Main audience: USA people The next step in the USA regime’s authoritarian push has begun. Resistance in the States needs to do more than adapt. Resistance needs to anticipate what is coming and prepare accordingly. Click here to read more.
Main audience: everyone In both of my countries, USA and UK, we should regard official recommendations about which vaccinations people should get as a starter, not the full menu. Click here to read more.
Main audience: USA people USA people, you probably know someone whose group was or is targeted. For each group of “us,” matters got better at some point at least for a while. Our resistance achieved progress. You are part of … Continued
Main audience: everyone With such a hot mess of news, we should really really keep our habit of not automatically swallowing what we are told in the first heat of a news story. Click here to read more.
Main audience: USA people (and everyone) I want one thing for this anniversary next year: the authoritarian project in its death spiral while as many of its key players (not just foot soldiers) as possible are on trial for their … Continued
Main audience: everyone USA’s lawless incursion into Venezuela has been coming longer than I realized & is connected with Russia’s lust to take over Europe. This must not be normalized. The more media normalizes it, the more we in our … Continued
Main audience: especially USA people, but also everyone With its attack on Venezuela, the USA fully became a rogue nation. All institutional guardrails against this have been subverted or are in a predicament that boxes them in. Undoing the lawlessness … Continued
Main audience: UK people (USA people may be envious) UK’s Employment Rights Act of 2025 became law 18 December. Most of it is phased in over the next two years. It is a major step forward for workers—and shows the … Continued
Main audience: everyone If you found me through my most recent update about COVID and the Brain, here are earlier posts I believe can be helpful about what is going on with COVID & how to grapple with Long COVID. … Continued
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