 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research
D: I just read them to you!
R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
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Well, she will get up to speed soon since I named her as a defendant in a habeas corpus petition filed on Friday - and the federal judge has ordered Sec. Kristi Noem to respond by this Friday.
May 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Well, she will get up to speed soon since I named her as a defendant in a habeas corpus petition filed on Friday - and the federal judge has ordered Sec. Kristi Noem to respond by this Friday.
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“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”
Does Kristi Noem even know what habeas corpus is?
The Homeland Security secretary's word salad raised even more questions about the administration's assault on fundamental rights.
www.motherjones.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
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The Lucy Connolly verdict (woman jailed over tweets about Southport attack) is worth reading.
One line I haven't seen picked up in coverage: The lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service stating as a fact that Twitter/X led to the disorder and racial hatred.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
One line I haven't seen picked up in coverage: The lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service stating as a fact that Twitter/X led to the disorder and racial hatred.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
May 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The Lucy Connolly verdict (woman jailed over tweets about Southport attack) is worth reading.
One line I haven't seen picked up in coverage: The lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service stating as a fact that Twitter/X led to the disorder and racial hatred.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
One line I haven't seen picked up in coverage: The lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service stating as a fact that Twitter/X led to the disorder and racial hatred.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
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BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
May 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
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The Brexit mood music has changed. You can’t wang on about sovereignty and fish any more and expect people to care. Trade deals aren’t massively convincing either. People just don’t want hassle and higher bills. That’s all Brexit actually delivered. We’re very tired of the failure.
(Letters, Times)
(Letters, Times)
May 21, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The Brexit mood music has changed. You can’t wang on about sovereignty and fish any more and expect people to care. Trade deals aren’t massively convincing either. People just don’t want hassle and higher bills. That’s all Brexit actually delivered. We’re very tired of the failure.
(Letters, Times)
(Letters, Times)